new upgrades – points, price grouping & more!

Dear all clients and partners,

Here’s comes the Point System and Client Grouping for webShaper Stores! (bizStore only) See an overview below,  click on the screen-shot to enlarge it!

Point System

Now you can give your eStore visitors  reasons to register an account with you, and more reasons to keep buying from you! As you can see below, you can easily set how many points are awarded whenever

– The visitors register themselves (Turn browsers into clients!)
– The clients submit products reviews (User generated Comment for SEO and higher trust!)
– And of course, whenever they buy from you! 2 point for every $50 spent? You decide!

Rewards your clients when they Signup, Write review or Buy!

How about point redemption?  Here’s how you can easily edit the points for the clients, you can add points, or deduct points whenever a redemption takes place, and you can easily add a remark on each point transaction  ( + / – points) !

Easily Edit points (+/-) for redemption too!

webShaper merchants already start using the points to reward loyal customers!


Client Grouping

This is yet another most sought-after feature by our successful retailer merchants (we hear you!). As you know, most  retailers  have mainly 2 types of clients:

1) End Consumers – They buy direct and they are “the mass market”.

2) Dealers / Wholesalers / Sales Associates – These are the people who buy in bulk from you, to resell for a profit.

Both are important clients with different pricing scheme.

The idea is dead simple, why don’t let both type of clients order at your own webStore? So you can keep all the clients and orders details at hand, easily accessible via webShaper!  Did I mention that you can let them pay you upfront too via credit card?  Apart from this, another way you can smartly utilize this to encourage repeat purchase (It’s cheaper to keep an existing customer than to find a new one) via grouping the clients into VIP, VVIP  and apply a discount for each group ! Or you can even consider setting up a paid-member program, where clients enjoy a minimum discount for all the merchandises for just $20 a year!

The Icons looks familiar!? (YES, it’s inspired by the F-network, LOL)


First you create a Client Group  (Call it dealers, premium members, VVIP or whatever!)
and apply a standard discount (% only) on it!.

Once a group is created, easily add or remove  your clients into each client group

Discount can be applied  to Category or Sub-Category level. If no discount value is specified, then the
Standard Discount value (in % only) will be given to all the products in that particular category / subcategory
whenever clients belong to that group login.

Apart from the main one, we have introduced some new improvements too, Below all features are available to all webShaper Store plan!
(not yet a client? Sign up for a 14 days Free Trial now!)

Select Drop Down or Text for Quantity Input

Then do you know you can select either  “Drop Down” or “Textbox” for  quantity input  now?

With Textbox Input, now you can  sell small items which customers order in Large Quantity!

This show the Textbox Input for Quantity.

This show the Drop Down Input for Quantity.

Welcoming Sign up Email Template Added

Previously, you can’t edit the welcome email sent to newly registered members. Now you can! Better still, you can turn browsers into buyers by giving them incentives such as points (see above) or special discount for 1st time (Easily generate via discount code) purchase when they sign up!

You can now personalize your own welcoming email for newly registered clients!

Facebook-Like is IN too!

How about a slightly more indepth social interaction for your clients? You can now easily put in Facebook-like too in the product page! (once enabled, it will automatically show just below the Product Name). To use this, you will need to apply for a Facebook App ID (again, it’s very simple). Once done, just set it active in webShaper > Marketing > Social.

Adding Facebook-Like to your Product Page is a SNAP!


But fist, you need a Facebook App ID. Sign up for one



This is how (Facebook-like)  will show on your product page

Once anyone click on Like, Facebook will ask prompt for a comment also !

So if anyone comment on it,  this will show up in his / her Facebook wall.
Viral Marketing !? Social marketing !? You name it!

Tips: If the product picture didn’t show up in your facebook profile after you “like” it, then put this tag

on the template page –

<FACEBOOK_IMAGEMETA/>


Maxis-PayPal Launched!

Finally it’s here.  Maxis-PayPal account is ready to rock and roll.

This iphone app is NOT yet released as of this writing.

Maxis-PayPal is claimed as the  world 1st mobile carrier plus online payment provider mash-up, it is set to to fuel the e-commerce eco-system in Malaysia! (hooray!)

The timing has never been better, there’s already a substantial PayPal user base locally to grow with (approximately 1.2 million Malaysia PayPal accounts and growing). And did we mentioned most webShaper clients are on a PayPal Business Account too?

If you have registered PayPal before, here’s how you can easily link it to your  Mobile Number (Prerequisite: You must be a Maxis client)

Logon to Maxis PayPal Page,

Step 1 Key in your mobile number, then request for TAC (Transaction Authorization Code)

Step 2 Key in your TAC (will be SMS to you)

Step 3 Enter your PayPal user ID (your email) and its password, create a new mobile PIN for yourself! (please don’t use your birthday!)

Step 4, It’s done! Simple ya !? (then of course, you will get notification SMS from Maxis-PayPal and also an email from PayPal notifying you that PayPal mobile is setup successfully)

But hold on a second, is that all? Well, sorta.

In every way, A maxis-PayPal account, is really like a co-branded car, imagine Naza importing KIA car slapping Naza-KIA tag on it, it is, still a damn KIA car.  Same goes for Maxis-PayPal.  It’s not obvious how it is distinctive  from a typical PayPal account with a few exceptions that

1) It grants you some exclusive offer only Maxis-PayPal account users
2) It  allows you to pay Maxis bill (postpaid) or prepaid top-up via PayPal (good news for those having spare cash in Paypal, we won’t mind if you want to send the $ to us too), You can login to your online account to see the screenshot below when you are trying to make payment.

PayPal option emerges once you linked up your Maxis mobile account to your PayPal Account

3) It  allows you to access your PayPal account via http://m.paypal.com by just using your mobile and mobile PIN ( as an alternative login for your email and password). Below we take a look at how it works.

fire up your mobile browser, type m.paypal.com
notice you can login using your mobile number + mobile pin?

once login, you can see your account balance.
and you can send money (to us, please) too!

PayPal mobile allows you to send money to
a mobile number too, something not available
in the standard PayPal webapp UI.

Check, and click on send! If the recipients is without a PayPal Account
tied to the mobile number, PayPal will SMS him / her sign up one!


Every transaction will be recorded, just login to  PayPal to see your mobile transaction.

So it’s that really ALL? We don’t think so, it’s just freshly baked, and Maxis Staff preparing the FAQs apparently didn’t have enough sleep (see proof below).

We should expect the capability to utilize SMS to check for PayPal balance, send payment etc soon as it’s covered here on a complete PayPal Mobile Experience (This is for US, so the SMS short code will not be applicable outside US) .

And of course, how can it be complete with an iPhone & iPad app? We look forward to these soon!?

Have anything to add? Please share your thoughts or comment below!

Please don’t tell us this FAQs is outsourced ya…

A Recap, you can see some of the featured merchants in video below:

News around the web

Maxis-PayPal Account FAQs

Maxis and PayPal pushing boundaries in Payment via Online + Mobile

Maxis, PayPal in strategic tie up

Now you can top-up PayPal via RHB

RHB, will be 1st Malaysia bank to support PayPal Direct Top-Up from your RHB Saving or Current Account.

At the same time, they also launch RHB WorldMart, basically a directory to help you spend money fast! From what we observed, there’s only a handful of Malaysia Online Shopping Sites listed inside (no worry, we will submit webShaper merchants to PayPal!)

Must give thumbs-up to RHB for taking a lead in such efforts, as you can see the comments from Malaysians in our wildly popular PayPal Malaysia post, a lot of them were asking “how can we top up PayPal Account to buy!”. If you wonder whether other banks will support this soon, our sources said – NOPE. as RHB is on a 2 years exclusive on this!

Do you know how many PayPal users currently in Malaysia? Unofficial figures quoted that there are about half a million malaysia PayPal users and about 100,000 are active!

For Singaporeans, you can easily top up paypal via POSB / DBS Bank.

More news around the web
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RHB aims for 10pc overseas revenue

RHB and PayPal lead the virtual wallet revolution in Malaysia and Asia

RM20 rebate if you among the 1st 10,000 to top up paypal via RHB bank

Rhb + PayPal – bring online transaction closer to Malaysia (signing pic included)


Get $100 USD Cash when accept payment with PayPal

Dear all clients and partners,

Have you started to use PayPal to take online payment at your webShaper Stores?

If not yet, it has never been a better time to start!

webShaper is excited to offer you the opportunity to expand your business and grow your profits – through our partnership with PayPal. When you accept $500 USD or more in PayPal payments from now till September 30, 2010, you’ll receive $100 USD in your PayPal account. That means when your buyers pay you using PayPal, you will make even more money! So what are you waiting for?

Sign up a PayPal Business Account Now (It’s Easy & FREE!)

More details, T&C Please refer here.

For webShaper Stores clients, How does it work?

PayPal is easily enabled through webShaper Stores. To get started, complete the simple 3 + 1 steps:

1.    Sign up for a PayPal Premier or Business account – it’s free and takes less than 60 seconds.
2.    Log into PayPal and retrieve your API information: username, password, and signature. You can get your API information by clicking Profile > API Access > View API Certificate.



3.    Log into webShaper > Payment.  Activate either PayPal or PayPal Express Checkout (API is needed only for Express Checkout).


4. Put up the logo and let your customers know you are now taking PayPal (and they can pay via credit card too!)

All done up now!

More useful links
How to link PayPal to your Malaysia Bank Accounts
– Learn more about PayPal Malaysia at learning centre
– Join  PayPal Asia Pacific Facebook Page

Is Google Hypocrite?

If you have a bit know-how on SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Then you probably know that all these while, Google has been advocating “link purchase is bad & evil“.

Google says: “Buying or selling links that pass PageRank is in violation of Google’s webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact a site’s ranking in search results.”, see the full paragraph here.

It even encourages you to report paid links if you ever discover your competitors done so.

And then now…. Google allows such ad to be advertised on it’s advertising network.

Understand why we feel like the “Orang Utan”? (Btw, you can visit this amazing animals by flying to Sabah, Malaysia)

How can 1,000 links being offered to you for only USD 9.99 if it’s not done in a spamming manner? If so, where is the iRAQ (inbound link = Relevancy, Authority, Quality) factor we keep sharing with our ecommerce merchants?

Curious to know more, the right way to do SEO? Don’t miss out our SEO guide for E-commerce Store

I guess when you are big and monopolistic, you can do what you want, don’t you? 🙂