Hi everyone,
There have been a lot of little changes around the site lately, so I thought I’d give a general update:
- First off, we got a server upgrade — hooray! Please let me know if you are still experiencing slowdowns during stocking times. For the most part, it seems like the response times are much improved
- If you haven’t looked at the main Hyena Cart page lately, it’s worth a peek. We’ve refreshed the look and added product photos from randomly chosen in-stock items that have been Spotted by shoppers. The category menu on the left has also been updated with more search terms and a nicer-looking page and url when clicked. See, for example, one of my favorites: fudge
- We’ve added a “peek” function to the category pages and the calendar. To see what we mean, hold your mouse pointer over a store name. It pops up a small window with a sampling of product images from the store
- Over on the forums, if you’ve made your Pack page public, and the email address you use for shopping and forums is the same, you’ll notice that you know have a Pack Page button when you post. It’s been fun seeing everyone’s Spotted items and favorite stores. There are so many amazing items being offered! Here’s my Pack page, in case you’re interested: link
- Speaking of the forums, Becky is gearing up to host another amazing HC$ day this coming Monday. That’s when a ton of HC sellers offer items for 100% HC$. Want to learn more about HC$? Click here. And here’s a list of the items that are already previewing: list
- Finally, we’ve revamped the information pages about signing up to sell on HC. To make things easier for new sellers, we’ve gotten rid of the HCS and HCM terminology and simplified it to shared and individually owned stores. So you’ll see fewer references to HCS and HCM in the future.
I think that’s it for now. Thanks so much for being part of HC!
Thanks for all the good changes!
If you want a suggestion for future 😉 here’s something I’ve been thinking about. I would love some back-end reporting. For instance, it would really help me out if at the end of the month I could generate a list of everything that sold and a total value (not including shipping).
As it is, to get that information, I have to open order by order and write it down, and use a calculator to get a total. It can be done but it’s not very fun.
Thanks for your consideration!
Hi Dawn,
Actually, on the order history page, there’s a ‘Download order history’ link that will export to CSV. You can then open in Excel or Google documents to see all of your data 🙂
Thanks for always working so hard to make things even better! Another suggestion to make things look more updated and fresh would be to update the hyena cart logo image.
One more suggestion that I think would make things nicer is to make the order history searchable. I sell multiples of a themed package each month, and it would make things so much easier for me if I could do a search for all of the orders that contained a particular package by a key word in the title. It would save me from searching order by order to make sure that I find them all and get them shipped.