New features for the National Equipment Register
Our work 20/03/2009
TER, The National Equipment Register, is the UK’s register of lost and stolen plant machinery. It provides a registration service, and a checking service for those buying such equipment to check that it has not been registered as stolen – a bigger problem than you’d imagine.
Sage 200 integration for Cyclescheme
Our work 28/02/2009
Pushing on with our end-to-end automation of Cyclescheme's online business processes, we have just completed a full integration from their extranet to Sage 200. This is enabling the company to handle a rapidly growing volume of business as they continue to win accounts with some of the UK’s largest employers. They will be able to process accounts in minutes, rather than hours, and with less risk of manual error.
New Matchbox sales reports
Our work 20/01/2009
We have just completed a brand new sales reports application for Matchbox, our platform for ecommerce, online publishing and digital marketing.
It’s packed with lovely charts and graphs that enable you to view sales volumes, conversion rates and demographics. And you can break these down for individual products and promotions, to accurately monitor the commercial success of your marketing activities.
Online hire agreements for Cyclescheme
Our work 06/01/2009
Cyclescheme enables you to buy a bike through your employer completely tax free, under a government scheme, saving many people about half the cost. Most spread the cost of the purchase over year, coming direct out of their pay packet, under a hire-purchase arrangement. This has been fairly labour-intensive to organise, as all the HP contracts need to be personalised, printed, sent out, tracked until return, recorded, and then archived, before bike vouchers can be issued.
Matchbox now available in multi-site edition
News 19/08/2008
After several months of brow-sweating, brain-crunching work, our content and ecommerce platform, Matchbox, is now available in a fully integrated, multi-site edition. This has enabled us to add a raft of exciting new business functionality, using the power of centralised data:
- Share content and data across sites however you like
- Offer users a single login across all your websites
- View and manage performance reports, user data and sales centrally
- Quickly create whitelabel sites for business partnerships and niche markets
- Manage and monitor client advertising campaigns across all your sites
We’ll be rolling these features out over a number of sites for our publishing and ecommerce clients over the coming months. If you need to improve website management technology for your company, please give us a call for a friendly chat.
Paperwork (nearly) dead!
Our work 19/05/2008
We’ve been finely honing our anti-paperwork skills at loft of late, on a variety of projects. Not least of these is Cyclescheme, who’s monster extranet we are responsible for developing and maintaining.
Over the last couple of months we’ve been crafting the automatic generation of contracts, invoices, credit notes and remittances in PDF format from the system. It sends the lucky recipients an email with a secure link to their files, which they can download or forward to the accounts department at their company.
Single login for Panacea users
Our work 10/02/2008
Don’t you just love the way your Google login works across all their websites and applications? It saves so much time and effort.
We’ve been working on just the same thing for Panacea Publishing – a single, central, personal profile for each user, which they can use to sign in to any of Panacea's websites, and they can easily update across the board.
It has been tricky to implement, but there are compelling business benefits:
Travel deals now on BusinessTraveller.com
Our work 08/02/2008
Bargain hunters bookmark the new Deals section at BusinessTraveller.com. We’ve put together a fancy new app for PRs and promoters to post their latest travel offers on the site, and get them out there for the masses.
Search and save at www.businesstraveller.com/deals
Myriad integration for Matchbox
Our work 15/01/2008
Myriad is one of the top systems for publishers to manage their subscribers, advertising and related data. It’s used by national newspapers, as well as many small and medium-sized publishers.
Matchbox is a high-end platform for managing your internet business, including ecommerce, content management and reporting tools, and is used by most of loft’s clients.
We’ve just completed a full ecommerce and user profile integration between Matchbox and Myriad.
LiveChart – dynamic charts for web apps
News 17/12/2007
Web app interfaces are great, but few in the industry have got to grips with charts and graphs. All those rows and columns are so much more meaningful when you can bring out the salient points in just a couple of charts. And the web, with its dynamic, easy-flow-of-info nature, should be a natural home for this.
There are a few good web charting kits out there, but none of them have really hit the nail on the head for us in terms of automation, intelligence and pure visual splendour. So guess what? We wrote our own, and we’ve named it LiveChart.
