Templating Business Assistant

Project Overview: We are looking to develop a Realtor Business Assistant website that will allow Realtors to go online and get high quality services, advice, and resources to run their business. The 3 areas we will focus on include marketing material development, workflow and efficiency tools, and educational material. Summary of 3 Key Services: Marketing Materials: each user will be able to login and choose a website design from pre-developed templates. These templates will be developed by our team of developers. The template will include a host of matching materials from business cards, flyers, letter-head, and newsletters. The user will be able to select these items and customize the text and pictures within each item. Users will be able to export items for offline print, and or submit them to us for further development or print. Included in this part is the ability to manage contacts and lists that the user will be able to send newsletters and announcements. In short we want to allow our users to get high quality materials that help them market themselves easily and without the help of a marketing professional. Workflow and Efficiency: each user will have a tools area where he/she can download and manage workflow items. These include things like documents, checklists, contracts, etc. We would like this area to be a document repository that each user can assign sub-users on their team permission to access. Educational Materials: we would like to offer our users a great amount of educational material via documents, video, and audio. Depending on membership level users will be able to join in webcasts, or phone conferences, view certain areas of our educational series, and download advanced learning materials. In short we need a way to manage online material (documents, video, audio) and how it is accessed by our users. User Type Requirements General Users: Login (manage account, password, email, etc.), choose templates, ability to customize templates, upload and manage contacts, send newsletters, upload photos, ability to enhance photos (crop, resize, etc), input listings on website, access document repository, manage access to documents, pay for account, mange account, sign up and pay for classes or extras. Administrators: Manage general users, check accounts, bill accounts, send emails (to groups or individuals), add and manage templates, add documents to repository. These are some baseline user requirements and features. The most important during our initial deployment is the marketing materials. We need this system to work flawlessly and allow our users to create materials easily. The templating system should allow our developers to create templates with editable regions. These regions can include anything from $color, $images, $titles, $text_content, $menu, etc. There are hundreds of open source content management scripts available that should be customizable to our request. For the print material templates we need a way to allow our users to graphically alter templates. There are dozens of examples online (some better than others) VFlyer – is one that gets close to our desired effect. At Vflyer you can create flyers (mostly for web distribution) and them submit them to via email, sms, or to online marketplaces like google base, craigslist, etc. We would like to incorporate most those core functions plus the ability to allow our users to create print quality materials. Vflyer does not do print that well. [login to view URL] Requirements: Expandable, fast, reliable, and easy to use. We are biased towards PHP as a backend language but will consider other backend languages given good reason. Timeline: Unknown Budget: Unknown seeking bids.