Studibooks.de – B2C bookshop for students

Customer: studibooks.de

www.studibooks.de

studibooks.de was established by former students with the intention to create a fresh and advanced bookshop especially for students and pupils. The product range of studibooks.de currently includes some 850,000 items, with 450,000 hereof readily available on stock.

Job:

The project objective was to implement a B2C bookshop with extremely comprehensive search and filter functions. The product data were to be imported from numerous databases, consolidated and transferred to the shop automatically. Orders and customers data should be exchange directly with the ERP Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The integration of a bonus programme was an additional key requirement.

Solution:

The studibooks.de B2C shop uses the silver.basic e-commerce solution. Orders are directly passed on to Navision. The import of product data from numerous catalogues with extensive bibliographic contents is a special feature. This information is complemented by additional data from Navision und updated in the online shop every night. Products not yet maintained as items in Navision are created when ordered in Navision and routed through a release workflow. The shop categories are equally imported and consolidated by various vendors.

The handling of pre-announced books and sequels was implemented especially for the publishing industry. These books and sequels are treated separately in the shopping cart. When accessing the shopping cart, the availability is inquired from the logistics centre at runtime in order to ensure that the ordered books are actually on stock.

The shop offers a large variety of filter functions and sorting options through the eZ Find search engine, enabling users to filter result lists subsequently by publishing company, category, year of publication, author, number of pages and price margin.

In addition, a bonus system was integrated, enabling bonus points acquired from the vendor to be redeemed at studibooks.de and settled with the vendor.

Benefit:

An attractive and high-capacity B2C shop using the book trade’s industry standards and offering the complete currently available assortment of German books as well as additional foreign topical publications to customers was set up in no time.

"silver.solutions has done a very good job. All application elements were planned carefully in the forefront and implemented professionally. The contact was always cooperative, friendly and helpful. Thanks to the comprehensive know how of all employees involved in the project potential error sources could be identified and resolved in due time. Minor errors identified subsequently to the production start were addressed and resolved immediately.

Conclusion: The project has been completed to our utmost satisfaction. silver.solutions will continue to support, extend and optimise the application in the future. We look forward to a long-term cooperation."

Bastian Klasvogt, CEO, studibooks.de