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Base Site

The Base Site is the foundation for every Outdoors Direct web site and includes all of the tools to create, modify, and manage your web site.  The Base Site includes:

  • Outdoors Direct web framework
  • Choice of a template
  • Fully editable and manageable content sections, categories, and items
  • Full Blog capability
  • Site Search for all content
  • Dynamic Polling - customer feedback to the most pressing questions
  • User registration
  • Web-accessible site administration


  • Personalization of the selected template which includes:
    • Your Company Logo
    • Company name
    • Color choices
    • Header images (if applicable), etc...
  • Initial entry of information, everything neccesary to make it complete
  • Hosting (First year free) including:
    • Disk space
    • Email addresses
    • Reporting
 
Scheduling Component

ImageProvide online customer scheduling using the Outdoors Direct Scheduling Component seemlessly integrated into your Outdoors Direct Base Site.  This component allows your customers to create an "account", using Outdoors Direct's integrated customer management, after which they can then book their own trips.

 

 

 

 

The Scheduling Component includes:
  • Multiple Locations
  • Multiple Assets per Location.  Assets might be:
    • Boats
    • Canoes
    • Guides
  • Individual and Mass Date Blocking by Location or Asset
  • Customers can only see details about thier own transactions

The Scheduling Component provides a number of benefits:

  • Gathers important customer contact information
  • Customer's purchase impulse is satisfied by immediate scheduling
  • 24/7 access, no call necessary to determine availability
 
Scheduling Component with PayPal

Get all of the great functionality of the Scheduling Component upgraded with the ability to take deposits and payments online through PayPal.  The only requirement is a PayPal account, which is free to create and does not require a merchant ID or a special server, typical PayPal credit card transaction fees range from 2% to 3%, depending on volume, and roughly $0.30 per transaction.  In the long run paying the PayPal fee is a cost savings because it eliminates additional hosting costs and other fees related to building a secure commerce site.

Scheduling Component with PayPal includes:

  • All of the Scheduling Component functionality
  • Integration of PayPal into the Scheduling Component
  • Setup of Fees and Charges for each Location and Asset
 
Message Board Component

ImageProvide customers with a fully functional Message Board integrated into the Outdoors Direct Base Site.  Using Outdoors Direct's integrated customer management, a single customer login works with all Outdoors Direct components, this means that you don't have a seperate message board with it's own user login.  Multiple logins and registrations are a deterent to customers who may be willing to divulge personal information, gaining access to customer information is important to all service oriented businesses.

Message Boards are a great tool for building an interactive relationship with your customers either prior to or after a purchase.  Properly managed this tool becomes a key component in maintaining a long-term relationship with customers.
 
Photo Gallery Component

Outdoors Direct Photo Gallery component adds a state-of-the-art gallery integrated within your Outdoors Direct site.  While you can use the built-in Base Site functionality to build a gallery, see the demo site , if you plan on adding lots of pictures, or want to build customer specific albums; the Photo Gallery Component is well worth the investment.

Photo Gallery component includes:

  • Multiple Album levels
  • Slideshow
  • Comments
  • Voting
  • Multiple intermediate resolutions per item

 
 
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