"DURING THE DEVELOPMENT PHASE AND USE OF THE LIVE SYSTEM WE HAVE FOUND WPM TO BE RESPONSIVE AND ATTENTIVE WHEN TWEAKS OR MODIFICATIONS WERE REQUIRED."
Elaine Platts, Senior Clerk Collections, De Montfort UniversityWHY USE THE ONLINE STORE?
NO LIMITATIONS,
NO ADDITIONAL COSTS
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 and e-commerce strategy as WPM Education is continually developing the core and optional functionality in response to the sector's requirements.
KEY BENEFITS
- All departments within your institution can sell services and products online using a single system
- One or more customer facing 'stores' all of which controlled through a single administration interface
- Transparent view of revenue stream
- Centralising and simplifying sales and payment process
- No limitations, or additional costs, based on the amount of users, products, orders or customers
- Reduces amount of onsite cash handling
- Secure managed hosting environment
- No additional hardware or software required
- Fully integrated with online Payment Service Providers
- Online shopping cart with industrial strength security
- Support for secure offline payment processing
- DDA and SENDA compliance for accessibility
ONLINE STORE
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 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 secure managed hosting ensuring that availability is guaranteed and that no additional physical hardware or software is required. Updates occur seamlessly and WPM Education 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.
MODULAR APPROACH
WPM Education has used the third evolution of its Online Store application to provide a fully modular framework. Building on over seven 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 WPM Education 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.