News

Version 3 Development Begins — January 1, 2007

Originally a milestone for 2008, the new major release 3.0 of QuadCommerce has been moved up for an anticipated 2007 launch.

The new software release timeline is due mainly to a growing client base and more requests for new features. Quadsimia felt the best way to meet our client needs was to incoroporate it in to the new version 3.x code baseline and accelerate the development cycle.

The version 2.x series will still be supported and an upgrade will be possible for clients who would like to move their stores up to the new version 3 when it is released.

Status updates on QuadCommerce Version 3.0 will be available here on our website.

QC gets Froogle — November 3, 2006

No not frugal....Froogle, Google's product and price search engine!

QuadCommerce v2.50 now allows store owners to upload their entire store catalog to the world's most popular search engine.

With a few clicks from your admin ShopKeeper, your products can be part of the growing trend of aggregate shopping sites. You can update your Froogle products at any time easily.

Froogle is a price engine website launched by Google Inc. Users can do product searches to return lists of vendors selling a particular product, as well as pricing information abd photographs of relevant products. Searches can be sorted and filtered by price, keywords, and retailer.

Froogle

QC Certified 'UPS Ready' — September 18, 2006

QuadCommerce v2.5 has passed certification testing and met the specific requirements to become a UPS Ready Certified Developer.

The UPS ReadyTM Program offers licensed developers the opportunity to incorporate UPS technology into online solutions to better serve our mutual customers. By combining UPS's offerings and resources with Quadsimia's expertise, together we deliver a powerful customer solutions -- and shared ecommerce success with QuadCommerce.

QuadCommerce incorporates UPS tools for:

* Rates & Service Selection - Provides quotes for UPS service, allowing your customers and employees to compare prices and select the UPS shipping service that best suits their needs

* Address Validation - Ensures that customer-entered shipping addresses are correct at the time of order processing.

QuadCommerce also has a License & Registration feature for store owners wishing to use UPS to ship their orders to easily sign up for a UPS shipping account.

Dev Team Launches Ecommerce Blog complete with RSS/Atom News Feed — August 30, 2006

The QuadCommerce Development team has begun an ecommerce blog on its QuadCommerce website. The "Ecommerce QC Blog" is intended to get information about ecommerce tools, practices, tips and lessons learned to our
clients and others interested in ecommerce technologies.

The QC Dev Team works daily with a significant cross-section of the ecommerce realm. As software developers for ecommerce applications, supporters of clients who manage their own ecommerce solutions, and (of course) ecommerce customers ourselves, we often see problems and solutions from several different perspectives.

Our goal for the blog is to help find and present relevant information on ecommerce for our readers. Feedback is encouraged!

You can find the blog here . News Feeds are also available in RSS/Atom format for readers who wish view the blog with an RSS reader or Aggregator program.

Ecommerce QC Blog

PayPal Interfaces with QC — August 1, 2006

The new release of QuadCommerce v2.5 is now capable of interfacing with the PayPal online payment solution. This means ShopKeepers with Paypal can now process payments with Paypal in two different ways.

PayPal Express allows customers to simply click on a PayPal button during checkout of a QuadCommerce store and use their own PayPal account for providing payment.

PayPal Direct allows store owners to give customers the option of using their PayPal accounts for payments or taking credit cards and using the store's PayPal account to process payment of the order.

"Over the past twelve months, PayPal was definitely the #1 requested feature that our clients wete telling our ecommerce development team they would like to see in QuadCommerce. We are very happy to incorporate this feature into our ecommerce software."

PayPal now joins Authorize.NET, Verisign PayFlow Pro, and LinkPoint as merchant gatways that a ShopKeeper can use to process payments of orders.

PayPal has quickly become a global leader in online payment solutions with 100 million account members worldwide. Available in 55 countries and regions around the world, buyers and sellers on eBay, online retailers, online businesses, as well as traditional offline businesses are transacting with PayPal.

Take A Sneak Peek — July 4, 2006

Fireworks aren't the only thing launching this Independence Day! Take A Sneak Peek at the new QuadCommerce version under development at....

http://beta.quadcommerce.com/

We're so excited to show off our new version of QuadCommerce - the ecommerce solution from Quadsimia - that we can't even wait until its finished.

That's why we set up a nightly snapshot of the software while its in beta development. Check out the link to the beta store and you'll see some of the newest features like...

* New Store Templates
* Powerful Cascading Style Sheets
* PayPal Integration
* Enhanced UPS tools
* Search Engine Optimized Product Catalogs
* Customer Input Pricing
* ...plus more...

Keep in mind the beta store is a snapshot of the current version being developed. All features may or may not work on any given day.

Once completed and version 2.50 is released, the sneak peek beta store will replace the demo store.

Contact Quadsimia today with questions about the new version 2.50.

"Sneak Peek" Beta Store

Ecommerce Pricing - New Model — June 23, 2006

Effective next month, QuadCommerce has updated its ecommerce store pricing model.

The key change to the pricing was to structure our prices to better reflect the success of our clients. Quadsimia has always viewed each client of ours as a partner in the ecommerce endeavor. So the model linking between us and them was a logical one.

Quadsimia has established a model wbere costs are lower for stores just getting up to speend and building their online customer base.

The new model does away with the pricing based on catalog size. In fact, clients are encouraged to offer as many products as they'd like online.

The new packages & pricing can be found under the Pricing section of our website.

QC Enrolls in UPS Program — May 31, 2006

QuadCommerce has signed up to become enrolled in the UPS Ready Program. This program from United Parcel Service (UPS) provides a suite of ecommerce tools to improve customer service, reduce costs, and energize the online purchasing experience.

After QuadCommerce has completed its integration of UPS technologies, the software must be tested by an independent third-party to certify its compliance with UPS guidelines and specifications.

Once the testing is completed successfully, QuadCommerce will be certified "UPS Ready".

Coding Begins on v2.50 — January 2, 2006

The development cycle for QuadCommerce 2.50 has officially begun. The new version will contain our clients "most wanted" list of features and be a considerably larger effort than the last few releases.

While patches to the 2.0x version will continue to be released, new feature development will concentrate on the 2.50 baseline.

Stay tuned for updates on v2.50.