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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
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By now probably everyone knows the importance of utilizing Google Merchant Center feeds to promote your store’s goods and services, but did you know you can integrate your Google Merchant Center account, your Google AdWords account, and your Google Checkout account to display Google Checkout badges next to your items in Google Product Search and Google AdWords? This is a powerful promotional tool which increases conversion rates in both Google Product Search and Google AdWords. This is a highly recommended practice for all online sellers that offer Google Checkout.
Google has provided an Instructional Article and a Demonstration Video which explain how to set up your Google accounts to display the Google Checkout badges. Note that it will take a few days for the badges to appear after completing all of these steps. For sellers that accept Google Checkout I highly recommend that you set up your accounts to display the Google Checkout badges – it should help you to create sales and increase your click through rate on any Google AdWords ads you may have running.
Happy selling -
Chris
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There will be an approximate 1 hour outage for Auctiva Commerce on February 18th starting at 11:00 PM PST. During this time, users that attempt to access your store will be directed to a webpage informing them of the outage.
What we are doing: This outage is necessary to perform database cleanups and updates in order to improve performance for Auctiva Commerce.
Services affected: All Auctiva Commerce merchant admin and public storefront sites.
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Chris
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Great news!! Now you can easily showcase your items on any site and drive more buyers to your Auctiva Commerce shop with our Auctiva Commerce Store widget. This new tool—built on Auctiva Marketplace Platform(AMP) technology—allows you to display a sampling of your items in a scrolling gallery to give shoppers a glimpse into your store, grabbing their attention and enticing them to venture further.
Display this widget on your blog or even place it on a friend’s site to reach a new audience. It’s easy!
To access the Auctiva Commerce Store widget, simply log into your Auctiva Commerce Store, hover your mouse over the Marketing tab and select Widgets. Customize your widget with the background and text colors you want and then click the “Get Widget Code” button. This will generate a snippet of code, which you can paste into the desired Web page so your widget will display.
** Please note this widget uses JavaScript, which some sites do not allow.
This is the first version of our Auctiva Commerce Store widget and, as a result, we’ll continue enhancing it in the coming months so you can get even more out of this new tool. And don’t forget that developments on AMP will also continue to give you more ways to drive traffic to your store.
If you have any questions about the new Auctiva Commerce Store widget, or any other aspect of your Auctiva Commerce Store, please contact our Customer Support representatives. They’re always available and happy to help.
Enjoy our store widget!
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Chris
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We’ve Improved our Software!!
We’ve added 26 enhancements to our Auctiva Commerce software to help you operate a successful online store and improve your buyers’ shopping experience. We’ve made adjustments to improve shipping dimension calculations, added a shipping method and much more. Below are a few more of the many enhancements we released during our latest release cycle.
- Special characters in your product names. Include any of the following characters in your item titles: !,&,”,’,\,/,(,),[,[,-,#,$,%,^,@,`,~,*,+,;, and :. It’s your shop; you decide how you want your titles to appear.
- Up-sell your items. We’ve added a checkout link to your up-sell pages so buyers can easily purchase these products.
- PayPal adjustments. We’d make changes to ensure PayPal gets the appropriate address when buyers enter different shipping and billing addresses. No more mix ups!
- Customize in IE. Easily customize our Blank theme in Internet Explorer.
- Cross-sell adjustment. Auctiva Commerce will now check to ensure cross-sell items are public before displaying them, so you won’t have to worry about buyers running into problems when they click on these cross-promotional items.
- Adjustment to resize external image. Auctiva Commerce will now automatically resize your images.
To see a complete list of all of the enhancements we’ve made, please read our post on our Community Forums. And as always, if you have any questions about your Auctiva Commerce account, please contact our Customer Support representatives. They’re always available and happy to help.
Enjoy the new features,
Chris
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More great news!! As a celebration of Auctiva Commerce’s first birthday we are waiving the monthly store fee through June 2010. This is our small token of appreciation to all of our loyal users that have grown with us over the past year. As I reflect on 2009 we accomplished quite a bit – check out the summary list of enhancements that we delivered to improve Auctiva Commerce:
* Bulk product import and editing
* A streamlined checkout process
* A variety of payment gateways, including Authorize.net, Google Checkout,
PayPal and PayPal Website Payments Pro
* Integrated shipping quotes for USPS, FedEx, UPS and Canada Post
* Increased stability and security
* A Shop tab with filtered search capability
* Google Product Search category mapping and related enhancements
* 90+ store themes
And we’re not planning to stop there. In 2010 we’re planning to deliver:
* Better customization: more freedom to modify your storefront design
* More payment options: adding support for international payment gateways
* Google enhancements: additional product attributes to give your items better visibility in searches
* Additional data feeds: allowing product submission to more comparison-shopping engines
I’m excited about all that has been accomplished during this year and about the direction we’re heading. Hopefully you are as well – I think with the enhancements already delivered and the ones that are planned we can make 2010 the best year in e-commerce yet!!
Happy Selling -
Chris
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Want to help ensure that buyers can find your products? Then it is recommended that you map your Auctiva Commerce Store items to the product categories we are offering. We will automatically include your products in our new marketplace platform. That means your items will show up in our brand-new shopping portal, Elefy.
We want to help sellers connect with buyers who want to shop outside of the “Big Box.” Elefy emphasizes a unique shopping experience for buyers. If you are seeking the type of buyers who value variety and prefer purchasing from individual sellers, our platform will bring them to you. Mapping to our platform categories ensures your products are searchable in the exact categories you want them to be.
Start now! It only takes a few minutes to decide where your items fit best and as you add new inventory, individual products will be automatically associated to the appropriate external category. These choices are fully editable in bulk, or one item at a time.
Our online tutorial can take you through the category mapping process, step by step.
Happy Holidays !!
Chris
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Great News!!
Auctiva Commerce has been updated and enhanced with new features, including enhancements to the Bulk Edit tool, enhanced Payment setup pages, Google Checkout and more!! For further details on the enhancements click on this link: http://tinyurl.com/yg359o2.
- Chris
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Great News!!
Auctiva Commerce has been updated and enhanced with new features, including enhancements to the Shopping Cart, additional Google Base feed attributes, and an improved multiple image viewer. For further details on the enhancements click on this link: http://tinyurl.com/yl69js4.
- Chris
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Auctiva Commerce was recently featured as Cart of the Week at Practical ECommerce magazine. Check it out here: http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1306-Cart-of-the-Week-Auctiva-Commerce
Practical ECommerce is an online magazine that delves into all things ECommerce, including a weekly review of shopping carts. Auctiva Commerce is pleased to have been selected as the most recent Cart of the Week by Practical ECommerce.
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