For those who join the Click2Sell, have the latest information from this site. Below is a quote email that was sent to me.
Dear Click2Sell member,
Click2Sell service was launched about one and a half of year ago. You were among the first people who decided to try a new merchant platform with integrated affiliate network. We really appreciate having you among our members! There were a lot of improvements in Click2Sell system in the latter 1.5 year, so regular users may not have catched up with our development pace. This newsletter is a great way to review what was developed in the in itial years of Click2Sell and hopefully you will find some interesting changes which could allow you to use Click2Sell system in a new way.
Let us present you what we have done.
New features
* C2S API - instant notifications
This one feature adds extremely a lot of flexibility in businesses for Click2Sell users. Want to be able to create accounts in your system on-the-fly just after successful sales? Send a specific message to your customer just after a successful sale? Collect in-depth information of transactions? All of these and much more can be automated by Click2Sell API service!
* Moneybookers support
Every additional supported payment gateway allows you to offer more payment options to your customers. Or simply start using Click2Sell, if you don’t have any account of our other supported payment gateways.
So we added Moneybookers into Click2Sell supported payment gateways. Besides Moneybookers, Click2Sell also supports PayPal, Worldpay, Authorize.net and Google Checkout.
* Subscription based products via regular PayPal account
Before this feature only people who had PayPal PRO, Authorize.net or Worldpay account were able to sell subscription based products. Now you can have just ordinary P ayPal account if you want to sell memberships, month-to-month courses and so on.
* XML feed of C2S marketplace
We received a lot of questions where XML feed of Click2Sell marketplace could be acquired. It was not possible for quite a long time (there were simply more urgent things to do). However, last autumn we finally implemented the feed and now your scripts, plugins or programs can easily understand the content of our marketplace.
Improvements
* Complete rework of databases in order to make the system a lot faster
At Click2Sell we gather a lot of data that merchants and affiliates can analyze. The reality showed us that our originally created database stru cture is not effective enough for really active users. Statistics pages became slower and slower, thus we felt the need to dedicate some of our development time in to system optimizations. It was a really long job, but the outcome was simply wonderful - 10 or 100 times faster report loading speeds.
* Click2Sell forum upgrade
Yes, we have to admit that our original forum software was really bad and very inconvenient. We decided to abandon the development of our own forum and just use popular vBulletin forum software instead. I think that was a simple win-win situation for both parties of users and us: Click2Sell users got the proven and comfortable forum system, while we saved some development time.
* User interface
Initial interface was very good looking, however it was quite slow due to the quantity of images used. We removed images from main menu, replacing them with simple text phrases. This allowed users to browse Click2Sell system in a much faster way.
* Modifications of separate pages
Some pages (like "Tracking channels") were redesigned according to our users feedback. Just once again: we listen to our users, so don’t hesitate to tell us your opinion about anything. Such communication helps us and you to create a better system!
* Anti-fraud techniques
A lot of tools, methods and techniques were implemented to make sure that cheaters wouldn’t be paid or that fraudulent transactions wouldn’t happen at all. We keep staying alert in watching for potential fraud incidents as scammers never stop improving their methods.
Tweaks
* Redesigned product checkout page
It became better overall: faster to load, quicker to complete, great design, more convenient for buyers. So your products' conversion rates improved even more.
* Improved product checkout customization options
Have a non-English product? Then translate the product's checkout page easily! A quick way to come closer to your customers: now you can sell something in, let's say, Spanish and not worry that your customers will be lost in checkout page.
* Direct linking to product’s checkout page
A nice change which allows affiliates to refer their traffic directly to product’s checkout page. So affiliates can create their own products’ sales-pages or promotional campaigns if they feel that vendors of their promoted products are not persuasive enough in their made product websites.
* Make affiliate link yourself
A quick tweak that allows affiliates directly "sign up" for promoting any product in Click2Sell system. They are no longer required to pick the product by logging in to Click2Sell system and then browsing towards the pr oduct. A great time-saver for affiliates.
* Click2Sell checkout skip
Another wonderful time-saver which is already copied by some companies in our niche. It eliminates one step in your buyers purchase way. If you provide only one payment option (e.g., PayPal), then why stop your customers at Click2Sell checkout page just for clicking "Continue"?. This tweak can automatically direct your customers right into your used payment gateway. Thus there are less steps that your customers have to do in order to buy your product. Isn’t that great?
* CC duplicate transactions protection
The reality showed us that under certain circumstances people can accidentally buy the same product twice or thrice. We implemented this tweak to save them from such trouble.
Our development during the initial years of Click2Sell was concentrated on improving the system's reliability, speed, convenience, stability and security. We have found a very solid base for future growth. Indeed, our development team is spending more and more time on new features development - making Click2Sell.EU even a better system for both merchants and affiliates. Soon we will announce about really big implementations which will increase Click2Sell range of features drastically.
