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Social Network Edition – First Screenshots

Saturday, December 31st, 2011

First of all, we wish a happy new year to everyone!

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

Here are the first screenhots:

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New support ticket system

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

We just put a new “tickets” support system on our site. It will allow you to keep track of all issues much easily. Just click on “Support” button on the top to get there.

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New Release: Version 2.1.2 Pro & Local

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
OWS Deals/Coupons Website Script: Version 2.1.2 has been released
New version has ~120 fixes and improvements for speed, security and stability.
- 10 new settings for more advances configurations.
- New comments and voting system. Comments and user reviews for stores, as well as 1-5 star ratings for stores.
- Better support for Country/Region setups.
- Faster and easier datafeed delivery.
- Facebook/Twitter login integration.
- Better support for international characters.
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Back due to popular demand – “RetailMeNot like” Premium Template

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

RetailMeNot inspired template is back and now available to use with version 2.1

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

You can order it here.

Compatible with versions 2.1+

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New Release: Version 2.1 Pro & Local

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new release of the OWS Deals/Coupons Website Script Version 2.1 for both Professional and Local Editions. Along with that we are also announcing the release of the new Group/Local/Deals of the Day datafeed.

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.

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Release: Version 2.0.5 Pro Final

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

We are pleased to announce the availability of a final release of the OWS Deals/Coupons Website Script Version 2 Professional Edition. Along with that we are also announcing the beta release of the Version 2 Local Coupons Edition.

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 Release: Version 2.0.5 Beta: Local Coupons Edition

Saturday, December 18th, 2010

Some new features (Local Coupons Edition):

- 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

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New Build: 226 Release Candidate 2

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Build 226 Release Candidate 2 has been released.

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.

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[Version 2] Demo Site

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

Build 225 RC 1 has been released, so it time for V2 demo site to be up and running on demo.owsdeals.com
Admin panel login:
http://demo.owsdeals.com/admin
Username: admin
Password: admin

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

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New Build: Version 2.0.1 Build 225 Release Candidate 1

Friday, October 15th, 2010

Build 225 Release Candidate 1 has been deployed to all current beta testers.

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.

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