Whenever we hold an Open House or participate in a conference or trade show, we offer a discount to those who attend and purchase our software while they are there. The point of the discount is to encourage people to attend the event and help compensate them for the cost of attending.

Of course, the best way to save money is to purchase the Order Manager and start using it! Say you ship 20 orders per day. If the Order Manager saves you only 5 minutes per order (some of our merchants say that it saves closer to 20 minutes per order, but let's be conservative) then you are gaining 100 minutes per day, 500 minutes per 5-day week (wouldn't a 5-day week be nice?) and roughly 167 hours per month. At just $10 per hour, the Order Manager more than pays for itself in just one month! Using those same numbers, you will save over $18,000 in the first year. If you save more time per order or ship more than 20 orders per day, the numbers just get better. And these are real numbers - one of our users told us that they are saving the cost of 3 full-time employees by using the Order Manager. Where else can you get a return on your money like that these days?

If you run a one-person company, think what you could do with that extra hour and a half you would gain every day: Refine your product offerings. Work on your search engine placement. Write a press release. Manage your business instead of doing so much grunt work. Maybe even spend a few minutes with your spouse or kids!

Those are the kind of savings that we like to offer!

Yes, the Order Manager is now available for MonsterCommerce users. You will find the MonsterCommerce logo in the list of shopping carts that we support on our home page. You can also find more info at http://www.stoneedge.com/monster.htm

There's really not much to it. You have to enter a support ticket with MonsterCommerce to have them install the Order Manager script for your store. Then you just click the Import Orders button on the Order Manager's Main Menu. You will see a list of shopping carts that have been set up to import into the current Order Manager store. (You can import from multiple carts into the same Order Manager store so they can share the same inventory, etc.) Select the one to import from, and click the Import button. Everything else is automatic.

Yes, the Order Manager works with Amazon Marketplace and zShops. It can also import orders for Amazon Sellers Central merchants with text file accounts, although it cannot yet send status info back to Amazon for them. For Sellers Central merchants with XML accounts, we can import orders and automatically send status data back to Amazon, but there are some additional software requirements. You can find more info in our Knowledge Base at: http://www.stoneedge.com/support/amazonsetup.html and http://www.stoneedge.com/support/wash.html.

Once you purchase the Order Manager for one shopping cart (e.g. MonsterCommerce) there is a $300 fee for each additional shopping cart (e.g. Amazon, Shop.com, Yahoo!Store, etc.) that you want to use. The three Amazon store types are covered by one $300 fee.

There are no per-store charges, so if you have more than one MonsterCommerce store you don't have to pay any extra to manage all of them with the Order Manager, as long as you do it from one office location.

Finally, you can set up separate Order Manager "stores" for each shopping cart that you import from, or import multiple stores (e.g. 2 MC stores and an Amazon store) into the same Order Manager store. In that case, the Order Manager will keep track of the source of each order, and you can use different company names, etc. in emails and on invoices and packing slips depending on the source of each order.

You can find more info on the Order Manager itself at www.StoneEdge.com/OrderManager.htm.