Welcome to the StoreSuite Blog!
- By Mitchell Harper
- Published 07/8/2007
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Welcome to TheStoreSuiteBlog.com!
StoreSuite is a complete PHP and MySQL e-Commerce platform that's currently being developed by us here at Interspire. It includes everything necessary to sell physical and/or digital products (eBooks, etc) online. It will integrate with all major payment gateways, is 100% HTML template driven, includes a powerful control panel as well as too many other features to list.
I am the lead developer on the product as well as co-founder of Interspire along with Ed, and as such thought it would be a good idea to start a blog about the entire development and design process.
The StoreSuite Story
We originally began development of StoreSuite back in 2005 however it stalled because our other products (specifically SendStudio and ArticleLive) were gaining astronomical popularity and taking up a significant amount of time in terms of product development and customer support.
Since then we've hired another 4 developers (bringing the total to 13) and we've systemized a lot of the every day processes involved in running Interspire. As a result I am able to once again commence development on StoreSuite.
I resumed StoreSuite development on July 5th 2007 at which time it was roughly 50% complete. I will be using this blog to talk about the complete design and development process including everything from usability to database queries and optimization (with the help of our database gurus Chris and Rod) and everything in between.
We're hoping to launch StoreSuite in Q4 2007 and this blog will serve as my scribble pad up until the release date. If you haven't already registered to be notified when StoreSuite is released you can do so here.
You can also subscribe to this blog's RSS feed here to make sure you don't miss a post. I'll generally create a new post every few days as time permits or when I finish building a new feature.
StoreSuite is a complete PHP and MySQL e-Commerce platform that's currently being developed by us here at Interspire. It includes everything necessary to sell physical and/or digital products (eBooks, etc) online. It will integrate with all major payment gateways, is 100% HTML template driven, includes a powerful control panel as well as too many other features to list.
I am the lead developer on the product as well as co-founder of Interspire along with Ed, and as such thought it would be a good idea to start a blog about the entire development and design process.
The StoreSuite Story
We originally began development of StoreSuite back in 2005 however it stalled because our other products (specifically SendStudio and ArticleLive) were gaining astronomical popularity and taking up a significant amount of time in terms of product development and customer support.
Since then we've hired another 4 developers (bringing the total to 13) and we've systemized a lot of the every day processes involved in running Interspire. As a result I am able to once again commence development on StoreSuite.
I resumed StoreSuite development on July 5th 2007 at which time it was roughly 50% complete. I will be using this blog to talk about the complete design and development process including everything from usability to database queries and optimization (with the help of our database gurus Chris and Rod) and everything in between.
We're hoping to launch StoreSuite in Q4 2007 and this blog will serve as my scribble pad up until the release date. If you haven't already registered to be notified when StoreSuite is released you can do so here.
You can also subscribe to this blog's RSS feed here to make sure you don't miss a post. I'll generally create a new post every few days as time permits or when I finish building a new feature.
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Comment #1 (Posted by Jimi Wikman)
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It will be interesting to follow the progress of the new product. I'll try to be around to comment and make those happy little sounds now and again to keep you motivated and inspired :)
Comment #2 (Posted by Kevin Beauchamp)
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Can you please post or email a list of the "proposed" features? I've read everything available on your site and still don't have a clear idea of the feature you will release in version one.
Thanks and can't wait.
[From Mitch: Hi Kev. We still don't know what all of the features are ourselves to be honest, that's one of the reasons I started this blog. As we get closer to a beta we'll have a more complete feature list.]
Thanks and can't wait.
[From Mitch: Hi Kev. We still don't know what all of the features are ourselves to be honest, that's one of the reasons I started this blog. As we get closer to a beta we'll have a more complete feature list.]
Comment #3 (Posted by Cindy)
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Had such a disaster purchasing, installing, and setting up our current Ecommerce software. But it was the only one that was reasonably priced and had no monthly fee. KEEP on KEEPIN! I am already working on management here to let me purchase StoreSuite. And I am very excited about being able to change pages in HTML! My suggestion for now: that StoreSuite will be easily customized! 8^)
Comment #4 (Posted by Carl)
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Last minute offers .... hey guys - would be great if Store Suite could allow the ability for time-driven offers - ie. if an offer is listed as available, only show for dates from {ddmmmyyy} for {x} days. I have clients who'd like to offer 'last minute' specials, but only for purchase in the coming week or two, if that makes sense ?
[From Mitch: Hey Carl! StoreSuite lets you assign "specials" by price, so you can give a product a special discount/last minute price. Is that what you had in mind?]
[From Mitch: Hey Carl! StoreSuite lets you assign "specials" by price, so you can give a product a special discount/last minute price. Is that what you had in mind?]
Comment #5 (Posted by Tom)
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Hi Mitch,
what happened to your other blog at harpzon.com?
I found the posts you made there very interesting and wonder if you continue blogging there (since switching the domain to your interspire site nothing the good content is not available to the public anymore. Too bad ...
[From Mitch: Hi Tom. My blog's up and there's just a notice at the top telling people it's currently on hold because this blog is my focus along with StoreSuite for the next few weeks]
what happened to your other blog at harpzon.com?
I found the posts you made there very interesting and wonder if you continue blogging there (since switching the domain to your interspire site nothing the good content is not available to the public anymore. Too bad ...
[From Mitch: Hi Tom. My blog's up and there's just a notice at the top telling people it's currently on hold because this blog is my focus along with StoreSuite for the next few weeks]
Comment #6 (Posted by Gerad)
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Hi Mitch,
I think the following features would be highly useful if not required for a solid eCommerce suite:
- Coupon Codes
- Payment Gateways (Paypal especially)
- Shipping Methods (UPS/FedEx)
- Unlimited Images/Photos per product
- Mulitple Store Adminstrator support
- SSL Support
- Ability to sell/show products by product stock level (if none in stock provide ability to not show product or show product with no stock message/icon).
- Tell a Friend/Email Product support.
- Upgrade support that will not wipe out your custom template/design.
- Good sales statistics (sales/hour, sales/day, sales/week, sales/year).
- Ability to clearly/easily view the payment logs in case of failure.
- Ability to accept and display customer reviews/comments on each product.
- Ability to bulk update product prices.
- Ability to sell gift certificates for the store and accept gift certificate codes as payment.
- Ability to manually add/edit customer orders. (allows for admin to take phone orders, via the site).
- Ability to support realtime exchange rates and multiple forms of currency.
- Custom customer regisation fields.
- Ability to dynamically provide product suggestions ('customers who bought this product also purchase.....).
.... That's all I can think of at the moment. I'll try and add more as I think of them.
Not sure if you have any or all of the above features already in StoreSuite but I know I would definitely be more inclined to purchase StoreSuite if these features were included.
Thanks,
G
I think the following features would be highly useful if not required for a solid eCommerce suite:
- Coupon Codes
- Payment Gateways (Paypal especially)
- Shipping Methods (UPS/FedEx)
- Unlimited Images/Photos per product
- Mulitple Store Adminstrator support
- SSL Support
- Ability to sell/show products by product stock level (if none in stock provide ability to not show product or show product with no stock message/icon).
- Tell a Friend/Email Product support.
- Upgrade support that will not wipe out your custom template/design.
- Good sales statistics (sales/hour, sales/day, sales/week, sales/year).
- Ability to clearly/easily view the payment logs in case of failure.
- Ability to accept and display customer reviews/comments on each product.
- Ability to bulk update product prices.
- Ability to sell gift certificates for the store and accept gift certificate codes as payment.
- Ability to manually add/edit customer orders. (allows for admin to take phone orders, via the site).
- Ability to support realtime exchange rates and multiple forms of currency.
- Custom customer regisation fields.
- Ability to dynamically provide product suggestions ('customers who bought this product also purchase.....).
.... That's all I can think of at the moment. I'll try and add more as I think of them.
Not sure if you have any or all of the above features already in StoreSuite but I know I would definitely be more inclined to purchase StoreSuite if these features were included.
Thanks,
G
Comment #7 (Posted by Michael Hayes)
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Hello and thank you for the opportunity to keep in touch with this project via your Blog.
I provide osCommerce solutions for small business clients in Australia and many of them are wholesale customers. This leads to a requirement for multiple customer groups (if they sell Retail and Wholesale) or the ability to hide prices for the default (Public) group is they sell Wholesale only. It is not just a matter of Retail/Wholesale either. Many businesses have several customer groups that need different pricing and maybe freight options.
Another requirement Wholesale suppliers have is the ability to allow their Retailers to place an order "on account" during checkout. Offline payment options (cheque and Bank Transfer) are also required.
In general the needs of Wholesalers is not always well covered with eCommerce offerings. There may be an opportunity for StoreSuite to develop real strength in this market segment.
[From Mitch: Thanks for the feedback Michael. I am adding your requests to our To-Do feature list. Ee've had quite a few people asking about wholesale pricing, etc I think it's definitely something we will include.]
I provide osCommerce solutions for small business clients in Australia and many of them are wholesale customers. This leads to a requirement for multiple customer groups (if they sell Retail and Wholesale) or the ability to hide prices for the default (Public) group is they sell Wholesale only. It is not just a matter of Retail/Wholesale either. Many businesses have several customer groups that need different pricing and maybe freight options.
Another requirement Wholesale suppliers have is the ability to allow their Retailers to place an order "on account" during checkout. Offline payment options (cheque and Bank Transfer) are also required.
In general the needs of Wholesalers is not always well covered with eCommerce offerings. There may be an opportunity for StoreSuite to develop real strength in this market segment.
[From Mitch: Thanks for the feedback Michael. I am adding your requests to our To-Do feature list. Ee've had quite a few people asking about wholesale pricing, etc I think it's definitely something we will include.]
Comment #8 (Posted by matt delong)
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Where can we go to see the full list of features? I'm curious about the following:
*reward points
*subscription billing/auto-reoccuring orders
*vendor login to manage their own products
*gift registry
*allow/disallow of RMA
*gift wrapping
*new arrivals product list
*top sellers product list
*upload files/ product detail
* admin order file upload / download?
* usps / ups order tracking
[From Mitch: Hi Matt. The feature list will be released when we have a beta version of StoreSuite. Until then you'll just have to follow along with the blog as we post about new features when they're implemented]
*reward points
*subscription billing/auto-reoccuring orders
*vendor login to manage their own products
*gift registry
*allow/disallow of RMA
*gift wrapping
*new arrivals product list
*top sellers product list
*upload files/ product detail
* admin order file upload / download?
* usps / ups order tracking
[From Mitch: Hi Matt. The feature list will be released when we have a beta version of StoreSuite. Until then you'll just have to follow along with the blog as we post about new features when they're implemented]
Comment #9 (Posted by jb5ep)
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Hey Mitch,
Will StoreSuite support a 'modular' approach to functionality? - so if you want to add/remove functionality you just add/remove a module?
Alot of your competitors support this and it would allow you to release new functionality without having a whole new release.
Just a thought...
[From Mitch: Hi JB. StoreSuite is modular, yes, and most functionality is extracted into modules, including shipping and payment providers.]
Will StoreSuite support a 'modular' approach to functionality? - so if you want to add/remove functionality you just add/remove a module?
Alot of your competitors support this and it would allow you to release new functionality without having a whole new release.
Just a thought...
[From Mitch: Hi JB. StoreSuite is modular, yes, and most functionality is extracted into modules, including shipping and payment providers.]
Comment #10 (Posted by jb5ep)
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Mitch,
Gerad's already posted about this ("Upgrade support that will not wipe out your custom template/design."), but i think this is a really important piece of functionality that's often neglected as it's not quite as 'sexy' as some of the other areas.
Maybe there could be an option to "Not apply upgrades to templates [as they've been customised]". It would be fantastic to get a breakdown of what the changes are to template files in each upgrade (I know a competing product drive their upgrades off a set of diff files - which actually makes applying the changes to customised templates alot easier).
Does that make sense?
Cheers,
[From Mitch: Hi JB. Makes a lot of sense, and that's exactly how we're planning to release upgrades. Our template system was finalized a few months ago so very rarely will updates include changes to existing templates.]
Gerad's already posted about this ("Upgrade support that will not wipe out your custom template/design."), but i think this is a really important piece of functionality that's often neglected as it's not quite as 'sexy' as some of the other areas.
Maybe there could be an option to "Not apply upgrades to templates [as they've been customised]". It would be fantastic to get a breakdown of what the changes are to template files in each upgrade (I know a competing product drive their upgrades off a set of diff files - which actually makes applying the changes to customised templates alot easier).
Does that make sense?
Cheers,
[From Mitch: Hi JB. Makes a lot of sense, and that's exactly how we're planning to release upgrades. Our template system was finalized a few months ago so very rarely will updates include changes to existing templates.]
Comment #11 (Posted by Cindy Scinto)
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PLEASE code StoreSuite so that INVOICE NUMBERING is based on COMPLETED transactions only. Our Estore software uses up an Invoice Number each time someone adds/abandons a cart. This causes our completed invoices to be numerically in order but with gaps between the numbers. Drives our Finance Officer crazy!
[From Mitch: Hi Cindy, thanks for the comment. I feel your pain - our payment provider does the same thing, but StoreSuite does not use an invoice number unless the order has been completed so you have nothing to worry about :) ]
[From Mitch: Hi Cindy, thanks for the comment. I feel your pain - our payment provider does the same thing, but StoreSuite does not use an invoice number unless the order has been completed so you have nothing to worry about :) ]
Comment #12 (Posted by Aj)
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Hey Mitch,
I had been reading a lot of the comments here in your Blog, but I can’t find anybody that comment on the lack of support of different file format in other ecommerce software. Example: if I don’t want to use jpg and I want to use a swf clip for the product main graphic I will like to have the option to do it and not be limited to only jpgs. I saw an ecommerce that the company sale T-Shirts but they do not have pictures showing the products they use small swf/flash files of people wearing the T-Shirts and I find it really interesting and with a lot of potential. The progress of the Internet and the new fast connections everywhere, because of that everybody are making everything more interactive, having the option/support of different files format to describe the product will be a great feature.
Keep the good work.
Best Regards,
Aj
I had been reading a lot of the comments here in your Blog, but I can’t find anybody that comment on the lack of support of different file format in other ecommerce software. Example: if I don’t want to use jpg and I want to use a swf clip for the product main graphic I will like to have the option to do it and not be limited to only jpgs. I saw an ecommerce that the company sale T-Shirts but they do not have pictures showing the products they use small swf/flash files of people wearing the T-Shirts and I find it really interesting and with a lot of potential. The progress of the Internet and the new fast connections everywhere, because of that everybody are making everything more interactive, having the option/support of different files format to describe the product will be a great feature.
Keep the good work.
Best Regards,
Aj
Comment #13 (Posted by Rebecca)
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Add me to the list of store owners who needs multiple pricing options. Or atleast secure login for wholesale sales to a target group.
I will be wathcing this closely as we are gearing up to build a new site for our new company that will launch in 2008!
I will be wathcing this closely as we are gearing up to build a new site for our new company that will launch in 2008!
Comment #14 (Posted by Gary)
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Hi Mitch
I like the look of what you have done so far.
Can you tell me if products can be uploaded from an excel spreadsheet?
Regards
Gary
[From Mitch: Hi Gary. Yes, StoreSuite will ship with the ability to import products from an Excel CSV file as well as from competing shopping cart systems.]
I like the look of what you have done so far.
Can you tell me if products can be uploaded from an excel spreadsheet?
Regards
Gary
[From Mitch: Hi Gary. Yes, StoreSuite will ship with the ability to import products from an Excel CSV file as well as from competing shopping cart systems.]
Comment #15 (Posted by Paul)
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As a long time user of OsCommerce and CRE Loaded, can you please include the ability to bulk upload products? Another great addition would be some kind of migration tool from OSC to Store Suite or at least a tutorial on the best way to do it. I'm sure this alone would bring hundreds of unhappy OSC users over to Store Suite
[From Mitch: Hi Paul. StoreSuite will be able t bulk import from CSV and from a host of open source and commercial shopping carts, including OSCommerce.]
[From Mitch: Hi Paul. StoreSuite will be able t bulk import from CSV and from a host of open source and commercial shopping carts, including OSCommerce.]
Comment #16 (Posted by Alexandria)
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I think comment 4 regarding last minute offers (timed) is great. Along that thought, we have clients who want to offer pre-orders: Products not yet in stock, that customers can order, but not be charged until shipped. Another feature that would be great is a 'per unit' field with default set at 'each'. So for products, the unit cost could be: each, box, pack, package, carton, bag. This would help shipping calculations (x,y) also. And for sites selling services, the 'per unit' could be: hour, day, project, trip, visit.
Comment #17 (Posted by Adie @ NetBusinessBlog.com)
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I would without doubt add SEO URLs as a standard feature. Mode-Rewrite.
I'm glad someone has decided to build a usable eCommerce Store (Off Shelf) as the current available options are very dated for what Store owners need in 2007.
Good luck!
[From Mitch: Hi Adie. StoreSuite has SEO friendly links for every page that should be indexed]
I'm glad someone has decided to build a usable eCommerce Store (Off Shelf) as the current available options are very dated for what Store owners need in 2007.
Good luck!
[From Mitch: Hi Adie. StoreSuite has SEO friendly links for every page that should be indexed]
Comment #18 (Posted by david)
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features for affiliate sales. I do not have any real productas to sell But would like to have a site to sell products. Linkshare, amazon and shopping.com offer xml feeds of the products in thier system..maybe there could be some development for people like me doing affilate sales of products.
Comment #19 (Posted by Adam)
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Getting so excited about this product Mitch - any ballpark idea of a release date yet?
As far as features are concerned - most have been covered off here, but I couldn't see mention of whether retail and trade rates will be possible. In other words tiered pricing probably accessed via a separate login (or even discounted rates for different categories of customers)?
[From Mitch: Hi Adam. No tier pricing in the first release although I'll add it to the feature list for a future update]
As far as features are concerned - most have been covered off here, but I couldn't see mention of whether retail and trade rates will be possible. In other words tiered pricing probably accessed via a separate login (or even discounted rates for different categories of customers)?
[From Mitch: Hi Adam. No tier pricing in the first release although I'll add it to the feature list for a future update]
Comment #20 (Posted by Peter)
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Hi Mitch, are you going to have a feature to export sales into accounting packages like MYOB, Quickbooks etc?
Great looking product!
[From Mitch: Hi Pete. We are, yep. You'll be able to customize the export based on your needs as a store owner and depending on which accounting package you use.]
Great looking product!
[From Mitch: Hi Pete. We are, yep. You'll be able to customize the export based on your needs as a store owner and depending on which accounting package you use.]
Comment #21 (Posted by Ben)
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Hi,
This all looks incredible. I keep hopping from cart to cart because none of them seem to work well enough, mainly because of a shoddy admin area. Please don't let the design of this be the last thing you do, so often they seem to be neglected!
Any idea at all on price...so I can budget for immediate purchase? Or expected month of beta? Thanks!
[From Mitch: Thanks for the kind words Ben. We definitely wont neglect the control panel design, in fact that's what we've spent the most time on. No word on price or a release date yet, but it will be before the end of the year]
This all looks incredible. I keep hopping from cart to cart because none of them seem to work well enough, mainly because of a shoddy admin area. Please don't let the design of this be the last thing you do, so often they seem to be neglected!
Any idea at all on price...so I can budget for immediate purchase? Or expected month of beta? Thanks!
[From Mitch: Thanks for the kind words Ben. We definitely wont neglect the control panel design, in fact that's what we've spent the most time on. No word on price or a release date yet, but it will be before the end of the year]
Comment #22 (Posted by Scott Wilson)
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I'll be anxious to blog about this at thecartblog.com once more details are available.
Comment #23 (Posted by Printnpost.com)
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I already use your article live and I have tons of authors that would love to gte into affiliate marketing with products..So i hope feed inventory is part of the development. checkout dealtime, shopping.com, ebay, amazon..they all offer feeds!
Comment #24 (Posted by Peter )
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Hi Mitch, just thought of another thing, do you intend to have integration with any CMS like Joomla? I know this would be very attractive to my clients.
Cheers,
Peter
[From Mitch: Hi Peter. StoreSuite already has pages, blogs and comments, so it kind of has its own CMS, but we will be looking to integrate with ActiveKB, our FAQ/knowledge base system (http://www.interspire.com/activekb) - hope that helps]
Cheers,
Peter
[From Mitch: Hi Peter. StoreSuite already has pages, blogs and comments, so it kind of has its own CMS, but we will be looking to integrate with ActiveKB, our FAQ/knowledge base system (http://www.interspire.com/activekb) - hope that helps]
Comment #25 (Posted by Steve White)
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Mitch,
One feature that I find very useful was an addon that someone created for OSCommerce that allows you to show items from the store catalog outside of the store. For example, if you want to have items show up on your homepage that someone could click on and be taken to the store to purchase that item. With the use of a panel I would imagine it might be possible.
One feature that I find very useful was an addon that someone created for OSCommerce that allows you to show items from the store catalog outside of the store. For example, if you want to have items show up on your homepage that someone could click on and be taken to the store to purchase that item. With the use of a panel I would imagine it might be possible.
Comment #26 (Posted by Gary)
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Hi Mitch
Do you have drop ship functionality built into Storesuite?
Regards
Gary
[From Mitch: Hi Gary. StoreSuite doesn't have dropship functionality in the first release, no, however it's something we may add in a future release depending on how many people ask about it.]
Do you have drop ship functionality built into Storesuite?
Regards
Gary
[From Mitch: Hi Gary. StoreSuite doesn't have dropship functionality in the first release, no, however it's something we may add in a future release depending on how many people ask about it.]
Comment #27 (Posted by Gary)
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Hi Mitch
One feature I have seen on some other ecommerce sites is a box on right or left that displays the last few pages visited. This would allow the user to quickly locate a previously visited page. I think this would enhance the user experience.
Any thoughts?
Regards
Gary
[From Mitch: Hi Gary. StoreSuite shows a list of recently viewed products which is essentially the same thing, so yes, it does have that]
One feature I have seen on some other ecommerce sites is a box on right or left that displays the last few pages visited. This would allow the user to quickly locate a previously visited page. I think this would enhance the user experience.
Any thoughts?
Regards
Gary
[From Mitch: Hi Gary. StoreSuite shows a list of recently viewed products which is essentially the same thing, so yes, it does have that]
Comment #28 (Posted by Javen)
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Hi Mitch,
We have recently brought a couple of SendStudio, and we absolutely love it. It's easy to implement, customise and use. Customer support has also been top-notch.
We can't wait for StoreSuite to launch, and rewrite what eCom should be!
P/s- Loving the feature currently available, and I know some of the features we are keen on has also been propose via readers.
Super keen to have:
*reward points
*gift registry
* gift certificate, redeemable via StoreSuite, but also the ability to use the gift certificate in an actual brick and mortar (physical) store. IE: The ability to purchase a gift cert from Freedom Australia, with the option of either spending it online or in one of their retail outlet.
Ciao,
Jav
We have recently brought a couple of SendStudio, and we absolutely love it. It's easy to implement, customise and use. Customer support has also been top-notch.
We can't wait for StoreSuite to launch, and rewrite what eCom should be!
P/s- Loving the feature currently available, and I know some of the features we are keen on has also been propose via readers.
Super keen to have:
*reward points
*gift registry
* gift certificate, redeemable via StoreSuite, but also the ability to use the gift certificate in an actual brick and mortar (physical) store. IE: The ability to purchase a gift cert from Freedom Australia, with the option of either spending it online or in one of their retail outlet.
Ciao,
Jav
Comment #29 (Posted by Tim)
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Hi Mitch,
The Interspire interfaces have always been excellent in both design and use, so I'm really pleased to hear about the development of StoreSuite.
Especially the integration of SendStudioNX. At present I have been using jshop (http://www.jshop.co.uk/) and using sendstudio webforms to run the newslettters. I hope that StoreSuite will have the ability to offer a wholesale frontend to the store in addition to the retail frontend? :)
I look forward to seeing the full list of features...
Thanks 4 all the hard work,
Tim
The Interspire interfaces have always been excellent in both design and use, so I'm really pleased to hear about the development of StoreSuite.
Especially the integration of SendStudioNX. At present I have been using jshop (http://www.jshop.co.uk/) and using sendstudio webforms to run the newslettters. I hope that StoreSuite will have the ability to offer a wholesale frontend to the store in addition to the retail frontend? :)
I look forward to seeing the full list of features...
Thanks 4 all the hard work,
Tim
Comment #30 (Posted by Navraj Singh)
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Will it be opensource or not. I mean will the users be able to customise it as per their needs or not?
[From Mitch: Hi Nasvraj. StoreSuite, just like all of our products, is sold on a commercial license basis and is 100% open source and customizable as required]
[From Mitch: Hi Nasvraj. StoreSuite, just like all of our products, is sold on a commercial license basis and is 100% open source and customizable as required]
Comment #31 (Posted by Jay)
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Hi Mitch,
Just discovered you when I was looking for an autoresponder solution. SendStudio looks great! I'm curious how you might integrate it with the store. It would be awesome if I could associate a responder to a specific product and provide customers with follow-up information - based upon what they purchased. Other features that I would like:
- the ability to distribute "product keys" (i.e. license keys)
- the ability to restrict sales by product. We would like to sell digital products world-wide, but restrict physical products to the US only.
Awesome job - what a refreshing approach to developing a product!
[From Mitch: Hi Jay. Thanks for the comment. We're actually working on SendStudio integration this week and I'll have some screenshots up soon. Everything else you've mentioned is either integrated or is on the product roadmap for a future release, so we have you covered!]
Just discovered you when I was looking for an autoresponder solution. SendStudio looks great! I'm curious how you might integrate it with the store. It would be awesome if I could associate a responder to a specific product and provide customers with follow-up information - based upon what they purchased. Other features that I would like:
- the ability to distribute "product keys" (i.e. license keys)
- the ability to restrict sales by product. We would like to sell digital products world-wide, but restrict physical products to the US only.
Awesome job - what a refreshing approach to developing a product!
[From Mitch: Hi Jay. Thanks for the comment. We're actually working on SendStudio integration this week and I'll have some screenshots up soon. Everything else you've mentioned is either integrated or is on the product roadmap for a future release, so we have you covered!]
Comment #32 (Posted by Diane)
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Hi, I want to sell video via digital download. My digital download videos are between 25-35 megs. Will this be possable. BTW, can you do a video on how to setup digital downloads?
[From Mitch: Hi Diane. Yes it's possible. You can choose a file from your computer to upload for the video or use an FTP client to upload big files to your server and select them as the product file. I'll put together a video next week]
[From Mitch: Hi Diane. Yes it's possible. You can choose a file from your computer to upload for the video or use an FTP client to upload big files to your server and select them as the product file. I'll put together a video next week]
Comment #33 (Posted by JD)
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Looking great so far. 2 questions:
1. Will there be separate language files so that I can translate all the text. Looking to translate to Japanese.
2. Will there be product personalisation fields?. ie a customer can enter their name to be printed on say a t-shirt that is offered for sale.
cheers
[From Mitch: Hi JD. Yes StoreSuite has separate language files, as well as a "private label" language file so you can remove anything to do with us in the application. Products have custom fields but not in that way unfortunately.]
1. Will there be separate language files so that I can translate all the text. Looking to translate to Japanese.
2. Will there be product personalisation fields?. ie a customer can enter their name to be printed on say a t-shirt that is offered for sale.
cheers
[From Mitch: Hi JD. Yes StoreSuite has separate language files, as well as a "private label" language file so you can remove anything to do with us in the application. Products have custom fields but not in that way unfortunately.]
Comment #34 (Posted by Steve Harman)
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Hi Mitch,
Are there plans for eBay-Store or Amazon ZShop integration with StoreSuite? i.e; the ability to "publish" one's inventory to either of those sites. X-Cart does both, courtesy of plugin / add-on modules.
Similarly exporting to Froogle / Google Products, Yahoo, MSN Shopping etc.
Thanks,
Steve
[From Mitch: Hi Steve. Yes there are but we're already on a feature lock for the initial release which we're finalizing and testing internally. Future releases will integrate dozens more payment providers]
Are there plans for eBay-Store or Amazon ZShop integration with StoreSuite? i.e; the ability to "publish" one's inventory to either of those sites. X-Cart does both, courtesy of plugin / add-on modules.
Similarly exporting to Froogle / Google Products, Yahoo, MSN Shopping etc.
Thanks,
Steve
[From Mitch: Hi Steve. Yes there are but we're already on a feature lock for the initial release which we're finalizing and testing internally. Future releases will integrate dozens more payment providers]
Comment #35 (Posted by glenn ulrik)
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Hi Mitch!
i have already bought Storesuite and look forward to change my system for my shop at www.squashbutikken.no. I have been reading all your blogs, and there are only one thing missing...I hope you will develop a function that shows all my orders to different suppliers of goods that I am buying to my shop. We are more than one person that runs the shop and I have experienced that we sometimes order new products both and ending up with to many products. I hope you will develop a function in the control panel that shows all the orders to the different firms we buy from???? regards glenn ulrik (Norway)
i have already bought Storesuite and look forward to change my system for my shop at www.squashbutikken.no. I have been reading all your blogs, and there are only one thing missing...I hope you will develop a function that shows all my orders to different suppliers of goods that I am buying to my shop. We are more than one person that runs the shop and I have experienced that we sometimes order new products both and ending up with to many products. I hope you will develop a function in the control panel that shows all the orders to the different firms we buy from???? regards glenn ulrik (Norway)
