Magento’s X.commerce Initiative & Systems Integration

Running an online business often requires some serious systems integration. With so many aspects of your business to consider – accounting, ERP, ecommerce, etc. – it’s important to find a solution that helps you operate as smoothly as possible.
With eBay’s acquisition of Magento, businesses are now given an open-source platform that integrates and connects these systems. That platform is called X.commerce.

What is the X.commerce Initiative? (more…)

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 haven’t 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 store’s ecommerce platform? Below are a few areas that I found to be compelling when evaluating Magento over a similar system I’ve 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 company’s ecommerce solution: (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, that’s a stretch. But his fantastic exclamation got me thinking about the pain customers face when they want to sell online as a secondary channel.  Here’s 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 we’re going to refer to him as Zach… (more…)

Register Today for a Sneak Peek of nChannels New GP Connector

Connect Microsoft Dynamics GP with your ecommerce website in under 40 minutes. See it live May 31st!

Thursday May 31st at 12:00 PM EST

NEW – Microsoft Dynamics GP Connector

New Capabilities Hot Off the Press

Cloud-Based Reporting

Log in to nChannel through any internet connection to view total sales from web sites, or stores by day, week, month, or year. View sales by tender, or drill into details to view sales for a particular store or channel.  Our new reporting capabilities contain online templates to view additional up-to-the-minute customer and inventory reports too such as inventory by location, accounts receivable, and more.  We’ll showcase this feature in our upcoming webcasts, or you can request a quick demo here.

Create and Manage Unlimited Price Lists

Creating and managing price lists for all sales channels has never been easier.  This new feature enables users to create price lists and assign them to items for each sales channel or location.  Select items by brand, manufacturer or supplier. Apply pricing for specific time periods, and even choose pricing to reflect the sale price, regular or supplied price.  With the ability to create and save forumula’s executing promotions is a snap.

Integrated Field Sales Orders Included!

For those customers that want to take sales to other venues, our new Field Sales Order capabilites enables users to create orders and sales transactions from any tablet or smartphone from any place – at a tradeshow, street fair, or customer site. Field sales orders will be sent to Microsoft Dynamics RMS, a supplier, or any other system you choose.   With our new Mercury Payments Systems connector customers can take credit card order and  assign shipping charges.  Best of all – this capability comes with every nChannel subscription – no extra fees, software or contracts needed!

So Why Aren’t You an nChannel Partner Yet?

nChannel Value Added Resellers can provide multi-channel capabilities to customers in a do-it-yourself environment.  Run your own sales cycle, quote your own work, subscribe and support new customers – without specialised training, resources, or fees.  Resellers earn monthly recurring revenue for each subscription account, and 100% of implementation and support fees.  Have a customer in mind?  Attend one of our webcasts, or contact us for complete details. Click Here! for the nChannel Partner Page

nChannel Welcomes Nine New Reselling POS Partners

Comprehensive Reseller Program Offers Cloud-Based Multi-Channel Management Solution for Microsoft Dynamics RMS VARs

COLUMBUS, OHIO – April 10, 2012 – nChannel, a new, cloud-based management platform for retailers and distributors welcomes nine leading Microsoft Dynamics RMS partners to its reseller program. POSitive Technology of Maryland, Revolution POS of Pennsylvania, Retail Technology Experts of Florida, Falcon’s Nest Business Solutions of Georgia, IUG Business Solutions of New York, Point of Sale Advantage of Georgia, JourneyTeam RDA of Pennsylvania, Texo of Montreal, and Retail Point of South Africa, have joined the nChannel Value Added Reseller Program.

The nChannel Partner Program provides new opportunities for Resellers to deliver cloud-based connectivity solutions by easily connecting the Microsoft Dynamics RMS Point-of-Sale solution to a variety of Accounting and eCommerce solutions to the platform. Once connected, users can begin to manage and share sales, customer, item and inventory information across their existing systems. The nChannel platform will provide a cost effective and easy integration solution for customers along with improvements in efficiency and automation.

nChannel reselling partners combine their retail expertise with services to quickly and cost effectively deploy comprehensive, connected solutions to meet customers’ needs while building a high-margin revenue stream.

“Our primary goal is to assist retailers with solutions that can help them grow and expand,” said Mike Nicholson, COO, POSitive Technology. “nChannel is one of the most exciting multi-channel offerings we’ve seen in years – a simple, easy-to-use, easy-to-sell-and-support, holistic subscription service with a great team behind it. nChannel when combined with OpSuite gives our retailers a complete cloud based management framework that can incorporate all sales channels. We have numerous OpSuite / nChannel projects underway and we look forward to being part of nChannel’s future success and helping our customers take advantage of the benefits that cloud computing offers.”