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Magento Commerce Developer

We have just added a dedicated Magento Developer to the team to make changes to the code of Magento and customise Magento stores to clients requirements.

Magento Capabilities

We have been building Magento Stores for Clients since last year and have produced heaps of stores in that time. Currently we are in the process of building these Magento stores

• Designer Heels Magento Store
• Digital Music Store (Live – please click here to view)
• Women’s Clothing Store
• Online T-shirt Store
• Industrial Online Store

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We have just created a widget that shows the total value of products being sold through our DIY Online Store platform.

The widgets are updated in real time and as clients add new stores to the platform or more products the values will add up.  So feel free to visit our site at any stage and look at the updated running total.

The widgets come up in three spots

Home Page Widget

Side Bar Widgets

Since DzineClub looks at end to end services, we always get asked what we really do. The answer is that we believe that it is a whole process and we provide services around everything digital.

Here is a quick graphic that explains all the services we provide:

Getting New Leads/Prospects/Traffic

We help you get your traffic through SEO, SEM, Facebook Marketing, Linkedin marketing and Email Marketing.

Online Development

We help you engage these leads through a variety of applications and channels including Websites, Online Stores, Mobile Websites, Facebook Apps and Pages and Catalogues

Conversion

We can help you then turn these visitors into leads/customers using Conversion Forms, Shopping Carts and Downloadables. At this point we will also look at cross-sell and up-sell opportunities to maximise your conversion.

Retention

Once the conversion happens, we get into phase 2 where we put Nurturing Programs, surveys and automated emails to help you retain these customers for when they need your products/services at a later stage.

So what is our distribution of Clients

90% of our clients use more than one services from us. Ranging from Online Stores, Websites, Email Marketing, Web Hosting almost all of our clients use multiple services.

Here is how they use us:

DIY Online Store: 10+ Clients
Keyword Rank Checker: 5+ Clients
DzineMail Email Marketing: 15+ Clients
Website Hosting: 25+ Clients
CMS Platforms: 20+ Clients

We will post all the examples of our services over the next week so that you get a better idea of what we offer.

Magento Commerce

Magento Commerce is one of the biggest and best ecommerce platforms out there right now. It currently empowers more than 90000 online stores around the world. Armed with everything you need to manage and successfully run an online store, Magento now boasts these amazing numbers:

• 25+ Billion in transactions

• 90000+ Merchants

• 3500+ extensions/plugins

• 2.5 Million Downloads

 

Latest Upgrade – Magento Commerce 1.5

We just upgraded our stores with Magento Commerce 1.5 and wanted to share the new features that were introduced in the latest update.

Easy to Upgrade – Preserve Customisations

The latest update basically doesn’t change the framework and schema of the store a lot which means that upgrading to the new version will not be difficult for your existing stores. The templates, skin and customisation should not break with the new version.

New and Improved Import and Export Functionality

System > Import/Export now has the ability to pick Import or Export and export.

You can then pick what data to export (Products / Customers) and what attributes to filter the data with.

Order Status Management – Modify Order Status and assign state

The Order data is now stored in the database and not XML files which means that you can now modify Order State and Status directly through Magento admin

via System >  Order Statuses

Order Status Management – Change Order Address

You can also modify an order address after an order. You can change the Billing Address as well as the Shipping Address using the edit buttons next to the order.

After changing an order address you get a message
“Changing address information will not recalculate shipping, tax or other order amount.”

New Magento Connect Manager 2

The 1.5 Magento Commerce comes with a new Magento Connect Manager Upgrade. The new version is 2.0 of the Magento Connect Manager.

Enable maintenance mode when installing or upgrading the platform:

This will show a “the site is not available right now due to maintenance/upgrade message”

Direct package file upload

The new direct package installation means that you can build your own packages and install them without the extension key.

Other Major Improvements

• Improved authentication and SIM Payment method for Authorize.net
• Magento Mobile is now included in base packaging
• Upgraded Zend Framework

Please view this page for a full list of Magento Commerce 1.5.0.1 Release Notes

Magento Development Videos

We are now adding a dedicated Support Videos for our clients that shows them visually how to manage and maintain their Magento Commerce Stores. We initally have the the following videos for our clients

Australian Magento Attributes

We are including a lot of Australian attributes to the videos such as GST. The videos will focus primarily on the Australian market and discuss how to open up an online store in Australia. So when you add products, the videos will guide you in case you need to include GST in your pricing or not.

Adding a Simple Product on your catalog

This video explains how to add a simple product to your catalog, what attributes to use, how to use pricing and how to make sure it doesn’t show up in results if you have an option for your customers to buy variations of the product

Duplicating a simple product

This video explains how to duplicate a simple product to quickly build your product catalog in a magento commerce e-commerce store

Creating a configurable product

This video shows how to create a configurable product from the Simple Products, how you can manage your variables and offer your customers choice of those products using a configurable product. This also alerts the magento user about what attributes need to be changed to make sure this is a smooth process.

Up Sell, Cross Sell and Related Products

This video deals with how to you set up Up-Sell, Cross-sell and related products options.

Magento Commerce videos only available for Existing Clients

Because of bandwidth and support considerations, these videos will only be available for existing e-Commerce clients. Ask us for more info and access by emailing us at info@dzineclub.com

PCK DIY Shopping Cart now Live

Performance Canoes and Kayaks, one of our favorite clients have now gone live with their online store build in the dzineStore DIY Shopping Cart platform.

PERFORMANCE CANOES & KAYAKS specialises in technically advanced, high quality, paddle-sports equipment for paddlers at all levels. PCK is an authorized Australian agent for the iconic STRUER brand, as well as performance specialists ELIO, PLASTEX, SIPRE, LETTMANN, SELECT and G’POWER. PCK also offers versatile adventure touring solutions for the intrepid recreational paddler with the expedition tough range from NAUTIRAID. Recently they have also introduced the SEA EAGLE brand to our range, the global leaders in inflatable water sports equipment.

Shopping Cart Look and Feel

The shopping cart look and feel has been customised a lot based on the look and feel of their current website http://www.pck.com.au

The new look was given quickly by grabbing the existing css and changing that on the current store.

Facebook/Twitter Integration

They are also leveraging Facebook integration by having a Like Us button on the sidebar and share me and tweet me on the product pages.

dzineStore DIY Shopping Cart V3

When dzineStore V3 comes around next month, they will be able to utilize youTube integration helping their customers make better decisions by using videos against their product.

They can also utilise their current subscriber base by sending quick emails to them.

Click here to view Performance Canoes and Kayaks Online Store

It is exciting times at dzineLabs, we are about to launch Version 2 of dzineStore. The DIY Store that allows you to have your store up and ready in minutes and start accepting orders.

If you do not know what features we have already, please view this post:
DIY Online Store – DzineStore – Updates

Here is the summary of new features coming out

Multiple Images for your products

One feature that all of our clients wanted was multiple images against products. With the new release, you will be able to add new images to your product and have multiple images of the product. You can also choose your featured product and have the other images show up next to your main product.

View and Manage your Orders through the Control Panel

Previously you would have to check your email to see what had been ordered. We have now made it easier for you by allowing you to see your orders via your control panel. Not only can you see your orders, you can mark if they have been shipped or not.

User Email Address

We are now allowing you ask for a customers email address before they start the checkout process.

Better Online Store Themes and Store Customisation

We will be allowing you to use more themes and customise the look and feel of your online store even more.  With the introduction of themes, you can not only give the store your look and feel but you can then tweak that theme to fit your exact needs.

Email Marketing Options

The store already has integration with Campaign Monitor but now you will be able to also send out quick updates to your customers using the Control Panel.

Better Social Media – Online Store integrations

We will be integrating Facebook and Twitter even more in the new iteration of the store allowing your customers to tell their friends how good your product is and how happy they are to buy it.

Facebook Fan Page Integration

We will be integrating the like box for your Facebook Fan Page. So that your customers who might not be ready to buy from you straight away can like your store and then come back at a later stage or when you send them updates via Facebook.

YouTube Video Integration

We all know how video helps you sell more, but we rarely put this to practice. Well you won’t have an excuse anymore once we have integrated YouTube videos with your products.

Release Dates and Pricing

The expected release date for the new version is mid February. Please subscribe to our newsletter to get notified of this new release. Of course if you sign up with the existing version of dzineStore, you will be automatically upgraded to the new version when it is out.

The pricing is the same  $1000 AUD + GST to set up plus maintenance fee per year. For more information please email us at info@dzineclub.com

To start off the new year, we have just launched DzineClub Resources. This is a separate Resource section for our clients where they can go and learn how to make the most out of the platform that they are using.

Since we have developed 5 WordPress websites in the last month, the first few posts on the site are about WordPress and how to use it properly. Here are some tutorials

Adding an email ink to text in WordPress
Adding images to pages in WordPress
Quick user Guide to WordPress

We will be developing this resource area in the next few months so that our current clients can leverage their solutions to get the best results possible.

Please click here or on the image to go to the resources area

Here is a great article on BBC Business which talks about using videos to sell your products.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11899824?OCID=spttb

The new version of dzineStore now officially version 3 is up and ready to help Small and Medium businesses sell sell sell online.

2 new online stores going live this week

Based on the new version, there will be two more online stores going live this week. Right in time for christmas. One of the stores only started a few days ago, which means we had to do some improvements on the framework to allow for speedier uploads and set ups.

New Customisations

The platform now allows multiple customizations. Not only can you use your own colours and look and feel, but the new framework allows a whole css file to be uploaded giving you more control on the positioning of the elements.

Front Page Sliders for Promotions

The Front Page Promotions has been upgraded so that you can choose between a flash one or a javascript one. Both of them have their advantages and disadvantages.

iPhone and Android Compatible – Mobile Commerce

The store looks good on both the iPhone and the Android browsers. A customer can also buy products using the mobile.

Quick to Set Up

The store is even quicker to set up. If you have the product images and a paypal account handy, it will be a matter of minutes before a customer can buy your products online.

More information coming soon. Stay tuned.