Growing your business

As the website development business grows you will discover that you need to employ more staff - and then you'll discover that employing additional staff is the major block to being able to expand your website development business.

• Skilled staff are hard to find and are a hassle to manage.
• Direct employment is expensive with major headaches in employment law, vacation and benefit provision.
• Outsourcing to contract workers or to overseas providers can consume more management time that you have available management time.

neatComponents solves all of these problems - You can build your website development business and still make money.

End Employment hassles

• increase productivity
• increase profitability
• eliminate outsourcing 

Each task that you need to perform has been encapsulated into a 'Component' that you add to the website - each Component is configured from a control panel - there is never any programming. You don't need the expensive staff you thought you did.

Sites are built quickly and always work. Every website has Content Management, and is fully independent.

Here are a few examples of neatComponents working for you:

Site Creator

The Site Creator is part of the website hosting system provided by neatComponents. Once neatComponents is installed on your Windows 2003 server it offers the Administrator a tree view of the websites hosted on the system. Read more ...

Child Sites

The Child Sites part of the tree is integrated with a User Manager. The User Manager enables you to create new User or'Customer' - either real independent companies, or departments of your organization, or any other division of user that you wish. Each Customer has independent Accounting and Billing controlled by the Accounts manager and assigned Charging Plan

The Child Sites system enables you to create a new child site and assign it to a 'Customer'. Each Child Site may then own an unlimited number of sites, each one fully independent of any other site - with its own log-in system, user-groups and content management. The Site Creator component allows resellers to let clients self-serve a new 'child site' automatically.

The individual sites controls allow you to select and assign Charging Plans and set an overall expiry date for the website if you wish. You may also assign an address to send copy accounts and warning email to that refer to the website. The Website controls also allow you to set the Web Server parameters, for th edefault page that is served by the site, the IP address and Port that the site is being served from, and the Domain Name that the site listens on. Read more ...

Site Templates

Any website can be set to be made available as a Template for other designers.
The Usage Rules set in the template manager control whether a Template site is to be made available, and whther Recusive Use is allowed. The Template manager is integrated with the User Manager to give fine grain control over which site has access to which Template.

The Site Template system is a very powerful tool for commercial website developers. It means that the designer can instantly replicate an extremely complex, high value site, and then by simply re-dressing the graphics recover the investment in intellectual property over and over again. Read more ...

Account Management and Credit Control

An Accounts Console gives a birds-eye view of your business with a Summary of all Accounts by Month, showing the individual account Status with Invoices, Payments and Balance figures - all automatically generated and tied into an online payment system.

The Accounts Console also provides a Summary by Account, with reports on Days to Suspension, Warning Status and Account Balance. 

Automatic Credit Contol

Fully customizable Warning and Suspension emails are generated by the Accounts Manager to warn customers 7 Days before their account will suspend due to insufficient funds. The system sends a second warning 1 Day before suspension and then send a Suspension notice when the website stops being served. An 'Upstream Suspended Email' can also be configured.

The Accounts System uses a contantly updated algorithm to give the best forward estimate of suspension for sites that are being charged on a bandwidth usage basis. Read more ...

neatComponents: help to grow your own business

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