An online shop for your customers - just another store for you
From bricks & mortar to the world wide web, the Counter Intelligence Office e-Retailer module takes all the hassle out of selling your stock online and gives your customers choice as to how they shop with you.
It's as easy as 1-2-3.
1: A complete e-Commerce Content Management System, with Search Engine Optimisation.
Why reinvent the wheel? All online shops need certain elements — a menu, a product catalogue, a search facility, a shopping cart, a checkout, and secure credit card processing — so e-Retailer provides all these elements which you are then able to add to and customise to match your brand and audience. e-Retailer web sites use code specially formatted to perform optimally in search-engines. You will be found!
2: One Database that you control
Instead of having to build and maintain a separate database for an e-commerce web site, e-Retailer runs off the same database used by Counter Intelligence Office. Whatever stock is loaded for sale in your shop, it can be set up to be instantly available for sale on the web. And at any time you can add Internet-only images, pricing, and promotional messages, and all without the need of third-party assistance or the associated costs. As Customers sign up on your website, they immediately become Counter Intelligence Customers, and Orders placed are sent immediately to the Counter Intelligence Office database for processing. Customers can even use their Loyalty points earned by shopping in either a Store or on the Web, to pay for purchases.
3: Future-proofed technology
As online retailing steadily increases, retailers will require their web site to communicate seamlessly with their retail management system: customer, stock, and sales information will need to be transmitted back-and-forth in real time because customers will expect access to current data. This functionality is exactly what Kudos delivers in e-Retailer.
Frequently Asked Questions
| Counter Intelligence e-Retailer FAQs |
| How much does the e-Retailer module cost? $1,495 |
| Can e-Retailer download web site orders back into Counter Intelligence Office? Yes, e-Retailer is fully integrated to Counter Intelligence Office, which features real-time communications between the back office computer, the web store and all POS machines. This means you will be able to have customers log in to your web site, or join a frequent-shoppers programme, and all orders will instantly be downloaded back to your back office or head office computer, ready for processing, invoicing and despatch. |
| What can I customize? The e-Retailer Content Management System will allow Complete Customisation, including, but not limited to: Menu Content, the web site logo, Category and products Display details, including Search Engine Optimisation, additional Information Tabs, additional HTML page content, Page positioning and sequence, Promotion Panels, External Links, Recently Viewed, Others have purchased, Shipping rates, Customer emails, to name just a few. The colour schemes can be customized and unlimited content (including images) can be added. Visual content is customized via simple Cascading Style Sheets. . |
| What else do I need to do to get my web shop up and running? You need: |
| Do I need a professional web developer to set up my store? Yes. You will need some assistance with colour schemes or learning how to create correctly-formatted digital images of your products. You will also need assistance formatting into HTML additional content for your web site, but this assistance will be far less than the assistance you would need creating a site without using e-Retailer . |
| I already have a domain name registered, can I use it? Yes, and it doesn't matter who your domain name is registered with. However, as the web site hosting must be with kudos.net.nz, it is necessary to have your current ISP point the DNS A Record to kudos.net.nz. |
| I already have a web site, can I use it as a basis for my e-Retailer we site? Yes and no. Your e-Retailer web site is created from scratch by the eRetailer Content Management System, and Counter Intelligence Office.(and must be hosted on the kudos.net.nz server), but you can certainly re-use branding elements (like logos and the colour-scheme) and content. |
| I already have a web site, can I integrate it into Counter Intelligence? We do not recommend this approach as it is not future proofed, and is prone to human error. |
Note: All prices are indicative and exclude GST.