Leohardware.com has been built in partnership with C & R Architectural Hardware Ltd. C & R Hardware Ltd. approached us with the idea of creating a website with a range of products that would cater to a niche market i.e. Door/Window furniture.
Solution Objective:
The objective of the initiative would be to create a website in a short span of time that would allow for the sales of door furniture to customers with little administrative burden to C & R Hardware Ltd.
Solution:
We used our template based web solution to get the solution up and running in a short span of 3 weeks. Leohardware.com was built with all the features of our template based website solution, so customers could register on the website and have their accounts created for them automatically (no manual intervention required), they could then go on to place an order on the website. As Leohardware.com was integrated with the Worldpay Payment Gateway, all orders received from the website were already paid for (again removing another administrative burden ie. chasing payments). Further all orders are sent (emailed) directly to the relevant suppliers and are shipped directly from the suppliers to the customers. The suppliers have a separate interface to access the orders and can also print Leohardware customised despatch notes to go with the delivery of the order. This has again saved the company a lot of time in the order processing functions. Lastly, all despatched orders can be pulled directly into Sage Line 50. This has saved the company…
- Additional staff needed to enter the web orders into their accounting system
- Data entry errors and the accompanying hassle of reconciliation
- Order status enquiries can now be answered instantly
- The staff can now simply concentrate on additional sales generation as all other administrative functions are being handled by the solution.
Technology Used:
The website is built using the following web technologies & databases
- ASP
- Javascript
- JMail
- MS SQL 2000
The catalog management module to manage the leohardware.com catalog was built using the following web technologies and databases.
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