eBusiness Team - Sunday, January 11, 2009
We've made some
exciting new improvements to Product Attributes. Unlike Product
Grouping where each item in the group is a different product, product
attributes are a way of adding meta information to any product at the
time of the purchase. For example if you are selling a Sofa and you'd
like the customer to choose the stitching style, color and leather
type, then you would use product attributes. Such attributes may not
necessarily represent different products, but are important to the
final product being purchased. The improvements we've made in this area
include:
- Ability to set a price for each attribute. This means in addition
to the product price, each attribute can have its own price which gets
added to the product price if selected
- Ability to display attributes as checkboxes (allows for multiple
attributes to be selected), radio list and drop down. Previously you
could only display them in drop down format
- Ability to specify an image for each attribute
In the longer term we will also allow attributes to be displayed in
textbox format. This will come in handy if you are selling products
such as curtains. For example if you sell curtains by the meter, the
customer will be able to enter the number of meters and have that
multiplied by the attribute price to calculate the total price of that
product.
To utilize this feature please download the latest Product
Import Template file from Admin->Imports to learn more about how to
enter information in the import file and/or the Admin interface to
specify this extra information. We will be enhancing the interface in
the Admin in the coming weeks to allow you to enter attribute
information much more easily. We hope you enjoy these new improvements.
eBusiness Team - Thursday, January 08, 2009
We've made some
significant shipping improvements during the holidays. We've received
much feedback from our customers on what they'd like to see in this
feature. The new improvements include:
- The ability to filter the shipping options displayed to customers based on the total value of the products in an order
- Ability to add handling charges to any of your shipping options.
You can now add a base handling charge as well as a per item handling
charge
- You can now limit shipping options based on the products purchased.
This is particularly useful if you are selling perishable items where
they may need overnight delivery
To learn more and utilize these enhancements go to eCommerce->Shipping.
eBusiness Team - Tuesday, January 06, 2009
All systems are functioning normally.
eBusiness Team - Thursday, January 01, 2009
For approximately 120 minutes services have returned to normal. We have not been able to determine the root cause at this time, nor has Microsoft. We have provided Microsoft with 15GB of fresh data for them to analyze so the root cause can be determined for this ongoing issue. This may take some time. In the interim we are monitoring the situation closely. Thank you for your continued patience.
