(PR.co.nz) Zambesi is one of New Zealand’s most prominent clothing designers and have a significant global market, supplying selected outlets in Australasia, the UK, the USA, France (Paris), Japan and Russia. Zambesi has recently launched www.zambesistore.com – an ecommerce website which is fully integrated with their point of sale system Retail Pro. Their integrated webstore was delivered by Solutionists of Australasia’s leading ecommerce and integration specialists. Solutionists will be exhibiting at the Online Retail Conference and Ecommerce Expo in Sydney from 27th-29th September. Zambesi understood the importance of delivering their product online at a global level and partnered with Solutionists due to their extensive experience and success in the online fashion retail sector.
The website look and feel was designed by Zambesi themselves, based off best practise layout suggestions from Solutionists. James Gilbert of Solutionists says “The Zambesi website required several custom features which would achieve the objectives of accurately representing the Zambesi brand online, and delivering efficient, automated website maintenance.” Several of these custom features include:
• Full integration with Zambesi’s point of sale system Retail Pro – product, stock, pricing, customers and images are automatically uploaded into the website as they are updated in Zambesi’s point of sale
• Priority store fulfilment – Upon order the Zambesi website calculates which store has the stock levels to fulfil the order. Based on priority this store will be emailed automatically instructing the staff to send the order to head office.
• Tumblr integration – As Zambesi were already running a Tumblr blog, Solutionists integrated this into the website, adding Facebook Like and Twitter buttons to each post (which link back to the site)
• Coming Soon/Out of Stock – If a product is Out of Stock or Coming Soon the product will still be loaded automatically onto the website and the appropriate message will display automatically based off stock status. If a product is Coming Soon a customer can add it to their Want List and be notified via email automatically when it comes in stock.
• Product image swap out – When a user selects a product colour, all product images swap out to display only the images for that colour.
Media Release 23 September 2011.