CoreCommerce

Our latest CoreCommerce release is rolling out today January 18, 2011. We are the first ecommerce solution to support Facebook connect, Twitter and Google login ability. This means with these new customer login options, your customers can actually create an account on your site quickly with their Facebook login, Twitter login or Google/GMail login. This will help increase conversions by giving customers a quicker way to checkout.

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CoreCommerce Team

There was a very good article on Forbes about ecommerce and social media. One important piece to take away was this statement:

“So while traditional retailers have been struggling to survive, forward-thinking online merchants have unleashed a wave of innovation that is improving the economics of e-commerce.”

This is exactly why CoreCommerce store owners have a leg up on all of their competitors. We are always ahead of the curve, while the rest is always 6 to 9 months behind. For example, CoreCommerce ecommerce store owners have access to our Facebook Social Commerce application to post products directly in Facebook for a couple of years, we have integrated with Picnik, Mail Chimp, Constant Contact, Twitter and more. We have had these features for a while, which gives CoreCommerce store owners a huge advantage. Just imagine the revenue you could be losing by being with another provider who is always playing catch up to CoreCommerce. CoreCommerce is the #1 forward thinking ecommerce provider and we continue to give businesses a huge advantage over their competition.

Another one of our great customers, Guitar Syndicate, was headlined in the Wall Street Journal. Guitar Syndicate discussed how CoreCommerce Facebook app, Social Commerce, has driven revenue to their CoreCommerce store.

“Guitar Syndicate, which was founded last year, has seen its overall online sales grow by 17% since its Facebook store was added in mid-April, according to Mr. Burnett.”

You can read the entire article here.

If you are running an online store you need to tap into the social marketing power of Facebook.  The first step would be to use CoreCommerce’s Social Commerce application with Facebook.  This would allow you to sell your products directly on your Facebook profile or page.  Currently there are almost 1,000 Facebook users using Social Commerce.

This type of marketing is really important in today’s marketplace.  Your customers and friends can browse certain products directly on your Facebook page and then purchase them from your CoreCommerce store.

A good example is with a client of CoreCommerce, Abba Java.   On their Facebook page, they have a tab called My Store, after they setup the Social Commerce application with CoreCommerce.

When customers or friends of Abba Java click on the My Store tab (you can name it anything you want), they will then see specific products Abba Java choose to display on Facebook (See Picture Below).  From here customers could add these items directly to their cart and checkout through your CoreCommerce store.

CoreCommerce store owners like Abba Java have been using this feature for over 1 year. They have seen a dramatic increase in sales and visibility with the Social Commerce application.

Here is another reason to use Twitter/Facebook for your ecommerce store. ComScore conducted a survey and found that 28 percent of those who have begun their holiday shopping this season said social media has influenced their purchases.

Seven percent of respondents said they followed a Facebook fan page to find special offers and deals, while 6 percent said they have been influenced by a friend’s Facebook status update referring to a particular product.

Five percent of those surveyed said they had followed a company on Twitter to take advantage of special offers and deals. Three percent said that a friend’s Twitter tweet helped trigger their product purchases.

Need real proof. Dell reported that it made $6.5 million in sales for PCs, accessories and software thanks to its promotional placement on Twitter.

The best news for CoreCommerce store owners, is you can tap into the power of social networking. With Facebook and Twitter integration directly integrated into your CoreCommerce store, CoreCommerce store owners will have a leg-up on the competition.

If you need a store which can drive sales and integrate directly into social networking, try CoreCommerce for free for 15 days. Remember no credit card is required.

Hey folks:

We have added a few more features and have cleaned up a few places in the admin for easier navigation.

* Twitter/Facebook for your Products – When you add/edit a product (under general section), you can now choose if you want to allow your customers to post your products directly on their Twitter or Facebook account. This is a great social marketing tool.

* Added Recently Viewed Widget – If you add this widget, your customers will be able to view items they recently viewed but have not added to their shopping cart.

* Compare Products – This will allow your customers on your store to compare up to 4 products side by side. Just check the compare checkbox under product settings to enable this feature.

* # of Featured Products – You can set the maximum number of featured products you want to display on the homepage.

* Email a Quote – You can change the email a friend feature to be email a quote. This would allow your customers to see an email a quote link on your product detail page and the form would be sent to the store’s administrators email.

* Send Add to Cart to Cross Sell Page – You can now choose to send your customers to a cross sell only page after an item is added to cart by the customer.

Thanks,

CoreCommerce Development Team

Here is our latest release. We have also added free summer and July 4th images for CoreCommerce stores only to use on your site.

• Percentage/Sub-Total Shipping Combination – New shipping method where you can create rules for percentage and sub-total combinations.

• Three New Inventory Reports – Added inventory report, low inventory report and out of stock inventory reports.

• Personalization Fields Modification– You can specify a maximum field length for product personalization’s.

• Facebook Image Modifications – Facebook will now resize your images using HTML image resizing. This will avoid having your images very large on Facebook.

Your CoreCommerce Development Team

Another new release with 4 brand new sweet looking templates. Props to Steven here in making these available. Also, you can now follow CoreCommerce feature updates and more on Facebook and Twitter. Sign-up for both and stay in touch. Also, we are working on integrating CoreCommerce with Twitter so you can continue to expand your store into more social networks.

• 4 New Pre-Designed Templates – 28 color variations in all available. Check them out. Also, added the ability for pre-designed templates to center your logo by clicking on that button when configuring the design of the template.

• Facebook Pages – CoreCommerce will also work with Facebook pages now.

• Mod Rewrite Change – Previously the mod rewrite URL contained variations like .html1,1 and .html. We have removed the variations and just have .html.

• Google Products Auto Feed Test Connection – Added a test connection button for Google Products Auto Feed so you don’t have to guess if you typed in the correct username/password.

• Internal Customer # – When you modify or add a customer in the admin, this new field is now available. This field will display when viewing an order in the admin. This is typically used if you have some sort of outside accounting program and you want to match up your customers.

• Edit Order User Permission – Added new administrative user permissions for editing orders. You can choose if a admin has the right to edit an existing order.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Your CoreCommerce Development Team

You can now follow CoreCommerce on Facebook. You can view our CoreCommerce Facebook page to see the latest news, features and more directly on your Facebook account. Make sure you sign-up as fan to get started.

Look forward to hearing from you.

CoreCommerce Team

Here is our latest release folks, including product review rating stars and Quickbooks Merchant Services integration. Also, on Friday we will be adding 3 to 4 new free pre-designed templates.

• Quickbooks Merchant Services – Added new payment gateway. Works with authorize and capture, capture after shipping and refunding through CoreCommerce admin interface.

• Product Review Ratings – Added product review stars.

• PayPal Standard Authorization – Added the ability choose authorization only or authorization and capture.

• Plug N Pay – Added new payment gateway.

• Facebook Add-On – Integrates with wall box.

• Custom Product List Add-On – You can tie products to multiple custom product lists.

• Multiple Mailing Lists – You can now setup more than 1 mailing list for any email newsletters.

• Auto-Logout – Added a prompt to warn you when you are about to be logged out of the admin due to inactivity.

• New Arrival Settings – You can control the new arrival setting time.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Your CoreCommerce Development Team