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WEBINAR: E-Commerce as a natural extension of MS Dynamics NAV | June 21, 2:00 pm (Eastern Time)

by DVP on June 18, 2018 0 Comments

See E-Commerce for NAV in action and how to improve the overall experience for both business users and customers. You’ve got untapped potential; you know Dynamics NAV; we’ll teach you how to make the most of what you got.

The Nav-to-Net™ e-Commerce suite of solutions caters to every business need: B2B, B2C, Sales Agent Portals and Vendor Portals. It is built with Responsive Design and has multiple integrations that make e-Commerce simple to use and manage within your Dynamics NAV.

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If you are unable to attend the webinar, you can sign up for a personalized demo and have all your questions answered.

How to Save Time with a Dedicated B2B Web Ordering Portal

by DVP on June 15, 2018 0 Comments

In business planning and strategy, we are witnessing a shift in mentality. With technology and e-Commerce progressing at its current pace, we cannot stay still or we will fall behind. In order to increase our sales, we know it’s about the experience instead of just one element. It is more than just look and feel but also the speed, smoothness, and the amount of information available at the fingertips of the customer. A dedicated B2B e-Commerce website meets customer and business needs in a very specific way that saves you precious time and effort. Read More

How URL Rewriting Impacts Your e-Commerce Webshop

by DVP on May 24, 2018 0 Comments

The technology regarding SEO (search engine optimization) is always evolving, but the fundamentals stay the same. It’s all about being found by the right customers. Without SEO, your website won’t be indexed by search spiders and you won’t rank highly (or at all) in search engine result pages. However, there is no “one and done” tactic or quick fix; we must consistently optimize multiple areas of our website. This includes clear site structure, use of keywords, and relevant content. URL rewriting is one of the tactics that we can use to improve the visibility of your website to search engines. Read More

So you run your business on MS Dynamics NAV?

by DVP on May 2, 2018 0 Comments

Your ERP system is more than just an accounting app. It’s where you look for sales history and item information. It’s where you find order trends and build purchasing efficiencies. It’s host to much of the most vital data that your company has. When you leverage what NAV has to offer, you commit serious resources to its accuracy, performance, and stability.

Since you invest in backup systems and redundancy as well as higher-end hardware to host it, why would you even consider managing your business data anywhere else?

Companies want to connect visitors to their business, while leveraging NAV as single source of truth.

It’s time to go All-In with All-In-NAV e-Commerce!

But what does “all-in-NAV” mean exactly? Just how much of your e-Commerce business is managed in NAV? Join our latest webinar to find out!

WEBINAR: All-in-NAV e-Commerce Solutions | THU, 2:00pm (EST) CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

In this session, we will:

See how marketing and ecommerce manager friendly built-in features in web sales, customer service, product management, and more are presented in the front-end and managed in NAV
Highlight the improved experience both for your business and your customers
Learn about the benefits of true integration into NAV and real-time synchronization
Answer questions regarding your e-Commerce concerns

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If you are unable to attend, fear not. We’ve got you covered with personalized demos. REQUEST A DEMO

4 Minute Demo video | Video Bites | Nav-to-Net™ e-Commerce Suite

Why You Should Embrace Minimalism in Your eCommerce Business

by DVP on April 15, 2018 0 Comments

“Less is more” is one of the mantras for minimalism, a trend that’s being currently being embraced by many. Being minimal doesn’t mean having the bare bones, however; it’s about having the right amount, whatever that amount is – it’s dependent on the person, or in this case, business!

So much of achieving e-Commerce success relies on the right message about the right product delivered at the right time to the right customer. When talking about e-Commerce solutions and minimalism, it’s really about a streamlined approach to business and making use of what you have. Elegant is a word that is used with minimalism because it’s simple but not bare or basic. It’s not clunky. In e-Commerce, it can mean an all-in-one integrated approach to the solution and in-NAV management of all website components. The result is a fresh feel and improved business agility that flows while providing an engaging experience for customers. For a business, it leaves more time and a better foundation for growing the business.

Here are some ways your business can achieve and benefit from a minimalistic approach to e-Commerce:

Customer Snapshot: Nav-to-Net Web Services in Action

by DVP on April 10, 2018 0 Comments

Web services are sometimes overlooked when researching e-Commerce solutions and features. And we get it; it’s not immediately obvious as to why it’s relevant and how you can benefit. In a nut shell, web services help devices communicate without complex and time-consuming coding to share business logic, data, and processes across a network. In e-Commerce, web services can be used from mobile applications to ERP systems like Microsoft Dynamics NAV to share access to various sales catalogs and business data. Rules and structure can be set up in the server and web services make it so applications all understand one another, resulting in improved functionality and greater efficiency. In this customer case study snapshot, our second post in this series, we show you how this customer uses Nav-to-Net web services as a part of their B2B e-Commerce strategy. Read More

Parametric Search – A Customer Snapshot

by DVP on March 22, 2018 0 Comments

For businesses with extremely large product catalogues, search functions are their bread and butter. It helps define the customer experience, from browsing and exploring various product lines, finding a very specific item, to narrowing down and filtering the catalogue to see a selection of relevant items. Well-managed website search correctly identifies items the customer is looking for and meeting their expectations. In the first of our “Customer Snapshot” series, we’ll be showing how real-life customers of Digital Vantage Point use specific Nav-to-Net™ features like parametric search to great success as examples and as inspiration. Read More

Does “Out of Stock” mean Out of Luck for Customers?

by DVP on March 5, 2018 0 Comments

It doesn’t have to be! This is a very frustrating situation for e-Commerce merchants or retailers of any kind. You managed to get the customer all the way through the hoops, they want the product, but alas, it’s out of stock. You may have lost another customer. Sometimes the “out of stock” situation is dealt with taking the customer’s order regardless. However, as not all e-Commerce solutions have reliable integration, it’s not immediately seen that the item is out of stock. This ends up disappointing the customer when orders are ultimately left unfulfilled. If you do nothing and send it to them when it comes back in stock with no communications whatsoever, you can still end up with unhappy customers because deliveries are incredibly delayed. What are ways to salvage this sale when you have “out of stock” items on your website?

Let’s Talk About e-Commerce Solution Security

by DVP on February 14, 2018 0 Comments

When looking for an e-Commerce solution, we often think about how we want the website to look, sales features, and tools for simple website management. We tend to focus on how to make customers happy and how to serve them better via an e-Commerce website. These are important things to look for as your business is to serve your customers while looking out for the bottom line. What we tend to forget to think about in e-Commerce is security. Solution security is responsible for more than you realize and can affect the ideal e-Commerce experience we are all trying to achieve; both in the front end (your customers) and the back end (your business), as well as the overall brand and reputation.

We had a conversation with Brett Robins, the general manager of Digital Vantage Point, to learn more about solution security. Read More

This or That? – Product Comparison in e-Commerce

by DVP on January 8, 2018 0 Comments

Customers want to be sure they’re getting the right item, the best deal. How do they achieve this? By comparing their options! Part of a good shopping experience is aiding the decision making process for customers. Great content, enticing coupons, and user ratings and reviews can influence a customer to buy. But if they have to only choose one instead of the many you offer, we need to continue the efforts of improving the decision making process. Read More