Technology We Use
Technology is a wonderful thing – providing you know how to use it. By working with some industry leading companies we can take even a simple website and make it into something extraordinary; providing you with the functionality you need, and your visitors with the best possible user experience.
Our websites are compatible with and can fully utilise the following technology:
WooCommerce
E-commerce package
Transform your website into an enterprise-level e-commerce store with WooCommerce. Easily manage your products and orders with its intuitive UI.
WooCommerce is feature packed and has been fully audited by leading security firm Sucuri to ensure it meets the highest WordPress security standards possible.
PayPal
Payment gateway
Your site is up, but how are customers going to pay you? payPal is one of the easiest ways to set up online payment on your website and accept credit cards, debit cards, bank and PayPal.
Don’t worry about PCI Compliance or storing customer data – payment takes place over PayPal’s secure pages. Low cost and a worldwide reputation are two great reasons to have PayPal process your online transactions.
One SAAS
Cloud integrations made easy
OneSaas is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud integration platform that solves the challenges of integrating cloud-based and on-site software.
It provides a central hub where workflow processes between accounting, billing & invoicing, email marketing, e-commerce, point-of-sale and CRM systems are automated seamlessly.
Google Analytics
Reporting
Google Analytics is an enterprise-class website analytics and reporting solution that gives you valuable insights into your website traffic. It allows you to monitor the effectiveness of your online marketing.
Zapier
Cloud integrations made easy
Zapier enables us to connect a wide range of common web apps to your website and automate many tedious tasks.
Vimeo
Streaming HD video
Videos can be uploaded to Vimeo in almost any format and streamed directly into your website in HD quality. A great alternative to Youtube.
HTML5
The core technology behind websites
HTML5 is the current HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) standard that structures and presents content on the web. It’s a new way of creating beautifully clean and highly functional websites. Basically, it lets us do some really cool stuff, that wasn’t possible before.
jQuery
Web technology
jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript framework library that allows us to build in extra functionality. It’s easier to include cool stuff like animation that will make your website stand out. Unlike Flash, it works across all browsers and operating systems.
Whyte Waters
Online booking system
A real time booking system developed in NZ specifically for tourism operators. It provides a central reservation system, trade manual agent booking and even the ability for operators to take bookings off their own website.
DPS
Payment gateway
Direct Payment Solutions provide a PCI DSS compliant Visa and MasterCard certified payments solution. DPS are certified with banks in Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Singapore, South Africa, USA and United Kingdom offering processing in multiple currencies.
DPS clients include Trade Me, Apple, Air New Zealand, Vodafone, Telecom, Auckland City Council, Microsoft, NZ Herald, Sky TV and Genesis Energy to name a few.
NZ Post
Shipping integration
Our e-commerce site can offer New Zealand Post rates to your customers which are pulled directly from their API. NZ Post can calculate rates worldwide, or domestic.
eWAY
Payment gateway
The eWAY payment gateway for makes use of eWAY’s brand new Rapid 3.1 API. It supports 3D Secure and is fully PCI compliant.
It includes support for processing subscription payments as well as token payments allowing customers to save credit cards for future purchases.
Chrome
Web browser
Google Chrome is currently the world’s most popular and widely used web browser. We test that each of our websites render correctly in Chrome prior to launching.
Mozilla Firefox
Web browser
All our websites are made to render correctly in Mozilla’s FireFox. If you haven’t already we recommend you try Firefox. It’s the world’s second most popular browser and it just works beautifully.
Safari
Web browser
Safari is the browser included with all Apple products.
YouTube
Embedded video made easy
The most popular video streaming site in the world. You can easily embed Youtube videos within your site.
Android
Mobile operating system
Android is the world’s most popular mobile platform, and our sites will display correctly on Android devices.
How easy the site is to use on a small mobile screen depends largely on whether it has been designed using responsive technology.
iOS
Operating system
As you’d expect, all our websites work flawlessly on Apple’s iOS operating system. Whether using a Mac, iPad or iPhone, your customers will be able to experience everything your website has to offer.