MAY WE SUGGEST YOU READ THIS FIRST: What's so good about a Helix Online Shop?

Helix Websites has expertise in online shops and e-commerce.  Working with clients from a wide range of businesses, we have have been able to build a strong knowledge and experience base to share with our clients as they approach their own online shops and e-commerce facilities today.  

With new technology and software being constantly developed, tested and launched our team focus consistently on new software and enabling functions to ensure that we are know about the emerging technologies and how they can benefit our existing and new clients with online shops for business.

What are the Features and Benefits of a Helix Online Shop?
 

An online shop from Helix Websites will offer your customers the ease, convenience and efficiency they've come to expect.  In short, making it easier for them to buy your products or services. 

Advantages for your customers

• Clear product display with zoomable images
• Visible security indicators
• Easy-to-use checkout pages
• Multi-currency & multi-language capabilities
   

Advantages for you

• Expert design that shouts product quality
• User-friendly content management system
• Search Engine Optimisation as standard
• Support when you need it
• Expertise available of shopping cart software, payment gateways, stock control systems, image manipulation and much more

Example Shop Design:

Example Back Office Report:

Features and Benefits List

• Fully Featured Content Management System
• Backup and Restore facilities (including automated backups) are all built-in
• All sites include hosting for the first year as standard
• Support ticket system and support by phone available in the UK
• Sites are compatible with the latest versions of a wide range of browsers Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari 
• SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) features are built in and controllable by the owner

1. Search Friendly URLs
2. Meta Tags can be uniquely set by the owner on each page
3. Site code is clean and efficient allowing search engines to index the pages easily
4. Underlying site speed is fast – Google now measures this as part of its “good site” criteria
5. Keyword/Keyphrase density is under the full control of the owner for in-depth on-page optimization tasks
6. Keywords/Keyphrases can be included in the URLs to help backlink effectiveness from other sites

• Open Source software
• Websites are fully transportable should you require to move them
• Fully expandable in the future
• New front end designs can be applied without affecting the content or the back office
• Key elements of the site can be upgraded without upsetting other parts of the site
• Capability to have different access levels for different administrators
• Clear and easy to use back office interface
• Customer tracking capability
• Clear and "zoomable" image display

Examples of User Interface:
 

The functionality and flexibility of a Helix online shop is huge.  Our approach has been to create a base online shop with all the built-in functions and features to provide an excellent and robust platform - all you would  need to provide are images, prices and product descriptions and we can provide a fully operational online shop.  For bespoke functions and designs we build on our own core shop. This enables Helix to build and deliver any online shop extremely efficiently and economically and gives our customers a key means of turbo-charging their sales and revenue.. 

Other options include: 

• Payment Gateways - PayPal, Nochex, Worldpay, SecPay, Protx, SagePay
• Stock Control Systems - Off the shelf and bespoke
• Fulfilment - internal and external
• Image Manipulation - image zoom add-ons and auto-resizing
• Automatic Feeds - via XML and CSV to Google, eBay and other well-known sites
• Newsletter systems - bulk sending of e-shots and newsletters, and email address capture
• Trade websites - allowing different customers to see different prices

A Helix Websites Online Shop is 1 piece of the jigsaw. We can provide the website along with a wealth of other information to help you run your online retail business.

Please view our Portfolio and read Customer Testimonials and for an e-commerce demonstration and consultation, please contact us to make an appointment.