Target Users

External Users:

• Shop Owners: Internet-shops, art-shops and galleries selling paintings, photos and printed copies, and
• Customers: Purchaser of paintings and printed copies with frames.

Internal Users:

• Suppliers and partners: Producers of components for picture frames and prints and delivery services, and
• Contractors: Web-service developers

Objective

To make ordering the frames from websites and art-shops as easy and user-friendly as possible.

Opportunities

For Customers:

• Choice of frames
• Choice of mats and size matching (from one to three mats simultaneously)
• Choice of internal boarding made of different materials
• Choice of glass with different properties and thickness
• Preview of paintings with frame and matting against the background of a chosen color, and
• Adding the assembled framed paintings to Favorites or Basket (in Online Storefront)
  
  

For Shop Owners:

• Automated or manual update of frame components and prices database
• Product management (frame components) – assigning gross margins, introducing price discounts, and choice of products for selling
• Interface for integrating Web services into internet shops, and
• Preparation of bulk orders for product deliveries to shops (for art-shops)

For Administrators

• Interface for integrating frame components databases
• Sales stats (by product and by shop)
• Adjustment of discounts, based on order volume, and
• Creation and management of bookkeeping and accounting records for shops 

See also:

Fine Art Online Store Front (Artpier.com) with integrated Framing Module (Web Framer)