SmartStore AG stands for sophisticated and innovative e-commerce solutions of the highest quality with first-class service. Since its foundation in 1999, SmartStore AG has been a pioneer in e-commerce software development and is a leading manufacturer of e-commerce systems on .NET basis.
The completely revamped and redesigned Smartstore version 5 with all enhancements becomes available. Smartstore 5 is the fastest store system in the world and brings over 1,000 improvements.
The "Smartstore Online Translator" translates quickly & easily stores of any size and allows access to over 100 languages.
Even external plugins are no problem with the translation!
While 20 Superchargers from Tesla shorten the charging time for e-cars, the climate-positive lounge louge is also convincing across the board.
The personal and cashless shopping world, powered by Smartstore, sets the course for the future of regional retail.
The IU International University and the e-commerce software manufacturer SmartStore are cooperating in the training of junior staff.
Students of the dual IU degree programs (Business) Informatics, Communication & PR, Media Design and Online Marketing will be able to fill internship positions at SmartStore AG in the future.
BREAKING THE DOMINANCE OF THE GIANTS?
In an interview, Pavlos Tsulfaidis, CEO and founder of Smartstore AG, explains what medium-sized online retailers can learn from top dogs like Amazon.
As part of their partnership, Smartstore and Microsoft are combining their services to use Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).
The Smartstore E-Commerce Summit 2019 will take place for the first time on Monday, 05 November 2019 as part of the "Digital Week Dortmund" and combines exhibition and conference. Top speakers talk about the latest trends in eCommerce, 30 exhibitors present their products and services and lounges invite to network.
http://d ocuments.smartstore.com/Smartstore_E-Commerce_Summit_2019.pdf
Smartstore is the fastest growing e-commerce platform in the ASP.NET world. Its global market share is growing by 25% annually. Here are the latest figures.
"Made in Germany" - three words that are internationally synonymous with top quality and delighted customers. Today, products from Germany enjoy an excellent reputation in numerous industries.
The reasons for this? Well thought-out design, tried-and-tested solutions, mature production processes, constant, inspiring innovations, competent customer service, to name just a few.
All of these characteristics can also be found at Smartstore. That is why the software was awarded the seal of approval.
SmartStore AG supports educational institutes with free access to Smartstore software. This offer is valid for all students of participating institutes. Currently, software from Smartstore is used by more than 20 educational institutions, including the Volkswagen Bildungsinstitut GmbH, the Bfz-Essen GmbH and the Central Office of the German Training Company Ring.
SmartStore AG from Dortmund is an e-payment solution partner of PostFinance. In the in-house online store system Smartstore, the e-payment interface PostFinance is already integrated and can be configured with simple steps. As a manufacturer, SmartStore AG supports online merchants in the successful integration of e-payment solutions.
Puderbach & Wienczny GbR (BarcodeShipping) and SmartStore AG have entered into a cooperation. As the two internationally operating companies announced, an interface between BarcodeShipping of Puderbach & Wienczny GbR from Castrop-Rauxel (NRW) and the company SmartStore AG from Dortmund (NRW) was developed for the open source store system Smartstore.
In webshops with a wide range of products and product depth, the search function provided by a store system often reaches its limits. Intelligent and reliable search is therefore the key to success.
SmartStore AG has released the Smartstore software on Codeplex. Smartstore is a free and powerful open source e-commerce solution for online stores of any size. It includes the latest Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET 4.5, MVC 4, Entity Framework 5 as well as other modern components like LESS CSS, Twitter Bootstrap or FontAwesome.
SmartStore AG, now also offers its users the possibility to let customers pay by invoice. For this purpose, a cooperation was concluded with the PayPal service BillSAFE, the leading provider of secured invoice purchasing in German e-commerce.
The partnership enables merchants to integrate the payment method "purchase on account" in a high-quality and simple way. The advantage for the merchant: The payment service provider assumes the default risk for the merchant and completely takes care of the accounts receivable management in case of outstanding payments.
centron is one of the leading IT service providers in the B2B sector. centron was founded in 1999 and has been operating its own data center in Nuremberg since 2008.
centron is one of the first hosting companies to be awarded the "Smartstore Certified Hosting Partner" seal.
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https://www.centron.de/hosting/smartstore-net-hosting/
With OptMeOut, website operators can now offer their visitors a convenient way to turn off tracking with Google Analytics.
to welcome our founder back to the company after an absence of almost five years due to an accident, and wish him a successful new start.
Webalytics, the leading Google competence partner in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH region), has recently become the first Google partner in Germany to acquire the status of "Clicktale Authorized Consultant".
The status demonstrates the company's expertise in improving the usability and accessibility of a website, and for good reason, as the topics of usability and accessibility are high on the agenda of website operators. Clicktale is an important tool in this regard, in addition to the well-known Google services.
The combination of different analysis options creates a clear view of visitor behavior on websites. They thus provide the operator with clear information as a basis for making decisions about necessary changes.
Realignment of business processes taking into account the changed situation in eCommerce. Smartstore.biz 5 was further developed in version 6 to meet customer requirements. In parallel, a dynamic store system is being developed.
In the meantime, Smartstore.biz has been downloaded over 330,000 times.
Today, 80 percent of Internet users are already guided by customer opinions. It is becoming increasingly important for online retailers to obtain user opinions and to display the results visibly for every user. For this reason, Trusted Shops has already had its customer rating system pre-installed by leading providers of store software solutions.
With a few simple steps, the standard store system Smartstore.biz 5 from SmartStore AG was expanded to include tracking functions for Google Analytics and Urchin software. The e-commerce trackers from webalytics create the ideal link between store offerings and the measurement of customer behavior. A highly sensible alliance to increase one's own sales success.
In the competitive online retail environment, store providers often find that order processes are aborted if payment processing procedures by invoice or direct debit are not granted. In this situation, potential customers often switch to other Internet offers or to stationary stores.
If the customer is offered the preferred payment procedures, the store operator exposes himself to the risk of payment disruptions. An improved profit situation can therefore only be achieved by offering a wider range of payment methods if orders are actually paid for.
In the meantime, SmartStore AG works together with all companies known in ecommerce and maintains good contact. There are now interfaces with Amazon, eBay, PayPal, Sofortüberweisung, BMECat, OpenTrans, etc.
SmartStore AG, a leading provider of store software for small and medium-sized businesses, has integrated an interface to PAYONE's FinanceGate ePayment platform into its Smartstore.biz 5 store software. This provides all store operators using Smartstore.biz 5 with an ePayment solution that can be used to fully automate all payment transaction processes.
With the new payment plugin from United Online Services for Smartstore.biz 5, new customers can also make direct payments immediately. In addition to the provision of ePayment, the range of services offered by this electronic interface also includes scoring services that run in the background (including international address checks, age of majority checks and creditworthiness queries).
Payment processing for credit card, direct debit, giropay and prepayment is also offered to small and medium-sized online retailers at highly attractive conditions: Successful e-commerce projects depend not only on a good product range and corresponding demand, but also on the simple and individual selection of the right payment method.
Shoplupe is one of the leading specialists for quality in eCommerce and offers innovative discount usability services for online stores and professional consulting services for brand manufacturers, publishers and portal operators.
SmartStore AG has entered into another cooperation with a new type of system for organizing collections for its online retailers. returnBOX is a pure Internet platform for handling returns (RMA, Return Merchandise Authorization).
Online store operators increasingly see price search engines as an opportunity for massive growth. Thus, Smartstore's latest cooperation with zwickauer PreisRoboter GmbH provides its store operators with a simple interface and thus another effective marketing tool.
"The latest version of the store system Smartstore.biz 5.5 will thereby simplify the development of new customer groups," says Elmar Herwig, marketing and sales manager of SmartStore AG.
SmartStore AG now provides the ClickandBuy payment interface free of charge for all current versions of the proven Smartstore.biz store software. Via AutoUpdate, users of Smartstore.biz 5 have the option to additionally install and use the plugin.
In the second expansion stage, the payment method will be included in the standard installation of Smartstore.biz with the next update. ClickandBuy's cooperation with Smartstore, the market leader in store software for small and medium-sized businesses, underscores its competence as an Internet payment system in the brand-strong growth segment of e-commerce.
SmartStore AG, provider of the leading complete eCommerce solution for small and medium-sized businesses, today launches a strategic cooperation with Moneybookers, one of the world's leading online payment providers.
Already short time after the successful market start of the eCommerce software Smartstore.biz 5, the expected storm on the largest German-language Shop manufacturer Community under Smartstore.com - with at present over 150,000 contributions within the range of the professional eCommerce - occurred.
Online store operators using Smartstore.biz 5 can now find their way to liquidity more quickly. The payment procedure sofortüberweisung.de of the southern German PayNet AG is based on an authorized PIN/TAN transfer.
In the area of webshops for small and medium-sized enterprises, collaboration with other systems via standard interfaces such as openTRANS or BMECat has so far been the preserve of the "open source community" for the most part.
With version 5 "Ultimate" will be possible, among other things, synchronization of various projects created with this Smartstore store software. The number of articles in Smartstore.biz 5 Ultimate is unlimited. The program offers in this then highest edition beside the automatic Sitemap additional mechanisms for the optimal search machine indexing and reaches thus highest findability of the Shops in the World Wide Web.
SmartStore AG renews its successful store system, which has been highly praised by customers and the press. Smartstore.biz 5 is more than just a store system. In addition to a highly intuitive user interface and cutting-edge design, the store system has been given an extremely easy-to-use CMS system. Until the release of Smartstore.biz 5, Smartstore.biz 3 was downloaded over 210,000 times and sold about 10,400 times.
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The SmartStore eBay SmartSeller is a comprehensive software package for managing ebay auction and sales processes.
SmartStore eBay SmartSeller, a smart selling and fulfillment manager for eBay, is released.
The eBay SmartSeller gives SmartStore.biz users direct access to the world's largest online marketplace. With just a few clicks, products entered in the online store are posted on eBay.
SmartStore.BIZ v3.5
SmartStore Office enabled! - SmartStore Office is the indispensable complement to SmartStore.biz. The unique interaction between both applications significantly increases the success rate of your online business.
Email Service Wizard - Publish your own order processing script (whether PHP or ASP) to your web server with just a few clicks!
Payment interface PayPal
Payment interface Postbank PaySolution
With Smartstore Office, SmartStore AG is releasing a completely newly developed product for the management of customers, orders and the sending and evaluation of newsletters in spring 2004.
Today was finally the day - we officially moved to our new office!
In 2003 we founded our Smartstore Academy. The goal is to collaborate in a way that prepares software developers and product managers for consulting on online store strategies, Internet sales and web stores based on Smartstore.
Shattered dreams, too bad we didn't make it.
SmartStore AG updates its successful store system to version 3.0. In the meantime, the software has been downloaded over 70,000 times and sold 4,500 times.
Smartstore's online store system proves that complexity or rich functionality do not have to exclude good usability. Despite the wide range of possibilities, the program interface remains clear and self-explanatory for the user. At 499 euros, the user has to dig deeper into his pocket compared to other complete systems.
The long road to the IPO. To finance our entrepreneurial goals, we decided to go public with an initial public offering (IPO).
In April 2001 we moved into our new office in Stockholmer Allee 24, 44269 Dortmund. The office has an area of just under 1,000 square meters and offers additional seminar, work and creative rooms. The move to these prestigious premises had become necessary due to the upcoming IPO and the team, which had grown to 47 employees. The official inauguration ceremony was performed by our then board member Klaus-Peter Stoll.
Around 7000 exhibitors will once again present a huge range of technologies for industry in Hannover this year from April 23 to 28. After the world exhibition Expo 2000, the largest exhibition center in the world offers an optimal infrastructure for this. At six trade fairs, visitors can inform themselves about cross-industry system solutions.
Press release: SmartStore.biz is the server-based eBusiness platform for small and medium-sized enterprises. SmartStore.biz are web-based services that can be integrated into your own WebStore without any knowledge of HTML. Thus .biz enhances your business processes and makes them available anytime and anywhere.
The strong growth of the IT industry keeps the world's largest computer fair CeBIT on the road to success. We will be exhibiting from March 22 to 28, 2001. Our booth is approx. 21 sq. m. in size.
EDV-Magazin PC-Intern special issue 2/2001 (PDF)
Spiegel-Online: Trends of the Cebit 2000
Munich 11.2000 (Press Release) SmartStore AG is introducing its new eCommerce software suite, code-named 'SUEZ', at this year's SYSTEMS in Munich.
Smartstore SUEZ enables easy and fast realization of electronic commercial services and applications, ranging from B2C and B2B direct selling sites, online distribution sites, eProcurement systems, supply chain management, application service providing, commerce hosting to marketplaces.
The suite simplifies the shift of all conceivable business processes to the web and supports the implementation of any business model. It is designed to meet growing requirements thanks to its modular structure and can be easily integrated into existing company processes thanks to open standards. Highly user-friendly operation and a wide range of functions guarantee fast time-to-market.
Press release (PDF)
https://www.golem.de/0011/10657.html
Smartstore has filed an application with the German Patent and Trademark Office under number 10054728 for the automated creation of catalogs under the project name "SUEZ".
SUEZ at SYSTEMS 2000
Patent
Press release (PDF)
Our Smartstore 2000 Express user manuals and CD's for our customers.
Our biggest investment at the time was our own data center. COMPAQ will probably be known to very few.
Our first in-house exhibition at the Westfälischer Industrieklub* Dortmund together with Microsoft, Dokom and the IHK zu Dortmund. Invited guests approx. 300.
*The Westphalian Industrial Club was founded in 1918 as an association of representatives of the medium-sized industry of the Ruhr area in Dortmund.
Selling easily on the Web with "Smartstore 2000 Express
Dortmund-based SmartStore AG is setting new standards for e-commerce with its innovative "Smartstore 2000 Express" software product, which can be used worldwide thanks to its consistent XML orientation. Despite the software's enormous range of functions, even Internet laymen can publish their own store on the Internet with just a few mouse clicks via a highly intuitive user interface.
SmartStore AG together with Microsoft at the IHM International Trade Fair. As an exhibitor at the IHM 2000, you will meet the perfect target group with purchasing power for your products and services!
Shortly after the successful launch of the Smartstore 2000 Express product, the domain Smartstore.com was purchased, through which all SmartStore AG products are still presented and sold today. After just one year (January 2001), Smartstore 2000 Express was downloaded 30,000 times and sold 1,500 times.
The University of Dortmund has started a project called IPSI (Internet Portal System for Insurances), the decision which store system will be used as a basis for an Internet portal for procurement has fallen on Smartstore. This is what the project group writes about Smartstore Standard 2.0:
"We used SmartStore from the company SmartStore AG as the procurement or store system. A review of the pros and cons showed that SmartStore offered the best product for the project group's requirements. As alternatives the Microsoft Site Server and a JAVA own development were examined.Thein-house development was ruled out from the outset due to the immense effortinvolved.
TheMicrosoft Site Server had some advantages, but SmartStore is more usable in the crucial points (e.g. less complexity, changeability and less high hardware requirements)."
On the night of December 14, SmartStore AG, Dortmund's innovative software company for the operation of Internet stores, had reason to celebrate. Programmers, developers and management were able to convince themselves that the company's latest product, christened "Smartstore Millennium Express", can actually meet the expectations that had been set.
How a small DP distributor became a big online store.
We have to go online! Christian Herzog and Rolf Beatus knew that back in 1996, but how? Three years later, they not only know the answer, but also know their customers better than before.
At an event in front of Microsoft partners in 1999 in Munich on the topic of e-commerce in connection with Smartstore.
The SmartStore board is made up of chairman Jörg Ambrosius and Wolfgang Jilli. In addition to Tsulfaidis, Prof. Dr. Fritz L. Steimer also sits on the supervisory board. The company's partners are Maxdata, Microsoft, bit by bit, DOKOM and CCNetX AG and, for commercial solutions, Everest Software GmbH.
SmartStore AG's customers include Classen Papertronics, Aspecta Versicherungen, Elektrocity.de, Kinderwelt Loopino, CoDeMa - The Knowledge Company and Stadtsparkasse Dortmund.
In Munich, we as XternData.de were awarded theBest Solutions Award 1999 for eCommerce Integration by Microsoft for the solution "Smartstore Standard Edition".
Once the largest technology fair in the world, and our mini stand of just 6 sq.m. At this we had the product launch of the software "Smartstore Standard" 2.0.
The Dortmund-based systems house XternData.de has been developing and implementing sophisticated e-business solutions for both business-to-business and consumer markets since 1997.
From strategy consulting to the integration of solutions into established corporate structures, XternData.de supports the development of interactive business relationships. Smartstore, which was presented to the general public during CeBIT '99 in Hanover, plays a key role here. The international team at XternData.de consists of 19 employees.
Your own online store in just five steps. The following process illustrates how "Smartstore Standard" works.
Our first Smartstore was an ERP software and at the same time a full-fledged online store for all relevant business areas. Purchasing, article and offer maintenance, sales, order processing and payment as well as warehouse and shipping organization.
Press clipping end of 1998:
Our first major order with BMW-Rolls-Royce GmbH. Here we were commissioned to develop a completely new fleet software.
XternData GbR is specialized in everything around office IT, network systems and electronic communication. On the following pages we would like to give you a brief overview of our company and its fields of activity. We hope that one or the other area is of interest to you. Convince yourself!
