eCommerce

Why Should I Sell Online?

In the current climate, eCommerce represents a simple way to increase income, decrease costs and maximise profits – reaching a wider audience and new target markets. The business case for selling your products and services online has never been stronger. The government’s latest eCommerce figures say that online sales are worth more than £163bn to UK business alone with more than 30% of the value of trade being carried out online and this is growing continually.

So the question is not "Can I afford to sell online?", but more "Can I afford not to?"

Why use the Creative Hub?

The Creative Hub deliver creative and market leading eCommerce that maximises revenue. Working with our clients, we focus on delivering an easy to navigate, engaging online experience. Getting your customers to the products they want and then making it easy for them to purchase, reducing basket abandonment and increasing sales to deliver maximum return on investment.

Our experienced team can deliver integrated search engine optimisation, pay per click, social media, email marketing and internet marketing along with detailed web statistics and consultancy service to maximise online revenue and deliver measurable results. The Creative Hub, use Magento, a system that is used by all types of businesses from sole-traders to global multi-nationals. It’s designed to increase sales, raise turnover and delivers a maximum return on investment. Magento is a feature-rich, professional open-source eCommerce solution that offers merchants complete flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of their online store. Magento’s intuitive administration interface contains powerful marketing, search engine optimisation and catalogue management tools to give merchants the power to create sites that are tailored to their unique business needs.

Do I need any technical knowledge?

You can run your own eCommerce website with the minimum of technical knowledge. We provide full support, training and advice on how to run your shop smoothly with the best results. A secure admin area for your shop allows you to manage your products and with as many images as you want.

Features Include

Built from the ground up to support SEO

• 100% Search Engine Friendly
• Google Site Map
• Google Analytics integration

Marketing Promotions & Tools

• Flexible Discount Options with the ability to restrict who qualifies and how many times a discount can be used. Examples include: Buy X get Y free, Buy X get free delivery etc.
• Free shipping options
• Multi tier pricing for quantity discounts
• Bundled products
• Cross-sells, up-sells and related items

Site Management

• Control multiple websites and stores from one administration panel
• Support for multiple currencies
• Fully 100% customisable design
• Content management system for informational pages

Catalogue Management

• Simple, configurable (e.g. size, colour, etc.),
• Bundled and grouped products
• Virtual products and downloadable / digital products
• Customer personalised products - upload text for embroidery, monogramming, etc.
• Attribute sets for quick product creation
• Media Manager with automatic image sizing and watermarking
• Google Base integration
• Approve, edit and delete product reviews and product tags

Catalogue Browsing

• Layered / faceted navigation for filtering of products in categories and search results
• Create category landing pages
• Configurable search with auto-suggested terms
• Recently viewed products
• Product comparisons
• Popular search terms
• Product reviews
• Multiple images per product with image zoom-in capability

Checkout

• One-Page checkout
• Options to create an account at the beginning of the checkout process or checkout as a guest and not create an account
• Accept gift messages per order and per item
• Save shopping carts
• Integrated with multiple payment gateways including PayPal, Google Checkout (Level 2) and SagePay.

Order Management

• View, edit and fulfil orders from admin panel
• Create one or multiple invoices, shipments and credit memos per order to allow for split fulfilment
• Print invoices and packing slips
• Email and RSS notifications of orders

Come and talk to us

Seriously, there’s so much more we want to tell you about selling your products and services online, So come and meet us for a no obligation chat and we’ll discuss your requirements and how we can help get your business trading online.

Just call us on 0844 811 0913 or click here to contact us – we look forward to hearing from you soon.