Custom
E-commerce Websites
What is an e-commerce website?
An e-commerce website will increase your sales by helping
you reach more customers. With minimum manual intervention
you can save time and resources, improving your profit margins as
well as the bottom line.
Your customers will be able to select and pay for the items they require,
and you will receive notification of the order together with payment. As the information is captured electronically it can be validated to minimise the risk
of error. The data can be used in many different ways. Customer spending
patterns can be monitored, best selling items can be promoted, and an
automatic notification can be triggered when stock levels are low.
Custom e-commerce website selling holidays with concert tickets
Badlands Travel sells specialist holiday trips in Europe
and the USA
based around concert performances. Each booking is
tailored to suit
individual requirements, such as travel dates,
transport
method,
hotel preference, concert tickets and other optional extras.
The e-commerce website we developed is a combination of
a
hotel reservations system and a ticket sales system. We have
fully integrated this with the existing telephone based bookings system
developed by PC Access Ltd five years previously.
When packages are ready to go on sale, they are uploaded to the website.
Visitors book on-line, selecting from a range of options available for the
package selected. As ticket allocation for each concert (and some other
choices such as hotel accommodation) is strictly limited, all items have to be checked for availability before proceeding to the checkout.
Booking information and customer details are fed back into the central management administration database, with data matched to existing client records and updated accordingly. This handles administrative tasks such as sending reminders for final payments, and providing room requirements for hotels. Management and financial reports are generated for each tour.
Technologies used: AJAX, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Microsoft Access
Phil Jump, Director says:
"The original bookings system developed by PC Access Ltd has been a lifesaver. The range of packages we sell has increased significantly over the years, with most selling out within a few frenetic days! We could not have managed the volume of sales we now have without it.
The launch of our new website has allowed us to expand still further,
offering even more trips to music enthusiasts through the Internet.
With less manual involvement, there has been a
huge saving in time and staffing requirement. Managing sales
is now so much easier, and far more cost effective."
Please also have a look at some examples of our
dynamic websites or an explanation about
Content Management Systems