Welcome

The Bike Shop is a demonstration of the Vortex Business to Business E-Commerce System, as well as an example of an easy to navigate, well organized E-Commerce web site. As you browse through the Bike Shop web site, you'll see some brief notes about each area, why they are important to a web site, and how they should be correctly used.

Of course, your E-Commerce site will include a customer graphics design that matches your existing corporate graphics, and it will include content areas which may be unique to your business or your type of business.

Vortex provides a number of unique convenience features in the shopping cart, as well as an extremly useful suite of online reports to let you see just how your web presence is adding to your bottom line.

Some Vortex Feabures :

Secure customer areas and logins
Application forms for new wholesale customers
Customers can administrate logins and access levels for their own employees
Opt in mailing list collection
Multiple item ordering with one click
Safeguards to prevent customers from accidently submitting duplicate orders
Partially entered orders are remembered through multiple sessions
Customers can reload previous orders ... especially useful if they consistently order the same items each time
If your accounting system provides for inventory export and order import, we can write an interface to let your online data conveniently communicate with your accounting system data
Immediate email notification of new orders, batch downloading of orders, or both
Secure certificate and real time credit card processing if your order process needs this
Easily configured display of sales, specials, and close outs
... plus ... any customized feature needed to make your sales hum on the web ... we'll make Vortex fit the way you do business, not shoehorn your business into a static E-Commerce environment

For complete information about Vortex, visit our Vortex information area by Clicking Here

Vortex also easily integrates with our Athena customer support system. Athena allows you to capture and track all your customer's inquiries and support requests. It keeps answers in a knowledgebase for easy reuse when another customer asks the same question, and it even dynamically published a Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) section for your web site.