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Group Buying Site blog posts and articles related to the business of daily deals.

Group Buying Software For Multiple Daily Deal Sales Models

Our group buying software has grown into a powerful ecommerce platform that can be used to meet various needs such as selling digital goods, selling physical products or selling daily deals. As the daily deal business continues to evolve so will the sales models that daily deal sites employ to attract customers and merchants. Compared to hosted daily deal solutions and other group buying software providers which take a cookie cutter approach, we have developed a versatile ecommerce software solution that allows you to create a unique website and utilize any of these sales concepts.

New Add-ons: Checkout Notes, Embeddable Widgets, Upcoming Deals

Some fantastic new add-ons are now available in the GBS marketplace! These new additions offer some great options to help increase traffic to your site, receive special messages from customers upon checking out, as well as display upcoming deals to your customers. If you're an existing GBS member and you have any questions about these add-ons, please post them to the add-on's forum and the developer will address them as soon as possible.

v3.6: Single Checkout Page, Bit.ly Integration, Cashback, Discounts, Rewards, Membership

GBS v3.6 offers a streamlined approach for handling customer registrations and purchases. By condensing both into a single shopping cart checkout page, the visitor can register and initiate a purchase in a single step. This new version includes the integration of Bit.ly to shorten lengthy URLs and provide users the ability to track the performance of their referral link when sharing it across Facebook, Twitter, and email. We're also announcing the addition of four new add-ons now available in the GBS marketplace.

New Add-ons: Piggy Pro and WP Touch Pro Integration

For GBS members that are using the premium theme, we've released a free add-on to improve mobile device compatibility. This new add-on integrates the popular WPtouch Pro theme to offer your visitors a clean mobile experience on their iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, and Android devices. Our other big news for the day includes an add-on release for Piggy Pro, a web application that allows you to view deal and product sales performance of your GBS-powered site from the comfort of your iOS and Android devices.

Shop E-Commerce Theme For WordPress

Today we are excited to announce the official release of a new WordPress ecommerce theme named Shop E-commerce which utilizes GBS v3.5. This ecommerce theme for WordPress (WP) allows you to leverage the social commerce features built into GBS and apply them to selling products rather than traditional daily deals. The Shop WordPress ecommerce theme includes the many new shipping and tax options released in GBS v3.4, new filters, a responsive web design, elegant product sliders, and many more features to help you take your ecommerce site to the next level.

Featured Add-on: Auto Cart and Widget

AJAXThe AJAX Cart add-on provides a way for your registered visitors to easily add items to their cart without being redirected. After activating this add-on clicking the standard add-to-cart button the item will be added to the customer's cart in the background, a notification will show (same as the default notification), the cart count will increment in the header and if you add the AJAX Cart Widget to the sidebar (included in this add-on) it will be dynamically updated.