Blog: storeBlox CS

Many of our customers have company stores that allow both business and personal purchases – a dozen golf shirts for a trade show team and a ball cap to take home to the kids, as an example. With storeBlox CS, you can now control what payment methods are available based on the type of purchase a user is making.

Purchase type is set up with a custom field in storeBlox CS

Those golf shirts? Purchase orders or departmental budgets are fine. The ball cap? That one should probably go on a personal credit card. By specifying which payment types are acceptable for each purchase type with our new Shipping Validation Module, you can control which payment methods are available for each type of purchase.

Creating a custom field is easy in storeBlox CS

Even better, because the module uses a custom field to define purchase types, there’s virtually no limit to the types of transactions you can create and control. Common usage might be “personal” vs. “business”, but you could also restrict payment methods to certain business units, etc.

Look for more great features this spring and, as always, let us know how we’re doing and what you’d like to see!

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Let’s say you want to require approvals for certain payment methods in your company store – for instance, when a buyer wants to use a purchase order instead of a credit card – but the user account isn’t already in place. Previously, the only way you could enforce approvals on payment methods was to set up the buyers and assign approvers to them.

Global Approvers can approve any user for specific payment methods

No more. Now with storeBlox CS, you can make any payment method require approval for any user at all – no need to set up user accounts and approvers. If you need specific users and assigned approvers – say, Jenny in Sales needs all her purchases against a marketing budget approved – you’ll still want to use the standard method. But if you just want to make sure that anyone who comes to the store and wants to use a purhcase order goes through an approval process, then this new feature is for you!

Categories: Launches

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Customers can now upload art with an order on storeBlox CS

Need to collect art files from customers during the ordering process? storeBlox CS now offers the option to enable art file uploads when a customer adds a product to their cart. If you’re accepting custom, drop-ship orders in your store and need to collect art files, you can now enable this feature in your store by visiting webBlox and doing the following:

1. Click on Site Administration in the left navigation
2. Click on Store directly underneath
3. Click the Features tab at the top of the window
4. Check the “Allow customers to upload artwork for orders” box

That’s it! This will add the Art Upload button to your shopping cart configuration pages, and you can easily retrieve the art either through the order listing in webBlox or via a link in every order email.

Categories: Launches

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