Simplishop is a Web Content Management System designed for online shopping using a sophisticated shopping cart system. Reach a broader market and service your existing customers better.

Simplishop is also a low cost, simple, yet sophisticated Web Content Management System that you will understand and feel comfortable using. It will match the way you do business physically.

Simplishop makes it easy to shop and communicate on the web. You will have a business web site with the ease of point and click, where you can design and publish your own newsletters, datasheets and other information, simply! You can set up a hierarchy of users such as registered users who can login to access more detailed information and receive your newsletter. You can delegate authoring and publishing rights to stakeholders of your business such as suppliers who can update their own content by logging in through the frontend. You can issue administration rights to key staff who can login through the backend to access the rich functionality of Simplishop. Administrators can  manage all of the web content and the site's look and feel through the backend of the Web Content Management System.

You and you stakeholders look after the content, while Dovetail Web Services looks after the software that underpins your website. We gladly invite suggestions about functionality and usability, and you will benefit from a program of regular upgrades at no extra cost to your Web Content Management System.

Benefits

• Promotion of your business into other online trading portals and search engines
• Tools to monitor your online business & marketing program
• Peace of mind to focus on your business rather than the underlying systems
• Freedom to operate from anywhere, improve your work / life balance
• Highest value website and hosting for price
• Simple to use business systems: work better with your customers, suppliers, staff
• Systems to improve business processes: save time, reduce cost
• Systems to sell & transact with new customers beyond your physical boundaries
• Personalised setup, support and training to gain user confidence
• Assistance to explore competitive advantages with tailored solutions
• Data security: firewall, offsite server, daily data backup, web reliability above 99%
• Continuous improvement of web platform software and systems

Simplishop makes it easy to browse and shop online. You will have a business web site with the ease of point and click, where you can merchandise your products on the world wide web to an international community just as you would in your own shop to your local community. You can also communicate to your valued customers online through regular newsletters, and advise on product specials, promotions and other information, simply!

Your website will be flexible and easy to change and update as your business grows. It can be enhanced by other standard functions offered by Dovetail such as secure online business transactions, or we can discuss special tailored solutions specific to your needs.

Also, there are a set of additional optional functions available, however we recommend that you start with the standard functions first. When you are familiar with the standard functions, you can ask us about the optional functions and we would be pleased to discuss how these options may be able to meet specific business needs you may have. We will take care of all the hard work and provide a simple service to you.

Features

The software functionality of your Web Content Management System has been modularised and refined, and is based on open source software. This enables our prices to be very competitive. You are not being charged for the development of the software modules. You can choose systems that are relevant to your business.

►     Store more than 150,000 records (Standard Package – refer below)

Your 150MB storage space will let you store approximately 150,000 records of products, customers and orders; you can expand the storage space at a very low cost (extra 30MB for $2.20 per month)

►     Capacity of 20,000 web page visits per month (Standard Package – refer below)

Your 2,000MB bandwidth per month provides your site with more than 20,000 page visits in one month; you can expand the download bandwidth at a very low cost (extra 30MB for $2.20 per month)

►     Manage Newsletter mailing lists and mail outs

You can issue newsletters from your website and notify your customers (Note: newsletters use the high download bandwidth available on your website)

►     Product Catalogue / Shopping Cart update service

We update your software continuously as part of our service to you. This includes bug fixing, and function improvement.

 ►     Secure Physical Facility

Our secure data centre is located in a safe and secure environment with data backup and stored on a mirror site in a separate location.

►     Continuing service

Your website is guaranteed to be 99.5% operational; that is, your website will not stop more than 1.825 days in ONE year; you benefit from a controlled environment that safeguards your equipment

►     Network facilities

Professional network design and engineering to maintain enhanced reliability and availability; we operate the network equipment, monitor performance & manage outages.

►     Security

We provide basic network security via firewall services, intrusion monitoring and management, and access control lists

►     Backup Services

We backup your application, image, and data every day; we recover your data to the latest backup copy at no cost

What is my starting point?

Enquire about our one month free trial. We can have your website ready for trial in just 3 days.

There are just 3 steps to create your own business website:

1.      Pick a domain name for your website. www.YourSite.com or www.YourSite.com.au 

2.      Choose a template for your website and send us electronically your logo design

3.      Discuss requirements and structure of your website, then create your trial website

Participating in a trial will help you to see the value that a sophisticated Web Content Management System can bring to your business. You can then decide whether to proceed further or not. We can also arrange to setup all of your content and website completely if you don’t have the time to do it.