Blog: e-commerce

Budget/Points Widget for storeBlox CS

Budget/Points Widget screen shot

View all available budgets and points with our new company store widget

Now, logged-in visitors can monitor the balances on multiple budgets in a simple, persistent widget available in the lefthand navigation bar on your company store. In addition, if your store has a points-based payment system enabled, customers may also view their points balance at any time. Every store-based payment method is now available at a glance. This feature is available in every Pro-level store – just enable it in webBlox.

storeBlox CS Email Template Management

Email Template Customization screenshot

All your company store emails can now be completely customized.

We’ve now given you complete control over the content and formatting of all the emails generated by your company store. Our new Email Notification system allows complete customization of every email – total control over WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML and variables. If you need to customize messaging, formatting or content, it’s all available now in the webBlox store management system, for every type of message:

  • Approval notification
  • Approval Request
  • Customer confirmation
  • Order notification
  • Rejection notification
  • Shipment Notification
  • Update notification

To simplify things further, we provide a contextual reference for every available variable in a given email template, right underneath the editor for your reference:

Email Customization Variable Reference screen shot

All available variables are provided for reference

As always, we provide a default template for notifications, so if you don’t want to mess with this, you don’t have to. But if you need to insert custom information, branding, or re-arrange or repeat elements in your email, you’ve got all the tools you need to manage formatting and content. As always, if you need assistance, don’t hesitate to check out the video tutorials available over at the storeBlox CS Video Training Center, or contact us with your questions.

Roundup of Recent storeBlox CS Upgrades

Approval Email Screen Shot

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!