• 1000+ Customers
• 10,000+ Inventory Items
• Real-time in-stock balances synchronized with in-office accounting system.
• Inventory is cataloged by 168 Manufacturers, and 139 Inventory Categories and Sub-Categories.
• Items can also be searched by
  • Product Id
  • UPC (full or partial)
  • Full or Partial Product Description
  • Category
  • Manufacturer
  • Category within Manufacturer
• Inventory can be put on sale with sale start and end dates, or flagged as new.
• Clients must be signed to view wholesale pricing.
• Control over which clients are able to view in-stock balances.
• Special discounts for select customers.
• Clients have the convenience of being able to start an order from work and finish from home.

Going into this project, we had the challange of getting almost 10,000 unorganized print quality catalog photos onto the website, in a timely manner. We developed a module to upload, produce and index fast-loading thumnails and web-appropriate sized images.. This cut image processing and cataloging time for individual inventory items from 2 to 4 minutes to less then 10 seconds.each  A single employee at Alexander was able to upload photos of over 8,500 items in less than 2 months, while continuing to perform her normal sales support duties.

You may also like to visit a similar site,  MJZ Distributors; with an offering of 3,500 items.

Unlike the distributor web sites, which were designed to be accessed by schools and retail stores, Blinky's was targeted toward the general public. This required a different organization and presentation of merchandise as well as extra care to insure that each category and individual item are scanned and indexed by search engines.

You may also be interested in viewing a smaller retail site; Outrageous Party Favors, which was featured in a Wallstreet Journal article about online party-favor websites.