Our highly flexible eCommerce portal has been designed in collaboration with Prologic, and is the result of years of planning, design, consultation and development. The result is a fully integrated, scalable, flexible and easy-to-use content management system, built from the ground up for the fashion and lifestyle sector. At every stage consultants, retailers and users have been consulted to ensure that our solution is ideally fit for purpose and meets the demands of running a fast-moving, fully integrated eCommerce website.

How far can you see into the future...?

Not only does our solution allow for multiple site deployments and instances (giving you the ability to plan and merchandise your Sale and next season's sites independently from your live site), but by using the built in 'Time Machine' preview capability, you can browse and view your site as it will appear in the future. This innovative feature allows you to make sure that all your page variant scheduling will work as you intended. All that then remains is for you to let the eCommerce platform intelligently render product, links and categories to the live site as planned. The inbuilt content delivery intelligence of the platform checks that the relevant categories and links have available stock and content, if not, it makes sure the user finds relevant and available content at every stage. Time Machine gives you the ability to plan, merchandise and prototype your content well ahead of planned changes, thus giving your customers a rich and up-to-date online experience.

What do I get?

• The ability to have multiple deployments from one central platform and database.
• 3 Instances (Standard) – this allows you to manage 3 sites: all working independently and from different price-lists eg: Site 1 (currently active) – Spring/Summer; Site 2 – Spring/Summer Sale; Site 3 – Autumn/Winter. All instances have independent preview and Time Machine functionality.
• Time Machine – every page can have multiple-content scheduled variations that can the be previewed via your very own ‘Time Machine’. This unique facility enables you to schedule your content in line with special events, timed promotions, new arrivals, etc.
• Flexible and easy control of site information architecture – Site Categories and Page Categories, Integrated Product and Image Management, built-in editing tools for image variants are also available.
• Intelligent product filter attributes, size range management and colour swatch editing.
• Centralised product image management and editing.
• Unique drag-and-drop page creation with meta data and keyword management.
• Unique product list merchandising tool allows you to merchandise lists in minutes. Being able to view delivery, promotions and product attributes you can merchandise ahead of time.
• Visibility of all core product, promotional and stock data in real-time with integrated critical path.
• Advanced search handling capabilities – Linguistics, Auto ranking, Managed ‘No Results’ Pages and URL redirection.
• Product Guide Management available at product level.
• Intelligent content rendering and easy hotspot creation.
• Administrative capabilities including User Management, Document management and Job Board.
• CIMS product creation and management, price-list and promotional management.
• Integrated CIMS despatch, invoicing and returns are all reconciled in core CIMS.

.. to find out more please get in touch...

The eCommerce portal allows our customers to have control of their stores whilst benefitting from an enterprise scale content management, order processing and fulfillment solution. All being fully integrated with, and embedded within, the CIMS multi-channel applications.

For more information please contact us at Concrete Studios or Prologic Plc on +44 (0)1442 876 277 or visit www.prologic.com to discover more about CIMS software, our services and consultancy.

We are passionate about making complex content management easily accessible to non-technical staff.