The web API brings the power of the SAM Stock Control and Customer Management systems to your website.
With a simple series of programming instructions for your Web Developer, the SAM system enables:
- Real time stock records
- Content Management for your products
- Image hosting, resizing and display - hosting images with SAM reduces your web server requirements, don't pay for it twice!
- Online offers/pricing control including multi-buy discount control
- Set online and store pricing separately if required
- Automated invoicing and stock allocation
- Customer Dispatch Tracking
- Intelligent stock picking for multiple locations (see http://thinkka.com/SAM/Examples/StockPicking.aspx)
- Customer site login including Facebook login integration *
- Customer Area allows customers to view purchase history, messages, download PDF invoicing etc.
- Customer enquiries system creating a bulletin board for both you and your customers to trace their email conversations with you, ensuring maximum customer satisfaction, improved conversion rate and staff accountability *
- Instant online Finance with Pay4Later, including margin protection from SAM
- Easy mailing list sign up form, "bot-protected" to stop junk signups
- "New arrivals" feature feeds directly from your stock control telling customers what's new
- Price tags in store will include QR codes linking directly to the product on your website
- Automatically produces a daily feed for your Google Shopping account to fetch
- Define a free carriage option and control shipping prices by uploading a table of prices by weight for your shopping cart to refer to
- Simple control over a banner system for your website home page
The SAM API provides your web developer with a host of pre-coded plug ins such as a menu structure based on your product categorisation, search list options, buy buttons and Javascript plugins for common display requirements such as image galleries and in-line login and checkout.
When used in conjunction with the SAM Shopping cart and Secure Hosting as your payment gateway (http://www.securehosting.com/) this seamlessly enables a Paypal payment option at checkout.
Note, the Website API requires the Stock Control module
* Also requires Customer Management Module
