CoreCommerce

Do you have an affiliate program to help with sales with your ecommerce store? If so you will want to pay attention what just happened in California. California Gov. Jerry Brown, just signed legislation that requires online purchases to be taxed at 7.25% if you have any affiliates in California, even if you don’t have a physical business presence there. Previously, only internet companies with stores or operations in California had to collect the tax.

Large retailers such as Amazon.com and Overstock already cut their affiliate ties to California due to this new legislation.

According to the law, an out-of-state online retailer with any kind of “nexus” in the state – a physical or corporate presence, not just a brick-and-mortar retail outlet – is liable. With one exception: retailers who have sold no more than $500,000 worth of goods in California in the previous 12 months.

Our latest CoreCommerce release is out. This week’s features are listed below. Each feature includes a video describing how the new feature works and where the settings are located to access them.

Easy to Use Pop-Up Shopping Cart to Increase Conversions with CoreCommerce

Note: To get the correct CSS you will have to either restore your template or make some css changes.

Create Bundled Inventory Products with CoreCommerce

Have Different Product Detail Layouts Based on Products with CoreCommerce

Learn how to use Refer a Friend with CoreCommerce

Using Breadcrumb Trail on Product Detail Pages with CoreCommerce

Using Sitewide Category Discounts with CoreCommerce

Calculating Sales Tax on the View Cart Page with CoreCommerce

We also made a change to the product detail images based on customer feedback. They look much sharper and have a smoother appearance and ease of use. Please note though if you have any custom jquery or javascript you may need to make changes so it doesn’t conflict with the jquery on the page.

As usual if you need any help please contact our award winning support department.

CoreCommerce Team

Currently a bill trying to get approved in the US House of Representatives would require online ecommerce companies to charges sales tax in accordance with the sales tax rate of the customers billing state. Even if you, the store owner, don’t have a physical presense in the state.

This change has been talked about before but is getting more attention now that so many states have budget deficits.

The main sponsor of the bill is Massachusetts Congressman William Delahunt. The bill is called Main Street Fairness Act (HR 5660). A similar bill came late last year but wasn’t enacted.

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.