AmeriCommerce Company News

AmeriCommerce Again Chosen as Best eCommerce Solution Finalist by the CODiE Awards

2010-03-09T20:27:00Z

March 10, 2010 -- AmeriCommerce is pleased to announce that for the third year its Shopping Cart Software has been named a top 3 finalist in the Software & Information Industry Association's prestigious 25th annual CODiE Awards competition.

AmeriCommerce was again recognized as a finalist in the Best eCommerce Solution category for its innovation in Multiple Storefronts, Integration abilities and depth of features that make it stand out in the competitive shopping cart software industry.

"AmeriCommerce is honored to be chosen for the third year as a CODiE finalist for the Best eCommerce Solution," said Stefan Barlow, Systems Operations Manager and Co-Founder. "We constantly look forward to the future of the eCommerce space and will continue striving to bring new and improved solutions to our clients and their partners."

For 25 years, SIIA CODiE Awards have been the leading honor for the software and information industry's finest products and services. CODiE Awards judges are experts in their field and work to identify the "best-of-the-best" from hundreds of nominees.

"This is the twenty-fifth year we have recognized excellence in the software, education and information industries through the CODiE Awards program,” noted Ken Wasch, President of SIIA. “In this economic climate, companies are doing even more to innovate. AmeriCommerce has demonstrated a commitment to innovation and quality that is reflected in their selection as a finalist for the CODiE Awards. I am pleased and proud to have them listed among the candidates, and I wish them the best in the final round of voting."

The complete list of CODiE Award finalists can be viewed at http://www.siia.net/codies/2010/finalists.asp

About AmeriCommerce

AmeriCommerce is a full service e-commerce solution provider. In production since 2000, the AmeriCommerce shopping cart software is built on the concept of marketing performance, ease of use, and customization. AmeriCommerce provides their customers with everything they need to design and operate a successful online storefront. AmeriCommerce Shopping Cart Software incorporates such features as Multiple Storefront management under one administrative console, abandoned shopping cart and other integrated analytics, advanced pricing structures, shipping and discounting options, one page checkout and much more. For more information, visit the AmeriCommerce web site at www.AmeriCommerce.com.

About SIIA

The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to more than 800 leading software and information companies. For further information, visit www.siia.net.

AmeriCommerce Improves Customer Experience with Shopping Cart Software Version 2010.1

2009-12-07T20:31:00Z

AmeriCommerce brings Product Reviews, Gift Certificates, Subscriptions, and many more new features with their latest shopping cart software release.

E-Commerce specialists rank improving the customer experience as one of their top priorities in 2010. AmeriCommerce’s latest release, version 2010.1, helps by introducing Gift Certificates, Product Reviews, Subscriptions, and many more new features.

“Online store owners are looking to offer customers more value while reducing their own management overhead,” says Stefan Barlow, Co-Founder of AmeriCommerce. “We feel the new features in AmeriCommerce 2010.1 will make the customer experience more enjoyable while increasing conversion rates and easing order processing through our integration partners.”

Customer generated content is very valuable, both for increasing conversion rates and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Shoppers read reviews more frequently than product descriptions, as they are real customer recommendations of products rather than marketing text. AmeriCommerce 2010.1 adds a fully designable tag based review system with moderation support. Customers can supply tags to describe products, along with a more lengthy review, and choose multi-dimensional ratings that store owners define. Rating graphics can be customized to allow industry specific icons such as 4 out of 5 hotdogs.

Retailers can now increase holiday sales, reward customer loyalty, and introduce entice new customers by offering Gift Certificates as promotional discounts. Gift Certificates can also be purchased online, delivered instantly and redeemed as a payment method on an order. Additionally, store credit can be issued for returned items or B2B corporate purchasing.

Recurring revenue business models can take advantage of Subscriptions in AmeriCommerce 2010.1 to schedule and process regularly occurring orders while collecting funds via customer credit cards. Using Subscriptions can dramatically reduce the management time required to handle recurring orders.

On the design end, the AmeriCommerce Site Explorer has been revamped using AJAX for faster content management. Custom layouts offer more flexibility in the site design and several new free Themes and Button sets allow online store owners to set up shop quickly with a professional web presence.

For business that would like to add a shopping cart to their existing web site without changing hosting providers, AmeriCommerce offers Remote Carting. This capability allows access to AmeriCommerce’s advanced inventory control, pricing, shipping, payments and order processing systems while sending product options, personalization and shipping options from the remote site to the cart portion of AmeriCommerce. This empowers the store owner to keep their existing site but have AmeriCommerce manage the entire order process.

New 3^rd party integrations introduced in AmeriCommerce 2010.1 include order management systems ShipWorks and Stone Edge, payment gateways Sage Payments and Planet Payment’s IPay, Amazon S3 for eProduct delivery and image hosting, and ABF Freight Shipping.

About AmeriCommerce

AmeriCommerce is a full service e-commerce solution provider. In production since 2000, the AmeriCommerce shopping cart software is built on the concept of marketing performance, ease of use, and customization. AmeriCommerce provides their customers with everything they need to design and operate a successful online storefront. AmeriCommerce also assists the development of accounting systems, call centers, marketing, and distribution, which is the infrastructure supporting the e-commerce business.

2010 v1 – Increase Holiday Sales With New Features!

2009-11-03T08:02:08Z

Your AmeriCommerce team has been working diligently and is pleased to announce our latest version just in time for the Holiday shopping season. In the midst of this release we did not forget about a little fun…check out our Facebook page to learn about our Cajun Gumbo Cook-off and a customer who believes he’s the next infomercial king! Be sure to click ‘Become a Fan’ and show your support for your ecommerce partner! Visit Facebook here.

2010 Release 1 has many new features like:

Advanced Gift Certificates Module
Store Credit Module
New Themes to Choose From
UPS Negotiated Rates Support
ABF Shipping Integration (light truck shipping)
Order Splitting
Low Stock / Out of Stock Email Alerts
so much more!

Read the release summary with screenshots here!
http://myamericommerce.com/blogs/feature_release_history_production_path/archive/2009/11/02/2010-v1-release-summary.aspx

SPECIAL: Holidazzle Your Customers this Holiday Season

2009-10-29T21:09:33Z

AmeriCommerce recognizes the challenges small businesses face when competing against large corporations and their seemingly unlimited resources during the holiday shopping season. Outside of pricing, consumers are often (consciously or unconsciously) looking for that one little thing that separates your site from the competition.

Large retailers and web companies know the value of honoring the Holiday season with the look and feel of their website. From Google spelling their name in Christmas lights, or the Wal-Mart Yellow Dot donning a Santa hat, everyone looks for a competitive edge by creating a warm, inviting holiday web atmosphere during the busiest season in retail and online shopping.

For that reason, AmeriCommerce is providing some ideas to spruce up your sites and services this holiday season. You can choose to do these yourselves or save some time and use our team to see this through for you. AmeriCommerce designers will create graphically appealing, industry-specific Holiday graphics to dress up your homepage and emails for the Holidays. These theme elements will be implemented and saved in your administration console for you to activate for the holidays. These holiday elements can be used for years to come.

Things to consider for HOLIDAZZLING your customers:

Holiday Site Header (starting at $395)
Holidazzle your company logo (starting at $200)
Holiday Homepage Design (starting at $1,250, a savings of 30%)
Site Tighten-Up Review! - review site to identify and correct alignment, color matching, JavaScript or order-flow issues and review any spot you might be losing traffic/sales (starting at $65)
Email template designs with a holiday splash (starting at $125 per template)
- Let AmeriCommerce deliver your holiday email blast for as little a 2-3 cents per recipient
Promotional Landing Pages for email campaigns, sales, etc. (starting at $125)
Holiday Sales, Free Items & Shipping Specials setup (starting at $50)
Holiday Banners (starting at $125)
Setup Product Reviews (starting at $99)
Setup and sell Gift Certificates (new feature) (starting at $99)
Holiday Countdown Clocks (starting at $99)
Setup product feeds to major comparison shopping engines (starting at $75)
Managed Holiday Pay-per-click campaigns (10-15% of spend)

For all starting at prices, final costs are based on your specifications and requirements and an evaluation from the AmeriCommerce team.

CONTACT YOUR SALES REP TODAY! Or tell us about your needs here:
http://www.americommerce.com/offer/design.htm?a=2009HolidazzleBlog

2009 v36 Completed and Ready!

2009-09-30T22:44:00Z

Most of our customers are already on this version, it’s primarily a fast new version containing fixes and a few smaller new features. During this release we spent most of this time working on the 2010 v1 release which will have some exciting stuff!

Here’s a recap of the highlights. Click Here!

Version 2009.35 Hits the Streets!

2009-08-04T22:59:22Z

See the release notes here! We’re excited to see this release get out to the masses so they can begin building a collection of great product reviews and using the other new features and integrations that will make managing your store even easier. Integrations that include ways to print shipping labels, interact with new payment gateways and much more.

The new custom layout framework (2009.34) is holding up great and was used for many of the new features and conversions of older pages. For those that want the control it offers for layout while still being tied to our core feature set, it is a great way to have both options that is just not available on other systems.

Our move to Rackspace is already showing benefits and over half of our customer base has already been moved over. We have seen dramatic speed increases and all of the things we expected by extending our team’s reach.

From here were are going to do a few small and fast releases that target usability again, new themes and some great micro-features needed by many of our customers. Carty fans stay tuned!

AmeriCommerce Announces New Incentives and Discounts

2009-06-23T18:36:25Z

AmeriCommerce defies current economic trends in its meteoric rise in the shopping cart platform market and we want to share our success with our customers. Last month AmeriCommerce quietly unwrapped a few new incentives, discounts and pricing changes to give back to our customers new and old and enable them to remain competitive in the current economic environment. Let’s outline a few of them here for everyone’s benefit!

Pricing changes as seen on: http://www.americommerce.com/store/pg/1-Shopping-Cart-Software-Price-List.aspx

All Hosting Plans
- Reduced plan pricing for first 3 months from 10-33%!
- Reduced setup fees!
- Reduced and published pre-purchased bandwidth rates!
  - Rates as low as $3/GB (compare that to other fully managed hosting carts!)
Bronze Level Plan Changes
- Lowered pricing to $29 for first 3 months!
- Removed transaction fees permanently!
- Reduced setup fees!
- Enable multiple storefront technology on Bronze!
- Increased product limits to 250
Silver Level Plan Changes
- Created increased bonuses for paying annually
- Converted old ‘Gold’ plans to annual silvers (losing nothing)
Gold Level Plan Changes
- New higher limits, products and bandwidth caps setting it solidly between Silver and Platinum.
- Increased Google Adwords Credits
Platinum Level Plan Changes
- Reduced Tiered Pre-Purchased Licensing Fees for Products
- Reduced Tiered Pre-Purchased Licensing Fees for Bandwidth
- Increased Google Adwords Credits

In addition to these plan changes, AmeriCommerce has created new web design and implementation plans as well as changing existing naming for clarity. With these changes AmeriCommerce shows that it is truly dedicated to providing our customers best-of-breed software at value pricing.

AmeriCommerce Sets Its Sites on Rackspace

2009-06-16T21:13:42Z

AmeriCommerce has chosen Rackspace Hosting in order to transition datacenter operations while offering an enhanced level of service, support and care to our customers. Rackspace’s Intensive Hosting goes well beyond our requirements and is by far the clear choice for our new partner. Our Rackspace Fanatical Support team, in conjunction with AmeriCommerce’s in-house Systems Operations team, will work hand-in-hand with to provide constant 24/7/365 hardware monitoring and support, including 1 hour hardware replacement guarantees, managed backups, premium servers, virtualization, and rapid capacity deployment. This is an exciting and appealing upgrade to our existing service levels for all our customers.

While Internap has proven to be a flawlessly reliable enterprise-class service provider, we feel the benefits of migrating to a fully managed hosting environment are unmistakable, and will allow our teams to focus more on what we do best. We will continue to develop the best ecommerce platform available and focus on our customer’s storefront needs, while allowing Rackspace to provide the hardware and operating system support they are world famous for. AmeriCommerce will continue to maintain the Internap datacenter indefinitely for additional services such as offsite backups and disaster recovery.

Rackspace features:

Starting with more powerful hardware, including Dell PowerEdge quad core dual processor servers
Intensive Hosting provides 24/7/365 proactive monitoring and issue resolution for hardware and operating system issues
Custom-built servers available for dedicated offerings
Virtual Server offerings
Rackspace currently operates 9 datacenters around the world
Zero-Downtime Network Guarantee
1 Hour Hardware Replacement Guarantee
High performance bandwidth
Cisco co-developed network configuration
Automated patch management
Much, much more!

Rackspace’s hardware and operating system monitoring will be a perfect complement to AmeriCommerce’s SiteMonitor system which tracks individual web sites for availability and response time.

AmeriCommerce will be implementing this shift over the next few months and it will be seamless and painless for our customers. ProvisionDesk, AmeriCommerce’s in-house site management tool, allows us to automate the site transfer process with the click of a button.

Enhanced Focus, Reliability, Disaster Recover, Portability, Server Choices, Hardware Upgrades, New Talent, Expanded Team, Effortless Expansion…all of these great features and more will position AmeriCommerce for unmatched growth and customer service in the years ahead!

2009.34 Released On All Customer Sites

2009-04-30T15:27:00Z

The latest mini release of AmeriCommerce has been officially put on all AmeriCommerce websites. This release has been a great foundation piece as we have worked hard on custom layout capabilities, usability and site setup/maintenance features. One of the underpinning pieces of where we are heading is the custom layout capabilities introduced in this version, which besides offering very flexible layout and styling power for your website, it was also required for our much anticipated multi-dimensional product reviews and moderation feature!

Check out the 2009.34 release notes for screenshots and feature explanations:
http://myamericommerce.com/blogs/feature_release_history_production_path/archive/2009/05/05/5-0-34-release-version.aspx

We want to personally thank our community for their invaluable feedback and support! We are here for you and keep your goals in mind with every move we make, and it shows because your sales are growing consistently. In fact, despite the economy our customers’ cumulative sales are growing around 15-25% per month, amazing numbers! Some of this is weighted by very successful customers really focusing on their storefronts, so be sure you are doing the same!

Representing $55,000,000+ in sales for our customers

Be sure to answer your next email survey and help shape where AmeriCommerce is heading next! Some great features are on the horizon!

AmeriCommerce Partners to Send Data to Comparison Shopping Sites

2009-01-17T00:04:18Z

January 14, 2009 – AmeriCommerce, a leading provider of shopping cart software and storefront solutions, teamed up with GoDatafeed.com, provider of affordable datafeed management services, to automate the submission of AmeriCommerce stores’ products to various comparison shopping sites including Shopping.com, Shopzilla, NexTag, Google Product Search and many more.

“Both GoDataFeed and AmeriCommerce are designed to help merchants drive more traffic to their sites and our integration provides our retailers with a turn-key solution to promote products on a variety of comparison shopping sites and affiliate networks,” said Ed Sturrock, AmeriCommerce Product Manager. “GoDataFeed’s robust and user-friendly platform simplify datafeed marketing, optimize product listings and update Americommerce store information automatically—saving our merchants valuable time and resources.”

Now, AmeriCommerce clients can instantly import their product data into GoDataFeed’s system to automate their datafeed marketing efforts. GoDataFeed has created a seamless import process that automatically retrieves AmeriCommerce stores’ product data and updates it daily. To introduce the service, GoDataFeed will setup AmeriCommerce merchants’ first three feeds on the GoDataFeed system-- a $225 value--at no cost, during their first month’s risk-free trial.

“We are excited to provide AmeriCommerce clients with effective datafeed management that will accelerate their marketing efforts on multiple retail channels,” said Ro Grosman, GoDataFeed’s Director of Technical Operations. “GoDataFeed empowers AmeriCommerce merchants by giving them the right tools to enhance their visibility on the comparison shopping landscape and give their stores a competitive edge.”

As sales shift away from brick-and-mortar stores, research [1] indicates that online retail sales are expected to exceed $300 billion in sales by 2012 and 75 percent of online shoppers purchase products they research on comparison shopping sites. Optimizing product feeds is a key element in shopping channel success and GoDataFeed’s software has all datafeed templates and categories built-in, making it easy to optimize product data to each shopping site’s unique requirements.

GoDataFeed’s Web-based, sleek-user interface is designed with the Web 2.0 experience in mind, catering to retailers, SEM firms and hosting companies. The software supports more than 50 Comparison Shopping Engines and affiliate networks, including:

Become, Shopzilla, MSN Cashback, Shopping, Google Product Search, Yahoo! Shopping, NexTag, CNet, Shop.com, TheFind, Pronto, PriceGrabber, PriceRunner, Smarter, Share-A-Sale, ShopMania , MyCoupons, Oodle, Play.com,

About AmeriCommerce

AmeriCommerce is a full service e-commerce solution provider. In production since 2000, the AmeriCommerce shopping cart software is built on the concept of marketing performance, ease of use, and customization. AmeriCommerce pioneered the Multiple Storefront Technology™ and provides their customers with everything they need to design and operate successful online storefronts

AmeriCommerce Benefits:

Multiple Storefronts™ Management in 1 unified administration console
Free upgrades for life
Advanced theme engine providing control over the entire store layout
Product, Order and Customer management tools
Rule based analytics, shipping, discounts, payments, regions and more.
User defined tag based searching
Depth of features is unsurpassed, do what you do today…but better with the AmeriCommerce Shopping Cart Software!

About GoDataFeed.com

GoDataFeed is reshaping the delivery of product feeds to the major comparison shopping channels with an innovative solution that properly and effectively automates, optimizes and analyzes the data feed management process. GoDataFeed empowers online retailers and search engine marketers by providing an affordable, time-saving solution to increase traffic and visibility on more than 50 comparison shopping sites and affiliate networks.

Serving online retailers, hosting and search engine marketing firms, GoDataFeed strives to meet the individual needs of each merchant and exceed customer expectations. GoDataFeed’s staff provides one-on-one customer service to meet the unique demands of each company and works with each client- from setting up customized feeds to implementing tracking—to ensure feeds are delivered properly and are driving motivated buyers to their site. GoDataFeed also caters to companies who wish to delegate the entire data feed setup process.

GoDataFeed’s software engineers and marketing specialists have developed ecommerce solutions for online businesses since 2000. Responding to the popularity of comparison shopping channels, GoDataFeed’s team combined its collective knowledge of best ecommerce and shopping channel marketing practices to create a single, user-friendly application to manage the product feed process. The GoDataFeed team has been quoted by retail industry sites including Practical eCommerce, Ecommerce-Guide.com, Small Business Informer and ECommerceOptimization.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Contact:

Ed Sturrock
Product Manager
Phone: 800-936-9006
Email: ed@americommerce.com
www.AmeriCommerce.com

Lin Grosman
Marketing & Integration
Phone: 954-472-3400
Email: lgrosman@godatafeed.com
www.GoDataFeed.com

[1] Source: Forrester Research, Inc., Cambridge, MA, US eCommerce: 2008 to 2012.

Server upgrades, network improvements, monitoring systems, oh my!

2008-11-13T13:28:43Z

Many exciting upgrades and improvements are underway at AmeriCommerce. These changes will increase performance, improve security, enhance uptime monitoring and more. The improvements have been in design phases for months and we are excited to begin this transition!

Server Software

Starting last week we began the upgrade from Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005 to Windows Server 2008 with IIS7 and SQL Server 2008. These upgrades have shown significant performance increases, with Web servers upgrading from 32bit to 64bit. Approximately 80% of storefront databases have been transitioned to the new SQL Server 2008, while the remaining databases will be transitioned within the next week. Around 20% of the web servers have been transitioned to Windows Server 2008, while the remaining servers will be migrated over the next quarter.

These changes make for faster page loads, faster site updates when we release new versions, and more automation for our IT staff allowing them greater control as we continue to add new servers and clusters.

Server Hardware

AmeriCommerce has recently upgraded some of the primary SQL Servers to new energy efficient Dell PowerEdge 1950 III servers with dual quad core Xeon processors and 8GB of RAM. Combined with the new 2008 versions of Windows Server and SQL Server, the speed of our SQL Servers has dramatically increased! Our current roadmap is to purchase only the new energy efficient quad core servers going forward for SQL and Web servers, while moving off of the 1850 dual core servers ASAP.

The AmeriCommerce server infrastructure grew 62% in 3Q 2008, adding additional Web, SQL, Backup, and network administration servers.

Monitoring

Another major upgrade is the switch from Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (MOM 2005) to Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 (OpsMgr 2007). The new OpsMgr 2007 is a complete re-write of MOM 2005, and dramatically improves on usability and functionality. Using OpsMgr 2007 we will be able to closely monitor response times of every element on our networks, from Web Server request queues to SQL Server transactions and networking gear load. This new functionality will allow for predictive load analysis which will enable our IT staff to monitor usage information closer than ever before to pinpoint potential bottlenecks and make corrections before storefront visitors even notice.

Another round of monitoring improvements are scheduled for the next few weeks once OpsMgr2007 is completely configured which will improve off-hour monitoring and response time of on call IT engineers.

Backups

AmeriCommerce is also transitioning from Backup Exec server backup software from Veritas to Microsoft’s Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM 2007). For our purposes, backing up, restoring, and archiving SQL databases and web data files with DPM is a huge step forward from Backup Exec. Last quarter AmeriCommerce added new MD3000 drive arrays for multi-terabyte online disk backup to augment our tape libraries which means we can keep storefront backups ready and available on disk for an extended period of time before having to go to tape for a restore. This change also allows us to archive data for longer periods of time since tape backups happen less frequently now and are primarily for archive and off site backups.

Security

Last but not least, security is an ongoing concern in everything we do. This year we upgraded from Cisco PIX firewalls to the newest generation of Cisco ASA firewalls configured in a redundant fashion. The new firewalls bring Intrusion Detection and Prevention along with gigabit networking interfaces for fast speeds between the different security zones.

As part of the server infrastructure upgrades we have instituted Active Directory services across all servers to centralize our management and service accounts. This allows for fine control over our IT Staff accounts and gives us new policy management and auditing abilities to ensure all servers in the network are consistently configured for best security practices.

AmeriCommerce Announces v5.0 of Their Shopping Cart Software

2008-11-12T12:25:00Z

AmeriCommerce announces Version 5.0 of their shopping cart software with over a hundred new features including an XML based Web Services API, Custom fields, MAP pricing, support for VAT/GST Taxing, partial order shipments, Live Design™ online Storefront Builder, Google™ Analytics and conversion tracking, Google checkout and Paypal Express, variant images and swatches and an IP Firewall.

Beaumont, TX November 12, 2008 -- AmeriCommerce announces Version 5.0 of their shopping cart software with over a hundred new features including an XML based Web Services API giving online store owners advanced tools to compete in the growing online marketplace. As the industry leader in Multiple Storefront™ technology, the 5.0 release increases the depth of existing features and introduces new functionality to further help store owners design, manage, market and analyze their online businesses effectively and efficiently.

The newly released Version 5.0 introduces an XML based Web Services API (Application Programming Interface) software developer's kit which allows developers access to the complete shopping cart platform so they can integrate existing business systems and synchronize business data for store owners. Developers are able to integrate the shopping cart with existing inventory, order management, accounting, customer management packages and other business software.

"The wealth of options in our web services API gives the power of choice back to the store owners who need to make real world changes to the software driving their business." says Ed Sturrock, Product Manager of AmeriCommerce. "As businesses grow, the need to integrate business software and systems is very important for operational efficiencies, growth and maintainability."

AmeriCommerce's focus in this release has been to empower business owners with customization tools and scalability as well as leading-edge features. An important feature is the advanced navigation design, often discussed as a primary driver of success for 'Top 100 Online Retailers'. The navigation and search tool is the map to the store and helps visitors find what they are looking for easily, leading to higher conversion rates. Version 5.0 features dynamic tree and drop down navigation, Dictionary, Thesaurus and Directed Searching, giving store owners complete control in customizing and adding exceptional navigation features to their storefronts with ease.

In-depth catalog management features have been added to reduce the time costs and challenges of managing large product catalogs and multiple storefronts. AmeriCommerce 5.0 features mass product editors, advanced import/export tools, API for mass inventory updates and synchronization and the Live Design™ Online Store Builder for quick updates to the storefront. Version 5.0 also features accelerated image management with auto association of images for easy association of product, category, manufacturer and variant images without needing to provide paths to each image. All of these features make managing large product catalogs efficient and easy.

Another new customization tool includes the powerful new feature Custom Fields. Every industry has unique requirements for collecting product or ordering information and Custom Fields allow store owners to customize their checkout process and collect information that is relevant to their business without the need for custom programming.

Additional key features in Version 5.0 include advanced pricing options with MAP pricing and support for including VAT/GST taxes in product price, partial order shipping, Live Design™ online Storefront Builder, Google™ Analytics and conversion tracking, Google checkout and Paypal Express, variant images and swatches, and IP Firewall. This release also features direct integration with Avalara AvaTax tax calculation services and Zoomify large image solutions.

About AmeriCommerce:
AmeriCommerce is a full service e-commerce solution provider. In production since 2000, the AmeriCommerce shopping cart software is built on the concept of marketing performance, ease of use, and customization. AmeriCommerce pioneered the Multiple Storefront Technology™ and provides their customers with everything they need to design and operate successful online storefronts. For more information, visit the AmeriCommerce web site.

Ecommerce-Guide.com calls AmeriCommerce a Superpower Storefront

2008-02-25T19:38:00Z

Wayne Kawamoto of ecommerce-guide.com has reviewed all of the major shopping cart systems on the market and has dubbed AmeriCommerce to be a Superpower Storefront.

Quote:

With all its comprehensive management and tracking tools, plus stellar shipping and cart functions, AmeriCommerce stands out from the crowd in storefront and hosting providers.

AmeriCommerce is a Finalist in CODiE Awards 2008 Competition

2008-02-14T20:52:00Z

AmeriCommerce is pleased to announce that for the second consecutive year its Shopping Cart Software has been named a top 5 finalist in the Software & Information Industry Association's prestigious 23rd annual CODiE Awards competition.

AmeriCommerce was again recognized as a finalist in the Best eCommerce Solutions category for its wide array of innovative features and ease of use that make it stand out in the competitive shopping cart software industry.

"We constantly strive to add new Web 2.0 shopping features and solve new ecommerce problems daily for our customers and take great pride in helping them" says Ed Sturrock, Product Manager and Co-Founder. "To once again be honored as a CODiE Awards finalist helps to justify the work we gladly do for our customers already. This is our lifestyle, not just our product."

For 23 years, SIIA CODiE Awards have been the leading honor for the software and information industry's finest products and services. CODiE Awards judges are experts in their field and work to identify the "best-of-the-best" from hundreds of nominees.

"Competition is tough this year and that makes selection as a CODiE Finalist a real achievement," said Ken Wash, SIIA president. "All the companies on this year's list should feel justifiably proud of their recognition."

The complete list of CODiE Award finalists can be viewed at http://www.siia.net/codies/2008/finalists.asp

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AmeriCommerce Awarded PayPal Shopping Cart Certification

2007-12-07T18:46:00Z

AmeriCommerce announces certified integration between the AmeriCommerce Shopping Cart Software and the new PayPal Express Checkout service. This new service adds to the existing PayPal payment methods AmeriCommerce integrates with including Website Payments Pro, Website Payments Standard, and the Payflow Pro gateway.

AmeriCommerce has worked together with the PayPal certification teams to test and verify all aspects of the integration with PayPal. In response PayPal has certified the AmeriCommerce Shopping Cart software for these payment models.

PayPal Express Checkout integrates directly with the AmeriCommerce Shopping Cart Software to provide a simplified checkout process for all PayPal customers where the shopper provides their payment information to PayPal, rather than the storefront. PayPal Express saves store owners money as it can be used without monthly payments charged by most payment gateways.

PayPal Website Payments Pro model seamlessly integrates with the shopping cart and accepts all major credit cards using AmeriCommerce’s One Page Checkout, while removing the need for a separate gateway or merchant card processing system.

"Online store owners demand flexibility in the payment options offered to their shoppers and PayPal offers multiple services that can to increase online sales by appealing to the shopper’s preferred methods of payment," said Kenneth Vincent, Sales Manager for AmeriCommerce. "Offering our clients these certified payment methods will aid in converting visits into sales."

The new payment methods are introduced in conjunction with other payment optimizations that support the AmeriCommerce Multiple Storefronts™ Shopping Cart management model and include additional storefront specific settings for payment options, payment gateways and markups.

AmeriCommerce provides ecommerce solutions to a variety of online businesses, including shopping cart software, ecommerce hosting (http://www.americommerce.com), web design, custom development and marketing consultations. Clients include B2B, B2C and internal purchasing systems in various industries.

About AmeriCommerce

AmeriCommerce is a full service e-commerce solution provider. In production since 2000, the AmeriCommerce shopping cart software is built on the concept of marketing performance, ease of use, and customization. AmeriCommerce provides their customers with everything they need to design and operate a successful online storefront. AmeriCommerce also assists the development of accounting systems, call centers, marketing, and distribution, which is the infrastructure supporting the e-commerce business. For more information, visit the AmeriCommerce web site (http://www.americommerce.com).