Suggestions for improving EKM
Pre-Order option on stock
Ability for customers to order a product that is not currently in stock but will be on a given date in the future. So rather than a stock value of "n" as currently, ...
EKM Customer Reviews
The ability to send end-users emails to leave reviews on Products and services, without using a third-party platform.
Gift Card / Credit Generation
The ability to create a gift card / credit that allows for partial purchase - i.e. spend only part of the value.
Generate related products automatically
Right now we're having to select related products manually, which is quite time consuming. We should have the option to generate related products automatically - the ...
Urgency countdown timer
To encourage people to buy from your shop you can have a timer on product pages that says “order within the next X hours and X mins to save / get it next day” they ...
Easily add more tabs on product pages
So we can add tabs for product details, technical specs, delivery details, returns, etc... anything we want without having to go into custom html mode.
The ability to have more than one value associated with an attribute
A request to be able to have the same attribute multiple times on the same item.
for example if something is Blue/Green/Red have:
Colour - Blue
Colour - Green ...
Photo Gallery
Being able to add photo albums which show designs available for each item would make life simpler. For some items there are so many choices that I either have to ...
Bulk Discount Base Prices should adjust when the Product Price is changed
Base price SKU = £100.00 if this change due to a price increase or decrease then the discounts will change automatically!
Example:
1 @ £100.00
10 + 15% off (so ...
Save basket
Ability for the customer to start shopping, then save their basket(s) to come back to at a later date. Eg they might be shopping for Xmas presents, and waiting until ...
Ability to Respond to Customers' Feedback
I think the ability to reply to a customer's feedback would be a useful addition, particularly to those of us in the handmade crafts sectors. It would show that their ...
Search function in Related Products
Be able to search for product names or codes within the Related Products section of the Edit interface. Some shops have thousands of products in different locations ...
Better Blog
The current blog isn’t very user friendly and the themes look totally different from my shop, can we get a simple and easy to use one that’s built into the shop.
Ability to change the number of loyalty points given per £1 spend
If possible we would like to change our system so that the customer has to spend £2.00 to get 1 point rather than £1.00 to get 1 point.
Also to create a lower ...
Trade customers can see certain categories and products
It would be nice if you could have categories and products on the shop that can only been seen by a certain group of trade customers.
At the minute, we are having ...
EKM Bundle feature - Price Override
Currently the pricing model just adds the sum of all the items in the bundle.
Would be handy to have a "Price override" feature so you can set your own price for ...
Safe Browsing With Adult Content Filter
After being asked about specific products, (see image as an example) is there a way you could introduce a new image type filter with a message that shows something ...
Promo stickers
It would be very handy if there were matching blank promo stickers within the images section, so that we can create our own additional stickers that match the rest, ...
It would be useful to be able to download a list of 301 redirects from the site
currently you can import a spreadsheet of redirects you want to add to the 301 feature. but you can't download them which makes finding a specific redirect really hard.
EKM Labs blog - some suggestions for SEO
Hi
Can these be incorporated into the final version:
- SEO friendly category/topic pages URLs, rather than just 'topic6.asp'
- Be able to add SEO for topics
- ...
X number of people are viewing this product
On product pages display the number of other people viewing the same product (this could be real or pre-set number) that dynamically changes to put some urgency on a ...
New customer Welcome Email
Once a new customer has created an account, they should receive a welcome email. The welcome email should be customisable, just like all the other outgoing emails ...
Bulk discounts on Products with Variants
I would like to suggest that Bulk discounts are made an option when you have variants on a product. it seems pointless to not enable this feature.
Ability to view customer wishlist
If we can see customer wishlists, we can then send "freebies" that we know they want.
Trade discount Enhancement - Multi level discounts for customers / product categories
Customers need multi-level discounts for customers and product categories so that products can have differing levels of discounts rather than a global discount across ...
Specific Payment Gateways only offered to trade customers
The ability to lock Purchase Orders or specific methods to approved customers (trade customers)
Add field for tariff codes
Add tariff codes to each product for sending orders outside U.K. or to N.I. Add codes to invoices and a tag for elsewhere. Also pass code through to Click and Drop, ...
Be able to block an address
I would like to see an option to block an home/commercial address, I know we can block IP addresses but the customer still manages to order to that address.
Improvements to the Gift Card Feature
Now that the wonderful news of Gift Cards has arrived a number of improvements would be equally useful to have as it develops.
1 - Ability to create codes on the ...
Pictures to be added to reviews
I think picture reviews would be a great help for customers. I know I use image reviews sometimes to gauge the right shade or size of a product, this could help ...
Gift Card Improvements
The gift card function is now live....but it is very limited so we would like to suggest some improvements before the all important festive period arrives. We know ...
Gift Card - Customer can enter the recipient's email
Currently there is no way for a customer when purchasing a gift card to enter the email and message of the intended recipient. They instead have the gift card sent ...
Customer Parcel/Shipping Tracking
Hello
I'd like to see a dedicated area on my website when a customer logs-in, so that they can track/trace their parcel right from within the website. ...
Ability for us to Amend Customer Review Fields
We would like customer's just to leave their first name (or initials) rather than their full name when leaving a review. Our competitors can easily find our customers ...
Wordpress Blog
Wordpress Blog
Why is the blog a seperate site rather than a feature of the actual website.
To build it as a feature so it's integrated, instead of people being ...
Allow Search by Barcode / EAN in Advanced Inventory Manager
Would be really handy to be able to search using the barcode / EAN Number in inventory manager - great for using with barcode reader too!
Wish List Enhancement - Clearing the List
Currently, if a customer adds items in their wish list to the cart, the items still stay in the wishlist which can lead to confusion and double buying. The only ...
Add HTML editing option to Blog posts
Enable blog posts to be written in HTML in the same way as product descriptions for greater customisation.
Current editor is too basic and does not allow for ...
Automatically set the closing and opening dates in holiday mode.
To have the ability to automatically set the closing and opening dates in holiday mode.
Ability to merge duplicate customers
Be able to merge together customers that have ordered more than once
Will give more accurate customer numbers and identify frequent shoppers
Change to the Advanced Inventory Manager
The ability to do a full item edit from the "All products" folder as a quicker means of editing multiple listings without having to go in and out of multiple folders ...
Customer Login - New Create Password Email
With the new Customer Login area, you get to send an email to the customer to create the password. Can this be something that is made to be editable to allow it to ...
Inventory Manager - ability to delete products in additional categories only
The ability to delete products in additional categories only. If you try to delete a product now, it deletes it from the website and in every category it is in, ...
Product bundles - Splitting amongst Variants
Product bundle feature could be improved - at the moment if your product has variants there is no way to split them out to have product bundle variants at different ...
Highlight a New Customer
We would like to be able to see when we receive an order from a new customer, as it would mean we could send them a personalised email or free offer. Could this ...
Commodity Code / Country of Origin - Visibiity
Below Assumes a CC and COO have been listed as Attributes on Products.
3. CC and COO visibility (pre-sale)
Issue: How can end customer find details if may be ...
Auto email when a customer creates an account
It would be really good for shop owners to have an email in the outgoing email section that send automatically to a end user when they create an account on the site. ...
Upselling - Add On Products
It would be useful and encourage higher cart conversion if Add on / complimentary products could be added via the product page close to the add to cart button, I've ...
validate email to sign up
When customers sign up for a customer account. This feature is already vailable for those signing up to a newsletter.
Currently, anyone can register for a customer ...