See the complete release notes for “Queens Logic” →

Movie Synopsis

Queens Logic – 1991

When childhood friends Al, Dennis and Eliot get together for Ray’s wedding, which may or may not happen, they end up on a roller-coaster ride through reality. During one tumultuous, crazy weekend, they face adulthood and each other with new found maturity and discover what Queens Logic is all about. This comedy takes a look at friendship, loyalty, and love. Written by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment

Plug Into the Matrix: Run Your Store More Efficiently with Merchant OS and Swarm

Smartphones, cloud computing, websites devoted to cat videos. Wouldn’t it be great if this whiz-bang technology could help you run your store more efficiently? Imagine getting real answers to questions like:

• How many people came into my store today? This week? Last month?
• Which customers spend the most? How can I get them in the store more often?
• Are my promotion and marketing activities really working?
• How effective are my managers and sales associates?

Enter Swarm. About a year ago, we set off to create a product that enabled store owners to:

1. Measure customer foot traffic, conversion rates, dwell time, loyalty and individual shopper activity
2. Access this data at any time, from any device, in a beautiful interface
3. Easily search, sort and send promotions to your best customers

Most importantly we wanted to offer these solutions in a low cost, easy-to-use product.

After months of rigorous testing with beta customers, late nights and gallons of truly questionable coffee, we arrived at a solution. So what is it?

Swarm is

• A Wi-Fi device (about the size of a deck of cards) that plugs in anywhere in your store. It anonymously picks up the signal from smartphones to give you an accurate count of store traffic and shoppers (over 90% accuracy and increasing by the day)
• Mobile, tablet and desktop-optimized dashboard that consolidates your store’s most important data in one place – including your MerchantOS transaction data.
• Set of basic email-marketing integrations that let you easily identify and message your best customers to get them back in the store.

The feedback so far has been outstanding. Store owners are able to make decisions about staffing, promotions and marketing on the fly, based on real data and see those results in real-time.

Here’s what an existing MerchantOS and Swarm customer had to say:

“Whether it’s with product or staffing, this will impact the way I run my business. All the information I need is right there and the dashboard couldn’t be easier. The lifeblood of my store is at my finger tips.”

Sam Radakovich, Lakeside Bicycles

And why did we choose to integrate with MerchantOS first? The dedication MerchantOS has to their customers, great technology and totally awesome team made it a no-brainer.

To kick off this integration, Swarm is offering free account sign-ups exclusively to MerchantOS customers for the next 30 days. Click through our super special link to get started. After that, someone from Swarm’s account team will reach out to coordinate next steps.

Helping you reduce cost and generate more revenue with MerchantOS is just the beginning.

Here’s to the future! - The entire team at Swarm

See the complete release notes for “Loverboy” →

Movie Synopsis

Loverboy – 2005

A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.

• You can now login using google with no issues or redirect back to the login page.
• Shopify now recognizes merchandise with the size 0 (zero).

Movie Synopsis

“Starting Over” – 1979

A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can’t get over his ex-wife. This affects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield’s novel.

If you didn’t get a chance to attend our UX Open House yesterday, here’s your chance to preview our new user interface. Check out a recording of the Open House as well as some screenshots that will let you take a closer look at where we’re going with this new user experience for MerchantOS.

We’re planning more user-input opportunities in the near future but if you have comments, questions or constructive criticism, feel free to share with us in the comments below and we’ll use them to make MerchantOS even better for you!

Since everyone asks, the plan for releasing this new user interface to customers is a multi-step process. We’ll continue sharing the work in-progress until we have everything nailed down and functional. Once we’ve gotten the UI to a point where we think it’s usable, we’ll setup a place for customers to login and test the new interface. After collecting feedback and making any necessary adjustments we’ll start moving customers over. We don’t have specific dates for these events yet, but we’re pushing hard to get this new look out to customers ASAP.

Unbeknownst to some, MerchantOS is a flat company. No one here will stop you from taking that moment of:

autonomy
development
inspiration
productivity
relaxation

Take that moment for you, for the team, for your company, for your customers, for the comically-niche cloud based point of sale with a focus on small specialty retailers.

Feel free to share your moments with us in the comments below.

• Customer name now shows up in Customer Search when they have no info in contact fields.
• The shipping costs now display correctly when importing a shipping cost from an integrated invoice into a PO.
• You can now print up to 1000 labels within print templates.
• Fixed a bug where “Link to this page” links which were broken in the reports section of MerchantOS.
• When you run an Item Search and sort by the Quantity column, it now sorts numerically instead of alphabetically.

Movie Synopsis

Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman as his only companion.

• Include our name, “MerchantOS” in the phrase
• Use no more than 50 characters
• Keep it clean, for the whole family to enjoy
• Be funny or quirky or witty or all of the above

We will host our second online “User Experience Open House” on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 3:00 PM (PDT). This is where you can see a preview of the new user interface, ask questions and make suggestions about what you’d like to see in both this current project and future ones.

Technical Note: We’re reworking our online presentations to (hopefully) offer much better audio and video quality as well as high-quality recording so you can check out the open house content later even if you can’t make it to live event.

• We updated our Login page to be compatible with our iOS sales app, it is now mobile friendly…and prettier.
• Debit transactions are no longer presented for refund unless they can actually be refunded.
• Our turns report never worked very well, so we removed it until we can produce something more useful and accurate.

Movie Synopsis

“End of the Line” – 1987

When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.

Well that was quite the detailed movie description from IMDb! This must be one of Kevin’s finest.