For Immediate Release

Open Mind Commerce, an established eCommerce solution provider based in the UK, today announced that the product has been featured as “Cart of the Week” by Practical eCommerce. (http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1449-Cart-of-the-Week-Open-Mind-Commerce)

During an in-depth interview, MD Phil Williams gives an insight into the system as well as describes plans for the future of the software.

Phil Williams commented “Being featured on Practical eCommerce is big news for us as they are a highly respected organisation and it gave us a perfect platform to talk about our product as well as spread the word about the system.”

In addition, the company also announced that v1.4.1 of it’s software is released today and advanced development is in place for v2.0, codenamed The Novus Project, which will feature a complete rewrite of the system making it one of the most flexible and powerful commercial eCommerce platforms on the market.

About Open Mind Commerce
Open Mind Commerce is a trading division of Open Minded Solutions Limited. We are a full service ISP established since 2004 and we are based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Open Mind Commerce is our flagship product and allows SMEs to quickly and easily trade online.

Web: http://www.openmindcommerce.co.uk
Tel: 08456 445 789

About Practical eCommerce
Practical eCommerce was launched in July 2005 by Kerry and Joy Murdock in Grand Junction, Colorado, USA. Its mission from the start has been to provide down-to-earth articles and advice to help smaller businesses succeed online.

Web: http://www.practicalecommerce.com

We are very pleased to announce that v1.4.1 of our software is now available for download for new installation and upgrades!

This release fixes a number of known bugs as well as introducing brand new features.  Upload and new installation instructions may be found here:

http://www.openmindcommerce.co.uk/ecommerce-software/documentation.cfm

Release Notes
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MaxMind MinFraud Service
This release includes a new anti-fraud service in partnership with www.maxmind.com.  The service is completely free (for the basic service) and we are also able to offer a 20% discount for upgrades to the premium service.  To activate the MaxMind service just login to your admin area after upgrading and select the MaxMind configuration option for your store configuration area.

Mass Updates
We have now added the ability to mass update both products and orders.  For products, you can now quickly show or hide products within departments or update stock levels en-masse.  For orders, you can update order statuses and also mass print invoices and packing slips.

Miscellaneous Features
We’ve also added the ability to login as a customer on your store, introduced custom maintenance mode and 404 error pages and print friendly versions of store and CMS sections plus a raft of minor changes to existing features.  The full change log may be found here:

http://bugs.openmindcommerce.co.uk/changelog_page.php

End of Life Announcement
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This release marks the end of new feature development for the 1.x series and further releases for v1.x will be bug/security fixes only.  The reason for this is that v2.0 (The Novus Project) development is well underway and we need to ensure all available resources are available for its release next year.  We hope to have an early alpha/beta ready in Jan/Feb. 2010 at which point we will contact selected store owners for beta testing so watch this space or subscribe to our blog.

And finally, we have completely re-designed the Open Mind Commerce site to fully display all the features our software offers.  It also allows us to simplify order tracking and licensing issues. And one last note, we have been selected as cart of the week by Practical eCommerce (http://www.practicalecommerce.com/) and the interview will be added later today so please take a look and feel free to leave your comments!

That’s all for now and may we wish you and your families a very happy Christmas and prosperous New Year!