The following features and enhancements were released by Solid Cactus eCommerce on September 21, 2011. If you are a Solid Cactus eCommerce merchant, more information on these changes can also be found in your recently updated user guide.
New Contact Management Search Unveiled
Simple Search
The new simple contact search box allows you to find individual merchants fast. Enter any piece of contact information such as the name, email or address to locate a particular merchant. You can also further filter your results by simply adding another piece of information to your query.
Advanced Search
Advanced contact search provides full customization and control over your contact lists. Create a set of rules allowing for ultra-targeted lists for email marketing campaigns. For example, finding customers living in San Diego who spent $100 at your store within the past six months can be easily accomplished with advanced search. You can build your own contact filters and store them for later use. We’ve provided a few canned, yet customizable filters so you can get started right away.
Product Inscription/Personalization Options
This exciting new feature enables merchants to set product options allowing for custom text input by the customer making custom goods and products available. Merchants can now support things like engraving, monogramming, and inscriptions just in time for the upcoming holiday season. Merchants can decide whether input fields are required or not and can have price changes activated on a per-character or per-field basis. The information provided by the customer is then displayed in the order, invoices, notices, packing slips and even the API, making fulfillment quick and easy. Setup is completed using the same product option setup or uploading using the product options import.
One-Step Checkout
For merchants looking to streamline the checkout process, one-step checkout is now available. Instead of taking customers to the cart page first, having a one-step checkout takes them directly to the checkout page for fast, smooth payment. Cart contents can be seen at the top of the checkout page so customers can still view a summary of their order. The standard two-step checkout will still be available providing merchants with ultimate flexibility.
Relocation of Product Options
The product options link, which used to be located in the settings tab, now has its own tab on the edit product details page making data both easier to find and work with.
