Version 2.0.1 Beta Release

We are pleased to announce the beta release of our long awaited Deals/Coupons Website Script Version 2.

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.

V2 Demo/New template

Thank you all for your patience. Version 2 is coming a little bit slowly then we have expected, mostly because we want it to be perfect from the beginning. Some new features require a lot of QA and troubleshooting. While we are still polishing the admin panel, we would like to show you the new default template for the “professional” and “social network” editions.

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.

New OWS Software and Coupon Datafeed websites

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.

[Version 2] OWS Deals/Coupons Website Script Editions

Version 2 will be available in  four editions

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…

Allow uses to submit coupons, post comments, interact with each other, vote for offers, report as working/not working, add each other as friends, create and share with others lists of offers, and much much more…

OWS Deals and Coupons Website System Version 2

It’s been a while since 1.3.6 went out. Right after it we started with some small enchantments for 1.3.7, then we aligned some admin panel interface changes with overall speed improvement and branch it as 1.4, which eventually become called 1.5 with a long list of very good but unfinished and hardly compatible with each other  items here and there.

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.