A perfect ecommerce partner, Ashop Commerce

Thinking of starting an online business?

For a start, a reliable ecommerce software is important.

Ashop Commerce offers perfect solution.

First of all, it's a web-based application and you can manage your store and organize your sales data from anywhere, so long internet access is available.

Setting up
With its easy-to-use WYSIWYG editor, fully customizable built-in design themes, you can setup your online storefront hassle free, be it starting from scratch or adding shopping cart function to your existing site. You don't need technical knowledge of web designing or programming.

Ashop Commerce also offers tutorial movies and a comprehensive step-by-step user manual to guide you through the process.

What’s next?
It’s your daily operation and sales figures.

With Ashop Commerce, these data are just clicks away.

The software offers a very user-friendly store admin panel, where you can keep tracks of site visitors and their activities, customers’ info, daily order and shipping, payment transactions, inventory, and so on. For example, you’ll get SMS alert when there’s new order.

Also, you can export and import these data to and from external spreadsheet. It allows you to have better control of your everyday business operation.

Meanwhile the software is designed with a secure checkout system to prevent issues like orders fraud, abandoned shopping carts and so on. For instance, all credit card transactions are secured and protected by Ashop Commerce’s free 128 bit Secure Socket Layer protection, the highest industry-standard encryption.

It’s designed to protect your business and your customers.

As for payment methods, Ashop Commerce offers wide integration with major banks, gateways and third party processors including PayPal and WorldPay.

Every business needs promotions.
You can too design and customize your own monthly newsletters to be sent out to your customers, to inform them about the latest products or services that you’re offering. Newsletters subscription management is as easy as ABC with Ashop Commerce.

Affordable starter's package.
Every business owner wants maximum return on investment with minimum capital. Therefore, Ashop Commerce offers basic package with straight forward monthly fees, which you can start with 500 products and 10-day no obligations free trial, before you commit yourself.

Try it and let the ecommerce software speak for itself.

Now, I’m off to think about what I want to sell in my online store.

I wish it was Google not Yahoo!

MyBlogLog is now a member of the Yahoo! family.

Just like Google, Yahoo! is also expanding their services by acquiring other potential web services.

This morning when I went to one of my favourite blogs and saw that my MyBlogLog(MBL) screen id has been replaced by my Yahoo! user id. I was shocked.

Quickly I logged on to my MBL account to see what happened, and I was asked to merge my Yahoo! account with my MBL account. (The last time I logged in to my MBL account was last night, so the changes were made when I was sleeping.)

Google Vs Yahoo!
Well, all these while I've been keeping my Yahoo! account identity and Google identity for different usages and privacy purpose. For blogging, I use Google with a different screen name. To my surprise, Yahoo! replaced my MBL id with my Yahoo! profile id without my consent. Frankly I lost my respect for Yahoo! as I have been their long time user since they started back in 1995. It has been one of my favourite web services provider, other than Google.

Google has, by far, never done such a thing without my consent. I was already a Blogger user with Dolphine as my screen id, before Google acquired it. After Blogger has officially became part of Google, I was offered an gmail account with Dolphine as the login id.

Later, when they rolled out Blogger Beta, and I created 3 new blogs again early this year, they still keep my old blogs and new blogs separated. Goolge didn't mess things up without my consent.

I know the changing profile information and switching account information can sometimes be a hassle, some people hated it. But the respective service provider should at least gives users a choice before making any changes. It's a respect to users who want privacy. The best part was neither Yahoo! or MBL bothered to send out any notify email to their users.

Profile image
Besides, Yahoo! also changed my original MBL profile image. Now when I want to upload my old profile image to replace image, it gave some ERROR message. Now I can only temporarily use the ugly anonymous image.

Not all users affected
Not all MBL users are affected. It was only those, like me, who own a Yahoo! account and MBL account. However, I'm still don't understand how and why they could change someone's screen id without confirming it with the user.

I DID NOT use my Yahoo! email in my MBL account, instead it was my Google email account as my MBL correspondence email. Could they be so sure that it was the same person? Or they were just trying to tell everyone that their system is smart enough to track and match all the users' data? Gosh!*roll eyes*

Identity = Brand
Dolphine is my blog id, and also my brand name for blogging. My blog friends know me as Dolphine, which is different from my Yahoo! id.

Privacy
To Yahoo!, it might seem NO Biggie, and it was for the sake of user's convenience. But I believe there are users who want privacy, and will be annoyed and offended to see the change.

I certainly hope someone from Yahoo! would see this article, and reflect it to their system integration team, so it would not happen again in their future acquired project. And please Do Not assume that users would not mind. At least I mind.

Don't get me wrong, I welcome the merging of Yahoo! and MBL and I think it's cool. I still love their services, and will continue using their services.

But I just thought for a big corporation like Yahoo!, protecting users' privacy should be their main priority and obligation. Hope they will look into it seriously.

Just no more surprises, please. Or at least a notify email.

So what do you think you of it?