Fat City Records
CMS & eCommerce Website Design
Client
Fat City Records
Sector
Music Go to Website ›
Brief
Production of an eCommerce site covering all sales channels and stock control, with key requirements:
- CMS and order processing simple enough for ordinary shop staff to process
- Over 15,000 stock lines
- Weekly email-newsletter to over 10,000 subscribers
- Marry-up online, phone and retail sales (e.g. book online, pick up in shop)
- Stock control and till-system
- Real-time sales reporting
- Automated bulk publishing to listings and catalogue sites such as Google Shopping and Gemm
Result
This site was a custom-build eCommerce and retail system, including cash register, stock management and web functionality. It handles all transactions in Fat City stores from the same database as all web and phone orders. Shop staff publish about 150 new stock lines and web pages a week (with sound and images) and process a large number of orders through the till and website. The site attracts 30,000 visitors a week and serves upwards of 1m pages a month from a single dedicated server.
They said this
“This is a powerful bit of kit”
— Dave Walker, Prop. Fat city records.
