Merchant Manager 4.0 Supports Recurring Billing and Downloadable Product Sales
Hostway has enhanced its shopping cart software to support businesses that sell software, subscriptions and services.
Chicago, Illinois, March 27, 2006—Hostway Corporation, a leading provider of Web hosting and managed services, today announced the release of Merchant Manager 4.0, to support merchants who sell non-tangible goods such as software and services.
Merchant Manager was already a comprehensive ecommerce platform for tangible products. With the following enhancements, businesses that sell software and services can take advantage of the leading ecommerce platform.
- Sell downloadable products (MP3s, e-books and software)
- Easily move and sort products to create category hierarchies with complete drag-and-drop functionality
- Sell services within the online store
- Create recurring billing that automatically charges monthly subscriptions
- Export sales data into QuickBooks®
- Display images based on attributes such color swatches
"Ecommerce continues to serve as an expansion outlet for brick and mortar, as well as Web-based businesses. Hostway's goal is providing our customers with the tools to grow their businesses online,” said John Lee, vice president of global marketing and general manager for Hostway. “The ease-of-use of Hostway's Merchant Manager continues to lower the barrier for anyone wanting to sell online."
In addition to the above, Merchant Manager gives storeowners the ability to do the following:
- Accommodate all of types of online products
- Input inventory levels by product or attribute level
- Automatically refill out-of-stock inventory
- Check and reorder at a set level
- Receive out-of-stock notification on a mobile device or via email
- Export reports of the top items viewed and purchased plus order totals
- Create coupons and promotions
To learn more about Hostway's Merchant Manager, please visit www.m2central.com for details.
About Hostway Corporation
Hostway Corporation is a leader in Cloud, Managed, and Managed Hosting. Hostway delivers reliable, secure, and scalable Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solutions to over 600,000 customers worldwide. Hostway services its clients from more than 250,000 square feet of state-of-the-art data center space, spanning four continents and 12 countries. Hostway has emerged as one of the largest cloud hosting and Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers in the world due to the company’s expertise in developing secure, multi-tenant hosting environments and is committed to providing SMB's and large enterprises with cost effective business solutions. Hostway’s core products include Managed Hosting, Cloud Hosting, and Email and Applications.
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