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Merchant Manager 4.0 Supports Recurring Billing and Downloadable Product Sales
Hostway has enhanced its shopping cart software to support businesses that sell software, subscriptions and services.
Chicago, Illinois, March 27, 2006—Hostway Corporation, a leading provider of Web hosting and managed services, today announced the release of Merchant Manager 4.0, to support merchants who sell non-tangible goods such as software and services.
Merchant Manager was already a comprehensive ecommerce platform for tangible products. With the following enhancements, businesses that sell software and services can take advantage of the leading ecommerce platform.
- Sell downloadable products (MP3s, e-books and software)
- Easily move and sort products to create category hierarchies with complete drag-and-drop functionality
- Sell services within the online store
- Create recurring billing that automatically charges monthly subscriptions
- Export sales data into QuickBooks®
- Display images based on attributes such color swatches
"Ecommerce continues to serve as an expansion outlet for brick and mortar, as well as Web-based businesses. Hostway’s goal is providing our customers with the tools to grow their businesses online,” said John Lee, vice president of global marketing and general manager for Hostway. “The ease-of-use of Hostway’s Merchant Manager continues to lower the barrier for anyone wanting to sell online."
In addition to the above, Merchant Manager gives storeowners the ability to do the following:
- Accommodate all of types of online products
- Input inventory levels by product or attribute level
- Automatically refill out-of-stock inventory
- Check and reorder at a set level
- Receive out-of-stock notification on a mobile device or via email
- Export reports of the top items viewed and purchased plus order totals
- Create coupons and promotions
To learn more about Hostway’s Merchant Manager, please visit www.m2central.com for details.
About Hostway Corporation
Hostway Corporation provides domain name registration, Web hosting, Web design and online marketing services to more than 400,000 customers worldwide. It operates state-of-the art data centers that reduce the complexity and cost of Web-based technologies for small businesses and large enterprises. Founded in 1998, Hostway is one of the five largest Web hosting companies in the world with offices in Chicago, Illinois; Tampa, Florida; Austin, Texas; Vancouver, British Columbia; London, United Kingdom; Paris, France; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Antwerp, Belgium; Frankfurt, Germany; Hannover, Germany; Sydney, Australia and Mumbai, India. For more information about Hostway Corporation, please visit www.hostway.com or call 1-866-467-8929.
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