If you are looking for a successful online business, then setting up a Yahoo Store is the best and the most trusted idea for promoting and marketing your b\products and services. As the name itself suggests, it’s the most widely known and trusted name in the Internet world. Getting associated with a name that big can be the launch pad for your business as it provides just the right solution for companies and online businesses seeking for a fast and cost-effective ecommerce platform.

Yahoo Store renders a vast array of features for its e-Commerce store and packages features like layout, menus, graphics, add-ons, content, customization, RTML programming, and others to turn your internet business into a success story. It also includes activities such as store design and redesign, enhancement, SEO, marketing, and many others, with the ultimate aim to build revenue generating stores. Being an ongoing process, it’s always the right time to develop your store and keep it in tune with online business requirements.

So for something that can really impact your business, you should be extremely careful how to get your Yahoo Store developed. It’s not a cake walk and should be done under professional guidance. Yahoo Store Development is a vast area of expertise and there are many companies that provide excellent work for your benefits. There is a common place notion that such companies can be expensive and it will be a waste of money to avail their services, but the fact is that its complete worth of money as they provide solutions that can thrust your business to some credible online success.

So before you decide on whom to hire for your Yahoo Store Design you should see to it that the company is competent enough to provide you with solutions that are good enough for the current ever evolving market. You should have a thorough analysis of the company like checking their credentials, their testimonials, previous projects, and their ability to deliver on time. Whether the developers are capable of understanding your business needs, do they have enough experience in the industry, can they maintain your brand, can they give you a unique identity and many more.

So with the help of a wise decision and efforts in the right direction you can get a proper Yahoo Store developed that can make a huge difference in how your business performs in the market.

Wondering why your products are removed from Google’s Product Listing? You guessed it right. Google has come up with yet another change in their policies.

They now require that all promotional text / offer details be removed from actual product name and included in the description portion of the product.

For all your Yahoo! Store Merchants, you’ll need to change the names of all your products so that they do not contain promotional text such as – “FREE SHIPPING”, “20% off”, “On Sale!”, “Limited Edition” etc. from the *NAME* field of the product.

Alternatively, you can include these kind of promotion in your ABSTRACT or CAPTION field where your product information is displayed.

Here’s the official announcement on Yahoo Store Blog about the same:

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions customers with store items that include promotional text (such as mention of free shipping) in the item name or description may find that their product listings are being removed from Google’s product listings. Initial investigation of this issue shows that this may be occurring due to a change in enforcement of Google’s program policies.

For more information, please consult the Content Policies section of Google’s Program Policies page, which states, “Do not include promotional or boilerplate text in your product data feed. All text should directly describe the product you are submitting. Text relating to shipping or store policies should not be included.” You may also wish to read a Google support forum thread that discusses this problem.

We recommend that merchants using promotional text in their item names or descriptions edit these fields (Name and Caption fields) to remove this text. Please see our Store Editor and Catalog Managerhelp pages to learn more about editing item fields.

For more on Google Product Content Policy – visit this page:
http://google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=160074

Jigar Panchal
Department Manager, Yahoo Stores

If you’re wondering why all of a sudden your store stopped working and the “Add to Cart” is no longer working! – then you’re not guessing, it is official now.

Yahoo! officially disabled the .com URLs for the checkout/shopping carts for Yahoo! Stores. If your store was coded to have the form actions with http://order.store.yahoo.com – then your customers will not be able to buy the goods. Rather, they’ll see a screen like you see by clicking the link below:

http://order.store.yahoo.com

The fix required is to change the URLs of the entire store to use the http://order.store.yahoo.net to have them lead to the correct domain.

IndiaNIC understands the position of our valuable customers and hence, if you’re an existing or ex-customer of IndiaNIC, just let us know if you had experienced this problem and we’ll fix it up for you for absolutely free of charge!

We realize that you do not have to worry for a change in the platform and we’re more than glad to do an upgrade to our code – for which you are not required to pay.

If you are not an IndiaNIC customer and want to fix this – we’re more than glad to assist you in the upgrade of the code.

Just let us know your interest by sending an email to yahoostore@indianic.com.

For more about Yahoo! Store Checkout Upgarde – visit Official Yahoo! Store Blog.

Find out more about Yahoo! Store services at IndiaNIC

You can give access to your store to more than one Yahoo! ID. To do so, you’ll need to do the following:

1. Sign in to the Store Manager for your store with a Yahoo! ID that does have access to your store.
2. Click the “Access” link in the Site Settings column.
3. Enter the Yahoo! ID that you wish to add to the access list for your store into the appropriate text input field on that page.
4. Select an appropriate access level for that new Yahoo! ID. All access allows the ID to do everything in your store, including adding and removing access for other Yahoo! IDs.
5. Once you’ve entered the Yahoo! ID into the text input box and selected a level of access for that ID, click the [Add] button. A page will appear that asks you if you’re sure that you wish to add that ID to your store. Click [Proceed] to add that ID to your store.

You should make sure that each new Yahoo! ID granted access to your Yahoo! Store has the appropriate level of access.

Learn more about granting Granting Access to a Store for Other Yahoo! IDs here:

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/store/manage/sitesettings/sitesettings-07.html

Make sure you do not give your master access that you use to login to any developer unless they require to work on some specific tasks. There ARE some operations that are done only by your id – which will be asked by your developer when required – other than that, the Store Access granted with above mechanism will suffice for the most part.

I hope this help.

Thanks -

Jigar Panchal
Department Head – Yahoo Store Development
IndiaNIC.com

Yahoo! just fixed the intermittent problem of having state selection not working while checkout. The issue was identified with some of the buyers  – who could not select the state out of the dropdown box provided.

The issue seem to be fixed completely and it is back to normal.

This is what Yahoo had to say officially:

7:17 PM (PDT) – Checkout Issues
Some merchants have reported an inability for customers to select a state during checkout. Additionally, we have received a small number of reports of some images not loading on checkout pages. We are investigating this issue and will provide updates as they become available.

Update: 8:49 PM (PDT)
We are continuing to investigate this intermittent issue. This issue will remain open for monitoring and further updates will be provided as more information becomes available. If you are continuing to experience this issue, please contact our support team at 1-866-800-8092 and reference this System Status post.

Update: 09/24/08 8:52 AM (PDT)
This issue has been resolved.

IndiaNIC just visited the Yahoo! Headquarters for the conference for the developers.

This has been a breakthrough in the progress of our association with Yahoo! Small Business (YSB) – and will make ourselves stronger for sure.

You can find out more about Yahoo Store and our services here -

http://www.indianic.com/yahoostore.html

Jigar Panchal
Department Head
(Yahoo! Merchant Solutions)

Dear Yahoo Store Owners:

This is going to be a very important update from the perspective of giving the customers a smooth experience to the store and will end up having all the checkout systems synchronized.

This is what Yahoo! had to say on their official blog.

Before heading into the weekend, we want to remind merchants who’ve recently migrated to Checkout Manager to publish Order Settings before old checkout systems are shut down on SEPTEMBER 1.

If your store was automatically migrated to Checkout Manager after August 15 (this applies to all stores not user-migrated prior to this date), your Order Settings were not published as part of this migration. If you have not published Order Settings since the migration, you must do so before September 1.

If you don’t publish Order Settings, your checkout will no longer function once the old systems are shut down. Your store will not be able to accept any new orders until Order Settings are published.

Stores built in Store Editor will also require an Editor publish for new order button settings to take effect. If your store uses custom order buttons or has any old checkout links hard-coded into the site template (links pointing to order.store.yahoo.com URLs), you’ll need to manually update these links to point to order.store.yahoo.net URLs. Learn how.

If you’re new to Checkout Manager and are looking for assistance and resources, remember to check out our extensive Checkout Manager help section and the Getting Started with Checkout Manager guide.

We are launching a new offer for Yahoo Store Designing. If you are thinking of a New Yahoo Store or a Redesign of an existing store, you would not get better offerings than this. We also have launched a lot of NEW Features that are specially crafted keeping in mind the new platform for Y! Stores and we want you to atleast know about the same for your future needs.

Special Offer till April 2007 – Sign up Now!

The recent offer includes a FREE Integration of Checkout Manager to your store. This feature would automatically be available if you sign up for your New Yahoo Store Design Project with us. This means that in addition to the custom Yahoo Store Design – you also get your Checkout Pages (Shopping Cart, Billing and Shipping Information, Order Confirmation etc.) to have an EXACT look and feel of your entire website.

The default yahoo checkout pages are no fun – making your checkout pages look like your site ensures that customers feel secure and trust you as a merchant. Additionally, the customized layout helps customer have a good feeling while they are shopping.

If you are not planning to design/re-design a Full Yahoo store, and are interested in having selective features incorporated in your site – we’ve also got a deal for you. If you sign up for any RTML Feature or a PHP solution, you will get a 10% discount from the original price. Please click here to know about all RTML features or Call us to get more information.

Why Choose IndiaNIC as your Yahoo Store Designer?

If you have already worked with IndiaNIC – we need not introduce ourselves, but if you haven’t – its the RIPE time for you get associated with The Best Player in the industry. Carrying a huge clientele across the world – we have successfully compiled more than 500 Yahoo Stores in a short span of time.

IndiaNIC are pioneer in building Yahoo Stores for years and has bunch of stores to prove it with increasing sales of variety of items. The Yahoo Store Team here at IndiaNIC ensures how your business grows online by taking care of each aspect of the store development carefully and is capable of delivering the results as per your expectations. The Team never sleeps – even with shores of distance away – our experts are available 24 hours, 7 days a week.

Call us Toll Free on 1-866-666-3471 OR on 1-310-909-8707 to get an Instant Quote.

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Sincerely Yours,
IndiaNIC.com