We are getting closer to the beta release of Deals/Coupons Website – Social Network Edition.

Here are the first screenhots:

Click here for a live demo: http://rtm.owsdeals.com

You can order it here.

Compatible with versions 2.1+

Version 2.1 has a lot of fixes, improvements and new functionality. We made it faster, more efficient, more reliable, more customizable, easier to use and more convenient to work with.

More and more people researching online coupons before making the purchase. We are here to help you to make money on affiliate sales by providing coupons to your visitors.

OWS Deals/Coupons Website Script: Version 2.1

Here is the list of major changes for 2.1: LCE – Local Coupons Edition only, PRO – Professional Edition only

- Local/Region/Group Buy/Daily Deals dynamic Datafeed support.
- Holidays. Manage upcoming holidays to appear on your site within certain dates automatically. Automatically or manually assign deals/coupons to the holiday sections.
- Different admin panel login levels. Allow some people to login to the admin panel and view/post/edit offers, but not settings or any financial info.
- Custom sorting for all pages right from the admin panel.
- New SEO Meta tags management – 3 different ways of setting – general, general templates and individual pages.
- Better sitemaps support for huge sites. Multiple sitemaps/sitemap indexes, sitemap caching.
- New email subscription engine now supports smarty templates for outgoing emails.
- Complete Multilingual sites support – language files for interface, dynamic language change and multilingual content.
- CDN support for all static content. CloudFlare, MaxCDN, Amazon CloudFront are supported for the datafeed content.
- RSS feeds for individual stores & categories, more RSS settings.
- over 30 new settings for more precise and fine tuning.
- [PRO] Ability to deactivate merchants and inactive merchants review.
- [PRO] Additional custom queries for import
- [LCE] Group Buy Deals/Deals of the Day section now has all groupon like functionality, like different deals for different regions, scheduled ahead deals, “XX deals need to be bought before deal is on”, etc..
- [LCE] Separate admin panel section for Group Buy Deals/Deals of the Day
- [LCE] Geographical and Location functions. Auto-detection of visitors location and google maps integration.
- [LCE] Regions management for Local/Regional deals/coupons

How to get updated.

1. If you are hosted on OWS Servers, you either already updated or will be updated over the weekend.
2. If you a client with active “support and updates” plan you can either request the update or download and update by yourself starting Monday 7/25/11

Please contact us if you have any questions.

OWS Software Development Team.

Its been a long time since the last v1.3 release. A lot of development efforts were invested in this totally redesigned and rebuild system. We made it faster, more efficient, more reliable, more customizable, easier to use and more convenient to work with.

More and more people researching online coupons before making the purchase. We are here to help you to make money on affiliate sales by providing coupons to your visitors.

OWS Deals/Coupons Website Script: Version 2

http://www.owssoftware.com

It’s hard to tell what’s new, since everything is new. The new script is faster, easier, and more fun to use

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New completely re-done template engine.

• 10 times faster.
• Flexible SEO friendly URLs
• More different pages an data presentation options
• Custom html blocks for third party integrations like “Grocery coupons”

New completely re-done admin panel

• Datatable interface for stores/deals/coupons/users with flexible search option for extra easy way to work with thousands of items
• Streamlined datafeed integration for 100% automation
• New “pages management” system with ability to make sub pages
• New option and parameters to every item for easier management.
• Complete automation with OWS Deals/Coupons Datafeed.

OWS Deals/Coupons Website Script is a PHP/MySQL based system, designed to provide everything you need to run a successful Deals and Coupons Website.

Deals/Coupons Website Script – Professional Edition
Demo:

http://demo.owsdeals.com

Admin Panel Demo:
http://demo.owsdeals.com/admin
Username: admin
Password: admin

Deals/Coupons Website Script – Local Coupons Edition (Beta)

- additional fields to the store/merchant profile: address, phone, store owner.
- Google Maps integration – you can show stores on the big map and individual small maps map for each store.
- zip and city/state search.
- printable coupons with barcodes.
- merchants can register and create/manage their own store profiles.
- dedicated interface for merchants to manage store and coupons.
- ability for you to charge merchants for store profiles or let them do it for free. (you can also create several free and paid plans)
- “Deal of the Day”: Groupon/LivingSocial style page with featured deal.
- “Sell the coupon” – Groupon like ability to sell coupons.

Demo:
http://local.owsdeals.com
Admin Panel:
http://local.owsdeals.com/admin
Username: admin
Password: admin

It got several minor bug fixes, some UI improvements, speed optimizations and internal cleanups. There is a good chance that we are just one or two steps from the final release.

*Some items like user management, settings saving and template editing are disabled.

We could start taking upgrade requests at this point.

Please note, that the version 2 template is not compatible with V1.x. If you are current customer and you would like to upgrade your site you should be ready to upgrade you template or switch  to the new default one.

It’s that time of the year again. Holiday shopping madness is right around the corner and it starts with one special day:  Black Friday. It’s coming soon and this year we should be ready.
Today we are introducing our first Version 2 plug-in: “Black Friday”. Using it you can add and manage the new section to your site where you can post scanned “Black Friday” ads and offers. Plug-in comes with template and admin panel section where you can manage it.

You can see it in action here: http://www.perfect-coupons.com/black-friday

Each “Black Friday” store has an additional info showing for example “Store hours for Friday, Nov 26” , scanned ads and list of all deals with applicable links. http://www.perfect-coupons.com/black-friday/Wal-Mart

We would also like to introduce the special datafeed add-on to fill this section with all Black Friday offers, scanned ads and special info. “Black Friday” feed is available for $100/year.

The plug-in available for free with the “Black Friday datafeed” subscription or $49 if you want to fill the data by yourself.

If we don’t bump in any major issues, the next build will be labeled as “Release Candidate” and at that point we will start taking custom template orders for the V2 engine as well as upgrade requests.

*Some items like user management, settings saving and template editing are disabled.

Its hard to tell what’s new, since everything is new. The new script is faster, easier, and more fun to use.

New completely re-done template engine.

• 10 times faster.
• Flexible SEO friendly URLs
• More different pages an data presentation options

New completely re-done admin panel

• Faster, easier to use and understand
• DataTable interface for stores/deals/coupons/users with flexible search option for extra easy way to work with thousands of items
• Streamlined datafeed integration
• New “pages management” system with ability to make subpages
• Admin panel “plugin” extensions and some optional not used by everyone functionality(like rewards or local offers) moved to plugins so it could be turned on or off

If you would like to participate in beta testing, please request it here: http://www.couponsdatafeed.com/beta
Please note, that right now we take only fresh installs, so you should be either a new customer or willing to start your site from scratch. Beta upgrades will become available sometime next week.

You can review it here:

You can see some new V2 features here: new home, store, category pages, dynamic comments posting/loading, completely custom seo urls, new voting system, and many many more

P.S. I know I will get a lot of responses to this post with the same question: “How can I get this template on my site right now?” Well, this template was build from scratch using the new V2 database and rendering engine. Adopting it to the v1.3.x will complicate it  and bring some performance and stability issues. The template will be available in multiple colors with any V2 upgrade or new order.

We are so glad to announce that we are starting to roll out Version 2 infrastructure. The first step is the all-new, completely redesigned owssoftware.com along with deeply integrated couponsdatafeed.com.   Both sites share the same design, features and have all tools that you need to manage your Deals/Coupons Website and Datafeed.

Some more functionality will be revealed as the Version 2 of the script become available.

If you would like to move your old account to the new site, please make an account on our new http://www.owssoftware.com/signup-free and then login and fill this form  http://www.owssoftware.com/old to transfer you old order’s info.

1. Free Hosted Edition. This is a very feature limited edition, that will be hosted on our servers. It will be paired with our free* datafeed subscription so anyone can have a place to start the deals/coupons website. There will be a separate post explaining “free” options in details.

2. Local Coupons Edition. It specifically designed for starting a coupon promotion site for your local businesses. You can  add local stores, create beautiful printable coupons with barcodes and custom designs, setup and manage subscription plans for the business owners, allow them to create stores and post their own coupons. Visitors can search or browse by the proximity to ZIP code or City and State.

3. Professional Edition. Pretty much everything that you might need to run a successful Deals/Coupons website and make money on affiliates programs. You can post unlimited amount of offers, categorize by dates, stores, tags and categories, import RSS/XML/CSV feeds with deals or coupons, retrieve product info directly from supported merchants or affiliate networks.

4. Social network Edition. You can turn your Deals/Coupons website to the social shopping community.  Users can have enhanced profiles with avatars and comment walls, submit coupons, post comments, interact with each other on community forums, vote for offers, report coupons as working/not working, add each other as friends, create and share lists of offers, and much much more…

So we realized that it has to stop. 1.3.6 is a very good and pretty stable version that could live for a while without new fixes. It is also a version that was a product of rapid 1.x.x. development when we cared more about adding new functionality then about how this functionality fits together. It has to retire. And we have to go back to the drawing board and create a brand new software that will be lightning fast, easier to use, and it should be based on our experience and your feedback from all those years.

So we did that, and we are so proud to announce OWS Software Deals and Coupons Website System Version 2.

Version 2 is a major update and it includes everything.

- It’s a completely new OWS Deals/Coupons Website script that is now coming in four different editions including the free one.
- It’s a new owssoftware.com where you finally be able download new releases, upgrade, and  re-new your support/updates package.
- It’s a brand new Deals and Coupons Datafeed management site where you can manage your settings and subscriptions. Yes, there is a free (well, sort of) datafeed subscription too.
- It’s an amazing “Links to the Affiliate links” transformation service, which will allow you to make your affiliate link from any link with one click right from the admin panel of your site.

.. and much, much more.

There is no release date set up yet, we are at the final development stage and we are doing a lot of testing, testing again and re-testing.

I will be revealing more details in the next several days, so stay tuned. Right now is the very first screen shot of the new OWS Deals/Coupons Website Admin Panel.

New OWS Deals/Coupons Website Script version 1.3.5 has been released.

1. New Datafeed server integration with multiple profiles support.
2. Datafeed timeout setting/fix for slow or time limited servers.
3. Deals from the datafeed could be imported as approved or could be manually reviewed before publishing
4. MySQL Null Default Date settings (i.e fix for 1901-12-13 default date)
5. Limit amount of tags for the user interface and admin panel.
6. (*)Admin panel editable Custom HTML Blocks. useful for showing banners, notices, etc..
7. (*)Choice of a SEO extensions (.html, .htm, .asp, .aspx, .php, .cfm, .jsp) instead of pre-fixed .html
8. Duplicate an existing deal/coupon or adjust publishing date so it will appear as just inserted.
9. Rewards functionality improvements: Log transactions and show the list of reward eligible transactions to the users, define and  show the reward amount for each store(revised), show user his/her total amount of accumulated rewards.
10. Free subscription plans for store owners.
11. smarty and jquery has been updated to the latest.
12. Numerous speed  enchantments and bug fixes.

(*) Requires template modification/update (existing customers).

Stay tunned….