Updated version of popular ecommerce software contains many new features and improvements for Internet merchants.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 11, 2005 -- Early Impact, an ecommerce software development company, announced today the release of ProductCart v2.76, the latest version of its line of shopping cart software, used by thousands of Internet stores around the world.
With version 2.76 ProductCart becomes more secure, faster, more reliable, and more powerful than ever before. A number of improvements have been made to dozens of existing features, and new productivity tools have been added to the Control Panel to help businesses better manage their online stores.
Among the new features and enhancements in v2.76:
- A user-friendly Google Sitemap generator to automatically create a map of the store that can be submitted to Google's new Sitemap service.
- Substantial improvements to the Product Import Wizard, including the ability to import product options and all of the related settings (options required or not, price differentials, etc.).
- A new Wizard to import shipment information for existing orders: easily import tracking numbers and other shipping details, and send out "Order Shipped" e-mails to multiple customers at once.
- An updated tax module that allows merchants to exclude selected products or categories of products from sales tax within any US state. This improvement accommodates new laws that are allowing certain categories of products to be tax-exempt (e.g. apparel) in states like PA and NJ.
- A more advanced search feature to quickly locate existing customer accounts in the Control Panel.
- A new tool to export customer addresses to UPS.com for faster processing of shipments at UPS.com
- New, advanced security features to prevent script-based attacks against a ProductCart-powered store.
- The latest version of InnovaStudio's advanced HTML editor to create and edit product and category descriptions.
- The integration of CardinalCommerce's Centinel system to minimize fraud and easily participate in the Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode programs. For more information on this feature, please visit: http://www.earlyimpact.com/productcart/payment_gateways_centinel.asp
- New payment gateways supported 'out of the box':
- Banca Sella GestPay (Italy)
- BluePay v2
- eWay
- HSBC
- NetOne
- Paradata
- PaymentExpress by Direct Payment Solutions
- PayPal Website Payments Pro and PayPal Express Checkout
- TripleDeal
- USAePay (added batch processing feature)
- New productivity tools were also added to the Control Panel such as the ability to view products not assigned to any category, create a report of the products most frequently added to a Wish List, and many others.
- Performance improvements were made to number of areas both in the storefront and in the Control Panel.
- All outstanding issues were also addressed with this new version.
The version 2.76 update is free to all ProductCart users running v2 and above.
ProductCart is a popular shopping cart program used by small businesses around the world to sell their products and services online. The software is available from Early Impact and its resellers starting at $495 per storefront. Web designers and other resellers enjoy discounts, sales leads, and priority technical support. For more information, please visit http://www.earlyimpact.com
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