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| version 9.01 |
| 10 New Layouts - Our dynamic new layouts are our best yet. Update the look and feel of your store with the most up-to-date style. |
| Layout Themes - Choose from an assortment of holiday-themed layouts. Each of the ten new version 9 layouts will include holiday themes giving you even more flexibility with the look of your online storefront. Additional themes, such as sports themes, will also be released throughout the year. |
| Sitemap - The presence of a sitemap on your website can have a tremendous positive impact on your website’s ranking with the major search engines and directories such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
The Version 9 offers a great new feature that allows you to create a sitemap for your website in one easy click! |
| Control of SMC Product Updates - With this feature, you will be able to update your website with all of the new products in a few easy clicks. This gives you full control over the display of new SMC products on your site. |
| Featured Departments - Each V9 layout is equipped with a featured department section. This feature gives you a new way to promote and improve the visibility of certain departments on your site. This is an added tool that will help make your home page a powerful marketing tool for your products. |
| Promotions Displayed on the Home Page - With the new V9 layouts, you'll have the option of displaying active promotions on the home page. This makes the site’s promotions more visible and accessible to your shoppers. This feature gives you an effective tool to promote your products and increase your sales. |
| Customize Home Page section - This new section provides you more flexibility and control over the home page of your V9 layout. This section is a one-stop place to control all of your V9 home-page related features, such as featured departments, promotion displayed on the home page, and much more. |
| SMS Mobile Phone Notification - With the SMS Mobile Notification feature, your shoppers can choose to be notified via text message on their cell phones when their order has been shipped. This handy new feature gives you yet another avenue to stay in touch with your clientele. |
| RSS Feeds - The RSS Feed feature will provide a page on the store front which receives content dynamically from up to 5 different sources. For example, one of the RSS feeds provides your website's storefront with a page that is chock full of great gift ideas that will help your shoppers decide what is best for their gift-giving needs. New articles are added almost daily, so the page content will always be dynamically changing! |
| Navigation Bar Enhancement – Easily Create Custom HTML Pages - Version 9 comes with a handy tool which makes it quick and easy to incorporate your custom HTML pages into your website. Point to any HTML page in the website’s navigation bar, and your HTML page will automatically take on the look of your website’s layout. |
| version 8.04 |
| You can now offer free shipping to all of your shoppers in a few easy clicks with the new "Free shipping" option. This allows you to globally offer free shipping without the need to set up conditions, such as in the shipping promotions screen. This is a wonderful way to offer your shoppers added incentive to complete their purchase at your store and gives you even greater flexibility with your shipping management. |
| The new "Enable Pickup/Will Call" feature offers you even further flexibility with your shipping options. When this feature is enabled from the Sales > Shipping screen, your shopper has the option to activate the "Please do not ship, I will pickup my order." checkbox during the checkout process. This is an added motivator for your local shoppers to complete their purchase at your store. |
| Additional newsletter subjects have been added to the Marketing > Newsletter > Send Newsletter screen. This will offer you more flexibility when sending newsletters to your shoppers. |
| The checkout page has been streamlined when your shopper uses PayPal as a payment method. It is no longer necessary for your shopper to enter billing information during the checkout process when using PayPal. This adds to the quickness and convenience of the checkout process, which is yet another way of making your customers' shopping experience a good one. |
| The new authorize shopper feature allows you to remove a shopper’s ability to make purchases on your website. While all shoppers are set to “authorized” by default, you may wish to temporarily or permanently disallow a shopper’s ability to make purchases on your site. This feature offers you added control over the management of your business. |
| version 8.03 |
| A completely re-written Site Manager updated with the latest web technologies provides you with a high-powered eCommerce control panel to help you manage your business today and well into the future. |
Any product you sell through your eCommerce website can now belong to multiple departments. Shoppers interested in any item will be impressed by the availability of many more compatible items in every department.
This can mean a larger average sale for you. And, by taking advantage of the new multiple department capabilities, your eCommerce website will look even more substantial by giving the appearance of an even broader product line. |
| Showing a product in different ways gives you a greater chance to connect with your customer and make the sale. Each product can now have multiple images for each of the product’s attributes. What that means is – let’s say you sell a baseball cap that is available in red, blue or green. You now have the ability to display an image for EACH color variation WITHOUT having to create separate products! |
| If you sell to Canadian shoppers – you’ll be happy to learn that your eMC eCommerce website now offers the capability for drop shipping to your Canadian customers. |
| version 8.02 |
| Customer Testimonials - The Customer Testimonials feature will allow your shoppers to view the positive comments that have been submitted by your previous shoppers. And the best part of all is that you have the ability to decide which comments will be seen by your shoppers. |
| version 8.01 |
| 10 New Stylish Layouts - Our dynamic new layouts are our best yet. Update the look and feel of your store with the most up-to-date style. |
| Layout Holiday Themes - Choose from an assortment of holiday-themed layouts. Each of the ten new version 8 layouts will include holiday themes giving you even more flexibility with the look of your online storefront. |
| Home Page Items - We have built in added controls over your home page items and featured items, offering more managability of your most important items. |
| Strict Security Standards - Our code has been modified to bring it within top level security standards. The code will be constantly maintained throughout the year to ensure that it stays within the strictest security guidelines. |
| New Look to Site Manager - There are now two versions of the Site Manager. One is the Classic version, which is based on the V7 Site Manager with a revamped look. The other is the New Version. The New Version was designed to give a feel closer to that of Mac OS or Windows Vista. Not only is the look completely new, but it also allows for an alternative navigation structure. |
| MySiteManager - The new MySiteManager feature allows you to customize your Site Manager based on which links you most commonly use. It also allows you to change your layout between the Classic and New Versions and change the colors on the Classic Version. |
| Secure My Account Page - All links in the account page and all pages that redirect to the Shopper Login page are now secured using https protocol. |
| Orders by Affiliate - An extra tab was added to the Orders page which displays the orders placed by affiliates. This was a highly requested enhancement by many current members. |
| Sort by Price Feature to Search Page - Your shoppers can now sort by price on the search results page by clicking on the arrow icon next to the results list of products. |
| Secure Manager Login from Store - Typing "Manager" in shopper login page opens a secure Manager URL which makes entering the Site Manager much simpler without compromising security. |
| Cross browser compatible HTML Editor - Our new Javascript HTML Editor is compatible with all browsers. |
| Improvements to our Price Promotions - A feature has been added to the Buy One Get One Free promotion gives you better control over the amount of items which can be awarded in one purchase. |
| version 7.08 |
| Strict Security Standards - Our code has been modified to bring it within top level security standards. The code will be constantly maintained throughout the year to ensure that it stays within the strictest security guidelines. |
| Your HTML has been optimized to meet stricter standards. Each browser has a different way of interpreting your HyperText markup language (HTML). When stricter rules are followed for your HTML syntax, then each browser displays your pages in a more exact way. With this release, we have combed through your HTML and made modifications to meet the strict standard of XHTMLT 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language. This will ensure that your pages will display correctly and seamlessly. |
| Main Menu of Site Manager has been modified to give you more ease of use. The links on the Site Manager have been reorganized to allow for better organization and category structuring. This is a minor change which will hopefully help keep your Site Manager categories more consistent. |
| version
7.07 |
| The Site Manager has been upgraded
to a more secure environment. Although the Site Manager has always
been secure, improvements have been made to tighten this security.
The upgrade to an SSL environment coincides with the release of both
Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7. |
| Big improvements to the way that
your site looks and functions in different browsers such as Firefox,
Netscape and Safari. |
| Ability to enable or disable the
Canadian Provinces and US Territories in the Site Manager's Shipping
Manager section. |
| New 2007 Spring eCatalog templates.
The images are bigger. Shoppers can read the text on a single page.
Double pages are also bigger than previous eCatalogs. View can be
toggled. |
| Price Promotions will now always
apply the promotion to the least expensive items in the Shopping Cart. |
| Ability to print the order detail
before the final purchase. |
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