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A new look and a mobile friendly site were high on the list of improvements that Hyatt Gun Store wanted for their existing site. We’re pretty proud of the work that Henry completed on this site and thought it was just too good not to share!
Site Improvements
• Upgrade to X-Cart 4.7
• Customized Mobility Template
• Wordpress Integration
• Custom Layaway Feature
• Customized Search feature
• Responsive Skin With Customizations
Justin, of Hyatt Guns, has noticed a significant increase in the page views on the site and a large decrease in the bounce rate as well. This is all great news for our long-time customer! More views with less bounce rate=increased sales and that’s always a great thing!
Homepage Old vs.New
New Site Home Page
Cleaner look & feel, much easier site navigation and showcasing products and services in a more visible manner.
Old Site Home Page
Note the side columns have been replaced by drop down menus on the new site. This site was pretty busy with many areas competing for attention.
New Product Pages
All product info is on one page, not hidden in tabs and requires minimal clicks to get to the information.
New Check Out
Features our Smooth One Page Checkout that guides the customer through the required information and also requires minimal clicking & page reloads! As the customer scrolls, the cart is always visible on the left hand side of the screen.
We’d love to help you get the site that you want for your business. Contact Us to day for a Free Quote! No project is too big or too small!
BCS Engineering – Providing Customers with the proper resources to help their business succeed since 2002!
BCSE has partnered with global technology and ecommerce leader, Pitney Bowes, to offer international shipping for X-Cart & Magento. (Contact Us) to download the Global Shipping Platform for X-Cart or Magento Extension and you can start seamlessly selling and shipping your products to 70+ countries around the world!
The Pitney Bowes Global Shipping Platform for X-Cart & Magento simplifies international sales by providing:
- Guaranteed, fully-landed international cost quotes for 70+ countries on your store’s checkout page. Quotes include real-time duty, tax, brokerage fees and international shipping & handling
- Unparalleled international shipping rates that no other service can offer
- Reliable coordination of parcel management across borders including routing, logistics, tracking, insurability and last mile delivery
- Transparent international shipping restrictions based on country-specific import rules and product classifications
We’re very excited to offer this industry leading solution to our customers! By presenting clarity and accuracy in the buying process, certainty and transparency in delivery, and dependable, competitive pricing, delivering a successful cross-border experience to your customers will be just one click away.
For more information, please visit X-Cart International Shipping or Magento International Shipping. Feel free to Contact Us if you have any questions regarding this fantastic opportunity!
It’s lucky Friday the 13th for us! Today is the 13th anniversary of our business that started in the basement of our home and has grown to so much more! We want to thank our many loyal customers for their support and allowing us to assist them with their business needs. Thank you to our 10 terrific employees for your dedication and for helping us to provide excellent products and services to our worldwide customer base. 2016 is shaping up to be a great year for BCSE; filled with bigger and better opportunities and innovative products! Visit our store to take advantage of our anniversary sale, all BCSE mods are 13% off until 11/20/15 …here’s to another great year!
Congratulations to Henry on his 10 year anniversary with BCS Engineering! Henry was our first employee hired and has been an integral part in making BCSE a global leader in our industry.
Thank you Henry for your commitment to excellence, leadership, and for being an all-around great guy. You make the office and our business a better place just by being you!
We have some exciting news to pass on to customers using X-Cart 4 (a.k.a. X-Cart Classic) as their platform of choice. While Carrie was in attendance at the X-Cart Meetup in Orlando last week, the X-Cart team provided updates regarding the future status of X-Cart 4. It is our understanding that X-Cart will be continuing to support the X-Cart 4 branch for at least another 5 years.
Part of the reasoning for this appears to be that most of the current users of X-Cart are using the X-Cart 4 branch as opposed to X-Cart 5 – to the tune of approximately 75%. As such, customer demand seems to be the propelling factor behind the continued support. However, X-Cart 5 leads the way among users new to the X-Cart family.
BCS Engineering will continue to support the X-Cart 4 branch as long as we have customers requesting support. We are also in the process of ramping up our involvement with X-Cart 5 by porting some of our more heavily-requested mods to this branch. At the same time, we are increasing the number of X-Cart 5 related customer projects we are fielding. As always, if you are looking for support on an upcoming X-Cart project, feel free to contact us for a free quote!
Looking to sign-up with a payment processor? Authorize.Net is currently offering a free sign-up fee through September 30th. If you are interested in signing up, please visit this page. For more information on the payment processing services offered by Authorize.Net, please visit their site at www.authorize.net. (This link will not generate the waived set-up fee promotion, but will provide you will more information.)
We have had some customers contact us regarding the email notifications they have received from PayPal. These notifications discuss the deprecation of certain Payflow URLs. As this pertains to our X-Cart customers, if you have a store utilizing X-Cart version 4.3.x or older AND use Payflow Pro as a payment processor, you will need to have a patch performed to continue processing payments with your current set-up.
If you have specific questions related to this change, PayPal suggests to contact your Technical Account Manager or Partner Technical Support for assistance at www.paypal.com/mts. Of course, if you are looking for assistance in having this patch performed before the August 3rd deadline, please reach out to us at www.bcsengineering.com/contact_us/.
