FreedomTravel4You.com is in the business of selling travel through outside agents. One of the problems they have had in the past is that they have not had a back office to support those agents.
iBCScorp.com developed for them a back office management system which manages those agents. At the time they where a multilevel marketing company. So custom PHP programming was done to record agent profiles into a MySQL database. The agents then where able to add their own recruits as well as see their down-line for everyone they had recruited into the company.
Later the company changed to not be a multilevel company and some additional features where added. This was done using the popular Cake PHP framework. Some of the additional modules include:
Vendor Management
Administrators are able to add, edit and modify the vendors that their agents use to sell travel. This is beneficial for those agents, for the internal staff because they can put all the information the agents need into the vendor system rather than taking calls from those vendors. It also is beneficial for SEO purposes for people who are looking for an agency who deals with the particular products carried by those vendors. Additional functionality we would like to add which was not in the budget included better search features, browsing and even being able to purchase from those vendors directly online.
E-Commerce
Agents are able to sign up and sign up other agents directly including recurring billing.
Online selling of travel
Somewhat unique to this site as apposed to other non-travel sites is the ability for agents to directly purchase/or sell travel online through an online booking engine. When the travel is sold, the agent has the opportunity to include a markup on that travel for as much as they would like.
CMS Features
Wordpress was used to provide the content management system. This is an extremely nice benefit for an agency trying to promote itself in the online world. It allows them to add and manage content at will including posting new travel deals, hot travel sites, travel tips, or whatever other creative ideas they can think of.
Internet Business Consulting Services (ibcscorp) has been doing ongoing web development work for the site Together Forever International (togetherforeverint.com). Together Forever is a Russian and Ukrainian women connection service that wanted to add more up-to-date online dating tools to their site.
“Your best resource for thousands of Russian and Ukrainian women.” The site is the place to network and explore possible love connections with women from these specific countries. The site will provide current online dating tools such as: online chat, video chat, and the abilities to search through profiles.
iBCScorp created the site using Ruby on Rails. iBCScorp is currently rewriting the application to make video chat services available and also working to modify membership and subscription services through the site. Administrators of the site will also be able to manage the text content on their own by using build in features from Refinery Content Management System (CMS). RefineryCMS is a relatively new CMS system, giving leverage to the IBCSCorp developers making it easier and faster to add CMS features to a very complicated site.
For marketing and SEO purposes having a Content Management system that allows for the posting of articles and newsletters is vital.
iBCScorp is a web development company located in St. George, Utah with another office location in Sri Lanka. For a free consultation on your website, please call 435-215-4674 or the toll free number 1-877-778-7882.
