September 28, 2010

Free Tickets to the Chicago Tech Expo

Filed under: Customer, Uncategorized — Tags: , , — Jon Skulemowski @ 12:04 pm

iScripts is proud to be an exhibitor at the 2010 Chicago Tech Expo! We received complimentary passes from the committee and we would like to invite a few of our loyal followers. These passes include parking and lunch, a $50 value if purchased at the door.

From www.chicagotechexpo.com: The 2nd Annual Chicago TechExpo will be held on October 6, 2010 at the UIC Forum. The one–day conference and exposition provides relevant training and education to allow business owners to learn how technology can improve operations, minimize time spent on administrative tasks, market their business, and increase sales by using a very powerful tool: technology.

If you’re in our neck of the woods or even passing through on October 6th, let us know and we will be happy to meet you in person at the event. We only have a few passes so first come, first serve.

In order to qualify for the passes, you must “like” the corresponding post on our Facebook page at facebook.com/iScripts. These coupons have a digital tracking number and can be pre-registered on the internet from anywhere.

We’re excited about the event and hope to see you there!

September 17, 2010

Amazon marketplace is getting some competition

Filed under: Web services — admin @ 12:46 pm

Amazon marketplace allows sellers list their items for sale through amazon.com. It offers credibility and brand recognition of Amazon.com to the smaller merchants with their own products. It was a decent alternative to creating own store and spend money on marketing, maintaining the online store. Amazon had monopoly in the marketplace for few years. But now more players are entering the market due to the success this business model. Recently Sears.com, Buy.com and Walmart.com announced they will be entering into online marketplace business. Some of these providers are offering product fulfillment services in addition to marketplace list and payment transaction management.

 

Sears.com

Buy.com

Amazon.com

Walmart.com

Commission range

7-20%

8-15% + $.99 per transaction

8-15%, plus $1.35 per transaction

Do not disclose

Other fees

$39.95 per month

None

$39.99 per month

Do not disclose

Seller options

Sellers can fulfill their own orders or pay $.45 per cubic foot storage for Sears to do product fulfillment. Also there is $3.00 handling fee per order.

Sellers fulfill their own orders.

Sellers can fulfill their own orders or pay $.45 per cubic foot storage for Amazon to do product fulfillment. Also there is $3.00 handling fee per order.

Sellers fulfill their own orders or ask Walmart to do the fulfillment.

 

Overall this is a great opportunity for independent retailers who do not have the expertise to market their own products. This is also an opportunity for savvy marketers to create their own marketplace in niche markets. iScripts Multicart has been allowing users to create their own marketplace in any industry for the last 4 years, even before Amazon started this business model. You can create a multi vendor marketplace using this software. Recently we created few other variations of multi seller marketplace with slightly different models. They include original multi vendor shopping cart, multi seller platform for dropshippers , multi vendor multi seller platform. In addition we created online store builder and a standard shopping cart platform for retail merchants. Here is the comparison of all these shopping carts, supply chain platforms for distributed ecommerce.

Lately it seems most of the heavy weights in retail and manufacturing is slowly moving into distributed ecommerce space.

September 14, 2010

Online Hotel Reservation Software iScripts Reservelogic 1.1 is released

The newest version of iScripts ReserveLogic has landed at www.iScripts.com. It has been redesigned to target online reservation and management of any independent hotel, motel, resort, time-share operation, or other property with multiple rentable rooms or locations. These improvements are the direct result of feedback and feature requests from independently-run owner/operator property owners.

 

As consumers have tightened their belts in the economic climate, it is imperative for smaller property owners to compete at the same level and efficiency as larger players to remain attractive to potential customers and remain profitable. To accomplish this, an online reservation and management system coupled with e-marketing and social networking applications allow small operators to manage their properties in an easy, cost and time-efficient manner.

 

iScripts ReserveLogic has been designed as a sale engine which converts your website visitors into paying customers. It provides users a unique, intuitive, and easy way to use a simple interface that continues to improve the way people do travel planning. Through personalization and rich features, iScripts ReserveLogic enhances the entire booking experience and improves the first impression of your organization to the prospective guest. This open source Online hotel reservation software is perfect for enabling your hotel website to accept to booking online

 

This newest version allows for several new unique tools and features including:

  • Property availability with regard to deposit in either a specified amount or percentage of total transaction amount. Does it make sense to accept an advance or deposit while a customer is booking? Advance can be a percentage, flat rate or whole amount of transaction. If you are using online reservation as a marketing tool, you can also choose to turn off online payment. With this hotel reservation script, you can have complete flexibility.
  • Functionality for cancellations and administrative control of customizable cancelation penalties. Don’t allow yourself or your employees to be abused by cancellation phone calls. Funnel all cancellations through the newly automated process and save time, money, and frustration by circumventing the often troublesome topic of cancellation fees.
  • Authorize and capture deposit payments directly and instantly. Make it easy for your customers to purchase. Use your existing POS system to accept payments or use our software to process payments from customers with new stability additions and payment gateway options.
  • Book telephone orders directly into the system. Streamline the booking process. Allow staff to reserve rooms or properties and input the guest’s information into the system. The changes in reservations are instantly reflected to other website users to prevent over-booking and improve organization.
  • New report interface allows administrator to view detailed analytics including:
    • Gross sales
    • Guest Booking Date
    • Transaction Type and Settled Amount
    • Inventory Management
    • List building for e-marketing and social media networking
    • …and much more – all exportable for analysis in both Excel and .CSV
  • Customizable rate cards for weekends, holidays, and other special occasions. Automatically modify your pricing to capture lost profitability. Administrator can dictate individual rates for each day of the week, holidays and forecasted busy periods. Rate sheet for each room type offers multiple pricing options to suit customer needs such as daily rate, weekly rate, monthly rate, standard holiday rates, and weekend rates.
  • Inventory management system collects occupancy level and historic data. Take the guesswork out of peak and off-season timing. Easily view dynamic data that illustrates the key timing information that will allow you to modify pricing – just in time for important seasonal changes. Give your customers the best pricing and take advantage of market conditions seamlessly.

Check out the newest version at www.iscripts.com/reservelogic and view the fully functional Live Demo. Take your property management to the next level.

September 12, 2010

Buy A Successful Hosting Company! Your Choice: $1 Billion or $199

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , — Jon Skulemowski @ 3:18 pm

Earlier this week, GoDaddy.com CEO Bob Parsons quietly solicited for Wall Street bids starting at $1 billion dollars for complete control of his company. Currently, it lists more than 40 million domain names under its management and has grown to almost $750 million in annual sales, but it didn’t start off with all of these people just waiting for GoDaddy to be invented. Even a company as successful as GoDaddy came from humble beginnings. Who would have thought that back in 1997, a few no-name guys who were looking to re-name their company from Jomax Tech to “Big Daddy” were ever going to be this successful?

Being part of the paid internet infrastructure industry is easier than you may think. While a cool billion might be out of your budget, $199 may be a bit more realistic. iScripts.com AutoHoster is the conglomeration of three of the best pieces of software from the iScripts catalog; iScripts Autohoster Server Manager, iScripts HelpDesk, and iScripts EasyCreate. With these tools in hand, many have gone on to the creation of turn-key businesses that generate healthy and sustainable revenue.

Meet your customer’s needs with fast domain registration through an automated interface through both the Enom API and Directi API, a rock-solid hosting control panel, get answers their questions with a live help desk, and get started with a lightning fast website customization and creation tool. Deliver a solid service and then choose the best billing method for long-term growth; flat rate purchases or recurring fees.

With all of these tools available, and at an affordable price point, who is to say you can’t be the next 1and1.com? Drive the traffic to your site, fill up your server and you can be on the road to stable, sustained income and 8 million customers. Provide the same service, price yourself competitively, put your name out there, and let the customers come to you!

Visit www.iScripts.com for more information and view the live demo of your next chance to make it big…powered by iScripts.com.

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