Category: All HC Users

Just wanted to let you know that those of you who are using the option
of loading images directly to the HC server now have a gallery you can
use 🙂 You’ll see the “Edit gallery” link at the bottom of your vendor
pages, and you can upload gallery images directly to the server too.
The top of the page shows you the code you can use to link to your
gallery from your main store page. Let me know if you have any
problems using your gallery 🙂

Just a quick note to tell you I added some more categories to the
product types page: Slings & Carriers, Yarn & Fabric, and Web
Services.

As a refresher, there is a drop-down menu on your Profile Page (under
Optional Customizations) called “Product type.” Choose one of those
categories and you will be automatically listed on the List all HC
Stores by Product page.

Let me know if you’d like to add any other categories 🙂

Also — you may not all have noticed — you can now get to the vendor
login page from the main site. It’s in the drop-down menu under “For
WAHMs.”

Finally, I want to take this opportunity to thank you for hosting your
store on Hyena Cart. We now have more than 250 active stores, 4000
registered users, over $200,000 worth of goods listed and over
$200,000 in completed sales (not counting the extra money that is
usually added to custom orders). I think this is amazing! It’s your
unique, handcrafted items that bring the traffic to HC and I hope we
can continue to pull new customers in as sellers from different
categories join us.

It’s time to go around and spot some items! Each product listing now
has a “Spot this item!” link at the bottom. To read more about it,
check this page out:

http://hyenacart.com/hc_spots_exp.php

So go spot some items, why don’t you 😉

In other news, I’m still compiling the keyword list, but if you all go
ahead and start using these standard terms, it will be easier for
customers to find your products. Once we get a number of us using them
in our listings, I’ll post the list on the search page so customers
can use them too. What you may want to
do is have a little section at the bottom of your listing for keywords
and just list some there. For example “size2T soft-shoes blue”. I
haven’t added your suggestions yet, but I’ll get to that soon. Here’s
the list so far: http://hyenacart.com/search_terms.php

Please check out this thread at the HC forums:
http://forum.hyenacart.com/viewtopic.php?p=652

Thanks for your help 🙂

I added three new categories to the product categories: traning pants,
shoes, and jewelry. I took the liberty of changing the category of a
few of your stores so I could test the code. Sorry if I put you in the
wrong one!

As a refresher, there is a drop-down menu on your Profile Page (under
Optional Customizations) called “Product type.” Choose one of those
categories and you will be automatically listed on the List all HC
Stores by Product page.

Let me know if you’d like to add any other categories 🙂

I’ve had a few bug reports trickling in and was wondering if there’s
more going on that was intermittent and you weren’t sure if it was you
or HC. Although there’s plenty of room on the database, I’m wondering
if it’s starting to act screwy or something. So please, if there’s
anything you’ve noticed lately that seems odd or unusual, drop me a
line and I’ll see if there’s a bigger problem going on.

I’ve just added a weekly view (the new default), and a daily view, in
addition to the monthly stocking calendar view we’ve always had.
Hopefully, this makes the calendar less intimidating and more
manageable for our customers. Any items you stock will show up
immediately in the weekly and daily listings, but will still have up
to an hour delay on the monthly calendar. I’ve put some thought into a
‘fluff in waiting’ link, but it would be an insanely long page to list
everything currently in-stock in hyena cart stores. The best bet is
still to use the search feature with appropriate keywords. I’m hoping
this addresses some of the concerns that were voiced in this thread at
mothering

http://mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=376775

Let me know if you have other ideas for how to make HC more user-friendly 🙂

I had a hyena e-mail me today, asking if I could provide a forum for
them to show off their fluff, discuss cloth diapering and generally
express their hyena-ness.

If you’d like to visit, it’s here:

http://forum.hyenacart.com/

There’s a spam forum and a place to post questions about HC as well.
Of course, you’re welcome to email me as well. I will probably still
check my email more often than the forum.

Thanks for taking a look 🙂

Just wanted to let you know, you can now have your banner shown at the
top of the HC calendar page for $5/month. If you’re interested, just
sign up here:

http://hyenacart.com/BannerManage/

After you create your account, you can deposit Paypal funds and upload
your banner. Let me know if you have any questions.

If you’re curious, here are some stats for the current banners:

http://hyenacart.com/BannerManage/bannerstats.php

On a typical day, the calendar page gets 1500+ hits per day. Banners
need to be 468×60 pixels.

A lot of you have asked for it, and I’ve finally gotten around to adding it. You can now upload your images directly from your hard drive to the HC server. I’ve been testing it this afternoon and it makes stocking a heckuva lot easier.

Here’s how it works: first you create your item listing (just leave the images at the defaults at first). Then, once the listing is created, you click to edit it. There will be a new link underneath where the images are entered called “Upload images directly to server.” Clicking that link will take you to a page that will allow you to browse your hard drive, click the files you’d like to upload, and send them to the server. They’ll automatically be resized so that the thumbnail is 100 pixels wide, and the product images are a max of 512 wide or 750 high (whichever is larger). Once those are set, you return back to your listing where the image paths are already filled in for you. Then you enter the information for the listing as you normally do and voila! the images are in your listing.

As of now, only jpg files are supported. I’m hoping that’s what most of you use anyway. If there’s a need, I can see what I need to do to allow gifs.

You can still enter full url paths to images hosted in other locations if you want. That part works exactly as before.

This service is completely optional and costs $2.50 extra per month for single storefronts, $12.50 per month for congos. If you’d like to try it out, just send me an email with your request and your business name. I’ll get you set up. If your account is paid up, you’ll be able to use the service for the rest of your paid time at no cost (1 month max). After that, the new charges kick in unless you email me and ask me to downgrade your service (you can do that at anytime, but as usual, I can’t prorate payments that have already been made).

Thanks everyone!