• Catalogue

    Catalogue

    Alteru Inc. accepts customize catalogue project from the general public.

    Did you want to convert your traditional catalogue to iPhone/iPad App?
    Do you want to create digital catalogue with shopping cart and customer can order directly from your Catalogue app?
    Do you want to send alert to customers when your catalogue is updated?
    Do you want your customer get your product catalogue at anytime anywhere?

    Yes. We can do it all!

    It is free to try it out. If you don't like your Catalogue app, there will be no charge. Your 100% satisfaction is guaranteed!
    With this customize digital catalogue project, you will get:

    1. A customize catalogue app with your company name published in Apple App store
    2. Automatically update when the catalogue is updated in Catalogue app
    3. Send remote notification to customers about your catalogue update
    4. We will publish the app to Apple Store
    5. We will maintain your catalogue app
    6. You can edit and update your catalogue at any time with an iPad Catalogue App.

    Price

    $500 USD for everything for the first year.
    $100 USD yearly maintenance fee for the following years.

    How to get started?

    1. Download Service Agreement and Sign it, fax it to 16263305545 or email to

    2. Create your catalogue in Catalogue app and upload that catalogue to our server. Send the Catalogue ID and Passcode to

    3. Send your company name ,email and LOGO or any other artwork and special request to

    4. Application will be created in the order it received. It will take about one week to get it submitted to Apple store and it take one week to pass the review process. Please allows 2 to 3 weeks to get the application appear in Apple App store.

    5. If you are satisfied, Please send your company check payable to Alteru Inc. If not, please send notice to remove the customer catalogue from App store.

    "Catalogue" iPad/iPhone App User Guide

    Catalogue application is the admin application for all customized catalogue app. It should be maintained by the catalogue provider. Therefore, any update of catalogue will be updated by the provider. The provider can send the customer remote notification. The customer's catalogue will be automatically updated.

    Catalogue allows the company upload the intuitive photo catalog to the web for distribution. The client of Catalogue (Catalogue Free) has the great interface for ordering. The Catalogue Free app is still in review process by Apple. It has finger sliding product interface. It also has PayPal build-in. It is designed for wholesalers. It can also be used by retailer and mail order business. This catalogue is different from other catalogue. Each product has its own page. You swipe the finger left and right to gsee the product. Each product has the price information so that the customer can order directly. Basically you can expose your products to the customer in a easy way.

    How to import large data to Catalogue?

    If you have lots of products in the catalogue, it maybe too much to add one product at time. Therefore, we give an option to import "Tab Delimited Text" file that saved from Excel.

    Tab Delimited Text file must have file extension ".txt". It must start with the line as follows:

    Every import will be add the products to catalogue. It will not replace. Please don't import more than once. If you do need to import again, you can delete all category first by swiping the finger from left to right, then import it again.

    !Category       Name    Price   Style   QuantityPerBox  TotalBox        Description     Image
    
    Here is the content of .txt sample file:
    
    !Category	Name	Price	Style	QuantityPerBox	TotalBox	Description	Image
    Bra	11004	21	"B,C"	24	30	Bra with lace	8303.jpg
    Bra	22301	21	P	30	30	Bra with lace	8301.jpg
    
    
    All field separated by "Tab".

    You can save this file from this excel file. Here is how. In Excel, you go to File, Save as. You choose "Tab Delimited Text" format. You now get a .txt file. Now you drag that file (.txt) with images files to the application by adding that file to iTunes to that Catalogue app. Here is the instruction.

    Select the file and Click on "Import"

    You now have all products imported to the catalogue app. If you import twice, you might want to remove the whole category and do an import again.

    How to change the image for that product?

    When you import, you may make some mistake. The image does not appear. The easiest way to fix that is to update that in excel file, generate the tab-delimited text file, drag that to app share folder, and do an import again. Before you do an import, remove all category from the list first.

    The other way to do is just replace that image with correct file name. By double tap on the screen, you will get prompt about choose an image. You select to choose photo from "Share" and replace that image with correct one.

    How to remove an product?

    You slide to that item, tap on "Edit" pencil image at the toolbar. You will see the red button at the end. You tap the red button to delete that product from the list. If you like to remove the whole category, you just need to go to the Category selection, tap on "Edit" and remove the whole category. Or you can slide your finger from left to right on Category to remove any items.

    How to add an product?

    Press on + button to add any new product, it will ask you to choose a photo first, you choose it, you will get product information window. You will need enter all the information. For example, you need to add "Style" to continue. You can add 0 on any field that you don't want to specified. Please enter the product name that can be searched by the user.

    How to update an product?

    Press on pencil button to edit the product.

    How to upload your catalogue?

    Press "up" arrow button to upload your current catalogue to our server. That upload may take several minutes according to the file size. First the first time, you will get the catalogue ID and Passcode. You distribute that sets to the customers.

    How the customer download the catalogue?

    You customers can download the whole catalogue at any time from the customized catalogue app. Or you can send a remote alert to the customer so that customer knows that catalogue is updated. It will download to the customers' device automatically when the app is launched.

    What is traditional catalogue?

    Tranditional catalogue is the one with lots of products in one page with all different item number. It is most common distributed catalogue.

    What is modern catalogue?

    Each product has one photo in the catalogue. That kind of catalogue allows the customer to order product directly from the catalogue. A catalogue app with shopping cart has to be based on that type of catalogue.