Yahoo! Store Layout Features
Custom Design Features
Category and Sub-Category Custom Design
The Category and Sub-Category pages in a default Yahoo! Store offer very limited variation. IndiaNIC provides custom-made RTML templates to change the layout for Categories and Sub-Categories based on customer’s requirements. There are number of possibilities that we can provide to list your products and categories in the way you desire without affecting your site’s functionality and usability. A categorized product listing makes it easy to choose from different categories.
Front Page Custom Design
The default Yahoo! Store home page is rudimentary, repetitive, and not at all appealing. The run-of-the-mill templates make it hard to distinguish your Store from others. At IndiaNIC, we provide custom-built layouts seamlessly blended with hand-coded RTML templates integrated with advanced features, which are absolutely necessary for a niche ecommerce site. Make an impression with unique Yahoo! Store Front.
New Check Out Manager Integration Custom Design
The new Check Out Manager recently introduced by Yahoo! allows you to have more control over the Checkout process than ever before. IndiaNIC’s customized Checkout pages seamlessly integrate with the look and feel of your Yahoo! Store from the point the product is added to cart till the order confirmation. It also has functional and flexible Online Payment Processing.
Number of Custom Layouts to Select From
At IndiaNIC we believe Sky is the Limit for your Yahoo! Store. Therefore, we do not restrict you to one or two alternatives when it comes to selecting the right design for your Yahoo! Store. Our vastly experienced and world-class designers provide you with as many variations as you need until you are fully satisfied with the design that best defines your business. We ensure that your Store crates a favorable ambience and provides your customer an exceptional shopping experience.
Product Page Custom Design
Product information that provides detailed product information is the most important part of your ecommerce store. IndiaNIC can create a custom-built RTML template that allows you put more information in a well-structured manner. We have several RTML features in our kitty that eliminate uncertainties and display the Right Information at the Right Place. Increase your sell and profits by displaying your products in the most efficient manner.
Shopping Cart Custom Design
Old may be Gold, but New is In – In Vogue, In Trend. IndiaNIC can replace that boring same old shopping cart page (old checkout system) with a chic custom layout or design you prefer. This custom design also allows the shopping cart to flawlessly integrate with the design of your other pages. Shopping Cart Design gels so well with the design, that it gives a feel of complete ecommerce solution to your Yahoo! Store.
Site Wrapper Custom Design
IndiaNIC can create a custom site wrapper to encompass your Store in a sophisticated manner. This is similar to creating a theme or a template with the help of advanced HTML and CSS without altering the structure of the existing site. This feature gives your Store a classy touch and a more refined, cleaner look. Distinguish your Yahoo! Store Design from others.
Global Site And Category Page Layout Features
100% Screen Width
We have seen websites where the graphics run far off the edge of the browser window or the text looks gibberish because the site layout gets jumbled with the fixed screen width. 100% Screen Width optimizing your Yahoo! Store for faultless viewing in all browsers. This feature enables expanding the site’s layout to reach the full browser width. This feature is especially recommended for large Yahoo! Store having substantial content and information. It makes the same effect on small as well as large screens.
Add to Cart on Section Pages
This feature allows you to add an Add to Cart button on the Section / Category pages where your products are listed. With the help of this feature your customers can buy the item right from the section page without having to go to the product details page. This saves their time and makes them feel more comfortable buying from your Yahoo! Store. This makes it more comfortable to add products to shopping cart from more than one category or sub-category. Stores selling items that can be part of a set but do not require a detailed description can be purchased directly from the section page.
Emphasis Graphics
Emphasis Graphics stand out from the crowd and are helpful for some of your products that need to be highlighted. Graphics like ‘NEW’ or ‘HOT’ ITEM’s create consumer interest in the product enticing them to buy that particular item. IndiaNIC provides a simple mechanism through which you can apply these graphics to any item in your Yahoo! Store. These special add-on graphics are displayed wherever the item is showed on your Store. It attracts customer attention and helps you promote your products.
Free Shipping Countdown
The free shipping countdown feature displays a notification on the shopping cart page that informs the customers how much more he/she needs to purchase to avail of free shipping. If the purchase amount has equaled or exceeded the permissible limit, a message is displayed stating that the customer is now eligible to get free shipping for that particular order. Free Shipping is proven sales increasing technique to boost your profit.
Multiple Add To Cart
Multiple add to cart functionality allows your customers to order more than one item simultaneously from a single page. This saves their time and enables them to order several items on the go, instead of having to switch back and forth between product details and category page. This feature empowers your customer to order multiple items falling in a single category by clicking a single button! Yahoo! Shopping Cart then calculates the whole amount at the checkout for all the products selected.
Multiple Layouts for Different Categories
The default products/category listing functionality provided by Yahoo! is very inflexible, in the sense it does not allows you to display different products separately within one Yahoo! Store. For instance, if your Store is selling jewelry and gift items simultaneously, you would want to showcase jewelry items in a different manner than how the gift items are displayed. IndiaNIC’s multiple layouts for different categories feature takes care of this dilemma by enabling you to have multiple layouts for showcasing your products/categories based on your preference. This utility helps a ton as your customers are able to access information in much more structure manner when they are looking for a specific product.
Right Side Column
Right side column utility gives the flexibility to display relevant details such as Best Sellers, Customer Testimonials, Hot Offers, Promo Banners and just about any other information the customer would like to place there. IndiaNIC modifies the structure of your website to accommodate an extra column on the right side to display such marketing elements on your site. We customize Yahoo! Store Templates, so that it can be as unique as possible.
Shipping Policy Popup Chart
IndiaNIC can create a popup from the product details page to display your shipping policies. This feature is especially helpful for those scrupulous customers who want to know your shipping policies before they order the items which are going to be shipped within the United States or internationally. It helps in making a buying decision when customers know when they will get their product if they order now. Our shipping policy popup saves your customer service calls and time which in turn gives more customer satisfaction.
Product Page Layout Features
Alternate Input Selection Options
The default dropdown for the options on the product page sometimes crates inconvenience for the customers to select the correct option. IndiaNIC takes these dropdown menus to another level. We convert these dropdown menus to a more sophisticated Alternative Selection options (Radio Buttons or Check Boxes), thus making all your options visible simultaneously and giving your customers an easier way to select an option for a product. Although it is not recommended for large option quantities, this is a great enhancement if you have 5 to 6 options maximum. It also gives an opportunity to your customers to select the right option while comparing options with one another.
Custom ‘Add to Cart’ Button
A key feature of any Yahoo! Store is the ‘Add to Cart’ button. ‘Add to Cart’ should be easy to find, easy to remember and easy to use. It’s the point from where you and your customers truss together. IndiaNIC place a lot of emphasis to ensure a smooth start to this relation by replacing Yahoo!’s droning HTML button and creating a professional looking customized Add to Cart button. A chic ‘Add to Cart’ will always have a good impression on the customer inviting them to click it! This customized button leads to custom shopping cart.
Custom Framings
This feature presents the information in your Yahoo! Store in a much clearer and user-friendly way, and has been exclusively drafted keeping in mind products that call for custom framing – example Paintings, Wallpapers, etc. This utility helps customers dynamically select the custom frames and also provides live preview of the combination right on the product detail page itself. It enhances your customer’s shopping experience while helping your bottom line. Now that’s one intelligent feature.
Emphasis Image Icons for Option Categories
We call them Small Wonders. Little, emphasis graphics like ‘NEW’, ‘HOT ITEM’, ‘BEST SELLERS’ draw attention of the consumers looking for niche products and are also helpful in promoting certain items. These small wonders are displayed along with the product throughout your Yahoo! Store. It helps highlight your optional categories for the selected product and encourage customers to have a look at them. IndiaNIC can also create custom graphics for you as per your preference. Another great add-on to promote your products!
Enhanced Quantity Pricing Display
IndiaNIC can customize the display of quantity pricing and have it display in a much better way so that the customers can check the pricing for various Quantity Levels straight away. This option helps customers who want to buy in bulk. It shows them how much discount they can avail while buying in quantity with different quantity slabs to choose from. It is great options to encourage customers buy more from your store.
Estimated Delivery Pop-Up Window
The Estimated Delivery Popup window lists down all your shipping methods along with the time estimate thereby illustrating the anticipated product delivery period. This popup window takes into consideration the latency time caused by order processing as well as delays due to weekends/holidays. This feature is a must for any niche ecommerce store as it conveys the exact product delivery time to the customer. This saves your customer service phone calls and email regarding delivery status. It informs customers about the shipping date even before they have purchased the product, which builds trust and establish your credibility.
Large Image on Product Pages With Layers
This features shares a lots of similarities to the erstwhile Large Image on Product pages With Popup’s utility. The only disparity is that instead of pop-ups, the larger product image gets displayed right on that page itself with the help of layers. The benefits of incorporating this feature are identical as its younger sibling, but this feature surpasses its sibling in a sense that it copes pretty well with those nasty popup blockers. It makes it easier to navigate your online Yahoo! Store for your customers. It gives your Yahoo! Store more professional look and shows your product images in a proficient manner.
Large Image on Product Pages With Popup
It is always advisable to have your customers scrutinize the products closely before they decide to buy them. By doing so, you ensure your customers know beforehand of how the end product looks exactly before it is delivered to them. This mechanism drastically reduces the amount of returned goods caused by dissatisfaction. IndiaNIC can incorporate this feature by which you have an ‘Enlarge Image’ link, clicking on which opens a popup window containing the larger product image. This helps your customers examine the product more carefully. The functionality provided by Yahoo! does not permit this approach and may result in potential customer leaving the product page, thereby inversely affecting your sales. Enlarged Images give better look of a physical product and helps satisfy customer queries.
MAP Pricing Option
MAP Pricing is an acronym for Minimum Allowable Price. This is a unique functionality that several large Yahoo! Store use to avoid conflict with their dealers/vendors. Many manufacturers will not allow you to advertise your products below a certain price. This forces you to charge more than you would like. There are certain instances where your product(s) Price / Sale Price as a supplier is less than the quoted price of your vendor. To avoid upsetting your vendors, you would want to hide the price from the end customer until the item is actually ordered. At IndiaNIC’s, we have the perfect cure to this malady. Our Custom RTML template takes care of this dilemma by hiding the actual Price / Sale Price. The product price is not advertised to the customers until that particular item is added to the shopping cart.
Minimum Quantity Order
If you want to accept orders with minimum quantity, IndiaNIC’s can easily integrate this functionality for you. Your customer gets alerted if he/she hasn’t selected a certain specified quantity before ordering. This way there is no chance that the customer can order an item below the minimum quantity level predefined by you. What’s more you can even define minimum quantity levels for each product in your Yahoo! Store. It helps you maintain your store tradition while making customers aware of the process.
Multiple Images
Placing just one image to showcase your product might not do the trick. Ideally, you would like your product details page reveal as much information about your product as possible. IndiaNIC’s offers you yet another RTML feature which addresses this concern by letting you place unlimited product images along with the main product image. These extra images appear as thumbnails beside the main product image, and each thumbnail opens a popup containing the enlarged image. Multiple images can be used to show products from different angles and in different colors. This can add value to higher priced items because you can more graphically display the added value that comes with the added cost.
Multiple Images with Roll Over Effect
This utility is similar to Yahoo!’s Multiple Images Add-on feature. However, this enriched version lets your customers immediately preview the additional image when the mouse rolls over the thumbnail of that image. And when the thumbnail is clicked a popup opens containing the larger, detailed product image. It allows previewing product from different angles or in different colors easily and rapidly without loading the whole page again. It saves customer time and helps them make the buying decision fast.
Multiple Items for Options
Customers like having options while buying. Yahoo!’s default options listing allow you to arrange the options in a cumbersome dropdown list. IndiaNIC’s Multiple Items for Options functionality allows you to have a separate image for each of the option. Configuring in this way lets the customers see the option they are selecting, thus making them comfortable of what they can expect with the customization. Customers can see what the product will look like after selecting the options provided, which makes them more comfortable with the purchase.
Option Pricing Enhancements (Auto Update Prices)
IndiaNIC’s custom template allows you to specify Options with additional prices, which get added to your final product cost when that item is chosen with certain options. Moreover, we also do modifications such that the Price/Sale price gets automatically updated right on the product page just besides the ‘Add to Cart’ button, based on the options selected. Thus, customers see the actual cost of the product before the item is added to the shopping cart. This helps significan’tly reduce the Cart Abandon rate, wherein customers do not expect to see any additional charges been applied when they hit the Add to Cart button. This option makes the price clearer to customers and reduces the confusion.
Ordering and Info Displayed in a Table
The Ordering information such as various options, Quantity Box, and finally Add to Cart button are the steps customers go through when buying a product from your Yahoo! Store. There is always a scope to display the ordering information in a more user-friendly manner than the default Yahoo! Ordering Information. IndiaNIC helps you structure the ordering details for your Yahoo! Store via our Custom RTML template in such a manner that the ordering information is displayed in a table with proper labels, so that they are easily recognizable and used proficiently. This option helps customers get the information they want quickly and competently.
Product Feature Tables from your Database
This utility allows you automatically put across diverse features for your product in a more formatted layout. You simply provide the details and information in a single field, and the Product Feature is automatically built with our Custom RTML template. It is as easier as adding a field to your .CSV uploads file to add extra information to your products page. This option makes it possible to search a product through precise product feature. This option also makes it more search engine friendly and gives your store better ranking.
Product Information displayed on Table
Tabs are always a good way to categorize information on the page and make the page use less space, thus making the user scroll less to view details. Tabs also make navigation within the page easier and helps divide the product information in form of sections. Product Info page is crucial and we don’t want you to loose a customer just because of small confusion. IndiaNIC’s expertise with RTML allows you to incorporate virtually anything from text, images and flash within Tabs. Proper formatting in this fashion makes the customers’ shopping experience so effortless that they come back for more.
Enhancement Layout Features
Basic Blog Set-up (Similar colors and look)
The Basic Blog Setup feature allows you to integrate a business Blog along with your Yahoo! Store. Although the Blog does not have different colors or look, it is a good add-on option for Blogging and covers all the basic blog tools. Blogging helps you in both internal and external communication for your company.
Fully Integrated Blog (Exact look and feel)
Blog is an essential tool for any company doing business on the Internet. The more advanced version of the Basic Blog Setup tool, this enhancement gives your Yahoo! Store blog a corporate look. This blog seamlessly integrates with the look of your Yahoo! Store. Features like Integrated Weblog design can be a very effective way to communicate with your customers and let them know about the forthcoming new products. Have your integrated corporate blog to make an impression!
Image Gallery
This enhancement lets you upload a whole image gallery to your Yahoo! Store. As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, this utility helps your customers see the product images. It gives a better idea of products to your customers. Image gallery makes it easy to show your whole product range on your virtual store front. Thus, with IndiaNIC you not just get a better looking website, but thanks to such improved marketing strategies your sales increase too!
Flash Features
Flash Image Viewer
Flash animation makes your store sleek, flexible and easy to navigate. With all the features of Yahoo! Store covered, this enhancement gives a different look to your online store. Image viewer is a special re sizable flash element that can be used to load and view images. We provide custom flash web design service for your Yahoo! Store which can represent your products in Flash Image Viewer.
Flash Banner in Header
Banners are one of the most effective online marketing fundament that can really boost your sells and give exposure to the desired product or service. There is no chance that a customer can miss the banner especially when it is built with Flash. Flash Headers can attract customers and inform them about the new products, special product deals or services. Flash Banners in the header are the first thing that customers lay their eyes on, so it really attracts customer attention while passing the message to the larger audience.
Center Flash Banner
Launching a new product or just promoting your best product, you always need a way to attract customers and at least let them know about your product. Banners play an important role in promotion campaigns especially when it is placed at the right places. An animated catchy flash banner in the middle of the text filled page will attract more eyes. Appealing Flash Banner Design can convey your message in proficient manner.
Dynamic Flash Specials (No flash required for customer)
The days are gone when flash programmers used to take advantage of others ignorance. It is now possible to update or edit the flash file without having deep knowledge of flash. The content is easily updated with the help of windows inbuilt application – notepad. The images can be uploaded to the specific folder and it will be integrated. IndiaNIC can make Dynamic Flash Website or Dynamic Flash Components which can be attractive as well as user friendly.
