Dock9 is pleased to announce the launch of DoubleGlazingCompanies.com, a sophisticated new company comparison engine offering a transparent way for consumers to find and compare double glazing installers and manufacturers.
Dock9 was responsible for many aspects of the project, from the user interface design and technical development right through to user testing and launch.
DoubleGlazingCompanies.com Home Page
Some key features of the site are listed below:
- Company comparison engine
Customers enter their postcode and select the criteria that is important to them. They are then shown a range of local companies with ticks and crosses indicating which services and products they offer. Users can order the search results by user rating, distance from their location and other matching criteria.
- Customer reviews and company reply system
Customers can leave reviews of the companies that they have used and leave star ratings. Companies are notified of the review and have the right to reply.
- Company portal
Companies that sign up have access to a portal, enabling them to self manage their listing, read and respond to reviews and view live statistics relating to their listing.
- Automated paid upgrades and renewals
Beyond the basic Bronze listings, companies can pay for for Silver and Gold company listings. Additional functionality available includes the ability to:- add industry accreditations
- upload a company logo
- add a dynamic image gallery, showing a company’s work
- activate a link to the company’s website
- Abusive content reporting and automated take-down
With a site like this, it is crucial to provide an automated way for users to report abusive content. Dock9 developed an ‘instant take-down’ system, where users can notify the site of such content and DoubleGlazingCompanies.com staff can then manually review and then reinstate content if they decide that it is appropriate.
- Web-based back office
DoubleGlazingCompanies.com staff can manage companies, reviews and reported abuse in a secure web-based back office.
Alan Burgess, Managing Director of DoubleGlazingCompanies.com Ltd, comments,
“Mark and his team at Dock9 have been excellent. From the initial brief, through to launch and thereafter well into the projected developments, they have beavered away, diligently.
With an ever changing (improving) brief, the changes were common place but there was never an issue that could not be overcome ”
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