What’s New in ProStores 9.3.1
ProStores 9.3.1 introduces several new features and enhancements to make your holiday selling season more successful!
All merchants will now be able to use multiple images per product, providing a better shopping experience for your customers. Traffic driving features like the integration of product feeds to 2 additional shopping search engines and SEO enhancements designed to improve organic traffic are included with this release. Just in time for the holiday selling season, you can now offer two new types of product promotions. And, because we know how busy you’ll be – you can save time managing your product catalog with the new Copy Product feature and process orders faster with the our latest order management enhancements.
For ProStores merchants who also sell on eBay, we’ve added many new features designed to give you more control of the products you want to have imported into your ProStores web store. We’ve also made it easier to list products from ProStores to eBay with custom listing themes and support for variation based listings, Immediate Payment and eBay Sales Tax tables on listings!
Key features are listed below. For more details, please see the Release Notes.
eBay Sync – Match Listing By Product
Save time by synchronizing your eBay listings with identical ProStores products based on product listing title or SKU (optional). For example, a Blue Hat on eBay can be matched with the Blue Hat product listing in ProStores and then added to your ProStores inventory.
Support for eBay Variations
ProStores now supports eBay variations when listing to eBay. Inbound variation-based listings and product attributes in ProStores can also be synchronized. The initial match will be at the main product level based on listing name and product name or SKU, while at the product attribute level, the match will be on SKU or if none exists, on variation/attribute values.
Inbound eBay Listings
Want to review or modify your eBay listings before they become products in ProStores? You can now hold listings in the new Inbound eBay Listings area and make changes to pricing, product name, and other settings before adding them as products in ProStores.
Free Custom eBay Listing Themes
Create eBay listings using your own custom listing theme by specifying a header and footer to wrap around your listings. Just enter the HTML code for your custom theme and click Save.
Other eBay Enhancements
ProStores now supports:
- The new eBay-approved Checkout Redirect
- Immediate Payment on listings
- eBay Sales Tax table on listings
- Variation-based listings
- Listing reminders and suggestions (i.e. if an item is eligible for relisting the merchant will see a suggestion that they should consider relisting because it is surfaced higher in search results)
Multiple Product Images
Current ProStores merchants can now upgrade their store to use multiple images with their products. (Merchants must ‘opt-in’ to use this feature). Those who opt-in will have their product images resized for optimal display. New ProStores stores will automatically have access to the new multiple image format.
Enhanced Integration with Sales in a Click
Sign up, set your send date, and forget it—Sales in a Click automatically enables you to add free syndicated content (you select the categories) along with your featured products to an email newsletter to your registered customers. And we make it easy to grow your mailing list with a newsletter signup box on the storefront.
New Discount Types
More ways to promote your products! We’ve added percentage off and amount off to product promotion with fixed sales price.
New Storefront Options
Merchants can also select the type of “savings display” method by fixed amount, percentage off or both – great ways to ensure your customer know that they’re getting a good deal.
We’ve also added bookmark icons to your pages so shoppers can easily return to your store and buy more.
New Product Feeds
More ways to drive traffic to your store! We’ve added free product feeds to shopping search engines NexTag and theFind.com (and once you set up your feed to theFind.com, you can increase your visibility on it by taking advantage of their new merchant center. Learn more here.
SEO Enhancements
With this release, we’ve cleaned up the storefront page HTML and made your storefront pages more SEO-friendly. Merchants can now also add meta descriptions and homepage titles without working in source code.
Copy Product
The new Copy Product feature allows you to enter a new Product Name, SKU and/or OEM to create a new product from your product catalog list.
Item Location Postal Code for Product Level Shipping
You can now set the origin postal code for individual products at the product level. If you drop-ship products, this information is used along with the buyer’s location (i.e., postal code) to calculate individual product shipping costs.
Sort and Search Orders Ready for Shipping
For orders that are ready for shipping you can now: easily sort all orders ready to ship, configure the number of invoices displayed per page, search orders by invoice number, date and partial match to customer ship-to and last name, and view one page of invoices ready to ship.
Customer and Merchant Invoice Notes
You can now collect notes from a customer during the checkout flow and have those notes displayed in the order. You also have the option to add notes to the field that will be visible to merchants when viewing the order online.
Checkout Improvements
An optional multipage checkout progress indicator has been added so that your customers know exactly where they are in the ordering process. We’ve also improved support of promotions in PayPal Standard transactions. Buyers who pay with PayPal Standard will now be able to see store credits and promotions as separate line items when reviewing payments in PayPal.
Support for PayPal Fraud Filters
Pending orders with a status of Fraud Review can be managed on your Orders Pending page after the order has been flagged for review by PayPal. Pending orders that have not been approved yet will also show on the Orders Pending page.
New Features in Prostores 9.3.0
We've just released our latest version of ProStores (version 9.3), which will include several enhancements designed to create products from eBay listings, easily build and customize themes and improve store conversion.
Theme Builder
You can now build your own theme and do simple customization for themes under the Build Your Own or Contemporary categories. Customize colors, add store logo and reputation builders such as payment and safety/security logos and Javascript.
Improved Catalog Creation from eBay Listings
When creating products in ProStores through eBay Sync or when building product catalogs using eBay listings, a lot of eBay-centric information is also imported. ProStores will now automatically remove all Javascript and Flash code and merchants can choose to remove any CSS markup, leaving more of the product information pertinent only to ProStores available for use in your product detail pages.
Also, eBay listings using the free calculated shipping option will maintain free shipping when imported into ProStores via eBay Sync. Products in ProStores may also be configured with free calculated shipping, mirroring the shipping options of your eBay listings!
Improved Catalog Display
Build Your Own and Contemporary themes will now support features designed to enhance the shopper experience. Shoppers will experience faster page load times and easier navigation of categories making it easier for merchants to make a sale. The left navigation menu on all storefronts using these themes will now display up to 25 top level categories (which can be expanded and collapsed) plus a “More Categories” link. A new “All Categories” page will display top level categories and up to 4 subcategories plus a “More” link and search results per page will be limited to 100 products.
Conversion Rate Help Center
Merchants can now access the Conversion Rate Help Center, which offers tips and impact levels for improving store conversion rates.
New Features in ProStores 9.2.1
We've just released our latest version of ProStores (version 9.2.1), which will include several enhancements designed to improve store conversion. For eBay Sellers, we’ve also made improvements to the QuickStart feature, where sellers can import their eBay listings into ProStores and have their web store open in minutes.
In addition to features in the 9.2.1 release, ProStores merchants can now sign up for Power Reviews Express, a customer review solution used by some of the biggest retailers to collect and display reviews written by customers.
Updated Product List Layouts
Product list layouts will include clearer "Added to Cart" messaging and a layout option that eliminates duplicate product listings when assigned to multiple categories.
New! Product Detail Layouts
Cleaner product detail displays where only the most critical information is clearly displayed upfront, including product image, price and attributes, and a more prominent Add To Cart button.
Improved "No Search Results Page"
Your shoppers will be directed to other Featured Products and an improved Advanced Search Box, to encourage them to continue shopping even after landing on a "no search results" page.
New Cart Design
Clearer path to checkout, with improved "Proceed to Checkout" and "Continue Shopping" buttons, product images and better cart upsell.
Enhanced One Page Checkout
Checkout options are more clearly displayed, giving buyers the option to checkout at PayPal, checkout anonymously or checkout after registering their information.
Customer and Shipping Recipient Information
On the Ready for Shipping page in the Order Manager, we now show both customer information and recipient information. You will no longer see only billing information on this page.
Improved eBay QuickStart
For new ProStores merchants, all eBay listings will be imported up to the product tier limit (we are removing the 250 product limit cap). Your store is open while all of your fixed-price listings (SIF and BIN) are imported in the background. They appear on your storefront as they are imported.
New! PowerReviews Express
ProStores merchants can now take advantage of the same customer review solution used by some of the biggest retailers to collect and display reviews written by customers. Increase your sales by adding customer reviews to your web store. Learn more
To see features released in Version 9.2, click here.
