BMS Website - Revamp & Comments

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Order history would be a godsend - particularly if the products are linked for easy re-ordering. If we can log-in and see the current state of outstanding orders (or items on back-order), that would also be beneficial.

More accurate dates on when products are expected would also be helpful. With my latest order, I wanted some of each of your metal keyrings to provide to a customer who's interested in buying them. Your website said that the "large oval" one was due end of August (it's now September). And the wide oval ones are also out of stock according to the delivery note (not mentioned on your website).

I think it would also help if the shopping basket could also show an estimated weight/shipping-cost as we add items to it (without having to get to the last stage). Playing "juggle the basket" to optimise shipping costs is a great game on other websites. ;) (At least it must be - because it's a game my customers play!)

The aria site is a more standard layout. I like how neat and uncluttered your current site is, but I'd like to be able to get to products with less clicks.

I don't think I'd use the videos so much, although I'm sure newcomers would, but large images would be very helpful (particularly if we can save them in order to show them to prospective customers and avoid having to wait for products to be back in stock).

Otherwise, everything you list would make shopping much more convenient.

Just my two-penneth, of course. Feel free to ignore me (I often do 8-) ).

(My family just got me on the Facebook train yesterday. All a bit complicated for me at the mo. :lol: )
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Thanks for the comments.

You should get the remaining keyrings next week - all I know at the moment is they are due sometime next week (they'll follow asap). The weight of the shopping cart is on the site, but it's just a number in the shopping cart so not overly obvious what that figure is. We might be able to incorporate this on the shopping cart summary which will be on the front page in future. We don't have live stock levels on the site as this is very complicated to manage as some customers buy online, others telephone and others call to collect 'off the street' so trying to manage this all online would prove impossible (well we could employ an extra person, but everyone would end up paying extra for the products to cover their wages!).

We won't be going live until probably the New Year so plenty of time to incorporate a wish list if more comments are forthcoming...
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a facebook account has been created for PrinterOwners Bms
Request sent :D

But, should it not be set up as a business page instead of a friends page? :?
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JSR wrote:Order history would be a godsend - particularly if the products are linked for easy re-ordering. If we can log-in and see the current state of outstanding orders (or items on back-order), that would also be beneficial.
Great idea!
Paul wrote:another thing I wish to see improved is key words of products for search engine. its pants on this moment as I keep finding things not relaTED WITH THIS WHAT IAM LOOKING FOR :p
Unfortunately I agree with this too.
bms wrote:We don't have live stock levels on the site as this is very complicated to manage as some customers buy online, others telephone and others call to collect 'off the street' so trying to manage this all online would prove impossible (well we could employ an extra person, but everyone would end up paying extra for the products to cover their wages!).
No thanks :lol: This is one area which I am totally sympathetic with and you WOULD need that extra person to keep on top of it. Unless you can afford an all singing dancing hugely expensive epos system where EVERYTHING is connected, I order from Kodak, Fuji etc who claim to have such systems but they still go wrong.

In the meantime good look developing the new site and taking all these "constructive" comments on the chin
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Paul wrote:
another thing I wish to see improved is key words of products for search engine. its pants on this moment as I keep finding things not relaTED WITH THIS WHAT IAM LOOKING FOR :p

Unfortunately I agree with this too.
Any examples of what doesn't work?
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Can't remember much beyond last week Martin but I think it may have been vapour t shirts.
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I generally find the search works okay - but then I only search for simple items.

For example, if I'm after some coasters then to save clicking buttons I just type "coaster" and up they come. Likewise, to save looking for mug boxes, I just type "polys" into the search box.

I can't think of an occasion when the results were unrelated to what I'm looking for.
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Martin

If you type

car window hanging sign

into your search, it doesn't bring anything up, even if capitalised the way it shows on your site, yet, when you browse the items, it comes up on page 10, with that exact title :(

I've had that happen on a few other items aswell.

And the other thing is, when you get no search results displayed, and hit the back button on your browser, the page has expired and it takes me back to an IE error page. :(
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Kaz wrote:Martin

If you type

car window hanging sign

into your search, it doesn't bring anything up, even if capitalised the way it shows on your site, yet, when you browse the items, it comes up on page 10, with that exact title :(
I've just tried it and you're right.

Searching for "car" brings up a list of items with the sign listed 4th. Searching for "car window" brings up nothing. Searching for "window" just brings up "window cling". "hanging" brings up nothing. But, "sign" brings up a bunch of items with the hanging sign top of the list.

I wonder how the search works? It seems like it's doing an "old-style" search of manually-entered keywords, rather than a proper search of the page data.
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My search for a vapour t shirt came up with a blank, when t shirt is typed in it only comes up with some of the tees. However if you go to sublimation / printable items / T Shirts, the vapour tees are there amongst others which don't come up in the t shirt search. Unfortunately i'm a bit lazy or impatient and do very little buying on line because of this.

Much prefer the personal way with a bit of a chat etc. Plus Martin n team are a nice bunch!
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