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As new vendors come in, it’s been hard to keep everyone reminded about not getting listed on the calendars too often. I had fixed the weekly calendar so each store can only appear once, and I’ve just fixed the monthly calendar so that each store can only appear a maximum of twice per month. The stockings that will be listed are the two latest dates in the month for which you have active items set.

Sorry if this inconveniences anyone, but the logistics are much easier this way, rather then having everyone trying to remember to not to have active items appearing on more than one day per week. Let me know if you think there are any errors in the code and thanks for understanding!

Well, I did quite a bit of coding today, but as usual, my to-do list doesn’t look any shorter. But here’s the update:

1) I wrote a page that will email your vendor login info to you. You can get to it from the vendor login page (which, don’t forget, is listed on the main HC site under “For WAHMs”). There are two different links, depending on whether you have your own store, or are part of a congo:

http://hyenacart.com/Vendor_files/vendor_page.php

Just click the link “Forgotten Your login info?” or “Forgotten your congo login info?” and follow the instructions. Let me know if you have any problems.

2) Customer first names are now included on your order confirmation emails and listed in your order history detailed view. This should make it less awkward to write those emails rather than just saying, “Hey you — thanks for ordering”

3) I added a new way to browse HC items, the random spots page: http://hyenacart.com/hc_spots_rand.php . You’ll also see a few random items on the calendar page to tempt the hyenas

I know using choices is one of the most confusing things about HC so I want to write a tutorial on how to use them for various situations. If you have a type of listing you’d like to do, but haven’t figured out how to get the choices to work the way you want, drop me an e-mail and I’ll be sure to include that situation in my tutorial.

Just wanted to let you know that those of you who are using the option of loading images directly to the HC server now have a gallery you can use You’ll see the “Edit gallery” link at the bottom of your vendor pages, and you can upload gallery images directly to the server too. The top of the page shows you the code you can use to link to your gallery from your main store page. Let me know if you have any problems using your gallery

Just a quick note to tell you I added some more categories to the product types page: Slings & Carriers, Yarn & Fabric, and Web Services.

As a refresher, there is a drop-down menu on your Profile Page (under Optional Customizations) called “Product type.” Choose one of those categories and you will be automatically listed on the List all HC Stores by Product page.

Let me know if you’d like to add any other categories

Also — you may not all have noticed — you can now get to the vendor login page from the main site. It’s in the drop-down menu under “For WAHMs.”

Finally, I want to take this opportunity to thank you for hosting your store on Hyena Cart. We now have more than 250 active stores, 4000 registered users, over $200,000 worth of goods listed and over $200,000 in completed sales (not counting the extra money that is usually added to custom orders). I think this is amazing! It’s your unique, handcrafted items that bring the traffic to HC and I hope we can continue to pull new customers in as sellers from different categories join us.

It’s time to go around and spot some items! Each product listing now has a “Spot this item!” link at the bottom. To read more about it, check this page out:

http://hyenacart.com/hc_spots_exp.php

So go spot some items, why don’t you

In other news, I’m still compiling the keyword list, but if you all go ahead and start using these standard terms, it will be easier for customers to find your products. Once we get a number of us using them in our listings, I’ll post the list on the search page so customers can use them too. What you may want to do is have a little section at the bottom of your listing for keywords and just list some there. For example “size2T soft-shoes blue”. I haven’t added your suggestions yet, but I’ll get to that soon. Here’s the list so far: http://hyenacart.com/search_terms.php