EDIT offers a personalized solution package to enable you to place your bookstore online quickly and
inexpensively without sacrificing quality or features. Written entirely in Macromedia's ColdFusion the Campus
Storefront can be tailored to provide those services you desire for all your customers.
College StoreFront begins as a stand-alone store where you define the various departments, sections,
and categories which will display your inventory. This becomes your Store Directory which is accessible
from every page. Your customers can jump from point to point in your store without navigating cumbersome
menu structures. Inventory items are entered along with optional thumb-nail and large size pictures which
are uploaded from your workstation directly to the server. You further define basic site information such
as your store's name, address, phone, etc. as well as who can access the site maintenance (also know as
the Back-Office or Bookstore Staff) functions. At this point, you have all of the basics ready to go and
can begin! As you might have guessed, you can easily have a functional store up and running within just a
few days.
The real power of College StoreFront is in its ability to integrate with your existing back-end systems.
By utilizing an industry standard ODBC interface, we can access virtually *any* Point-Of-Sale, Inventory,
Student Registration, Textbook Adoption, etc. system to provide the information your customers need without
involving a member of your staff. Examples include allowing students to check which books were adopted for
a particular course by their professors along with current pricing and availability. Taken a step further,
a student could enter in his/her student ID number and based upon their current course registration information
a personalized booklist can be generated or even purchased. All in a matter of seconds without the hassles
of the older, time consuming method of looking up each course by hand in a printed report. Think of how
much traffic can be reduced during RUSH by allowing students to research their needs online without having
to enter the store.
College StoreFront is extensible. In many cases, you may be manually maintaining information as
there is no existing application setup to handle your needs. By utilizing Macromedia's Cold Fusion application
server technology, College StoreFront can be extended with new features directly without the requirement of
integrating to an existing back-end system. For example, although simple email notification of textbook
adoption requests come standard with College StoreFront, you can further automate the process and reduce
errors by integrating into your current Adoption/Inventory system. If you currently are
handling all Adoptions manually, then we can personalize one for you directly within College StoreFront
simplifying the entire process from beginning to end for everyone involved.
The flexibility to provide new services, incorporate existing back-end systems, and
extend the functionality provided by the basic system, sets College StoreFront apart from other
web-based bookstore packages.
If College StoreFront sounds like something you've been looking for to increase your staff's productivity,
increase your customers satisfaction levels, and decrease the amount of time you spend on the phone trying
to research requests, then give us a call. We'll be happy to take the time to work with you
on a personalized solution which fits your needs.
