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Sitebuilder News Last Updated: Apr 20th, 2007 - 12:27:37


Site Builder system update - 9-23-06
By Keith Hickman
Sep 22, 2006, 00:10

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The next Site Builder system update is scheduled for this weekend 9/23/2006.

This update includes many ecommerce enhancements as well as many other minor fixes and updates.

Ecommerce Updates
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ECOMMERCE REPORTS: 
Several new reports and features have been added.   Customers can now select the date range for e commerce report displays (day, week, month, year and custom ranges).   Bar graphs and pie charts have been added to many reports.

New sales reports:
  - Sales by product
  - Sales by product count
  - Sales by customer
  - Sales by payment type (ex Visa, Mastercard, PayPal...)

Visitor activity reports:
  - Cart analysis
  - Search queries
  - Search keywords

Inventory report: The low inventory report displays a list of products that are either out of stock, below the inventory alert level, or close to the alert level.

Search queries report: This report will display a list of searches that were made through the site search feature.  The search queries report will NOT show customers searches that were made before this update was installed.  

Cart analysis: The cart analysis report displays a count of the number of shopping carts created, the number of abandoned carts and the conversion ratio: number of completed orders/total carts.  This gives the store owner an indication the percentage of shopping carts that are converted into sales.   The report only includes carts that were abandoned and carts for completed orders.  Any orders that are in the order manager (new, in progress, backordered, canceled) are NOT included in this report.  Shopping carts are only kept on the system for several months.  After several months they may be removed, so the cart report will only show data for the past few months.

MULTI-ORDER COMPLETE
Customers can now select multiple orders on the order management pages and then click the "Complete Orders" button at the bottom of the page to automatically attempt to complete the selected orders.  A results page is displayed showing which orders were successful and which failed.

PRODUCT EDITOR (advanced settings)
Meta Keywords, Meta Description and Product Cost can now be set on the advanced settings for a product.  All three fields can be setup either using the product editor or a product import file.  The keywords/description are displayed on the product detail page in the meta tags of the HTML page head section.  The  product cost will be used in a future e commerce reporting enhancement.

MISC ECOMMERCE UPDATES
Order Export: customer id and shipment tracking information have been added to the order export.

Shipping estimator results have been relocated under the shopping cart and now have a box around the results.

Table based shipping setup display has been modified to make it easier to understand how to setup the shipping table.  A test feature has been added so you can try to test different values while setting up the shipping table.

Customer order details: added a link to go directly from the customer order history to the order management/processing screen.

EWay payment (austrialian) gateway has been added.

Added option for store owners to included insurance calculations in shipping estimates.

Added option for store owners to select to use either residential or commercial shipping estimates.



User Accounts
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A new user group has been added called "All users".  This group will display all users accounts, even if the account has not been assigned to a user group.  A search box has been added to the user group display page to make it easier to find user accounts.


Misc Fixes/Updates
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Text Editor 2.0: Several fixes have been added to the 2.0 text editor.  These include fixes with setting up links, setting up anchors and checking to make sure customers don't have popup windows disabled when selecting the editor. Some of the right click menu features will not work properly when popup windows are disabled.   The table editor has been enhanced to allow users to select the table background and border colors.

Password protected pages: Fixed an issue that could cause an error when copying a password protected page.

Deleted pages/components: Added information that will make it easier for us to restore pages/components that have been inadvertently deleted by customers.  We may eventually make this functionality available to customers so that they could restore either a page or component that was accidentally deleted.

Advanced color selection: The user interface on this screen has been slightly reworked to allow for future enhancements that will give customers more control over the color mappings on their site.

User accounts page: Changed the update billing information link to only display if the customer account has a credit card on it.

Tutorials: Many new tutorials have been added to the tutorials section of the help system.


If you have any questions or comments about the new features, let us know.  We are currently planning our next system update.  If you have any requests for enhancements send them to support.  We will add them to the enhancement list and review them for inclusion in a future release.

Thanks,
AWSP.com

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