ShoppingCart / Admin Updates Blog
This blog covers recent changes and additions to the shopping cart and administrative site programs.|
Saturday-September-12-2009 4:39 PM
"Discount Codes" A new Discounts feature has beed added to the admin control panel. Ex. an add that you run on Google adwords can state, click here for our products and save $10 off your order of $25 or more.
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Wednesday-July-08-2009 1:25 AM
"Server Upgraded" Hello,
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Friday-June-05-2009 11:02 AM
"Export customer records" We have added an easy utility to access your customer records.
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Sunday-May-24-2009 8:57 AM
"Clear cookies/ reset " If you need to reset your cookies so you can see what a new customer would experience, go to your store url then type in the following page: eatcookies.cfm ex: www.yoursite.com/store/eatcookies.cfm This will remove logged in status, membertype, email, password, etc.
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Friday-May-15-2009 10:37 AM
"Pick list" We have added a print pick list app to the view orders page. Clicking this link will generate a list of products and product quantity for orders of status processing. This should save time allowing packaging personale to quickly gather all products for shipment using this pick list.
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Tuesday-February-24-2009 3:47 PM
"USPS Priority Mail Tracking Status" We have integrated the Admin and customer order status page to reflect orders confirmed by USPS as Delivered. Nightly we will query all orders of type status "Processing" and "Shipped" with USPS enabled and a tracking number entered in via the Admin order status page. Those tracking number will be queried against USPS to see if they have been delivered. If so that status of the order will state "DELIVERED". We will also display the confirmation message from USPS under the tracking number on the status page. At a glance merchants can now see that orders have successfully reached their customers.
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Saturday-February-07-2009 3:40 PM
"Improve your site's visibility in Google Search" We now have integration with Google Sitemap tools.  Improve your site's visibility in Google Search Webmaster Tools helps you see how your site is performing in our search results, troubleshoot potential problems, and build Google-friendly sites. Webmaster Tools is for anybody with a website - bloggers, online stores big and small, government and education sites. If you're online, we can help. Make sure Google can find all the pages on your site Webmaster Tools helps you see your site the way Google sees it. If we have a problem accessing any of the pages on your site, we'll let you know. And it goes both ways: You can tell us about pages on your site by submitting a Sitemap. About Sitemaps In general, there are two types of sitemaps. The first type of sitemap is a HTML page listing the pages of your site - often by section - and is meant to help users find the information they need. XML Sitemaps - usually called Sitemaps, with a capital S - are a way for you to give Google information about your site. This is the type of Sitemap we'll be discussing in this article. In its simplest terms, a Sitemap is a list of the pages on your website. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google's normal crawling process. Sitemaps are particularly helpful if: Your site has dynamic content. Your site has pages that aren't easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process - for example, pages featuring rich AJAX or Flash. Your site is new and has few links to it. (Googlebot crawls the web by following links from one page to another, so if your site isn't well linked, it may be hard for us to discover it.) Your site has a large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all. You can also use a Sitemap to provide Google with additional information about your pages, including: How often the pages on your site change. For example, you might update your product page daily, but update your About Me page only once every few months. The date each page was last modified. The relative importance of pages on your site. For example, your home page might have a relative importance of 1.0, category pages have an importance of 0.8, and individual blog entries or product pages have an importance of 0.5. This priority only indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn't impact the ranking of your pages in search results. -For pricing information email billing@californiaimage.biz
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Friday-February-06-2009 11:29 AM
"Updated- Tracking Link Plug-in" We have created a program that allows you to publish a compact link onto others sites. The goal is for you to be able to monitor click counts, orders, and sales from the published link. If you use Google adwords or similar programs this plug-in is priceless. You can monitor individual keyword buys and their success translating into a order conversion and dollar value. This is also a handy tool for monitoring and managing all your links in a single source. This plug-in includes a utility that allows you to input the following information: source code, destination URL, program, description, keyword, even offer free shipping from a given link. When you submit the above information to program will output a link. Ex: http://www.cfwebmaster.com/source.cfm?id=254. When people place an order via the tracking link the order will be tagged with the "source code" you entered when creating the tracking link. Thus you can view the source of your orders. In the admin just click "view order" or view the email receipt of the order. The goal of this tool is to help you see where your orders are coming from and how many clicks you have from a given link. And control the destination page visitors will arrive on your site. Ex: In any ad that you setup for an ad program such as Google you can have a distinct sourcecode to track the performance of each ad. This is more accurate over Google's conversion tool because this tracking is built specific to your site. We hope that this tool allows you to better monitor conversion of ad spend and the general value of outside programs in relation to sales. -For pricing information email billing@californiaimage.biz
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Monday-January-26-2009 4:38 PM
"Export the addresses of your orders" You can export the shipping addresses for orders (status Processing) as a .CSV batch file. This should save time shipping packages, bypassing the need to manually retype shipping information on orders. This batch file can be used with shipping software. To access: Goto ADMIN > VIEW ORDERS > PRINT LABEL > (Bottom link to export CSV)
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Tuesday-December-30-2008 10:50 PM
"Movement report updated" We have added an update to the product movement report. You can now select individual products and view a graph of cost vs sales over a defined time range. Simply click on a product name from within the product movement report for the additional report.
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Monday-October-27-2008 10:02 PM
"Important updates" Due to the latest security updates/threats we have made substantial changes to our server network, the goal being to lock down many seldom used server functions. The recent server hardening updates apply the latest recommendations available to keep our server environment as safe as possible. As as a result there may be minor service interruptions as we apply the latest recommendations. **If a program such as email, FTP, or any other web service appears down, please let us know right away. Any changes that we apply will normally be done after hours but there is the chance that lingering auxiliary service that may be unintentionally disabled as a result of the server hardening. (Do note, we do test core server functions such as website, shopping cart, email, FTP, etc are tested as each change is applied to make sure these functions are not adversely affected by the updates.)
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Saturday-October-04-2008 4:23 PM
"Google Checkout Payment Option" In addition to Credit Card Payment Options, PayPal we are now proud to be compliant with Google Checkout. With a click of a button we can allow your card to easily accept Google Payment options from customers who prefer to pay with Google Checkout. Your customers would use your cart as they normally would, but when selection a payment option they would choose Google Checkout. The order would be stored and the customer would then login with their Google account and send you the payment from Google.
When using Google Checkout, you can sell with complete confidence. Google Checkout's industry-leading fraud protection program keeps you safe from fraud while helping you lower costs and increase sales. Here's how: Guaranteed Payment: Checkout's Payment Guarantee protects 98% of Checkout orders on average -- when an order is guaranteed, you get paid even if it results in a chargeback. Free Protection: While merchants are typically charged for fraud protection services, Google's comprehensive protection is free. Lower Fraud Costs: Checkout's fraud detection systems reduce fraud and manual review costs by proactively filtering out fraudulent orders. More Sales: The same systems also help increase sales by identifying legitimate orders that you might otherwise mark as fraudulent. Fair Treatment: Unlike other services that immediately deduct funds from you for chargebacks, Google does so only after a decision has been made as to who is at fault.
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Saturday-September-27-2008 6:19 PM
"Online WYSIWYG HTML Editor for your site" We are currently beta testing a new online HTML editor. The goal of this editor is to allow you to edit your html using the browser and bypassing the need to use an html editor. This is tested in IE. If you would like to beta test this application just let us know and we will enable. This wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) push button editor will replace the existing editor and should make your webpage creation and edits a lot easier. Once this program is officially released as an advanced plug-in, it will run $5 a month.
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Saturday-August-16-2008 9:35 PM
"Customer Records Management" Updates have been made to the website user/customer records management plug-in. You can now conveniently update customer billing & shipping information via the console. Additional resources include editing status (registered, etc.), view password, click to email a customer their password. This consolidation will help to minimize the number of areas an admin needs to go to make basic changes to a record or view basic information.
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Tuesday-July-22-2008 9:33 AM
"New domain extension available " We can register your new domain name for only $40 per year. Get your name before they are gone. ex: health.me Bob.me Tools4.me Send your list of wanted names to webmaster@cfwebmaster.com and we will look to availability. Give the ok and we can process your order ASAP with you credit card on file to prevent loosing out on this opportunity.
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Tuesday-July-15-2008 4:17 PM
"Product Movement Report Updated" We have updated the Product Movement Report. After re-writing the query we now have the ability to conveniently sort all the fields of information on the screen.
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Friday-June-06-2008 2:52 PM
"Email server upgraded Friday pm PST" We have a planned email server upgrade Friday 10 pm PST. The service interuption is not expected to last more than a half hour.
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Wednesday-May-14-2008 9:55 PM
"Add PayPal to your site" Add another payment option for your customers. Once you have an account setup with Paypal you can add Paypal to your site. Once customers add products to their cart and go to checkout you can add Paypal as another payment option to compliment credit cards, invoice and checking.
To add your Paypal account to your site and enable customers ability to pay by Paypal: Go to admin >> Manage General Information >> Payment Options. Then add your Paypal accounts email address. This is the address Paypal will deposit your funds after a completed transaction. You will receive a receipt from your site when a customer places a Paypal order. You will need to check your Paypal account to verify that the funds for the order were deposited.
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Thursday-April-24-2008 5:33 PM
"General getting started notes" Getting Started: ---------------------- Add a product: (The following are required fields) -Code: Give it a unique code to differentiate each product. -Product Name -Price -Paragraph 1 (Brief Introduction) -Photo 1 >>Then click the Update button. ---------------------- General Site Text (Setup the general messages for your store) ---------------------- Cart buttons: (Customize the button graphics) ---------------------- Manage Shipping Options: Add/ edit options (Be sure to set appropriate costs so you dont loose money on shipping.) The default cost is $10, but you can set it to $0 for online products, or something like $5 for USPS Priority Mail, etc. If you want us use USPS Shipping calculator, let us know. We will get the ball rolling for you to use the free service. (You will need to set the weight of each product so the calculator will work.) ----------------------
Operations Manager Plug-in
As each order is sent to you, we will send you an email and log the transaction here. Those are the basics to getting started. Feel free to email us with any questions.
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Tuesday-February-05-2008 9:47 PM
"Google Base, Feed Google with your products" 
Post it on Base. Find it on Google.In working with Google we have created an application to create an XML format of all your products. This XML feed is an easily digestable format for Google to index. With our Google base product feed you can easily submit all your products to Google. This is a great way to get your products extra visibilty in search results in Google.com and Froogle.com For more info on Google Base from Google.com, click here View sample product XML product feed created for Google:
Feeds last for 30 days on Google. We will script your database to feed Google monthly for a service fee of $25 per month. Contact: Billing@CaliforniaImage.biz
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Monday-December-03-2007 10:49 PM
"Order Manager" We have added more functionality to the order manager. You now have detailed item information for each items on a given order. You can now specify when an item is backordered, or shipped. Each product has a status date indicating when the order is placed, shipped or placed on backorder. When you set the order status as "shipped" all your items are set as shipped along with the date you made the update. (So if all but one item is shipped you can then set that item to backordered.) Your customer can view their order status when they log in and see an updated order status with any messages you sent via the "email customer utility".
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Wednesday-November-07-2007 9:23 PM
"Site translation" Bonjour, Hola, Ciao... We have a program which will integrate with Google translation services. You can now translate your entire site text (not graphics) into the following languages: French Spanish German Italian Japanese Portuguese For a one time setup fee of $250 we can integrate Google languages onto your site. To sample goto: www.myregistry.org Look for language drop down box on the right hand of the site. *Note, the platform is using Google services which is subject to change.
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Sunday-October-14-2007 5:22 PM
"Pay by Paypal" We have streamlined the shopping cart integration with Paypal. To add Paypal as a payment option, go to: -Manage General Information: -Payment Options Then under "Paypal" enter the email address you have on your Paypal account. The Paypal payment option will appear on each products webpage under the typical add to cart button. The product name and single unit price will be sent to Paypal. So integration with Paypal is now seamless.
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Friday-September-07-2007 10:17 AM
"Shopping Cart Receipts Updated" Administrator shopping cart receipt emails have been updated.
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Sunday-August-26-2007 10:04 AM
"Shopping cart graphics/ buttons" We have made a new system for allowing you to choose the button graphics you want to use within the store pages and shopping cart.
To edit the graphics login to the admin then choose: Manage General Information:/ There you will see a list of button sets to choose from. Just click the left hand button and press update to apply the new graphic set.
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