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 AmeriCommerce announces a major upgrade to version 2012.1 with a completely new web design theme system and usability enhancements for the administration console.
When shopping online, looks matter. The first impression created by a store’s layout and organization can mean the difference between online success and failure. Online stores have only seconds to instill trust and confidence with potential customers. AmeriCommerce’s Shopping Cart Software version 2012 focuses on complete control over online store layout and design, giving everyone from non-technical users to award-winning web designers the tools and access they need to launch successful online stores. With Version 2012.1, AmeriCommerce provides an entirely new theme engine that both simplifies designing an ecommerce store and yet provides entirely new levels of flexibility and power for seasoned online stores. The new theme engine renders current HTML5/CSS3 search engine optimized layouts geared for success and cross browser support. This release includes a completely refreshed Live Design™ system allowing for drag and drop placement of ecommerce widgets and real-time editing of the online store’s look and feel. Simply point and click to change colors and fonts using the new style designer which shows how your changes will look before saving them. Even resize entire page areas by simply dragging their borders. This feature breathes new life into managing an online storefront by removing the need to constantly be locked into an admin console. Instead just browse the front end website making changes as you go. AmeriCommerce Version 2012.1 also adds the ability to create alternate layouts of each page in your online store. Alternate layouts can be used to test new page looks or provide page variations to different segments of visitors. Web designers craving real design flexibility will love the new Theme Manager which gives direct, file-level access to every page in the storefront. Using the web administration console they can modify HTML markup, CSS and widget settings, or use their favorite HTML editor and upload the changes via FTP.
Themes and widget layouts can be imported and exported and can be traded freely in the MyAmeriCommerce community or sold by Web Designers, building upon the invaluable design eco-system around AmeriCommerce. “When seconds count, online stores are required to make a big impact through a unique, attractive site design and cohesive layout,” says Stefan Barlow, Vice President and Co-Founder of AmeriCommerce. “Simple yet uncompromising web design has been a focus of AmeriCommerce since its inception. This redesign takes all of the ecommerce features and power available in previous versions and adds a new layer of usability for both non-technical store owners and seasoned web designers.” Version 2012’s improvements don’t stop with design. The administrative console, known for its ability to manage Multiple Storefronts™ in one location, has undergone many usability changes after much feedback from storefront owners.
Other enhancements include product-specific automated subscriptions, serial number delivery for down-loadable goods, remote carting and external website enhancements, new API methods and much more. New 3rd party tracking integrations have also been introduced in AmeriCommerce 2012, such as WebTrends Ad Director Beacon, Share-a-Sale affiliate tracking, Nexttag ROI Tracking, LinkShare Pixel Tracking, and Channel Intelligence Tracking.
About AmeriCommerce
AmeriCommerce is an award winning full service e-commerce software provider. Since 2000, the AmeriCommerce shopping cart software is built on the concept of marketing performance, ease of use, and feature rich customization. AmeriCommerce provides their customers with everything they need to design and operate multiple online store websites, Facebook stores and mobile stores. For more information, visit the http://www.americommerce.com/.
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Beaumont, TX (PRWEB) November 08, 2011  AmeriCommerce is pleased to announce full integration with Atandra’s T-Hub application with their Shopping Cart Software allowing for enhanced Order Management with 2-way QuickBooks integration and printing of Shipping Labels. This new integration improves on past QuickBooks to AmeriCommerce integrations by providing additional fine-grained controls on how customer and order data is tracked between the systems. T-Hub also supports QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Point of Sale, previously unsupported by other integration methods. Shipping management is included in T-Hub Pro and T-Hub Advanced to allow direct integration with UPS WorldShip, Endicia Dazzle (USPS), Stamps.com (USPS) and FedEx Ship Manager for easy shipping label printing. Tracking numbers are automatically updated to QuickBooks and AmeriCommerce. Inventory management and product catalog creation from QuickBooks to AmeriCommerce is offered through T-Hub Advanced, keeping the AmeriCommerce Online Storefronts up to date with available stock quantities of products. "Providing automation to common tasks such as inventory control, order processing and shipping management are vital for online retailers to succeed," says Stefan Barlow, Vice President and Co-Founder of AmeriCommerce. "Having Atandra’s T-Hub integration available for our store owners adds yet another way to reduce their overhead and provide excellent service for their shoppers." “Multi-channel selling is critical for success in today’s competitive ecommerce landscape. It's no longer enough to sell online, merchants need to be selling on multiple channels,” says Manish Jha, President and founder of Atandra. “AmeriCommerce makes it easy for merchants to sell on multiple websites. Integrating T-HUB with AmeriCommerce provides a single interface for merchants to process sales from multiple websites and marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay.” 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 http://www.AmeriCommerce.com. About Atandra
Founded in 2004, and based in Millburn, NJ, Atandra provides software solutions for small business. Their goal is to make systems integration easy enough for business owners to tackle themselves. Atandra’s flagship product T-HUB has been helping over 4500 merchants streamline their ecommerce operations. They are gold certified by Intuit, the highest level of certification awarded based on customer ratings. For more information, visit Atandra web site at http://www.Atandra.com.
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 Beaumont, TX (AmeriCommerce) March 16, 2011 -- Social and mobile commerce are both fast growing online commerce markets and AmeriCommerce Shopping Cart Software has launched applications and new features to empower small and large online businesses to compete effectively in these markets.
The latest AmeriCommerce release revolutionizes the Facebook Shop marketplace (also known as f-commerce). The new application allows visitors to shop directly within Facebook pages using the AmeriCommerce Facebook store. This has previously been an expensive endeavor, out of reach for most small and mid-sized businesses. The latest version of AmeriCommerce not only provides a complete Facebook Shop at an affordable price, the shop is also integrated directly with the business’s main online store for centralized management. The new release ensures the playing ground is even for businesses large and small, allowing every business to be part of the fast growing social commerce market by having their own Facebook store.  a complete Facebook Shop at an affordable price, the Facebook store is also integrated directly with the business’s main online store for centralized management 
The Facebook Shop application is easy to configure and comes ready with a user friendly layout requiring no programming skills as well as custom layout controls for store owners wanting to further customize the look and feel.  In addition, AmeriCommerce has also released a number of features for store owners to tie in their websites with Facebook allowing their visitors to Like and Share products directly from their websites and their Facebook Shop. The features are in-depth giving the store owner the capability of boosting their Facebook marketing and presence quickly. Another noteworthy feature in this new release is the enhanced Mobile Commerce optimized website and user experience. This feature set gives online store owners the ability to create a custom and user friendly experience based on the mobile device that shoppers are using. “The mobile payments marketplace is growing at break neck speed and is estimated to reach over $600 billion in 2015 and we want to ensure store owners can gain a significant market share early in the cycle. Our mobile commerce optimization and features are geared to help store owners establish their mobile commerce presence quickly and provide a fantastic user experience to their visitors” said Co-Founder Ed Sturrock.  Some of these mobile commerce features are the ability to serve alternative site layouts for mobile phones and a mobile friendly search feature. Both features create an outstanding user experience for the growing mobile device users. Adding the ability to target each individual platform with a specific layout and theme makes it easy to mimic the specific UI of each mobile phone platform. Store owners can create a look and feel that is finger friendly, with little-to-no zooming required, removing all the fluff and get down to just the pieces required to make a transaction or do research on the small screen.
In addition to the mobile and social commerce features, the new release also has powerful usability and rich-media features. Some of these include video support on product pages for an easy to implement rich media experience, elegant and user friendly product display with custom product variant swatches, polished advanced navigation functionality with check box display attributes, auto complete search, and mobile friendly search feature. Other significant features in this release include integration with Shareasale affiliate marketing software, Constant Contact email marketing and product-specific handling fees. AmeriCommerce pioneered the Multiple Storefronts technology and is an eCommerce solution with robust online store management and marketing tools. The award winning shopping cart software leads in the number of features as well as the depth of features and tools. Setting up and managing large and complex catalogs with multiple price points, promotions and shipping configurations are standard features of the product. 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. AmeriCommerce has been voted a CODiE award finalist in 2007, 2008 and 2010 and won the 2010 CODiE award for Best eCommerce Solution.
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Summer is a time for fun where we all enjoy long bright days and spending time with the people and friends that you share your lives with. For us, we spent a lot of our summer with friendly customers gathering and listening to their feedback, trolling tickets, scouring forums and checking out the direction of our industry and the online software industry in general. We are proud to report some of the fruits of our lessons learned and to build the framework for an upcoming pivotal pre-holiday release of AmeriCommerce. While we worked on pieces of the next major release of our ecommerce software, we wanted to provide some real value immediately using the insight our customers provided. The 3 areas that received the most attention were: Speed, Security & Reliability. Speed  Yes, we know, our front end pages were already very fast and others are scrambling to keep up with our speed while offering half the functionality. However there were certain features and customers that said ‘hey, we need more’, so we listened. The timing is great with Google just beginning to give extra weight to faster sites and the approaching holiday season spike, what better opportunity would we have to be loyal to our customers?
- Cut front end page load times by over 75% in many cases!
- Reduced traffic between web and SQL servers by over 25% resulting in faster response times.
- Enhanced our Provisioning application to reduce update downtime to as fast as 2 seconds per site for a hotfix!
- Switched to an official Scrum/Agile product development strategy for even faster releases. We did this before, but in an unofficial way.
Reliability (and more speed) Speed isn’t just about front end pages, it also includes producing new features faster. However, also ensuring the product still works after all of this fast change slows the pace considerably…so we had to enhance things to pick up speed without sacrificing reliability. We have to do a great job ensuring your key features are protected with every version of the product we release. The more reliably we do this, the faster we can release our product, playing hand in hand with our need for speed. 2010.5 gave us this by: - Adding almost 500 new automated quality assurance tests to ensure the safe operation of the key aspects of the AmeriCommerce system.
- Adding multiple front end automated UI acceptance and load tests to further exercise the platform.
- Incorporating a new automated software build system that packages each new version of our product and runs our automated tests, coding rules, performance tests and packages the product.
Security  PCI/DSS Compliance is paramount in this industry and long ago we have seen our customers through these needs, however, these rules are just a starting spot not and end destination. Security is more like a road with no end, we must drive far beyond the established rules and always strive for more. With an ever increasing amount of malicious activity out there, the only way an individual site owner can keep up is trusting your software vendors and partners to address these concerns. We shoulder that responsibility with respect and compassion and kept this a top priority by:
- Deploying a new encryption and sensitive data storage mechanism involving clustered fault-tolerant encryption servers providing additional layers of security for your sensitive information and keeping different pieces of data in multiple silos separate from your storefront data.
- Installing 3 new automated auditing systems for tracking file level changes and continual 24/7/365 real-time auditing of our files and network traffic for enhanced above-and-beyond compliance to PCI/DSS Regulations.
- Creating a login tracking system showing live trends of logged in users sent to our network operations center hourly for analysis.
- Expanding audit history logging of logins and data changes in the admin console.
- Spending a LOT of recurring money to do the above so our customers don’t have to. Sorry, we had to mention that for some brownie points!
Features Naturally, we also slipped a few features in too while working on 2010.5 and the foundation for next month's pivotal release! Here are some highlights. If interested, check out the daily feed here.  Mailing List Enhancements (see the details here) - ExactTarget Mailing Manager Integration
- Saved Credit Card selection on 1 page checkout
- Optional HTML Head area modification specific to categories/products/manufacturers, add your own tags
- Rule Engine Enhancements
 New Merge Codes & API Methods - Additional JQuery Support Added
Aside from all of the above, we have been setting the company up for success in other ways by committing more solidly to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). We did this by switching out even more internal systems to our neighbors in the SaaS industry. This includes task management, release management and even many of our office document and collaboration applications. AmeriCommerce ecommerce software is already in the cloud (ecommerce SaaS), but now even most of our operations are too. We are currently evaluating our support ticketing and idea management solutions to see how we can position them better as well. We look forward to discussing the next release soon! Until then, happy selling and know we are behind our customers 100% of the way!
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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
- 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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