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Overview | Core Modules | Conferences & Events Module | Short Courses Module
Introduction
Designed to accommodate the requirements of the Higher Education Sector, the online store is an easy to use, quick and versatile solution that enables institutions to sell their goods and services online through a familiar and intuitive shopping basket interface.
The Online Store framework has now entered its third evolution and is a fully modular system allowing simple expansion to cater for the specific requirements of each institution.
The framework is based on allowing one or more customer facing ‘stores’ within an institution all of which are controlled through a single administration interface. This means that each store can a have separate visual identity, configuration and administrator access. This includes allowing different payment service providers or merchant accounts to be used within each store. The implementation of separate stores is normally dependant on the institutions requirements from either a financial or logistical point of view, i.e. one store can be used just to sell short courses and another for general services.
The Online Store, like WPM Education’s other solutions, benefits from our secure managed hosting environment ensuring that availability is guaranteed and that no additional physical hardware or software is required. Updates occur seamlessly and WPM ensures that, within the annual licence fee, all mandatory changes are made as and when required to ensure the stores stay compliant with current requirements.
There are no limitations, or additional costs, based on the amount of users, products, orders or customers that the Online Store will support. This makes it an extremely appealing solution to an institution’s both short and long term e-payments/commerce strategy as WPM is continually developing the core and optional functionality in response to the sector’s requirements.
Modular Approach
WPM has used the third evolution of its Online Store application to provide a fully modular framework. Building on over six years of experience in providing online payment solutions to the sector this approach offers the best mix of both ‘off-the-shelf’ and bespoke developments, allowing institutions a much greater element of control as well as the flexibility to still have one-off developments specific to their own requirements.
This modular approach has allowed us to expand on the core functionality of the Online Store and produce a Product Catalogue module that provides all the required functionality to list and sell products and services online.
Intrinsically linked to all core and optional modules are the System Management and Order Processing elements of the system. These apply for all of the operational modules and ensure that there is a simple way to control and administer all day-to-day processing requirements in a single place.
Core Modules
Within each Online Store front-end one or more modules can be enabled, with the core modules covering System management, Order Processing, the Product Catalogue and system reporting. This allows the functionality of each store to be configured to what is required to achieve the individual area’s requirements.
The Order Processing module allows for easy access and control over all customer, order and transaction data within that particular store. This is independent of any additional modules that have been added to the store and ensures there is a central point of access to this data.
Extension & Bespoke Modules
All extension modules are optional and can be added, as required, at any future date. As well as the standard modules available, and in development, the framework can also support bespoke modules, which can be developed for specific requirements.
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