Monday, February 28, 2011

Turn your Zen Cart into a Facebook VendingBox

VendingBox is a complete, easy to use, compact storefront which can be put on any webpage. It is the perfect way to sell your products directly on your Fanpage, website or blog.

VendingBox is fully customizable, and can by styled to suit your brand. The plugin for ZenCart automatically synchronizes your inventory, shipping, tax and payment settings.

This means you can copy your Zen Cart configuration to the VendingBox, by simply installing a feed file. Stock levels are monitored, shipping rules implemented in the VendingBox, and you receive payment directly to your PayPal account.

There many ways to use the VendingBox, including on a Fanpage Tab, as a larger Facebook canvas store, or as a store widget on any website or blog.

http://www.vendingbox.net/examples

Included here are examples for a large canvas, and a Facebook Tab store.

VendingBox supports multiple currencies, and multiple languages. Other cool features include social search integration (your products can show in Facebook search), and optional google product database submission. A full list of features is available here:

http://www.vendingbox.net/features/

In Facebook, fans can browse, buy and receive special discounts without leaving Facebook.

There are no set up, monthly or product fees, and the process takes no more than 5 minutes.

With VendingBox there are no monthly, setup, or license fees. There is a low charge of 2.9% of the sales that are generated by the use of the VendingBox, and this is applied only if you sell more than £100. If you don’t make any sales, you don’t pay any fee.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

VendingBox launches store tab widget.

VendingBox continues to roll out the new features with the launch today of their store tab widget.

The tab can be placed on websites or blogs and displays the user's VendingBox as a modal window on top of the page or blog.

This very handy feature allows users to add the VendingBox to their web presence without interfering with their existing design.

The widget is added by cutting an pasting a few lines of code into any part of a web page.

See the example on this blog at the right hand side.