Blog: Launches

Now, customers can approve or reject orders within emails themselves

As always, we’re constantly making minor improvements to storeBlox CS. Many of them are based directly on customer feedback — which we love — and here is a passel of improvements recently rolled out to all storeBlox CS customers:

• Order Approval Process improvements: Approvals can now be approved/rejected from the approval email via a link –  logging in is no longer required to take action on order approvals
• Real-time shipping API improvements: If you prefer to run all your shipping charges at residential rates (sometimes users do not select this, even when the address is residentail), you can now force residential shipping rates for the entire store.
• Order Exports: We’ve now added custom field export to the Order Management System export feature.

If you’ve got any questions about implementing these features or have suggestions of your own, please let us know!

Categories: General, Launches

New integration modules make storeBlox CS integration simple.

storeBlox CS already has deep support for integration with other systems, but we’ve made it even better by adding the ability to manage integration modules directly in webBlox. Depending on your needs, you can plug in integration modules for any of the following functions:

• Order Integration: post-processing of orders in real-time to the system of your choice.
• Pre-order Integration: real-time “punch-out” to external order systems during the order process for outside validation and processing actions, such as your own credit card validation systems
• Billing Validation: Plug in custom business logic for billing validation, such as order requirements for specific groups of credit card numbers.

Categories: General, Launches

Few of us would call calculators fun – although I do recall enjoying a few upside-down calculator messages back in middle school – but the folks here at eBlox got a kick out of building calculators for two big site launches for 2011. Then again, we are geeks.

First up is the product page calculator on the new 3M Promotional Markets website. 3M has always had pretty complex pricing and decoration options, so we actually took on the rather ambitious task of not only wrestling their pricing into a more structured model, but also building the ability to calculate that pricing accurately and quickly right on the product page.

3M’s calculator handles product options and freight in real time

If that wasn’t enough, 3M threw in freight quoting as well – in real-time. So, we take product and quantity options, work out the total (including decoration) and then go fetch a real-time freight quote from UPS, all right there on the product page. You get an estimated total within seconds.All of this is made possible with storeBlox 2, the most flexible, customizable e-commerce solution for promotional products suppliers and distributors.

Categories: Launches