New Everything

Today is Friday, Calgary is finally getting warm weather, and my belly is full of burger from The Ship and Anchor.

You may be have noticed that www.shopster.com got a huge update. Both our web price, pricing, and application all go overhauls. Note that our subscription fees did not increase for existing customers.

One of the cool features I worked on was product lists. After you login in, on the Home page:
http://service.shopster.com/home/default.aspx you'll notice a new scoller which shows various product highlights.

I wrote a system where Dan, our regular Shopster supplier blog writer, can pick and choose products from the warehouse, and publish them to retailers in a product list form. So, for instance, if a supplier is having a special, we can highlight those products for you. I'm hoping this system will also be used to provide easy access to the newest products in the system, which we get every day.

For new retailers, the biggest shift is catering the product to different customers. Basically, we have retailers who want to use Shopster purely as an eBay product source, and others who want to use Shopster as both a product source and online store solution. By splitting the product, we can better cater to each group as the product development moves forward.

We also have lots of new faces around the office, and issues which I think have previously been overlooked are now getting the attention they deserve. I think the Shopster E-Commerce solution will be getting lots of customer facing improvements in the near future.