The ThoughtCorp e-Commerce solution offers a comprehensive, flexible online shopping solution with all the features required to offer the user an exciting online shopping experience and allow the store administrator to manage every component of the e-commerce store, from product images to customer accounts.
FEATURES OF OUR E-COMMERCE OFFERING:
Layout
- Our e-commerce stores are “responsive”, meaning the store adapts its layout automatically for an optimal view regardless of whether the user is on a laptop, tablet or mobile device.
- The layout of the store is flexible, accommodating client requirements together with best practice in terms of optimizing conversions.
Products
- Products can be organized by a flexible range of categories and sub categories.
- Add multiple images for each product, allowing the user to view the product from different angles.
- The variation feature allows products to be set up with different variations e.g. size or colour.
- Our solution allows for physical products that require delivery or digital products that can be downloaded from the store.
- To maximize cross and up sell opportunities, the solution includes featured products, recently viewed products, related products and other customizable additional product features.
- The gift card function allows users to purchase gift cards for utilization online or in store.
- Product inventory can be managed from the online store, or a data transfer between the web store and back end systems.
- The product administrator dashboard give real time view of sales.
Pricing
- We offer a wide variety of pricing features allowing the administrator to easily set prices for products.
- We include standard pricing and on sale (was / now) pricing, as well as more complex pricing options such as “buy 1 / get 1 free” or “buy 2 / get 20% of the 3rd” etc.
- Our store allows for coupons and discount vouchers
Delivery
- We offer the ability to set up simple or complex delivery pricing structures based on region, size, weight or other required variables.
- Delivery fees can also be calculated on the size of the purchase e.g. “Free delivery for orders over R1000”.
- Our address auto-complete feature, powered by Google Maps, makes form completion easier and minimizes user errors in delivery address.
Cards and Payment
- Minimise abandoned shopping carts with our flexible forms and encourage customer loyalty by enabling the “create account at checkout” feature.
- Our solution integrates with a number of 3rd party payment gateways for secure online payment.
- We also offer on-site secure payment facilities utilizing our clients own secure certificate.
- We can accommodate payment by credit card, direct transfer and PayPal.
Customer Management
- We offer a variety of features that allow the collection and categorization of user information, to be used for on and offline marketing campaigns and lead nurturing.
- The profile or account function is designed to display different products and pricing to different customers or groups.
e-Commerce Optimisation
- The A/B testing feature allows the administrator to test different versions of pages, banners or copy, to determine which variation produces the best results.
- The abandoned shopping cart function automatically invites or reminds users who have not completed orders to return and complete the purchase.
- Our e-commerce store is SEO friendly and has all the functionality required to optimize the site for search engines.
- Google Analytics is installed on our online stores, enabling analysis of user and site activity.
- Heat mapping tools are also available for a more in depth analysis of what users are doing on the site.

