Written by: Frank Wang
7/23/2008 5:31 AM

In the past years, we have seen DotNetNuke community struggling to find an affordable, easy to use and powerful e-commerce solution. There are quite a few shopping carts and a couple of them even have a long feature sets, but none of them meets the standards above – they are all developed by programmers and for programmers. The most fatal issue with these carts is that they are too complicated for non-technical users, usually much more complicated than they need to be. Too often, we see people crying for help in the forums for weeks to just get their stores online. That is just the beginning of a long painful process. Cluttered user interface, slow response time, lengthy checkout process and bizarre errors make it impossible for storeowners to professionally run an online store. In the end, most of these e-commerce solutions are abandoned and replaced by other alternatives, mostly PHP-based solutions. As a result, the reputation of DNN as an e-commerce platform suffers because of failure of the DNN cart vendors.

Well not any more. Today I’m pleased to announce our Friends program. The aim of this program is to promote the use of our professional e-commerce product, build the community confidence in DNN as an e-commerce platform and reward the community members who contribute most to DNN. Our elite team have spent more than 4,000 man-hours on the product. While a few import features are still missing, overall we are confident that it is the best DNN shopping cart ever built and it is comparable to any PHP solution.

Apply To:

1. All DotNetNuke platinum/gold/silver/bronze benefactors.
2. All DotNetNuke core team members.

Benefits:

1. We offer you a standard edition license, free of charge. You can use it on your company or personal website.
2. We offer you free licenses for alicommerce 2.0 community edition, which is not available for public access at the moment. You can use it on ANY projects and you don’t have to pay.
3. We offer you free demo licenses to help you win bidding or potential clients.
4. We offer you some discounts for any license you purchase.
5. We provide a server license for you at a discounted rate, which includes 50 store licenses.
6. We provide free email and forum support for you.
7. We provide premium support for you via Instant Messenger (IM) and Skype at a discounted rate.
8. We provide quick hot fix for you when it is appropriate to increase your customers’ satisfactions, at no extra cost.
9. We offer early access to unreleased versions for you, so you’re always a step ahead.
10. We provide other services like custom programming for you at a discounted rate.

Process:

1. Register on our website using your company email address, not a free one from yahoo, hotmail, etc.
2. Send us a request including your full name, company name, username and your business model from your registration email address.
3. We process your request and update it to include access to AliCommerce 2.0 if it’s approved. This may take a couple of days or even longer sometimes.
4. You download installation package from Downloads page on our website.

This is the first stage of the program. We plan to extend this program to other member groups in the near future. So stay tuned and a lot will come soon.

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