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Latest eCommerce Software Updates
We continually upgrade the InstanteStore ecommerce solution so that you can always have the most powerful and flexible solution to power your online store. Some of these are minor bug-fixes while some are major feature additions/upgrades. As an InstanteStore subscriber, you do not need to do anything to get these upgrades installed to your store. Your store is automatically upgraded. We have just started documenting these upgrades on our website, so information on all future upgrades will be posted here.
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1st July 2004 |
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Yahoo! Shopping & PriceGrabber Product Export  |
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You can now export your product details for use at Yahoo! Shopping and PriceGrabber quickly and easily. Just choose to download your product details and select from the available formats listed.
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| Customer Welcome Panel |
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The Customer Welcome Panel displays a welcome message to your customers, as well as their login status and price level. This feature allows you to generate code for a Customer Welcome Panel, which you can paste on your right or left border of your template as additional html.
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Option Images and Wholesale Prices  |
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Now, you can upload an image for each of your product options. The images will be displayed beside each option on the product detail page. Also, you can now set different wholesale prices for each of your product options.
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| Manufacturer Name and Manufacturer URL |
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We have included two extra fields namely Manufacturer Name and Manufacturer URL for your product information. You can now include the manufacturer of your product and include a link to their website.
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| Show Products To Certain Customer Groups |
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Now, you can choose to only show certain products to customers in certain price levels. For example, you can set to show Product A to only customers on Price Level 1, 2 and 3. Note that you can only use this feature if you are using the "Personal Wholesale" mode.
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7th June 2004 |
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| RMA Form Feature |
| RMA Form Feature provides a RMA Request Form for customers who want to return items purchased from your InstanteStore. All you have to do is activate it at the Activate/Deactivate Store Features and you will have a ready made RMA Form.
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| Phone Orders |
| Now, you will be able to place phone orders for your customers. For new customers, you can place an order for them without having to think of unique usernames and passwords when registering them. Usernames and passwords will be automatically populated when you register new accounts for them leaving you free to handle your orders. For existing customers, you can automatically login into their account to place phone orders for them. Easy isn't it?
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| Order Statistics |
| Now, you can view your order statistics according to order status.
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| U.S.P.S. integration |
| Your store is now integrated with United States Postal Service - USPS shipment. Configure it, your store will obtain realtime shipping charges from the USPS server.
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| Quick Products Category Linking |
| Quick Products Category Linking helps you to make quick products linking to categories. This is useful when you have a product that you want to appear in multiple categories apart from it's original path.
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| Currency Converter |
| You can now customize your own rates for the converted currency prices of your products. After using the Currency Converter feature to configure the currencies that you want to allow your customers to view your product prices in, there will be a link for you to customize the currency rates.
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14th April 2004 |
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| InstanteStore ver 3.0 launched |
The latest version of the InstanteStore solution (ver 3.0) was launched. This version includes several exciting new features and changes.
- New control panel menu for faster access to store functions. Do more in less clicks!
- Powerful super affiliate module that allows your affiliates to setup "mirror stores" that contain your inventory. They can customize the look of their mirror store and even modify the text description. All orders made through these mirror stores are automatically sent to you and the appropriate commission added to the affiliate's account. You can literally start a franchise system using this. Imagine a group of sites that look different and targets different niche markets working to sell for you.
- Interactive product review module that allows your registered users to post their own review of your products. Engage your customers so that they stay longer at your site (and buy more!). Having impartial reviews by your customers also increases credibility for your store and products. All this (you guessed it!) helps you sell more to more people.
- Automatic product restock notification lets your customers to request for an e-mail whenever an out-of-stock product returns in stock. This is a win-win feature since customers know immediately once something they want to buy comes back in stock and you win back customers that would have been lost because you were temporarily out of stock for a certain item.
- As is customary, we are continuing to work on adding even more cool tools for you to increase your sales and profits. Look out for other how new additions in the coming weeks!
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