Ms. Valerie Walker has contacted Enkompass with a need to build a website directory of funeral businesses. Ms. Walker would like for the website to allow the businesses themselves to manage their own listings as well as to submit payment through the website. Each business will be able to select one or more types of services they offer as well as a price range for those services to make it easy for users to quickly search for a provider that best fits their needs and their budget Ms. Walker’s website will not be designed to process any payments for services provided by the businesses listed therein. Additionally, Ms. Walker has expressed interest in integrating the website with a mail marketing platform that will automatically reach out to the users of the site at given intervals after their initial interaction to make sure they were well-taken care of. Additionally, Ms. Walker would like to include a service contract so that she can have peace of mind when issues with her website arise.
Enkompass has experience building directory web sites with the features that Ms. Walker is looking for and we are happy to submit this proposal for consideration. We will recommend the site be built on WordPress to make it easy and very quick to develop the functionality that is required in a very short amount of time.
This is a multi-faceted deployment that will require a WordPress deployment optimized for AWS. However, we will not launch the infrastructure until we have finished developing the website to minimize costs. The site will be developed in a LightSail instance. The LightSail instance will eventually be migrated to EC2 and serve as the staging server.
Along with WordPress, there will be a few plugins that we will require in order to deliver a functional finished product. WordPress is free software but some or all of the required plugins will need to be purchased at the start of the project. We will not be able to start working on your project unless we have the requisite plugin licenses and downloadable installation packages.
The plugins we will need are:
- JReviews for WordPress $427/year.
- WPRocket $49
- Groundhogg $20/.month for basic email automations