eCommerce Requirements
Dear eCommerce (Online Shopping) Client
To help you in supplying us with the correct product info to be able to populate your e-commerce site, please read through this document.
Content: Please provide per page in MSWORD Document
Content loading: We will only pre-load 30 products on the website although you will be able to load unlimited products yourself. If you require us to load more than the 30 pre-loaded products we can do so at an additional cost per product.
Images: Please provide in high quality/high resolution in .jpg and/or .png formats.
Please provide a list, identifying which products, pictures, and content goes together, so that we can upload the correct content to the correct product if you know what we mean.
CMS Information (Content Required).
Here we need text to fill the following pages.
Legal Notice.
Product Delivery.
Terms and Conditions of Use.
About Us.
About Secure Payment.
Store Physical Address & Contact Details:
Physical Store Photo and Branches.
Store & Branches Longitude/Latitude for Maps.
Staff Photos, Responsibilities, Departments, Profile Descriptions, and Contact Details.
Localization
Do you want to sell to the rest of the world or South Africa only?
Which currencies would you like to trade in?
Are you VAT Registered?
If yes, will need your VAT Number for the store…
Shipping/Deliveries
Do you have an account with a shipping/courier company?
If you do, could you provide us with the login details to synchronize with them?
How do you intend to do deliveries?
Are your products sold by price or weight?
If by weight, we will need (package width/package height/package depth/package weight).
If by price, the courier cost per item.
Products
Product Categories.
Product Name.
Very Short Description.
Long Description and/or Specs.
Product Tag Name.
Product Price before VAT.
If selling also wholesale, the wholesale price before VAT.
Indicate if the product is associated with another product.
Does your product sell in various colours?
If so, we will need pictures of those products in various colours.
Does your product sell in various sizes?
If so, we will need you to indicate the prices for sizes per product.
Are you going to sell on specific quantities available in the store?
If so, we will need exact quantities… basically, you will need to stocktake and send the list.
Or will you be selling “Allow Orders regardless of stock items available”?
If so, we can place a clause for people to confirm availability.
Images: We will need Images of various angles per product.
Images: If the product sells per colour, we will need those varieties as well.
Product Code: We will need your selling product code for each product.
Buyers Code: Or if you wish to use your product codes from your supplier, we can do that.
If you have attachments/spec sheets per product you can send that along as well.
Manufacturers and Suppliers
Manufacturer and Supplier details can also be added for branding products. The visitor obviously will not be able to purchase from them seeing that they are not dealers etc. Therefore, Trusting Branding Product Logos on the e-commerce site can be shown for more sales power.
Social Media
Please provide all social media links, usernames and passwords so that we can synchronize it with your online store. You can always change the passwords afterword’s, once we have completed the setup.
Email Campaigns
Are you sending out newsletters to your clients, if not please register with https://www.mailchimp.com/ and send us the username and password, so that we can synchronise here as well.
Should we need more information, we will be in contact with you via email for those requests (for instance front page adverts etc.). In the meantime, this should get us going. The faster you can provide us with all the information/content for the site, the faster we can get your website launched.
One last note, the correct logo to be shown on the site.