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Client Introduction
Established for over 15 years and now Australia's biggest online party products supplier, the Party People Shop supply a huge range of party products to the Sydney region.
Project Overview
Switch I.T. was contracted to develop a ground up solution that would allow The Party People Shop to securely sell their huge product range online. As well as the ability to sell securely, The Party People required facilities to process orders, add/remove/modify products and easily maintain customer information.
After careful analysis of the target audience and the requirements of the client, Switch I.T. developed a clean, easy to use interface that would allow potential shoppers to easily locate and review different products.
A comprehensive shopping cart was developed to allow customers to intuitively add/remove and modify the items in their shopping cart and select the delivery option of their choice. A simple two-step secure checkout process was then implemented under the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) architecture to avoid confusing customers and losing potential sales.
To facilitate in-house maintenance, Switch I.T. also integrated it's SwitchBack Content Management System into the web site. This intuitive system gives The Party People staff the ability to intuitively add any number of products and product categories to the web site. Staff can attach colour charts, pictures, full descriptions, colours, sizes, etc to each product to provide potential customers with as much information as possible to encourage an online purchase.
An order processing and archiving system was then developed to process all online customer orders. This system allows The Party people staff to easily process all new orders, as well as the automatic generation of Tax Invoices to be sent with customer orders. All merchant facilities required by this system were set up by Switch I.T. on behalf of the client to ensure all online purchases went straight into the client's bank account.
What the client's customers said...
"Navigating through the huge product range is a breeze and I can find exactly what I am looking for in a flash. A truly enjoyable site that attracts me to visit frequently."
Sakinah
Party People online customer
Technologies
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| Client Side |
HTML, JavaScript |
| Server Side |
ASP |
| Database |
SQL Server 7 |
| Platform/OS |
IIS, Windows 2000 |
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Switch I.T. Components
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| Content Management |
SwitchBack CMS |
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