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Google has recently introduced a new policy that will require you to verify ownership of your Auctiva Commerce website in order to continue to upload items to Google Merchant Center. For details about the new policy please view the Google Merchant Blog post. You have to complete the verification process by May 18th to avoid problems with your Google Merchant Center products.
To comply with the new procedures you first need to verify site ownership with Google Webmaster Tools, and then claim your site in the Google Merchant Center. To verify site ownership you need to generate a verification code at the Google Webmaster Tools site, and then apply it to your Auctiva Commerce store. The verification code is a long string of random characters and numbers. Once you have the verification code, login to your Auctiva Commerce merchant admin and navigate to Marketing > Search Engine Optimization (SEO) > Meta Data & Google Integration. Paste the verification code in the Site Verification text-box and click Save Verification. Make sure you only paste in the verification code itself without the surrounding quotes or other text. If you have previously verified your Auctiva Commerce site ownership with Google Webmaster Tools you do not have to re-verify.
After you have verified ownership of your Auctiva Commerce store via the above procedure you need to login to the Google Merchant Center and claim your site. To do so sign in to your Google Merchant Center account and click the “Claim this URL” link on your General Settings page.
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Chris
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I am pleased to announce that Auctiva Commerce has been updated to include the following features of fixes:
– Correction to Email List feature to prevent creation of an empty record when adding a user to an email list.
– Correction to not include handling fees (if enabled) in the shipping total on the Checkout page.
– Correction to not display a system ID on the buyer’s view of the order details page.
– Correction to correctly notify the merchant when a buyer adds a note to an order.
– Correction to use the correct country code for Russia in shipping calculations and within the Auctiva Commerce merchant admin site.
– Correction to customization panels to correctly save links that have been customized.
– Correction to remove trailing spaces from image URLs that are included in the tab delimited product import file.
– Correction to the Vendor Notification email template to correctly send the email to any applied CC or BCC addresses.
– Correction to allow for refunds when the base currency of the store is not set to United States Dollar (USD).
– Update to send detailed discount information to PayPal so that it appears on PayPal as well as Auctiva Commerce.
– Update to Product Popularity and Sales Over Time graphs on dashboard to improve efficiency and page load.
– Update to allow special characters to be included in the Name field when performing a bulk upload. ADD LINK to Help doc.
– Update to merchant admin user messaging to make more consistent across pages.
These fixes and updates have been deployed live and where applicable Help and or FAQ documentation has been updated on the Auctiva Commerce Help Site.
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Chris
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Similar to Google, PayPal also has a series of acceptance logos that you can incorporate into your site to let your customers know you accept PayPal. They can be found Here. Note that these are all securely hosted at PayPal, so they can be used in the header or footer w/o causing security exceptions in Checkout.
Thx,
Chris
Google Checkout Users -
Want an easy way to let your buyers know you accept Google Checkout? You can easily create a securely hosted Google Checkout Acceptance logo within your Google Checkout account and include it on your Auctiva Commerce store. Google provides a Google Checkout Acceptance logo code snippet specific to your Google Checkout account in the Tools > Acceptance logo section of your Google Checkout account. Just copy the code provided by Google and place it on whichever portion of your Auctiva Commerce site you desire – the footer, for example.
Note that if you want to center it you need to move the Google script code within the DIV they provide and add a bit of CSS – I used the following setup to include and center the logo on my test store and it worked like a charm with the Wood Deco theme.
<div style=”margin: 0pt auto; width: 200px;” id=”googleCheckoutLogo”> <script src=’https://checkout.google.com/buttons/logos?merchant_id=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&loc=en_US&f=png’ ></script></div>
If people click on this logo they will be directed to a Google Checkout page about your store; this page will include any Google Checkout buyer reviews of your store from previous transactions.
Thx,
Chris
