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Tell us a little about your company.

Ruby Loves Red is an online gift store that focuses on the best handmade and printed products made by talented designers and crafts people. Owned by artist Sandra Cassidy (and designed and built by her web designer husband Danny Cassidy) the shop has been born out of a love for all things cute, quirky and original hence ‘Gifts With Character’.

Why did you choose Tradingeye as your ecommerce platform?

Site designer Danny Cassidy explains, “I was initially attracted to Tradingeye because its accessibility/compliance features. As a web designer I’m a big fan of content management systems that output well structured, clean HTML and Tradingeye seemed to do this very well. From a functionality point of view Tradingeye’s feature list offers incredible value for money. We also liked the idea of having a dedicated support team available if there should be any technical glitches along the way.”

Could you please let us know about your project?

Ruby Loves Red was originally developed as a blog at the start of 2009. After a while we added a simple Paypal shopping cart then quickly realised that if we wanted to grow the business then we would need an integrated shopping cart and that’s when we selected Tradingeye. From design concept to launch took around three months although a significant proportion of that time was spend collating content.

Do you have any future plans for the site?

It’s still early days for the site but we’re confident that the hard work we’ve put in from the social media and blogging side of things will translate into sales on the new site. We’re particularly keen to implement alternative ways displaying products on the home page, perhaps using Jquery. We’re also really excited about using Tradingeye’s reporting features as a way of obtaining valuable marketing information about customers and product lines.

Do you have anything else you would like to share?

Tradingeye packs some incredibly powerful features considering it’s a reasonably priced off the shelf package and we’re looking forward to exploring all its potential as our business grows and develops.

It’s official. A Tradingeye site has been named of the top 35 most Beautiful E-Commerce Websites around.

Design and web development experts Smashingmagazine www.smashingmagazine.com has trawled the internet in search for some of the best e-commerce websites around.

Keeping an eye out for sites that are attractive, simple and easy to navigate, it has selected the top 35 sites that tick all of its boxes.

And one of our Tradingeye powered sites, Ten Little Monkeys www.tenlittlemonkeys.co.uk, designed by Darren Alawi www.darrenalawi.com, has made it onto the bill.

The judges said: “This design has a very strong visual appeal; vibrant colours work well on the dark background, the navigation is colourful yet intuitive – notice how the section for girls and boys are distinguished.

“Also, the choice of typography is appropriate for the shop’s main objective: selling branded children’s fashion and gifts.”

The article can be found below:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/22/35-beautiful-and-effective-ecommerce-websites/

The past year has been very busy for us at Dpivision with the launch of a new version of Tradingeye and also our brand new invoicing and billing solution www.cannybill.com.

We wanted to say thank you to everyone for their support and offer all our Tradingeye & Dpivision customers a 20% discount when you signup to CannyBill on the lifetime of your plan.

CannyBill is a complete invoicing, billing and web hosting automation system – it sounds complicated, but really it couldn’t be simpler. We use it on www.tradingeye.com to sell all our products and services!

http://www.cannybill.com/demos.html (bottom of the page for some examples)

Yes you got it, when you receive an invoice from us, whether it’s from an order via our site or some customization or design work we do for you, it’s from CannyBill!

CannyBill streamlines the whole modern process ‘admin’ side of things; from tracking invoices and taking payments, managing subscription-based services to selling domain names, web hosting accounts and SSL Certificates all via web based order forms.

CannyBill will cut hours of tedious, repetitive toil from your working week – leaving you to do what you do best!

It’s taken one and a half years of planning, preparation and of course hard work, but it’s finally here. We hope you enjoy our new product, and we trust it really will streamline your working day.

Here is a break down of the paid plans below:

Basic – (10 customers) – £4.99 – 20% = £4.00 per month
Small Business (50 customers) – £12.99 – 20% = £10.40 per month
Professional (500 customers) – £19.99 – 20% = £16 per month
Small Business (2000 customers) – £29.99 – 20% = £24 per month

To upgrade simply signup to CannyBill http://www.cannybill.com/pricing.html then login to your admin account and go to the settings tab -> my account -> and half way down the page you will see the option to upgrade. When you do so, simply enter the promotion code below.

Discount code: Please email wladimir@tradingeye.com for your discount code.

As always we’re here to help so let us know if you have any questions.

The team at dpivision.com Ltd

Tell us a little about your company.

Merry Dogs is an online store selling high-quality dog accessories to the UK.  We sell durable and stylish handmade dog collars, leads, dog beds, toys and bowls.  We specialise in products made in the UK and USA by small, dog-mad companies who are producing fabulous, fun and durable products for dogs.

Why did you choose Tradingeye as your ecommerce platform?

Tradingeye was recommended to us by a developer we approached. We wanted Merry Dogs to be a site we could more or less manage ourselves once it was live, and of course it had to be search engine friendly.  And it needed to fit with what our customers wanted from the site – easy to use, with lots of images and background information on each product and a secure shopping environment.

Could you please let us know about your project?

We had a few changes made to the basic package by Tradingeye and then the project was developed by Semlyen, a York-based web consultancy.  Now it is live we do 90% of the work ourselves, and this has worked out well.

Do you have any future plans for the site?

We’ll be adding new products, searching out new suppliers, and developing our two-way interaction with our customers.

Do you have anything else you would like to share?

The site functions very well and customers have commented on its accessibility and usability.

We’re happy to announce that the first incremental update to Tradingeye v6 is now freely available, at no extra cost to Tradingeye v6 license holders.

Both the v6.1 upgrade scripts as well as the full v6.1 installation files can be found at: http://forum.tradingeye.com/showthread.php?t=2947 (you must be logged in to access this forum thread). The v6.1 upgrade is available to all Tradingeye v6 license holders only – Tradingeye v5.x users must first upgrade to v6 before then upgrading to v6.1.

http://www.tradingeye.com/upgrade.php

A full list of file changes and bug fixes can be found on the forum thread listed above.