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www.ecommerce-guide.com/news/news/article.php/3741516
By Michelle Megna April 17, 2008 This week e-commerce storefront news includes a startup called Cartfly aimed at social networking sites, an upgrade to Infopia's service that supports Amazon sales and the inclusion of e-books at Zipidee's digital-goods marketplace. If you'd like to tap into the social e-commerce kitty, a snappy start-up called Cartfly wants to be your solution. Cartfly just launched after coming out of a testing phase, and it offers storefront software as well as a widget for selling on social networks. "We studied the industry for two years before we even started writing any code," said Josh Manley, president and co-founder of Cartfly. "Our company foundation is built on the concept of allowing anyone, small e-tailers or large, to build a store in 10 minutes, and then give them a snippet of code that they can take to MySpace and Facebook that empowers them to tap into all that traffic." Selling on Cartfly does indeed look easy — and it's definitely affordable. There are no setup, annual or listing fees, though you are required to use PayPal, but you only pay a three-percent commission when you make a sale.
Infopia announced yesterday that the 2008 Spring Release of its e-commerce platform is now available. This release includes Web services, Amazon integration and performance reporting. The Web services functionality opens up the Infopia eCommerce platform to customers and partners that want to integrate back-office solutions, while the Amazon integration enables inventory to be launched directly to Amazon Seller Central with advanced attribute data. The new performance reporting rounds out the list of major changes, and gives online merchants access to business information for optimizing their operations. The new Infopia Web services let Web shop owners manage inventory, order and customer data from external Web-service enabled applications, according to the company. For Amazon sellers, the new version provides the capability to automatically place inventory on Amazon Seller Central directly from the Infopia eCommerce platform with advanced product and category attribute data. Finally, the performance reporting from Infopia gives online merchants more ways to interpret and export store data. E-tailers will be able to make better strategic decisions, according to Infopia, because they will have access to extensive information on product mix, channel optimization and ad budgets. (Continue to Page 2 for Zipidee News on E-Books) |
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