1) Stock holding

Normally a stock quantity is deducted ONLY when a you have a payment confirmation on the order (aka status = “processed”). However, some of  the merchants  want to deduct the stock quantity even though payment yet to be received. Thus we introduce Stock Holding Status – Basically it “holds” the stock, while awaiting payment confirmation when the order status is still  “pending“.

2) Custom Form Fields

(Advanced feature for bizStore only!) – Now you can get more information about your customers as you would like! Eg, if you are selling fashion online, you might want to  know more about your customer’s sizes  (aka BUST, WAIST, HIP), or you probably want to know about their favourite colours or pets too! These are very useful information which you can utilize to offer more relevant deals (thus sell more) or to personalize certain marketing campaign targeting to specific clients only!

3) New template editor

New template file editor with improved stability and also easily revert back to last saved changes!

4) Size Chart (sohoStore & bizStore only!)

What’s the must have feature for fashion sellers? Almost every online shoppers will checkout the Size Chart to make sure the sizes fit before they place their order. Now we got this built-in as part of the feature too!

5) Estimate shipping cost

Notice the link appear on the shopping cart page? Now your customers can effortlessly estimate the shipping cost even before they checkout! This is designed to improve the overall online shopping experience with the goal of helping them make better purchase decision.

6) 1-click shipping Setup for Singapore Speedpost

1-click, is all you need to setup Singapore Speedpost Shipping Rate. What normally takes one or 2 days, we have significantly shorten it to just a few seconds. Saving you enormous amount of time. Of course, not forgetting Malaysia Online Merchants can do so too with Poslaju too. Don’t miss out the PosLaju Special Promo exclusive for webShaper Stores only!

 

7) Discount Codes (Expanded!)

An improvement on existing discount code feature. Now, you can easily create multiple discount code for the same discount rules. This is very very useful especially for those online merchants who are a special promotion on the popular group buying sites like Groupon, Everyday, Mydeal etc!

As you can see here, this enhancement is already being utilized by webShaper merchants.

http://www.mydeal.com.my/deals/kuala-lumpur/RM30-for-Shopping-Voucher-at-Fashion-Barrage

http://www.groupsmore.com/cities/multiple-cities/deals/dooodolls

8 ) Product Feed (bizStore only)

More ways for you to get traffic! – This new product feed (XML-based), contains all your product details (name, pricing etc) readily to be exported to 3rd party marketplaces or online shopping search engine.

Last but not least, we fixed a lot of bugs too. We hope you enjoy the new features and we are already working hard on new ones. bringing more innovation to webShaper to help you SELL MORE ONLINE.

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Dear all valued clients & partners, you might have noticed recently some of your sites are undergoing some major upgrade, the transition is the very first important step for us to add serious values to your webStore business. Below are an important overview of what’s new, and what’s coming next!

mySQL

Database upgraded fully to mySQL (from old,not-so-efficient file based Microsoft Access) – a Real Database Management System which not just speeding up access to your webShaper Stores’ information, but add industrial strength stability onto your own branded webStores too.

Caching

We have designed a new Dynamic Caching Mechanism to produce cache-page for frequently accessed pages on webShaper Stores (homepage, category page, product page etc) .  In simpler term, this means frequent access to database to retrieve information is NOT needed unless there are new changes made to the product details and site contents!

Considering Google now adding site loading speed as one of the hundreds over signals to rank your website, it can only help to boost your ranking further! But… it can’t help you to break world record yet, but it’s close.

New Features

Needsless to say, we have added in numerous new features (availability depends on your webShaper Store’s plan). A quick overview below:

1) Labeling – Easily label your products (Hot, Pre-order, New, Best Selling) and convert more browsers into clients.

2) Form Builder - simple form builder to help you put up a form and grab the input sent to your designated email.

3) Quick Search – Appear on Top right, now you can easily retrieve Customer, Product and Order Information on webShaper’s Control Panel.

4) Improved WYSIWYG Editor – This is one area which we have receive a lot of complaints, and we hear you! We believe you will love the new editor and it can even let you copy the Microsoft Word Content and paste over.

5) Guest Checkout – According to Forrester Research, 23% of shoppers will abandon when asked to register before checking out. Unless you absolutely must require registration, test a guest checkout (login to webShaper > Order Config) and see how much it impacts conversion.

7) New Payment Gateways and updated API for existing payment option  – iPay88 now support Multi Currency (Checkout iPay88 International Gateway),  iPayDNA, PayPal Express Checkout, Payment Express.

8 ) News Update on Dashboard to  “Stay in close loop” with merchants, and update you all latest happening in the e-commerce and payment industry + marketing tips and tricks which you can apply to sell more online!

9) Product Comparison – Easily add products and compare, and clients can just click on “add to cart” on comparison page to buy!

What’s Next?

Once this upgrade is done, you will hear more frequent update from us, not just on the new, innovative features we will continuously to fuel on webShaper Stores, but also on more ways to help you grow your online sales! This will be our primary focus as we are driven to help our clients succeed and maintain a long term win-win relationship!

Yet to sign up webShaper Stores yet? Start here.

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