May 03 2012

This update to SimpleWeb adds the ability to have the company in the ship_to_name when an order is imported. It also extends the ship_to_name field from 40 characters to 50 characters.

Here is the complete change log for SimpleWeb 1.2.10:

• Increase ship_to_name to 50 characters
• Add option to include company name in ship_to_name
• Start to create more complext contract pricing queries

Apr 20 2012

One of the most complex orders is on that had release schedules. An inside sales person not only needs to find out the which and how many items a customer is interested in, but how many they want released and on what date. This usually takes at least a phone call or two if not a lengthy email message detailing exactly what the customer wants.

What if the customer input the release schedule themselves?

Your customer already knows what they want and when they want it. They are already going to spend their time explaining this to your inside sales person and they may create an email explicitly detailing everything you need to complete the order for them. Then a person needs to take that information and input it into Prophet 21.

Why not use the time that the customer is already going to spend explaining and creating an email and allow them to create this complex order themselves?

SimpleWeb includes the Line Schedule Import

The SimpleWeb shopping cart allows users to assign release schedules to any item in their shopping cart. They can assign up to 20 release dates and the associated quantities. 

Once the release dates are setup they continue through the checkout process like normal and SimpleWeb include the Line Schedule import file with the rest of the import files for that order.

This feature allows your customers to create complex orders with line item release schedules from their own computer whenever they want and your inside sales staff can focus on other issues that are just as important.

Apr 19 2012

New Feature: Saved Shopping Carts

This release of SimpleWeb adds a new feature: "Saved Shopping Carts". This allows a user to save a shopping cart for future use and easily load the shopping cart to purchase the items over and over again. If you have client with consistent reoccurring order, this feature will save them time.

Here is the complete change log for SimpleWeb 1.2.9:

• Create user interface to add, load and delete shopping carts
• Create admin interface to add, edit, and delete shopping carts
• Clean up user interface to SimpleWeb admin section

Apr 06 2012

This update adds the Next Price Break feature to the item detail and add to cart pages. If your pricing is dependent on quantity discounts your customers will now be able to see how many more of that item they need to purchase to get the next price break and how much they will save.

Here is the full change log for SimpleWeb 1.2.8:

• Fix PriceDiffString on Item Detail page
• Update item pricing to include Next Price Break
• Add Next Price Break to Item Detail page
• Add Next Price Break to Add To Cart page
• Add Background controller for automating tasks

Apr 05 2012

New Feature: Line Item Scheduled Release

SimpleWeb now has the ability to allow users to enter order where the items are released a specific times in the future. If your customer wants to order 100 items from you, but they want 50 of them now, 25 in one month and 25 in two months they can create the order on their own and it is imported into your system just like any other order.

Here is teh change log for SimpleWeb 1.2.7:

• Add option to limit nubmer of Accessories on item detail page
• Add option to limit nubmer of Customer Also Bought on item detail page
• Add Release schedules for order line items
• Update App Server to create import file for release schedules

Mar 30 2012

This release finished up the admin interface to connect vendors to the zip codes that they are limited to.

Here is the change log for SimpleWeb 1.2.6:

• Finish vendor by zipcode admin interface

Mar 29 2012

New Feature: Limit Items by Vendor

Some distributors are limited to the area that they can ship items based on geographic regions. We have been working with one of our customers to satisfy this need for one of their vendors. By marking the vendor or items with a special code in the Class_5id field we can now limit items from a vendor to certain zipcodes or only registered and approved customers.

Here is the change log for SimpleWeb 1.2.5:

• Add filtering vendors items by zipcode
• Add filtering vendors items tp only approved users
• Start admin interface for assigning zipcodes to a vendor
• Add "Require Company Name for Unapproved suers to checkout" feature: Default=Off
• Add security to Invoice detail page
• Add security to Order detail page

Mar 16 2012

This update added two new major features and several minor ones.

The first major feature is the ability to request a quote instead of going through the check out process. This will create the same import files, but they will be set as a quote instead of an order.

The next major feature is an update to the item search. Items can be searched on customer_part_no, supplier_part_no and alternate_code as well as the items_id, description, extended_description and keywords fields.

Here is the complete change log for SimpleWeb 1.2.4:

• Add persistent shopping cart feature for unapproved users
• Start tracking alternate_code table
• Add alternate_code table to item search
• Redirect alternate_code to correct item_detail page
• Allow alternate_code to add items in Quick Cart
• Start tracking inventory_supplier table
• Add inventory_supplier table to item search
• Redirect supplier_part_no to correct item_detail page
• Allow supplier_part_no to add items in Quick Cart
• Add inv_xref to item search
• Filter lines on Order Detail page that have qty_ordered=0
• Add vendor_name in Google Analytics eCommerce Tracking
• Create Request Quote views, layouts and controllers
• Modify app server to allow quotes as well as sales orders

Mar 11 2012

Earlier today, during some scheduled maintenance, we upgraded the servers with some new features that Amazon announced earlier this week.

Three of our server instances (the app server and the two Gluster servers) were upgraded from the m1.small instance to the new m1.medium instance. The upgraded instances now have twice the CPU power and twice the RAM, which is important for the Gluster servers as the are also the Memcache servers.

Nearly all of the servers where also upgraded from 32-bit to 64-bit platforms; which adds bit more more responsiveness and and pep to all the servers.

This upgrade constitutes the fourth generation of the SimpleWeb server platform. Each generation has had a set of Amazon CloudFormation files for each server and with those CloudFormation file all server resources can be launched, in order, with a single script. This feature of the fourth generation of the SimpleWeb server platform was also tested successfully today.

Mar 07 2012

This update added persistent shopping carts for logged in users and details pages for Locations.

Persistent Shopping Carts are for logged in approved users so that when they leave a SimpleWeb site they will be able to recover their shopping cart when they return and log back in. This is the first step towards saved shopping carts which is part of our Express Checkout feature.

Detail pages for locations allows you to create an article specific to each location and present them on the front end of your websites. This is great for showing images and maps to your different locations and is a step towards allowing users to purchase from specific locations.

Here is the change log for SimpleWeb 1.2.3:

• Add Location table to refresh list
• Create list and detail pages for "Published" locations
• Create article interface for editing locations
• Add save_cart table to App Server
• Create persistent shopping cart for logged in, approved users