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New Catalogue and shopping cart

Posted in Uncategorized by sp07 on the April 22, 2008
Important news! We’ve installed the new SitesPlus Catalogue and Shopping Cart!

What you will see
If you use the products and services pages to sell online or to display listed items, you’ll notice several
changes.

Horizontal layout - in line with current best practice, all items will be displayed
horizontally in one column. This means you can display more
text against each item and has also enabled us to improve the general
layout.

Brief and full product descriptions - gives you more control over the text displayed against
listed items You will be able to enter a brief description and a separate full description for each item, viewable on selecting the More button.

Image enlargement - improved display of the larger versions of product images.
It’s advisable to upload an enlarged product image wherever
possible.

Fully featured shopping cart - allows multiple purchase of the same or different items integrated
with payment via PayPal.

Administering the new pages
Your existing products and services pages now form your catalogue. You’ll notice the products and services buttons have disappeared from the left-hand menu in your adminstration system and have been replaced by a new catalogue button. Don’t worry! They are still there!
Click on Catalogue to see a summary of the catalogue pages we used to call Products and Services and download the briefing which will guide you through the new system.
For instance, to edit items, click on View items, next to the category or page in which you placed the item, then click edit next to the item name and make your changes.

The change also allows you to add new catalogue pages on request.

We hope you’ll find the changes a significant improvement. Please let us know straightaway if you
experience any hitches and, finally, don’t forget to let us know what you think of the new system!

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  1. John Hayward said,

    on April 29, 2008 on 9:32 am

    I am delighted with the new system. It has encouraged at least one customer to buy in multiple rather than one of one and it appears to have stimulated more visits to the site. Certainly the activity has increased since the shopping cart was introduced, early days yet but very pleasing. Long time coming but worth the wait, well done and thanks.
    John

  2. John Hayward said,

    on May 5, 2008 on 12:12 pm

    Further to earlier e-mail I have found one ‘inconvenience’. There is a facility for post & packing for each item however this can be expensive and over charging if a customer wishes to buy more than one article or they want express delivery the charge would not be enough! I have managed to negotiate this problem by having a sales category - Postage Options. Most items do not have a p&p charge included but the item carries a note to the effect ‘Don’t forget to choose your postage option’. This enables customers to benefit from postage discounts on multiple purchases and it works!! Visit the site and see for yourself.
    I hope that this helps.
    John

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