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MerchantOS Pride!

Justin Laing on March 9th, 2010.
Posted in General.

We were stoked to see Jay from Bicycle Cafe (in BC, Canada) wearing one of our T-shirts!

Come see us at Interbike to pick up one of these red hot t-shirts.

We Can Print Jewelry Labels!

Scott Kern on March 5th, 2010.
Posted in General.

These rat tail labels are perfect for marking jewelry, clothing, electronics or anything else a larger label won’t fit on.
The dimensions of the label are 2″x1″.

After you remove and fold it, it’s only .75″x.5″ minus the tail!

If you would like to use/setup jewelry labels, check out our online manual.

Get ready for the workorder update

Ivan Stanojevic on January 14th, 2010.
Posted in General.

We’ve finally worked in a lot of improvements on workorders based on our last whiteboard session. New workorders have been available as an option to enable/disable in the system under Admin->General options for around two months. We want to thank the users who gave us their feedback during that period. The new workorder system is [...]

MailChimp Integration Brings Marketing Solutions

patrick on January 1st, 2010.
Posted in General.

As a new member of MerchantOS my first project has been to integrate MailChimp as a MerchantOS Addon. If you haven’t heard of MailChimp,
MailChimp, a leading do-it-yourself marketing service, provides tools to over 200,000 small businesses, design agencies, non-profits, restaurants, and e-Commerce organizations worldwide.
As a web developer I see them as a great web [...]

Bring The SWOT To Your Business

Justin Laing on October 14th, 2009.
Posted in General.

Actually we’re not talking about SWAT, we’re talking about SWOT – Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. It’s an analysis technique to access how your business is really doing.
“The power of SWOT analysis is the ability to continually and realistically analyze your business environment so that you’re in charge rather than simply having to respond.”

Business Strategy
Business [...]

Workorders And More From The Whiteboard

Justin Laing on August 4th, 2009.
Posted in General.

Two weeks ago we had a whiteboard session live over the interweb with our customers (you!). Here’s a summary of what we talked about:
Improving Workorders
Workorder improvements are our #1 priority. So look for system updates with improvements soon. Three main issues were raised:

Speed of entry – having a menu of labor items (common tasks).
Tracking of [...]

Join Us For A Whiteboard Session – LIVE

Justin Laing on July 17th, 2009.
Posted in General.

WHEN: 11am PST on Thursday July 23rd
WHERE: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/merchantos
We will be putting on a live whiteboard session next Thursday, and you can join in! We’ll be broadcasting live on USTREAM (a live video streaming website) and taking questions via chat. From 11am to Noon PST you can help shape the future of your retail software with [...]

MerchantOS Featured on InYourShirt.tv

Justin Laing on April 24th, 2009.
Posted in General.

100 Retail Locations!!

Justin Laing on October 20th, 2007.
Posted in General, News.

We’ve achieved a long term goal for MerchantOS: We now have 100 retail locations using the system. And we’re continuing to grow at a very good rate! In related statistical news, you (our customers) are now processing sales through MerchantOS at a rate of over $50 Million a year (or $3/second). Keep up the good [...]

Get Firefox 2.0!

Ivan Stanojevic on December 13th, 2006.
Posted in General.

If you haven’t already, go to the Mozilla website and download Firefox 2.0. This is a great improvement upon an already excellent browser. You will also find that version 2.0 handles a few functions much more gracefully than it’s 1.5 predecessor making your experience with MerchantOS that much better as well. To check the version [...]