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#1 Posted : Monday, August 9, 2010 11:17:06 AM(UTC)
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Hallo,
I got an idea to develop some usefull add-on for BV but as developer I do not have much understanding of what does merchants needs. Please could you tell me what are the most usefull features you are missing in bv?

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#2 Posted : Wednesday, August 11, 2010 9:49:27 AM(UTC)
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Better management and tracking of backorders & returns. Ability to discontinue products and have them still accessible (but flagged as discontinued) so that you retain seo benefit.
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#3 Posted : Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:03:06 AM(UTC)
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Thanks, good ideas.
But what do you mean with tracking of backorders?

I will think of discontinue option adding and if it could be released as add-on will implement one.
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#4 Posted : Wednesday, August 11, 2010 11:36:16 AM(UTC)
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A review system that behaves like Power Reviews however doesn't send all the content to their buzzillions website in the hopes of snagging the search indexes for the product.
Displaying the average review of a product on the category pages.
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#5 Posted : Wednesday, August 11, 2010 1:20:19 PM(UTC)
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This has come up a few times in my bv travels.




WYSIWYG ability to create an email campaign within the BV dashboard and sync/send/import to an email service provider.



Additionally, ability to sync/export email mailing lists to an email service provider.
Matt Martell


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Kman
#6 Posted : Thursday, August 12, 2010 6:37:45 AM(UTC)
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Quotation System

Anyone have a solution for a quotation system for BV?
Something needed but I have not looked into it yet myself.
Would not send an email to the customer until triggered by the admin.
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#7 Posted : Thursday, August 12, 2010 6:49:35 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: "Kim (Kman)" Go to Quoted Post
Quotation System

We have a quoting system that we built, but it's definitely not a drop-in component. Granted, that probably wouldn't be a problem for you. :) Email me if you want more details.
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#8 Posted : Thursday, August 12, 2010 6:54:46 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: "Matt@9BallDesign" Go to Quoted Post
A review system that behaves like Power Reviews however doesn't send all the content to their buzzillions website in the hopes of
snagging the search indexes for the product.

That would be pretty slick. If it were implemented for BV it would need to be a separate mini-app, though, since there would be so much more functionality and data points to store than the OOTB reviews system.

Originally Posted by: "Matt@9BallDesign" Go to Quoted Post
Displaying the average review of a product on the category pages.

That's an easy one. We've even done that for BV 2004. Maybe we can add that feature to the next release of our toolkit.
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#9 Posted : Thursday, August 12, 2010 6:56:10 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: "Matt@9BallDesign" Go to Quoted Post
WYSIWYG ability to create an email campaign within the BV dashboard and sync/send/import to an email service provider.

Additionally, ability to sync/export email mailing lists to an email service provider.

The only problem with this one is that there are so many ESP's and everyone uses a different one. Also, only the better ones provide an API that's rich enough to provide that functionality.
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Matt@9BallDesign
#10 Posted : Thursday, August 12, 2010 8:44:08 AM(UTC)
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Reports


1. Sales by brand/MFG/Vendor - sort options clicking table headers (Name, SKU, Volume) - export capability



2. Individual customer complete order history (not necessarily a report though, probably better applied to people admin). Ability to print and/or export capability



3. Search Term Identifier - if recording customer searches, find customers that searched for a given term (I believe search terms are recorded to those user with accounts)



4. Added to Cart, Never Purchased - Identify popular non-purchased products, report includes shipping costs of dropped cart. HUGE in my opinion!



5. Top Customer Improvements - Identify Repeat Purchasers, Identify Stagnant Purchasers, tie to SKU, category, global/blanket purchasing - export contact info capability



6. Improvement - traditional product selector is available rather than only being able to type in SKU for product reports



------- PRODUCT -----------



Sales Performance Link added to left nav of product edit page. all sorts of goodies can be thought of, daily, monthly, annual sales, added to cart but not purchased, search term hits.



ties into the Top Customer report improvement. Let me know who bought the product I'm adding a 10% discount too so I can target them



A. I deal with a ton of consumable products - cuts my research time down to a few seconds to develop targeted campaign



B. There's an upsell available - if customer bought A, related product B is a complementary product - targeted campaign
Matt Martell


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#11 Posted : Thursday, August 12, 2010 8:49:23 AM(UTC)
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I'm just spilling my guts....lol...

Search Term Activated Image Banner/Text Banner

Add to Search Results Page

Activated if search term is included in list of activators for campaign.

pretty much an internal adword campaign manager without the PPC...
Matt Martell


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Matt@9BallDesign
#12 Posted : Thursday, August 12, 2010 9:02:35 AM(UTC)
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A simple one really..... merchant is responsible for page load impact.

"View All" link back into the category templates!
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TMaiden
#13 Posted : Wednesday, August 18, 2010 9:49:24 AM(UTC)
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Here are a couple of BIG things that I might need.

A way to display prices to 4 decimal places. My customer is selling wholesale. The database table supports this, but on the web pages, all of the prices are formatted for "curency" which is only 2 decimal places for the countries that I have checked.

A way to easily interface to the INVENTORY fields. My customer already has a warehouse, a "brick & mortar" store and a existing order entry system.

I'd like the web site to know what is in the warehouse.
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#14 Posted : Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:27:18 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: "Matt@9BallDesign" Go to Quoted Post
Reports


1. Sales by brand/MFG/Vendor - sort options clicking table headers (Name, SKU, Volume) - export capability



2. Individual customer complete order history (not necessarily a report though, probably better applied to people admin). Ability to print and/or export capability



3. Search Term Identifier - if recording customer searches, find customers that searched for a given term (I believe search terms are recorded to those user with accounts)



4. Added to Cart, Never Purchased - Identify popular non-purchased products, report includes shipping costs of dropped cart. HUGE in my opinion!



5. Top Customer Improvements - Identify Repeat Purchasers, Identify Stagnant Purchasers, tie to SKU, category, global/blanket purchasing - export contact info capability



6. Improvement - traditional product selector is available rather than only being able to type in SKU for product reports



------- PRODUCT -----------



Sales Performance Link added to left nav of product edit page. all sorts of goodies can be thought of, daily, monthly, annual sales, added to cart but not purchased, search term hits.



ties into the Top Customer report improvement. Let me know who bought the product I'm adding a 10% discount too so I can target them



A. I deal with a ton of consumable products - cuts my research time down to a few seconds to develop targeted campaign



B. There's an upsell available - if customer bought A, related product B is a complementary product - targeted campaign


1. Good idea
2. Good but not sure why this is needed
3. Not bad but do not think this going to be popular
4. Not bad
5. Not sure about popularity of such add-on
6. Goot idea

In general the most needed update for you is to have the ability to track the popularity of each product to build targeted compaign. I will think of developing some solution starting with something simple.

Thanks in advance
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#15 Posted : Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:31:04 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: "Matt@9BallDesign" Go to Quoted Post
I'm just spilling my guts....lol...

Search Term Activated Image Banner/Text Banner

Add to Search Results Page

Activated if search term is included in list of activators for campaign.

pretty much an internal adword campaign manager without the PPC...


Interesting one but as far as I see searching is not too popular among BV users.
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#16 Posted : Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:32:21 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: "Matt@9BallDesign" Go to Quoted Post
A simple one really..... merchant is responsible for page load impact.

"View All" link back into the category templates!


Are you talking about the substitution of the breadcrumbs?
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#17 Posted : Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:34:40 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: "TMaiden" Go to Quoted Post
Here are a couple of BIG things that I might need.

A way to display prices to 4 decimal places. My customer is selling wholesale. The database table supports this, but on the web pages, all of the prices are formatted for "curency" which is only 2 decimal places for the countries that I have checked.

A way to easily interface to the INVENTORY fields. My customer already has a warehouse, a "brick & mortar" store and a existing order entry system.

I'd like the web site to know what is in the warehouse.


Thanks for your ideas.

Sorry I can't imagine why do you need such 4 decimal prices, except you are forex trader.

Talking about second idea do you want to show current product inventory on the product page?
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TMaiden
#18 Posted : Tuesday, August 31, 2010 1:17:52 PM(UTC)
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The customer sells wholesale. An item price might be like $4.0512. If they sell 1000 of these items, then the price needs to calculate to $4051.20

Yes, we would like to get current warehouse inventory into the web store, and it would be nice to get orders from the web store into their current inventory/shipping system.

It would be nice to prevent orders on the web store if the warehouse is out of stock. Since they use other methods to place orders and ship items, the webstore and the warehouse can easily get "out of sync"

A nightly "batch import / export" might be one way to go, but it would be better "live"

I know that BV Commerce was not really designed for this, but is such a powerful application and we needed something fast with all the great features that BVC has.
Phonydip
#19 Posted : Tuesday, August 31, 2010 1:40:22 PM(UTC)
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Mobile application system. Use same admin.
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#20 Posted : Tuesday, August 31, 2010 8:42:09 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: "TMaiden" Go to Quoted Post

The customer sells wholesale. An item price might be like $4.0512. If they sell 1000 of these items, then the price needs to calculate to $4051.20

Yes, we would like to get current warehouse inventory into the web store, and it would be nice to get orders from the web store into their current inventory/shipping system.

It would be nice to prevent orders on the web store if the warehouse is out of stock. Since they use other methods to place orders and ship items, the webstore and the warehouse can easily get "out of sync"

A nightly "batch import / export" might be one way to go, but it would be better "live"

I know that BV Commerce was not really designed for this, but is such a powerful application and we needed something fast with all the great features that BVC has.
I'm affraid it's not add-on but customization as it's about impossible to release the synchronization mechanism that will work with any warehouse application.
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