Curtain Soft Furnishings Website Design | Curtasoft
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What is Curtasoft and what does it do?
Curtasoft is an all-in-one online shop solution for soft furnishings retailers. Curtasoft is tailored for businesses selling items such as made to measure curtains, fabrics, roman blinds, curtain poles and accessories.
Curtasoft is a double-featured system and by choosing this system you will receive:
- An online customer website - plugs into all major payment providers
- A content editor system - add and update products quickly and simply with no technical knowledge required
Curtasoft enables the client to add / edit / delete an unlimited number of products using a very simple-to-use editor system. The system requires no technical or programming knowledge. The editor prompts the user for the relevant details for each product type such as product name, price, colours, sizes etc.
Curtasoft is web-based and thus does not require installation on
a computer. All changes made through the Curtasoft editor will be
instantly reflected on the website thus allowing quick updates without
any delays. this means total flexibility: add, edit and delete products
as-and-when you need to.
The below product types are those that are currently available for
editing via Curtasoft and display on the website. We are able to tailor
the product types that your editor incorporates:
- Ready made curtains
- Made to measure curtains - 'Curtain Express' style
- Made to measure curtains - in house creation
- Roman Blinds
- Fabrics
- Nets & Jardinaires
- Table coverings
- Bedding
- Voile panels
- Cushion covers
- Tracks and poles
- Voile Tie Blinds
- Lace Blinds
- Accessories
- Track Accessories
Each product allows for up to 50 colours to be added along with 2
images per colour. The Curtasoft image upload system sizes the images
accordingly to create thumbnails, standard images and high resolution
images thus keeping in with the structure and style of the chosen
website design. You would simply select an image from your computer
or digital camera and click an upload button; Curtasoft will then
do the rest for you.
The main customer website specifically categorises these items into
the relevant product groups e.g. curtain poles, made to measure curtains,
fabrics etc. Each item has its own details page so that the range
of colours and sizes can be viewed and added to the customers' basket.
The basket plugs into most popular payment systems such as Paypal,
NoChex, SagePay, World Pay, or high street banking systems. The system
will notify you upon payment and will send an intemised list to you
and to the customer. We do not favour any one payment system over
another so it is down to what is right for your business as some providers
charge higher processing fees and lower monthly rental and vice versa.
The Curtasoft system is flexible so, for example, postage prices and
free postage on orders over certain amounts can be applied if required.
There is also a sales discount system where you can apply percentages
off specific products or groups of products.
We always listen to suggestions and because the system is highly flexible
and can be customised this allows specific requirements to be integrated
into the system. These changes can be made without affecting your
site and therefore will not require any 'downtime' and loss of sales.
The Curtasoft package includes:
- Website design and build
- Curtasoft editor system - add / edit / delete items (item types detailed above), image upload system, page text editor (selected areas); instantly reflected on main website; view order details
- Product catalogue and product details page for each type of product your site is selling
- Shopping basket / checkout
- Integration into your chosen payment provider e.g. Protx / Paypal / World Pay
- Email notification of orders
- The email notification system sends an email to the customer and to the retailer detailing all the items that have been placed along with relevant details such as width/drop, colour, design name etc
Why Curtasoft?
The Curtasoft system is specifically tailor-made for the products
it is selling. Many websites offer an off-the-shelf solution but this
is generally aimed at simple products without customisation such as
CDs, DVDs, electronic items etc. The made to measure system alone
is a very complex calculator that a general e-commerce/cms package
would have problems creating / mimicking and running successfully.
As important as the customer site is, the product editor is what drives
the whole website and we know that you don't have time to learn complex
tools and software. This is why Curtasoft is simple-to-use and is
built in way that means the retailer can quickly add products seamlessly
in a very short amount of time.
Curtasoft has been developed with the very close assistance of people
in the trade, for people in the trade. The Curtasoft system is always
growing and is easily cusomisable for each client ensuring you get
a website that is right for your business, which is the most important
thing when selling products online.
Search Engines
Our websites are always built in a search engine friendly manner
meaning that as much data relating to the items you are selling is
placed on the page in a search engine recognised manner. We submit
to and install Google Analytics onto your website ensuring you can
keep an eye on how many people are visiting your website and how they
are finding you. We also submit your products to Google Base (Google
Shopping area).
Building your website
We would build your site in 2 phases. Firstly, we create several
design ideas that can be emailed to you in JPEG image format. We are
happy to listen to any suggestions you have or from websites that
you have seen.
These design blueprints will be a replica of how your website would
appear if in a web browser. It shows the menu, how images will be
positioned, the text and other graphics styling. It is effectively
a screenshot of how your website would look.
Once you are happy with the design we would then create the website
from the blueprint.
Phase 1: create a design layout that we would email
to you in JPEG format. The JPEG would effectively be a screenshot
of what your site would look like when in a browser.
Phase 2: plug Curtasoft admin system into the site.
You can then begin to learn how it works and even add products in
whilst we carry on building the rest of the customer site
Phase 3: build the customer site - these are the
pages that people will browse to buy your products
We do not provide copywriting services; text / images / information
would need to be provided to us in electronic format where applicable.
Please visit the soft furnishings websites that we have designed and
built using our Curtasoft Content Management System:
