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Destination based shipping charges

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:06:52 GMT

UGAL e-commerce websites now have the ability to quote shipping charges based on the destination of the order.

You can select which countries and US regions you agree to ship to, and how shipping charges should be calculated for each destination. For US based shops, domestic shipping has been split in 3 regions: Continental, Alaska and Hawaii.

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Automated order confirmation emails

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:48:37 GMT

Starting now, your website has the ability to send automated order confirmation emails to your shoppers.

The emails are formatted in HTML, and you can fully customize them using a number of variables for the order ID, customer name and order content.

Automated emails is a new UGAL feature. It is turned off by default to not interfere with your current order process.

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Ogone available on UGAL

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:16:44 GMT

Ogone is now available "out of the box" as a payment service for all UGAL e-commerce websites.

Ogone is one of the leading European Payment Service Providers with more than 20.000 clients across 35 countries. Connected to more than 100 banks, it is an excellent choice for our European customers outgrowing Paypal.

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New checkout process

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:39:46 GMT

Important updates to UGAL's e-commerce offering just made it to our servers and to your website. The shopper information (name, email, shipping and billing address) is now captured on your website before he is sent to the payment service to complete his payment. Shoppers on your website now follow a common checkout process, regardless of the payment solution they choose.

This is a "foundation" update that paves the way for many other improvements to our e-commerce solution.

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Google Webmaster Tools update

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:33:54 GMT

Google recently changed the way they verify websites for Google Webmaster Tools. We are now reporting this change to UGAL and request that you use the "Meta Tag" verification method instead of the "File Upload" method.

Read the details on how to verify your website with Google and why you should do it.

Note that this applies only for new website verifications. If your website is already verified using the "File Upload" method, you do not need to change anything, unless you want to re-verify your website.

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A search engine for your website

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:25:13 GMT

We just introduced a new feature to UGAL: search. It lets your visitors quickly find the content they are looking for.

Enabling search for your website is easy, it takes 2 clicks. And your content has already been indexed, so it is ready to be searched.

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New text editor: safely paste from Word

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:59:24 GMT

A new version of the Rich Text Editor used to manage the content of your pages just made it to our servers and to your website. A number of bug fixes are included, and a great new feature: you can now safely paste content from Microsoft Word directly into the text editor. Yes, safely paste from Word. Gone is the "Paste from Word" button!

The update includes as well a new media plugin to better manage your videos, Flash and mp3 files.

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Introducing the Admin View: better products management

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:11:19 GMT

UGAL is a dashboard-less content management system: you can edit any page of your website by simply browsing to it and clicking the "Edit Page" link. The approach has one drawback in the case of large product catalogs: finding the right product page to edit is not always easy. And it lacks a consolidated view to quickly review the products in a catalog.

To address this issue, we are very pleased to introduce today the "Admin View" for product catalogs.

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Forums email subscriptions

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:24:06 GMT

When we launched the forums a few weeks ago, an important feature did not make it to the initial release: email notifications. This is now fixed, and members of the forums can now choose to receive an email next time an answer is posted to the thread:

Note that the website owner will be alerted every time a thread is started or an answer is posted to an existing thread. We might review the functionality if this generates too many emails to the website owner.

To happier forums!

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New free website designs available

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:07:11 GMT

4 news designs just made it to our servers: Butterfly, Creme, Ecolo and Resto. They are all free to use and support all the functionalities of UGAL, including the forums and the very recent sub-menus.

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