Upcoming Merchant Solutions Feature Releases

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by Yahoo! Small Business Team

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Thursday, June 30th, 2011

We often get questions from you, our merchants, about upcoming feature releases we have planned. Since we know you’re curious, we thought we’d give you a quick glimpse of what’s coming up for your Yahoo! store.

Saved Cards for Customer Registration (Updated release date: late August 2011)

(Editor’s note: The release date information for Saved Cards has been updated since the original post. Online help will be available for Saved Cards on the morning of August 30, 2011.)

In late August, we plan to release a Saved Cards feature for our Customer Registration system. Saved Cards will allow your registered customers to store credit and debit card information within their customer profile, with a goal of providing a more efficient checkout process when they shop from your store. When Saved Cards is enabled, registered customers may add, edit, and delete cards from their profile at any time, and will be given the option to save new card information after placing an order with your store.

Saved Cards will be available to all Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Starter, Standard, Professional, and Yahoo! Store accounts. Stay tuned for the feature release announcement.

Enhanced Site Search (Estimated for August 2011)

We’re currently at work on enhanced site search for your store. The initial set of site search enhancements is estimated for release in August, and will be the first of a multi-phased feature release to upgrade the existing site search functionality. You can expect a cleaner layout, filtering and drill-down options, and customization controls similar to Checkout & Registration Manager. While our enhanced site search will be a big improvement over our current site search, the feature set for this release will not replace advanced site search technologies such as Nextopia, SLI systems, or others.

Incremental Publishing in Store Editor (Estimated for August/September 2011)

By overwhelming request, we will be updating our publishing functionality to allow for either an incremental publish or a full publish in Store Editor. An incremental publish will publish only changes made to site pages and dependent pages since your last publish, and a full publish will publish your entire site and all associated variables. The intent of this feature is to facilitate more efficient store publishing for our merchants. Upon release, incremental publishing will be available to all Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Starter, Standard, Professional, and Yahoo! Store plans.

Page-Level 301 Redirects (TBD)

To help our merchants with their SEO needs, we plan to launch a new feature that will allow you to manage page-level redirects. Still under development, we hope to have this launched in 2011.

Please note that all feature release dates provided in this post are estimates only. As with any technical development process, schedules and priorities can shift unexpectedly.

Here at Yahoo! Small Business, we hope you’re having a great start to your summer, and we look forward to making the official announcements about these feature releases to you.

The Yahoo! Small Business team
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