We are very pleased to announce that v1.4.0 of the Open Mind Commerce system is finally available for download!
Despite this being slightly delayed for various reasons, v1.4.0 contains some eagerly anticipated features that many eCommerce software owners have been crying out for! So what’s new?
Single Page Checkout
In pas release of our eCommerce software, shoppers have been asked to login prior to making their purchase. We have now added a rapid checkout system to the software allowing shoppers to checkout in just two stages! Stage one take their email address and checks if they have placed an order before. If they have the software assigns the order to that customers account and displays the invoice, delivery and payment details. Once completed, the next stage proceeds straight to the payment page to complete the order.
Store owners have the ability to switch this feature on or off if they prefer customers to login first but research has shown that shoppers being asked to login to their account will drop their order more often than a no-login system so the choice is their for store owners to choose which method works best for them.
Iridium Gateway Support
We have now included support for the very popular Iridium Corporation gateway. Iridium is quickly becoming one of the industries most popular payment gateways as they not only offer a full featured payment gateway and terminal service but also provide a range of merchant accounts at very competitive rates. For more information about Iridium just visit their site at http://www.iridiumcorp.co.uk/
What’s more, if you currently have an Iridium merchant account, just let us know and we’ll give you a voucher entitling you to 20% off your license purchase!
SMS Alerts
How handy would it be if you could have a SMS alert sent to your phone when your store receives an order? Or be able to let customer know by text when their order has been sent? Well now you can with the SMS text alert service!
We have joined forces with the team at TxtLocal to allow store owners to get alerts and update their customers by text directly from their store. Plus if you sign up for the TxtLocal service through your store admin area you will get a bonus 50 credits free of charge just for opening an account! Normally you would only get 10 free credits by joining TxtLocal so this is a fantastic opportunity for existing store owners and new license holders to get started using this great addon service.
In addition, if you already have a TxtLocal account but you don’t yet use our software for your store, just drop a line to our support team and we’ll give you 20% discount from our store licenses as our way of saying thanks!
Extended Delivery Options
Our eCommerce software already offers advanced control over delivery costs but now we’ve extended this further by giving store owners the ability to upgrade the delivery option for their customers. You may want to offer a next delivery service at an extra charge or even a Saturday delivery service, now you can with additional delivery options. What’s more, you can separate these charges into shipping zones giving you complete control over your costs!
Updates by the bucket load!
These are just highlights of some of our new features and changes. We’ve also added social bookmarking, made improvements to the SEO facilities, added product cloning and anti-spam measures to stop spammers having their evil way!
All these changes and more can be found on our site through the official change log and as always, if you have an idea that you would like to see added to the software then just let us know!
That’s all for now, if you would like a free trial of our software then why not setup a demo store free of charge for thirty days or if you’re ready to purchase, just visit our store to place your order!
