Just came across this really great button generation tool and wanted to share it with everyone. For less than $6.00 per year you can use all of their generators to create an unlimited number of buttons and badges. Great price!
Once you create the buttons, save them on your desktop and upload them to your cart activating the Cart Designer feature and selecting Buttons / Images.
Go to http://www.mycoolbutton.com/ for examples and more information.
The 2011 USPS Shipping Disaster
On January 2, 2011 USPS made a change to their rating API’s that brought down almost every eCommerce system on the planet, including Pinnacle Cart. In December, we received a fairly detailed email outlining the intended changes and our development team reviewed these changes. We saw no issues with the changes and expected our current integration to work once the new API was released. As many of you now know, this didn’t happen. While there were a number of different issues that happened as a result of the change, the genesis resides with the return strings coming back to the cart. What used to be a return response that was very specific and easy to understand turned into, frankly, garbage. For the sake of this post, I won’t get into specifics, but these changes affected not only our platform, but almost every ecommerce application in existence. If you do a search on twitter and discussion board posts about the update, you’ll quick find out how much of a disaster this was for everyone. Needless to say, the support personal over at USPS were quickly overwhelmed with support request and phone calls.
We were able to get a fix out last week that got both domestic and international rates fixed, but we are still working on a couple of additional small items related to the rating issues for international shipping. If you haven’t taken in our latest update yet, we strongly advise doing so.
As always, thanks for being awesome, valued Pinnacle Cart customers.
Pinnacle Cart Reviewed by SEO Shopping Cart
We love to read nice things people post about our software around the interwebs, but when an independent firm like SEOShoppingCarts.com reviews our software, it means a great deal to us. Here is a little sample of their review:
“Let’s be perfectly frank: you can’t go wrong with this solution. It’s usable, it’s filled to the brim with features, and it’s so beautiful compared to other e-commerce platforms that you’ll wonder how you ever dealt with some of their competitors. If you are committed to the success of your online store and you don’t at the very least test drive the trial version then you are most definitely missing out. Especially since there is no real excuse as it takes only a few minutes to understand that Pinnacle Cart is a player worth watching.”
Of course you’ll want to hit the link for all the delicious details: http://www.seoshoppingcarts.com/reviews/pinnacle-cart
Pinnacle Cart 3.7.7 released
The latest version of Pinnacle Cart, version 3.7.7 is available to both hosted and licensed clients. To upgrade your cart, login to your Pinnacle Cart control panel and select the upgrade link found just below the sales graph on the main login page. We recommend this update for all customers using version 3.7 and above.
What can you expect in our latest and greatest? Click here to view the awesomeness.