Cross-Selling Enhancement

New Veracart Cross-Selling Enhancement

Previous to this new feature, Veracart was limited in how quickly you can add a cross-selling item to a large number of products at once.

Say you have a Product that you want to have cross-sold across many different Products. This new feature gives you the ability to select a Product, then select which Product(s) you want it to be cross-sold with.

Instead of a "many-to-one" approach as we have currently available on the Item Editor page, we are enabling you to use a "one-to-many" approach by attaching the Product directly to any number of Products, all at once.

This will help you save time when attaching a particular product to be sold with many products in your store.

To use go to Products > List Items(Items/Packages) > Click on the Blue + next to any product you want to add as a cross selling item to many products.



Once you click the blue "+" icon, a box will pop-over the screen. Use the categories on the left to select the products you want the item to be cross-sold with.

The New Veracart (1/11/2010)

ACH Direct

We've added another gateway to our growing list of supported gateways today.

ACH Direct

http://www.achdirect.com/

Verango Support Team

Surprise! Merchants say Web fraud is down

Times are tough -- even for cybercriminals. Online merchants in the U.S. and Canada report a dramatic 18 percent drop in fraud, down from...

While Veracart cannot provide security that a Merchant/Gateway can provide, Veracart does maintain "PCI compliance." What is PCI compliance?

While Veracart cannot provide security that a Merchant/Gateway can provide, Veracart does maintain "PCI compliance." What is PCI compliance?

"The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of requirements designed to ensure that ALL companies that process, store or transmit credit card information maintain a secure environment. Essentially any merchant that has a Merchant ID (MID).

So in laymans terms, Veracart transmits your clients address, credit card, and other data, securely ensuring our part in fraud reduction is covered.

How do you implement other security measures? Depending on your gateway and merchant accounts, you can set these up to detect fraud.

It also helps to have a discerning eye for a fraudulent scheme. If you receive international orders for a larger than normal volume of merchandise, Veracart urges you to make certain that you receive payment in full, as well as check with the credit card owner to make sure the credit card is valid and that the card owner purchased the merchandise.

Some banks such as Wells Fargo have implemented mandatory rules that require any fraudulent claim submitted to them, the orders must have the same billing and shipping addresses as indicated on the purchasers credit card. This can cut down on fraud significantly.

Happy Holidays and well wishes from the Verango staff.

Cyber Monday 2009

It's that time of year again. Ninety-six million users are expected to go shopping online today. Cyber Monday, the equivelant of Black Friday for online stores is due to the millions of people coming back from thanksgiving vacation, and shopping online at the office.

Last year Cyber Monday pulled in about $846 million, making it the 3rd largest shopping day of the Christmas season. However, Black Friday e-commerce sales jumped 11 percent over last year to $595 million. This is a trend we are very excited about!

Veracart is proud to be a growing slice of the pie, this Cyber Monday. We encourage you to let your friends know about Veracart.

Thanks,

The Veracart Support Team
support@veracart.com

Commission Junction Advanced Integration Live

For anyone that uses Commission Junction as their affiliate network partner you can now use Commission Junction's Advanced Integration. You will just need to know your Enterprise ID and Action ID. To configure Commission Junction login to the control panel:

Then go to Marketing -> Affiliate Programs -> Check Commission Junction then press save. Once you have saved go to the Configure link next to Commission Junction, and put in your Commission Junction Enterprise ID and Action ID. You are now live with Commission Junction.

Enjoy!
The Veracart Development Team

Min Order Qty and Amount Added, Item Importer Updated

We received a number of requests lately for minimum quantity and minimum dollar amount per order so we added this feature for all of you requesting it. I hope you enjoy it. If there are any problems let us know. To use this feature to go Settings -> Inventory Settings (which is a link under Store Info Settings). On the bottom of this page are three new settings I will attempt to explain them below:

1.) Minimum Quantity Per Order this forces the cart to make sure they have at least a quantity of 12 of any item in the customers cart.



2.) On the Item Edit (Product -> List Items ->Edit an Item) page theirs a new box under the Special Pricing Settings section this will allow you to input the minimum quantity that a customer has to purchase to order the item.

This feature will force the minimum quantity for the item to appear in the item quantity add to cart section of your catalog pages.

3.) On the Inventory Settings page you can input the minimum order amount for a particular purchase.



Item Importer Updated:

Veracart also updated the Item Importer to include uploading minimum quantity, volume discounting, SEO title tag, SEO meta keywords, SEO meta description. The format for adding a new volume discounting feature is qty_from| qty_to | discount | type, so for example
0| 100 | 0.50 | 1 this means that a Quantity of 0 to 100 gets a flat rate discount of 50 cents. The type is 1 for flat rate 2 for percentage. The | or called pipe in the programming world is just above the enter key on your keyboard.

Features Currently Under Development but will be released soon:

1.) Paysafecard Payment Integration for European Customers
2.) Commission Junction Advanced Integration Tracking
3.) Amazon Payment Integration
4.) Quickbooks
5.) Mass Category Importer and Updater