Tag: e-commerce platforms

  • Tenth Blog: Now Commerce

    Tenth Blog: Now Commerce

    Now Commerce Portal QuickBooks Integration

    B2B Online Ordering System for businesses using QuickBooks Desktop

    Give professional buyers a sophisticated online sales experience, not a shopping cart. Customers can order online 24/7 with full access to custom pricing, inventory and account history. Customers can also check for themselves order status, tracking, invoices, and more. If you are a manufacturer, wholesaler, distributor or simply sell products with SKUs, and you are using QuickBooks Desktop, Now Commerce is built for you.

    Start selling online with the help of a dedicated account manager

    Now will consult with you every step of the way. Setup your online store with custom order forms specific to your business and we’ll integrate your online orders directly with QuickBooks. No additional hardware, software or programming is required—we’ll take care of it all. And accepting orders is just the beginning, the Customer Portal is a comprehensive two-way QuickBooks integration.

    Two-Way
    QuickBooks integration

    From Now Commerce to QuickBooks and QuickBooks to Now Commerce, two-way integration is built-in. Customers and sales staff can see real-time inventory, order history, and other key data, and new orders placed online are automatically created in QuickBooks. And if you do off-site warehousing & shipping, we can automate that as well.

    Sell 24 hours a day and 7 days a week with our highly reliable SaaS infrastructure

    We provide all the software, hardware and support to keep your business running. There is no hardware to buy, no software to support and no hosting headaches. Now manages everything, they keep your business online and they keep your IT costs to a minimum.

    Business insight and remote management

    Beyond the operational improvements for your business, Now Commerce comes with powerful management tools. With Now Commerce, managers can review daily orders and inventory levels remotely. Your sales team, in-house and outside, can manage their accounts 24/7 and be notified of any customer activity. And your customers can better manage their orders and delivery schedules.  Setup is always included at no additional charge!

    Now portal pricing includes a dedicated account manager to help you understand what’s involved in selling online. Now will help get your QuickBooks data configured properly, customize your order forms and, of course, integrate everything. Why waste time with limited-functionality demos or buying software you hope you can get to work?

     

    Two-Way Integration with QuickBooks Desktop

    • Online orders automatically entered in QuickBooks
    • View real-time Pricing & Inventory
    • Check Shipping Status
    • View Pending Orders
    • View Account History – complete account activity including credits/returns
    • Manage Account Information

    Client-Specific Customization

    • Pricing per QuickBooks’ Price Levels
    • Terms and other order parameters per QuickBooks’ settings
    • Advanced Inventory – display stock status per QuickBooks’ Advanced Inventory sites

    Branded with your Logo & Colors

    Customizable order forms

    • Present your products as they should be
    • Streamlined ordering for your customers
    • Simple to advanced “Matrix” order forms

    Reports tab shows QB history

    • Admin users have a reports tab which shows complete QB history: Invoices, Sales Orders, Estimates, and more

    Multiple Roles

    • Admin, Customer, Rep, Customer service, Warehouse

    Custom Pricing

    • automatic integration with QB Price Levels or set customer pricing customer-by-customer in Now Commerce

    We hope you enjoyed our series on e-commerce platforms and we hope you will check in for our next Seven Week blog on Video and Content Marketing.

    Source: http://www.nowcommerce.com/capterra-ecommerce-software?utm_source=capterra

     

     

     

  • Nineth Blog: Volusion e-commerce

    Nineth Blog: Volusion e-commerce

    It all started in 1999 when Kevin Sproles, then 16 years old, started building custom websites for clients. Talking to customers, and building their dream was a passion from the beginning. Doing it all, from sales to support, to product design, Kevin knew what needed to happen to be able to help more people, and soon the first version of Volusion was born: an all-in-one tool for people to run their business.

    From the beginning, it was easy to use, and we were there if you needed help. Volusion’s all-in-one ecommerce solution comes fully loaded with features you need to succeed. Create a store expertly designed to convert browsers to buyers. Sell more with intuitive ordering and swift, secure checkout. Grow your business with state-of-the-art SEO, social and reporting tools.

    Responsive Themes
    Whether your customers are tapping on their phones or clicking on a desktop, our fully customizable themes adapt to any device.
    Rich Content Editor
    Our intuitive Easy Editor tool lets you make changes to your store on the fly: no backend coding required!
    Custom Domain
    Make your store your own and optimize it for sales with a custom domain that lets shoppers — and search engines — easily access your site.
    Navigation Editor
    Give your customers a stellar shopping experience with a variety of navigation styles designed to help them browse with ease.
    Product Category Pages
    If you want to add subcategories, upload images, manage SEO or all of the above, we have the tools you need to customize products.
    Search Functionality
    Help customers locate items quickly and easily with our advanced search tools.
    Homepage Slideshow
    Highlight discounts and products directly on your homepage with our free, professionally-designed Slideshow feature!
    Logo + Favicon upload
    Showcase your brand across your site with our built in promotional tools.
    CSS Editor

    Grow Your Business
    Volusion’s state-of-the-art SEO tools, social integrations and reporting features make it easy to keep tabs on your store while taking your business even further.
    Powerful SEO
    Easily manage all of your metadata — such as descriptions, title tags, URLs and more — to keep your pages, products and categories SEO-friendly.
    Sell on Facebook, Ebay and Amazon
    Expand your store to Facebook, Ebay, Amazon and beyond. Additionally, enjoy Facebook store management right from your Volusion admin!
    Admin Social Management
    Link your social accounts to your store, and even post to Facebook and Twitter from the comfort of your own admin.
    ROI Tracking
    Take a look at how valuable your investments are with comprehensive ROI tracking based on affiliates, ad campaigns and newsletters.
    Create Reports
    Get insights about everything from abandoned and live carts, purchases, RMAs, Product and Category views and CRM tickets.
    Additionally, send helpful reminder emails to folks who have abandoned carts waiting in the wings.
    Create Discounts
    Keep your customers coming back for more by creating discounts with a custom start time, duration and percentage or dollar amount.

    Additionally, define code names and usages for discounts, and link them to specific products, categories or your store itself.
    Gift Cards
    Get giving: generate and manage store gift cards to provide shoppers with exactly what they want.
    Newsletters
    Extra, extra! Our Newsletters feature helps you keep customers in the know.
    Deal of The Day
    Create a Deal of the Day so that shoppers will keep an eye on their inboxes!
    Sitemap Indexing
    Let search engines take a peek at every part of your store with sitemap indexing.

    Robots.txt
    With our editable robots.txt file, you can prevent certain pages from being crawled by search engines.

    Source: https://www.volusion.com/v1/features

  • Seventh Blog on e-commerce: Squarespace

    Seventh Blog on e-commerce: Squarespace

    Squarespace is a private American company, based in New York City, that provides software as a service for website building and hosting. Its customers use pre-built website templates and drag and drop elements to create webpages.

    Anthony Casalena developed Squarespace as a blog-hosting service while attending the University of Maryland. He founded it as a company in 2004, and was its only employee until 2006, when it reached $1 million in revenue. The company grew from 30 employees in 2010 to 550 by 2015. By 2014, it raised a total of $78.5 million in venture capital; added e-commerce tools, domain name services, and analytics; and replaced its coding backend with drag and drop features.

    Company history:

    Casalena began developing Squarespace for his personal use while attending the University of Maryland. He started sharing it with friends and family members and participated in a “business incubator” program at the university. He launched Squarespace publicly in January 2004, initially funded by $30,000 from his father, a small grant from the university, and 300 beta testers who paid a discounted rate. At that time, Casalena was the company’s sole developer and employee, and worked out of his dorm room.

    By the time Casalena graduated in 2007, Squarespace was making annual revenues of $1 million. He moved to New York City, began hiring, and had 30 employees by 2010. That year, Squarespace received $38.5 million in its first round of venture capital funding, enabling it to hire more staff, continue to develop its software, and double its marketing budget. From 2009 to 2012, it grew an average of 266% in yearly revenue. In April 2014, it received another $40 million in funding. By 2015, it had reached $100 million in revenue and 550 employees.

    Squarespace has purchased Super Bowl advertising spots in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. Its 2017 ad won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Commercial. In 2017, it signed a sponsorship deal with the New York Knicks to add the Squarespace logo to their uniforms.

    After the Unite the Right rally in 2017, Squarespace received a petition with 58,000 signatures and removed a group of websites for violating its terms of service against “bigotry or hatred” towards demographic groups. In 2017, it raised an additional $200 million in funding, boosting its value to $1.7 billion. This funding was earmarked for reacquiring interests from investors.

    In 2018, Squarespace partnered with the Madison Square Garden Company to launch the “Make It Awards”, which award $30,000 to entrepreneurs (4 winners, totaling $120,000)

    As of 2016, Squarespace hosts more than one million websites. Its users employ pre-built website templates, and a variety of drag and drop widgets to add elements such as text and images. Its developers also create custom templates that are sold to users. On-screen instructions walk users through things like search engine optimization and setting up e-commerce.

    Squarespace was initially built for creating and hosting blogs. E-commerce features, such as an integration with Stripe for accepting credit card payments, were added in 2013. In 2014, more commerce features were added; a mobile version of the service was released; a separate facility was added for developers writing custom templates and features; and a logo-creation app was introduced in partnership with icon designer Noun Project

    Think of Squarespace as your very own IT department, with free, unlimited hosting, top-of-the-line security, an enterprise-grade infrastructure, and around-the-clock support.
    Squarespace is Simple to use and it’s Affordable.

    Sources:
    https://www.squarespace.com/tour/all-in-one-website-platform

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squarespace

  • Fourth Blog on e-commerce websites – Wix

    Fourth Blog on e-commerce websites – Wix

    Wix.com Ltd. is a cloud-based web development platform that was first developed and popularised by the Israeli company also called Wix. It allows users to create HTML5 websites and mobile sites through the use of online drag and drop tools.

    Along with its headquarters and other offices in Israel, Wix also has offices in Canada, Brazil, Germany, India, Ireland, Lithuania, the United States, and Ukraine.

    Users can add social plug-ins, e-commerce, online marketing, contact forms, e-mail marketing, and community forums to their web sites using a variety of Wix-developed and third-party applications. The Wix website builder is built on a freemium business model, earning its revenues through premium upgrades.

    Wix was founded in 2006 by Israeli developers Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami, and Giora Kaplan. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Wix was backed by investors Insight Venture Partners, Mangrove Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, DAG Ventures, and Benchmark Capital. The company entered an open beta phase in 2007 using a platform based on Adobe Flash. By April 2010 Wix had 3.5 million users and raised $10 million in Series C funding provided by Benchmark Capital and existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Mangrove Capital Partners.

    In March 2011, Wix had 8.5 million users and raised $40 million in Series D funding, bringing its total funding to that date to $61 million.

    In June 2011, Wix launched the Facebook store module, making its first step into the social commerce trend. In March 2012, Wix launched a new HTML5 site builder, replacing the Adobe Flash technology. In October 2012, Wix launched an app market for users to sell applications built with the company’s automated web development technology. Wix’s software development kit lets app developers create and offer web apps to the millions of Wix users around the globe.

    By August 2013, the Wix platform had more than 34 million registered users

    Overview
    Wix offers everything you’d expect from a quality website builder. This includes hundreds of easy to customize templates, an intuitive drag-and-drop editor and access to the Wix app market. Regardless of your skill level or technical know-how with Wix, you can create an impressive website in a matter of minutes.

    In addition to a quality website builder, Wix offers a selection of tools to help you grow your business. These include SEO features, a reliable eCommerce platform as well as a newsletter builder. And the best part is that Wix is always adding new features so you can rest assured that your website will also be relevant and up-to-date.

    Features
    Looking for an effective user-friendly platform to run your online store? Wix might be what you’re looking for. Their eCommerce dashboard is easy to use, and their drag and drop interface works well for beginners. You can easily create any type of store and can even add a shopping cart without any technical knowledge. Other useful e-commerce features offered include the option to accept discount codes and coupons.

    Payment Options
    Wix’s eCommerce accepted forms of payment are a bit limited, but customers receive the basics such as PayPal and Authorize.net. Setup is easy, and you have the ability to include a few other payment processors in their add-ons section.

    Plans and Pricing
    Wix plans that include eCommerce features are straightforward and succinctly listed on their plan menu with features and services offered for each plan. Their specially tailored eCommerce plan is $16.50 per month and includes 20 GB of bandwidth and storage, free domain, online store, and is Wix ad free. Additionally, their eCommerce plan comes with a plethora of valuable vouchers and apps at no additional cost and the option to connect your current domain.

    If you wish to upgrade and opt for their VIP plan, you can enjoy all the features offered with their eCommerce plan, but with additional perks of 10 email campaigns a month and a professional site review for $24.50 per month.

    Customer Support
    Members can take advantage of Wix’s comprehensive customer support. There’s a help center where any questions you may have will be answered as quickly as possible. In addition, Wix offers useful, easy to follow tutorials and how to’s on all aspects of the platform. If that doesn’t help, there’s also a FAQ and a forum where you can post and browse other questions.

    Sources:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wix.com

    https://www.thetop10sites.com/ecommerce/wix/

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