InfoPoint Store Modules

The perfect store is one that is tailored to your business. If you are selling food, you do not need to know its height and depth, or if you are selling on-line courses, you don't need to worry about shipping charges.

There are "stores" on many sites that have Web based interfaces where you can create a "store". These "stores" try to be everything to everyone and wind up satisfying no one. There are many little gotcha's to a store. How do you get the pictures on-line -- Scan them? Take them off of CD's? If you want to calculate shipping, do you know how much things weigh? Does the page that will be created from the information you provide have all the information you and your customers need for your particular product, organized in a way that is meaningful to you?

In the best case a computer can organize things in a way that it is possible to find better answers faster than you could in the physical world, but if the "store" you create is really intended to sell something different than what you sell, it might be inconvenient to use.

InfoPoint leverages it technical expertise by reusing things that it has built in the past and carrying them forward into new sites. For instance, the ability to create categories with subcategories and so on to any depth took considerable thought and programming skill. The store in the drawing above communicates with at least two other computers to do it's job, the credit card company computer and the shipping company computer.

"Creating a user profile" means verifying the e-mail addresses, assigning a password, making sure that the customer has provided the information necessary to ship the product. In addition the profiles need to be available to the store owner so that he or she can contact the customers about changes to the Web site or other important information.

Not only does InfoPoint allow this to happen, but it manages the mail addresses , by having an administrative interface where the site owner can send mail, the site checks for bounced mail because of bad addresses, stops sending to bad addresses and reminds the user to enter the right address when he or she logs in next.

Contact InfoPoint and we'll get started designing a Web store for you that will increase your business without increasing your workload.