Introduction

In the current dynamic market environment, ISPs are continually seeking new growth engines and making efforts to retain their customers, while also expanding their existing customer base.

WebsPlanet offers ISPs an excellent opportunity to support these strategic goals. Offering their customers the opportunity to build, replace and maintain websites increases ISPs’ revenue streams and dramatically strengthens customer "stickiness".

WebsPlanet enables ISPs to offer their customers – from private consumers to SMBs – a wide range of site building tools.

The solution for ISPs is comprehensive, and end-to-end, taking into consideration the ISP’s unique working environment on the one hand, and providing fitting solutions for the ISPs’ customers’ varied needs on the other.

ISPs can offer their customers two paths toward building their websites:

1. "Do it yourself" Publish a website using a simple wizard - WebsPlanet Creator.
2. ISP-developed website using the Floating and Professional systems.

WebsPlanet's Products

WebsPlanet's wide range of website building solutions for ISP customers is based on three major products: Creator, Floating and Professional.

Websites functionality

The WebsPlanet solution for Yellow Pages offers about 120 modules to enable ISPs to build/create website packages for their customers, for example:

• A basic website package including a content management system.
• An image website package including all image site-related modules
• An E-Commerce website package including a product catalog.

Customers can specify extra modules that are not included in the core packages, providing up sale potential for the ISPs.

The WebsPlanet solution for ISPs has automatic live update capability that keeps every site in the system up to date with the latest developments, security updates, extensions and more. With this automatic live update there is no need to track versions or update the system with newer versions.

Interfacing with other solutions

The WebsPlanet solution for ISPs facilitates interfacing with third party systems including:

• Statistics system: The solution interfaces with all standard statistics systems, essential for the site owner
• Email management system: The solution interfaces with any available email system.
• Domain and DNS connection: The solution connects to a DNS server. The system recognizes this type of connection automatically. Site owners can manage up to three domains associated with their sites.
• Billing system: The solution can interface with a billing system on request and characterization.
• RSS feed: Various RSS feeds can be added from external sources on request and characterization, including RSS feeds from WebsPlanet websites.
• XML mirror sites for price comparison search engines: The solution automatically produces XML mirror sites for E-Commerce sites.
• Import and Export for E-Commerce sites: The solution enables import and export functionality for catalog products with CSV files.
• Interface with an external database: The solution interfaces with an external database through an API to create, update and maintain websites from an existing system.
• Import and Export: The solution imports and exports websites users through CSV.

The system configuration for ISPs

• Language: The system is based on UTF8, which facilitates the support of multiple languages, including: English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek etc. Adding new language requires the translation of a document containing about 1000 words and expressions. Implementing a new language into the system takes no more than a few minutes.
• Define the default language
• Domain: As default, each website created will be opened under the main domain name, for example, http://www.myname.Yourdomain. It can later be connected to a personal domain.
• The system's main Domain: As a default, each website will be opened under the main domain for example, http://www.myname.Yourdomain. It can later be connected to a self domain[Very important, need to formulate]
• Packages type and structure.
• Modules which will be defined as extra modules.
• Pricing.
• The option to interface with an existing statistics system.
• The option to interface with an existing email system.
• The option to interface with an existing billing system.
• The option to interface with an existing DNS server.
• Branding of the designed ISPs management System.
• Currency and measurement.