CoreCommerce

BarCamps have sprouted up all over the country over the past few years and not just in technology circles. Real estate, public transit, health care and even politics have their own version of BarCamp. BarCamps have been held in over 350 cities around the world, in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Australasia and Asia.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with BarCamp, it’s a user-generated conference (an un-conference)…think about that for a minute. The attendees generate and steer the direction and content of the camp–some people camp out overnight–thus the camp part of the name. Instead of the traditional industry-type conference that uses high profile key-note speakers, it’s simply the average Joe sharing his experiences and expertise with other attendees–learning from one another. Think “traditional conference” on a miniture scale, but hosted by anyone, anywhere. Sponsors typically allow the event to be free or really cheap to attend and average a few hundred folks. As an attendee, you get to network with like-minded folks in your area, learn some new stuff and most importantly–HAVE FUN.

This weekend, we are sponsoring BarCamp Memphis. Some of the CoreCommerce staff will be at BarCamp Memphis this weekend. If you live in the Memphis TN area, stop by and say hello or follow BarCamp Memphis on Twitter. If not, consider attending a BarCamp in your area in the near future and experience this event.

So, the question is–will BarCamps replace the traditional conferences that span huge Expo Halls with thousands of people (with high profile keynote speakers and such) and be replaced by alot more smaller and intimate groups of several hundred of BarCampers?

Your thoughts?

With CoreCommerce’s latest release we have now integrated with Quickbooks Point of Sale (POS). Our updated Quickbooks integration list is below:

• QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions
• QuickBooks Premier (2002 or later)
• QuickBooks Pro (2002 or later)
• QuickBooks Point of Sale

You can easily transfer your data from your CoreCommerce store directly into your Quickbooks POS. This will be a huge time saver.

We have also added some other features:

• Print Receipt Link Displayed on Order Complete Page – This will display a printer friendly link on the order complete page for the customer receipt.

• Product Review Email Notifications – If you would like to receive an email every time a new product review is added, you can turn this new feature on. To do so go to settings > inventory settings. Then look for “Send admin an email when a product review is submitted:” towards the bottom of the page. Turn this on.

• Import Zip Code Based Tax Rates – You can import zip code based tax rates in a csv format.

• Added Shipping Cost to Gross Sales Report – This report previously didn’t display the shipping cost entered in the admin order detail page. We have added it to this report to accurately reflect your profit margin.

• Minimum Order Amount Per Customer Group – Previously you could only set this at the entire store level. Now when editing a customer group you can set a specific minimum order amount for that group.

• Custom Order Complete Page – You can choose to send customers to the current default CoreCommerce order complete page or you can send them to any URL of your choice. This can be helpful if you want your own custom order complete page to display.

• PayTrace – New Payment Gateway.

• Linkpoint Gateway Supports Authorize only

• Sales Price End Date – You can set an end date for any sales price you set for a product. When the end date is reached then the product price goes back to the regular sales price.

We have also added new store designs.

As usual our team is working hard to add even more store designs and additional features to always keep you ahead of your competition.

Hi again from your friendly CoreCommerce development team.

We have added a few new features to help your business.

Free Shipping Supports Customer Groups – This was a requested feature by several customers. You can set which customer groups (ie Wholesale,etc.) will be eligible for the eligible for free shipping feature in the shipping settings.

Widget Name Images – Again this was a highly requested feature. You can now upload specific images for the widget names. For example, if you are using the Category widget. The name in the widget itself on your store will say “Category”. You can now also upload an image to replace the name “Category” with an image of your choice. This allows for more design flexiblity. You can do this by configuring your active design, under the design drop down and then click on the fonts tab.

Product Tab Navigation – This feature was created due to popular demand. You can choose to use a tab format for your product detail pages for your description, related products, etc. You can do this by going to any product and clicking on the “Use Tab Navigation” checkbox under the description. This will allow you to have tab navigation for some products, while others can use the current layout.

Recently Viewed Widget Change – You can now change how many products are displayed and whether to show thubmnails for all of them, only the first one or none. You can do this under the Settings > Widget Settings.

Email Blacklist – You can now setup an email blacklist which will prevent customers from placing orders using certain email addresses. For example if you may not want to accept an orders from a yahoo.com email address. You can set this under Settings > Store Settings > PCI/Security Settings

Setup Fee Tax – You can specify if a setup fee is taxable or not taxable.

New Payment Gateways- SecureNet, PSIGate, Internet Secure (Direct)

Coming up in our next release will be some awesome new features. How does a sweet mobile commerce version of your store sound? We also are working on custom image button gallery for you to use and our brand new ccImagePlus feature which will allow you to edit images directly in your CoreCommerce account. Stay tuned for more exciting information in the coming weeks.

Your CoreCommerce Development Team

This our latest release with a few new features, including a major change to how our pre-design templates work and the customer group discounts functions.

• Pre-Designed Templates Modifications – You can now control directly in the admin your widgets for the left and right side of your pre-designed templates just like in Generic Design mode, in addition to be able to change the colors and fonts. We also stretched out many of the templates to give them a wider look. To be able to use these new features you will need to either add a pre-designed template to your store and click configure after you active the template or if you are already using a pre-designed template you must click the restore button when viewing the pre-designed templates for your current active template to get the latest changes.

• Customer Groups – You can now offer customer group discounts for your product options, along with your regular product price. Along with this you can also use a percentage discount for a customer group instead of an exact dollar amount.

• Real-Time Shipping Update – If you are offering real-time rate quotes from multiple providers your customers can now quickly view other rate-quotes from the other providers without having to use the back button on the preview shipping calculator on the view cart page and the standard checkout payment page.

Thanks again to all of our customers for their ideas and suggestions!