PLEASE HELP! Submit your completed proposal for your project. It must include: •
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PLEASE HELP!
Submit your completed proposal for your project. It must include:
• Project Introduction, objectives, customer, and expectations of the project.
• A Project Plan (use Microsoft Project)
o Include milestones
§ The kick-off meeting
§ Bi-session (every two session) update
§ Close-out meeting o Include your critical path
o Include time estimates (this may be changed later)
o Include resources (if you’re not the only one doing the work)
o Use this to determine a preliminary budget
• Include a list of deliverables that the customer will receive along with the benefits of the deliverables.
• E-COMMERCE PROJECT PROPOSAL ROUGH DRAFT:
Client: The purpose of this project is to setup an eCommerce store for a physical shop owned by Exhaust Pros of Aurora. They have a physical shop that has been in business since November 2012. They have a website that is currently used primary to provide basic information of the company and contact information. The customer would like to set up an eCommerce store to compliment their physical store with a secure method of payment utilizing the website more completely. An online store where customers can browse the catalog and select products of interest. The selected items collected in a shopping cart. At checkout time, the items in the shopping cart presented as an order. At that time, more information needed to complete the transaction. Usually, the customer asked to fill or select a billing address, a shipping address, a shipping option, and payment information such as credit card number. An e- mail notification sent to the customer as soon as the order placed.
POSSIBLE DELIVERABLES:
Customer
January 23-25: NAME TYPE DESCRIPTION 1 UserID Varchar Primary key for Customer identification 2 Password Varchar Security for Customer 3 First_Name Varchar 4 Last_Name Varchar 5 Address Varchar 6 City Varchar 7 Zip Integer 8 State Varchar 9 Email Address Varchar 10 Phone_Number Varchar Items/Goods
January 26-29: NAME TYPE DESCRIPTION 1 ItemID Integer Primary key for Inventory Identification, Item Number 2 Item_Type Varchar 3 Item_Name Varchar 4 Item_Brand Varchar 5 Price Double State Tax
January 30-Febuary 7: NAME TYPE DESCRIPTION 1 State Name Varchar Primary key for State Identification 2 Sales Tax Rate Double Sales tax for each state Shopping Cart Items
February 3-7: NAME TYPE DESCRIPTION 1 ShoppingCartID Integer Primary key for Shopping Cart Identification 2 ItemID Varchar Foreign key to Item 3 Price Double 4 Date Date 5 UserID Varchar Foreign key to Customer 6 Quantity Integer Order Details
February 6-10: NAME TYPE DESCRIPTION 1 OrderID Integer Primary key for Order identification 2 UserID Char Foreign key to Customer 3 Receiver’s Name Char If order sent to other address rather than to the customer, we need that address 4 Address Char 5 City Char 6 Zip Integer 7 State Char Foreign key to State Tax 8 Type of Shipping Char Foreign key to Shipping Type 9 Date of Purchase Date Shipping Type
February 9-13: NAME TYPE DESCRIPTION 1 Type of Shipping Varchar Primary key to define type of shipping 2 Price Double 3 Approximate days for delivery Integer Credit Card Details
February 12-16: NAME TYPE DESCRIPTION 1 Credit Username Varchar Primary key for Customer Identification 2 Credit Card Number Varchar 3 Card Type Varchar Master Card, Visa, Discover 4 CVV Number Integer Number present on the back of the card for extra security 5 Expiry Date 6 UserID Varchar Foreign key to Customer Items Review
February 15-18: NAME TYPE DESCRIPTION 1 ItemID Varchar ItemID on which the review is written 2 Reviews Varchar Review on the items 3 Rating Varchar Rating given to the item in a scale of 5 4 Review Date 5 User Name Varchar Name of the user providing the review Purchase History
February 17-20: NAME TYPE DESCRIPTION 1 UserID Varchar Primary key for Customer Identification 2 ItemID Varchar Item purchased by the user 3 Date of Purchase Date 4 OrderID Integer Foreign key to Order_details 5 Quantity Integer 6 Price Double
THANKS
Explanation / Answer
Please see below how we propose to achieve project objective:
Front End :
Website Design: We fully understand what you are looking for, we will also see to it that the ecommerce website that we build has a clean and professional design with unique look and functionality tailor-made to the minutest details of your requirement.
Logo Design: Logo is the visual statement of your service and it is very crucial to see that your identity is projected in a positive manner to your prospective audience. Compared to others, we don’t just merely deliver eye catching logos but we stress to see that your logo conveys your brand message in a meaningful way to your audience. We will create a logo which will be decent and at the same time exciting.
CMS: We will provide you a website with a CMS (Content Management System) The CMS would allow the user to be able to change the text as well as image content of specific pages via a very easy and user-friendly editor based on WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) principle.
Login Functionality: Visitors of the website will be provided a Registration as well as login facility and the corresponding user management would be provided in the admin backend. Once the user has registered with the website an auto generated email would be triggered to users email address with a verification link through which user will be verified. Once the user is logged in to the website he/she will able to view profile, view past orders placed, edit profile.
Product Listing: Product listing will be available in different ways such as category wise, sub category wise, product filtering through price, location. We will provide Basic Search and Advanced Search which will make the product reach for users easy.
Customer Reviews: We will provide a product review system through which users will able to leave a review on products that they have purchased. The users of the website will able to rate the products that they have purchased and you will able to manage the reviews from admin panel.
Recently Viewed Products: Users will able to see the recently viewed and the recommended items based on their interests or past order history.
Shopping Cart: Shopping cart will show all the products selected by the user for purchase and all the relevant details e.g. Product Name, SKU, Price, and Quantity (updatable). The shopping cart link will be visible at every page of the website.
Wish List: There would be an interactive area e.g. a suggestion box or a ‘Wish List’ where the website visitor should be able to add his/her wishes for a particular product/variant being added to the offerings.
Shipping Calculation integration: We’ll integrate shipping calculation of UPS/USPS etc. based on various plans they offer such as Next Day Air, 2nd Day Air, UPS ground.
Payment Gateway Integration: We can smoothly integrate any payment gateway you wish also e.g. Credit Card, Google Checkout, Authorize.net, though we recommend paypal. Though we recommend Paypal.
Paypal Payment Integration: There are primarily two kinds of payment gateway integrations provided by Paypal.
i) As per the first method, having a paypal account is mandatory for the user. He/She is taken to the paypal page and if paypal account is not there already, he/she can create an account by entering card details, billing address etc.
ii) The second method allows payment directly via credit/debit card of customer as well as via paypal
Query: Kindly let us know which of the above mentioned methods you would like to integrate.
Informative pages: You will able to create separate pages on the website easily which will require information. The pages could be About us, Frequently Asked Questions, Legal statements, Privacy policy, Shopping Conditions, Copyright, etc.
Newsletter: We will provide you a dynamic solution for E-Newsletter
Subscription with Email Option Box and you will able to manage the same from the back end. Apart from that you will able to post the latest news from the admin panel whenever you require.
The users who will register with the website and place an order for purchasing a product the user data will be stored in the database and will able to manage the contact details from admin panel and use it for email marketing.
Coupon Code/Gift Certificates: You’ll be able to give coupons to your customers. Based on the coupon number entered, a preset discount would be given for that particular order.
Contact Us Page with Inquiry: Contact us page will have all the contact details and inquiry form. As soon as user fills in and submits the inquiry form, an automatic email will be sent to the desired email ID. The email ID will be configurable from the admin backend so in future you’ll be able to change if required.
Social Media Sharing:
a) We will provide you a social media plug-in integrated through which users will be redirected to your respected profiles. And apart from that the updates that you do on your website will be posted to your social media profiles.
b) Apart from above users will able to see the fan count on your website also which will reflect your website fan based on the respected social media profiles.
Search: We will provide Basic Search and Advanced Search which will make the product reach for users easy.
SEO: We will provide SEO friendly website which will have SEO friendly URLs, we will deliver you a SEO enabled website which will have W3C validated HTML. We will also include SEO enabling such as adding robots.txt, meta tags and key words as per your instructions. The site will be compatible with IE7,IE8, Firebox, Safari, Opera, Chrome.
Suggestion:
We understand that the project requires good amount of features so we would recommend that first we would give you a detailed SRS document after you provide us your comments on above, which will cover everything about the site, features, functionality, process flow so that we both can be on the same page and there is no chance of any mismatch in our perceptions. Normally we
provide the SRS document after the project is awarded.
Mile Stone Description
1 On Acceptance
2 On SRS & Design Mock up approval
3 On admin Panel Functionality approval
4 On Front End Functionality approval
5 Testing & Bug Fixing
6 Full Delivery
Delivery Process:
Design Mockups:
Once the project is awarded we will provide you three mockups of the proposed web design. We are open to revisions in the mockups until we achieve your total satisfaction.
SRS (System Requirement Specification) document:
Along with the design mockups, we’ll also provide an SRS document. The SRS will contain detailed description of the requirements of the project i.e. how the system will work, what features will be included, sitemap, Process Flow etc. After we get your approval on SRS, we will start development work.
Progress Tracking:
During the time the project is in execution, you’ll be able to track the progress on a demo site we’ll provide on our server. Only if you approve the functionality on our server, we’ll consider the milestone achieved.
Final Deliverable:
Our final deliverable will include full source code, deployment at your server, and user guide. If required, we’ll provide video tutorials.
Quality Commitment:
A dedicated Quality Assurance Team who will ensure that the website fits on top quality standards and matches the project requirements.
Warranty:
For 2 months, we will provide free of cost support for any bug fixing work that arises after the website goes live
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