Category: OWS Software

New Release: Version 2.1 Pro & Local

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.

How fast is our server.

Our main server is located in Downtown Seattle, Washington, USA. Our data center building is one of the largest carrier building on the West coast of the United States and provides us with access to every major service providers in the region, like Sprint, UUNET, MFN, Level3, XO, Qwest, Congent, Global Crossing, Looking Glass, etc.

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


Release: Version 2.0.5 Pro Final

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

. Continue reading Release: Version 2.0.5 Pro Final

New Release: Version 2.0.5 Beta: Local Coupons Edition

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

We’ve got a letter.

Here it is:

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
First SAS Comission

Datafeed: Free 100 More Daily Deals for Holiday Season

Holiday season is here. It means more coupons, more deals, more sales, more commissions. Starting from November 1st and till the January 1st every subscriber of the “Daily Deals” datafeed will receive 100 more deals every day.

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.