Summary
Offering the "gift of culture" is the name of the game for Museumshop.com. By linking museums worldwide and offering their products through one central catalog, Museumshop.com provides a truly unique shopping experience.

iCentrix developed a complete e-merchandizing solution for Museumshop.com including on-line form based administration, catalog management, inventory control, central payment processing, sales reports and fulfillment support.

The challenge
Museumshop.com set out to create a site that clearly guides customers through the shopping experience. Product presentation needs to be simple, yet functional. Ability to get to the product through multiple channels is vital, as is the ability to promote featured items, group products in special categories and run promotions. Museum partners will need their own home pages as well as their own branded catalogs

Extended product categorization will be required to create features like "The gift finder" where each product has a gender, age, price and an occasion. Additional categorizations of artist, author and historical period will add further searching capability.

Customers will be able to set up e-accounts with Museumshop.com that will allow them to purchase and track their individual museum memberships. Pricing models will need to reflect all of the applicable discounts, as well as offer a special first time discounts. The shopping cart needs to calculate the discounts and break the line item shipping down by fulfillment center.

When presenting the catalog, special care needs to taken to ensure that neither the download time nor the amount of information presented are overwhelming.

The application would need to be simple to use and delivered quickly.

The solution
iCentrix e-business team had the answer. By building on top of iCentrix frameworks and by working closely with Museumshop.com to fully understand their business, iCentrix team delivered this complete e-business solution in record time.