osCommerce-Official Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 osCommerce v4 has an extensive set of Marketing tools designed to help businesses grow, and at the same time - making it easier for Marketing managers and consultants to run their day-to-day activities. First of all, websites based on osCommerce v4 come with advanced on-site SEO modules. Each instance, like categories, products, content pages, home page, etc automatically receives an SEO-friendly title, URL, description, etc which can be overridden in the back end. Site speed is of the paramount importance, hence most osCommerce v4 websites can reach 95+ in Google Page Speed tests (providing product, content, and banner images are properly optimised for web use). osCommerce comes with Discount Coupons and Gift Vouchers pre-implemented. Same goes for Abandoned Shopping Carts (or Recover Carts). There’s a difference to the previous implementations though, as now it is possible to convert an abandoned shopping cart into a new order directly from the back end of the website. Banner management comes by default, with facilities to create and manage text, image, or HTML banners. Advanced Promotions program allows creating various special deals and publishing them on the website. The likes of “Buy X, get Y cheaper” or “Buy any of the X category and get special price on Y category”, or “Spend X and get Y free of charge” and many more are now available. There also exists pre-integration with TrustPilot, Give away feature, Product Collection management, Testimonials, web Chat (based on Tawk.to), and Newsletter management (via integration with Mail Chimp). Have questions or comments? Post them here! domiosc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solomono Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 great news. Would it have some attributes filter by default, does it supports SEO filter landing pages? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osCommerce-Official Posted February 19, 2021 Author Share Posted February 19, 2021 Thank you! It is very likely to have filters based on attributes and so called "properties". Whether it will be a part of the core version or will come as an add-on - this is to be confirmed. We are talking to osCommerce shop owners to understand what would be the best "default" package, aiming to deliver as much functionality as possible and at the same time to not overcomplicate osCommerce v4. SEO Filter Landing pages - this is to be confirmed. It is currently possible to create SEO-friendly landing pages, with custom URL, page title, META description, etc. and of course rich-text content. Again, we will confirm if such a feature will be included by default or will be available via the App store, free or paid. Our goal is to deliver a robust capable Ecommerce platform that osCommerce shop owners or their web agencies can use to grow online businesses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozEworks Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 It is good there is a focus on speed. Many solutions add features and then rely on hardware to make up for slow load times. We all know the story of Magento on that subject from years ago. Shared hosting is still a reality for many open source users. IMO, the pre-integrations would be better done as optional addons as storeowners have their own preferred tools for reviews eg yotpo (popular in US), ESPs (numerous) and chat (also numerous). Preference is often based on their penetration into different markets. Not to mention the bad press Trust Pilot just got for millions of fake reviews they removed pre-float. Quote Kym Projects Director @ ozEworks.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osCommerce-Official Posted February 19, 2021 Author Share Posted February 19, 2021 39 minutes ago, ozEworks said: It is good there is a focus on speed. Many solutions add features and then rely on hardware to make up for slow load times. We all know the story of Magento on that subject from years ago. Shared hosting is still a reality for many open source users. IMO, the pre-integrations would be better done as optional addons as storeowners have their own preferred tools for reviews eg yotpo (popular in US), ESPs (numerous) and chat (also numerous). Preference is often based on their penetration into different markets. Not to mention the bad press Trust Pilot just got for millions of fake reviews they removed pre-float. Kym, we hear you! It will be our aim to find a balance between supplying a feature-rich solution, that will be fast, and at the same time not overcrowded with add-ons. It is very likely that some of the features you've mentioned will find their way to the add-on/app store, free or paid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domiosc Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 Please differentiate the specials from the campaigns. You can have rules for discount vouchers, so that it can be used x times, up to a certain time, once per user, up to a limit ... I do not know if it is from this area, but do not forget the price escalation quantity, the special prices per client and the groups of clients with their assigned rates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osCommerce-Official Posted February 28, 2021 Author Share Posted February 28, 2021 6 hours ago, domiosc said: Please differentiate the specials from the campaigns. You can have rules for discount vouchers, so that it can be used x times, up to a certain time, once per user, up to a limit ... I do not know if it is from this area, but do not forget the price escalation quantity, the special prices per client and the groups of clients with their assigned rates. Thanks for your comments! The way it works in the current version of what will become v4, and it may change in this or that way, but still: - there's the Coupon system, similar to what it was before for v2.x, with parameters like you describe (i.e. limited to x times, or y times per user, or to/from a certain amount, etc) - there's also the Gift Voucher system, somewhat similar to what it was before for v2.x - there's a relatively simple "specials" feature where you can set special price to be valid till certain date - a very advanced Promotions feature that allows creating campaigns like "Buy X, get Y cheaper" or "Buy N of A, and get B for free", etc. - quantity discounts are available on products - it is possible to create customer/price groups and set either the default % discount, or set price per product per group - it is also possible to set special price of availability of products per particular customer Please note the above features may be split into one or more add-ons when we have v4 available. More updates to come! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakystreak Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Will this new version have X-Sell built in? Related products is a great way to increase sales. Quote Ah, the world wide web. What a wonderful place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osCommerce-Official Posted March 4, 2021 Author Share Posted March 4, 2021 1 hour ago, freakystreak said: Will this new version have X-Sell built in? Related products is a great way to increase sales. Yes, currently in the plans to have cross sell and up sell built available "out of the box" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zachris Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 On 2/19/2021 at 11:19 AM, osCommerce-Official said: Newsletter management (via integration with Mail Chimp I've integrated phpList using their RestAPI into our current osCommerce. Our phpList runs in the same server as our osCommerce. Any plans to support phpList? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotclutch Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 On 2/19/2021 at 11:19 AM, osCommerce-Official said: First of all, websites based on osCommerce v4 come with advanced on-site SEO modules. Each instance, like categories, products, content pages, home page, etc automatically receives an SEO-friendly title, URL, description, etc which can be overridden in the back end. If you change the URL in the ACP (Admin Control Panel), is there an automatic 301 redirect from old to new URL ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osCommerce-Official Posted March 10, 2021 Author Share Posted March 10, 2021 1 minute ago, Hotclutch said: If you change the URL in the ACP (Admin Control Panel), is there an automatic 301 redirect from old to new URL ? Yes! When you change the URL manually for a product, for example, and then Save it, osCommerce v4 adds previous URL to the list of "Old URLs", which is effectively a 301 redirect list. Same for categories and content pages, Hotclutch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osCommerce-Official Posted March 10, 2021 Author Share Posted March 10, 2021 30 minutes ago, zachris said: I've integrated phpList using their RestAPI into our current osCommerce. Our phpList runs in the same server as our osCommerce. Any plans to support phpList? We didn't have plans for phpList integration as such, however if there's a demand for it - will consider as an app (free or paid - to be confirmed). And of course will always welcome you or another osCommerce developer to build their apps for the marketplace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Gyakutsuki Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Just a little question : Do you take in consideration sold out, pre-order ? Papanco 1 Quote Regards ----------------------------------------- Loïc Contact me by skype for business Contact me @gyakutsuki for an answer on the forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osCommerce-Official Posted March 10, 2021 Author Share Posted March 10, 2021 13 minutes ago, Gyakutsuki said: Just a little question : Do you take in consideration sold out, pre-order ? Thanks, Loïc! Yes, we do, actually. Every product can have a stock status and delivery status. Stock status can be something like: - in stock (based on stock count) - always in stock - EOL (i.e. will not be available once sold) - Pre-order - Out of stock - Request for Quote those statuses are configurable and it is possible to create you own, and set the system to act differently in regards to allowing customers to purchase and how stock is allocated depending on the stock status. There's a system that can take supplier stock into consideration and "pre sell" it as if it was available. There's also a system that can take PO stock into consideration and "pre sell" it as if it was available. Naturally, in both cases above orders will reach "received" status only when stock is actually recorded as incoming into the warehouse. And of course, osCommerce users do not have to use all those stock solutions if their operations do not require them. However, for those businesses that would like to consider osCommerce as their main business management tool - the facilities will be there! Gyakutsuki and domiosc 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Gyakutsuki Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Nice, about suppliers, one or multi by product ? About the stock alert by default of all product or specific product (warning, out of stock), do you take inconsideration to send an email to someone inside the company ? Quote Regards ----------------------------------------- Loïc Contact me by skype for business Contact me @gyakutsuki for an answer on the forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osCommerce-Official Posted March 10, 2021 Author Share Posted March 10, 2021 11 minutes ago, Gyakutsuki said: Nice, about suppliers, one or multi by product ? About the stock alert by default of all product or specific product (warning, out of stock), do you take inconsideration to send an email to someone inside the company ? Multiple number of suppliers per product, with a formula to help the system decide which supplier to take stock / order from depending on their price, average order fulfilment time, etc. Stock alerts - will double check that; it seems it should be possible to find a workaround using the "default supplier" associated with a designated member of the team. Gyakutsuki and domiosc 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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