I am pleased to offer a fantastic upgrade to your existing Easy Boutique Builder. There are several great features that will enhance your site and help make it run more efficiently.

Here are a few of the benefits to upgrading your site with the newest version of Easy Boutique Builder. For the most part you will not notice any changes with the actual administration of the site and will continue using the site as you presently do. The bulk of the changes are internal code changes improving the manor in which your site performs certain tasks.

New Features

• Inventory Control - If you use inventory in your store the system upgrade uses a return page in Mals to better limit inventory quantities in the cart level.  This feature will prevent oversells at a greater capacity then the version you are currently using.
• Spam Control - There is now an image verification on the page to prevent spammers from sending you urls in your guest books and contact form.
• Static Page Support - If your site currently uses php page extensions your will be upgraded to a search engine friendly url with an htm extension. This is a major upgrade and will help your search engine optimizing significantly. (Well worth the entire cost of the upgrade).

Current category url format: http://www.mysite.com/catalog.php?category=9
New category url format: http://www.mysite.com/category_1/Baby-Girl-Clothes.htm
New item url format: http://www.mysite.com/item_1/Baby-Girl-Pink-Shirt.htm

• HTML Editor - A modified HTML editor is included which will work in all browsers (Safari and mozilla browsers included).
• Category Levels - You can now have unlimited category levels. Instead of the current three level structure (ie. Main Category -> Sub Category -> End Category). This allows you to setup more detailed categories within a particular brand or style.
• Inventory Manager - Save time as an administrator by managing your inventory in groups of items at one time instead of individually editing your items inventory.
• Froogle Update - Updated Froogle loader for the new Google Base system. Headers can now be adjusted and the file can be printed for review and manual loading.
• Navigation List - Breadcrumb navigation has been improved to display the product name and its referred category. This also helps with SEO as your keywords are stated within your page content to increase page relevancy.
• Gift Certificates - The full gift certificate numbers display in the administration area. The certificate properly logs when an order is placed.
• Meta Tags - An increase in the the number of allowed characters for meta titles, keywords and descriptions allowing you to optimize your site more effectively.
• Products with No Options - Products can be set with 0 options without displaying an error message.
• Discounting - Fixed product discounting, now the discount amount is calculated correctly.

Important to Note

The link manager with the site admin will under go a revamp. You will no longer be able to organize your links within categories. Meaning, your links will be listed in one, large group, with page numbers to take your from one page to another.

Due to some of the changes being made your website may need to be re-indexed by search engines. This only applies to sites using pages which end in .php. This change will improve your website rank and relevancy to the search engine in the long haul and I do encourage you to consider making the upgrade.

What is Involved and Installation Time

First, decide if your site is eligible for the upgrade. To do this log in to your site admin. Scroll to the bottom of the page. If the version listed is less then 2.7 you are eligible!

An upgrade of this nature is very labor intense. It requires back-ups being taken of several parts of your website and upgrade scripts being uploaded and ran. Once it has been completed we will run a few tests to make sure your site is performing as it is intended.

Upgrades will be completed on a first come first serve basis. Upon ordering you will be contacted with an installation date.