Profitable Ecommerce
Drupal has powerful and seamless Ecommerce tools to make your business more profitable and easier to administer.
The Seattle Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) is the leading professional association for architects in the Northwest. They run architecture events and classes, and advocate for design excellence. They had been managing a web site with many thousands of pages by hand for years. Bear Ideas spent several months with the management team to design, scope and draft business requirements for a new online system to support their organization.
The new web site is built on top of the Drupal CMS framework. It includes an installation of CiviCRM to manage all event registrations, Ecommerce 3.4 to support AIA document/contract purchases, a new Drupal/Flex search tool to locate member firms, a Job Board, full community tools support, and several subdomain sites for event submissions and a host of other tools. Bear Ideas has done all of the coding and customization, and also has excellent content management staff in-house that has been heavily involved in getting those thousands of pages migrated to the new site. This was important to maintain a strong presence in search engines that had been built over many years.
New branding & web design by Wolken Communica.
For over 70 years, Glazers Camera has been bringing the photographic community in the Northwest together. In 2008 Bear Ideas launched a new site for Glazer's using Drupal as the framework. The web store uses drupal ecommerce v3.4, and connects to their point of sale system for inventory management of more than 12,000+ products.
In addition to the store we used Drupal's "community plumbing" to start an online community for Northwest photographers. It allows their customers to build custom profiles to promote their services, link to flickr image galleries, and rate products. Blogs, forums and more are all in the works.
Graphic design was done by Wolken Communica.
Barnard Griffin Winery has been one of the premiere northwest wineries for the last 30 years. Bear Ideas built a new site using Drupal as the content management system with Ecommerce v.3.4. Drupal is a great platform for small business ecommerce sites. The ecommerce modules provide a complete API that allow us to integrate with third-party services during checkout. On this site there are three web service calls to the company Ship Compliant during the checkout process. They support the complex shipping and tax rules for online alcohol sales, which vary by state, county and volume, and need to be reported by the Barnard Griffin in this highly regulated industry. The APIs made integrating Ship COmpliant into the checkout pipeline a straightforward process—something that would have been impossible with any hosted or packaged solution.
Also during checkout we call to the UPS rating service to get the latest shipping rates for their specific account, and we process all payments through authorize.net in order to maintain PCI compliance and not store any sensitive credit card info on our servers. The client didn't want a link to the shopping cart always hanging around, so we built a custom cart using jQuery that appears along the top header when a customer adds an item to their basket. This keeps it unobtrusive, but still facilitates checkout for those shopping.
The elegant design was done by Design Hovie Studios, and Barnard Griffin is a client of Wines of Washington (WOW) Promotions.
The Jones family of Eastern Washington had been growing grapes for years, and in 2006 started bottling their own vintages. This is their first official web site for the Jones of Washington Winery - the wines are not distributed currently outside Washington State, so the best way to taste them is by ordering through the web site!
Bear Ideas built the site using Drupal with Ecommerce v.3.4, it is not our largest site but is likely the most complex design-wise in 2008 with a hand written stylesheet many thousands of lines long accomplishing a very custom graphic design. A ship rating service to FedEx was written, as well as integration with Ship Compliant during the checkout process.
The award-winning design was done by Design Hovie Studios, and the marketing direction and overall strategy was through Bruce Bieber over at Wines of Washington (WOW) Promotions.
Antica Farmacista has brought old-world European charm and mystery with its collection of unique signature scents for the home and body.
In August, 2007 Bear Ideas developed a new site using the Drupal CMS to easily manage page updates and a complete ecommerce solution that supports their many fragrance variations. We used jquery to cycle images and prices based on the variation combination selected.
The theme was built by reusing an existing graphic design from Design Hovie Studios.
