dmABS 1.5.E: sell all services and price plans online

dmABS 1.5 represents a substantial advance on our previous dmABS site, allowing you to sell all of our services (rather than just dmConnect), and all of our price plans online.

It features:

• a shorter overall sales path (less clicks to purchase)
• includes a range of new tools (such as our inforamative Call Cost Explorer)
• and an upgraded content management system.

Target audience: Proactive dealers interested in starting to sell our new services and plans right away.

Why is it good for my customers?

They can buy numbers more easily, and combine with their choice of call-handling services, on a price plan to suit the volume of calls they anticipate. Whatever their needs, there will be a product to match.

Why is it good for me?

The more competitive product offering avaiable through dmABS 1.5 means more sales, and in turn larger profits.

The site will also allow you to target a broader range of customers, as the new products offer something for everyone, from the small business that handles only a few calls a week, to the large enterprise with a customer 'hot-line' that never stops ringing. Our medium and high volume price plans offer attractive call-forwarding discounts to customers who expect lots of calls. And attractive discounts for customers translate into more sales for you.

Downloads

Software

dmABS_1.5_Elephant_v5B.zip

Documentation

To come.

Release status and limitations

This is a pioneer realese, meaning that we have tested it extensively internally, but that there may be a few rough edges, and some minor bugs lurking in the website. However, we are confident that there are no serious bugs remaining.

Known limitations

The dmABS 1.5E pioneer release has the following limitations.

1 Header bar text branding, and header bar recolouring will not work unless references to the dmClub logo graphic and header bar background graphic are removed from the dmABS options file at /common/abs_options.php, and the page's background tile is removed from the dmClub theme.

This is because the pioneer release is already branded with the dmClub brand (as seen at http://www.dmclubclassic.net), which must be removed before the header rebranding options have any effect.

// Background colour for header block
$abs_opt['header_block_colour'] = '#669';

// URL of background (aligned right) for header block - OPTIONAL
$abs_opt['header_bg'] = $abs_root . '/themes/' . $abs_opt['theme'] .
                                                      '/gen_images/header_bg.gif';

// Full URL of company logo - OPTIONAL
$abs_opt['company_logo'] = $abs_root . '/themes/' . $abs_opt['theme'] .
                                          '/gen_images/dmclub_logo.gif';

to:

// Background colour for header block- this is now active
$abs_opt['header_block_colour'] = '#669';

// URL of background (aligned right) for header block - OPTIONAL
$abs_opt['header_bg'] = '';

// Full URL of company logo - OPTIONAL
$abs_opt['company_logo'] = '';

body
{
	text-align: center;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	background-image: url("images/header_tile.gif");
}

to:

body
{
	text-align: center;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
} 

Once you have removed the dmClub header branding:

• Setting the header bar background colour works.
• The name you specify as 'company_displayname' in abs_options.php will appear in the header bar.

You can now go on to recolour the header bar, and add your own company name, company logo and/or header bar background to dmABS.