A trade ecommerce site looking for a home...
Written by
Chris
With a passion for strategy, planning and behavioural insight, Chris has been building brands and activating them across multiple journeys for over 20 years. He thrives on collaboration with ambitious people and brands that believe in the power of a big idea.
A magento store:
built, tested and ready to go live.
At Nzime we’ve been working with Trade clients for decades. Collaborating extensively across tiling, flooring, blockwork, brickwork, hand rails and decorative hardware. We’ve helped retail brands, merchants and manufacturers communicate better digitally, and convert better across their platforms.
We’ve learnt a thing or two along the way about what makes industry leading websites. How users engage with, explore, refine, configure and ultimately buy DIY and trade products. Whether its people in the trade, self builders, DIY heroes or straight up B2C sales - we’ve helped brands perform better.
All of that learning has gone into our most recent ecommerce website for a major tile manufacturer - CTD.
Here’s a flavour of some of the great functionality we’ve built into this Magento store:
- “Porto” Magento theme, with customised colours and fonts
- Magento-provided basic customer and order management, with enhancements allowed using various extensions
- “Trade” and “Retail” multisite to allow for the inclusion or exclusion of VAT, as well as different ordering process
- Samples functionality and daily export list
- Simplified checkout process for easy ordering
- Barclays EPDQ hosted checkout for secure payments off-site (can be amended for other payment gateways)
- Delivery and collection functionality, along with stock levels for each shown on the product pages
- Customisable shipping methods for next day delivery, or various item weights, etc.
- Store locator via an extension
- TrustPilot integration
- Trade and Retail accounts separated in the backend
- Contact form via chosen extension
- Various promo banners, USP banners, delivery countdown timer, across the site
- Content manager for blog pages
- Category pages show a room and tile view for products, which can be switched or shown on hover
- Favourites list functionality
- Bundle products and bulk pricing
- Tile calculator that either calculates per box, or by coverage needed, including wastage.
- Two product page layouts (gallery view for tiles or single image view for accessories.
We’re really proud of this site, and the client was too. Unfortunately CTD fell into administration before it could go live, so it’s still sitting on a server ready to go.
We’d love for it to see the light of day. If you’re looking for a new store and would like to chat about it then feel free to get in touch.