Top 5 Reasons to Choose Magento as Your eCommerce Solution
Magento is a rapidly-growing ecommerce solution. Since its launch in 2008, millions of users have fallen in love with the platform and its open-source capabilities. And now, nChannel offers cloud integration to POS and Accounting systems for Magento users. Magento is probably most well known for its open source ecommerce solution, known as Magento Community Edition. In case you havent seen it yet, Magento Go is their new cloud-based eCommerce solution that is much more turnkey – similar to Volusion, yet a bit more streamlined.
Why Magento should be On Your Short list as an eCommerce Solution
Wondering if you should use Magento as your online stores ecommerce platform? Below are a few areas that I found to be compelling when evaluating Magento over a similar system Ive used called Volusion. There are many reasons why you should consider this product, but here are just five reasons why you should be choosing Magento as your companys ecommerce solution: (more…)
Introducing nChannels New Video Series
Were excited to announce our new video series in which well cover key features of the nChannel platform and how to use them. We have more than 30 planned, so be patient (Im editing these while working with partners, and marketing, and blogging and well…you get my drift)…
Our first video is about using nChannel to easily adjust reordering points for inventory. This is just one of the many capabilities well feature in our Item and Inventory Management section of our video library. (more…)
A Happy Customer Story in Syncing POS & eCommerce…Awwwe….!
I sat in on an nChannel implementation with a customer late last week. You know how we all have those moments in our careers when you just get the ultimate satisfaction of knowing you solved a key issue for client? As our new client was watching all his items come in from his RMS system he said You guys have made my life! —damn near brought tears to my eyes.
Ok, thats a stretch. But his fantastic exclamation got me thinking about the pain customers face when they want to sell online as a secondary channel. Heres some background:
Disclaimer: This is a real customer who is happy to provide a referral to nChannel prospects and partners however, he wanted me to keep his name and company name confidential…so were going to refer to him as Zach… (more…)
Multi-Level Pricing Challenges: What To Do When One Of Your Systems Supports Them and The Other Doesnt
A common challenge we encounter among multi-channel companies is managing pricing between two systems that help support different channels. Just last week we found another customer with the same issue.
This particular customer is a manufacturer that not only sells their products to large retailers and independent contractors, but they also have opened several retail stores of their own and have a web site, as well. Business is great – but this pesky pricing problem keeps surfacing:
Their ERP solution, Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision), supports multiple levels of pricing for their retail operations, wholesale customers, and contractors, but their POS system only (more…)
Top 5 Reasons to Use Microsoft Dynamics RMS as Your POS Solution
The retail industry is competitive and its vitally important for an organization to gain an advantage any way it can. By utilizing a Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS), retail companies can gain that advantage, as it provides a comprehensive POS solution that connects information and a variety of processes that will enhance operations.
By integrating warehousing, merchandising systems and other operational platforms, a Microsoft POS system is perfect for streamlining operations across an entire retail chain. (more…)
