The OrderDynamics eCommerce SaaS Platform reduces impact on internal IT and offers a more scalable, secure, and affordable way to deliver high-volume ecommerce.

“It is our mission to deliver platform features and improvements that supports the growing needs of our Clients" -Steven Berkovitz, On-Demand Platform Architect

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OrderDynamics eCommerce Platform Roadmap

Companies choose OrderDynamics because they've outgrown limiting systems and they need superior tools and a partner to help them grow. Part of our committment is ensuring our platform meets the growing needs of our Clients.

We deliver 4-6 major releases per year and each release is packed with features and made available to our Clients at no extra fee.

Another important difference with OrderDynamics, we are a true Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, meaning our Clients are never stuck on an old version and upgrades are included in their fees.

Platform Roadmap

  • Major release 4-6 times per year
  • Seamless upgrades
  • Additions to OrderDynamics H.I.V.E™
  • Enhancements to existing features
  • New frontend merchandising
  • New backend modules
  • Performance Enhancements
  • Ability to request new features

Winter Release 2009

  • OrderDynamics Platform
    • Amazon Seller Central Support.
    • Automatic & Manual Order Splitting
    • New Shopping Cart Trigger – Product & State/Province Trigger
    • New Shopping Cart Action – Add a product at calculated sale price
    • Barcode support on packing slips
    • GIVEX Gift Card Support
    • Extend Scheduling Engine: addition promo types
    • Toggle for Aittribute Type used in Guided Navigation
    • Google Checkout Support
    • PayPal Express Checkout Support
    • Ability to search order extended data for integration-based data
    • Fraud Detection now supports the following new rules
      • Originating Site ID
      • Product Brand
      • Customer Chargeback Count
      • Shipping Rate
    • Personalized Products support multiple question types with pre-defined answers
      • Radio Button lists
      • Checkboxes
      • Multi-line text box
      • headers
  • eBusiness Manager
    • Ability to configure Amazon Seller Central Stores
    • Ability to bind products to Amazon template types
    • Personalized Products are supported in the Call Center
    • Per-eStore Google Analytics Controls
    • E-casts: Ability to target customers who have not placed an order
  • eStore Frontend
    • Version 3 Shopping Cart Control is now available
    • Version 3 Checkout Forms are now available
    • Ability to have content areas randomize their display of products
    • Enhancement to Vanity URL support
    • Enhancement to Email-A-Friend

Spring Release 2010

  • OrderDynamics Platform
    • Per-site email template overrides
    • Per eStore Keyword Search Reporting
    • New email token: {Date}
    • Configure taxes to be calculated against billing or shipping address
    • eBay Store Integration for Fixed-Priced Products
    • Amazon Product Ads Feed Integration
    • SingleFeed Product Feed Integration
    • Become.com Product Feed Integration
    • Nextag Product Feed Integration
    • New shopping cart trigger: Product Category
    • New shopping cart action to apply a line-item discounts
    • Shipping Rates now support min/max volume
    • Order pipeline, order routing in pre-auth to end point
    • New OD Integration Version
    • Avalara Tax Integration
    • Enhanced site bindings for Complex Promos
    • Per-site email sender address and email subject overrides
    • Cornerstone Product Feed Integration
    • ShopToIt Product Feed Integration
    • “Append attribute value to URL in guided navigation” field has been added to product attributes
  • eBusiness Manager
    • Not Started and Failed Orders can be cancelled
    • Lookup option for IP addresses on the View Order page
    • New and updated help documents
    • Updated Template Editor for TX emails
  • eStore Frontend
    • The Buy Area additional configurations
    • New Guided Navigation functionality with SEO-friendly URL’s for filters and paging
    • Enhancements to V3 Cart and Wishlists

Fall Release 2010

  • OrderDynamics Platform
    • Ability to toggle what state orders are placed in
    • Expansion to IP Lookups system
    • Per-site, customizable packing slips
    • SEO Override Feature w/facet page support
    • Canonical management
    • Schedule task expansion for purging cart data
    • Manufacturer feature – clone of Brands to facilitate Manufacturer/Brand relationships
    • Coupons can be targeted to brands, manufacturers and B2B Customer Groups
    • Coupon exclusivity
    • Per-site tiered pricing support for B2B Groups
    • Per-site pricing-based merchandising (free products) support for B2B Groups
    • Multi-warehouse support: Assignment of products to a warehouse. Warehouse based per-product or per-order fees
    • Warehouse-based Shipping Integration
    • Warehouse-based partial packing slip generation
    • Ability to re-send order data to shipping integration software
    • LastUpdated and LastUpdatedRead fields on products
    • Ability to turn off validation in CRM module API
    • Support for a “Null” payment processor for when payment processing is handled by an external party
    • Web Service API Keys / Authentication updates
    • Support for a notification-only email address on orders
    • Ability to customize, per-site, which email notifications are active/inactive
    • New Fraud Detection Rule – Customer Order Count (Approved/Billed)
    • Ability to automatically BCC all transactional email notifications to a configurable email address
    • Shopping Site Integration – ability to toggle product URL mode between Vanity URL’s and legacy URL’s
    • Support for separate marketing and transactional email SMTP servers
    • OrderDynamics Scheduled Task to purge product browser cache
  • eBusiness Manager
    • Ability to view packing slips when orders are in the pre-authorized or hold states
    • Ability to cancel eBay Orders
    • Ability to cancel orders in the Payment Pending state (B2B)
    • Orders by [Credit Card] Transactions report
    • Coupon start/end dates now allow you to specify a time of day in addition to just a date
    • Multi-warehouse and Vendor user interfaces
    • Ability to view saved shopping carts, wish lists and other order forms from the View Customer interface
    • New “Orders by Customer” and “Customer Lifetime Value” reports
  • eStore Frontend
    • Order Forms/Shopping Cart support “self-healing” from corrupt cookies and other invalid states
    • Platform support to parallelize image HTTP requests across hostnames
    • Per-site customized header image branding in PayPal
    • Personalized Content Areas can now be configured to not output a fixed size container DIV in the HTML markup
    • Ability to re-order payment methods in v3 Checkout
    • Support for multi-valued product attributes in guided navigation
    • V3 cart support for configuration options: stock availability, order block messaging

Spring Release 2011

  • OrderDynamics Platform
    • Ability to configure whether fraud rules run before or after the credit card authorization
    • Ability to configure what status an order is placed into when a fraud rule is triggered
    • Fraud rule support for the order discounts field
    • Fraud rule support for the number of out of stock products in an order
    • Fraud Detection triggers are now logged to the order to help you identify why an order was marked as fraud
    • Percentage-based shipping rates
    • Support for $0 shipping rates
    • Full address information is now passed to Alavara for tax lookups
    • ShopRunner Integration
    • Multi-select product browser support
    • Returned and Charged Back order status’ have been moved to an “Order Flags” field and are no longer considered order statuses
    • Separate Order Declined and Order Failed email templates
    • Back-end display name on shipping rates
    • Coupons now support a “Max Sub-total” field
    • Packing Slips now support a “Sub-total after discounts” token
    • Sales Engine now supports site-wide sales
    • Sales now support targeting categories, brands and manufacturers
    • Returned Order email notification (defaults to disabled)
    • Order Cancelled email notification (disabled by default)
    • Order Held email notification (disabled by default)
    • Canada Post real-time rate lookups
    • Support for zero-dollar products
    • Support for zero-dollar orders
    • API to lookup incoming product quantities and ETA’s (via Purchase Orders)
    • Percent-based coupons now track discounts at order line item level
  • Call Center Version 3
    • Ability to change the website context so the product catalog and pricing are specific to the specified site (instead of just the call center)
    • Full guided navigation support for product searches in call center
    • In-line inventory status indicators in the shopping cart
    • Ability to view per-product related product lists and dynamic merchandising (Customers Also Bought) and add applicable items to the cart without leaving the call center
    • Ability to view per-product pricing structures
    • Ability to save the order form for later (example: Quote)
    • Ability to edit and submit existing order forms (such as incomplete front-end shopping carts, wish list, quotes)
    • Ability to apply/remove multiple coupons to the order in call center
    • AJAX progress indicator for all background operations
  • New Feature Dynamic Promotions
    • The Dynamic Promotion Engine is a flexible and extensible trigger/action based engine designed to allow for significant flexibility in designing and building promotions. The engine was designed to replace the Shopping Cart Triggers and Complex Promotion features currently in the system.
    • Support for grouping of triggers and filters allows for complex rules to be built and evaluated
    • Both triggers and actions are extensible by our support/project teams for a quick turn-around of new promotional features
    • Ability to execute multiple actions within a single promotion
    • UI pickers make specifying products, brands, categories, shipping rates, etc. easy to do when building promotions
    • Customizable promotional messaging displayed in the shopping cart
    • Customizable promotional messaging can be displayed on product pages when a promotion might apply
    • Actions support customers choosing free items in the shopping cart
    • Logging of applied promotions to the order
  • New Inventory Management UI
    • The new Inventory Manager feature provides a unified interface to perform inventory maintenance using guided-navigation for finding products with certain inventory conditions.
    • Target Quantity value allows you to store the number of units you would ideally have on-hand
    • Out-of-stock threshold allows you specify at what level of available inventory is the product considered out-of-stock
    • Near real-time inventory lookups (1min tolerance); used in the shopping cart and checkout processed to reduce inventory contention
    • Updated inventory reports
  • eBusiness Manager
    • Current Inventory report now shows 30 day sales history
    • You can now split orders in pending-fraud or on-hold statuses
    • Ability to upload attachments to customers
    • On-hand inventory is now shown on the View Order page
    • Line-level discounts are now shown on the View Order page
    • Ability to permanently delete Purchase Orders
    • Support for per-customer reporting menus
    • Inventory Manager interface
  • eStore Frontend
    • Support for “Shop by Rating” in guided navigation
    • Categories now support a “Guided Navigation” field that is used in the Product Browsers
    • Ability to apply custom stock messaging in the shopping cart
    • Ability to override the code that generates product names/links in the shopping cart

Fall Release 2011

  • OrderDynamics Platform
    • Product Personalization now supports images, selection-based additional costs and injecting HTML before or after questions
    • Products now support a “Merchandisable” flag
    • Categories, Brands and Manufacturers now support a “Show in Guided Navigation” flag
    • Dynamic Promotions now support custom action filters
    • Integration with HostedPCI
    • Dynamic Promotions now allow you to use the Contains operator against two lists
    • New fraud rules to target the CSC and AVS results of payment gateway transactions
    • New fraud rules to target Returned Order Count
    • Support for Credit Memos (credits back to an account which are then used as a payment method on subsequent orders for that customer)
    • New Scheduled Task to sanitize credit card numbers after a configurable interval from the original order date
    • New Payment Processor: Merchante Solutions
    • New Shopping Site Feed: PepperJam Affiliate Feed
    • New Shopping Site Feed – BING Shopping Feed
    • New Shopping Site Feed – The Find Shopping Feed
    • New Shopping Site Feed – Wishabi Shopping Feed
    • Shopping.com feed has been updated to support the newer feed format
    • Per-Customer Scheduled Tasks
    • New Payment Processor: Profit Point gift card support
    • New “AlwaysTrue” Dynamic Promotion Trigger
    • Avalara tax integration when processing returns
    • A Null Gift Card Gateway is now available to perform offline gift card transactions
    • Support for phone number token in all order/customer email templates
    • Support for FedEx real-time rate lookups
    • Brands now optionally support a backend name field (disabled by default; enabled for multi-lingual clients)
    • Manufactures support a front-end and back-end name field
    • Address Services are now culture-aware
    • Address Services now support French translations of all Canadian provinces
    • Added a Culture field to the customers table
    • Per-site category bindings
    • Customer PO# field on orders (accessible via eCommerce Manager). Also available as a token in email templates
    • Dynamic Promotions now include a manufacturer filter
    • New Shopping Site Feed: Shop To It/Shop Bot
    • Dynamic Promotions now have a Merchandisable flag
    • Order-based Email templates now support a tracking number token
    • Integration with Microsoft Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) for system images
    • Auto-suggest search product browser infrastructure
  • eBusiness Manager
    • The Edit Fraud Rule user interface has been updated to match that of Dynamic Promotions (with support for grouping)
    • Ability to duplicate an order
    • Ability to Select All / Un-Select All via the Coupons interface
    • New Offline Payments report
    • Purchase Order History report
    • Major Upgrade of eCast eMail Campaigns and Customer Segmentation
    • Ability to duplicate a coupon
    • Viewing an order, the comment field can be edited directly from the view order page
    • Ability to customize the out of stock and invalid item combination error messages that appear on the product page
    • Credit memos can be applied to offline orders
    • Ability to add/update Customer PO# field on orders while creating/editing and viewing
    • Ability to download a PDF of an order using a customizable HTML template
    • Ability to download a PDF of a saved order form using a customizable HTML template
    • Product Management advanced search has been replaced with a multi-select product browser allowing you to filter your data based on category, brand, manufacturer, price, rating and attributes
  • eStore Frontend
    • Ability to display product personalization options directly on a product page
    • Google Analytics integration now supports both sync and async modes of operation
    • Google Analytics integration now enabled page speed tracking
    • Ability to duplicate a dynamic promotion
    • All front-end webcontrols now support globalization and localization to support all LTR languages
    • French Translations of all strings for platform-based front-end website controls
    • Ability to enable showing a sub-total line in the shopping cart pricing preview
    • Product Scoped Personalized Content Areas allow you to use PCA’s on product pages and target product-sensitive contextual data within the PCA.