20 September 2008
With each release, we improve the product. These improvements are based on customer requests and industry trends. ChannelAdvisor release notes keep you updated on the latest and greatest feature enhancements to the ChannelAdvisor products. Key enhancements for this release include the following:
- Pixmania - We now support Pixmania, the pan-Eurpoean shopping site.
- SearchAdvisor Account Synchronizer - We added options so that users have more control over how frequently we synchronize their SearchAdvisor account with their account on Google, Yahoo, or MSN. Also reduced the scheduled frequency and now allow users to configure based on their needs.
Click on each product area below to see the full details of this release. Products: Marketplaces | Paid Search | Comparison Shopping Engines | Online Stores| Strategy & Support Center |Bug Fixes | Release Notes Home | MarketplacesPixmaniaChannelAdvisor is proud to be the first third-party integrator to support the Pixmania marketplace (www.pixmania.com), a pan-European shopping site for consumer electronics, home & garden, toys, jewelry and many other categories. 
Learn more about this new marketplace and how to get started on our Pixmania portal (ssc.channeladvisor.com/marketplaces/pixmania) or contact your ChannelAdvisor account manager for more information. Please note that the Pixmania marketplace is currently only available to online retailers that are able to fulfill from Europe. Trading PostChannelAdvisor is also the first multi-channel solutions provider to support the Australian auction site Trading Post (www.tradingpost.com.au), Australia's leading classifieds site owned by Sensis. 
Learn more about this new marketplace and how to get started on our Trading Post portal (ssc.channeladvisor.com/tradingpost) or contact your ChannelAdvisor account manager for more information. Please note that the Trading Post marketplace is currently only available to online retailers that are able to fulfill from Australia. Overstock Shopping Feed GuideOur Overstock Shopping integration now offers users our Feed Guide to set up or configure their product feeds to Overstock Shopping. Rather then a single page to specify the feed name, template, and labels, the Feed Guide walks the user, step-by-step, through the setup of a new Overstock Shopping Feed. 
To learn more about this new feature, please view our Overstock Shopping Feed Guide introduction. Other Enhancements
- eBay Fixed-Price Relisting - We have extended our relisting functionality to support the new eBay Multi-Quantity Fixed-Price listing format. eBay listings for supported countries will now relist if it meets the following conditions:
- new item is a multiquantity listing
- previous item was a multiquantity listing
- previous item had one or more sales
- previous item closed in last 7 days
- new item and previous item are using the same Ad
If the item does not meet the above conditions, the it will relist as a new listing with no association to the old listing.
- Amazon Seller Central UK Feed Clearing - In cases where a product feed is not successfully processed by Amazon or ChannelAdvisor (showing SKUs in "Rejected" status), we now automatically submit the feed again to Amazon. You are no longer required to clear these errors in the Item Status View to submit them.
Search - Algorithm Changes - We modified how ABM calculates new bids due to some changes that Google has been making.
- Account Synchronizer - We added options so that users have more control over how frequently we synchronize their SearchAdvisor account with their account on Google, Yahoo, or MSN. Also reduced the scheduled frequency and now allow users to configure based on their needs.
- Persistent Report Date Ranges - We improved usability of SearchAdvisor reports by saving a user's report date range throughout their session as they run various reports. If a user is evaluating performance for last month they only need to set the dates once - even if switching reports or accounts. Users spends a lot of time entering and reentering dates so this should be a time saver.
- Improved Event Queue - We modified the Event Queue page to provide support for more events (AutoTrack events and errors now are included) and refactored how we report on event errors so we can more easily extend this in the future to other events we want to add (i.e. pausing all keywords associated with a product).
- Latency report - added this to the Beta version of SearchAdvisor.
- Buyer Conversion Map Report - We modified the export of this feature to allow for easier analysis of Assists and user history.
- AutoTrack Modifications - We modified how AutoTrack works to prevent unnecessary work when taking over a Google account. This change impacted those accounts that had tracking URL's set at the ad level.
Comparison Shopping Engines- PriceGrabber US & UK Marketing Cost - With prior approval from PriceGrabber on an account basis, ShoppingAdvisor can receive and integrate marketing cost data into performance reporting for both US and UK clients.
- New Shopping.com Template for Shoe and Apparel Retailers - Updated the Shopping.com template to include new attribute fields for shoe and apparel retailers. To utilize the additional fields, retailers should contact their Shopping.com account representative or submit a support ticket to the Shopping.com Merchant Account Center.
Online Stores
StoreAdvisor PremiumSince our last major release, ChannelAdvisor announced StoreAdvisor Premium, the newest addition to the Complete product line. StoreAdvisor Premium is a full featured online storefront integrated with your MarketplaceAdvisor Premium account.
We continue to improve this offering and with this release, StoreAdvisor Premium's inventory syndication has been improved to allow you to make the following changes in your MarketplaceAdvisor Premium account while staying in sync with the store: - Change the SKU on an inventory item.
- Change a child product to a standalone product.
- Move a child product from one parent to a different parent.
- Syndicate a child product to the store without sending the parent.
- Make a standalone product a child product.
Since the last release, we have also added support for the WebLoyalty consumer loyalty program to StoreAdvisor Premium. Webloyalty rewards participating online retailers with $100.00 per 1,000 purchase transactions going through your checkout. For more information on how to enable WebLoyalty, click here.
Finally, we have updated the integration so that StoreAdvisor Premium orders are now pulled into your MarketplaceAdvisor Premium account every hour.
Strategy & Support CenterBug Fixes- Added template tag for Store Price and Store Title to be used in the Ad Template and Posting Templates
- Updates to eBay posting templates to correct mismatches.
- Updates to eBay posting templates to allow $0.00 for shipping rates for domestic and international shipping (previously it required a positive number).
- ShoppingAdvisor change to protect against users creating a self-referencing loop that causes feeds to not be sent.
- Corrected some tags that were shown with single brackets in the Ad Template editor.
- Updated image size when new image of different size is uploaded through the UI.
- Now allow pound sign in image filename.
- Removed old countries that no longer exist (USSR, Czechoslovakia, etc.).
- Cleaned up minor text issues in the application to make instructions clearer.
- Updated several shopping templates to address changes from the shopping channel.
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