AmeriCommerce Blog

Thursday, November 15, 2007
Live Design™ Web Site Builder Highlights
The Live Design™ Web Site Builder is AmeriCommerce’s new way to interact with the front end of your storefronts.  Now you can make your changes without having to navigate through your administration panel.  This new administration tool helps remove the disjoint and confusion of seeing the front end and the editing it in the back end admin console.  Now for the first time you can edit the areas of your site, the products, categories and more in a WYSIWYG environment instantly...

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
AmeriCommerce Shopping Cart Version 4.3 Press Release
AmeriCommerce version 4.3 introduces many new features to their shopping cart software (http://www.americommerce.com/) giving online storefront owners more control over content, design, search engine optimization, product catalog management and order fulfillment. The new version adds many new features to AmeriCommerce's unique Multiple Storefronts™ offering, which allows online store owners the ability to manage several unique online storefronts from one web-based administration console. New...

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
AmeriCommerce Shopping Cart Version 4.3 Release Highlights
AmeriCommerce is proud to announce Version 4.3 of the industry leading AmeriCommerce Shopping Cart Software. New features include: One Page Checkout  Drop Shipping Support Inventory Management improvements Variant Inventory tracking SEO - Custom URLs and redirects on the item / page level Role Based Security Store Text (Foundation for future multi-lingual support) Product Kitting & Product Groups Product Personalization Phone Order Entry & Order Editing Auto-Sizing Images and...

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Web Site Monitoring Services for all customers
As you may already know, we have been working towards our stability and usability initiative a great announcement for our customers has been released today.  With the next update to your website a new service is automatically installed that monitors the site remotely from multiple places outside of our datacenter.  This SiteMonitor service hits each customers' website(s) at periodic intervals and will run key tests against it to determine response time, valid page loads, database...

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Saturday, June 23, 2007
Routine Automated Testing of Features
We have an exciting announcement pertaining to our Support & Process Improvement initiatives that we have undertaken these last couple of months.  While we have been releasing cutting edge tools and features, we have also been working on creating a new tool in our management toolbox.  As part of our homegrown Provisioning system that automatically handles creating sites and the management thereof, we have developed a new testing suite.  TestCenter is a culmination...

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Friday, June 22, 2007
New Team Member
AmeriCommerce welcomes our newest developer: Chris Allen: Developer extraordinaire, this new and talented developer will be adding many of the features you request every day Our team grows constantly and we are excited about the new talent brought to the table.  This hire help strengthen an already strong talent pool and will be instituting much of the change that you, our customer, request and need.  As if it's not enough that we have a monopoly on a truly feature rich...

Friday, June 22, 2007

Friday, June 1, 2007
Team Development Process Improved
We have recently made a major shift in the development of our software by choosing a very sophisticated source control system for our product's code base.  A source control system manages team members and the files they work on, shows differences between them and integrates different versions of our product with other versions.  We will be using this incredible new cutting edge system to do some amazing things and primarily to speed up our already fast paced development.  Our...

Friday, June 1, 2007

Thursday, May 31, 2007
ASP.NET 2.0 event log error workaround when using network shares
After considerable research by our team and Microsoft, we found an un-documented issue with ASP.NET 2.0.   The issue manifests itself with tons of error messages in the event logs: Unable to get the private bytes memory limit for the W3WP process. TheASP.NET cache will be unable to limit its memory use, which may lead to aprocess restart. Error: 0x80070005 The only support documentation we could find was related to Application Center 2000 or using IISCFG to replicate the IIS...

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Friday, April 27, 2007
New Customer Website Samples
In the wake of our support systems integration initiative which is streamlining our support process and give us a stable platform to deliver all support related materials, we did find the time to update our clients page.  There have been many new customers over the past few months, some of them making use of our wide breadth of features and settings.  We have updated the page to show what key features each customer uses to help guide prospective and existing clients on...

Friday, April 27, 2007

Wednesday, April 25, 2007
All Support Resources Now Under One Site / Login
Picking the right tools Over the last few months, we have been implementing a lot of support ticket, development tracking, community building, and documentation systems.  We picked what we found to be the best systems for their feature sets, compatibility, and customization abilities.  There are no perfect, do it all software packages or services for our requirements, so we had to find the products that were as close as possible, and who had the least amount of unacceptable...

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Monday, April 2, 2007
AxoSoft OnTime 2007
We started using AxoSoft OnTime 2007 for development / defect / support incident tracking last week, and so far it is working out great.  We researched and tweaked the application for many hours before making the decision to switch from Ready Desk for the support ticket management.  The application is very easy to use and quite configurable.  I believe the Customer Portal section used for the support incident tracking is brand new in the recently released 2007...

Monday, April 2, 2007