CoreCommerce

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.

You might be wondering if you should set up your store to allow reviews and ratings. Reviews can be a huge factor in purchase decisions and provides the store with free word-of-mouth advertising. Not only are happy buyers likely to leave a review on your own site, they’ll often also leave a review of your product on other consumer sites. This can lead to higher search rankings, as the reviews link back to your storefront and it also gives you free exposure on the web.

Customers are more apt to buy a product after reading good reviews that real people who’ve left use it. The last time you bought a product you’ve never used before, didn’t you do some research on the web to see what people said about it?

Let’s look at some stats dealing with stores who use product reviews:

• 77% of online shoppers use reviews and ratings when deciding what to buy. – JupiterResearch
• 59% of users believe that real consumer reviews are more valuable than expert reviews. -BizRate
• 63% of consumers are more likely to purchase a product if it contains reviews. -CompUSA

Now, you might think this would work wonders for you and your store if all your reviews are good ones, but what about the negative reviews? Should you allow those to remain on your site? Absolutely.

Bad reviews aren’t as damaging as you might think. The weight of bad to good reviews allows a consumer to really see how great the product is. If there are 4 negative reviews, but 100 good ones, then the consumer can assume the product really works. If the consumer sees there are 300 great reviews and zero negative ones, the consumer will most likely think the reviews are moderated and may not trust the product enough to buy it. You lose credibility as a merchant when you hide what your consumers really have to say about your product.

Reviews also help the consumer gauge the product’s strengths and weaknesses and reduces the return and complaint rate. If I’m looking to purchase a pair of shoes that’s reviewed as super comfy but lasts only 3 months,  I can gauge if I want to spend the money for comfort and trade in durability. When they fall apart in 3 months it’s expected instead of surprising because I knew what I was getting when I bought the product. Had there been no reviews about durability, I’d be on the phone demanding some kind of refund.

In order to make your reviews as helpful as possible make sure they’re displayed in a clear and very visible way on the site. You should also use some kind of rating system, like stars, so consumers who are in a hurry and don’t have time to read the reviews can quickly skim over the ratings to see how well the product has done.

You should also encourage your consumers to leave a review by mentioning it in their purchase confirmations and in your newsletter. Let them know that if they’ve enjoyed your product, you’d love to have them rate it on your site to help others.

CoreCommerce has both a review and rating system built right into the software, so if you’re not using it, it’s to your benefit to start!

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

Here is our latest release folks, including Webmail!

• Webmail Access – You can now view any emails directly through your web browser. This is our beta release of webmail. Make sure when first setting up the webmail you click on the options link towards the top and then click on Personal Information to set your email address information.

• Product Setup Fees– You can have product setup fees for certain products. You can choose to have it be one fee for the entire product or charge the fee per quantity.

• Image Widgets Modification – The image widgets have moved from widgets page to the Design Tab > Manage Widgets. From here you can now create an unlimited amount of widgets. You can then add those widgets into your design with any design option.

• Product Detail Template Design (BETA)– This feature is currently in beta. Go to the Design tab and click on Template Layouts. You will be able to edit the product detail template directly in the admin. Certain variables have pre-defined tokens to use like product name, etc. This will allow you to completely customize the look and feel of the product detail template.

• Product Reviews Modification – You can now add product reviews manually to your products without having to worry about the IP restriction.

• User Permissions for Premium Templates – When setting admin user permissions you can set which user has the ability to purchase premium templates.

• New Payment Gateway – InternetSecure Gateway Added and a Salem option was added to the Chase Paymentech gateway.

Thanks,
CoreCommerce Development Team

Here is our latest release.

• Coupon Limit 1 Per Customer – A new feature to use within coupons is the ability to limit a coupon as one use per a customer. This means once a customer uses a coupon they can’t use the same coupon again on a future order.

• View Product Reviews When Editing a Product – When you are editing a product you can now see all product reviews tied to the specific product by clicking on the advanced link and expanding the section called Product Reviews.

• Re-Designed the Product Advanced Section – Created navigation layers like the general page when adding/editing a product for a more intuitive deisgn.

• Added CVV2 Helper Text – You can turn this on or off. By having this on, your customers will see a question mark icon next to the cvv2 code. This will help them understand what they need to enter here to checkout.

• Admin Users Can Be Restricted to Design Only – When creating limited admin user accounts, you can now restrict certain accounts to only access the design area of your admin.

• Custom Product Lists Now Work Together – Previously if you created custom product list like (just an example) Make and Model, each one showed independent results. Now if your customers choose Make and then choose Model, then all product belonging to the make and model will appear.

• Forward URL – When you are requiring customers to login before viewing categories or products, you can now choose which URL they go to after logging in. For example instead of sending them to the my account page, maybe you want to send them to your homepage or a special content page you created.

• Front-end Products View All Added – We added View All as an option on your store front for customers to choose when you have products or categories which span multiple pages.

• Newsletter Sign-Up Change – If you use the newsletter feature, you can now choose to whether or not have the sign-up checkbox checked or not checked by default when your customers place an order with you.

• Order Error Email Modified – If you are receiving order error emails, we have now added three new tokens which you can add to your order error message. Those tokens are ##CUSTOMER_EMAIL##, ##CUSTOMER_BILL_PHONE_LANG## and ##CUSTOMER_BILL_PHONE##. Using these tokens will allow you to view the customer email address and billing phone number in the order error emails which are sent out if you have that featured turned on.

Thanks,
CoreCommerce Development Team

Hey folks:

This our latest release with a several additional features.

• Product Detail Thumbnail Management – Previously if you had multiple photos for a product the thumbnail displayed on the product detail page was the main image resized to a smaller thumbnail image. You can now specify a specific image to display for the thumbnail on the product detail page when you add photos to any product.

• Per Product Shipping – If you have this shipping method enabled, this was moved from the advanced link when add/editing a product to under the general link under the shipping section.

• Product Thumbnail Display on One Page Checkout – You can now toggle on/off to display the product thumbnail of each line item at the top of the one page checkout where the summary of the items are displayed.

• Batch Delete Product Reviews – You can now batch delete any product reviews, instead of having to do one at a time.

• Google Analytics Conversion Tracking – The Google Analytics conversion tracking now works if you are using Google Checkout.

• Email Reminder Modification – The email reminder can now be set globally for all products or set per product for maximum flexibility. Previously this was always set globally. When setting this feature to per product you can edit the email reminder options when you add/edit product under the advanced link.

• Gift Certificate with handling charge – If a gift certificate is the only item in a customers shopping cart, they will no longer be charged any handling charges.

• Unlimited Related Products – You can specify an unlimited number of related products to display (previously it was limited to two).

• Feature Product Settings – Added a feature product settings. From here you can change the sort order of feature products or choose to display featured products randomly.

• Total Order Cost for Profit Margin – Added the total cost field when you are viewing an order. This field is optional. When used though CoreCommerce will determine your profit margin on the gross sales report.

• Manage Store Images – You can now view all of the store’s images in the admin area. You can edit any image and replace it with your own without using FTP.

• Quickbooks Modifications – Choose to add product SKU’s to the description field passed to Quickbooks. Also added the ability to save orders as Sales Orders in Quickbooks. Also added the ability to pass all items to Quickbooks as 1 item designated by you.

• Export Categories – Added a category export button to export your current categories in csv format.

Thanks again!
CoreCommerce Development Team