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We’re excited to announce the next release of Ecwid, the long-awaited version (5.0). All Ecwid users have been upgraded.
So what’s new?
- Protected download links
- UPS negotiated rates and Time in Transit API
- eSELECT Plus Hosted Paypage, HSBC Secure ePayments and Network Merchants gateways
- Five new storefront built-in translation and backend translations
- New Minicart views
- New “Shipped” order status and tracking numbers
- Sort by name and default sorting for categories

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A new minor version of Ecwid (v4.1) has been released. It has some interesting improvements worth mentioning:
- JavaScript code splitting
- Content Delivery Network for CSS and Javascript
- Our Facebook application can add product tabs to fan pages
- Two new built-in storefront translations

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On 28 Apr, 2010 our CEO, Ruslan Fazlyev presented Ecwid at The Next Web 2010 conference.

Video of his presentation

We’re glad to announce a new release of the major Ecwid version. That's one small change for a version number, one giant leap for all Ecwid community. So what’s new?
- Beta is behind
- Paid accounts
- Ecwid API
- Better SEO
- Facebook application
- New product option type

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We continue interviewing Ecwid merchants about e-commerce and their shops.
Today we feature Mike LoCurto, Natural Body Inc.com Partner, who will share some experience on how to run a successful online store.

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We are excited to announce that Ecwid is a finalist of The Next Web Paypal X Startup Rally!

We’re glad to announce a new release of major Ecwid version (3.0). What features does this release bring to all Ecwid stores? Let's highlight them:
- PayPal Standard
- Discount coupons
- Advanced integration with social networks
- New Google Gadget
- Affiliates features
- E-Path payment gateway
- Multilanguage

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Today we're announcing a new format of our blog posts: interviews with store owners about e-commerce.
Below is our interview with Amy Vander Vorste, the owner of Ojamiya.com.

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Have you ever thought about how fast your shopping cart is? We suggest doing so. According to many investigations your store speed directly influences your sales.
It's a well-known fact that every 100ms of latency costs Amazon 1% of profit. A 2 second delay is 20%, and so on.

Customers don’t like waiting. There are a zillion different web stores they can go to. So don’t irritate your visitors with delays, your pages should open fast, period.

So what are the ingredients of a really fast store?

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One of the Ecwid advantages is the ability to deploy and use the application on different sites or social networks at the same time. This enables an enormous grow of number of your potential customers.
We already described how to create your own Facebook shopping cart and make your store available to 350 million of active users.

In this post we’ll instruct you on adding your Ecwid to MySpace — another large social network with millions of users.

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