Content Management Advanced Modules

Calendar Module

The Calendar module offers an easy to use solution for events management and registration and is useful for sports clubs or any organisation involved in running regular and/or multiple events. This module is also regularly used as an availability calendar that allows you to show visitors the dates when your products or services are available or booked out.

Designed and developed with flexibility in mind, the Calendar module allows you to display a useful calendar of events on your web site. Events can be displayed in calendar or list format and can contain a link through to a specific details page. Registration forms/files can be attached to each event, and events or bookings can be set to be automatically removed from the calendar once the event or booking date passes.

Blog Module

The Blog module offers you all the flexibility and functionality of a typical online blog tool, making it easy for a site administrator to post conversational content and interact with an online audience. Contributing to a regularly updated blog is a great way to interact with your customers (or potential customers) in a conversational manner and helps to reinforce you or your organisation’s position as an expert in your field.

Readers can provide comments on blog posts which can either be set to display automatically or only following administrator moderation. Furthermore, commenting functionality can be turned off completely if reader interaction or feedback is not desired.

All blog content is categorised by date and topic and is searchable by keyword phrase (when used in conjunction with the Search module). Links to blog archives and the most recent blog posts are provided on all blog pages.

The Blog module also supports RSS (Really Simple Syndication), making it easy for your readers to subscribe to your blog and receive email notification each time you publish a new post.

Reporting Module

Orbit’s Reporting module lets you create detailed reports on any of the information stored in your website’s database.

With a user interface similar to Microsoft™ Access™, the Reporting module is useful for reporting on specific product sales, or creating a custom mailing list from subscribed contacts. This module also has the ability to export data in ‘tab delimited’ format for viewing and manipulating in MS™ Excel™.

Seekom Integration

Seekom is a sophisticated booking management solution that gives you the ability to offer customers real-time availability and instant confirmation of bookings directly on your website.

Hosted Seekom Integration Solution

Our Hosted Seekom Integration Solution is designed specifically to provide owners of rental car websites with a seamless web-based online booking system. The Seekom solution handles all aspects of the online enquiry and booking process, including secure logging and storage of credit card details. Furthermore, our Seekom solution makes it easy for you to manage availability and car descriptions and images via one centralised interface.

This Seekom integration service gives you total control over the look and feel of the online booking section of your website, delivering a fully integrated and seamless user experience that is customised to match you existing branding and website design.

Remote Seekom Integration Solution

Our Remote Seekom Integration Solution is designed for use by accommodation providers and rental car websites. Unlike our hosted Seekom solution which integrates all Seekom functionality fully within your own website, our remote Seekom integration solution presents the Seekom interface to your customers via an iFrame, meaning that you are not able to customise the standard look and feel of the user interface to match your brand or website.

Contact Management Module (CRM)

Orbit’s Contact Management module makes maintaining contact information for your customers easy.

As a site administrator you can define any number of fields that you wish to record information on, plus you can track client interactions and correspondence by writing notes about telephone conversations, meetings or any other client interaction. The CRM module also integrates seamlessly with the Email Marketing module, making it easy to send targeted emails and newsletters to specific customer groups. It also integrates well with Orbit’s Reporting module and can be used to create customer specific reporting.

Contact details in the CRM module can be exported for use in other business applications or in the Reporting module, which means that by using Orbit’s Contact Management module you’ll only ever need to maintain one centralised list of up-to-date contact details for all of your clients.

Newsletter Emailing Module (Email Marketing)

Orbit’s Email Marketing module is an extremely useful tool for keeping in touch with your customers via email newsletters.

The Email Marketing module is designed to simplify Email Marketing, making it easy to manage your email lists and create and send customised email newsletters to subscribers using predefined newsletter templates. The module allows you to categorise newsletter recipients into any number of groups as defined by you, thus giving you total control over the message you deliver to each group of recipients. It also supports the upload of email mailing list contact details from a preformatted file.

Built to comply with the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act, Orbit’s Email Marketing module also includes subscribe/unsubscribe functionality as standard.

Integration of additional newsletter templates

Our Emailing Marketing module supports multiple newsletter templates, making it easy to tailor the look and feel of your email newsletters for specific marketing campaigns.

Image Gallery Module

The Image Gallery module makes it possible for you to display photos or images on your website in a professional and visually appealing manner.

Using the Image Gallery module visitors to your website can view a series of thumbnail images which when clicked on are enlarged to full-size and displayed using a professional light-box effect with built in navigation (next, previous, first and last) and slideshow functionality.

For the site administrator, the Image Gallery module has been designed with flexibility and ease of use in mind. Simply upload images directly from your PC or camera and have them automatically resized, cropped, compressed and ready for use in predefined areas of your website.

The Image Gallery module also automatically creates thumbnail versions of each image upon upload, plus you can also create multiple albums for easy management, organisation and display of your images.

Store Management Module

The Store Management module offers an easy way for you to manage and showcase your products online.

Add new products for display, make changes to existing products, or remove obsolete products quickly and easily. All product related information and details can be edited, including product descriptions, images, pricing, weights, units of measure and availability. The module also supports pricing in multiple currencies.

Product navigation utilises a Search Engine Friendly URL structure and is integrated with global site navigation to deliver a seamless user experience. Products are displayed on your site with a title, image and description summary along with a link to a full-size image and detailed product description page. Products can be organised into categories (and subcategories) for easy management and maintenance, plus the module can also be integrated with the e-Commerce module to provide you with the complete professional e-Commerce solution.

e-Commerce Module

Orbit’s e-Commerce module provides an easy to manage, fully customisable e-Commerce solution perfect for any online business.

Visitors can add items to their shopping cart as they browse through your products and can review and amend cart contents and quantities at any time prior to checkout. The e-Commerce module is extremely flexible, with options to display ‘up-sells’, ‘cross-sells’ or ‘specials’ as part of the checkout process, as well as ‘one-off’ purchasing whereby visitors don’t need to register in order to make a purchase.

When orders are submitted for processing purchase details can either be stored in the database for offline processing or integrated with a secure payments gateway to enable secure online payments in real-time. We recommend Direct Payment Solutions (DPS) as one of the most trusted providers of robust electronic payment solutions and as such we include DPS payment gateway integration as standard with our e-Commerce module. We are also happy to scope and quote for other electronic payments providers as required.

Please note that if your online store collects credit card details we strongly recommend the purchase and use of a Secure Server (SSL) Certificate.

Forum Module

Orbit’s Forum module offers a complete community building solution that integrates seamlessly with your website to enable users to start or participate in online discussion threads.

The module offers both guest and membership access, and threads can either be 'open' or 'moderated' by a site administrator as required. Discussion threads are organised by topic and can be archived for future reference. Other key Forum module features include email notification of new forum posts, private messaging, sticky topics, member signatures and more. Forum members can also login and modify their profile and contact details.

Please note that if private access to the forum is required this module must be combined with Orbit’s User Management module.

Real Estate Module

Developed specifically for the real estate industry, Orbit’s real estate module lets you add detailed property listing information for display on your website.

Each listing consists of a summary and a full detail view. Properties can be categorised and searched for based on criteria set by the site administrator. The module also offers the ability to upload images directly from a PC or camera and have them automatically compressed and resized before being adding to a predefined location on an individual property listings page. Visitors can view property photographs in a professional slideshow format without the need to navigate away from the individual property listing.

This module can also be integrated with real estate agency software to automatically import listings and photos from the main agency website. Please note this functionality is not available for all Real Estate Agencies.