A security update for WebAsyst Shop-Script has been released in version 309, which improves security of the mechanism processing requests from storefront visitors.

We strongly recommend all owners of WebAyst licenses to install this security update. All accounts of WebAsyst online services have already been updated.

If you have a modified version of WebAsyst scripts installed on your server or if you do not want to install this update via WebAsyst Installer, then you can simply replace file published/SC/html/scripts/core_functions/picture_functions.php with its updated version.

The first version of Shop-Script 5, the new shopping cart application of our popular Shop-Script products, has become available for purchase. Shop-Script 5 has been entirely rewritten on the basis of PHP Webasyst framework. Unlike its predecessors, Shop-Script 5 is not a standalone application for simply creating an online storefront with a certain number of available functions, but rather a flexible, configurable platform allowing you to adapt your online store to virtually any imaginable type of business logic.

We are very happy to have released this new version of our popular application based on the Webasyst framework, because this will allow us to rapidly develop further versions and extend its functionality. Moreover, the release of the new version means easy modification of the operating logic of an online store by third-party specialists with minimum changes (or none at all) to the original source code through development of custom design themes, plugins, and their own framework-based applications.

Read more about Shop-Script 5 on the updated website at shop-script.com

Note that from March 12 through March 31 only, this special introductory offer is valid:

• 1 license of Shop-Script 5: $299 $199
• Upgrade from WebAsyst Shop-Script: $249 $149

You can order Shop-Script 5 right now while special offer holds.

We are thrilled to expose the next big thing we’ve been working on during the last several months. It is Shop-Script 5, the long-awaited successor in the Shop-Script software family.

The release of Shop-Script 5 will be the most important event in the entire Shop-Script project history so far (from both the technical, and the organizational point of view); therefore, it will occur in several steps. Today we are exposing all interesting details about the new product and the upgrade policy. The public sale of Shop-Script 5 will begin in 2013.

Enough talking! Visit the new Shop-Script 5 website and see it with your own eyes: http://new.shop-script.com.

Earlier this year, we published several very attractive special offers, and now, before the year’s main holiday, the ultimate discount is available combining all our best offers into one:

1. Entire WebAsyst suite for $333 (ordinary price: $799)
2. Shop-Script for $179 (ordinary price: $299)
3. All additional applications of the entire suite for $129 (you save up to 90%)

Our Christmas offer expires at midnight, December 31st. Hurry, while you still have a chance to buy efficient online applications at the lowest price ever offered!

Dear Friends,

We are happy to announce that development of the brand-new Shop-Script, based on the Webasyst framework, is finally heading into the homestretch. On December 19th we shall make the revised website available, with a detailed description of the newest version.

The release date of Shop-Script and other important information; e.g., price, reselling conditions, the cost of upgrade from the current version, will also be published on December 19. We are happy to announce that everyone who buys Shop-Script during the current Christmas sale will receive the new Shop-Script absolutely free of charge!

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With this, we leave you to anticipate our long-awaited announcement on December 19. Meanwhile you are welcome to enjoy our best sale ever to buy WebAsyst scripts with huge discounts!

WebAsyst applications have been developed mainly for team work, in which several users with different access rights can use the same account at one time. As experience shows, such collaboration becomes much more efficient when not only users are interacting but the   applications as well! You can make use of such synergy by pairing applications Mail & Contacts, Contacts & Shop-Script, Projects & Issue Tracker. Mutual integration of WebAsyst applications helps our clients to use them together for complete solutions.

To help you obtain the maximum impact from WebAsyst applications, we actively promote application bundles which give you the most effective tools for various business operations: establishing an online store, running an efficient CRM system, creating a website management system, and organizing online collaboration of virtually any size team. This is why we offer specially selected bundles, as well as the entire WebAsyst suite, with permanent discounts. The main point which we try to convey to all our clients is that bundled applications not only give initial savings at purchase, they save time and money in the future by efficiently solving everyday business problems.

To keep everyone aware of the importance of this fact, we promote special offers so that you can buy and add more useful applications to previously ordered ones. Such discount sales allow obtaining more complete sets of online tools at attractive prices, and by using more integrated tools, you can achieve your goals more quickly and easily. Read more about how WebAsyst bundles can make your operations more efficient in our previous articles:

Entire WebAsyst Suite is the Best Choice & Value
Online Commerce is not Only Shop-Script
Make Your Website Even More User-Friendly!

In December we plan to begin releasing completely new versions of commercial WebAsyst applications based on our Webasyst framework. All owners of WebAsyst licenses will be offered a very attractive price for smooth transition to the new software platform.

To take the fullest advantage of the integrated online applications, expand any WebAsyst license (even if it was issued for only one application) to the entire suite  of 10 apps for an extremely low price — now for only $129.

Please take a close look at your website and ask yourself:

1. Does the website have a section with answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs)?
2. Are there enough detailed and colorful pictures on the website pages?
3. Do your visitors have an option to download documentation or product descriptions as PDF or ZIP files?

If at least one answer to these questions is “no”, then we have good news for you: you can make your website even more user-friendly and thus more profitable!

Knowledge base

With a good knowledge base, website visitors who send you the same FAQs can find the information in a detailed article on your website. This will help them to decide more quickly on a purchase and will also save you time to respond to other customers’ requests.

It is very easy to establish such an online help system with any number of sections and pages using the WebAsyst Pages application. You can quickly create an entire online book, adapt its design to your corporate colors, and publish conveniently organized articles on your website. In the WebAsyst Knowledge Base at webasyst.net we also use Pages to publish useful articles for you!

The Visual Effect

The more information about your company and products that is available on your website, the more likely a customer will choose you from other competitors. Most important, it is always better to see something with your own eyes! See detailed photos of your products taken from different angles and under different usage conditions. See how carefully products are handled in your warehouse.  See your excellent working places… and your smiles!

With the Photos application you can upload pictures to your website — any number at once. A variety of publication options is available: several resized versions to choose from, HTML code, BB code for popular online forums, slideshow and online gallery widgets, or as entire albums with a large number of layout and picture size options, and easy navigation. We  ourselves actively use WebAsyst Photos to store scanned documents and to publish our team’s photos.

File Archive

It is always convenient when you open a website of a computer hardware manufacturer and can quickly find and download documentation in a PDF file, or review the latest version of the pricelist without having to send a request to the support team and to wait for response. Unfortunately, very often uploading such files to the server and creating links to them requires attention of a technical specialist.

With WebAsyst Files this “technical operation” can be completed absolutely by anyone in your team—it takes only one click on a button on an ordinary web page and to select a file on your computer. Moreover, any assigned members of your team can upload an updated version of a published file, and you can see their names, update time and date, and all previous file versions. By the way, creating a link to an uploaded file as even easier than the uploading!

Business Notes

New project ideas, comments on the work of your subordinates, efficiency suggestions, brief instructions­—where should all this be stored?

The answer: in WebAsyst Notes.  It is extremely simple but truly functional because it will: a) keep all new information which you may need in the future; b) allow your company’s managers to leave comments on the work of their subordinate departments or individual employees; c) provide the possibility for all your colleagues to post suggestion on improving the work of the entire company.  Depending upon your access, you can even store your passwords there.

Please familiarize yourself with all the useful features of WebAsyst applications: Files + Photos + Pages + Notes. It is very likely that you and your team will find these very efficient tools useful to manage and publish files, photos, and web pages, and to securely share important business notes with your colleagues.

A very attractive offer for those who have not yet purchased WebAsyt Shop-Script!

Only $179 instead of the regular price $299.

Buy Shop-Script now with a discount

Valid only through November 2nd!

When opening a first online store, most of our clients think only about creating an attractive storefront, and they purchase Shop-Script. Several months later they need to know how to run a bulk emailing campaign, how to collect contact information from website visitors, and how to correctly handle email communication with the customers… and then they also purchase Contacts, Mail, and Help Desk. The reason for such a decision is that, in addition to completing sales to clients, it is also extremely important to maintain relationships with them; e.g., swiftly responding to email inquiries and informing them of newly arrived accessories and items.

WebAsyst Contacts is a convenient contact management system which allows you to store your clients’ contact information in one safe place, and to manage it online from anywhere. With WebAsyst Contacts you can equally easily handle both a small address book and a large database of thousands of records.

WebAsyst Mail supports traditional emailing tasks, i.e. receiving and sending email messages. But its main advantages over similar online popular services are the ability to perform professional email marketing campaigns and the availability of subscription management tools.

WebAsyst Help Desk is an application for proper handling of requests from your clients and website visitors. It helps organize all email messages in one online storage, displays the entire request history for each client, facilitates collaborative processing of an email request by several persons, and allows the message author to track the request processing status in a personal online account.

A satisfied customer will return again and again, and will ultimately generate more profit than a new customer, for whom you would spend considerably more to attract through advertising.

Permanent contact with a client is as important for an online merchant as placing product photos and descriptions to the storefront, organizing fast order delivery, and providing convenient payment methods. If you are still thinking about opening your own online store, do not neglect the importance of communication with your customers. We recommend that you  consider purchasing complete and efficient tools at one time — they will save you a great deal of time and will help increase your clients’ loyalty.

Remember that ordering all necessary WebAsyst online commerce tools in one package before October 21st will also save you over $430!

WebAsyst applications have been created to make the everyday work of your team fast and efficient. Each of the 10 applications is designed to solve a limited range of tasks, and only by combining all of them in one account will you get the greatest advantages of WebAsyst.

With WebAsyst you have all these to run a successful business: your own online store, customer support, email marketing, CRM solutions, easy online articles, photo gallery publishing systems, as well as basic tools for internal operations management.

Brief information on all WebAsyst applications:

	Shop-Script Open your own online store and start selling over the Internet. Integration with popular payment systems and shipping services, widgets for selling on external websites and Facebook integration, built-in design editor, storefront templates optimized for mobile devices, order history, viewing customers’ addresses on Google maps – all of which thousands of merchants already value in Shop-Script!
	Contacts A powerful tool for storing and managing customers related information and staff details, featuring smart filters, static and dynamic lists, import and export functions, contact types “person” and “organization”, subscription forms, individual and group access rights, SMS and email notifications, etc.
	Mail 2 in 1: fast bulk emailing software + online email client available from any computer connected to the Internet. WYSIWYG editor, message templates, personalization variables, scheduled sending. Together with the Contacts, it is an indispensable tool for marketing and delivering information to your customers and staff.
	Help Desk Your communication with your clients has never been more efficient! Now you have entire ordering and requests histories at hand. Finding a request received even a year ago is now only a matter of several seconds. Important features: anti-SPAM protection, customizable request-sending form for your website, connection to any number of mailboxes to receive requests, automatic signature in your replies to support customers sending requests to different email addresses or even in different languages.
	Files Do you still keep important files on your computer? There is still room for improvement. Make access to your documents convenient, fast, and secure not only for yourself, but for your whole team. Access from any computer, data transfer over a secure protocol, immediate creation of a link to any file or folder, one-click upload of an entire directory in one archive, tracking of older document versions — you will never be able to live without all of this, once you have tried it. Begin a completely new life right now!
	Photos An easy-to-use photo storage and publication tool. Support for an unlimited number of albums, one-click image uploading of multiple image files, automatic thumbnail sharpening, flexible access rights setup for individual users and user groups, various predefined online gallery templates with easy navigation, slideshow widgets. It is your personal photo storage, of course, without annoying ads!
	Issue Tracker A time-proven must-have task assignment application for your team: constant control over task completion, email notifications of new tasks, analytic filters by multiple parameters, flexible workflow setup, reports, and reminders.
	Projects It is difficult to keep all important details in mind or jotted on paper when it comes to managing several large projects at the same time.  For example, you must know who of your staff is involved in which project, when is the final completion date of a specific project, what are the estimated price of each stage and the full cost of a project. You will feel confident, because you know that none of these details will ever be lost or forgotten, once it has been saved in WebAsyst.
	Pages Have been asked by a colleague to write an action plan and send it to the marketing department for review? Need to to publish an internal guideline for new employees? Thinking about a knowledge base for your website? Stop looking for complex and clumsy solutions! Use a simple yet user-friendly tool for fast publication of online materials from single web pages to entire online books using a WYSIWYG editor and probably simplest design editing tools in the world.
	Notes No complicated settings. No super-smart filters. Only what you need right now to write down, save, or view your notes at any time from any place and all available within your comfortable WebAsyst environment!