Storeowners can now add your Storenvy store to your Facebook profile or fan page. Your fans, friends and contacts can now shop your store straight from Facebook!

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Shoppers’ order management. This has been in place for about a month now. From your Account Settings page, you can now click the Orders tab and view the status of all your previous orders. Also from this page, shoppers can contact stores directly or report a problem.

Short URLs and new share links. Each product profile page now shows what you see here, helping people share shortened links to the their favorite products on Storenvy.

Product RSS feeds. With this, not only can shoppers sign up to get product updates from their favorite stores straight to their RSS readers, store owners can do some creative stuff, like have an automatic product feed on another site. The RSS feeds look like this.

Export orders. In store owners’ Store Admin Panel, you can now export your orders. This will help storeowners with things like capturing all their buyer’s email addresses, etc.

Last night, we launched a replacement for the big gray bar that went across the top of the storefronts. The new links are way more subtle, and because they are more subtle, it gives you more control over the experience shoppers have on your store.

This was really the biggest selling point for us. We want to continue to give you ways to make your store feel like your own space while still tying it in to the Storenvy community.

Also, the storefronts are significantly faster now due to some advanced caching I implemented over the weekend. This will help you with sales!

What do you guys think about the new links?

Links from left to right: Follow/Unfollow, Return to Storenvy, My Profile, My Store Admin and View Cart.

We just uploaded a few fun changes for store owners:

You can now post your products to Facebook and Twitter right from your admin panel. Just visit any product’s admin page and click the Facebook or Twitter links on the left.

Also, many have requested it, and it’s finally here. We’ve added a link to your admin panel in the dropdown under your username in the top right menu. And for extra convenience, there’s one on the homepage, too!

As always, there’s much more to come, and we’re cranking it out as fast as humanly possible.

Two of the most requested features are now available to all Storenvy store owners — Google Analytics integration and a Twitter update feed.

And for you number crunchers, we’ve enabled the eCommerce feature in Google Analytics so you can see where your sales are coming as well as many other cool features.

More info:

• Adding Google Analytics: http://www.storenvy.com/help/articles/google-analytics
• Adding a Twitter update list: http://www.storenvy.com/help/articles/special-tags

These are just a few of the many features we’ve been working on since the site launched at the beginning of November, and we can’t wait to show you guys the rest of the stuff we have up our sleeves!

Introducing Storenvy Spectaculars

Happy Thanksgiving! Because we’re thankful for YOU, our store owners, today we’re launching a brand new way to promote your products to the Storenvy community!

Storenvy Spectaculars are a way for you to promote your most giftable products during special occasions. For certain holidays (or possibly lack of holidays), our Spectaculars will showcase any product(s) you choose. They will be promoted heavily by us and by every other store owner who has joined in.

Join the Holiday Spectacular Now!

The Holiday Spectacular is open in your Store Admin Panel NOW! We’re offering spots in our first-ever Spectacular at a great deal: $9.99 each, listed from now through December 31. Here is what the Holiday Spectacular pages will look like:

To add one or more of your products, visit the Spectaculars page under the Promote tab in your Store Admin Panel. You’ll be able to pay through PayPal straight from your Admin Panel.

We’ll open the Holiday Spectacular up to the public as soon as we get some critical mass in there, so the sooner you join, the sooner we’ll get the word out!

Get your Friends on Storenvy

Everyone who joins Storenvy between now and 12/21 will be entered to win 1 of 10 pairs of Shake & Shout shades! Want more Followers and Fans on Storenvy? Get your friends and family to join — isn’t that what they’re for? ;-)

Spectacular Promotions

Keep an eye out for our Spectacular promotions on Twitter, Facebook and here on the blog and feel free to reuse them any way you want.

Happy Holiday Selling!

In case you didn’t catch it through Twitter last week, we made a few updates on the social side to help you find other users more easily. You can now search for users through our search tool, like you search for anything else:

And you can now find your Twitter friends by going into your account Settings and linking your Twitter account (remember, you’ll only find those who have also linked their Twitter accounts):

Enjoy!

As of yesterday, we have transitioned our payment system from Amazon Payments to PayPal.

If you are a store owner, you now need to have a PayPal email address listed in your Store Admin Panel in order to keep getting paid. We tried to give people a heads-up as we were transitioning, so hopefully everyone got a chance to enter their PayPal account into their store.

People have asked us why we went through the trouble of transitioning away from Amazon Payments when it was working perfectly well. I already explained the main reasons over on Emptees.com, but I thought I’d repost here so everyone can get a chance to see it. Here were our key influencers in our decision to ditch Amazon Payments for PayPal:

1. We can now have international stores.

It’s our goal to allow businesses from every country on earth to take part in the Storenvy community. However, Amazon Payments doesn’t allow non-US businesses to accept payments or even register. We’ve already had quite a few disappointed would-be Canadian and UK Storenvy store owners get their hearts broken by the US-only restriction. We’d asked Amazon when they would expand internationally, and their (optimistic) timeline was longer than we or our users wanted to wait. PayPal is available in 190 countries and regions and accepts 19 currencies.

2. Amazon’s evil 14-day reserve.

Amazon has a very subtle policy that can really cause a headache. In the first six months of opening your account, each sale you make is held for two weeks before you can withdraw it. You just see the money sitting there, but you can’t get to it. This would really hurt if you had a successful store and for the first two weeks, you’re running to the post office every day paying out of pocket for shipping expenses because Amazon won’t even let you withdraw the money people have paid you for shipping and handling! And this isn’t just for the first two weeks. You’re always two weeks behind on money. Receive $5 on the 1st of the month and you can’t withdraw it until the 15th. Receive $250 on the 13th, and wait to withdraw it until the 27th. We couldn’t do that to you guys. It’s a strict policy that Amazon has put into place to reduce fraud, but somehow PayPal has made much less strict policies work, and we have to just go with the solution that makes everything easier on our users.

3. Internet users are used to PayPal and don’t need as much education on it upfront.