Brief
Give the existing Volkswagen Service Toolkit a refresh
What was delivered?
Amongst other things the following were deleivered;
- A fusion of 2 major websites into one! The Volkswagen Accessory Toolkit was also merged with the Volkswagen Service Toolkit to create a super site called The Volkswagen Aftersales Toolkit
- A fully ‘dumbed-down’ content management system. This system allows a non technical administrator (like an account executive) to administer tasks that were previously only possible using skilled programmers. Amongst other features the administrator can now:
- Add new products
- Control the attributes associated with a product
- Create brand new departments
- Create brand new categories
- Create brand new sub-categories
- Create and maintain webpage’s on the site as easily as writing a letter in MS Word!
- Activate/deactivate products
- Activate/deactivate sections (departments, categories etc)
- Dynamically create flash animations without any technical knowledge
- Review and process all customer orders using an order management interface
- Use a live chat interface, allowing the account executive to communicate with multiple retailers in real-time. This makes them much more productive than just taking one telephone call at a time.
- Automate the communication process with suppliers/printers for customer orders, leaving a full audit trail making everyone involved accountable
- Manage the relationships between regions, areas, retailers and their Aftersales Specialists
- Manage all news bulletins that go on the site
- Manage all retailer details
- Automatically generate site usage/scheme and initiative reports without the need of a programmer
- A modular access level structure. This means every site administrator can have different levels authority based on client or owner recommendation
- An online shop capable of connecting to merchant bank accounts to process transactions
- A fully searchable site that automatically indexes its content
- A site cable of having thousands of members and products fully scalable and updatable using an excel spreadsheet or the content management system!
- A site whose coding and structure makes at least 60% of it reusable within hours!
- The site structure can also scale to accommodate new features like blogging, retailer homepages etc without much obtrusion to the existing structure.