TribalSketch Features

Thursday, February 04, 2010

TribalSketch is a full customizable online Print Commerce solution that is deployed as a "Single Tenant" web application. This means your site is not shared by anyone else and is a highly customizable Sales Force for your organization. The true features and benefits of TribalSketch are only limited by YOUR imagination. The British term "Bespoke" truly applies! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bespoke)

Executive Summary:

TribalSketch is a complete web marketing department for your company that includes: A team of talented web marketing and development personnel dedicated to helping you build traffic through focused and targeted campaigns, each with a well thought out experience to convert this traffic into high volume qualified registered leads. The features and tool set to engage these prospects into interactive projects with effective utilization of your organization’s capabilities. The commerce requirements for converting them into paying customers and the viral tools to enlist ongoing recommendation to their network circle.

TribalSketch Features:

• A Professionally custom designed web site.  Just putting up a web2print site is no guarantee of success! It is as important that your online print store be targeted to your well defined print market segment. Here is what our team will do for you:
• We start by working with you to help define your product offering and target market. We help you determine search terms currently in use by your potential customers to find similar products and review competitive sites bidding on these terms.
• We help define the various market segments and how to narrow (or broaden) the focus to achieve maximum impact.
• We prepare website designs that match these needs and goals including logo design and site layout. 
• We build the site to make it easy for you to maintain and update using standard web design tools.
• A Web 2.0 Viral Marketing site. Using the latest web 2.0 and SEO technologies TribalSketch is built to provide your users with an experience they will enjoy and tell their friends about. The various viral technologies and tools will help your users bring you more business and improve your search engine rankings as well. We offer:
• An initial search engine analysis to help get your project off on the right track to start with.
• Optional monthly Search Engine Marketing service. This service is defined in the search engine analysis and includes a mapped out plan for increasing search results through both organic and paid efforts.
• Proof Embedding to enable site visitors to create their own content and embed this content to other sites for viral link back building.
• JavaScript and Ajax methods to make the site user friendly and inviting.
• Multi-Site support. Vertical marketing allows you to try out different market segments. Market testing is enhanced with TribalSketch by providing support for up to 3 total live sites at no additional hosting costs. For a very low fee market segments can be targeted with separate vertical sites connected to the same workflow components. These are completely separate sites with their own domain and marketing message.
• Online Print Estimation. Make it easy for your users to do business with you by providing them products, options, and pricing! Pricing estimates are integrated with projects and carry through to final ordering. Unlike traditional Printing Estimating software that is difficult to use and only works on the machine it is licensed for, TribalSketch allows your users to get their printing quotes online, with easy to use web estimating backend configuration for administrators. Online print estimates also help your sales channel quote print jobs onsite.
• Online Shipping. Provide your customer with an accurate quote for not only the product price - but the cost for shipping as well. Give your customers the ability to select the shipping provider and delivery service that best fits their needs and budget. With size, weight and handling options along with direct service connections to UPS, FedEx, and USPS your users will always get the most up-to-date shipping.
• Online Sales Tax Calculator. Collecting Taxes are a critical feature of any online ecommerce site. If you have a presence in a taxable zone and you take orders from customers in that zone that don't have valid non-taxable status then you are obligated to collect sales tax on those orders. This feature allows you to setup the taxable zones and rates using US, Canadian, and most international postal codes. Site owners can set specific users to Non-Taxable on a user by user basis.
• Print Project Management. Unlike standard storefronts selling fixed widgets, print jobs are typically ongoing projects of highly customized products that require allowing customers the time and capability to save and update projects over time prior to actual ordering, or to be able to come back to previous projects and modify for reorder. To encourage repeat use of your site, TribalSketch manages your users ongoing and completed designs.
• Online Proofing. TribalSketch has multiple methods for providing beautiful online proofs. "I-Zoom" is the high resolution zoomable proof that is integrated directly into the production workflow. "FlipProof" is a unique real "Paper" looking online proof that lets your users flip through the pages or sides of their design in an interactive fashion. As part of the "Viral" aspect of the site users can "share" either type of proof online or post them to their website or blog with links back to your site. Proofing options include these features:
• I-Zoom Plugin to I-Trap exports high res zoomable proofs directly out of the I-Trap (www.itrap.com) trapping solution.
• TIFF-Pager with I-Zoom exports zoomable proofs from final ripped 1 bit TIFF files enabling zooming down to very dot level.
• FlipProof is a flash based book proofing system that is tied into the optional online design tool.
• Workflow Integration. TribalSketch integrates with the “OnTimeProof” job submission, workflow, and proof management system. Workflow integration starts with an easy to use Java upload tool to transfer files from your customer directly into your local production workflow manager. Ripped jobs are converted into true PROOFS and posted back to the users’ project automatically. OnTimeProof includes these features:
• Locally Hosted and Permanently Licensed Web Job Manager. OnTimeProof provides a web based view into customers, jobs, and proofs.
• Standalone Job Submission and Proofing. Existing customers that are just looking for a way to send you files can login directly and upload files and view proofs.
• Zoomable Proofs are a special high resolution proof that enables clients to view color accurate proofs that can be zoomed in and out to the finest level of detail.
• Google Calendar integration lets you define partial shipment delivery dates that are updated directly to the clients and admin Google Calendar.
• Automatic Email notices are sent with job updates. Email contents are fully customizable and personalized.
• Posting of notes to jobs and support for Adobe PDF annotation.
• Job and Proof Approval.
• Eliminates bandwidth charges and insures that your customer files only reside at your location for maximum security.
• Online Print Ordering. Easy to use printer’s online storefront helps you get the sale! Integrated shopping cart technology allows users to place their ready projects - along with files, proofs, pricing and shipping calculations - into their shopping cart – with a single button. Multiple projects can be added to a shopping cart. Items in the cart can also be removed or updated.
• Checkout with Credit Card Processing. Get paid for your work and give your users the security of paying through the secure gateway of YOUR credit card processing account. Most all popular credit card gateways are supported.
• Checkout with Bill My Account. This feature lets you set specific users with the option to checkout and charge the order to their account. User account number and billing code are stored in the user account and at checkout time users can supply Purchase Order number to the order. All info is stored with the order details.
• Administrative Access. The Administrative backend gives you the ability to control the entire site with these features:
• Site Manager.
• Direct FTP access to the menu content manager so that you can use your favorite html editor - such as DreamWeaver - to control the content of your site pages.
• Menu Manager. Add, delete, edit and control the position of menu items on your site.
• Product Manager. Add, delete and edit all product related information. This includes:
• Product Naming.
• HTML marketing content for the specific product page.
• Thumbnail upload.
• Product Pricing Matrix with sizing, color model, page counts, quantities and price breakdown.
• Product Options with naming, option selectors, pricing, size and weight, thumbnails, and inter-option relationships.
• Shipping with full Service Provider Manager, origin zip code, thumbnails and handling fees.
• User Manager.
• Add, remove and edit all user options including account, email, and billing options.
•  "Work As" a user to see the site from their perspective.
• Order Manager.
• Access orders by full list of by user.
• View complete order details.
• Manage order fulfillment with credit card capture.
• Site Hosting. Your online store front is hosted at a secure managed facility with a 99.9% uptime guarantee. It has these features:
• Unlimited Email accounts.
• Webmail
• Spam Protection
• Web Blog support
• SSL support
• UPS Power Back-up Battery and Generator
• 24/7 Monitoring, Cooling System, Fire Suppression, Biometric Security
• Site Backup
• OC-96 Backbone connection
• Optional - Online Page Layout. TribalSketch Online Design Tool enables browser based online print design. Working in any Flash enabled browser the web page design tool is both full featured and easy to use. Combined with upload capabilities and support for a broad range of file formats, including PDF-EPS, users can upload and build final layouts right in their browser.
• Optional - Source Code License. Do you have a Super Secret project idea that you want to develop in-house and just need a good starting point, or do you like the idea of having full control over all aspects of your business? Then the Source Code license is your solution! Give your Ruby on Rails developers a head start on building the next killer web app, or deploy the entire site locally at your premises.
• Ongoing Feature Additions and Enhancements. Become a member of our team and help us drive this product forward. Our customers are significant contributors to the project. Contact us today to find out what new features are coming next!