Ecommerce Solutions & Shopping Cart Software

OK, this new feature's name is quite a mouthful, but it's extremely easy to set up, and is potentially effective when it comes to increasing conversion rates of visitors who've come to your store (whether it's your main page or a product or a category page or any page at all) via search engine results (Google, Yahoo and Bing for starters).

Visitors who arrive at your store via search engine results probably already have a pretty good idea of the type of products they're looking to check out or purchase. What this feature does is immediately show these visitors your store's Top 10 product search results for what they searched for at the search engine.

How does this help? Well, it immediately offers these visitors relevant product suggestions that are tailored to their specific search. This saves the visitor the additional step of having to run the same search again at your store and could make the difference between a potential customer and another bounced visitor.

The Product Option Dependency Rules function is a really useful option that will help your customers choose their customization options for a product.

Let's take for example a T-shirt. Your store's all about choice, so your T-shirt comes in multiple sizes (Small, Medium, Large) and colors (Red, White, Blue). However, let's say your store doesn't actually carry any Large Blue T-shirts. You can use Product Option Dependency Rules to exclude Large Blue T-shirts as a selectable option.

So when a customer selects the "Large" size, only the "Red" and "White" colors are available. When they select any other size, all 3 colors are available.

InstanteStore now provides RSS feeds for customers to subscribe to the latest product updates. RSS feeds are available for new, most popular, and/or Sale products. The feeds are also available by category. This is a useful tool that RSS-savvy visitors and customers, especially, can use to keep themselves continually informed about store products.

We're extremely pleased to announce our integration with Doba. Through Doba, you'll have access to a large selection of products provided by Doba's extensive list of suppliers. These suppliers will drop ship products directly to your customers so you will not have to worry about shipping and order fulfillment. If you have trouble finding suppliers for your products or don't want to worry about fulfilling your orders, our integration with Doba may just be the ideal solution for you.

We've just introduced 3 new SEO features that will make it much easier for you to boost your store's SEO. If you weren't sure about how to get your pages ranked well before, these new tools will help guide you along your way with useful and focused SEO recommendations.

SEO Wizard
The SEO Wizard feature provides important keyword statistics and SEO Best Practice recommendations on how to get each of your pages to rank well. It will provide suggestions on how to use your keywords correctly, and help you keep SEO considerations in mind as you add and modify your store pages. The SEO Wizard feature has been activated by default, and is active on all Add and Modify Product, Category, and Custom Page interfaces.

Quick Internal Linking
Activate this feature to add a link to your store's main URL at your store border, so that every page of your store will automatically link back to your store's main/front page, using your targeted keyword. Your store's main page will now automatically have a whole new set of links to it using your primary keyword, which is an instant SEO boost.

Automatic Cross-Linking
Cross-linking pages can help boost your store's SEO. This feature makes creating cross-links a lot easier by creating cross-links to other pages that make use of the appropriate keywords automatically.

We've just added two neat new features to the Discount Coupon feature.

1. Automatic Coupon URL
   We've added a second method of distributing discount coupons: as special Automatic Coupon URLs. With this enabled, customers won't have to enter the discount coupon code at the shopping cart. Instead, when they visit the store via the Automatic Coupon URL, the discount coupon will automatically be applied to their shopping carts.
2. Personal Wholesale Pricing Discount Type
   We've also introduced a new discount type: the Personal Wholesale Pricing discount. Only stores with the Personal Wholesale Pricing wholesale configuration activated will be able to use this discount type. Customers who use this discount will be able to buy items at different (cheaper) price levels.

You can now block the IP addresses of questionable visitors using the new Ban IP interface. This interface allows you to ban specific IPs as well as a range of IPs.

We've upgraded and streamlined the existing Questions/FAQ page so that you can now easily add and edit questions on the page. With this upgrade, you can add sections to your FAQ page in order to group sets of similar questions together.

Our Google Checkout integration now support customers from all over the world, not just the US or the UK.

All Administrator Login pages are now secure HTTPS pages.

We've made it easier to integrate website statistic tracking of InstanteStores via Google Analytics by providing an easy-to-use interface where merchants can just paste the relevant code in the space provided, and start tracking their stores immediately. We've also made it easy to switch between Google Analytics tracking and our in-house Urchin website statistics package. Additionally, we've provided a convenient interface for merchants to enter Google AdWord Order Conversion Tracking Code.

The Post Items to eBay integration has been streamlined and updated to make this module more intuitive and easier to use.

ShopSafeHere.com is the latest online shopping directory from the people behind InstanteStore.com. ShopSafeHere.com currently features over 100 InstanteStores, and counting. InstanteStore merchants can currently list their stores and feature up to 2 products on ShopSafeHere.com's main page for FREE. It also features a cool Visitors' Activity Map feature that gives potential shoppers the feel of a virtual mall by being able to view what other shoppers are looking at and buying. Listing on ShopSafeHere.com's online directory also gives InstanteStore merchants access to free traffic as well as links that will boost SEO.

We've introduced 2 brand new product layouts. It's now possible to choose and switch between layouts instead of being stuck with just the one product layout. Each layout has been designed to cater for different types of products, and we've optimized the placement of all the product elements to make the product pages as attractive and efficient as possible. In addition, we've also spruced up blow-up image viewing to give it a fresh, modern look.

Great news for UPS WorldShip users: we now feature integration with UPS WorldShip. You can now:

• Export orders from your InstanteStore to UPS WorldShip: this saves you from having to manually re-enter your order information at WorldShip
• Re-import package tracking numbers from WorldShip back into your InstanteStore: this lets you update your customer order tracking information more conveniently
• Export customer information from InstanteStore orders to the UPS WorldShip Addressbook

We've updated the Feature Products on Store Front Page function ('Products & Categories -> Specials -> Front Page') so that you can now upload your own thumbnail images to be displayed with your front page products, instead of having to use the existing product thumbnail images.

We've added a quick link for you to get more information about customers who have made orders at your store. You can now click on the Check the IP location link next to the customer IP Address when viewing orders at your store in order to get more information about the customer.

We're to happy to announce that we've just introduced an all-new, re-designed phone order module, Easy Phone Order ™. We've brought all the phone order elements together in a single page, so that the phone order process is more streamlined and phone order operators can now access all the information they need to place orders on behalf of customers.