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  • 12 Mobile Apps to Manage a Team - Business teams need to communicate and collaborate on projects and daily tasks, especially when working remotely. Here is a list of mobile apps to manage a team.
    Topics: plans, project, teams, price, mobile, apps, manage, team, projects, tasks, user, start.
  • 16 Tools to Manage Your Reputation - Reputation management is essential for any brand. Your company's future may depend on what’s been said about it in posts, comments, reviews, and rankings. Fortunately, there are affordable tools to help. Here is a list of tools to manage your brand’s reputation.
    Topics: social, tools, manage, analyze, review, reviews, track, content, brand, reputation, price, monitor.
  • 20 WordPress Plugins to Manage a Blog - A blog can promote your brand and provide valuable content. WordPress is arguably the best platform to host a blog, mainly due to roughly 50,000 free or inexpensive plugins. Here is a list of plugins to manage a blog on WordPress.
    Topics: plugin, site, plans, plugins, price, security, wordpress, manage, start, blog, posts, free, premium.
  • 25 Websites to Share, Manage Video - Creating a video can promote products and services, but only if it attracts viewers. Here is a list of websites and platforms for managing and sharing video. There are hosting services, social networks, entertainment sites, news platforms, archives, and more. Many are free.
    Topics: share, upload, manage, platform, users, videos, site, websites, content, live, viewers, video.
  • 27 Free Shopify Apps to Help You Build, Manage, and Grow Your Store - With thousands of apps in the Shopify App Store, you have a lot of options when it comes to extending the functionality of your online store. But with so many options to choose from, we thought it would be useful to highlight 27 of the best free Shopify apps you can add to your store.More
    Topics: build, store, add, customers, manage, help, apps, product, products, create, grow, app, sales, shopify, free.
  • 7 Ways to Use Slack to Manage Your Online Business - Slack gets an unfair reputation for only being used as an instant chat messenger between teams, and while it is useful for that purpose, there are several other ways to use Slack to provide value to your businesses every day.
    Topics: team, channelintegration, channel, content, youre, online, ways, help, website, business, way, manage, slack.
  • 7 of the Best Free Apps for Startups to Kickstart Growth - Chances are, at this very moment, you have more then one application open on your computer or phone.
    Topics: kickstart, right, best, tools, site, apps, data, important, free, hubspot, understand, growth, survey, startups, manage.
  • 7 of the Best Tools for Freelancers in 2021 - You've decided to become a freelancer. You're the boss of your own time, your business, and the projects you choose to work on. There's a lot going on, from finding new clients to managing your workload. The truth is... you kind of have to do everything, especially when you're just starting out.
    Topics: freelancer, best, freelancers, software, business, tools, manage, need, plan, accounting, freelance.
  • 8 Essential Budget Templates for Marketers [Free Download] - Let's face it: Executing a successful marketing plan requires time, energy, and money. And with so many different facets of marketing to consider -- branding and creative, product marketing, hosting events, etc. -- your marketing budget can disappear real fast.
    Topics: essential, team, download, marketing, spending, budget, sheets, templates, track, marketers, google, free, manage, expenses.
  • 9 Tips to Manage Out-of-stock Inventory - Sometimes even the most-prepared retailers sell out of popular items. How these inventory shortages are communicated on an ecommerce website may impact shopper experience, search engine optimization, and sales. Although not ...
    Topics: product, items, manage, page, shopper, available, pages, item, tips, outofstock, search, inventory.
  • Adobe brings new Amazon and Google integrations to Magento - It’s only been a few months since Adobe launched its Commerce Cloud, based on its $1.6 billion acquisition of Magento. Today, at its Imagine 2019 conference, the company announced a number of updates to Magento that focus on expanding the platform’s reach for the small- and mid-size businesses that use the service. When Adobe acquired […]
    Topics: manage, adobe, brings, integrations, magento, merchants, today, allow, woosley, users, techcrunch, google, amazon.
  • Amazon Retail Arbitrage as a Closeout Strategy - Retail arbitrage is a booming business. Some practitioners are making six-figure incomes buying low-priced or clearance items and reselling them on Amazon. Mimicking or encouraging the practice could help retail merchants manage closeouts.
    Topics: item, clearance, retail, closeout, amazon, sell, items, arbitrage, manage, price, strategy.
  • Anvyl, looking to help D2C brands manage their supply chain, raises $9.3M - Growing D2C brands face an interesting challenge. While they’ve eliminated much of the hassle of a physical storefront, they must still deal with all the complications involved in managing inventory and manufacturing and shipping a physical product to suppliers. Anvyl, with a fresh $9.3 million in Series A funding, is looking to jump in and […]
    Topics: anvyl, supply, help, chain, funding, techcrunch, million, manage, d2c, brands, ventures, company, traveled, logistics, raises, looking.
  • BigCommerce Launches Amazon Product Catalog Import Support, Reducing Manual Error and Saving Sellers Hours of Work - There’s no denying that Amazon represents a massive opportunity for ecommerce brands to reach customers at scale. However, selling on…
    Topics: storefront, merchants, link, catalog, manage, product, listings, import, bigcommerce, amazon, products, catalogs.
  • Composable Commerce is More than a Cart - It seems the mood music has shifted away from monolith to composable, at least for those organisations looking to gain significant competitive advantage and be able to differentiate themselves by innovative use of technology.  The logic seems clear; select the "best-of-breed" technology at every stage of your development, and progressively up-platform as the requirements grow and change. You may not need a CMS for the MVP / early phases, but you’ll need to plug one in further down the road - that works.  Or the tax engine you currently use is OK until you expand into new regions and need to provide additional coverage, no problem.   However, there are two camps emerging in composable which, whilst on the face of it appear similar but can result in radically different outcomes. Before exploring further, let's look at the typical capabilities that a business needs from a modern commerce solution (in addition to commerce) - front to back: Front end framework - the glass that allows access and enables your team to deliver the UI CMS - to manage rich content so that your marketers can develop the brand images and messaging Search (and Merch) - product discovery, recommendations so that your products can be found, and so that you can deliver the appropriate ranking etc. Promotions - to improve conversion and revenue options PIM - to manage product data, workflows, approval etc. OMS - Order management (and typically complex inventory) so that you only offer what you can sell and deliver on the promise of fulfilment Marketplace – So that you can onboard suppliers and offer third party products and of course various back-end ERP, CRM, etc. A lot of software, but the key thing is that the composable solution should be focused on "what does the business need at this stage of the programme? Put another way, what is the simplest and easiest way of delivering the business outcome, not "best-of-breed" per se, but "best for me" - and that is critical to your selection of a commerce vendor.   Why?   Because, as one starts to review the components and build out a composable commerce solution, it becomes clear that at the very heart, the commerce engine, there are two distinct schools of thought emerging - let's call them minimalist and most complete. Want to See How Elastic Path Commerce Cloud is Future Proof? Launch and optimize innovative experiences fast, with a modern, headless, SaaS, API-first, & microservices-based commerce platform. See the Future of eCommerce On the minimalist side we see commerce vendors pushing pretty much all the functionality onto third parties, and I don't mean things that shouldn't be in commerce like Search, CMS, or Marketplace, but core components that any serious organisation needs to operate at the most basic level.  In here I put capabilities like Catalogue Management, Pricing data and Product Data (Including Bundles and Variations).   The minimalist approach says "oh, that's OK, all you really need is the cart/checkout and the rest comes from 3rd parties." Which is fine, if you are never going to change your current ways of managing your catalogue, pricing, or product data. But that's wrong. And the reason is that you are effectively committing to building a bespoke system, from the ground up, from day one.  Not only does this dramatically increase the cost, time, and risk to the project, but by its very essence, you are committed to custom build, which means it's not covered by vendor support or SLA, SI/Agency lock-in and growing technical debt.   Of course, it also restricts your choices as you move from MVP through the subsequent phases of your rollout.  Without core capabilities you will always have to go outside the commerce engine to manage your catalogues for example - or put another way, you will always have to pay for that capability above and beyond the commerce fee - same for promotions, etc.  The most complete view may look only a little different, but the outcome is radically different. The argument from this camp is that a well-rounded commerce engine will do, functionally, what you need it to do, most of the time, and certainly for the MVP and early phases. Yes, checkout and cart, but also allow you to manage your catalogues, your promotions, your variations, your bundles - you know, the basic things that your merchandising team needs to do to get an offer to your clients and prospects. The result is a quicker, cheaper, less risky rollout; with more time to spend on innovation, less on heavy lifting, and quicker time to revenue. Not only are you not building core commerce from the ground up, but critically, you get to decide when and if to take on additional functionality - do it when the business requirement is there, not from day one when you must purchase because the capability is lacking in the core commerce platform. I guess it's OK to just use your commerce system for a cart/checkout and do bespoke build. But if that's all you are going to use it for, then make that decision with open eyes, and pay accordingly. Choose best for me, don't be forced to take best-of- breed due to lack of capability in the core.
    Topics: product, way, thats, cart, commerce, engine, manage, composable, business, need, core.
  • Confidently Manage Large, Multi-Month Projects - From custom built-directories in our private community to eCommerce cart migrations, Andrew has tackled some hairy projects with lots of moving parts. In today’s episode he takes us through his chronological approach to tackling things from beginning to end. You’ll learn about the things that have worked well for him, the missteps to avoid and [...]
    Topics: really, gonna, project, youre, confidently, manage, things, doing, large, projects, know, lot, think, thats, multimonth.
  • Here’s what’s new in WooCommerce 4.1 - TL;DR: A new update is available for WooCommerce! When you’re ready, update via your WordPress Dashboard. To make the process as smooth as possible, view our documentation on how to update, make a backup, update your extensions, and then update WooCommerce. WooCommerce 4.1 has arrived! This release represents the next step in our mission to […]
    Topics: heres, store, extensions, manage, customers, whats, payments, marketing, help, woocommerce, business, update.
  • How Do I Manage Products and Hierarchies with Elastic Path? - Earlier this year we announced Product Content Management for Elastic Path Commerce Cloud which decouples products, hierarchies, catalogs, and price books. The result? Now you can quickly and easily create unlimited, unique catalogs for customer account types, geographies, business models, touchpoints, and brands. Watch the video to learn how to manage products in Elastic Path Commerce Cloud with our Product Content Management Service. Video Transcript The products you want to sell in your store may be physical goods, digital items, or services that are individually created and associated with one or more hierarchies in a catalog. A product has attributes, such as name, description, ID and SKU and may have additional attributes to be displayed in the storefront, depending on your needs. A product also has associations, such as product images, files containing additional product details and associations to hierarchies, price books and inventory. If your store supports multiple languages, you can localize product names, descriptions, and more. With Product Content Management, you define your products separately from catalogs, categories, prices, inventory and other resource relationships. Your product data is stored in a database. After you add products, you can update product information, add images and other assets, and associate products with one or more hierarchy nodes and price books. Products may then be associated with zero, one or multiple catalogs, and your product inventory is also managed independently. After making any changes you can export the updated product information back to other business systems so that your organization sees a consistent view of products. Remember that with Product Content Management, your products are standalone objects and other relationships, and associations allow them to be referred to in multiple hierarchies, price books and catalogs. So, for your products to appear in a catalog, and therefore in a storefront, you must first make sure that your product is active, and not in a draft state. It must be associated with at least one hierarchy and the catalog you want it to appear in references a hierarchy that includes that product. Now, let's consider the products sold by Playtend games, our online video game store. Playtend games sells game consoles and other physical items, video games, which are digital, downloadable items, and they also have a subscription service which is also considered a product. The product images and downloadable spec sheets for these consoles are tied to each product as are price books and hierarchy associations. So, any changes to the product data, would automatically appear in any catalog that the changed product is tied too. Understanding product relationships in Product Content Management is important in seeing how these allow you to organize product catalogs in Elastic Path Commerce Cloud.   Video Transcript In Product Content Management, the hierarchies you create determine which products are available within a given catalog and can be used for site navigation. A hierarchy is a tree structure with a root nodes, and descendent nodes. The root node of the tree is the Hierarchy ID. A node within a hierarchy can have one parent and zero, or more children. When you create a node, you can specify its parent node. If you choose not to, it will, by default be a child of the root node. A product can be associated with multiple nodes, and multiple hierarchies. So, once you've defined your hierarchies, you can associate products with any one or more of these nodes. When we consider the video game store for example, we might see a hierarchy for consoles and accessories, one hierarchy for digital games, and one for new products. If we look at the digital games hierarchy, this is the root node and cannot have products associated to it. So, it might have first-level dependent nodes, for game genre, platform and age range as well as child nodes for some of these. Let's take the new Roadster Racers game as an example. The new game Roadster Racers may be associated with the Racing Games genre node, both the Platform nodes, and the All Ages rating node in the digital games hierarchy. It may also be associated with the New Releases node in the New Products hierarchy. It cannot, however, be associated with the root node, digital games. Sibling nodes are nodes with the same parent, and have unique names and slugs. In the game console hierarchy example, the nodes Smart TV Consoles and Portable Consoles are sibling nodes of the parent or root node. However, the names and slugs do not need to be unique in other relationships in the same hierarchy, or across multiple hierarchies. In other words, if each console type has corresponding accessories, so we have accessories as two separate nodes, these can have the same name because they have different parent nodes. You can also move an existing node to a different location if you need to by changing its parent node. If that node has child nodes, all of its descendants move with it to the new location in the hierarchy Let's suppose that we have a node called Downloadable Characters with child nodes for '2D' and '3D' in the Coming Soon parent node. When those characters are released, the downloadable characters node, and it's dependent nodes, can be moved to the parent node New Releases, and all node data is retained. When you create a catalog, you specify one or more hierarchies to link to that catalog. Any products associated with those hierarchies are then included in the corresponding catalog. A single hierarchy may be associated with multiple catalogs or storefronts. Hierarchies may be also used to create and populate navigation menus for your storefront. With Product Content Management, you have the flexibility to define hierarchies in whichever way works best for the products in your store, and your selling context.   Want to learn more? Watch our on-demand demo of Product Content Management to see this in action.  
    Topics: node, elastic, game, products, manage, hierarchies, path, root, parent, associated, hierarchy, games, nodes.
  • How Retailers Are Using Technology to Transform the Product Returns Process into a Customer-Centric Advantage - As return rates escalate, the implementation of smart returns technology emerges as a vital strategy, offering a seamless, eco-friendly solution that enhances customer satisfaction while reducing costs and fostering a greener retail landscape.
    Topics: store, supply, help, returns, team, retailers, tech, customer, product, techdriven, return, management, manage, technology, efficiently.
  • How To Avoid And Manage B2B Ecommerce Channel Conflict - Customers insist on more choices regarding where, when, and how they can purchase goods – including buying directly from brand…
    Topics: b2b, products, manage, avoid, ecommerce, conflict, channels, partners, sales, customers, online, channel, brand, existing.
  • How to Easily Manage Customer Data Across Multiple Apps - Wouldn’t it be nice if customer data management were easy? Are you longing for a world where your contact’s email, conversion date, and who on your team spoke with them last are readily accessible?
    Topics: create, sync, records, customers, easily, management, multiple, youll, manage, data, apps, customer, business.
  • How to Effectively Manage Leads at Every Stage in Your Sales Funnel - Effective sales lead management is one of the core principles of any successful business. It helps the right people become your customers and makes it easy for them to buy from you again in the future.
    Topics: manage, stage, funnel, effective, data, marketing, effectively, sales, customers, leads, ensure, right, management, lead.
  • How to Manage Inventory as You Build, Launch & Grow Your Business - Advanced inventory management strategies to help you prep, plan, and execute your inventory management operations successfully.
    Topics: launch, business, products, manage, sales, grow, demand, inventory, build, costs, management, order, stock, product.
  • How to Manage YouTube Comments - The YouTube section can be a fun place to engage your audience and continue the conversation. However, it can also be a source of negativity.
    Topics: tab, settings, comments, review, manage, turn, scroll, comment, youtube, hold, select.
  • How to Manage Your Entire Marketing Budget [Free Budget Planner Templates] - The words “marketing budget” might strike fear into the heart of any marketing leader, but it’s a non-negotiable when creating and executing a marketing strategy for your company.
    Topics: costs, product, spend, manage, entire, marketing, content, summary, free, expenses, template, planner, budget, advertising, templates.
  • How to Manage a Remote Team + Best Apps for Remote Teams - What are the best practices for remote management? This post has tips, advice & practices that we & other remote companies use to manage their remote teams.
    Topics: working, remote, hours, dont, employees, teams, best, work, need, team, office, members, apps, manage.
  • - Managing a team is hard enough in person. But now, managers across the world are faced with the new territory of doing it all online. For some, it’s temporary. But for many, remote teamwork isn’t going anywhere for the foreseeable future. Even after the dust settles and the pandemic is […]
    Topics: teams, best, remote, managing, need, virtual, leadership, guide, tools, manage, way, management, things, team.
  • How to Manage, Visualize KPIs for Ecommerce - This post will offer a framework for identifying, tracking, and visualizing key performance indicators. It applies to all company sizes — big and small. Start by establishing the most important metrics for your business.
    Topics: manage, revenue, kpis, size, marketing, number, profit, customers, divide, typically, ecommerce, visualize, products, total.
  • How to Perfectly Manage a PPC Campaign [Template] - In the world of search engine marketing (SEM), a growing number of marketers are turning to PPC campaigns. That’s how Google has significantly grown its advertising revenue every year. In 2021, Google’s advertising revenue accounted for 81% of Alphabet's overall sales.
    Topics: keywords, template, google, ads, campaigns, perfectly, ppc, search, ad, campaign, manage, youll.
  • Introducing Organization Management from Elastic Path - Enabling Centralized, Multi-Store Commerce Management With Ease & Speed Elastic Path is thrilled to announce our newest capability, Organization Management. This capability empowers businesses to easily manage their environment across multiple, unique stores, streamlining operations and reducing costs. With Organizations, businesses can create and manage multiple commerce stores across different business models (franchises, distributor/ supplier networks, etc.), brands, or any other entity in a matter of days, not months.   In this blog post, we will dive into the business problem Organization Management solves and how business can take advantage of this capability today. The Business Problem Consider the following business: a manufacturer of veterinary supplies only sells their products to authorized veterinary offices and hospitals. These businesses sell the manufacturer’s products alongside their own products and services such as grooming supplies and services. These downstream businesses want the ability to provide a commerce experience for their customers, but oftentimes they do not have the time or resources to deliver a customer facing commerce experience. Traditionally thought of as a B2B2C model, this has historically been difficult to create and support. Think of all the nuances in a single instance of a commerce platform: integrations need to be set up and managed. Product and pricing created, deployed, and synched, customer and order data synchronization… the list goes on. Layer on the uniqueness of each individual downstream business, for example they may only sell a subset of the manufacturers products, and the complexity increases.  In traditional platforms, the most common approach to support B2B2C models has the manufacturer replicating their commerce instance for each of their partners and creating custom processes to support synchronization of products, integrations, etc. At the end of the day, this approach, while feasible, is too complex and requires too many resources to support it.  For example, IT creates the resources required for each unique store, programmers build and configure integrations for each store, devops must maintain each store with patches and updates, and support is providing fixes unique to each store environment. This reality has held back companies from embracing this business model, resulting in lost revenue. Managing Organizations with Traditional Platforms The Power of Organizations: Multi-Store Management  At Elastic Path, we saw this problem and were determined to figure out a way to empower businesses to bring this unique and lucrative model to life- without the cost & headaches.  That’s why we are excited to share Organization Management.  Organization Management enables an elegant and efficient way to manage multiple stores, connected in a single environment.  The term 'store' in this context refers to an Elastic Path Commerce Cloud store, which supports data segregation and access management across multiple business units in an organization or between organizations.  The parent organization is where products, categories, pricing, catalogs and integrations can be defined, which are then shared with downstream stores in the organization. This immediately takes away one of the biggest challenges with supporting a multi-store business model - supporting the sharing of information across multiple stores. Commerce teams do not have to worry about replicating data and recreating integrations, they are automatically shared downstream, and are controlled by the parent organization. Managing Organizations with Elastic Path Get hands on with an Elastic Path Free Trial Start building the commerce experience your unique business demands with a free Elastic Path Commerce Cloud account. Get in touch with us and we will setup a Free Trial store for you for six weeks. Sign up for a free trial This scenario also happens frequently in multi-brand organizations, where each brand wishes to maintain their own brand identity, creating their own promotions, etc. We often see each individual brand endeavoring to make their own platform decision as a means by which to maintain this control. This creates an inordinate amount of complexity and technical debt in the parent organization which is likely looking for ways to consolidate their technical solutions. With Organization Management, the parent organization can now manage all brands in a single environment. Integrations to internal and external systems can be managed centrally with a ‘write once use everywhere’ methodology. Each downstream brand will have their products ‘streamed’ to their individual store. This enables consistency of product information across the organization, while still giving the brand full control over their site experience. This is the ever-elusive win:win scenario! The parent organization can consolidate technologies, reduce customizations, and centrally manage integrations while still allowing brands to fully control their own unique brand experience.  This flexibility to manage multiple stores at the organization level allows businesses to streamline their operations, reduce costs, and ensure consistency and accuracy in their customer experiences. By managing product and catalog data (via EP Product Experience Manager (PXM)) at the organization level, merchandisers can easily update their catalogs across all stores, saving time and effort while allowing for greater control over their sales strategy, while also providing individual store administrators the ability to personalize their own experiences Whether businesses have one or multiple commerce experiences, Organizations provides a single, integrated location for managing and monitoring their stores, helping them to save time, reduce errors, and gain valuable insights into their overall business performance. Key Features & Benefits of Organization Management Organization Management  includes features that will benefit existing and new Elastic Path customers who need the flexibility and control to manage multiple stores in order to meet their business goals: Flexible & Centralized Product Data & Catalog Management: With Organizations, merchandisers have the ability to manage EP PXM data at the organization level. This means they can create an organization's products, hierarchies, pricebooks and catalog that can be easily shared across all the stores in the organization. This is especially useful for businesses that have multiple stores catering to different selling channels, regions or sub-brands. By managing EP PXM data at the organization level, businesses can streamline the process of updating their catalogs across multiple stores.  Instead of making changes individually for each store, merchandisers can make updates at the organization level and have those changes reflected across all stores that use that particular catalog. This not only saves time and effort, but it also helps ensure consistency and accuracy in the product and catalog data. It is important to note that data in the stores will be segregated which means only store users in a given store will be able to access that store’s data. Additionally, Store Admins will have full control over which of the organization's products and product categories they want to sell in their store. They'll also be able to customize the pricing for these products in their store, giving them greater control over their sales strategy Centralized Commerce Operations: With Organizations, multi-store sellers can now manage all their stores from a centralized system, eliminating the need to log into separate admin systems for each site. This significantly reduces the time and effort required to manage multiple stores and enables more efficient scaling of commerce operations.   ‘Write once Use everywhere’ Integrations: Organizations includes support for instant-on integrations, via Integrations Hub,  that can be shared and managed across all stores in the organization. This eliminates the need for creating and maintaining custom integrations, further reducing development and maintenance costs. Businesses can seamlessly integrate their existing stores into their organization, ensuring a smooth and efficient transition to centralized integration management.   Single Point Configurations: Organizations allow businesses to define and manage settings at the organization level that apply across all stores. This streamlines the process of managing multiple stores, reduces the potential for errors, and ensures a more consistent and efficient process. For example, businesses can define a default currency at the organization level and easily override it for specific stores as needed. This streamlined process is much simpler than defining currencies individually for each store, saving businesses time and effort.   Access Management: The administrators at the organization level - called Org Admins - automatically have super admin permissions for all the stores in the organization. This means that if a store admin encounters an issue or needs assistance, an Org Admin can quickly jump in and help out without needing to be added as a super admin for each individual store. This streamlines the process and saves time and effort in resolving any potential issues at the store level. Organization Management is a powerful capability that enables businesses of all sizes to fully manage their multi-store use cases, unlocking additional revenue opportunities.This unique capability centralizes commerce management, streamlines operations, and reduces costs.  What’s Next We're looking forward to seeing how different businesses will benefit from the new Organizations capability.  But, this is just the beginning. Our team is continuously working to add more innovative functionality to our multi-store management solution, so stay tuned for what's to come. As always, we love to hear from our customers and learn how they are leveraging Organizations to grow their business. We look forward to sharing their success stories with you and helping more businesses achieve their commerce goals. How to Get Started Organizations is now available to all existing users of Elastic Path Commerce Cloud. To try it out, please contact our Customer Success manager, who will be glad to assist you with the set-up of your own organization.  Learn More We are excited to share this new capability and look forward to seeing how our innovative customers use it to optimize their business.  To learn more, checkout the Documentation.
    Topics: businesses, stores, path, business, management, organization, introducing, manage, organizations, commerce, store, multiple, elastic, integrations.
  • Kounta POS Review: Everything you Need to Know - As you may know, a letter-perfect POS system is always an ingredient to impeccable payment processing in any business setup. On paper, Kounta seems to give more than it takes in the hospitality industry. In actual sense, it's nearly impossible,… Continue reading Kounta POS Review: Everything you Need to Know
    Topics: review, manage, pos, kounta, plan, payment, kountas, know, need, business, inventory, lets, system.
  • Manage Payments Directly in the WooCommerce Dashboard - Running a store just got easier with WooCommerce Payments. Manage transactions from your WordPress dashboard & allow customers to pay directly on your site.
    Topics: account, dashboard, payments, cards, manage, store, win, directly, pay, deposit, woocommerce, transactions, theres.
  • Mirakl raises $70 million to manage the marketplace of your e-commerce website - French startup Mirakl raised a $70 million funding round. Bain Capital is leading the round, with existing investors 83North, Felix Capital and Elaia Partners also participating. If you’ve bought a few products from a third-party seller on an e-commerce website that isn’t Amazon or Alibaba, chances are you’ve used Mirakl in the past. The company […]
    Topics: website, marketplaces, million, manage, raises, round, marketplace, sellers, ecommerce, thirdparty, startup, company, mirakl, product.
  • Morocco’s Freterium grabs $4M to scale its freight trucking software across MENA - In Africa and the Middle East, most companies in the freight industry still use old-fashioned methods such as spreadsheets, phone calls and emails to manage their shipments. They are electronic yet manual processes that make their work very inefficient. While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would […]
    Topics: techcrunch, mena, industry, shipments, companies, manage, scale, 4m, shippers, grabs, logistics, moroccos, freterium, customers, freight, trucking, software.
  • Optimove raises $75M growth investment to manage customer-led journeys at scale - Optimove's customer relationship management marketing platform helps brands keep customers coming back.
    Topics: messages, techcrunch, customerled, data, scale, raises, journeys, customers, yakuel, company, growth, investment, summit, right, marketing, 75m, manage, customer, optimove.
  • Optoro raises $75 million more to make it easier for brands to manage and resell returned and excess inventory - As the economy has chugged along, so have retail sales, which last year capped their strongest year since 2014. Online sales have been especially brisk, growing 16 percent between 2016 and 2017 alone, according to the U.S. Commerce Department, which estimates that consumers spent $453.5 billion online last year. Of course, with every booming market comes supporting […]
    Topics: raises, excess, sales, return, easier, manage, optoro, retailers, company, resell, million, brands, returned, growing, inventory, returns, online.
  • Product Content Management & Merchandising: Product Design - Merchandisers: We see you. Our goal at Elastic Path is to solve your eCommerce problems. As merchandizers you are tasked with maintaining product and responding to customer and business demand through analysis and insights. No easy feat, especially now more than ever in a highly competitive digital commerce landscape with half the time to complete twice the tasks. UX/UI Informed Design We lean on best practices when designing products for the busy merchandiser such as the proven tenets of User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design. I like to think of UX/UI design as an iceberg. Not of the cold, Titanic-leveling variety; but more of a multi-layered and powerful creation that is more than meets the eye. Think of UX as end-to-end workflow, and UI as usability; or how you interact with the visual components of the platform to accomplish the workflow. At its surface, the UI gives us the look and feel of the site; both the graphic and visual design to support the branding, and the ease of navigation. But slip down a level into where the UX begins; where functions like scope and structure live, and the all-important strategy; the how you accomplish your business objectives each and every day. Improve workflows, reduce pain points As a merchandiser your world is product management, data, and analytics. You have catalogs and price books to manage, promotions, SKUs, and the task of how best to market what you have in what limited time you have to do it. We study your business needs and create personas to get a better understanding of workflows and how to solve your pain points. Your daily struggles may involve adjusting categories, setting up repeat promotions, testing changes, or managing data to gain insight into customers’ buying habits. We study these pain points and come up with core design principles for our products that address problems head on; what you’re looking for is a platform to manage all these specific tasks with a high level of flexibility, accuracy, and consistency. Our success is your success Our product’s success depends on you. We look at behavioral and attitudinal aspects of how you interact with the product: how fast did you learn a task? How many features did you use? How satisfied were you overall with its performance? We may also look at a system usability score (SUS) or a net promoter score (NPS) to gauge and further document satisfaction. Always improving always testing From there we work to improve the product. How can we improve on existing features in the long and short term like account management, data visualization, promotions, or how new team members onboard with the platform? Our goal is to continually improve, so you and your customers get the most value from a system that grows with you. How we partner with our customers Observation and Contextual Interviewing – We watch, listen, and ask questions to better understand how you’re using the product and directly address needs and gaps Concept Testing – Your input directly affects product improvement and testing Customer Success – We have a dedicated team to your feedback and success What does this mean for merchandisers? You get the latest in product innovation. Real solutions for your problems, with the full support of our product and customer success teams. Our new functionality, Catalog Composer, offers more flexibility and speed to manage complex catalogs across brands, geos, touchpoints, and business models 5 times faster than more rigid tools of the past. You don’t need additional development work, or potentially messy customizations and workarounds to manage multiple catalogs as you scale from week, to month, to year. I invite you to take a tour and see for yourself the power and flexibility of this tool, and how it can transform your eCommerce playbook.
    Topics: products, ux, content, promotions, business, problems, management, merchandising, platform, product, ui, manage, design, success.
  • Retail startup Bulletin is giving brands new tools to manage their in-store presence - If you visited a Bulletin store, or bought products off its website, COO Ali Kriegsman said you might “pigeonhole” the company as a “feminist apparel brand” — a place to buy T-shirts and accessories with fun, provocative political slogans. And yes, that is part of what draws consumers. But Kriegsman and her co-founder Alana Branston […]
    Topics: retail, bulletin, startup, software, tools, manage, product, instore, kriegsman, omni, presence, giving, brand, company, brands.
  • SEO: Manage Crawling, Indexing with Robots Exclusion Protocol - Indexing is the precursor to ranking in organic search. But there are pages you don’t want the search engines to index and rank. That’s where the "robots exclusion protocol" comes into play.
    Topics: seo, exclusion, bots, manage, robotstxt, sitemap, indexing, xml, file, files, protocol, crawling, search, robots, sitemaps, pages.
  • Serial Entrepreneurs: How Coco and Breezy Manage Multiple Businesses - Can you run more than one business at a time? Twin-sister entrepreneurs Coco and Breezy share how they balance multiple businesses and pursue various passions—all at once.More
    Topics: property, breezy, coco, dont, money, manage, glasses, multiple, going, eyewear, thats, businesses, know, entrepreneurs, serial.
  • Shopistry bags $2M to provide ‘headless commerce without the headaches’ - Shopistry enables customers to create personalized commerce experiences accessible to all.
    Topics: zabian, venture, techcrunch, manage, ecommerce, bags, haidar, brands, seed, headless, working, shopistry, 2m, headaches, commerce, provide.
  • Small Business Accounting 101: How to Set Up and Manage Your Books - If you’ve just launched or are about to launch your online store, congratulations! To keep the good times rolling, you’ll need to learn the basic accounting tasks that come along with owning a store—and quickly.More
    Topics: set, books, software, manage, business, youll, financial, need, account, small, sales, tax, accounting.
  • Snowbirding with a Family - Terrell and Penny Miller are the founders of CattleMax.com, a company designed to cut record-keeping time for farmers and ranchers. Today they join the show to discuss how they have created a lifestyle that allows them to snowbird between Texas and Colorado, depending on the weather. Listen in as they share how they manage their […]
    Topics: terrell, real, estate, snowbirding, penny, youderian, miller, family, today, snowbird, manage, weather.
  • Streamline Your Day with Fraud Protect, Locations, and Shopify Ping - Your time is valuable, and it’s in especially short supply when you’re trying to build a business. There are always going to be more items on your to-do list than hours in the day, which is why we’re continually looking for ways to help you streamline your work. The more time you save on routine to-dos and processes, the more time you have available to focus on growing and scaling your business. Today at Unite, we announced four new ways to help you free up your day with simplified order processing, inventory management, order fulfillment, and Shopify Ping, your new mobile workspace. More
    Topics: manage, streamline, pickups, ping, locations, order, protect, inventory, fraud, youre, free, day, orders, shopify.
  • The Next Generation of Ecommerce Management - Ecommerce is disruptive. It has changed the way millions of people shop. But the management of many ecommerce businesses has not evolved. It often operates, seemingly, as an old-world dictatorship or a fiefdom. What follows are several ideas to organize and manage an ecommerce business in 2018 and beyond. Some of these are concepts may seem revolutionary. But, then again, so is ecommerce
    Topics: manage, ecommerce, robertson, generation, understand, holacracy, help, companies, management, framework, work, business.
  • The Nike-Amazon break up and what brands can (and can’t) do to manage Amazon - The recent announcement that Nike is ending its two-year partnership with the marketplace shines light on a hard truth: protecting your brand on Amazon remains a challenge — even if you’ve got the clout of Nike. What do brands and manufacturers need to know about protecting trademarks, enforcing MAP pricing, combating counterfeits and plugging leaks in the supply chain?
    Topics: amazon, sellers, transparency, nikeamazon, cant, asin, product, manage, brand, break, brands, registry, nike, manufacturers.
  • The Plain English Guide to Demand-Side Platforms (DSP) - As a marketer, you might be focused on creating organic content most of the time. But you should keep in mind that paid advertising is just as important.
    Topics: english, advertising, ad, sourcebest, platforms, google, dsp, manage, plain, demandside, platform, programmatic, youll, ads, guide.
  • TikTok’s newest app lets sellers manage their online stores via their smartphone - TikTok has launched a new app for its seller community taking advantage of its suite of TikTok Shopping features, but the app is only available in Indonesia at present. TikTok Seller, as the app is called, allows TikTok’s seller community to run all aspects of their TikTok shop from their mobile device, from initially registering […]
    Topics: newest, tiktoks, tiktok, online, product, lets, smartphone, manage, app, shopping, techcrunch, videos, test, sellers, seller, community, suite, stores.
  • - Working a standard full-time job has pretty predictable hours: 9-5 with an hour lunch break. But when you start an ecommerce business on the side or to replace your full-time gig, those hours tend to fluctuate. More than half of small business owners work six days a week, and we’re […]
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  • Top GDPR Compliance Software - Disclaimer: This blog post is not legal advice for your company to use in complying with EU data privacy laws like the GDPR. Instead, it provides background information to help you better understand the GDPR. This legal information is not the same as legal advice, where an attorney applies the law to your specific circumstances, so we insist that you consult an attorney if you’d like advice on your interpretation of this information or its accuracy.
    Topics: consent, management, privacy, personal, apps, storage, manage, data, gdpr, compliance, software.
  • Weebly brings more e-commerce features to mobile - Weebly is part of Square now, but it continues to update as a standalone product. This week, for example, the company announced a number of new e-commerce features for the Weebly mobile app. Those features include the ability to ship and print labels, to respond to customer questions (via Facebook Messenger, which can be embedded […]
    Topics: rusenko, weebly, features, ecommerce, usage, product, mobile, manage, customers, brings, increase.
  • What It Takes to Launch a Successful Online Clothing Brand in 2020 - If you have the right drive, know-how and positioning, you can start a business that will do well for years to come.
    Topics: clothing, launch, successful, model, customers, plan, online, need, things, design, ecommerce, brand, takes, business, manage.
  • eBay UK upgrades eBay Shops experience - eBay UK has announced several upgrades and features to eBay Shops, the branded storefronts to attract more buyers on the online marketplace. eBay gave the edit shop page a new look, redesigned the categories page and introduced the possibility to create newsletters. eBay offers different ways for sellers to have… Continue reading
    Topics: experience, features, upgrades, shops, categories, shop, sellers, ebay, uk, manage, edit, page, products.
  • eCommerce Loyalty Programs: How to Manage a Loyalty Experience - In today’s market, it’s critical for brands to implement impactful merchandising strategies that drive conversion and customer lifetime value (CLV).  A study by Incentive Solutions found that integrating a loyalty program with your commerce platform can increase your average order quantity by a whopping 319%. Another study from KPMG revealed that 75% of consumers will favor a brand if there is a loyalty program. At Elastic Path, we understand how impactful it can be to curate loyalty experiences for your customers. That is why we built functionality within EP Product Experience Manager (PXM) that enables merchandising teams to easily create and manage loyalty experiences, without relying on custom work from their developer counterparts.   What is a Loyalty Experience? A loyalty experience is a marketing strategy created by brands to nurture and reward their best customers with perks for being a member. Memberships can either be free or paid and members can receive special discounts, deals, rewards or points that can be redeemed for prizes. The more the member engages with the brand or buys products, the more incentives they can receive. A loyalty program is a great start but what if you could curate the products and prices your loyalty customers see?  At Elastic Path we believe that traditional "loyalty programs" are just a starting point for nurturing relationships with your regular customers.  We think all brands should be able to curate loyalty-specific experiences that encourage their highest value customers to remain loyal, return regularly, and purchase more. Let’s dig into how you can manage a loyalty experience of your own, using Elastic Path Commerce Cloud. How to Manage a Loyalty Experience with Elastic Path EP Product Experience Manager (PXM) Merchandise Every Unique Product Experience, Without Custom Dev Work Go to EP PXM To best understand the steps required to build a loyalty experience, let’s walk through a sample scenario.  STEP ONE: Offering Early Access to Loyalty Customers  For this example, we’ll pretend you are a retail brand that wants to offer early access to our best customers for our upcoming products. The idea of “pre-ordering” products that we commonly see in brick-and-mortar businesses, is exactly what we will be doing in this scenario. Once you are in Commerce Manager from Elastic Path, your merchant should head straight to EP PXM and choose “Configurations.” Then you will choose your hierarchy or category of products that you want for pre-order. For example, choose the “Fall Pre-Order” hierarchy. This will allow you to start merchandising the products that you want to list for pre-order. Your nodes are the subcategories, like men and women. You could also add child nodes, which would be the subcategories within the subcategories. To begin the process, click on the node or subcategory. For example, the “Men” category. Then click on the Add SKUs button and add the SKUs or products that you want to make available for pre-order within this category. For pre-order products, there are a few additional steps we need to take with EP PXM to ensure the correct availability and quantity shows on the product detail page. To get started, you are going to use product templates to hold custom data for your different products. For each product in this example, you would choose the correct product templates and then check the pre-order box. You would also type in the “Limit Inventory” number to establish the maximum number of products for preorder and the “Max Quantity per Order” which is the maximum number of products that a customer can purchase within the pre-order catalog.  STEP TWO: Adding Pre-Order Products to Existing Catalog In order to add these products to the appropriate loyalty catalog, go to the catalog section within EP PXM. You would choose your pre-configured loyalty catalog or create a new loyalty catalog if you did not have one already. In the hierarchy section of your loyalty catalog add “Fall Pre-Order.”  STEP THREE: Adding Specialty Pricing to Loyalty Catalog Not only do we want to give our best customers early access to these products, we also want to incentivize them with promotional pricing. So, in the loyalty catalog you will go to the price book dropdown menu and select “Loyalty Pricing.”  In EP PXM, a price book contains a list of product SKUs and the prices you want to change for those products. If your brand serves multi-geos, a price book can contain prices in each of the supported currencies.   Once you have selected the loyalty price book, click publish and the catalog will be updated. STEP FOUR: Use Rules To Assign an Audience  How do you ensure that only the members of your loyalty program gain access to your loyalty catalog? You create rules. In the catalog section of EP PXM, select the Rules heading. As you edit the rules section add your loyalty catalog. Then, add accounts or the list of people that you want to have access to this loyalty catalog. This can be done in numerous ways, whether via API, an integration with CRM, or uploading a list. STEP FIVE: Shop The Loyalty Experience  At this point, we’ve created a product experience specific to your loyalty customers. Let’s check it out! To see your customer’s view of the loyalty experience, log in to your front-end store. If you or your customers do not log in they will get a general catalog experience. You should now be able to see the new top-level navigation for “Fall Pre-Order” as part of your loyalty catalog. Your loyalty shopper can explore the loyalty-only, pre-order products that you added to the loyalty catalog. Based on whatever rules you have for pre-orders, that product will be shipped when appropriate.  Driving Your Loyalty Experience Forward With EP PXM, you can easily create loyalty product experiences within minutes. At Elastic Path, we will continue to give merchandisers the control to create product experiences that drive conversion and revenue. If you would like to learn more about our merchandising capabilities, check out our latest blog on how to create dynamic bundles. 
    Topics: manage, experience, loyalty, ecommerce, catalog, ep, pxm, products, customers, programs, add, preorder, product.