24Seven Cart to be featured at the 2013 Retail Pro Global Conference

LAN Services is using the convention platform to welcome the business & alliance partners, retail technology experts and the retailers to come & learn more about the different eCommerce integrated solutions designed specifically for Retail Pro®. The company is exhibiting its robust, end-to-end eCommerce application, 24Seven Cart, along with a web Integration, called Retail Pro Link, designed exclusively for Retail Pro® POS software users.

“The Retail Pro® 8 users who are operating the offline stores are definitely going to benefit from this web integration. It helps in syndicating the POS functionalities with web store features”, commented Anil Jindal, the President and CEO of LAN Services. “Retailers can navigate seamlessly through multiple product categories and this integration supports multi-currency & multiple payment gateways including tokenization”, he further added.

The Retail Pro® link bridges the two different technology platforms and lets pass the information from the retail management software in the brick-and-mortar store to the web store and vice versa. It lets the product data upload from the retail management software to the web stores and downloads customer order information back to the Retail Pro®.

The near real-time updates on both platforms come with an option to run the scheduler to share information. Retailers can set the scheduler down to a minute level accuracy. Retail Pro® software owners can manage both platforms at one go thus eliminating the double data entry on different platforms.

Additional benefits of the integration are as follows:

•     Provision for standard & matrix products.
•     Auto updates of the entire product attribute.
•     Ability to generate various product and customer order statistical reports within 24Seven Cart.
•     Automatic & manual uploading of information.

Integrating Retail Pro® software with 24Seven Cart adds functionality for social media networking to enhance the customer experience.

About Retail Pro

Retail Pro International, LLC is a global leader in Point of Sale, Store Operations, Merchandising, Planning, Business Intelligence and Payment Processing software applications for the specialty retail industry. For over 25 years, Retail Pro has enabled specialty retailers to achieve their full potential through a unique, scalable, reliable, and highly customizable retail management solution.

Today, Retail Pro is used by more than 52,000 retail stores globally in markets such as fashion, luggage, footwear, collectibles, gifts, home furnishings, sporting goods, and accessories. With unparalleled functionality, flexibility and ease-of-use, Retail Pro has established itself as a trusted solution for today's specialty retailers worldwide. The solution is delivered through a global network of business partners to over 87 countries, translated in 18 languages.

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Microsoft Dynamic Retail Management System (RMS) integration launched by LAN Services LLC

To simplify the retail point-of-sale operations along with managing web store processes, LAN Services LLC has launched an online shopping cart solution, 24Seven Cart, integrated with Microsoft Dynamics RMS .
Automation of the business processes is the first & the foremost issue that any retailer pays heed . Whether it’s their operations in retail outlets managed through POS or multiple processes of the web store, every retailer wants to streamline various functions. Managing both the technology platforms are quite cumbersome as it requires manual entry of product information. Additionally, processing orders of both the platforms simultaneously is annoying.

To remove these types impediments, LAN Services has come up with an advanced 24 Seven shopping cart application that integrates web store operation with MS RMS point of sale systems . This aggregation of two different technology platforms has increased the capabilities by adding their features.

To seamlessly integrate these applications, LAN Services has developed a middle ware/ web Integrator. This integrator helps in sharing and updating the product & order information on both the systems. The sharing of information happens instantly and retailers get the additional capability to schedule this process. The retailers can fix this data update process to a minute level accuracy.

This middle ware is capable of integrating POS with multiple web stores too. It offers flexibility to upload the product information through POS to web stores. All the product information such as product images, their attributes, multiple prices, their descriptions and the promotional offers get uploaded through a click.

Conversely, POS get the order information from all the web stores. Retailers can download the customers’ orders, payment information, shipping data and customers’ address details from the web stores. The real-time process syndication displays the updated information regarding the products, their units available, orders processed & shipped and payment details.

This whole synchronization process practically eliminates the requirement of manually entering the data on different systems. In addition to this, it also lets the retailers to generate various reports regarding sales, payments, orders, products etc.

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Energizing the retail sales with 24Seven shopping cart

eCommerce technology giant, LAN Services LLC is driving the retail industry with the integration and launch of 24Seven Cart with Visual Retail Plus point of sale (POS).

Product lines become unmanageable if it contains a large variety of products. Retailers, especially in apparel, footwear & CPG industries, find it burdensome to manage such a huge product line. Point of sale systems (POS) definitely helps retailers in managing their products and respective retail functions. However, even POS has its own limitations.

Certain retail functions such as sales return, shipping, mail management, promotional offers, social media etc. cannot be managed through POS systems. To overcome the shortcomings of POS, retailers are now adopting online marketing. They are coming up with the online stores to manage additional retail functions.

Nonetheless, managing a physical store with an online store is also difficult to handle. In view of such situation, LAN Services has launched its online store solution; 24Seven Cart integrated with Visual Retail Plus, windows based point of sales application.

Managing & sharing information simultaneously on both the systems requires a web integrator that updates the relevant data. 24Seven Cart comes with an inbuilt plug-in that integrates web store with VRP enabled POS application. This web integrator lets the retailers to synchronously update the product information on the web store and conversely downloads the online orders & customer related information on the POS. It eliminates the repeated data input on both the platforms. 

Scheduler automatically updates the process of information exchange between the two platforms. Additionally, retailers can also manually manage this data sharing process. Since the information gets updated on near real time basis, retailers can set the scheduler for information updates down to a minute level. 

The VRP integrated shopping cart comes with an additional functionality. It offers  access to different marketplaces such as Amazon & eBay. Retailers get deeper insights with the inbuilt reporting tool that accurately computes about the sales, overall revenue generated, revenue generated product wise, orders pending, shipped orders, remaining products available and many other customized reports.

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Reinforcing the retail Point of Sales with 24Seven Cart

The eCommerce and POS integration solution provider LAN Services LLC has, once again, strengthen its presence with the integration and launch of its foremost web store solution 24Seven Cart with Visual Retail Plus (VRP) POS. 

Retailers, especially in apparel & footwear industry, always find it more cumbersome to manage their several products and their related categories. It is the quantity which makes the whole store unmanageable. Things become inept when such retailers need to manage their multiple stores. Additionally, conditions become worse when they need to manage their web stores along with physical stores.

In addition to this, their POS systems don’t offer the facilities of managing shipping operations, mails to the customers, social media, sales returns and other customization services. In view of such milieu, LAN Services has revamped & launched its web store solution; 24Seven Cart integrated with windows based POS, Visual Retail Plus.

Visual Retail Plus POS is a leading point of sale applications used by the retailers in apparel & footwear domains. Integrating 24Seven shopping cart with this windows oriented POS lets retailers to share & update information on both the platforms simultaneously.

Integration with this POS offers retailers to run a scheduler to or manually update both the systems. 24Seven Cart uses a customized middleware to create a link with Visual Retail Plus POS. It gives the flexibility to upload product related information such as inventory data, products, their images, multiple prices, their description, etc. from POS machine.

On the contrary, this link also downloads customer order information such as online orders, customer information, payment details and shipping data from the web store.

Features of VRP integration with 24Seven Cart:

• Removing the repeated data recording requirements.
• Updating accounting and sales information on a real time basis.
• Sharing product information in multiple stores.
• Generating analytics report on sales, orders and payments.
• Automatic stock level updates.
• Sending purchase order information like back order reporting, closed orders and invoice tracking.

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Launching the Advanced Content & Image Management Feature for 24Seven Shopping Cart Software

Every business, whether dealing in wholesale or retail, wants to expand their business operations from one place, city or country to another. Multiplying the business operations has its own innate requirements. Building up additional capabilities require extra human resources, technical expertise and need to administer infrastructure, operations, finances etc. The latest trend of taking a business online definitely possesses certain advantages as compared to a physical store. Nonetheless, trade tricks to manage an online business are bit different and require a different set of skills.

Managing an online business necessitates the owners to learn to administer the contents like products, images, files or videos of their web stores. Looking over the contents of the web store consists of managing the multiple layout templates, intuitive user interfaces, multiple product and relative categories, automated order processing, mechanized payment & shipping integration, capabilities to manage products’ multiple prices and all its relative settings for allowing to activate the features.

24Seven Cart is an endogenously built eCommerce platform by a California-based LAN Services LLC. This feature laden eCommerce platform offers varied functionalities in its content management system (CMS). Web store owners have the ability to manage the web store’s content through an innate editor. They can even link their web store to other websites, accommodate refine panels for sorting the products, optimize at the web store level. Additionally, CMS in 24Seven Cart also facilitates adding extra web pages under multiple headings and adjust their placement on the web page.

Moreover, retailers are able to upload the multiple product images, banner images, image on the home page and resize them accordingly. The image zooming functionality offers more visual clarity regarding the fine details of the products. Similarly, web store owners have the ability to standardize the mail templates for the mails to send to customers.

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Social Media Planning for Web Store

ECommerce has given an additional platform for consumers to search products, access product information, read product reviews and recommendations, compare prices, get best deals and finally make purchases. Howbeit, eCommerce is a technology designed, developed and implemented to ease the purchasing process.

However, since the products are going to be utilized by the customers, from here the social media comes into the whole picture. This platform gives consumers a medium to interact with others, share their views about various things, make social circle and recommend about specific things.   

       

Lately, webmasters are using this social media channel to offer an additional space to consumers for making well-informed decisions about their purchases. Online marketers are keeping a tab to get deeper insights on the social media activities of their consumers. They are stepping further by searching ways to utilize the social media data and highlight those items or services that are most recommended/reviewed.

Following points will help in growing online community & increasing the traffic to the web store:

Content Posting: Posting content on a regular basis helps online retail shopping cart owners to engage customers for a longer duration. Online customers’ response differently to different types of content postings like textual or image or any video. Additionally, the frequency of the postings also helps in checking the engagement levels with the web store.

Integrating social media buttons: A consistent postings on the social media channel likely results in getting more likes. The best way to increase the number of likes is integrating social media buttons in your web store. This not only serves as an additional platform, but also offers various information regarding the items or services, their reviews and first hand user experience of the products/ services.

Best price deals on social media: Offering the best price deal or deal of the week or an exclusive offer on social media sites drives more traffic to the eCommerce shopping cart. These are the very basic call to action contents. Twitter gives the functionality to display information about pre-sales or any preferred customers’ specials. Facebook gives the flexibility to run contests and any campaigns.

Sift negative feedbacks: Feedbacks are a very strong medium and if used properly, it offers the chance to enhance the overall productivity by streamlining the different processes. Webmasters need to be agile to sift-out the negative feedbacks. Feedbacks with negative impressions possess a ripple effect which discourages the social media community to opt for particular item or services.

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Making Your Online Store Stand Out

The global eCommerce sales, forecasted by eMarketer, are going to reach $ 1.2 trillion by the end of year 2013. This makes it very clear for retailers that it’s not going to be an optional marketing channel. The capability of eCommerce to cross the locational barriers and reaching the national & international customers has allowed the online retailers to opt for this channel. Retailers, worldwide, are encashing on this fad. 

The easy & cheap availability of technology, the technological innovation, pervasive internet technology  and access to  the untapped markets has led a flurry in the eCommerce industry where every retailer tries to carve his niche in the market. However,  whittling  and establishing your online business in this fast changing online space is the real nuisance for many online retailers. 

Additionally, the efficacy of the nuisances related to managing the online web stores are more coarse as compared to managing physical stores. The competition in this online space is much similar an offline physical market and the deciding factors for continuous growth are whipping out the small online retailers. 

The free or easy availability of over the counter eCommerce solutions has helped many retailers to establish their online store and letting them to manage front and back-end of the web store. Customization of any type in the online retail shopping cart to improve the overall efficiency gives higher customer experience and comprehensive centralized control of the online store. The technological innovation in eCommerce industry such as the application of social media and mobile communication devices are indispensable to make your web store noticeable in the industry.

The following points will give you an idea about the making your web store look unique among  your peers:

Tailoring to distinguish: Pre-designed, over the counter eCommerce shopping carts comes with a lacuna of inability to accommodate any tweaks to fit in custom requests. For illustration, personalize products feature is a new characteristic that is difficult to accommodate in off-the-shelf eCommerce platforms.  This feature can be used to incise your identity in any products. Any associated video showing the customization result in the product will effectively influence and enhance the customer satisfaction. 

Higher Control & Functionally: A hosted eCommerce shopping cart softwares suites more to those online retailers who are not much technology savvy. This type of arrangement is meant for transferring the web store’s control to the eCommerce solution provider company so that they can focus on more business-oriented processes.

Here are two points which should be taken care of are that the online retailers, before opting for such hosted arrangement, should check the type of services provided by the eCommerce company and the level & type of control and authority given to eCommerce solution providers. ECommerce companies usually handle the various aspects of eCommerce operations like order management, data feed management, hosting services, security management and web store optimization services. Online retailers should check whether the customization services are included in the agreement or not.

Handing over the important functions of web store management may jeopardize the overall control & authority of the web store.

Innovative application: Digitization of the new innovative marketing channels has given the online retailers an ability to make their web stores more interactive & personalized. They should have to utilize the reports generated data from order management, inventory management, overall marketing and social media. 

Any trends displayed in such reports may indicate particular interests and interactions and it should be used for offering custom rewards or offers or any gift certificates.

The eCommerce platform should be flexible enough to integrate extensions, plug-ins and various modules to offer a unique browsing, transacting and moreover sharing the shopping experience with others.

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24Seven Cart introduces a cogent Order Management feature

In order to accurately manage & speed up the process of placing and fulfilling an online order, LAN Services has introduced a comprehensive and puissant Order Management feature in its eCommerce platform, 24Seven Cart.

Now-a-days, opening an online store is a fad among various businesses. However, it’s not only the opening & operating a web store that matters, it’s the commitment of the online retailer to fulfill all the orders on time that matters the most. An online retailer receives orders on its web store through different ways. Orders are placed directly on the web store or through the Facebook section on the web store or through calling directly to the web store. 

The channel is same for placing an order but the approaches are different. This is done to ease the complexities involved while ordering the goods. Nevertheless, the eminent issue in the process is the timely completion and delivery of the orders placed. It is necessary for creating an assenting image of the web store in the online space.

It is in this regard, LAN Services has introduced a comprehensive Order Management feature in 24Seven shopping cart. This all-inclusive feature offers online retailers a competence to manage not only the aspects related to orders, but also the details related to online customers, shopping carts and detailed reports for insights.

Now the online retailers are able to see and filter the lodged online orders, whether those orders are paid, shipped or partially shipped or declined, cancelled or refunded. Online retailers can even record the important points related to that order. 

This feature lets the online retailers to add a new customer through, both, the admin front of the web store and by registering him through the storefront. Online retailers can edit various information associated with the customers such as their personal details, billing & shipping address and can delete or deactivate a particular customer.

This feature gives the flexibility to generate the order invoices between particular dates or by specific customers. It also offers the facility to write a special comment through pick list.

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Comprehensive Web Store Launched by 24Seven Cart

The changing eCommerce milieu has offered both opportunities and challenges. Opportunities take the form of infinite reach of the retailers to the online customers. Managing the web stores, along with physical ones and integrating payment and shipping modules, poses challenges in the online vertical.

The quantity, quality, human touch and the ease of the transaction are the prominent aspects of the eCommerce industry. After considering these important elements, LAN Services has revamped and relaunched its online store solution, 24Seven Cart.

24Seven Cart is a comprehensive proprietary eCommerce platform that covers the most dynamic elements associated with the online shopping. Following are the vital aspects associated with 24Seven Cart:

Re-marketing: 24Seven Cart offers various opportunities for online retailers to re-market their products and services. 24Seven Cart gives functionalities to approach online customers through various features like displaying product videos, sending newsletters, informing the prospective customers by sending promotional mails, integrated online chat with the customer representatives and re-approaching the customers who abandoned their shopping carts.

Personalization: 24Seven Cart confers online retailers to personalize their offerings to online customers. Additional services like customization in the products, packaging, delivery of goods, gift-wrapping, etc. helps in giving more personal touch to the standardized products.

Cross Channel Integration: Shopping cart platforms, like 24Seven Cart, give chance to display products across different channels of marketing. Displaying products on multiple platforms requires adoption of responsive web design to offer a similar look and feel across all channels. 24Seven Cart delivers similar brand experience on different platforms.

M-Commerce: The mobile compatibility of 24Seven Cart offers customers access to the web stores through their smart phones. The adoption of responsive web design technology lets online retailers display information in a similar way throughout differing screen sizes. Adopting this technology eliminates the need to have different websites for mobiles, tablets or desktop PCs.

Interactive Product Display: Product images are one of the ways to make a web store more appealing. 24Seven Cart presents additional options to interact with the online customers like displaying product videos, customer reviews about the products, and sharing videos on social media channels.

Fulfillment Capabilities: It means an optimizing post transaction experienced to the online customers like shipping integration. 24Seven Cart offers various mechanisms for shipping products which, till now, are seen as an addition to the cost of the product. It gives the opportunity to differentiate the web store through distinct shipping programs such as same-day delivery, different delivery programs etc.

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Penguin 2.0 compatible 24Seven shopping cart platform

Daily, web masters & online managers need to juggle up with various techniques and issues to score ranking on the search engine result pages (SERP) for their websites. Google designs & implements different techniques to manage and rank those websites who abides by its rules & regulations. Among the various Google updates, the most recent one is a Penguin 2.0 which mainly focuses on web spam & backlinks.

Updates on the web sites’ optimization techniques are definitely going to affect, not only the ranking of the sites, but also the online marketing strategies of the web masters. Tweaking the algorithm for updating the optimization techniques resolves various purposes like link building, removing the spam, drafting the anchor text and usage of keywords.

The main purpose of these updates in the algorithms is to enhance & upgrade the quality of online browser’s content. To adhere to the guidelines of the Google, LAN Services has made significant changes in its licensed eCommerce platform, 24Seven Cart. 

This spate of updates in the optimization technique has induced 24Seven Cart to redesign & implement updated SEO practices. The changes integrated into the 24Seven cart as follows:

Anchor Text: The basic purpose of the anchor text is to create links on the web site. Google tracks the keyword stuffed anchor text to the keyword level and lowers the ranking of the web store. It has created filters to avoid over optimization. 24Seven cart uses such anchor texts that are relevant to the web store.

Authority: This is one of the biggest changes Google incorporated in their algorithms to give authority to some web sites. Here authority signifies page or domain authority. Google assigns higher ranks to those sites that have authority in their niches. 24Seven Cart design web stores in such a way that every web store appears unique in them.

Advertorials: These are websites meant for selling the web links to increase the number of links. Google has updated its algorithms to sift those websites that contain such kind of links. To abide by this update, the 24Seven Cart includes a disclaimer and uses nofollow links. 

Clear & precise subject matter: Web stores should use unique & easy to comprehend the content. Managing varied subject matters entails additional accuracy, relevancy and clear information. 24Seven cart gives webmasters to design & develop a resource bank on relative site topics.

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24Seven Shopping Cart Integrates with Retail Pro Point of Sale

LAN Services, the maker of 24Seven Cart web store platform, has finally resolved the long-standing issue of managing point of sales (POS) operation by integrating and launching 24Seven Cart with Retail Pro point of sales.

Point of sale system is definitely assisting millions of retailers in their day-to-day retail management operations. Managing sales, inventories, price adjustments and promotions are the biggest advantages of having a point of sale in the retail store.

However, increased retail sales also demands additional capabilities from the point of sale systems like shipping integration, customer service ability, social media integration for promotion, advance mail management, sales returns etc. In order to resolve these issues, LAN services has launched 24Seven shopping cart integrated with Retail Pro point of sale. 

Now the retailers need not to worry about multi-store point of sale operations as they can integrate 24seven cart with any number of retail point of sale. Additionally, the recurring problem of signing-in the point of sale systems while sharing a large amount of information is also resolved.

Integrating Retail Pro with 24Seven Cart offers ability to pass and update information regarding inventories and customers simultaneously on both the systems. It helps in immediately uploading product and fulfillment data on the web stores and downloads the customer orders to Retail Pro Point of sale. Synchronized Retail Pro with 24Seven Cart mechanizes and schedules the various inventory updates like price and quantity, product attributes and out-of-stock items.

Additional features of 24Seven Cart and Retail Pro integration are:

• Automates information sharing between two different platforms.
• Updates point of sale inventory on different marketplaces like Amazon and eBay.
• Generates various reports on sales, payments, shipping etc.
• Eliminates manual data entry.

This integration has added capabilities to various areas of retail management like catalog management, order processing & material management and payment processing & shipping management.

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24Seven Cart Launches New Feature for Converting Abandoned Shopping Cart

Every retailer at some point of time or the other experiences the ubiquitous phenomenon of shopping cart abandonment. In order to find a suitable solution to this problem, it is important for retailers to analyze the experiences of the online shoppers. Retailers need to scrutinize the pre and post abandonment stages to pinpoint those areas that had resulted in this occurrence.

The following points are the reasons for this incident: 

·         User experience: Online visitors and prospective customers find many unnecessary and insignificant stages that hurt the very enthusiasm of online shopping. Retailers display as a prerequisite for registering the customers to make final purchases. Online shoppers are reluctant to give personal information. Each data gathering point converts to adding an extra page that requires various types of customer information in the process of completing purchases. Sometimes the web store’s navigation leaves customers astray in the middle of the purchase process. Various calls-to-action, buttons and options to select confuses customers and it is necessary for retailers make headway for customers towards final purchases.

·         Indecision: Any kind of confusion or perplexing situation also leads to abandonment of shopping carts. Probably online customers are not mentally prepared to make final purchases. Post abandonment mails should lead the customers directly to their cart discarding login requirements. At times, online customers save the product carts only to make final purchases on a later date.

·         Technical Issues: Various technical issues such as the security of the payment transaction and non-availability of the customer support options also lead to abandonment of carts. Unstable sites or sites without any security certifications have more chances of shopping cart abandonment.

·         Product cost and added fees: Amounts that increase the total cost of product like state taxes, shipping charges, service charges or any other charges also hurts the shopping interest.

Now, to combat this perplexing situation, 24Seven Cart has come up with the feature that helps retailers in tracking those customers who leave their carts in the middle of the purchase process. It offers more information like the customer’s name, date of abandonment, the total amount of the shopping cart, product details and information about the mails forwarded for cart abandonment.

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LAN Services Launches wedropgrocery.com

Shopping Cart Software Provider LAN Services Launches wedropgrocery.com

Wedropgrocery.com is an online venture of Green Drop Retail which came into existence in 2012 as a web store for daily groceries. Taking a cue from the increasing penetration of internet technology and the unavailability of any web store in CPG vertical for pan India operations, Green Drop Retail decides to foray into this web sphere. It’s the apparent opportunity and essentialist which drives the immediacy to capitalize this chance.

"The robust architectural platform for integrating Tally ERP 9 and inventory management was the deciding factors to choose 24Seven Cart," said by one of the company’s spokesperson. "Since we were into CPG vertical, managing over 2000 products was really challenging. The comprehensive inventory management of 24Seven Cart simplifies this task by easy data management of individual products while considering their specifications."

Integrating Tally ERP 9 or any other product management feature in 24SevenCart is an easy task for this endogenous web store platform. "After analyzing the requirements of the Green Drop Retail, we offered end-to-end support in setting up its web store. Right from designing templates for web store, devising features for specific requirements to integrating shipping & payment gateway, we offered them consultation in every eCommerce aspect."

Having an in-house matrix eCommerce platform offers tractability to design, develop and integrate any kind custom requirements.

Few of the integrated features are as follows:

1) Advanced product refines panel.

2) Displaying multiple prices on the product.

3) Integrating Tally ERP 9.

4) Customized data feeds for easy inventory management.

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24Seven Cart, an eCommerce platform, releases DekorWorld.in

24Seven Cart, the unique eCommerce product of LAN Services, recently pronounced the launch of Dekor World.in, an online home furnishing, lifestyle and fashion accessories store.

Dekorworld.in, the eCommerce venture of Kabra Exports, came into existence in 1997. It operates under the auspices of a decade old company, Kabra Exports, manufacturer and exporter of home furnishing, made-ups and fashion accessories. The company’s advancement into this online vertical shows its urgent need to cater to the different overseas markets.

“The flexibility of the architecture to integrate various customizations had induced the Dekorworld.in to select 24Seven Cart”, said by one of the company’s representatives. “We were looking at different options which could match our customization requirements. 24Seven Cart was the most obvious choice after considering its 100% customization feature.”

It is very simple to integrate various features with this matrix custom-made eCommerce platform. “Customizing the data feeds and various promotional discounts under the marketing module and managing the content were the few unique requirements developed for the Dekorworld.in website,” said one of the spokesperson on LAN Services.

The flexible .NET based architecture give developers the ability to integrate any made-to-order requirements. A few made-to-order features include:

1)    Displaying different products to domestic and international customers by tracking the IP addresses.
2)    Separate section to receive bulk purchase orders.
3)    Offering additional discounts for first time customers.
4)    Additional discount offered on payments through credit card purchases.

Incorporating changes with respect to product attributes, marketing activities and order management was exhaustively utilized features of this eCommerce platform.

24Seven Cart is the flagship product under the aegis of LAN Services which is a California-based company. The company offers a wide range of e-retailing solutions like RMS eCommerce integration, search engine marketing, point-of-sale solution for quick service restaurants, online store management, etc. For detailed information about the 24Seven Cart.

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Advantages of RMS 24Seven Shopping Cart Integration

To increase the scale-of-operations and geographical presence of small & mid-sized retailers, LAN Services LLC has now come up with Microsoft Dynamics RMS integrated 24Seven shopping cart solution.

Whether its small retailers that operates through single store or mid-sized retailers operating multiple stores,

RMS eCommerce integration empowers both.The 24Seven Cart integration with RMS eliminates the requirement of performing the double data entry by sharing data between the online store and RMS. Using RMS Link with 24Seven Cart, online retailers are able to update the information on their web store on a real- time basis which enhances the customer service experience. It operates mechanically by connecting with the online stores, uploading &updating new product information into the web store and conveying sales order & customer data from the web store to RMS.

with 24Seven Cart has its own advantages. It helps online retailers in crossing the locational barrier and reaching out to the new marketplaces like eBay & Amazon. It reduces the overhead costs by reducing the manual entries of data in multiple systems.

Since both the MS RMS and online store are updated in real-time basis, it maintains the accurate inventory levels in online store & multiple physical stores. Additionally, online retailers can install a scheduler to fix the timings to download orders and customer fulfillment data to MS Dynamics RMS.

The real-time updates between the two platforms also assist in automatically updating the images of standard & matrix products. This integration also offers the capability of managing the different price levels for B2C and B2B customers.

24Seven Cart is the flagship product under the aegis of LAN Services which is a California-based company.  The company offers a wide range of e-retailing solutions like RMS eCommerce integration, search engine marketing, point-of-sale solution for quick service restaurants, online store management, etc. For detailed information about the 24Seven Cart.

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Diwan Bookstore, Egypt Launches New and Improved RMS Integrated Web Store on 24Seven Cart Platform

 LAN Services LLC, a global provider of eCommerce software solutions, has recently developed an online store for Diwan Bookstore, Egypt on its 24Seven Cart platform. The company unveiled a new eCommerce store fully designed in Arabic language.

With the successful launch of online store, Diwan Bookstore has made its presence felt to book lovers who can now access information about books in the Arabic language and as well as in English from anywhere.

It’s the first of its kind of Microsoft Dynamic RMS integrated web store in Arabic language that is completely built on 24Seven Cart platform. This custom-made online store highlights a collection of in-house developed features built on 24Seven Cart software. Various aspects like look & feel, simplicity, order management, category & product management were meticulously researched before developing this online bookstore.

“One of the most challenging part while conceptualizing this e-Bookstore was uploading of inventory from RMS to the web store and downloading of orders to RMS as both these processes were to be done in Arabic language,” said one of the spokesperson of LAN Services. This seamless integration between web store & RMS helps in real-time synchronization of in-store sales inventory with the web store.

Various custom-made features were incorporated in fully customizable 24Seven shopping cart software to cater the requirements of Diwan Bookstore. Few specific features of the web store include:  

• Visitors’ login is not compulsory to write product reviews.
• The Web Store’s home page displays information about the book’s author.
• Connected to Social media networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
• Advanced Site search option based on Product Categories.
• Setting Event Calender based on the specific forth-coming events.

“From managing the products & categories and marketing activities to processing orders, all functionalities are designed to leverage the online presence of Diwan Bookstore in Arabic and English speaking countries especially in the Middle-East,” said the spokesperson of the company.

24Seven Cart is the flagship product under the aegis of LAN Services which is a California based company. The company offers a wide range of e-retailing solutions like RMS eCommerce integration, search engine marketing, point-of-sale solution for quick service restaurants, online store management, etc. For detailed information about the 24Seven Cart.

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