WHY DID WE BUILD BOUTIQUE?

This online shop solution was aimed at small business owners trying to establish an online presence without the IT support that many competitors will take for granted. The simple and elegant design is backed up with a very intuitive Admin Area for owners to maintain their site, products, orders and much more.

You have 5 main pages on your site and some other areas to support the functioning of your online shop. There is help on maintaining these inside the Admin page for each page.

HOME

This is your landing page. This is where visitors arrive for the first time and subsequent visits. It should be the page to make a good first impression and the page to provide easy access for returning visitors. You have your logo, a main heading, a sub-heading and a paragraph that you can maintain. Your featured products will come in automatically when you maintain your Products and flag them as featured. Below those, you have a fixed Features section. Next, you have a parallax image that you can change and the editable Content section with headings, paragraph, picture and link. Also, there is an optional background image that you can change.


Let's take a deeper dive into the maintenance page for HOME

Maintaining pages could not be simpler. Your package includes a very easy to use Admin Area, accessible from your online shop using your Admin password. Inside the Admin Dashboard, you can maintain your online shop from anywhere - computer, tablet or mobile phone. This whole facility is designed with that in mind. We appreciate that small business owners need to be versatile and for you to enjoy the benefits of your business, you need the freedom to work from anywhere. Boutique has no limits in this respect.

Throughout the Admin Area, you'll see the same look and feel for all headings, text fields, text boxes, images and toggle switches.

STORE

Your store front main window content is driven by the Products you have configured. At the top, you have your Title, Sub-title and Summary but the rest is taken from your products. 


MAINTAINING PRODUCTS

Maintain all your products details, price and status from this simple page. Set products as featured so they appear on your Home page.



ABOUT

Use this page to explain your business/store. It may not be the first thing you want people to see but it could be why they came back to your site. NetScapes.co.uk can relabel this to be something more relevant to your requirements. It's a fairly blank canvas for non-functional content that you can update. 

BLOG

This may be relabelled to suit your requirements. You may prefer to use it as NEWS or TUTORIAL page. It's an ideal to keep your site relevant and keep your visitors engaged. Frequent articles or features are great for SEO. Your Customers will feel safe that you're an active business and gain trust from your recent and relevant content. 

Easily run your own Blog from within your Admin Area. Maintain your articles, set them as featured, archived or draft. Plan the publish dates in advance.


CONTACT

Your contact page is expected. Visitors will look for it and it should be easy, quick and intuitive. You can fully configure this page from your Admin area, including target email address to receive enquiries. Include your contact details if you'd prefer visitors to come to you direct. Add titles, paragraphs and images to style the page and explain your policy on responding. 

Inside the Admin Area, there are a few things to configure: -

  • Receiver email address - to receive the contact form submissions
  • Message to you - there a predefined template to get you started on the message you will receive
  • Message to visitor - another pre-defined template for the message your visitor will receive after submitting the form
FOOTER

The footer appears on each page. This is a great way to keep handy content easily available to your visitors.


Your footer is updatable from the Admin Area. Let's take a closer look at how simple we've made it to update this important area of your site. Update the heading and text in 2 simple fields. Toggling on/off and configuring Social Media links as simple as you see it here.

POLICIES 

We have 3 placeholders for policies - "Privacy and Cookie Policy",  "Terms & Conditions" and "Delivery & Returns". This is your area to cover off compliance obligations like GDPR and your commitment to your Customers for transparent use of their data and how you will service them. If you require changes from this template, contact NetScapes.co.uk for help.

SEO - SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION

If you've read this far and are still considering Boutique as your online shop solution, you may already know about SEO. For many, this is a buzz-word that we know is important but we have absolutely no idea where to start. Boutique has made this very easy for you. The Admin Area's SEO page has a section for each page of your online shop. This can be used to update your Meta Tags for Title and Description, along with an image drop area for your 'share preview' image. You're free to come to NetScapes.co.uk for SEO help or cast your net wider for expert help in this area. When you know what you want, update it all here in your Admin Area.

MAINTENANCE MODE

Lastly, you really want the ability to maintain your site without visitors landing while changes are in progress. You may want to make changes and review them before opening the site up to the public or you may just want to close your site temporarily. We have added this simple Toggle slider that you can control from anywhere to switch your site in or out of Maintenance Mode.

What Next?

There's a lot more hiding inside Boutique and we'd be happy to take you through a demo or discuss your requirements further. Contact us from this demo site or visit NetScapes.co.uk.

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