Store

The Store (Basic) is a module that allows Website Owners to sell and trade products or services.

Summary

The Tribalise Store module works as a simple shopping cart. It takes a uncomplicated, yet elegant, shopping cart and integrates directly into the Tribalise platform. The Store allows you to showcase products utilising images, descriptions and a range of additional options. It also allows customers to purchase these items securely, with shipping support and online tax calculation. The shopping cart solutions provide clients with robust applications that enable them to easily operate their storefront. Administrators can maintain and manage detailed product catalogs and track and process online orders. We can also include search options for customers to browse through products and book orders online.

Functions

Tribalise Store is a complete eCommerce solution and a simple Online-Shop application with a high level of functionality. It allows store owners to easily manage and administer their store plus offer multiple price options and advanced search.  The store allows users to quickly add products to the cart without taking them away from the product. The next product can be accessed quickly.

General Features

  • Capable of using SSL Encryption (128-bit)
  • Shopper can view all previous orders (and order details)
  • Order confirmation email (customizable!) for shopper & store
  • Shoppers can manage and edit their user accounts
  • Multiple Currencies (purchase in currency of choice)
  • Shipping Address Management
  • Flexible Tax models

Product Catalog Features

  • Powerful Web-Administration Interface (Javascript-powered)
  • Manages an unlimited number of products and categories
  • Can be used as a shop or just as an online-catalog
  • Multiple product  search features
  • Product Ratings & Testimonials (moderated or auto-published)
  • Feature specific products by setting them "on special"
  • Handles downloadable products

Payment Modules

  • Capable of live Credit Card Processing
  • Pre-defined Payment Gateways like authorize.net®, PayPal, 2Checkout, eWay, Worldpay, PayMate and NoChex
  • Extend your Shop with other Payment Modules using the Payment Module API!
  • Currencies: use up to 16 different currencies for your store

 

Administration Features

  • multiple Images and files (like Spec Sheets and Flyers) per product
  • Product attributes (like Size or Color) can be added to product
  • Product types classification ( "Car", "Motorbike" or "Music Album")
  • Shopper groups for customers (different price  and payment options),
  • Multiple prices per product (Quantity-based)
  • Flexible price display (number & currency ; including or excluding tax)
  • Statistics/Control Panel -summary of new customers & orders
  • Stock level control for products and Item
  • Order Mgt/ history,  notification order edit functionality
  • Basic reporting feature: sold Items, monthly/yearly revenue

Shipping Modules

  • Flexible Shipping Carriers and Rates Configuration
  • Live-Shipping rates using shipping modules (e.g., UPS,  FedEx)
  • Extend your Shop with other Shipping Modules using the Shipping Module API

 

Website Development

Introduction

Tribalise is a feature rich content management system that you can easily use to create a website managed by multiple authors with social networking features that foster user engagement.

Tribalise allows you to create websites enhanced with social networking features and has taken the best out of social network applications and collaboration services while merging the best of the two worlds. Tribalise facilitates Facebook and Twitter integration, customizable member profiles, group blog, discussion forum, photo galleries, videos, file sharing, members endorsement, analytics, permission controls, readily-available templates and more. Your website will also be completely customizable allowing greater control over the appearance of your site.

 

Software as a Service (SaaS)

The Tribalise platform is Software as a Service (SaaS)-  You don’t have to pay huge development and set up costs we just charge a realistic monthly fee for the components you use for instance the Basic Configuration (full blown website) is only $155 per month.
 

Facebook & Twitter Integration

Tribalise can integrate your Facebook Fan page and Twitter pages into your home page and also arrange it so once you update your news page it will automatically update Twitter and your Fan page. This is also a very good process to increase your Google ranking.
 

Client Sites

Below is a link to a sample of sites developed on the Tribalise Platform and a list of the components used in those sites.  Click here for list...

 
Become a Subject Matter Specialist

Subject Matter Specialist

Content is still KING, so make sure your site is a source of great content relative to your business and keep users coming back and boost your Google ranking at the same time.

When you identify websites with RSS feeds relevant to your business, Tribalise can automatically pull in those news feeds and publish them into your website, allowing you to have daily, changing content on your website.

It is also possible to automatically populate your website with relevant video content

Re Publish your content to the web, the Tribalise platform creates RSS feeds of your websites content.  The more users that subscribe to your RSS feeds the better ranking you get in Google.
 
Create Your Private Community

Community Features

Connect - Share - Collaborate

Tribalise provides the components you need to build a fully-functional social environment & community website.  The software encourages visitors to register on your website so they can submit content, give feedback & connect with other users, stories are created and voted on by members, not website editors. The platform also enables administrators to maintain and manage their online user communities and capture customized user information during registration. Front-end users can create profiles, upload them to the Web site and browse through other user profiles.

Components

Profiles - Tribalise comes with default profile fields that can be extended or completely customized by the site administrator.
Groups - Collaborate around specific topics via public, private or hidden groups, exchange files, videos, photos and run a multi-author blog.
Blogging / Microblogging - functionality that is both powerful, yet simple to use.
RSS - All content - such as blog posts, activity streams and group discussions - is available in RSS formats.
Widgets - Add widgets to user profiles.
Video - Search for your favourite videos on services such as YouTube and add them to your video gallery.
Photo Gallery - Using the powerful Picasa plugin, let your users create their own photo galleries.
Social bookmarking - Share your web resources with others in your company, group or course.
Activity Streams - The granular activity stream feature ensures you keep up to date with all site activity.
Access controls - Control who can access your content.
Documents - Upload and share documents with the rest of your network.
 
Services

Services

Tribalise offers a range of solutions to help your business. These solutions include;
  • Web Strategies and workshops
  • Internet marketing and consulting
  • Search Engine Optimization Services
  • Social Media/Marketing
  • Website Conversion to Customers Optimization
  • Web Development
  • Content Management Solutions
  • Full E-Commerce Solutions
  • Training and Technical Support Services
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Consulting

Tribalise has developed a number of engagement workshops to step clients through a process prior to creating a website. The workshops takes clients on a business/web journey and when completed the client will have a good understanding of what they want to achieve with their website,

  • What is the website about?
  • What is your subject matter?
  • What is your main industry or industries?
  • Who is your target market?
  • What sets your approach apart from competing sites?
  • How would you like users to describe your website?
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Training


Administration and Configuration Training

Tribalise provides site owners with the training they need in order to become self-reliant, proficient content managers. During our sessions, site administrators learn how to configure and change the website while keeping within configuration parameters in the backend, making updating your site an effortless task. Tribalise understands that the more technological-savvy administrators will not have an immeidate need for this type of training - however, we do encourage them to take it in order to keep their knowledge sharp and current.

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Support Requests

Registered customer’s can lodge and track their support requests through the online customer support ticketing system on Tribalise.com - this is available online 24x7. Otherwise, feel free to call us during business hours.

Any high severity issues, no matter the cause, are given our highest priority and are responded to within four business hours.

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Automate Your Newsletters

Newsletters

News letters can be generated automatically from online articles, with the option of sending the full article, or only the introduction or only the title, from a section or a category on your website at a specified frequency to a specified mailing list.

  • Create, Modify and Send a Newsletter from the back-end -  Add attachments & Schedule mailings
  • Automatically turns newly registered users into newsletter subscribers.
  • Different member/subscriber types can be sent different news letters.
  • Any visitor can subscribe (don't need to be registered on the website)
  • Statistics (basic) tells you how many e-mails sent etc;
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Components

Components

Add components when required without having to reconfigure your site and without having to pay programmers to develop a new product.The Tribalise platform was developed to allow clients to scale up or down their website very easily when required.

Below is a list of all the current components (25) that are part of the Tribalise Platform, we regularly add new components or when a client requires a specific component for their site, it then becomes available to all clients.