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November, 2000 - ShopSite 5.0 Released
Adds Digital Coupons, Inventory Tracking and Affiliate Program Creation
BURLINGTON, Mass., November 2000 -- Open Market, a leading provider of content-centric eBusiness applications, today announced the general availability of ShopSite 5.0, Open Market's small business online store-builder product for Commerce Service Providers (CSPs). ShopSite 5.0 gives small businesses powerful new capabilities in the areas of e-marketing and operations management while improving the product's ease of use for first-time merchants.
"ShopSite 5.0 delivers small businesses e-marketing and e-operations functionality that will help them efficiently boost their online revenue," said Joe Alwan, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Open Market. "Digital coupons are a capability usually associated only with large online businesses. ShopSite 5 puts that power in the hands of small businesses. In addition, ShopSite 5 enables them to track their inventory more accurately to improve their overall business operations and customer service."
With over 60,000 licenses worldwide, ShopSite is designed to make setting up and maintaining commerce Web sites simple, with timesaving features for administrators and designers alike. ShopSite 5.0 adds new functionality including digital coupons, inventory tracking and affiliate program creation making ShopSite one of the most robust online store building systems on the market today.
ShopSite 5.0 also has significantly improved usability for first-time merchants and their customers. Merchants will benefit from an improved wizard-creation tool and their customers will be able to select options associated with products from the store pages.
ShopSite 5.0 adds e-marketing and operations management capabilities:
Contributing to the success of leading ISPs and Internet destination sites including Lycos, Verio, Bizland, and Winstar Communications, Inc., ShopSite enables CSPs to empower their merchants with the tools to commerce-enable an existing site instantly, or use the ShopSite store setup wizard and its intuitive, browser-based interface to build a new site as little as 15 minutes.
ShopSite SC and TX 5.0 are now available on Solaris/Sparc in English. ShopSite TX 5.0 works with Transact 5.x versions. ShopSite SC is also available on other Unix platforms (Linux and FreeBSD) and in the near future will be available on BSDI and Irix.
About ShopSite
ShopSite is an easy-to-use online store creation system that allows merchants to build and maintain catalogs of products or services to sell over the Internet. ShopSite is specifically designed to make setting up and maintaining a commerce Web site simple, with timesaving features for administrators and designers alike.
Merchants can use ShopSite to commerce-enable an existing site instantly, or use the ShopSite store setup wizard and its intuitive, browser-based interface to build a new site as little as 15 minutes.
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