Archive May 2011

Plugin: Donations with payment through VCS 2

May31

michaelbain has developed a plugin for WordPress that can be used by organisations who solicit donations and would like to enable payment by credit card and payment processing through Virtual Card Services (VCS).

 

The plugin is available under 2 licenses:

  • Single Site License: R 550
  • Developer license: R 1250

 

You need to have:

 

Process:
  • Send sales enquiries to michael@michaelbain.co.za:
  • Supply us with details of who to invoice for the plugin
  • Tell us which license you are interested in
  • We send you an invoice using the details you have supplied
  • You send us proof of payment with the invoice number as reference to michael@michaelbain.co.za
  • We mail you the plugin package with:
  • Plugin
  • Documented source code
  • Installation and usage instructions
  • License agreement

 

All payments by EFT  when invoiced. We are unfortunately not accepting online payments at this stage.

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Featured: Heatherdale Guest House 1

May24

michaelbain has successfully completed a small website project for www.heatherdale.co.za.

Heatherdale Guest House needed a new look and feel, an easy to use content management & publishing platform and some facebook integration.

michaelbain met these requirements by creating and implementing a custom WordPress theme for them.

 

Heatherdale Guest House  is an accredited member of the National Accommodation Association of South Africa. We have been awarded four stars by the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa. We have 2 Executive suites, 7 luxury rooms and 2 self catering units plus 2 conference / function venues, catering for up to 75 delegates or up to 15 delegates. Facilities include U-shaped, classroom, boardroom and cinema style seating plus executive facilities such as plasma screens, data projectors and wireless internet connections. Our venue allows for outdoor team building activities.

 
For more about Heatherdale Guest House, visit www.heatherdale.co.za.

Contact michaelbain to discuss your content management requirements.

Facebook: I couldn’t have said it better myself 1

May14

Allow me to blatantly link out, but I really just couldn’t agree more with my friend and associate over at blog.pixelmagic.co.za

But Facebook’s just for kids!

A page or a group?

Well said M :)

Featured: DarkCarnival Store 0

May10

michaelbain in conjunction with pixelmagic is proud to launch the DarkCarnival Online Store.

The store is part of phase 2 of the www.darkcarnival.co.za project.

We have provided DarkCarnival with a full-on interactive shopping experience for their customers and a complete self-managed store management system for the website administrators to manage the store with.

The project was developed by michaelbain using PHP, MySQL and the stable and secure WordPress platform with custom developed plug-ins, widgets and theme functions.

Theme design and implementation by pixelmagic.

Secure credit card transactions by Virtual Card Services.

 

The user shopping experience features include:

  • Browse products, with different listing views
  • Search product
  • Browse products by categories
  • Share to facebook and other social media
  • Featured slider
  • Shopping cart
  • Checkout as guest
  • Registation and checkout to remember details for future purchases
  • Product detail pages
  • Product detail image zoom
  • Related product to the one being viewed
  • Discount coupons
  • 2 payment methods: Online by credit card or offline by EFT

 

The shop administration features include:

  • Product management
  • Order management
  • Shipping cost management
  • Payment method management
  • VAT calculation and management: caters for VATable and non-VATable products
  • Coupon management
  • Multiple product image management
  • Variation management (weight, colour, size etc. with different prices for each variation)
  • Blogging management for writing articles about products

 

Dark Carnival Retail CC is a South African company committed to providing its customers access to the latest Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Collectables and related merchandise from around the world.

We, at Dark Carnival, aim to provide our customers the most recent and up to date information and products relating to the Comic World through our easy to use website. We also offer various delivery options at very affordable rates to help you receive your products in the shortest space of time.

 
For more on DarkCarnival, visit http://www.darkcarnival.co.za

For your website and online store requirements, contact michaelbain

developed by michaelbain