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web-store-buddy

Discount Coupon With Web-Store-Buddy

November 27, 2007

We have just added a new feature that allows you to issue a discount coupon. When someone shops at your web site with the correct coupon code, you can configure Web-store-buddy to give the shopper either a fixed amount off their order, or a percentage discount.

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Maltese Lira Now Supported

May 10, 2007

We have just added support for the Maltese Lira currency (Lm) to the web-store-buddy shopping cart

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Checks ‘n’ Cheques

February 26, 2007

Our ‘buddy’ applications are hosted in the States, designed in the UK, and used by folks around the world. That’s the Internet for you – but one of the tricky things to cope with is alternative spellings.
Mike looks after the web site for Marshall’s Nursery in Australia and he is using web-store-buddy for online orders. [...]

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Configurable Order Description For PayPal & WorldPay

February 7, 2007

With Web-Store-Buddy your customer receives a detailed (and configurable) order confirmation email.
However Karen at www.musical-designs.com noticed that if a store uses PayPal or WorldPay to take the payment, the description on those sites (and on their emails) just says ‘goods’. Could that be changed for something more informative and descriptive?
Well now it sure can! [...]

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Support for Australian Bank Card

January 3, 2007

We have now added support for the Australian Bank Card to web-store-buddy (web-form-buddy payment forms already have this).

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Support For New EU Countries

January 2, 2007

Not a year goes by it seems without new countries being added to the European Union. With the start of 2007 the number of EU countries increased form 25 to 27 with the addition of Bulgaria and Romania.
If you’re in the EU this may affect how your store needs to charge sales tax (VAT) for [...]

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Greater Accuracy On Shipping % Charge Calculation

December 1, 2006

Previously If you chose to charge a percentage rate for shipping with web-store-buddy you could only choose a whole number (eg 5%, 10%, 15%). Now it’s possible to specify a percentage rate to one decimal place precision. Cool! eg 5.7%, 6.9% etc.
(Thanks to Diane at yellowbarnweb.com for the suggestion)

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Contacts Library

November 20, 2006

The link to the contacts library is now included on the control panel home page to make it easier to find

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Shopping Cart ‘Shipping’ Can Now Be Any Phrase You Want

November 8, 2006

When web-store-buddy displays a shopping cart it says “shipping”. That phrase also appears in the order confirmation. However Diane from yellowbarnweb.com has a customer who makes a handling charge based on a percentage of the order rather than a shipping charge.
Web-store-buddy can calculate the charge perfectly well but it doesn’t look right on the shopping [...]

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Web-Store-Buddy Delivery Address Telephone Contact Added

November 2, 2006

Following a suggestion from Nigel at the Board Game Company we have now added a field on the shipping address form for a contact telephone number. That should prove useful for the courier company if they need to try to contact the recipient to arrange a delivery time.

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