Littl(e)ngine

Commerce,
Crowdsourcing
and Collaboration.

Your "little engine" is the churn of opportunities, projects and sales that keeps your business going.

We can help you tap into crowdsourcing, collaboration and e-commerce tools to keep your business growing.

                

An Efficient Way To Keep Your Little Engine Going.

OPPORTUNITIES

Coordinate your business development activities to generate more leads and opportunities using tools that let you (or your members and clients) create, connect, solicit and manage RFPs and Proposals.

PROJECTS

Watch as won opportunities turn into Contracts and Projects that you can easily manage. Manage contracts with milestone or per diem payments, manage multiple teams, tasks and time.

SALES

You can sell products using a robust e-commerce platform. And you can send invoices for project milestones and contracts. 100s of payment portals, like PayPal, AND native integration with Freshbooks.

Littl(e)gine Application is a web-based business management tool integrating the features listed below. It can be hosted online or installed on your server.

The app can be configured for service-based businesses who send estimates and invoices or product-based businesses with online sales and payment processing.

                

An Effective Way Of Getting your Business Growing.

CROWDSOURCING

Crowdsource tasks to add value to your own products, or simply manage a niche-market community by building content or service markets that connect customers with service providers.

COLLABORATION

Create and manage unlimited projects, lightweight task lists, project-specific documents, and timesheets AND a Design Review feature for version control and client feedback on design projects.

COMMERCE

Design a beautiful online store from scratch using the standalone Open Cart framework, or create an online store that is synced to your Freshbooks items, invoices, and contacts.

Basic Logic Model: The three core applications of Littl(e)ngine

  • 1. Marketplace

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  • 2. Projects

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  • 3. Administration

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Littl(e)ngine Components: Nine Core Features

  • 1. Inventory & E-Commerce

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  • 4. Project Management

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  • 7. Invoicing, Payment Processing

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  • 2. Requests For Proposals

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  • 5. Teams, Tasks and Time

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  • 8. Contracts and Accounts

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  • 3. Proposals

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  • 6. Design Review

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  • 9. Web & Content Management

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Littl(e)ngine Process: From Product Launch To Contract Management

  • 1. Web Publishing and Marketing

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  • 5. Proposals

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  • 9. Design Review

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  • 2. E-Commerce, Payment Processing

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  • 6. Contracts

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  • 10. Client Portal

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  • 3. Proposals

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  • 7. Projects

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  • 11. Invoicing, Payment Processing

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  • 4. Requests For Proposals

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  • 8. Team, Tasks and Time

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  • 12. Contract & Resource Management

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Logic Model: Nine Goals For Your Business

  • 1. Market Education

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  • 4. More Paying Work

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  • 7. Happier Clients

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  • 2. Increase Demand

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  • 5. Work Smarter

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  • 8. Effective Marketing

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  • 3. Build Capacity

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  • 6. Higher Quality

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  • 9. More Revenue

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Set up your ecommerce store in just a few easy steps.

Choose from one of three options and be up and running in minutes.

Turn your FreshBooks Items into a sexy, responsive and modern online store. We make full use of the API so that you can integrate all of your FreshBooks data and features in your own private website.

If you're starting from scratch, our standalone e-commerce solution is run on the opencart shopping cart system. It's an easy-to-use, PCI Compliant shopping cart system with all the features you need, like order management, multiple payment gateways, shipping weight calculations, discount coupons, download manager, sales reports, etc.

We can integrate other shopping cart systems, or build one from scratch, into your custom systems.

Three essential features for the modern business, perfectly integrated.

  • E-Commerce

    Design a beautiful online store from scratch using the standalone Open Cart framework, or create an online store that is synced to your Freshbooks items, invoices, and contacts.

  • Crowdsourcing

    Crowdsource tasks to add value to your own products, or simply manage a niche-market community by building content or service markets that connect customers with service providers.

  • Collaboration

    Create and manage unlimited projects, lightweight task lists, project-specific documents, and timesheets AND a Design Review feature for version control and client feedback on design projects.

Outsource tasks to a distributed group of people.

Leverage the services of others and add value to your products and services.

You, or your clients, can initiate a request for services by publishing a request for proposals. It could be a request for custom artwork or custom components for a generic product. It could be a request for a custom, ground-up solution.

Once you start receiving proposals, you OR your clients can start reviewing them. You can have ongoing dialogues with each service provider until you choose the winning bid. The "bid" could be the added value product, like a logo, or it could be the beginning of a development contract. The system can be customized to your unique needs.

Crowdsourcing adds value to your products by allowing people contribute unique services to your end product - like custom artwork on envelopes. You can even use Littl(e)ngine to create a network allowing people to Find and Offer a unique niche of products and services.

Nine essential features that keep your business engine running.

  • Manage Inventory

    Choose from a variety of templates or have a custom designed theme built just for you.

  • Modern Shopping System

    A secure shopping cart that lets you instantly accept credit cards and PayPal payments.

  • Take Payments Online

    A secure shopping cart that lets you instantly accept credit cards and PayPal payments.

  • Publish Requests

    Littl[e]ngine is Level 1 PCI compliant and uses 128 bit SSL encryption to ensure credit card data is secure.

  • Receive and Choose Winning Bids

    Your website and all of its features are designed to work and look great on any device.

  • Award Contracts and Payments

    A secure shopping cart that lets you instantly accept credit cards and PayPal payments.

  • Projects, Tasks and Time

    Quickly and easy build content or service markets like Elance and 99Designs.

  • Team Management

    Project Management and Design Review tools make it easy to work anytime, anywhere, with anyone.

  • Design Review

    A secure shopping cart that lets you instantly accept credit cards and PayPal payments.

Collaborate With your Partners and Team Members.

Simple but highly effective tools for Managing Projects, Tasks and Design Versions.

Create and manage any number of teams, with an unlimited number of members, to create efficient and effective workflows so that your team is always doing the right work.

Create, Manage and Track the work and time spent on tasks using a simple, but complete project management tool. You can create an unlimited number of projects and nested tasks and manage your workflow to ensure that your team is always working right.

Design Review is an extremely helpful versioning and approval process, allowing you to post drafts of products, review the latest designs, and publish new drafts. An easy and effective way of watching the changes to products and helping you, or your clients, work with designers.