Selling Online Made Easy

For those clients who want to sell online, Thinking Arts offers a comprehensive and fully fledged e-commerce facility. You can choose whether your site is e-commerce enabled from the outset, or add it on at a later date.

Our e-commerce system includes:

• A  shopping cart  with shipping and packaging calculations for both the UK and international sales
• Caters for both physical items and electronic downloads
  
• Interfaces for Worldpay, Paypal and Secure Trading
• Callback facilities and record keeping on an online database
• Client registering and logon facilities
• Emails to both clients and yourselves after every sale
  
• Bulk emails to all registered clients

Do I Need It?

For some clients the answer is an easy Yes or No, depending on the nature of their website. For others, the answer is not so clear cut.

We have over a decade of experience with e-commerce. We are happy to share the benefits of that experience with you and will advise you on setting up a merchant account, choosing a provider and deciding whether e-commerce will be of benefit to you.

Electronic Downloads

The vast majority of our clients are either individual artists, membership organisations or artistic bodies, such as orchestras, music festivals and the like.

Electronic downloads are therefore often more important to them than the sale of physical items. The Thinking Arts e-commerce system has comprehensive facilities for these kind of sales. Some of the more common types used by our clients are:

• ticket sales to events
• membership subscriptions
• media downloads - eg: music files or artwork
  

Managing Online Orders

Everytime a visitor to your site makes a purchase, be it a physical item or an electronic download, the system will: