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Why YOU Need Point of Sale for X-cart 5 Now!

Unify In-Store, E-Commerce & Phone orders in a single system and maintain all inventory & orders in one place!  Sound like what you’ve been looking for?  If so, then read on for highlights of what Point of Sale for X-Cart 5 can do for you…

 

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The Point of Sale X-cart Add-on gives businesses the ability to unify E-commerce, In-Store, and Phone orders into a single X-cart system.  Once in X-cart, the orders appear with the E-commerce orders, to be monitored and managed in the existing business processes and with other X-cart components.

The Point of Sale system focuses on an intuitive and efficient interface to minimize the customer’s wait while the admin places the order.

This product will not affect your X-cart upgrades! There are no changes needed to x-cart, to install this mod!

Key Features of Point of Sale for X-Cart 5:

  • Discounts on the Fly (% or absolute)
  • Override product prices & shipping costs through on the fly order discounting
  • Includes all X-cart Shipping methods!
  • Simplifies use of SKU and bar code scanners through Flexible Product Search Function
  • Super fast order entry allows auto add items to order when product search returns only one product
  • Supports Product options and their price changes
  • Orders displayed in default currency
  • Supports all X-cart Tax methods
  • Specify payment methods you want to appear in the Point of Sale (separate from X-cart enabled payment methods).
  • Track orders by salesperson
  • Capture Order Notes when placing the order
  • Product Search by Category

As with all BCSE products, you are entitled to 3 months of upgrades!

Download Point of Sale X-Cart Add-On now and start taking advantage of these great features!

 

PayPal PCI Deadline Extended to 6/30/17!!

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PayPal PCI Deadline

From PayPal regarding PayPal PCI Deadline: “Merchants and partners use HTTPS to securely connect with PayPal’s servers. We use the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol to encrypt these communications. To ensure the security of our systems and adhere to industry best practices, PayPal is updating its services to require TLS 1.2 for all HTTPS connections. At this time, PayPal will also require HTTP/1.1 for all connections.

To avoid any disruption of service, you must verify that your systems are ready for this change by June 30, 2017.”

What Can You Do?

The first step is to verify with your hosting company that your server is ready for these changes. However, please feel free to Contact Us if you’d like assistance or if you have any questions or concerns.

If you are hosted with us, we will be taking care of this for you & will be contacting you with more details in the near future.

 

BCS Engineering Tips for Success in 2016

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BCSE’s own Carrie Saunders has  been featured in a blog for X-Cart offering her Tips for Success in 2016!  It’s great read with some really valuable suggestions.  Follow the links below to check it out:

Is Your Checkout Harming Your Business Worse Than Poor SEO??

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Read the entire blog here and feel free to Contact Us with any questions that you may have!

Is Your Business Outgrowing Your Shopping Cart?

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Online shopping carts tend to happen on the fly.  We start our businesses and have an idea of what we think we need online to meet our sales demands.  Then, orders start flying in and before we know it… we are BUSY.  So busy pleasing the customer and launching new ideas that our shopping carts aren’t the top priority anymore.  Before long, we’re “making do” with a cart that was actually created for a start up company and not a flourishing business.  We want options & features beyond what we ever imagined that we might need. It can all seem very overwhelming, time consuming & costly!

If all of this sounds too familiar, it’s time for you to let us put our nearly 14 years of ecommerce experience to work for you!  We know the struggles you are dealing with and can help you figure out where you want your shopping cart to take your business.  Whether you want to expand your existing cart & add more features or move to an entirely new cart, we can help you!  Our knowledge of  best practices, data manipulation, SEO & ecommerce success helps us solve the issues you are already experiencing as well as foresee issues that could arise in the future. Contact Us today for a free quote!

BCSE Has Moved!!

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Thank you for all of your patience and support as we moved to our new Business home several weeks ago!  We are now happily moved into our new office space at 486 Richland Ave. Athens OH 45701.

Overall, the move went very well! We had a total of 7 staff members moving equipment and taking great care of our servers to ensure minimal downtime.  They started working Friday at 9pm after a full day’s work (although a few never stopped working) and continued through about 2pm on Saturday.  The rest of the staff members, spouses, and family members joined us at 9am on Saturday to move our desks, work computers, supplies, etc. so we were ready to work and fully support your businesses on Monday!

We’ve settled in nicely and we are looking forward to the new opportunities and efficiency of our ‘forever’ home. We have a few more construction items to be completed before we can utilize our space to it’s maximum potential and hope to have that work completed in the near future.

We really appreciate your patience and support during this big transition.  If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to Contact Us!

BCS Engineering Acquires Cardinal Computing

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BCS Engineering is thrilled to announce that we have acquired Cardinal Computing!  This business expansion allows us to now offer graphic design as well as computer, laptop, smartphone & mobile device repair.

Cardinal Computing is an Athens, OH based business that was founded in 2014 and has serviced many area businesses in computer repair and graphic design.  BCSE has wanted to expand into this arena for sometime so this was a perfect fit for both businesses.

If your interested in graphic design or repair of your computer or mobile devices, don’t hesitate to contact us!  We offer on-sight and drop off options for repair.  Contact Us for more information!

We Will Miss You Joel!

Friday, 2/12/16 is Joel’s last day with us.  While we are all sad to see him go, we are excited for him and also his wife Jia as they set off on this new adventure!

We want to thank Joel for his nearly 9 years of dedicated service to BCSE.  He’s been a terrific employee and co-worker that will be difficult to replace.  We will miss his commitment, expertise and fun personality around the office…and also his homemade beer.

Best of luck to you Joel!  Oh, and if you’re ever back in town don’t forget to drop by to visit and bring us some of your home brew.  You will be missed.

New BCSE Location!

Carrie & Brandon have been working hard this year to find the right spot for a permanent location for BCS Engineering. We have been leasing our current location for almost 8 years now and we were in need of finding a permanent home. After almost a year of searching and months of closing work, we have officially purchased 2,000 sq ft of office space on Richland Avenue! We are super excited for this opportunity. We will update clients when the move will take place. It will likely be in a few months, after we finish up preparations of the new space!

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X-cart Responsive Template – Mobility!

X-cart Responsive Template – Mobility

Fully Responsive Template, Foundation based, SEO Skin!

Clean, Fast, with modern features!

X-cart Responsive Template - Mobility

X-cart Responsive Template, Mobility, is available for 4.6.x AND 4.7.x.  Contact us if you’d like us to create it for your version of X-cart!

Tired of the boring old built in templates?  Want something modern, fresh and easy to customize?  Then the Mobility X-cart Responsive template is for you!

Main Features

  • Easy Installation
  • Fully Responsive
  • Drag and Drop Store Logo, Invoice Logo and Email Logo
  • Optimized One Page Checkout for conversions
  • Configurable layouts in the admin
    • Options for the home page
    • Options for the product pages
    • Options for the category pages
    • Options for the static pages
  • Search Engine Optimized HTML
  • Seamless wordpress integration
  • Vacation/Announcement Message option that appears on every page
  • SEO rich snippets
  • Sticky Header option
  • Easy to modify themes!  – Pick your colors in the admin!
  • Low cost for an easy customized skin!
  • Unlimited Colors and customizations!

Layout Options

  • Individually Select Layout options for Home Page, Product Page, Category page and Static pages
    • 1 Column
    • 2 Column – Sidebar Right
    • 2 Column – Sidebar Left
    • 3 Column
  • Upto 4 footer column options, including options for:
    • Twitter Feed
    • Pinterest Feed
    • Instagram Feed
    • Facebook Feed
    • Static Pages Menu
    • Newsletter
    • Speed Bar
    • Hard Coded links
  • Browsing Transition Options Include
    • Fade
    • Slide Right
    • Slide Left
    • None
    • Transition Speed
  • Page Width Options
    • Wide
    • Narrow
    • Full
  • Center Content Style Options
    • Contained (Shows center content in a framed area)
    • Open (Shows center content unframed)
  • Category Location choice of Top Bar or Side Bar
  • Manufacturers Location choice of Top Bar or Side Bar
  • Home page Content -Choose from default home page of banner and featured products or Static page of your choice!
  • 404 Page Content – Choose from default home page of banner and featured products or Static page of your choice!

Responsive Admin Layout Options

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Theme Options

  • Unlimited Color options!
  • Pick a Reference Color and 8 more theme colors will be automatically generated!
  • Optionally adjust each of the 8 theme colors to your liking!
  • Background color options of Solid or Repeating Pattern
  • Unlimited Repeating pattern options!
  • Fully Customize Button Colors!
    • Main Buttons
    • Success Buttons
    • Secondary Buttons
    • Alert Buttons
    • Info Buttons
    • Disabled Buttons

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Social Options

  • Facebook URL
  • Twitter URL
  • Twitter Username (for feeds)
  • Google Plus URL
  • YouTube URL
  • Pinterest URL
  • Tumbler URL
  • Instagram Name

Social Options

Home Page Options

  • Banner Position Options
    • Within Page Content
    • Full Page Width
    • None (no banner)
  • 4 Banners with links to help promote products or sales!
  • Drag and Drop images to update banners!

Homepage Banner Options

Checkout Options

  • Cart on Left with Checkout process on right
  • Cart on Right with Checkout Process on left
  • Cart Narrower than checkout process
  • Cart wider than checkout process
  • Cart same size as Checkout Process
  • Special optional checkout message to customers

Checkout Options

Search Options

  • Enable/Disable Auto-completion for products in the search header
  • Minimum number of characters before auto-completion suggests
  • Maximum number of suggestions to display

WordPress Options

  • Enable WordPress Integration
  • Directory for wordpress
  • WordPress Layout options
    • 1 Column
    • 2 Column – Sidebar Right
    • 2 Column – Sidebar Left
    • 3 Column
  • WordPress Link Title

Wordpress Options

Page Speed Options

  • Enable/Disable Lazy Load Images
  • Minify CSS
  • Minify Javascript
  • Minify HTML

Page Speed Options
Purchase Mobility Template for your site today!