PrestaShop Newsletter #43
Thursday, July 15^th, 2010

Edito: PrestaShop continues its strong growth during these summer months, and is looking for many profiles to strengthen its technical and commercial teams. You have a passion for e-commerce, and are motivated by the idea of integrating a dynamic team of informatics experts? So come on, we are waiting for your application!

PrestaStore helps you to secure and make your customers loyal, thanks to Fia-Net modules.

Discover the shop of the week, and the developments enhancements of PrestaShop’s versions 1.3 and 1.4.

PrestaShop is hiring!

Leader in the e-commerce domain, PrestaShop is an Open-Source software publisher.
The PrestaShop software is translated into 45 languages and used by more than 40,000 stores throughout the world.
PrestaShop, it is a young team of about twenty passionate informatics experts. PrestaShop, it is also a 3 years of strong and sustained growth; PrestaShop community has been multiplied by 3 in 1 year and now has over 85,000 members.

You believe in the fast development of e-commerce? Take part into the adventure of a French start-up that aims to become the global leader in e-commerce!

PrestaShop is recruiting various profiles, technical and commercial:

 - Developers PHP / MySQL,
 - Customer Support Manager,
 - Training Manager,
 - Technical Director,
 - Sales Engineer

We look forward to receive your application. Thank you to send us your CV with a covering letter and your income wishes at the following address:recrutement@prestashop.com.
The jobs are available in Paris.

About the developments... PrestaShop v.1.3

Many new improvements have been made to versions 1.3 and 1.4 this week.

Among the significant improvements made to version 1.3.1:

• Improved the management of downloadable products
• The orders creation when a product is out of stock is now operational
• Watermarks are now applied to images imported via CSV import
• Better management of coupons on the Front-Office
• Optimized Hipay and Moneybookers modules
• Temporary files created during images imports (via CSV import) are now removed
• Better management of products cancellations and related shipping fees

PrestaShop v.1.4

This week a new feature has been integrated into the version 1.4 of PrestaShop: the ability to export sales invoices in PDF, classified by statuses (Orders tab> Invoices).

This feature will allow lots of merchants to save valuable time!
As a reminder, this version is under development and should not be used in production.

The shop of the week

Summer holidays… Why not beginning sailing? Marinemart, American company based in Florida, offers a wide range of boat accessories.

Marinemart combines a dynamic design with an intuitive navigation, simple and efficient.
A live chat feature is even available to answer all your questions in real time!

On PrestaStore... Fia-Net modules

Because fraud protection and customer loyalty are essential for online retailers, PrestaStore offers two Fia-Net modules, recently optimized to serve you better.

Fia-Net SAC

The module Fia-Net SAC checks all transactions made on your PrestaShop store. Attempts of fraudulent payment (stolen cards…) will be blocked by preventing their realization through the pooling of data from hundreds of sites FIA-NET, as well as the fraudsters as honest buyers.

Fia-Net Receive&Pay

Fia Net Receive & Pay allows to pay on delivery. Boost your sales and retain customers through Receive & Pay, the exclusive payment AFTER receipt and verification of the order by credit card.

A unique promise for a unique customers input:
 - Immediate transactions by Fia-Net payment solution
 - A global basket increase of 15% average
 - 44.8% more of loyal customers
 - Immediate financing of transactions realized by this payment solution;
 - An irrevocable payment: In case of fraudulent unpaid, the money stays in your account.

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Please send us any comments or suggestions you may have, writing to newsletter@prestashop.com.

See you next week!
The PrestaShop Team

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