FUNCTIONALITY 

 

With functionality at the core of your key objectives The Connect Agency recommend SHOPIFY as the preferred platform for your new websites. Here's Why:

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OBJECTIVE | FUNCTIONALITY

 

Shopify is a complete commerce platform that lets you grow, and manage a business. It allows you to: 

• Create and customise an online store and product catalogue

• Sell and promote products in multiple places, including web, mobile, social media, online marketplaces, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops

• Manage products, inventory, payments, and shipping

 

It addition, Shopify is completely cloud-based and hosted, which means you don’t have to worry about upgrading or maintaining software or web servers. This gives you the flexibility to access and run your business from anywhere with an internet connection.

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OBJECTIVE | MOBILE FIRST FRIENDLY DESIGN

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• Shopify ensures your online store looks just as great on a smart phone and is easy to use.

• Full mobile commerce functionality, including a secure shopping cart and checkout.

• Mobile ecommerce website will include the same features and product details as your ecommerce store.

• 256-bit SSL encryption and Level 1 PCI Compliant hosting protects your business and customer data.

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OBJECTIVE | USER FRIENDLY WITH

CLEAR CALLS TO ACTION

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• Shopify allows you to sell and promote products with clear call to actions and links to shoppable or quotable  products on web, mobile, social media, and online marketplaces.

• Cross-browser compatibility, responsive design, and SEO-friend

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OBJECTIVE | IMPROVED NAVIGATION AND

DESIGN WHILE MAINTAINING BRAND IDENTITY 

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• Shopify themes are modern, clean and easily customisable with an extensive range templates that can be personalised to suit your brand identity and objectives.

• For more information on themes:  https://themes.shopify.com/themes

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OBJECTIVE | BE THE INDUSTRY'S FASTEST SITE

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Shopify is the best ecommerce platform for speed. 

• Shopify sites tend to load in 1.3 seconds while commerce sites for WordPress load in around 3.4 seconds.

• You can optimise the load time of your commerce store, however it takes lots of money and time, and your hosting provider also matters in this case.

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Our recommendations to optomise your website for speed:

• Static images and video content need to be optimised and resized for web in order to ensure your website runs smoothly and provides a seamless customer experience.

• We will require high quality professional content (Images & Video) to work with across both lifestyle and product imagery. All visual content will be re-sized and optimised to keep the files sizes best for optimum website performance.

• For video content we recommend either including smaller clips to be uploaded into Shopify or for larger videos stream we recommend streaming from your YouTube account which helps keep your website  running efficiently. We shown examples of this on our own website below.

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OBJECTIVE | SPARE PARTS SALES - ECOMMERCE 

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• Shopify is a top-rated solution that has everything a merchant needs to set up shop online and even offline.

• In addition to allowing you build an online store, Shopify has social media selling tools and it integrates with marketplaces like Amazon, Ebay & Pinterest to name a few.

• The solution also has payment capabilities that enable merchants to accept credit cards directly from Shopify — i.e. no third party accounts required. With their payments offering, “payment details are clearly synced with orders, making it easy to see how much you’ve been paid without ever leaving Shopify.”

• For more information on marketplaces: https://www.shopify.com.au/blog/selling-on-marketplaces-with-shopify

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OBJECTIVE | SMOOTHER SAMPLING PROGRAM 

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• Product Samples is a Shopify app. It simply provides an extra feature for customers to order product samples in free or lower price directly from your store. 

• For more information on the Product Samples demo here: https://product-samples.myshopify.com/products/nike-crackle-print-tb-tee

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OBJECTIVE | AUTOMATED EMAILS TO CUSTOMER

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• Shopify intergrates with Sendle. With this app, you get live shipping quotes from Sendle for both your domestic and international shipments. This app is only for live-quotes. To process your orders, simply go to your sendle.com dashboard and connect your Shopify store.

• https://apps.shopify.com/sendleshipping

• https://apps.shopify.com/sendle

• For more information on the Sendle app for Shopify: https://apps.shopify.com/sendle

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A MODERN USER FRIENDLY WEBSITE

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OBJECTIVE | NEWS & BLOG SECTIONS

TO BE MORE OF A FEATURE 

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• Pro Blogger is the essential blogging app for getting the most out of your article content, keeping your browsers engaged and ultimately converting readers to customers. Related blog posts, related products, image captions, rich Pinterest support - all in one app!

• For more information on the Pro Blogger app for Shopify: https://apps.shopify.com/pro-blogger

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OBJECTIVE | WARRANTY AND SERVICE FACILITY 

 

• Shopify's Form Builder app will allows you to generate leads, submit applications, collect payments, distribute surveys, track page views and more.

• The app will allow you to build unlimited forms with ease.  It also includes features such as customers to be able tu submit details of faults or problems they are experiencing by uploading photos and files. 

• For more information on the Form Builder app for Shopify: https://apps.shopify.com/form-builder-by-hulkapps

 

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OBJECTIVE | TRACKING ORDERS, DATA

COLLECTION AND EMAIL UPDATES

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• When you confirm or ship orders, your customers can automatically receive an email that links them to their order status page. Email templates control the information that's sent to customers. Shopify allows you to customise your email templates.

• Shopify will allow customers to check the status of hteir order and estimated delivery date if available from production department

• When you enable customer accounts, Shopfiy stores password-proected information about a customer'sidentify, order hisotry, and current order status.  

• For more information on the email updates function for Shopify https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/orders/status-tracking/order-status-email

• For more information on the email updates function for Shopify https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/customers/customer-accounts

 

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OBJECTIVE | SOLID HOSTING, PLUG IN

AND MAINTENANCE CAPABILITES 

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• Shopify is a ‘hosted’ solution, everything runs on Shopify’s servers. So, you don’t need to worry about buying web hosting or installing software anywhere; the idea is that pretty much everything you need to build and run your store happens ‘out of the box’ (that said, you can customise a Shopify store to meet more bespoke requirements through the addition of apps).

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