Now with Web-form-buddy this is easy - and, as is always the case with Web-form-buddy, you never have to add email addresses to your web pages where they can be harvested by spammers!

When you select “data options” and create or modify the list of recipients for your  form you will see the new option. If you enable runtime selection, then once the form data is completed Web-form-buddy will display a “secondary screen” to your web user which both provides a helpful summary of the form submission and allows them to pick the recipient (or several recipients if you choose the multiple selection option).

The Web-form-buddy “secondary screens” are 100% customizable and can even be embedded in one of your own web pages. (See “global options” >> “color & style settings“).

This has been working very well, so we’ve now added some more features:

• You can have regular (non-coupon) offers that apply to all shoppers.
• You can have multiple coupon or regular offers running at the same time
• You can set a minimum order value that qualifies for the offer
• You can set a start date and an expiry date for the offer

Examples might be:

“Save 10% on all orders over $100 in November!”

Or

“Enter voucher code ABC001 to get $15 off!”

Google analytics is both very powerful and free! When combined with Web-store-buddy you can get really useful e-commerce statistics - including revenue, conversion rates, average order value, product performance, transactions, visits to purchase, days to purchase, etc.

To enable Google Analytics with Web-store-buddy, all you need do is enter your Google Analytics ID on your control panel and you’re done.

You can use this feature if you have chosen the payment form option in which the total price is calculated from the choices made by your customer from your form. Or you can use it if you have selected the payment mode in which the customer enters the price to pay themselves (e.g. for donation forms).

Previously we had offered a range of fixed designs for the referral email. Now however we have launched a more flexible option that allows you to specify any fonts or colors you like. You can now also take advantage of various types of CSS borders to create different email design effects.

Now you can also assign prices to the values of radio buttons. The advantage of this is that you can easily handle choices that are alternatives.

e.g.

Some ISPs have trouble accepting emails larger then 10Mb. For that reason, if you have opted for delivery of your form’s data by email, then if you have a file attachment larger than 10Mb, Web-form-buddy will automatically switch to “archive” mode.  That means that you will receive an email alert with instructions as to how to log on and download the uploaded file.

The settings are shared - so if you change the time zone offset from UTC (GMT) in one program then that changes it for the other too.

In coping with attributes, one approach would be to create a separate product code for each possible product option - but you would soon find you are dealing with a huge database of products!

So for that reason you have always been able to add a field for attributes with your Web-store-buddy “buy now” buttons (typically a drop down list). Like so:

However, with only one drop down list to work with, this method gets awkward if you have multiple sets of attributes. For example supposing you had lots of size variations and lots of color variations! You could try adding them to one list like this:

This approach is fine with just a few product options.  But when you have lots of options (and lots of different types of options), it gets out of hand.

So to solve this problem we’ve upgraded the Web-store-buddy attributes feature so that you can now add up to five separate attribute lists to a buy now button. Here is the example above using the new method and two attribute lists.

• Web-form-buddy now supports multiple file attachments.
• As before, you can choose whether a file upload is optional or required. But in addition, you can set a number for how many files are required.
• You can set a size limit independently for the maximum size of any one attachment as well as the maximum size for all the upload files taken together. Previously the maximum upload size was 5Mb - that has been increased to 10Mb.
• You can set a limit on the number of file uploads (from 1 to 10).