With great pride, Pigz In Zen announces the completion of a true front to back project. A2B Board Shop in Third Lake, Illinois, has gone live today with their new community website, online store, and integrated point of sale system. This has definitely been an exciting project for Pigz In Zen, and A2B Board Shop alike. Having been a retail store for two years now we wish A2B great success in their venture into eCommerce!

A2B Board Shop was ready to take their business to the next level, while also providing an online community for local skaters in North Eastern Illinois and South  Eastern Wisconsin. With their new website they will be able to engage the local community like never before and provide them a place not only to buy goods related to skating and disc golf, but give them a place to collaborate on it.

Some of the features created by Pigz In Zen for A2B Board Shop's new website are:

• Complete eCommerce online store
  • Fully functional online store allowing them to sell all of their product year round to anywhere in the country
  • Inventory management
  • Integration with credit card merchant services
  • Featured products & specials
  • User customizable products at time of order (i.e. selection to add grip to a new board or not)
  • Sophisticated categorization system
• Integrated Point of Sale System
  • Web-based software integrates with online store inventory to prevent double selling
  • Touch-screen interface, customer display pole, credit card reader, cash drawer, bar code reading & printing
  • Custom designed thermal receipts & bar code price tag labels
  • Utilizes merchant account of online store to minimize costs and reduce number of vendors
• Blogging
  • Easy to create and update article system that can be used for blogging, and more
  • Ability to publish by date, and have articles automatically deactivate based on date
• Video / Picture Gallery
  • Powerful video gallery that allows users of the website to upload or link to their own videos and share them with others
  • Equally powerful picture gallery that allows users of the website to upload their own pictures and share them with others
  • Administrator and moderator control over the galleries to ensure things stay 'appropriate'
  • Ability to link to images and videos in the gallery from articles and other sections on the website
• Forums
  • Highly flexible discussion forum section
  • Allows for grouping by categories and topics
  • Full administrator and moderator control
  • User profile customization and avatars
• Content Management
  • Highly flexible content management system allowing A2B Board Shop to manage their own content and media
  • Ability to create their own pages, sections, and navigation
  • Ability to secure content based on login / security level
• Events Calendar
  • Powerful, user-driven events calendar allowing A2B to add, change, and remove events
  • Multiple forms of display: by year, month, week, or day
  • Users of the site are able to download calendar events directly into their iCal
• Location Reviews
  • Listing of local places of interest
  • Ability to categorize locations
  • Site review and rating as well as user reviews and ratings

We wish A2B Board Shop all the best in their success. If you have a business that you would like to get online for sales, information or anything else, please contact us.

To learn more about A2B Board Shop please see http://www.a2bboardshop.com