Stone Edge Introduces ''Subscription Manager'' Add-On for the Stone Edge Order Manager.BLUE BELL, Pa. -- Stone Edge Technologies, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of the Stone Edge Subscription Manager. The Subscription Manager is an add-on A purchase of additional goods before payment is made for goods already purchased. An add-on may be covered by a clause in an installment payment contract that allows the seller to hold a security interest in the earlier goods until full payment is made on the later goods. for the Stone Edge Order Manager, the leading business management program for small-to-medium Web retailers. The Subscription Manager makes it easy for merchants to handle a wide variety of continuity orders, from magazine subscriptions to "product of the month" clubs to regular deliveries of dietary supplements Noun 1. dietary supplement - something added to complete a diet or to make up for a dietary deficiency diet - a prescribed selection of foods vitamin pill - a pill containing one or more vitamins; taken as a dietary supplement or pet food. The Stone Edge Subscription Manager lets you create "subscriptions" that create recurring re·cur intr.v. re·curred, re·cur·ring, re·curs 1. To happen, come up, or show up again or repeatedly. 2. To return to one's attention or memory. 3. To return in thought or discourse. orders for your customers. Each subscription's delivery schedule can be configured con·fig·ure tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: in a number of ways, including daily, weekly, monthly, annually or on specific days or dates. The Subscription Manager supports numerous types of continuity (recurring or standing) orders. Some can be for a fixed number of deliveries, such as a training course with 10 lessons, delivered one per month, with the same 10 lessons shipped on the same schedule regardless of when a customer begins their subscription. Others can be for a set number of deliveries, but with automatic renewals, like annual magazine subscriptions. Typically in those cases everyone with that subscription would get the same product at the same time, such as the April issue of a magazine or the CD-of-the-month, regardless of when their subscription began. Others can be for regular deliveries, with no fixed ending date, such as monthly deliveries of vitamins or pet supplies. "We tried to anticipate all the variations that merchants are likely to need," said Barney barney - In Commonwealth hackish, "barney" is to fred as bar is to foo. That is, people who commonly use "fred" as their first metasyntactic variable will often use "barney" second. The reference is, of course, to Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble in the Flintstones cartoons. Stone, President of Stone Edge Technologies, publishers of the Subscription Manager. "Like our Stone Edge Order Manager, the Subscription Manager is designed to save merchants time and money by streamlining and automating repetitive tasks. It also greatly reduces the chance of costly errors, like shipping the wrong product or forgetting a vacation hold." The items to be shipped can be set to a single product for each delivery (such as a monthly supplement delivery), a product selected at the time each subscription order is generated (e.g. a wine of the month club - where all subscribers get the same item this month) or pulled from a list of SKUs assigned as·sign tr.v. as·signed, as·sign·ing, as·signs 1. To set apart for a particular purpose; designate: assigned a day for the inspection. 2. to the subscription (i.e. music collections - where shipment 1 gets the first CD in the collection, shipment 2 gets the second, etc., regardless of when they are ordered or shipped). Billing is also highly configurable with the Subscription Manager. Some subscriptions may be charged in advance for the entire subscription, while others may be billed per delivery or for a set number of deliveries, like magazine subscriptions. The Stone Edge Subscription Manager even makes it easy to deal with common nuisance COMMON NUISANCE. One which affects the public in general, and not merely some particular person. 1 Hawk. P. C. 197. See Nuisance. issues, such as address changes and vacation schedules. It supports alternate billing and shipping addresses during specific time periods, and the ability to "hold" a subscription for a period of time. The Subscription Manager works together with the Stone Edge Order Manager, which is required for its use. Initial orders are typically imported into the Order Manager from an Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the shopping cart, such as MonsterCommerce, Yahoo!Store or Miva Merchant, or in the case of phone or mail orders, entered manually into the Order Manager. The Subscription Manager automatically detects which orders are for subscriptions, and sets up the appropriate delivery schedules. The Subscription Manager is fully integrated into the Order Manager, and can be accessed from the Order Manager's Main Menu. Continuity orders created by the Subscription Manager appear as new orders in the Order Manager, which is then used to handle inventory tracking, fulfillment ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. , shipping, customer service, etc. Over 1,000 merchants use the Stone Edge Order Manager to help run their businesses. They utilize shopping carts such as MonsterCommerce, Yahoo!Store, ShopSite and others, and typically handle 10 to 2,000 orders per day. The Order Manager helps manage their orders, customers, payment processing, inventory, fulfillment, shipping and more. In addition to importing orders from popular shopping cart systems and sales channels including Amazon Amazon, in Greek mythology Amazon (ăm`əzŏn), in Greek mythology, one of a tribe of warlike women who lived in Asia Minor. and Shop.com, the Order Manager also supports mail and phone orders, and includes a Point-of-Sale point of sale n. pl. points of sale A business or place where a product or service can be purchased. Also called point of purchase. point system for merchants with "brick and mortar See bricks and mortar. " stores. The Stone Edge Subscription Manager retails for $995. The Stone Edge Order Manager retails for $1,250. Both prices include a year of support and updates. ABOUT STONE EDGE Stone Edge Technologies is a privately owned developer of affordable e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. software for small businesses. Barney Stone, a pioneer of database software for desktop computers, founded the company in 1983. Stone Edge began shipping its flagship Order Manager in 2000. By late 2004 over 1,000 Web merchants had selected the Order Manager to help streamline their businesses. |
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