In the B2B (business-to-business) world, it is not at all uncommon for customers to have account credit or an authorized purchase amount. Are you prepared?
By allowing your customers to place orders using credit on their account, bill me later, or commercial credit cards, you are building a delighted customer interaction, getting them through the buying experience in a faster, more...
One comment that I always share with xTupleCommerce customers is that — to get the most bang for their buck — they must think of their B2B eCommerce solution as a tool for their customers — and other trading partners — rather than just an online store. The xTupleCommerce system is built to make things easier for our customers (the owners of the eCommerce website) and their customers. Our goal...
If you’ve ever worked on an eCommerce project — or any website for that matter, you know how important content is for increasing conversions. The art of fine-tuning marketing content, campaigns, keywords and product descriptions is essential for ensuring customers find your products, get engaged and make purchases. Ensuring that content management is fluid, easy and non-technical was...
About six years ago, René Raggl , a then 30-year-old account manager for a retail supplier in the Netherlands, raised his hand and volunteered to help with xTuple's German translation project. It was Raggl's first foray into the realm of open source projects. Raggl had been working with PostBooks® and he liked it. He quickly saw that with his language skills he was someone who could help, who...
During the development stage of planning and building xTupleCommerce (real-time, xTuple ERP-connected Sales & Customer Service online access for businesses), we found that offering the ability to work with pricing schedules on B2B eCommerce sites turned out to be one of the most desired features.
Not familiar with Pricing Schedules? Let me explain.
Imagine you are a...
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xTuple, global leader in commercial open source business management software for growing companies, announces its partnership with the newly formed consultancy, Jacobs ERP Solutions LLC. xTuple and Jacobs together will...
xTuple ERP 4.9.5 is now available for download from xTuple's GitHub repository or the xTuple PostBooks® project page on SourceForge. This release fixes bugs in Project Types, document associations, and a critical update to credit card processing using Authorize.net.
By Kim Cung
The City of Norfolk is helping local entrepreneurs with four unique programs.
One of them is the Norfolk Innovation Fund, starting out with half a million dollars. It will focus on providing money for businesses in fields including health care, technology, sustainability, life sciences and resiliency. The fund is the first Municipal Venture Capital Fund in Virginia...
How do you estimate the Return on Investment (ROI) of your business management system? What methodology should you use? Companies who identify their possible ROI — before the start of the ERP project (and measure it continuously throughout the implementation process) — stand to gain the most benefits from their ERP solution.
In this article, we explore a simple financial model that...
What is it worth to your business (and your bottom line) to lead a workforce that functions as a team, working together to meet and exceed customer expectations on product, delivery, price, and service?
The answer may appear obvious: the business will achieve peak financial performance and it will have enhanced value— both intrinsically, and to potential acquirers. Achieving such a...
If you are using the Authorize.net service to process credit cards, you have probably received some notifications from them about some upcoming changes. The only change that affects xTuple users is the notice that "Authorize.net is now using Akamai to optimize [its] Internet traffic routing, which includes your merchants' transaction requests."
xTuple ERP (all Editions) has been...
If you're the type of person who follows SVN commit records on the PostBooks site on SourceForge , then maybe you've already noticed how busy the xTuple documentation team has been the past few months. With almost 70 new features (and counting!), xTuple ERP version 4.10 presents a ton of new functionality that needs to be documented.
And our team has been on it!
For all you...
As a followup to our invitation to participate in Enterprise Solution Research earlier this year, we thought we'd share a few snippets from the results and offer the opportunity to obtain the final report from Cindy Jutras, president of Mint Jutras .
It seems Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has always gotten a bad rap. Everywhere we...
If you're interested in learning more about the new desktop shortcuts available beginning with xTuple version 4.9, we've just posted a new video explaining how these customizable shortcuts work .
That's right: these desktop shortcuts are fully customizable. With a few simple keystrokes, you can add links to your favorite xTuple screens right from the main desktop — and you don't need...
One of the neat things about the open source world is the ability to get your hands on an early release of new software. I'm happy to announce that the first beta of version 4.10 is now available for download and testing... and it's loaded with new features and fixes.
And that's not even the biggest news. There are two more major items coming. The first is probably our most-requested...
xTuple ERP 4.10.0 beta is now available for download from xTuple's GitHub repository or the xTuple PostBooks® project page on SourceForge . This release includes approximately 150 bug fixes. The commercial editions and packages can be downloaded by commercial customers from xTuple's Community Website . See more information about deploying this release in...
In any large-scale business-to-business ( B2B) organization, there are a variety of reasons that you want to maintain customer records in your enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. This helps you track sales by customer account, aids you in navigating a customer's past purchase history, gives you insight to the types of products in which a particular customer is interested, and gives...
What would you and your business do if you lost everything?
With just a click — deliberate or not — your entire digital world can disappear. And with it, untold dollars in lost revenue, not to mention the headaches and time spent in recovery mode.
Do you remember the last time you backed up your valuable business data? If not, it’s time to take action.
World Backup Day...
Happy St. Patrick's Day! It's one of the most popular celebrations worldwide, and here at xTuple, we're getting in the spirit too. In this issue, we're profiling a terrific (Canadian) customer who just happens to be called St. Patrick's Cabinet Making, a fantastic community member named Patty Davis, and updates on xTuple professional services from the fellow who runs it (who just happens to...
Happy St. Patrick's Day! It's one of the most popular celebrations worldwide, and here at xTuple, we're getting in the spirit too. In this issue, we're profiling a terrific (Canadian) customer who just happens to be called St. Patrick's Cabinet Making, a fantastic community member named Patty Davis, and updates on xTuple professional services from the fellow who runs it (who just happens to be named Jim McCluskey). And did I mention the Lucky Licenses promotion? If you've ever sorted through a field of three-leaf clovers looking for that rare shamrock, then you'll like this one — buy 3, get 1 free!