CoreCommerce

CoreCommerce 7.9 is now available! We are excited to announce new features to drive more business to your CoreCommerce stores. We have integrated with Constant Contact, added new store design templates, improved our HTML URL’s and more.

• More Store Design Templates! – You can see the new templates by going to design > store designs. There you can see our newest templates at the top of the page.




• HTML URL Improvements – Previously all url’s contained a string like c-42 or p-4 at the end of a category, product or web page. You can now choose not to use those numbers. You can change this setting by going to settings > store settings > search engine optimization tab. Choose for the mod-rewrite style to “Do not use numbers in the URL except for few special cases”. If you choose this setting, this means your product names, category names and web page names cannot be the same since we dont have the unique identifier number on the url.




• Canonical URL Support – By default your store will support canonical URL’s. What is this crazy word? It is important for search engine optimization. It tells search engines like Google, Yahoo!, etc to ingore any duplicate content and pay attention to the canonical URL. You can read more about this on Google’s blog. If you don’t specify a canonical URL we will automatically do this for you. You can always enter your own by editing a product and expanding the search engine optimization section under the general tab.




• Integration with Constant Contact – We have integrated with the largest email marketing company. If you sign-up with a Constant Contact account or already have one, you will be able to have your customers email addresses be sent directly to Constant Contact. You can also create custom filters. For example these filters will allow you to retrieve all customer email addresses who ordered a certain product and send those to Constant Contact. This will allow you to send specific targeted email campaigns to customers based on what they purchased.




• New Report to Track the Source of an Order – We added a new report called Order Source Report. This report will allow you to know which sources your orders are coming from. For example, admin phone order system, Mobile CoreCommerce, web, point of sale or Facebook.




• Nextag Product Feed Integrated – We added one of the largest marketing feed companies Nextag. You can easily export your products for direct integration into Nextag.




• Batch Approve/Delete Product Reviews – Quickly be able to approve/delete product reviews.




• Product Photo Pop-up Can Use Lightbox Effect – We have enabled by default the lightbox effect for photos. Instead of having just a regular pop-up we use a more fancy web 2.0 lightbox effect to display your larger images. To turn this on go to settings > inventory settings > images. There you will see a checkbox option to enable this. If you have this turned on and it isn’t working, this most likely means you don’t have an include you need in your header templates. You can get that include in our knowledgebase.




• New Payment Gateways Supported – Merchant e-Solutions, IMSP Gateway, Quantum AIM Emulator Gateway

What are we working on now? We are working on many projects. Those include Endicia integration, support to handle multiple ship-to addresses, faster quickbooks sync and more. If you have any great ideas, don’t forget to share
them in our forums.

Here is our latest release, including a new report and some additional selling tools. Have a great November.

* Gift Certificates – When viewing a gift certificate in the admin, you can now edit the total amount.

* Abandoned Carts – You can now place an order or send out an email to the customer containing the abandoned cart items directly from the abandoned carts page.

* Personalizations – You can sort personalizations and answers tied to them.

* Total Order Cost – The total order cost is now auto-calculated with the item cost of the order.

* Content Pages – Content pages can now be excluded from the Google Sitemap. You can do this by checking an exclude checkbox when adding or editing a content page.

* Restrict # of Characters in Address Field – You can now restrict the number of characters you want to accept with the address field.

* Top Added to Cart Items Report – New report which would show you which products are added to cart most often.

* Customer Membership Groups – When viewing your customer membership groups, you can now see how many customers belong to each group.

* Skip Payment – You can choose to skip the payment screen for $0.00 orders.

* Discontinued Item – You can flag a product as discontinued. This product will show up even if the inventory is out of stock.

* Customer Group Pricing and Quantity Based Pricing – The customer group pricing no longer displays under advanced section. There is now a drop down under general when adding/editing a product to select which pricing to give each membership group. Quantity based pricing is now its own tab when adding/editing a product.

Thank you,

CoreCommerce Development Team

This our latest release including integration being one of the first companies to integrate with Google Web Optimizer!

• Google Web Optimizer Integration – You can now compare one page checkout vs standard checkout to see which one will have higher conversion rates for you site. You can also use Google Web Optimizer to alter some product specific content to see if certain add to cart images, product names or descriptions do better than others.

• Send Order Error Messages to Admin Email Address – If turned on, any time an order is declined by a payment gateway like Authorize.net you will receive an email letting you know . The email contains the order items and contact information of the customer. This only works with payment gateways which have the order completion process end on your site.

• Viewing Coupons Update – When editing a product in the admin, you can now view all current coupons which could be used with this product under the advance link.

• Gross Margin on Product Cost Report – Added the ability to view your gross margin percentage.

• New Timeframes for Reports – On all reports added some new timeframe choices such as last 30 days, last 90 days and All.

• Remember Me Checkbox for Customer – This feature can now be turned on or off. By default this feature is on, but you can turn it off which would removed this option for the customer when logging into their store account.

• PayPal Website Payments Pro configured for authorize first, capture later – You can choose to authorize PayPal Website Payments Pro orders and then you can capture them within your PayPal account later. Authorize and Capture in one-step is still available and is the default setting.

• Stamps.com CSV Export – This export is geared for stamps.com. It contains certain fields for easier integration into Stamps.com.

• Specify a Default Thumbnail For Your Products – You can now specify a default thumbnail to use on the product grid, search results and widget. If no default is specified then the first photo group listed for the product will be used for the thumbnails.

Thanks,
CoreCommerce Development Team