January 2010 Release Notes

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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Earlier today, we rolled out our first release of the new year. While today’s release contained a number of feature enhancements that we’d like to call your attention to, we’re happy to tell you that bringing you customer registration features in 2010 has been one of our top development priorities over the last several months.

Next time you log in to your Store Manager, you may notice some or all of the following:

Alternate shipping credit option in Coupon Manager

At times, orders for which free shipping coupons are redeemed may not qualify for free shipping. For example, the free shipping method included in a coupon offer may not be available for the location a customer wishes to ship their order to – such as orders being shipped internationally, or to locations outside of the contiguous United States – or a customer may wish to use a shipping method not included in the offer to receive their order at an earlier date.

Now, you may include an alternate shipping credit with free shipping coupon offers, which deducts a specified dollar amount from an order’s subtotal when free shipping cannot be applied. By offering your customers a credit towards shipping when free shipping cannot be used, you may save orders that would otherwise have been abandoned.

Choose to include an alternate shipping credit with free shipping coupon offers.

Select Store Owner tool (Yahoo! Store accounts with multiple administrators)

With the release of our Access Manager tool last August, stores must have a single user designated as the store owner. Some Yahoo! Store accounts have multiple administrators with the same level of access, and a single store owner cannot easily be identified to be assigned the owner access role. If you have administrator access to one of these accounts, you will soon receive an email notifying you that a store owner must be selected, and you will be directed to use the Select Store Owner tool via the "Access" link in Store Manager. A notice regarding this will also appear in Store Manager.

Once an owner has been selected, all users with administrator access for that store will be notified of the owner selection via email. The email notification will include both the Yahoo! ID of the store owner, and the Yahoo! ID of the user who made the owner selection.

All Yahoo! Store accounts must have a single user designated as the store owner.

Ability to add multiple URLs for real-time order posts

If you’re using multiple services or applications that you wish to make real-time order posts to, you’ll be happy to know that the Real-Time Link Settings page in Store Manager now allows you to add up to five real-time order post URLs. If there’s a service you haven’t been using because it required an additional real-time order post URL, you can now go ahead and add a URL for that service. Or, if you’ve been using a relay service in order to use multiple services, you can now stop the relay service. This has a potential PCI compliance benefit to you, as data will only be relayed by Yahoo!, without having to go through the extra step of a relay service. The format of the order posts may be specified for each individual URL you enter (Yahoo! Format, ECML, XML, or OBI).

Doctype added to v2 Editor pages

While v3 Editor displays a doctype for Editor pages, v2 Editor previously did not. To allow for better ease of store development, a doctype has been added to v2 Editor pages, and is customizable upon request. If you or your developer wish to set a custom doctype, please contact us.

Validation of merchant-input HTML in Checkout Manager

At times, you may enter your own HTML into various regions in Checkout Manager. However, if a cart is secure or a buyer is within the checkout flow, any references to insecure (http) links rather than secure (https) links will cause a customer’s browser to display a warning that the page is not secure, which can negatively impact conversion. To help prevent this from happening, Checkout Manager will now validate merchant-input HTML for references to insecure (http) links, and display a warning message if these references are found.

Yahoo! Web Analytics product view tracking enhancement

Previously, page views of items set as not orderable were not tracked by Yahoo! Web Analytics. As many non-orderable items are items that are temporarily out of stock, but are still useful to track, we’ve made an enhancement that allows tracking of page views for any item with a value entered in the Price field, even if the item is not orderable. If an item does not have a price, a value of 0 must be entered in order for the page view of the item to be recorded. Learn more.

We appreciate the opportunity to bring you these enhancements, and look forward to bringing you new features this year. Should you have any questions about the enhancements released today, please consult our online help center, or contact us.

Jennifer Farwell
Yahoo! Small Business

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