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Responsive Design 101 - Ecommerce Websites

2013-09-25T16:18:00.001-07:00

What is Responsive Design?
Responsive Design is new approach of website coding and laying-out so web content can be viewed through various devices.

This design helps viewers providing an optimal browsing experience, ease of reading and navigation with a minimum of re-sizing, panning, and scrolling.
As more and more internet users browse through various devices such as iPad/Tablet, Smart phones, PC's and other internet enabled devices responsive design can push content to all viewers without having to maintain multiple website or code, with single code base you can target all viewers.
Why is Responsive design so important to business?
Businesses have to evolve with latest proven technology and they must decide whether to build a native mobile apps or a responsive site for their online presences.

Responsive design helps you to have single website, yet target mobile users and traditional computer at same time, easy to manage and maintain as more devices hit the market.

Few stats:
2.1 billion mobile users across the globe
85% of American adults have mobile devices
90% of them use smart phones for online browsing, shopping etc.

Anatomy of Responsive Design

Responsive design is built on HTML5 and CSS3 (Cascading style sheet), unlike traditional way of building websites were using HTML tables with restricted width and height of the content/images not allowing to grow or shrink to fit the screen, whereas responsive design uses fluid grids with help of using "Div" tags which can adapt to screen size resolution.

Fluid Grids, Flexible images and media are three ingredients that are required to build responsive design sites, identify the content, put together your images, identify the navigation flow as part of your responsive design framework.

(Pic from Mashable)

SEO - Search Engine Optimization
Does responsive design affect SEO? We would say it only helps SEO by allowing search engines to index your regular website pages and not duplicate pages geared towards mobile devices Example: www.Domain.com and M.Domain.com, by being responsive you can avoid duplicate content.

Google prefers to index responsive designed websites for their search results and Adwords program, responsive design compliments your SEO.

Responsive Design E-Commerce Websites

E-Commerce websites by design are complex in nature to build, maintain and to keep updated with latest shopping features, trying to keep your E-Commerce website mobile friendly will only make copies of your website thus doubling all your effort.

By using responsive design and building a template with responsive elements you can strike two birds with single stone, more and more internet shoppers are using mobile devices for their shopping list and it's very important to keep your website mobile friendly.

E-Commerce responsive design may look expensive but let me break it down for you, if you decide to have a great looking E-Commerce website targeting computer (PC) users and then decide to build mobile friendly websites your cost of development and maintenance doubles and gets expensive over years and you are duplicating every effort of building powerful E-Commerce website.

Responsive design cuts the total ownership cost, by means of taking away the effort to maintain different versions of a website i.e. a “desktop-version”, a “mobile-version”. Thus, in the long term, investing in responsive website design is the smartest decision.

Talk to us if you are in need of Responsive design for your Ecommerce website, we can put together custom solution that fits your budget. Check us out at InfoSourcing Inc

Happy New Year 2013 - Everest Software

2013-01-12T15:50:00.001-08:00

Wishing all Everest Customers a very Happy New Year 2013, we are excited and looking forward to support our customers.

Our dedicated support team is here to help your business operations, whether you are small or big you will get undivided attention and time to deal with any support issues your Company may face, our online support portal www.MyERPHelp.com let's you create support incidents and keeps you posted on the progress of the incident.

Our support team is geared with all tools and knowledge in dealing with day-day issues with Journals, closing books, reconciliation, database optimization and any customization we have done int he past. You can call us and talk to dedicated staff and get your issues resolved.

If you don't have support contract with vendor call us our friendly staff can help you and get you through the door in few hours so you are up and running, no yearly contracts, nor its expensive. We support all versions of Everest whether its Everest Standard or Everest Advanced we support it all.

Visit our website for Everest Support and Customization's

Happy 4th of July Independence Day

2012-07-03T13:34:00.000-07:00

...from InfoSourcing Inc

Dear Everest Customer,

InfoSourcing Inc would like to wish all our customers, partners and friends a very Happy 4th of July Independence Day!.

Please note our North American office will be closed on Wednesday July 4th 2012. For Technical support please visit our support website http://www.MyErpHelp.com and create online incidents for any critical issues or email Support@info-sourcing.com.

Freedom Note

We now offer our new payment gateway Authorize.Net for all your credit card transactions with Everest Software, its a custom plugin integrated seamlessly with your back-end operations and Online e-Commerce website.

You have the freedom to use other credit card processors, and not tied into using out of the box credit card processors, set yourself free and experience the new Authorize.net gateway has to offer and lower your transactional fees and be PCI compliant. Read more

Your ERP Solution provider for small and medium business,we have been serving North American market for more than 7yrs and are proud to stand this day and celebrate the freedom.

Sincerely,

Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition - IRCE 2012

2012-06-01T09:21:00.000-07:00

It's time of the year for the biggest eCommerce event "Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition" IRCE 2012 venue held at Chicago down town.

The best of best eCommerce products are on display the industry best speakers, consumers, developers and integrator's attending this conference makes it special to showcase your products and services.

The event is geared towards showcasing new products, tech talks from speakers solving real world problems, how to grow your ebusiness, workshops to get your hands on Social media, web marketing and much more.

Read more about the conference here

If you are planning to switch or migrate our of Everest then we have a upgrade path from Everest to Interprise Suite.

Interprise Solutions is going to be there from Mon - Fri at Booth # 1707 and would be showcasing the new Interprise Suite version 7.0 along with our new ECommerce 360 Plugin which covers SEO, Shopping Feeds, Marketplace, Social media and Google Analytics.

Stop by to see the demo and power of Interprise Suite

Google Products - No Free Clicks anymore

2012-05-31T17:47:00.000-07:00

Google Shopping was the biggest free comparison shopping engine has decided to kill free clicks program, no surprise there we expected this would come sooner or later.

Google announced today that it has begun testing and rolling out Google Shopping, which is designed to give shoppers more up-to-date information about prices and discounts, and give merchants more control over where their products appear, says Sameer Samat, vice president of product management, Google Shopping.

Google Shopping will be built on Google’s Product Listing Ads. “Ranking in Google Shopping will be based on a combination of relevance and bid price—just like Product Listing Ads today,” he says.

Instead of bidding on keywords for paid search ads, merchants buying Product Listing Ads bid on the amount they will pay if their product listings in search results attract clicks or result in sales. Product Listing Ads can include a product’s price, an image and the name of the retailer selling it.

No more free clicks from Google, that’s ending. There’s no firm date on exactly when the free ride will be over, other than it should happen by the fall of this year.

Merchants may continue to be listed within Google’s free web search results. That’s not changing. But those wanting to appear in a dedicated shopping search engine — and in the Google Shopping boxes that will appear as part of Google’s regular results — will need to pay.

Our integrated Everest shopping feed service OneStopFeed will continue to feed these engines regularly until we hear about the new merchant program.

You can read more about this on
Internet Retailer website.
Search Engine Land
Google Shopping, How much does it cost?

Why The New Google Shopping Sucks for Ecommerce Merchants - SearchEngineWatch.com

The new Google Shopping creates a rift to PPC management firms and merchants who are accustomed to using Google AdWords – bidding at the keyword level and creating product text ads for certain ad groups. The new Google Shopping will not work like that. Why?

Merchants and Agencies will be required to use a merchant’s Google Product Search data feed to submit to the new Google Shopping. Most merchants and PPC agencies don’t have experience with data feeds.
Bidding is product based, not keyword based. You can only submit your feed and bid via attributes in the feed in Google’s Product Listing Ads interface.

Some small merchants won’t adapt fast enough to take advantage of the program and will lose out on traffic and sales.
The potential for more sales is there, but at what cost? The new Google Shopping will require a high level of technical management with the data feed and constant optimization of the product bids in the campaign. This time and money suck will put a strain on merchants

PCI Compliant - Alternative Payment Solution for Everest

2012-05-25T09:36:00.000-07:00

If you are wondering just like many other Everest customers what would keep the software PCI Compliant for my websites or back-end then let us help you with your PCI compliance issues.

What is PCI Compliance Issues?
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of requirements designed to ensure that ALL companies that process, store or transmit credit card information maintain a secure environment. Essentially any merchant that has a Merchant ID (MID).

Our Solution
With that said how does our solution help you conduct your business without PCI issues. If you are working with Payflow Pro or PPI we can consider their rates with other payment gateway we work with and integrate their solution with E-commerce website and ensure all data transacted with your website and gateway is secure and PCI compliant, we have web solution ready for eCommerce websites.

For back-end operations we have Everest plugins that allows to integrate with our gateway and use tokenization to interact with payment gateways so there by you are not storing credit card information in Everest but in-turn working off the gateway which makes it PCI compliant.

Call us 703-831-1973 Extn 1 or emailinfo@info-sourcing.com for more details so we can plug our PCI compliant solution for your version of Everest.

Read more about PCI questions
Visit our website www.Info-Sourcing.com

SEO your Pinterest for Search Engines and Shoppers

2012-02-21T07:00:00.000-08:00

SEO PInterest
Well now that you have the PinIt button on your website, it's time to look into optimizing your Pinterest boards so those links can start working for you in the organic searches.

1. Organize your boards
Just like categories, boards are unique way to categorize your interest, so from business stand point you would have boards just like you have categories in your eCommerce website. Your boards might look like "Shoes For Men" or "DSLR Cameras" or "Electric Brake pads" or "Plus-Size-Lingerie".

By doing so your board URL would be http://www.YourDomain.com/Company-Name/Board-Name this gives unique identification and also search engine friendly URL which contains pin-ups of images and description of products and this my friend search engines love indexing coz of relevant information.

2. Publish your "PinIt"
Publish the Pinit button across all product pages next to other social media buttons Facebook Like It, Twitter and others.

PinIt button ties into Facebook and Twitter accounts, so it pulls traffic from your friends and other shoppers who are Re-Pin your Pins and has far reaching effect since picture speaks more than words.

Another note when you publish your pictures also publish the description of the product with few keywords so that also helps in your SEO, any description is worth reading too.

3. Profile description
On Pinterest edit your profile and relevant keywords that you use so they are keyword rich something on these lines "YourDomain sells electronics, cameras, digital cameras and DSLR's for any budget with some great camera deals"

4. Follow us on Pinterest
Add the Follow us on Pinterest button on your home page so you catch the attention of your shoppers and have them follow you. Don't miss any opportunity to publish your Pinterest links via emails, newsletter and other media.

"PinIt" new Social media website, business should be using

2012-02-10T06:39:00.000-08:00

So you have an interest in cooking recipes or quilting or designer clothes or home improvements, well your interest can be anything that you like finding it on the web and wouldn't be a cool to "Pin" it up somewhere and share it with your friends and family and grow your interest with people of same interest ...

Yes there is a website which has caught its attention in the Social media, it's so hot that every PR websites are publishing about it and it has surpassed Google and Facebook visitor traffic in just couple of months, that's right the new Social media website called "PInterest.Com"

So it really helps Ecommerce websites to share their products with "Pin It" button so shoppers who have the interest in your products can pin it up and share it with their friends and like minded people. The website is currently in beta and you need to request the access but do get it and share your interest.

We just customized our client Hips and Curves so they could offer the Pin It button on their product catalog of plus size lingerie and shoppers can pin up their sexy lingerie products, take a look at their Pin Up website

Pin It, is great Social media button you shouldn't miss adding it to your website especially if your customers are females since Pinterest.com 90% of customers are female who are pinning up their interest, so it's time to share your brand, product and pin up finally.

Social Media Optimization (SMO) - Get Social Now !!!

2011-11-23T07:03:00.001-08:00

Social Media Optimization (SMO) is the latest buzz word for marketing professional, so what is SMO? Is it important for your website to be optimized or enabled for Social media interactions?

With Facebook (FB) eating a major chunk of internet where people are posting comments, pictures, videos and everything they like or dislike and their friends interact and creating a whole new wave of online shopping or influencing the buying decision of the consumer or friends.

This is a new world just like what we had in early 2000's when SEO was the buzz word and people were trying to get their website optimized and attract traffic, now it's time for SMO so you can engage your fans, shoppers, consumers or friends to stay in touch and grow your fan base or customer base.

So what is Social Media Optimization and what sites should we target? We highly recommend the following social media websites that needs to be integrated with your websites.

1. FaceBook
2. Google Plus
3. Twitter
4. Blogs
5 YouTube
6. Bookmarking websites such as Digg and others
7. Amazon Wishlist
8. Others - there is always others category

Facebook - Increases your social interaction to the level you have wouldn't imagine, your website and products get viral, you add more friends, fans and create a brand. Facebook has largest social fans/friends and the leader in social media enabling Companies to push their brands and products by engaging them throughout the sales cycle of discovery, sales and feedback.

Examples:
Branding: We have FB integration implemented for TrailerPartsDepot.com and since then they have gotten more likes on their products and they are able to brand their products on Social media.

Product Decision: Another way to use FB likes is by asking your shoppers or fans to decide which product is worth building and StyleFactory uses FB for product decision whether to build it or not.
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Google Plus - Next big thing after Facebook is the new Google Plus (G+) get your business account established and start populating with fresh news, updates and build a fan base so more and more people G+ or plus your website links this will all add into Google's Search algorithm for higher ranking.

This is going to get big,bigger than Facebook since Google is incorporating the Google Plus into their search engine algorithm so having a G+ pages just like FB pages is important so you can have the G+ button on your website or shopping site and all likes or plus would show up on your Google+ pages, we have setup InfoSourcing G+ page go ahead Plus it.

OneStopFeed Google+ pages account, so you get the idea go ahead and create your own business page and start to populate with posts and share them all over the website so you can engage more with your fans/followers, this will eventually show up on Google's search results.

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Twitter - Any tweets is highly recommended to keep your fans updates about the latest product or something that you found or discovered or something that keeps them engaged and again fresh content is impt for search engines.

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Blogs - Same thing as tweets just that you can post pictures, content rich description targeting keywords and keyphrase helps in SEO

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YouTube - Any videos that can go viral or help your shoppers make the right decision post it.

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Amazon Wishlist- This caught our attention Amazon introduced "Add to Amazon wish list" button so it's easy for shoppers to make their wishlist in common location and then get to it and shop off that list on any other sites. How cool is that?

Check out Amazon Wish list button working on Hips and Curves website
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If your Ecommerce business then you should take a close look at optimizing your website for search engines and enabling your website with social elements, we could help you customize your website, enable social media optimization SMO for sites that are powered by Everest Ecommerce.

Happy Thanks Giving 2011 - Thank you for your business

2011-11-21T15:02:00.001-08:00

Hello Business Owners,

We at InfoSourcing would like to wish all Everest Customers and Community members a very "Happy Thanksgiving 2011"

It's the time of the year when you thank your customers, vendors and developers, we would like to thank you all by giving away 10 Golden coupons for Google Adwords.

If you haven't started advertising on Google Adwords yet, and are thinking of getting started with a new account then email us we can mail you or send you this personalized "Google Adwords Golden coupon" (Google sent us 10 coupons free) so we want to share it with new business like yours.

See attached picture, hurry we got only 10 coupons to gift, this is for new Google Adwords account ONLY, 1 per customer and use it before Jan 31st 2012.

If you are interested please email us info@info-sourcing.com with your Company name and valid email address so we can send you the coupon code or mail the Google Adwords kit.

Holiday Shopping 2011 Starts now, attract more traffic today !!!

2011-10-31T07:12:00.000-07:00

We are now officially entering the biggest season of "Holiday Shopping" starting from Halloween season till New Year's Eve, online sales will soar high during Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, every consumer/shopper would be looking for the best deals on the internet.

If you are not ready you might miss the biggest event of the year, so get ready for the shopping mania.

If you currently operate an E-commerce website/store then you need to have your product catalog submitted to Comparison Shopping engines mainly "Google Products", "Bing Shopping" and "The Find" Shopping engines.

If you are wondering why we are showcasing only 3 engines when there are 50 others comparison shopping engines? Well as a business owner myself and working with several small and medium business throughout US for last 10 yrs we noticed our customers like "Free", so we list the top 3 free comparison shopping engines that can send tons of traffic and increase your online sales conversions.

Google, Bing and TheFind Shopping engines is absolutely free you don't have to pay for any clicks made on their website and traffic is pushed to your website unlike other paid price engines such as Pricegrabber.com, Shop.com, Shopzilla.com, so why not take advantage of free and submit your data feed to Google, Bing and TheFind and start getting free traffic for this holiday season.

We at InfoSourcing have kick started our OneStopFeed.Com Multi-channel marketing program for Everest-ERP customers, we made it simple and easy to integrate your shopping feeds from Everest. You can subscribe to our feed program and install our Everest plugins for Version 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0, configure and generate feeds and we will handle the rest.

Your feed will be submitted weekly/Monthly to these engines and get the latest products to shoppers, few our customers have already started to see the spike in their online traffic and sales, our program also tracks your website traffic through Google Analytics tool (another free tool to use, i love free).

You will be able to start generating traffic within few days of subscribing to our feed program, take advantage this holiday season and Subscribe for as low as $59 per month.

Visit www.OneStopFeed.com for submitting your product shopping feeds to free shopping engines Google, Bing Shopping and TheFind.com.

4th Quarter - this Week, this year 2011

2011-10-02T18:03:00.000-07:00

October 1st week marks the beginning of the 4th quarter and the most important quarter for business, this is when the largest online shopping sales happens and this part of the year most people shop the most due to holidays and also due to the fact it's financial year ending and organizations with sufficient budget would like use their allocated funds for their inventory.

Consumer technology Companies understand the magic 4th quarter and they are launching their new products and services to consumers and business to capture the market share, here are few worth noting down

Apple's iPhone 5G
Android's new operating system
Microsoft Mango
Facebook Timeline
Google Analytics
Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet

Apple's new iPhone 5G features the next generation of mobile computing and consumer driven features, Android iPhone's competitor is also releasing it's new OS partnered with Samsung to compete in mobile space along with Microsoft Mango mobile version.

In the tablet war Amazon introduced its new tablet for the masses Kindle Fire new kid on the block and it's prices are affordable priced at $199 compared to $499 for iPad and Samsung tabs.

Facebook the social media giant is unveiling the timeline feature update to 800 million users the largest online user base and also rumors of introducing paid plans for users who have large fan base business and prominent people would be their biggest audience.

Google Analytics has rolled out a new product updates with real time updates of traffic instead of 24 hr delay restrictions it had before, with this change they are now offering Enterprise analytics and offering at larger clients who can afford $150k per yr.

We are seeing innovation on all fronts targeting consumers and the market is flooded with new products, new services and only the strongest will survive and as a business owner you need to capitalize by using the right technology and services to compete.

Get your wish lists, gift cards, shopping bags ready for a roller coaster ride of the yr 2011.

Infopia Customers have a upgrade path to Everest ERP Software

2011-07-14T21:30:00.000-07:00

E-CommerceBytes an online ecommerce informative website reported that Versata is on its way to merge Infopia customers with Everest ERP Software. Both Infopia and Everest are wholly-owned affiliates of Versata Enterprises.

As a byproduct of the merger, Royston promised that Infopia customers will receive a "dramatic discount" on Everest's ERP software.
The article goes on to say ...

In a letter to Infopia customers and partners obtained by EcommerceBytes, Royston bluntly acknowledged the shortcomings of the company's product and service

Read more about this article from ECommerceBytes website.

What does this mean to existing Infopia Customers?
Infopia customers are going to be upgraded to more robust, mature ERP product which is geared towards small and medium business for last 10 yrs and many of the e-Commerce customers who are frustrated with Infopia pricing and management now gets a new life to use Everest ERP rich features and scale their business, but it all boils down to the cost at which they need to upgrade.

What does this mean to existing Everest Customers?
If more revenue trickles down the path of Versata through Everest then there could be hope of product development so new features could be added on and existing customers who are on support gets to scale their business and stay with their ERP product.

Multi Channel Marketing Program for Everest ERP Software

2011-07-13T08:14:00.000-07:00

InfoSourcing Inc

Issue No.2011-07

It's our business to make yours more productive.

Dear Harsha,

Your e-Commerce business is made easy and profitable.InfoSourcing offers multi-channel marketing solution for Everest and other ERP products.
We automate the process of feed generation and submission to various channels, so you can manage your growing business.

Multi-Channel Marketing Program

Funnel Your Sales Through Multi-Channel

Channelize Your Business

1. E-Bay to Everest Integration:
Our custom solution is now fully integrated with eBay, it automates the process of product listing from Everest and imports orders directly from eBay store seamlessly saving you hours of manual work.

Read more about eBay integration

2. Amazon to Everest Integration:

List your products on Amazon.com through automated scripts and import orders from Amazon through our custom import utility, simple and easy.

3. OneStopFeed - Price Comparison Shopping Feeds

Our new SaaS offering for small and medium business now allows to submit your product feeds to top 3 shopping engines Google, Bing Shopping and TheFind.Com and other product comparison shopping engines.

Read more about OneStopFeed.com

We also have the knowledge and expertise to improve your sales via SEO, PPC, Social Media and various other marketing channels.

We truly believe in ROI (Return On Investment), call us or visit ourwebsite to find out more about our offerings it's right about time you invested in multi-channel programs for your e-Business and take advantage of your competitors for the holiday season.

Visit us on web at http://www.Info-Sourcing.com Or Call us at 703-831-1973

Empowering your business with the right partner - Apr/May Newsletter

2011-05-03T15:12:00.000-07:00

Need Professional Support from experts having 12 yrs of Everest experience and who knows what it means to run a business successfully.

We have helped 100+ Everest clients to succeed using their ERP solution and we thank every single customer who worked with us and kept us going for past 7 yrs.

Find Out Why We Are Leading Everest Solution Provider Today !!!.

Support and Maintenance

2011 Update

Fine Tune Your Everest

Your ERP software needs maintenance and we at InfoSourcing can support Everest and ensure your business is running smooth like well oiled machine.

If you don't have support contract or you don't want to renew your contract or maybe you don't see the value for money, let us tell you there is an alternative.

You can Opt for our Pre-Paid support plan which works pretty simple, pay as you go and use it when you require no contract to sign, you can create as many incidents as you like and our dedicated experienced support staff will help you.

Read more about our Support and Professional services we offer.

Empowering Your Business

We empower your business with the ERP solution by automating your business process and attracting more traffic to website, our experts at InfoSourcing are constantly working in the back to help your business succeed.

We can bring in more sales by optimizing your website for search engines, manage your paid campaigns, enable your website for social media (Facebook and Twitter), provide multi-channel marketing solutions, integrate with eBay, Amazon or any third party software and customize your back-end.

If you are using Everest ERP solution and you need support or customizations do contact us and we will be more than happy to walk you through and show the benefits of working with business experts who can make a difference.

Visit us on web at http://www.Info-Sourcing.com Or Call us at 703-831-1973

Google Products Feed Updates - Multi Channel Marketing

2011-04-07T18:05:00.001-07:00

Google Products, free comparison shopping engine requires all merchants to provide their data feed with unique identifiers in their feed by May. 2011 this transition may require merchants to understand the need of unique identifiers in the feed.

We advise Everest merchants to start working on gathering data such as UPC/EAN/ISBN/MPN fields in your database and modify your listing to reflect the latest changes and keep it ready, tested before the May deadline.

If you are selling Apparel or custom made goods then you don’t have to meet this requirements but if all other merchants who are selling parts and accessories might need to submit either one of these unique product attributes UPC/MPN and if you are selling books then you might have to send ISBN number.

Now our plugin allows to choose Interprise fields easily and submit it to OneStopFeed services so your product listing is current and accurate for Google and other engines to showcase in their comparison engines.

For more updates on Google products visit Multi Channel Advisor Blog and to submit your listing to Google, Bing Shopping and TheFind visie Multi Channel Marketing program services at www.OneStopFeed.com and take advantage of affordable pricing and widen your reach of customers.

New Features for eBay - Everest integration - 2010 Updates

2010-10-20T19:56:00.000-07:00

Following are the new features added to our eBay – Everest integration module. Below features will really integrate the bi-directional flow of information between Everest and EBay, seamlessly and effortlessly.

Listing of Items on EBay

1. We can list multiple items with different pricing schemes to choose from retail price vs custom field price

2. Ebay requires new attribute called Condition which is now enabled to store the value in custom field and be used at the time of listing

3. We can store the eBay shipping method ID's combined/discount shipping ID per item level

Shipment Methods

1. New module has been added to configure the shipment, you can now configure shipping rates

2. Combined Shipping feature is also added to our module

Import Orders Features

1. Ability to create orders and receipt journal in Everest from eBay orders

2. Assign new payment methods for creating receipt journal

3. Ability to import orders of type auction can now be imported into Everest

4. Ability to pull item description into Everest when Sales Order is created for those items where item code's are missing or doesn't exist within Everest

5. Ebay Order Reference can be stored in custom field or reference field of Everest

6. We can now import clubbed sales orders from eBay into Everest

Shipment Tracking

1. Update shipment tracking from Everest to Ebay orders and mark the status as shipped

Ask for a FREE demo we will be more than happy to show you the smart way to multi-channel marketing. Contact www.Info-Sourcing.com for eBay-Everest demo today.

Future of Everest, find the right solution partner

2010-08-12T21:53:00.000-07:00

Everest Software, with its latest acquisition from Versata software and series of changes such as closing down their support, development and reducing workforce by 90% things look weaker for Everest customers.

Due to economy situation several companies have mushroomed in last 6-12 mths trying to stay afloat is key, ERP is not easy it requires wider skillsets, focus and dedicated support. New comers will be faced with reality in few mths as they try to make some soft sales now.

Right Solution/Partner: We have been solution provider for Everest Software for almost 6 yrs now and have worked with several different customers in US, UK and Aus, we realized that supporting ERP customers is the most toughest and critical part hence we offer our support portal www.MyERPHelp.com and our professional services (http://www.info-sourcing.com/everest_software/Everest_Software_Services.htm) unmatched by other companies and a dozen of happy customers all around, so while you shop for solution providers look for experienced capable companies and not just any start up ones...

We also have migration package to move Everest customers from Everest Software to Interprise Suite, new ERP based on .Net Technology and affordable pricing, check out our customer testimonial regd Everest to Interprise Suite migration

Press Release part of your SEM strategy

2010-05-20T17:21:00.000-07:00

You need to consider Press Release as one of your marketing stretegy for SEM (Search Engine Marketing) it helps you to spread your important message across various websites, blogs and news media through RSS feeds, posts, trackbacks, tweets and other modes, thus creating a strong marketing buzz.

Few points to consider for good PR article.

1. Identify a strong reason to publish an article, something that interest your audience
2. Pick the right keywords that you deal with your business for search engines
3. Add a logo, product image, free stuff that you can give away or even a catalog subscription
4. Proof read, select best distribution regions and media and publish

Here is link for customer review of Coast Coin, rare coins and currency PR release.

Mobile ERP Solution, do small business carry about?

2010-05-19T06:47:00.000-07:00

Mobile space is growing faster each year with newer smart phones being introduced, the latest one is HTC Incredible powered by Android with 1GHz processor just enough to run all your office apps and to conduct your business.

What does this mean to small and medium business owners?
Does this new space empower them with more information at their finger tips?
Do business owners really care checking their business on their phone while they are away from their office?

We are conducting a survey within our customer base to understand the business needs and if you think you can answer these questions please feel free to comment on this thread or send us an email by visiting www.Info-Sourcing.com

Survey Questions

1. 1. Do you have a smart phone like iPhone or Blackberry or windows based phones?

a. If yes then, would you want to be able to check how your business progressing when you are away from your computer/office or remotely via phone?

b. Has there been a situation where you needed to know certain information and you could have used to look up your Customer, Sales, Vendors etc that

2. If you answered No to Question 1, do you think business owners would be moving fwd to purchase a smart phone to interact more easily with their backend ERP/Accounting/Sales system to have information at their finger tips?

a. Do you see a potential in developing a mobile apps that interacts with ERP s/w to do certain tasks/activities?

3.3. What would you pay for such kind of apps which provides instant access to your data?

4. 4. Finally on scale of 1-to 10 with 1 being lowest and 10 being highest, how do you rate such features empowering business owners?

We will share our results and our findings with you all in few weeks from now.... stay tuned.

Everest Plugin provides easy customization solution & still stay integrated

2010-02-18T09:25:00.000-08:00

If your business is operational with Everest and you found that your business demands have changed and Everest out of the box can't provide the functionality you are looking for then what do you do?

Everest Plugin's - In such scenarios we will build plugin's that plug into Everest modules and be able to provide those extended functionality that just your business requires and this is made possible in Everest 4.0 version onwards with help of Plugin architecture.

Scenario: Be able to look up Sales & Purchasing Analysis within Everest but be able to group by department and other fields is key to our business.

Solution: We wrote Everest plugin to provide same functionality and enhanced it to group by department so its easier to analyze your sales and purchasing activity by department wise especially if you have multiple departments and you treat your e-commerce website as a department, retail stores as diff dept.

We tailor custom solution for Everest customers to make it work for your business, if you have any special needs to customize your backend Everest or e-Commerce feel free to call us 703-831-1973 or send us an email.

eBay listing fees lowered starting March 30th

2010-01-26T09:06:00.000-08:00

If you ever listed your products on eBay you would have come across eBay's expensive listing fees that had to be taken into consideration for listing your products with markup or having lesser profits.
But come March 30th 2010 eBay is dropping its listing fees lower allowing business owners to list more products and attract more traffic and more sales, a move that is welcomed by business.

Our eBay to Everest custom utility will allow you to list your products from Everest onto eBay's site and import sales order into Everest fully automated no need for double entry of orders, save time and optimize your time in selling more products, with eBay's new prices (Check their Fee Illustrator link) and our custom plug in you can now list all your products/ SKU's and drive more sales.

Call us for FREE demo of our innovative product to list your inventory on eBay and stay connected with Everest at all times.

Source: Read more about this eBay fees article on TechCrunch

Car Parts and Accessories made easy to shop - Case Study of OptionImports

2010-01-13T18:36:00.000-08:00

Option Imports, dealer of Car parts and accessories wanted to get an edge over its competitors and wanted to jump start their e-Commerce business right on time when economy is starting to pickup, they invested in our ROI e-Commerce solution.

Out custom e-Commerce solution optimized their entire catalog and provides some custom features to fit their industry so their shoppers can search thousands of parts per brand & model filters and easy checkout. We also secure their website with SSL (secure socket layer) certificate from our Comodo partners....

Check out their Car Parts and Accessories Online store powered by Everest e-Commerce

Everest Support & Customization Alternatives - MyERPHelp.com

2009-12-15T21:18:00.000-08:00

During such tough economic times it is so important to find ways to save money and make the right business decisions.
We at InfoSourcing are here to assist you. As an Everest Customer you are aware that you have some choices on how to handle your Everest support and any customization that you may require. You can utilize Everest directly or you can go through many of the resellers that offer similar services

Our Support Portal MyErpHelp.com (http://www.myerphelp.com) provides you access to support online and on-demand, you can buy our support packages and use them anytime throughout the year, if you need more hours you simple buy more support hours.

At InfoSourcing, we specialize in catering to our customers' needs. We provide both ongoing customer service and high quality customizations at economical pricing. We have helped many other companies like yourselves save money by utilizing us for your ongoing support and future customizations. Call us or email us or visit us online at www.Info-Sourcing.com we will be more than happy to help you.

Everest E-Commerce Shopping Cart alternatives

2009-11-30T18:17:00.000-08:00

With increasing demand for e-Commerce software vendors are forced to keep tab on the market and stay focused in delivering their niche e-Commerce software packed with tools & features that business owners expect to use.

Everest e-Commerce has fallen down in providing most requested features in their new .Net template "ability to allow customers to customize" beyond just look & feel, no .NET source code is No-No to many customers who wants to bring their creativity & business requirements so they can keep their ebusiness successful.

Customers who are looking for alternatives are already switching to some of the e-Commerce & ERP software's.

1. AspDotNet Storefront - Roboust .Net ecommerce s/w with Source code available (Everest Bridge available from InfoSourcing)
2. Interspire - PHP based, highly customizable and built in CMS (Everest Bridge available from InfoSourcing)
3. ViArt - Php based CMS and customizable (Everest Bridge available from InfoSourcing)
4. Interprise Suite e-Commerce - Integrated e-Commerce with ERP is true alternative (Everest Bridge available from InfoSourcing)

If your business is stranded, talk to us we can get it going with innovative customizable solution that works for your business at affordable pricing.