Blinds to Go

The challenge was to find a way to present the products with their customizable options to consumers in a visually appealing way. More than that, the product’s attributes have dependencies (minimum and maximum width and height depends on chosen style, feature availability changes by chosen width and height and other factors). The customer should not be concerned with these and be presented with available options while he makes his choices.

Product pricing depends heavily on the selections in the configurator (chosen measurements, features) and we had to find a way to show the customer product pricing while he makes selections. 

Even though ConfigBox' price calculation engine was the better match for pricing, the client needed to pull pricing from their internal IBM AS/400 ERP system. We worked out how to reference ERP product data with CB product data and developed an API that supplies selections and receives the regional price.

We have put a system in place that lets customers order samples free of charge and maximized convenience by ordering directly from advertising pages and configurator.

1. Since product advertising pages are made with CMS content builders and the huge amount of styles and colors, we had to find a way to integrate product data in those pages in a point and click fashion.
2. The end customers should be able to order a swatch on any page where he considers a product (product description pages, configurator page itself and also on an overview page with all styles and colors.
3. The customer should be able to request swatches with minimal effort, so a stripped down version of the checkout should be shown instead of the full-fledged checkout page.

Keeping the website content up to date proved to be a burden on the page editors. The client uses SP Page Builder, we created custom Add-ons that enable web content editors to insert product information like colors, styles and other information by point and click.