Webgate Online Shop Solution

The high performance, modular Web to Print (W2P) online shop solution Webgate of ColorGATE enables print service providers a flexible and tailored start into online business based on the globally successful Magento online store.

The solution’s highlight is the unique LayoutBuddy. In the backend, it provides an intuitive interface for the Shop Admin to configure a variety of different product offers (posters, banners, wallpapers etc.), also known as product maintenance. In the frontend (browser window), the LayoutBuddy presents itself as an online editor that guides the print buyer in easy steps to the final artwork, with no need for any graphic design skills. In the backend the Shop Admin can process and administer the orders in a comfortable way.

Target groups:

• Print service providers in large and wide format printing, commercial printing, packaging printing and industrial printing
• Newcomers in the market of online digital printing using Webgate will be open up a wide range of potential customers, whether in private business to consumer / B2C market (e.g. associations, individuals etc.) or in the commercial business to business / B2B (e.g. craftsmen, small commercial enterprises, service providers etc.)

Webgate is based on three main components

• Magento online shop system
• LayoutBuddy (versatile online configuration-tool in the backend for shop owners and easy-to-use online design editor in the frontend for shop customers)
• ColorGATE service and support