Why Every Church Website Needs an e-Commerce Store

Revelation Websites • August 8, 2019

The ecommerce economy is expected to continue its upward trajectory and rapid growth.

As a leaders in the church this opportunity for success and sustainability is exciting, promising and intriguing.

This is why Revelation is a solution for many churches as we're able to offer the capabilities to easily sell and manage your resources such as church products, books, songs etc. we have made a revelation website that will cater and accommodate all your needs. And with this you will also be able save your money which you would have had invested in a dedicated e-commerce platform.

Our website is similar to Shopify as it offers a wide-ranging collection of tools for creating and managing an online church stores at affordable worth. The church shops are fully hosted, and the company delivers a top notch content delivery network (at no additional charges) to ensure that church stores run quickly, worldwide. And there's absolutely no shortage of variety.

Hence the customizable features and functions we offer are more improved, managed and well-organized than those of shopify. Other features of our platform are equally flexible. We also have an easier payment method for you using stripe cards which will directly be linked with your bank account. Also the church sites can accept payments via PayPal or from other payment options.

Not only this, you can manage your products from your mobile phone and also add up to ten free products on our basic plan. You can also call us for a plan upgrade once you are gratified by the experience of gaining more customers through our platform.

We understand that the Churches look for ways through which they can increase the revenue and streamline the buying process in such a way that they may be able to keep their customers and reduce the churn rate while keeping customers intact. Hence we are assertive that through our platform not only you will be able to save money while being in the phase of acquiring customers, but also you will be able to generate a reasonable amount of revenue. Through the increase in revenue, churches may possibly be able to help more people and use the budget to help ritual people of the church community.

When talking about the designing and theme work, it is noteworthy to talk about Duda (formerly DudaMobile) here. Duda is a web design platform for media agencies and companies that offer web design services. But we are happy to announce that through our platform designers will be able to create any kind of design that they come up with. We assure you that we have put in a lot of work in regard to the store theme designs.

Through our platform we also let you integrate with Facebook and allow you to sell your products on Facebook. As through Facebook you can connect with more customers. We will also initiate the concept of Chabot messenger through the platform of Many Chat and Chat Fuel. With Chat Fuel, we will create a Chabot for you that will deliver your content (and more). And it will be free regardless of how many messages you send.

One thing you might be wondering by now is this: how will I get people to talk to me on Facebook Messenger in the first place? So don’t worry as we will be initiating Facebook ads for you on our platform.

There are two types of Facebook Messenger ads we will be using. The first type is “click to messenger ads” which will allow to direct people from the Facebook News Feed to a Messenger conversation with your church. The second type is “sponsored messages” which will allow to initiate a Messenger conversation with anyone who has messaged your Facebook Page before.

Hence, through the use of Chabot it will become easier and efficient to not only sell your resources but also to help answer frequently asked questions about the church and its resources. This will not only create an effective communication but will ensure your site is mobile-responsive and inform your customers to how and where to contact you. As a result, it will help the church gain trust of customers.

So to sum it all up, there is no uncertainty in the fact that the church websites should be well-designed and effective. There is no need to discuss any further the importance of having a great church website. This is an element that will significantly help your church reach more people. Many people possibly may not even visit your church without first checking your website and resources online. These days it is a church’s website that acts as the front door to help people enter your real door and help you generate revenue. We assure you that through our platform we will help you create a front door that will be the source of happiness to you, to your online customers and to the ritual people of your community.

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Using Chatbots to Engage with First Time Visitors

By Revelation Websites • August 8, 2019

As we see that Chatbots have taken the marketing world by storm and are offering Artificial Intelligence powered technologies to companies. This allows companies to provide more advanced customer care while also monetising their marketing efforts by pushing deals and promotions on demand. So unlike popular belief, creating a Chatbot does not cost a lot of money. Hence it is important to outline the benefits of implementing a Chatbot into your business that will surely engage your first time visitors in a way that it will be convenient for you to reach out to them. The Chatbot will allow you to increase your lead generation, answer your customer’s queries, build brand awareness, and boost your sales and much more. So it is foremost important to launch a simple, easily accessible, easy to use, and efficient Chatbot. Which will be the finest and most innovative way to engage the first hand visitors and create awareness of your brand (the church). Not only this, by providing them with a conversational Chatbot that has a bit of personality we assure you that your visitors will be coming back for more and hence they may possibly turn into your church guests. Chatbot will also help in streamlining the process and allowing technology to do the heavy lifting. For example, imagine if someone is able to put in a prayer request and via Chatbot the request maybe emailed to the church creating an effective communication. With numerous advancements and tools being generated for the creation of Chatbots, many platforms such as ChattyPeople, MEOKAY, Smooch, Botsify, ManyChat and ChatFuel are being used to create Chatbots that are conversational, integrated with Facebook commerce and Artificial Intelligence commerce. We will talk about ChatFuel which makes it easy to create your own Facebook and Telegram Chatbot without any coding experience necessary. It works by letting users link to external sources through plugins. Eventually, the platforms hope to open itself to third-party plugins, so anyone can contribute their own plugins and have others benefit from them. Most of latest 2019 and 2020 church websites find it essential to have a Chatbot today as your bot is representing your brand and its products. Chatbot integrates your customer or your church visitor with the brand, which is the church website itself. And also provides clear information about your motive and creates its awareness. It also creates the ability to communicate effectively with your customers by first telling them how you can help them. And then proceed by greeting the visitor through a welcome message. After this, incorporate a clearly positioned “Get Started” button. So it is vital to assure that a church website is able to serve its visitors who are unfamiliar with the church. The service information and the products that the church sells should be vibrant, evident and obvious. A church website also needs to notify existing members with information on donations, events, small groups, sermons ministries, books, songs and more. A good church website is often the result of synthesising all of this information into a coherent whole. But we see that putting a church website up is not enough as it needs to create a good first impression and make the information being sought easy to find and work on mobile devices. If any of these requirements lack, you might unnecessarily miss visitors. You might be wondering by now that after using our platform how will you (the church) know that the visitors are visiting your website. Well even the greatest websites in the world are useless if nobody finds them. So to solve this issue, our platform will give you full insight into to find out how many people are visiting your website, how they are finding it and what they may look at. This will ultimately enhance the measuring process. Also allowing you to check statistics from time to time so you can assess how effective your marketing efforts are and also call us for an upgraded plan where you can sell more products and services.

What are Progressive Web Apps

By Revelation Websites • March 25, 2019

Progressive Web Apps were officially born back in 2015. A term coined by Google’s Senior Staff Software Engineer, Alex Russell (who’s also responsible for the above quote*), PWAs can best be described as websites that behave like apps. If you imagine that an app and a website had a lovechild that inherited its parents’ best characteristics (and none of the worst), that would be exactly what a PWA is. From one parent (the website), the PWA inherits its easy discoverability (without having to be downloaded) and low maintenance upkeep; and from the other parent (the app), the PWA inherits its rich functionality, offline user interactivity, and engaging experience. Like a website, a PWA is accessed directly from your web browser; and like an app, it can be installed on your mobile device’s home screen and send you notifications. Though PWAs have been around for a few years, they’re really starting to hit their stride now, so there’s no better time than now to offer PWA functionality to your clients How Do They Work? The magic behind PWAs are ‘secret helpers’ known as service workers. Service workers are JavaScript files that work in the browser’s background, separately from the browser. Service workers follow message commands sent to them by a server to execute tasks like intercepting network requests and enabling API functions such as push notifications, caching, and background syncs. Since service workers operate in the browser’s background, they can connect to the internet and automatically update data –– as long as the user doesn’t quit the browser. And even if the PWA itself is not open, all loaded content will be updated and then cached automatically for offline access. The end result? An app that is always up to date meets a website that works offline. How progressive!

The Future of Website Builders

By Revelation Websites • March 24, 2019

Building a website used to be a tough challenge as all websites, together with their contents, were written manually. Deep knowledge of programming language with advanced web designing skill is required. Aside from the fact that they take a long time to be ready, they are expensive, lack UX features, have an unattractive design, low-quality images, pictures, and icons, and unreliable hosting. Website building is taking a new turn at a growing pace. The idea of a simple dynamic platform overhauling the tedious task of building a fast and quick website is building up even though website designers and developers are resentful towards the transformation. The truth, however, is that nobody wants to spend a whopping sum of money on building something unique when they have an option that will help them achieve a similar result with a few bucks. Tat service was the first website builder. Though the interface was clunky and slow, it was a groundbreaking technology advancement. The platform later adopted the integration of color-changing text, graphics, and table format. Though a majority of those website builders have sunk into oblivion, some of them are still in operation. Some website builders include AngelFire, Tripod, WYSIWYG builders, among others. Later, Flash and Drag and Drop website builders came to fore in the early 2000s. They were available in online and offline categories. The new wave of website builders successfully integrated W3C technologies in their platforms. This provides different tools to edit as well as customize websites with ease. Apart from the ease of use in changing and customizing pages, adding content, removing or changing elements, changing fonts and backgrounds, etc., new website builders come with different themes or templates, eCommerce tools, SEO settings, widgets, and third-party integration capabilities – all these are available at affordable prices. The introduction of these new technologies exceeds customers’ expectations. Also, the increase in mobile devices necessitated the optimization of mobile viewing for website builders. They provide templates that are responsive to mobile devices while also ensuring the smooth running of the website on any device irrespective of the carrier, screen resolution, OS, and other specs. In other words, modern website builders integrate features that ensure websites operate at their fullest with no malfunctions and breakdowns, whether you are surfing the site from your laptop, PC, tablet or smartphone. Artificial intelligence has also permeated the website builder’s platforms. Though some AI-based software is already in existence, the technology implementation is ongoing. Its great potential lies in its ability to minimize any physical involvement in the building of a solid site. It allows a user to describe the type of content they want to display. The AI-based platform interprets the info while also offering sections, colors, blocks, as well as other elements according to the info provided by the user. The website builder then completes the process upon the approval of the offered layout by the user. However, AI-based software still requires some bit of user’s involvement as it is still learning to think more creatively.