Many of our visitors has been enquiring about version 2.0 for the last few months. I am happy to announce iScripts Socialware 2.0 is finally out of beta and is released . You will find the new version at http://www.iScripts.com/socialware. Some of the main improvements for Socialware 2.0 over previous release are the payment gateway support and audio/video sharing.

Initially when social networking was introduced it was a free community. Over the last couple of years new business models for social networking communities have emerged to make paid membership community a viable option. So if you have an idea where you think members will pay you to join, iScripts Socialware is for you. Your job is to create value to your members so that they will pay youJ of course if you prefer the advertising supported model for revenue generation, Google Adwords and regular banners are natively supported. Another revenue generation avenue is the gift store. You can have either virtual gifts or physical gifts in the store and your members can purchase them with virtual money or real money. If you are making the community portal for your friends and family, you can make it completely free and without any ads. No problem.

Audio/Video sharing support is a natural extension that many of our existing users have been requesting. Your members can upload their audio/video content or link it from other sources like Youtube. The admin can decide if you want to host the videos on the server or you just want to let the users link to other sites or if you do not want anything to do with videos. Most audio/video formats are supported.

Another important improvement is increased flexibility for the administrator to create the unique community experience. Administrator can enable or disable around fifteen different features for the community. You can pick and choose the features to create unique community for your members. We have also added a number of different layouts for the users to select for the site based on the core theme of your community. Overall security of the product is also significantly improved from previous versions. For existing customers, there is an upgrade script for upgrading from previous releases to 2.0 version. New version is free cost for all those who purchased iScripts Socialware in the last one year.

The price of the product is still unchanged and is $99.95 for a limited time. As usual this is the total fees, no monthly/yearly fees. The product is completely open source, nothing is encrypted. So you can make any customizable . We are also available to make any changes to the product. If you require any type of customizing please let us know we will be happy to provide a firm quote.

After months of hard work, new version of iScripts MultiCart is finally released. Many of you have been enquiring about the new version for some time. We wanted to make sure the quality of the web application does match your expectations.

This new version is adding to the feature rich iScripts MutiCart 1.1 . In addition to make many of the existing features more user friendly for administrator, sellers and consumers, we have added new functionalities to make this product a unique shopping cart to power online businesses.

iScripts MultiCart now supports digital good delivery in addition to existing physical product. Adding digital goods will enable entrepreneurs to start aggregate businesses to sell ebooks, templates, logos, software, scripts, music , other audio files etc.. This would work very similar to current model of Multicart. There would be a single storefront where consumers can view items from multiple vendors in the backend. Each of the vendors will have their own management panel to manage their digital products, prices, delivery etc.. You as the administrator will be able to control all aspects of the site through a powerful admin panel. It can also continue to power drop shipping and virtual mall type commerce sites.

Here is a comprehensive list of new features added in version 2.0.

• Customizable Fields – You can customize the fields from the admin side say a member registration form fields. The fields can be set as mandatory/optional and also the order for fields can also be specified.
  

• Gift Voucher – Visitors can purchase gift coupons like other products. For each gift coupon there is a unique code, which can be sent to others by email. Persons receiving those codes can purchase items by selecting the payment as ‘gift coupon’ and typing the gift code received in the checkout page. Increase your sales by getting into the gift market.
  

• Currency Types – MultiCart 2.0 supports different currency types.
  

• Template Management – The entire layout of the site can be changed by using some predefined templates. The templates can be changed from the admin panel. A number of professionally designed layouts are included in the product
  

• Shipping Methods – Integrated with UPS website for shipping calculation and tracking
  

• More Payment Gateways
  

  • worldpay.com
    

  • This is in addition existing gateways ( Authorize.net, Paypal)
    

• Digital Downloads – Supports digital products like ebooks, software, video, templates, scripts.
  

• Rating – Consumers can rate sellers
  

• Login Interfaces – Each seller has his/her own login interfaces. The login
  

  • interfaces lists only the details corresponding to that particular seller like categories added, products added etc.
    

  • Product Images – different views of product images like side view, top view etc can be uploaded. The number of images uploaded can be configured in the site settings.
    

• Rss Feed – generate rss feeds for the new product listings. Let your customers know when the new products are added.
  

• Banner Management –
  

  • Banners are uploaded from the admin side. The uploaded banners are resized. The banner size is specified in the site settings. For each banner display the banner display count is increment by one. Next time display the banner that has the least impression.
    

  • Google Adsense – display the Google ads in the home page based on the site settings.
    

• Detailed Reports
  

  • Products Viewed – This report displays the total number of times each product viewed from user side.
    

  • Product Purchased – Displays the product purchase count for each product.
    

  • Customer Orders Total – Generates a report of total order amount of each customer.    
    

  • Gift Coupon – Report shows who purchased the gift coupon, details of products purchased with gift coupon and also displays the gift coupon balance amount.
    

• Upgrade Wizard – existing users of Multicart 1.0 and 1.1 can upgrade to Multicart 2.0 using the upgrade wizard
  

With all these new features price of the iScripts Multicart 2.0 remains unchanged at $99.95 for owned license. You will receive 100% of the source code in a non encrypted format. Yes, its is a PHP web script with Ajax and mySQL as database. So you can make any changes you require as you please. As always we are here to customize the product to meet your specific requirements. If you feel iScripts MultiCart is close to what you are searching, let us know. We can modify it to meet your specific business model. We at iScripts is psyched about the new release.

Let me know if you have any comments for questions.

Aji Abraham