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Headlines about AmeriCommerce and our noteworthy achievements as a company that strives to bring the most powerful cutting edge shopping cart software in the e-commerce realm
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True to form, AmeriCommerce listened to customer feedback and has focused on a few routine areas of the product with the 2010.4 (and 2010.3) releases of the AmeriCommerce ecommerce solution enabling merchants to sell online. Additionally, some great new features and integrations have also been added along with some next generation features that will extend the flexibility of the shopping cart platform. Another noteworthy mention is that AmeriCommerce has always used our own software for our own website and payments. However we’ve always used a mix of tools for the customer relationship management, accounting and order management systems due to the requirements that we have. With version 2010.4 the AmeriCommerce system is used entirely for our own customer and order management dropping our reliance on other tools and systems. This proves the power of our platform and how it has grown over the years. This shift results in better understanding of our system from sales up through accounting and beyond. This is a great advantage to our customers because every employee touches the system and features on a daily basis, even positions that were previously isolated from using it. We use most aspects of our software alongside our customers and due to that understanding and comradery we can innovate better and faster for the good of us all. Here’s an overview of a few of the key features we’ve added in v2010.4. Be sure to review the revised order process so your team will be ready when your site is updated. New Custom Workflow Engine
This new feature extension will allow a business to take control of their data workflows and create custom triggers and events that happen in response to events the shopping cart system is already performing. Tap into new orders placed and add new alerts, send info to external systems, set custom fields to new values, add/remove from drip series and so much more. All of this is configured by the merchant based on their specific needs. The rule engine looks for conditions that match and when matches are found, the ‘actions’ are taken. An action is what the rule is to ‘do’. - New Workflow Engine Types, Event Types, Conditions, Actions
- Change customers, orders and more based on rules
- Automatically add/remove customers to mailing lists and drips series based on criteria
- Send custom email alerts to specified email addresses based on rules
       New Scheduled Export Engine
Schedule exports to send data files to remote FTP servers or to folders on your own server. This allows automation of order and customer exports to external systems and allows you to save the file translations and formatting for repeated/scheduled use. - Schedule Automated Exports
- Export to FTP Servers
- Post Export Processing Options
 New Add To Cart Capabilities
As we further extend our remote external site and system carting tools and our API carting tools we continue to add features to these areas. This allows any website or desktop program to use your AmeriCommerce storefront as a catalog, carting and ordering system. Empower any tool or website on any platform or service to take orders by just supplying the proper information to the cart system. Manage as much or as little of the carting/checkout process using our system. - Create/Maintain shopping carts over the AmeriCommerce from any application or website
- Create/Maintain orders out of the carts you make from any application or website
- Basic External Site Remote Carting Enhanced Using Url and Posting methods
- Any site or application can now put add to cart buttons and do cart management
- Any site or application can now order without ever going to your AmeriCommerce site
Customer Changes
The changes to the Customer area involved mostly cosmetic and previews of the data that resides in other modules of AmeriCommerce. And adding better support for tracking information for each customer including better custom field visibility, better notes and email tracking and more which allow a merchant to keep track the most valuable asset they have, their customers. - Add quick notes & emails with attachments to customers
- Customer Edit becomes new home for historical data
- Fast balance preview on customers
- Edit and Add Addresses manually
- Email Attachments capability added, with logging
- Add a note capability added
- Search by many new criteria including custom fields
- New fields added to the customer list for showing balance, segmentation and more
   Order Changes
After listening to customer feedback we have streamlined the order and customer areas of our platform for easy management. This involved putting information at our customer’s fingertips as well as providing advanced tools and access to the information and processes they need at the time. For orders, this involved reworking the order edit and management pages considerably. Cutting the time to enter an order into seconds vs. minutes and adding more visibility into the products being added to an order. - See http://www.americommerce.com/kb/afmviewfaq.aspx?faqid=373 for an overview of functional changes (and release history)
- Quick search/entry fields for products & customers
- Screen refreshed to be streamlined and fit in smaller space
- Password reset capability right from order
- Item images and more information on order items
- Easier Authorization, Capture and Adjustments for Payments
- Address Book capabilities added
- View Order made smaller and easily printable
- Coupon Codes, Affiliate Tracking & Adcode Tracking added
     Drip Series Changes - Better Drip Series List Management and Visibility
- Auto assignments added for after order placed through workflow engine
- Can follow up and ask for reviews after 7 days and more.
New Front End Features and Changes - Carousel/Product Sliders Controls & Vertical Carousel Snapins Added
- New Snapins/Product Sliders (Recently Viewed, Viewed This but Bought These, Deal a Day)
- New Snapin: Tabs Control, can use anywhere
- Product Picture Zoom and Popups Enhanced, Lightbox style
- Discount Rules display on front end
- Tell a Friend Feature & Emailing Added
- Custom Layout on Order Based Email Templates
- New Paging Controls added for Lists
- Search Engine Friendly and Stylable Tabs Added for Products
- Cleaner 'No Image' added
          Other - Check Box List added to Custom Fields Display Type
- Ability to add Store Level Custom Fields
- New color picker added with full color range capabilities
- Html Wysiwyg Editor updated with many new features
       New Integrations
There were some great new integrations added that support customers both large and small. This helps us continue our edge of having the most integrations of any platform today. Over 175 and building. - CartSpan - PeachTree Accounting Now Supported
- ExactTarget Mailing Management
- AddThis Social Networking Linking & Notification
- Tivoli Access Manager Single Signon Support Added
- Commerce XML (CXML) Hooks Allow Custom CXML Integrations
- Paymentech Orbital Certified
- Aisle7 Content Server Integration
- TMP Warehousing and Fulfillment Systems Integration
- Standard Register Printing & Fulfillment Systems Integration
New Tools - JQuery Tabs, Slider & Date Pickers
- Telerik Management Tools Updated
- Highslide Image Tools Added
Be sure to review the revised order process so your team will be ready when your site is updated. See http://www.americommerce.com/kb/afmviewfaq.aspx?faqid=373
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AmeriCommerce, an eCommerce Shopping Cart Software company was announced the winner of the 2010 CODiE Award for the Best eCommerce Solution. While many others have tried, AmeriCommerce is the first software as a service (SaaS) platform dedicated entirely to selling products online to win the award. The announcement was made last week at the CODiE Awards in San Francisco, California. Other recipients of the award have included such companies as QuickBooks, IBM, and PayPal. 
The Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) CODiE Awards program, the only peer-reviewed honor in the industry, has raised the standard for excellence and serves as a prestigious representation of outstanding achievement and vision in the software and information industry. AmeriCommerce has been voted a CODiE award finalist in 2007, 2008 and 2010 and took home the crown for 2010.  Being recognized as the first in our industry segment to receive the CODiE award for the Best eCommerce Software category is an exciting endorsement 
AmeriCommerce attributes its success to listening to business community feedback and understanding the problems online businesses face. With a strong combination of industry research and eCommerce business community input, AmeriCommerce has evolved to provide business solutions making the setup and management of an online store easy and scalable. “Our knowledgeable team and community of clients have helped shape an award winning shopping cart solution and we are thankful for their continued feedback, dedication and work. Our company provides a unique value proposition, fully hosted off-the-shelf software with customization capabilities to tailor AmeriCommerce to specific business needs. Everyone wins." said Ed Sturrock, Co-Founder and Vice President of Product Management AmeriCommerce pioneered Multiple Storefront Technology™ and is an eCommerce solution with robust online store management and marketing tools, leading the industry in the quantity and depth of features, tools and number of integrations (over 165) with software tools businesses already use. Setting up and managing large and complex catalogs with multiple price points, promotions and shipping configurations are standard features of the product. Additionally, the software can be used by any website or application on any platform or can be the entire front end website as well. “Since 2000, AmeriCommerce has always pushed expectations of what online store software should be,” said Stefan Barlow, Co-Founder and Vice President of System Operations. “Being recognized as the first in our industry segment to receive the CODiE award for the Best eCommerce Software category is an exciting endorsement that AmeriCommerce is indeed more than a shopping cart, we are an eCommerce platform.” “We are thrilled to receive the recognition from SIIA. The process was extremely competitive making the recognition even more valuable. Our vision is to continue to develop best of class features while maintaining the eCommerce leadership position for innovation. This commitment will allow our customers to be industry leaders for years to come," noted Charlie Cooper, President. "Now in its 25th year, the CODiE Awards continue to recognize those companies providing the best new technology products and services across a broad array of industries," noted SIIA President Ken Wasch. "In addition, its winners are a prolific testament to the power of technology to deliver innovative solutions to businesses and consumers. SIIA warmly congratulates all of the winners and nominees of the CODiE Awards, whose innovation is essential for continuing America's leadership in the global knowledge economy," Wasch continued. About AmeriCommerce:
AmeriCommerce is a full service e-commerce solution provider empowering merchants to sell online easily. In production since 2000, the AmeriCommerce shopping cart software is built on the concept of marketing performance, ease of use, flexibility 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 at http://ww.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 500 leading software and information companies. For further information, visit http://www.siia.net/codies/2010/winners.asp
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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.
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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 3rd 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.
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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
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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. Sign Up & Get Information here “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.” Sign Up & Get Information here 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.” Sign Up & Get Information here 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, Sign Up & Get Information here 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!
Sign Up & Get Information here 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. Sign Up & Get Information here 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. Sign Up & Get Information here FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact: Ed Sturrock
Product Manager
Phone: 800-936-9006
Email: ed@americommerce.com
www.AmeriCommerce.com Or Lin Grosman
Marketing & Integration
Phone: 954-472-3400
Email: lgrosman@godatafeed.com
www.GoDataFeed.com Sign Up & Get Information here [1] Source: Forrester Research, Inc., Cambridge, MA, US eCommerce: 2008 to 2012.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Read more:
http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/news/article.php/3729456
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