Huge congratulations to Barsupermarket.com, our site of the month for May! We’ve worked closely with the team at MDA over the past few years and are proud to announce them as this month’s winner. They have kindly sent through details of their story and how Shopcreator were able to help them achieve their goals.

 
“BarSupermarket.com is the UKs leading website for the official retail of genuine and exclusive branded bar merchandise and accessories. Launched in December 2011, BarSupermarket.com is unique in the market thanks to its direct relationship with the brand owners for whom we retail their official merchandise, and has progressed from receiving a few orders each week to now achieving up to 1000 orders per day!
 
The BarSupermarket.com story first began in 1987 with the creation of specialist fulfilment provider MDA. MDA commenced life as a small organisation storing and distributing branded POS and merchandise for a number of the UKs biggest drinks brands, which following numerous client wins and developing a fantastic reputation in the industry, resulted in a £22 million+ turnover business supported by over 500,000 square feet across 3 major Fulfilment Centres, from which over 1 million parcels a year are despatched.
 
As an innovator and creative force in the fulfilment industry, and in continuing to work with a number of major global brands (including the likes of Coca-Cola, Stella Artois, Carling, Budweiser, Guinness, Smirnoff Vodka, Irn-Bru, Schweppes etc) MDA identified a way to help clients get POS and merchandise into the trade and consumer markets (where usually it’s provided free) – sell it online. And so, BarSupermarket.com was born…
 
In making BarSupermarket.com a reality there were of course a number of factors that we needed to get 100% right first time, with our eCommerce solutions partner being absolutely the most important of these. Thankfully, selecting Shopcreator continues to prove every day that we did indeed get this decision right from day one.
 
Throughout the entirety of our relationship with Shopcreator, all members of their teams have offered countless advice, support and expertise as they have become an extension to our team as we continue to offer the best service quality to our clients – something we could not have achieved without Shopcreator.
 
One of the greatest things we have seen with Shopcreator is the level of trust we can place in them. BarSupermarket.com was a project delivered on time, on budget and without any hassle, problems or drama that could easily have been experienced were we to select another eCommerce solutions partner. To this day they continue to remain a solid foundation of support for everything we do, and as a result were instantly selected as our partner of choice for several other eCommerce projects we have subsequently launched following the success of BarSupermarket.com.
 
We would highly recommend Shopcreator as an extremely reliable eCommerce partner to anyone looking to launch, and significantly improve, their online service offering.”
 

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Congratulations to The Futon Shop who run www.futons247.co.uk and are the winner of our April site of the month competition. Peter Farrow has described his experience with Shopcreator.
 
“Here at The Futon Shop we decided, around 7 years ago now, to offer our product range to a wider public through use of a transactional website. Having had little experience of trading online we wanted to choose a simple, low cost but professional looking system that could grow with us as our online trading developed over the coming years. It was actually through our local newspaper, The Evening Herald, that we found out about Shopcreator who were, at that time, offering their facilities in conjunction with the newspaper so we decided to try the system out and signed up for the ‘Apex 100′ package available at that time.
 
Within no time at all Shopcreator had helped and advised us on getting up and running, assisting us with design, colour choice and important connections such as choosing a suitable payment gateway, which we did through SagePay. So within a short space of a couple of weeks we were ready to go and making our first online transactions. Over the next couple of years business built steadily as we promoted our website through improved organic Google listings and the use of AdWords and Shopcreator were always available to assist us with modifications to our website completed quickly and at competitive costings.
 
After 4 years of running our site we decided to switch packages and take advantage of some of the new and additional features being offered by Shopcreator so went for a full upgrade onto the Retailer package giving us benefits such as Product Reviews and, importantly for us, FTP access to help build the SEO side of what we were aiming for. I’ve no doubt that over the coming year we will, once again, be giving our site another Shopcreator backed re-design as we look to freshen-up our image and keep track with the ever changing requirements of the on-line shopping public.
 
In short I would have to say that being in partnership with Shopcreator for our website has always been a pleasure. Important factors such as unreliable servers have never been an issue and, most importantly for a small business, technical contact, help and advice is only ever a phone call away and being able to talk to someone is always the best way to resolve any issues quickly. Having this level of backup has given us the confidence to grow and develop our online offering knowing that we have sold support behind it.”
 

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