We have finished the engine code and we are moving to the last part that we need to do before the release – template. Template for  ”Social Network Edition” is much more complicated. It will incorporate all social features to existing pages and it will get many new pages such as profile, wall/stream/feed,  messages,  alerts,  favorites, shares,  lists, community,  image albums, etc..

We have some beautiful things planned for it.

Here is the preview of the one important part – profile page.

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.

Here is the speed test result for our server:
USA Only 24 test points: Average Speed: 2028 Kb/s

Whole World: 43 test points: Average Speed: 1286 Kb/s

The problem was that this feature is usually not working correctly. It requires Flash to deal with clipboard and it’s implemented differently in different browsers. Even RetailMeNot (as of today 01/12/2011) is failing to do a “Copy” from IE9. All other implementations are even worse.
We have done it right. It will work in all browsers, it will work with Flash 9 and 10, it will show the regular links if flash not installed or very old.

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

WhaleShark Media announced the acquisition of RetailMeNot, in a deal that is understood to be worth close to $90 million. RetailMeNot itself will make close to $30 million this year in revenue, with what is believed to be a high profit margin.

from here

Michael, I bet a lot of people are wondering about the $200/month for the coupons datafeed. People might think its too much and have doubts about is it gonna pay for itself or not. Well next time somebody asks show this screenshot.

This is actually my first commission that I got from by brand new coupons website. Somebody clicked “Free shipping coupon” link and this month’s datafeed already paid for itself.  I am certainly looking froward for more.

First SAS Comission

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.

So if you are on “Coupons + up to 50 Daily Deals”  it become “Coupons + up to 150 Daily Deals”

So if you are on “Coupons + up to 150 Daily Deals”  it become “Coupons + up to 250 Daily Deals”

If you are not using our datafeed yet, don’t wait any longer. Best time to start is right now.

*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.