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New Feature: Saved Cards for Customer Registration

Monday, August 29th, 2011

A few weeks back, a pre-announcement about the new Saved Cards feature for Customer Registration appeared here on the Yahoo! Store Blog. I’m happy to let you know that as of early this morning, Saved Cards is available for all Merchant Solutions and Yahoo! Store accounts.

In order to use Saved Cards, our Customer Registration system must be enabled for your store.

Note: If you have not published your Order Settings since the end of June, you may see an active Publish Order Settings link in Store Manager due to work performed in order to release Saved Cards. Unless you are enabling Saved Cards or have made your own updates, no changes requiring an Order Settings publish have been made [...]

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Upcoming Merchant Solutions Feature Releases

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 (July 2011)

During the first half of July, 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 [...]

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Managing products with Catalog Manager is now faster and easier

Thursday, April 28th, 2011

Over the last week and a half, we’ve been releasing updates to Catalog Manager, with a phased rollout to different sets of stores. Early this morning, the rollout was completed with the updates released to all stores.

Next time you’re in your Store Manager, I encourage you to click on the "Catalog Manager" link and have a look around at what’s new. The updates we’ve made are as a result of the feedback we’ve heard from you, our merchants. Many of the enhancements and new options come from the requests and suggestions you’ve had for features that will make daily tasks such as locating, filtering, and updating products faster for you to do, and can make managing your product catalog easier and more efficient.

Here’s a look at what’s new in Catalog Manager [...]

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Social Media Sharing Lets Customers Spread the Word

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

Early this morning, we released a new Social Media Sharing feature that lets you add "Share on Twitter" and Facebook "Like" options to your store’s product pages. Enabling this feature allows your customers to easily spread the word about your products to their social media networks. This boost to your marketing efforts can help you reach a wider audience, which in turn can help to generate more quality traffic for your store.

The Social Media Sharing feature is available for all merchants using Editor 3.0 templates, and can be installed by running the Design Wizard, or by using the Store Editor Variables page and adding CSS to your store’s css-edits file. If you’re using custom templates, you can install this feature by inserting a new RTML operator into your store templates, and adding CSS [...]

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