CoreCommerce

As many of you know we recently upgraded our design framework. We have just released our new guide.

You can also view our detailed KB article on this change here.

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

Hey Folks:

We have been working hard to add more features over this holiday season. We have added features such as an entire CRM (customer relationship manager) solution and UPS label printing.
Feature List:

• CRM  – You can have one centralized area of communication with your customers in your store admin area. Your customers can submit emails which automatically displayed in the admin area as a ticket. Any responses by the admin or customer will be logged and displayed in your admin area.

• SKU Display – You can choose whether to display your SKU number on the product detail page.

• Email Customers – If you are not using the CRM, you still can use the feature to allow you to send a quick email to your customer directly in your store admin when viewing any customer order.

• COD Fee – You can now add a COD payment fee. If you choose to do so this will be added to the shipping/handling charge for the customer.

• Preview Design Changes – You can preview any design changes for the widget design layout or the generic design layout before making any live changes to your website.

• Option Images with Parent/Child – You can now choose to have option images set at the parent level or child level. Previously you could only have the child level. This will allow you to have an image for the first drop down in parent/child option format, instead of the second choice. For example, this will allow you to have Color as your first drop down (which will determine the image based on the color selected by the customer) and size be the second drop down.

• Product Bundling – Allows you to group multiple products together in a bundle and apply a specific discount to the main product you are viewing. For example if you are viewing product A, you could create a product bundle where if you add to cart product X and Z you would get product A at 15% off.

• UPS Label Printing – You can print labels using UPS label printing directly in your admin interface. This tool though is a premium tool by UPS and requires you to be approved by UPS before you can use it. Not all customers will be approved by UPS. The directions on applying for this will be found during your setup for UPS labels in the store admin.

• Sage Payment Gateway Authorize First – Added the ability to choose just authorize first and capture later (in sage admin interface) or authorize/capture in 1-step.

• Product Import Pricing – When doing a product import you can now use the cost field in the import to create the product price/sales price. You must first have a cost column in the import, then you will set what percentage increase above cost you want to set the price/sales price. You can even choose to set the cents value at 99 or whatever amount you would like.

• Inventory Out Of Stock Level – You can specify what CoreCommerce deems out of stock. Typically this is 0, but this can be set to any value.

• USPS Label Printing Works With New Mail Types – We added the ability to print USPS labels for First Class Mail International and Priority Mail International, to go along with the regular domestic USPS options.

• Top Customer Report – You can view a quick report to see who are your top customers by any timeframe.

• Business Information on Order – On the order detail your business information displays in the admin area. You can now choose to turn this on/off.

• Dotted Borders – You can disable the dotted borders on the product and category pages on your store without having to into the css.

• Ebay Product Listing Update – When clicking on an eBay link from your store’s products, the name and description will be carried over to the create ebay product page.

• Tracking Numbers – With UPS and FedEx there is a new button to save the tracking number with the order.
• Pre Designed Templates –You can specify alt/title tags for logos and invoice logs for these templates in your template configuration page in the store admin.

• Negative Shipping Padding – Shipping padding can now support negative padding.

• Shopzilla Product Feed (admin/tools.php?m=product_feeds) – The popular Shopzilla product feed has been added.

• UPC Field – You can specify a UPC code for any product in addition to the SKU number

• Nofollow HTML attribute – You can have a content page add the nofollow HTML attribute. This HTML attribute tells search engines to ignore this link for search engine votes. This attribute doesn’t stop search engines from going to the page.

Thanks again!
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!