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Merchants' Community
Find out what’s happening behind the scenes at YourOwnCart.
Let us give you first hand accounts of new features, products, and goings-on around the office.
| Orders management upgraded! |
 | 1. Customize your unique Order ID
In the past, when customer place an order at your store, the order will be assigned to a number fixed by the system. Now, we have made it possible for you to determine how you want your Order ID to look like.
Login to your control panel. Settings > Opertaions > Checkout Options.
You can format the ID with date and time of when the order is placed, or put in any string you wish that could represent your store. As long as one of the two identifier is included in the Order ID format, you will not need to worry that two orders will share the same ID.
2. Better illustration of order statuses
Besides creating custom status, we finally added some meaning to the statuses. When a order is set to cancelled, the amount will no longer be added to your store summary at the dashboard. The use of other selections will be reveal later when Sales Report tool is ready for launch.
We are always upgrading our system to make it better for you. If you have any suggestions for us, feel free to feedback to us. Your feedback is important to us. |
March 26, 2010 |
| Note for all merchants |
| If you are serious about setting up your online business at Yourowncart, we are all out to help you.
Yourowncart is an e-commerce solution perfect for new comers in online business. We simplified the process and cost that is required to set up an online store. In the past, to have a good shopping cart on your website, you need to fork out at least a few hundred dollars for the software, hosting, etc. Yourowncart design our own system and provide basic service free to all merchants.
To get your store running at Yourowncart, simply complete the registration form at our homepage and hit 'Create my store'. Your store will be ready in minutes! Next, just follow the checklist to complete your store settings and add products to your store. Now, you can start inviting shoppers and start earning. As simple as one-two-three.
If you are serious about this business and need more functions to your store, you can subscribe to tools from our toolbox. These tools are designed to aid the efficiency and growth of your business.
If you are really serious, let us know! We are more than willing to help you out.
We can design you a customized layout for your store, aid you in setting up, and even providing some upgrades to you.
Recently, we just increase the limitation on number of products for a handful of merchants.
If you have any suggestions or area of improvements for us, feel free to send us your feedback.
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March 17, 2010 |
| Extend the use of the product list |
| Need to group products from different categories into one place for special promotions or easier reference for your customers? The product list will be able to help you on this. Create your lists and share the link with your customers.
Best selling, Best rated, Latest Products
For merchants subscribed to Unlimited Product Lists, you not only will get to create unlimited number of lists, you could also use the 3 most commonly needed lists.
You will get URL for best selling products in your store or the products that archived best ratings from your customers. Share the URL on your facebook, twitter, or in your emails.
Latest products can be viewed accordingly to date. Simply use the generator to get the link for the list you needed and share. |
January 26, 2010 |
| Major updates to your shopfront |
| Our development team has been really busy this January. We have been monitoring the usage pattern and processes, and updated a number of processors so your shopfront would run smoother and faster.
1. Add to cart method
Previously, every time your customer add something to their shopping cart, they will be send to their shopping cart to complete the process and the page automatically redirects back to the previous page. Now, you will be able to use Ajax method at your shopfront. With Ajax, the add to cart process will be done in background. Your customers will be able to continue shopping at the same page without waiting.
You can change the setting for this process from Settings > Products > Product Options at your control panel.
2. Ratings
Click on the stars and the new rating will be updated.
Previously due to technical constraints, your customers must go into the product page and rate via a drop down box. We have breakthrough the constraint and your customers can cast their rating, easily. They will be able to rate from other pages too.
3. Product thumbnails
Earlier, we received feedbacks regarding thumbnails in the product page. We finally found a solution to the problem and solve it immediately.
In the product page, simply move your mouse over the thumbnail and the a larger image will be displayed. However if the mouse accidentally moved over another thumbnail, the image will be change again. To avoid this problem, you can now click on the thumbnail and the main image will remain as it is even you move your mouse away.
To view the original size of the image, click on the large photo and the Product Image Gallery will appear in a popup.
4. Product Image Gallery
It used to be able to view one image only. To view another picture of the product, you got to return to the product page and select another picture.
Now, we've upgrade the image popup into a gallery. You will be able to go on to the next or previous photo of the same product. This is extremely great for stores with smaller usable space at your shopfront to show images of your product to customers.
Other minor updates
We have also updated a few other processes such as item tags standardization, thumbnails and images generation, handling of product parameters (tool), product lists updates (tool), support for different currencies (coming soon), member system (coming soon), etc.
These patches could smoothen the loading of your shopfront and cater for more flexibility in the future tools. It is our effort to keep the system ideal for you and your customers.
We would constant update and improve our system. |
January 20, 2010 |
| More templates for your online shop |
| We've completed another upgrade to our system!
One remarkable feature of our system is the flexibility in template. You can design and make your own layout or simply choose one from our library and apply it directly.
Designing your own template
You will need to have basic HTML knowledge. If you'd once created a template for your blog at Blogger, you are already capable of making one for your shop at YourOwnCart.
Design your layout and code it with HTML the usual way you do it. With the HTML coding, follow this guide to make your template compatible with our system.
Upload and you're done!
Converting from Blogskins
Alternatively, you can get ready-made templates from Blogskins. Of course, they are all designed for blogs. If you're running a blog shop, we believe its the right place for you.
Simply download the file (that was meant for Blogger), upload to the Blogskins Converter (Settings > Layout > Template HTML Editor > Blogskins Converter) and the rest will be taken care of for you.
Pick from library
Easiest way out will be to choose from our Template Library (Settings > Layout > Pick from Template Library). We've prepared few templates for Blog shops and Professional stores. We will be adding more in time to come.
Now, you can get easily change or create layout for your online shop.
If there is anything you think we could improve on, feel free to feedback to us.
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November 22, 2009 |
| Get your store logo |
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New to selling things online?
New merchants usually do not have their store logo ready the first day they set up their store here. To make things interesting yet fun for you, we've included this simple application that allows you to create a simple logo for your shop instantly.
Login to your control panel, Settings > General. You can access this LogoGen application there.
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November 21, 2009 |
| Brand new Toolbox |
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We have just completed upgrading of our Toolbox!
We've gathered feedbacks from our merchants and refined the structure of the Toolbox. It is now more flexible and could subscribe at shorter term. Get only what you need, really.
Something that never change - the ongoing works of coming out with new tools to help your business. If there is any features you find them missing in our system, feel free to suggest it to us. We will make it for you!
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November 4, 2009 |
| [NEW] Checkout Options |
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Now you can set the minimum purchase before your customers check out!
This option can be found in Settings > Operations > Checkout Options.
If you do not need to set any requirement, leave the field at 0. You can restrict the minimum value by number of items in the shopping cart, or total amount purchased. |
October 5, 2009 |
| Welcome to YourOwnCart |
| Welcome to YourOwnCart.com Merchants' Community.
Although our system is easy to use, we have prepared user guides just in case you are lost. If the guides could not help you, feel free to post your enquiries in the support center. Our support team will respond within the business day.
If you have any suggestions or feedback for us, you can also post to our Suggestion inbox in the support center.
Thank you |
September 12, 2009 |
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