POWERFUL CLASSIFICATION & SEARCH:
Online commerce oftens models brick-and-mortar merchandising, navigating by primary product name/brand/industry classfication. We cross-classify all products for easy search based on usage, attributes or customer markets. Search types include:
- Any word or description
- Plant first name OR Plant common name
- By Blooming month
- By Predictive search (filters names)
- By Attributes (zone, height, blooming, heat, sun-shade, color)
- By Price category ($1 increments)
- Best Sellers (top 10), Most Popular (viewed),
- New-Featured, Specials ($)
MULTIPLE CUSTOMER TYPES:
While designed for quantity orders (wholesale), the system supports models like buyers-clubs and retail, with different pricing by customer type.
GRAPHICS AND QUICK ORDER:
Displays of multiple products typically require navigating back and forth to the product detail pages to see enlarged images. We provide one button enlargements for category displays, facilitating easy selection of multiple search result displays
(example: ordering multiple types of hostas, heucheras, echinaceas, grasses, sun products, etc.)
SELF-SERVICE CROSS-SELLING AND UP-SELLING:
Actual user interaction with the commerce system drives interactive displays, including:
- Best Sellers
- Most Popular (viewed)
- User Product Reviews and Ratings
- Just Purchased
- Also Purchased
- Testimonials
NEWSLETTERS AND RSS:
Automatic and On-Demand newsletters PLUS Dynamic Anonymous RSS Feeds publications provide:
- Valuable coupons in most issues
- Best seller and Most Popular reviews (what is selling)
- New/Featured and Current/Latest Specials
- Shop by Price
- Top Tips & Resources
ARTICLES - CONTENT:
- Customer Service
- Shipping
- General Tips
- Best Practices
- Plant families
- Plant Library
DISCOUNT COUPONS: Redeemable coupons on orders.
HELPFUL UTILITIES AND RESOURCES:
- Weather (local) and Area weather patterns
- Maps and Directions
- Language translation
- Moon phases
- Garden Planner and Sample Plans
- Animated Flower e-card
- Edible, medical reference on 7,000+ plants
- Plant Genome DB; USDA Plant Guides
- Zone Maps and Chart
MARKETING SUPPORT:
Collages of our primary lines:
- Hosta
- Heuchera
- Helleborus
- Hemerocallis
- Echinacea
- Geranium