All -
I am pleased to announce that Auctiva Commerce has been updated to include the following features:
Optional Automation of Google Base Feed Submission – Store Admin
================================================================
With this release we have added the ability for your Google Base Feeds to be automatically sent to Google on a daily basis. This will help to ensure that Google has a current view of your product set and will also save you time since you will only have to set up automatic submission once. After that it will be on “auto-pilot” so to speak.
One Important Note: Due to bandwidth restrictions only .zip files can be submitted to Google using the automated feature. We will create a .zip file for you and submit it to Google but you must register the same .zip file name with Google as well in order for the upload to be successful. To register your .zip filename with Google go to: http://www.google.com/base/newfeed?ensureUrlPresent – you will need to sign in once you reach the Google Base page.
After you have registered your .zip filename with Google, choose the “Create, Compress and Upload Feed Nightly” option from the tasks dropdown on the Marketing > Feeds > GoogleBase Feed page and click on the little arrow to the right of the dropdown list to activate.
There is also an Auctiva Commerce Help document on the subject which can be found “Here”.
Additional Google Base Attributes – Store Admin
===============================================
In this release we have added four new attributes to your Google Base feeds. These are all optional but may help your products to be found via Google Base. The four new attributes being added to your Google Base feeds are: Brand, ISBN, MPN, and UPC. For brand we are dual purposing the manufacturer attribute which already exists on the Product Detail page. Similarly for MPN we are dual purposing the Manuf. Part No. field which also already existed in the Product Detail page. ISBN and UPC are new attributes which are being added to the Product Detail page. If you have data in these fields it will be sent to Google as part of your Google Base feed.
Bulk Upload – Store Admin
=========================
I am pleased to announce that in this release the Bulk Upload feature has been implemented. To use the Bulk Upload feature go to Inventory > Bulk Upload Inventory. From this page you can view the Help documentation for this feature (http://auctivacommerce.com/help/Entry.aspx?id=How-to-bulk-upload-inventory) and download a Sample Product Upload file that you can use to upload your inventory items.
Note that you can load up to 5,000 items at a time without external image links. If your items have external image links you can upload up to 2,000 items per upload file.
In addition the following bug fixes were delivered in this release:
===================================================================
– Update to correctly process orders when gift certificates and other payments are applied
– Clean up of erroneous red box which was displaying on the Place Orders page.
– Clean up of required fields display on Checkout pages
– Update to currency provider page to correctly display the provider
– Correction to customization preview window to support scrollbars
– Correction to Tax Codes report to correctly utilize date ranges
– Update to variant pricing logic to correctly display discounting of variant price
– Fix to the Remove Selected logic on the Manage Inventory page
– Display fix to the Manage Currencies page
– Correction to fix the “Narrow by Results” search function
– Correction to category logic to correctly reflect category moves and deletions
– Correction to kit logic error messaging
– Fix to Customize Links button error which was causing an error page to display
– Correction to minimum / maximum purchase quantity validation logic
– Added validation to subscriber group naming to correctly limit length of subscriber group names
– Correction to correctly maintain price and quantity changes for manually entered orders
– Update to shipping estimator to correctly display shipping estimates when the Enter key is used
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 (http://www.auctivacommerce.com/Help/Default.aspx).
Thank you -
Chris
