E-commerce Simulated Demonstration - Homepage [Close page]

1. The system has already been working hard to attract visitors to the store. 2. As you can see from the welcome message, the system already knows the visitor is a returning customer 3. The customer may have returned after a search in Google for particular products. The abilty of the store to make itself user friendly to Search Engines and be able to automatically export all store information to Google's Shopping Engine, Froogle, meant the store has been well indexed and more likely to be found. 4. Or the visitor may have come across a discount coupon as part of a media campaign in local and national newspapers. The store has the ability to generate uniquely coded coupons and process them automatically when visitors use it to pay for goods. 5. Or perhaps the visitor has been notified by the system of a price drop on a particular item that the visitor requested on their previous visit. 6. Or the visitor has returned after receiving a shop generated Newsletter Email telling them about a special promotion. 7. New arrivals is automatically updated when new products are entered into the shop and store owners can define how long new products are flagged as new before being removed from the list. 8. Bestsellers is automatically generated by the store by looking at current and historic orders and change depending where visitors are in the shop. Next - visitor decides to log into their account to check the price of an item purchased previously.