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A single VB Media site can be utilised in many ways. See just some examples of it in real life. Fully working example websites for you to have a play with.
Your orders are managed via VB Media Admin Area.
Customers are automatically updated with branded emails regarding their order's progression.
As well as managing your online orders, you can create manual orders which are then handled in the same way.
Send items to suppliers or print the system generated job sheet, you have full control.
Items sent to our API connected suppliers will be ingested straight to their workflows saving you processing time and requiring no double-entering.
For jobs being fulfilled in-house you can generate an internal job sheet.
Easily generate quotations and will send customers a branded email for each quote.
Email quotations are sent with a link which your customer can click on to order and pay online.
You can create a quote by importing products from your shops catalogue or create on-the-fly items without the need to have them pre-configured.
An abandoned cart occurs when a customer adds an item to their cart and doesn’t follow through with a purchase.
Gain helpful insights, by seeing your customers Abandoned Carts.
The Page Editor allows you to easily take control of 'common elements' such as your site's Header and Footer.
Create these once and they are consistent across your whole site. Make any changes and they are updated on every page.
The Page Editor uses easy to add ‘Sections’ to help you build your page.
These sections include simple sections such as text blocks, galleries, gaps, headings, faqs, testimonials and team members.
To more advanced sections like call to actions, call to action groups, blog posts, sliders, advanced headings, pricing tables, products and product categories.
Each section has a bunch of settings to allow you to adjust the look of that section.
Some settings are familiar across different sections for consistency, whereas others are completely unique.
These settings combine to give you fine control over your page as well as the ability to separate you from others.
The majority of our sections come with pre-designed options.
Simply add a section and then tweak the settings for that section to get the look you are after.
Add, Edit, and Remove Products in the Admin Area. You can add your own custom products from scratch, or add products from connected suppliers with a few clicks.
Prices for connected spplier product are automatically updated for you, with your mark-up applied on top.
When you import a product from a supplier it will come with default names, images and descriptions. But don't worry, this is all editable in the Admin Area.
Make your resold products look more unique.
Mark up's are controlled on a product by product basis. Giving you the flexibility to more profitable or more competitive across different products or ranges.
Connected suppliers mark-ups are % based meaning your prices automatically adjust.
Pro Only
Scale your mark-ups from a supplier based on quantity. Allowing you to be more competitive at different quantity breaks.
Blogs are great for customer engagement as well as search engines.
The blog allows you to create your own articles that relate to your customer-base.
Create discounts for your customers.
These discounts can be automatically applied or you can add a code for them to enter.
Discounts can be for specific products, or delivery, or the whole order.
You can easily place your whole site behind a protected log in.
This means you can you can give customers their own log in so that only those from that company are allowed access and access their company-specific pricing.
See how you are doing on month to month as well as how much you are sending to suppliers.
Handy graphs let you know in real-time where you are in terms of monthly turnover, which you can compare to the previous three years.
See all your customers in one place. These include both registered customers as well as customer who have checked out as a guest.
You can give your customers Credit Accounts. This means that once logged in to your website, this allows them place orders without the need to pay up front.
This is perfect for the customers that you invoice.
Pro Only
Create customer groups and assign your users. Allowing you to manage in bulk.
Pro Only
Apply % discounts to your customer groups. So when a customer logs-in they see different prices.
We dynamically render sites server-side and globally cache all assets.
Sub-second loading times are typical for VB Media pages and give you advantages in SEO, Conversions and UX.
We develop with performance in mind, testing lighthouse scores along the way.
VB Media is hosted on 'serverless' architecture.
This means that our sites can automatically scale and replicate, resulting in highly reliable websites that are accessible on demand.
Our customer support agents are well versed in 90% of the issues that arise.
For that remaining 10% of issues, our Senior Devs are then on the case.
Because VB Media is built in-house, from the ground up we are able to fix any issues. We do not have to wait for any external contractors making our support service very responsive.
Data security is taken very seriously.
We have to look after, not only yours, but also your customer's data, whilst adhering to GDPR at every stage.
Our database is stored off-site in a dedicated and secure location. Access is limited to connections from within a secure firewall and from only secured networks from a few allow-listed locations - that's pretty secure!
VB Media has been built by our very experienced in-house dev team.
And by built, we mean built - we hand-coded EVERYTHING!
VB Media is not, like many similar services, built on WordPress. This has many advantages as we are in control of any issues that arise and are not susceptible to the security vulnerabilities that can come from not keeping WordPress updated or falling foul of things such as add-on deprecation or something termed as 'plug-in soup'.
We supply certificates for VB Media sites at no extra cost. This means that your website will only be accessible via HTTPS.
A single VB Media site can be utilised in many ways. See just some examples of it in real life. Fully working example websites for you to have a play with.
Get a Demo or Sign-Up to VB Media today and find out how easy it is to be in control of your own website
VB Media is an eCommerce platform built specifically for the print industry, giving you the tools you need to get your business online, without the heavy price tag.
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