Eric the Red, Web Design
Your internet presence should be easy to manage and easy to comprehend. Let us help!
A website does not have to stop at pages. With PHP and a database behind it, the site can take bookings, hold accounts, track stock and produce the reports you would otherwise be assembling by hand. These are the pieces clients ask for most often, and they can be added to a new site or fitted to one you already have.
Customers pick a date, a time or a seat and book it themselves, and the calendar updates so the same slot cannot be taken twice. Confirmation and reminder emails go out automatically, and you get a view of what is coming up without answering the phone for every appointment.
A part of the site only your members, students or clients can reach, with their own login. Useful for documents, pricing, course material, renewals or anything you would rather not put in front of the public.
Products drawn from your own catalogue, with stock levels, prices, shipping and tax calculated at checkout. Stock counts down as orders come in, so what the site shows matches what is on the shelf.
The numbers you actually run the business on, pulled from your own data and available in the browser: sales by period, bookings by staff member, stock on hand, whatever the question is. Reports can be viewed on screen or exported for your spreadsheet.
Connecting the site to software you already use, so the same information does not get typed twice. Payment processors, accounting packages, mailing list services, calendars and booking tools can all be wired in where they publish an interface for it.
A content management system behind the site so you can add pages, post news, change prices and swap photos from your browser. We build it, set it up and show you how to run it, and you are not waiting on a developer for small changes.
Enquiry forms, applications and registrations that write to a database rather than getting lost in an inbox, with an email confirmation to the sender. Mailing lists can be managed from the same place, with sign-up handled on the site.
If you already keep information in a database or a spreadsheet, it can be published on the site, either publicly or behind a login, and kept in step with the source rather than maintained twice.