Announcing Version 7.4.6 of
ECinteractive and is.D-Force2

This message covers the following timely topics:

What’s New In This Release?
How Do I Set Up My "Down For Maintenance" Page?

What’s New In This Release?

ECi is loading Version 7.4.6 of ECinteractive™ and is.D-Force® 2 onto your live Web servers Saturday, July 26, 2008 — between 9 PM and 7 AM Eastern Time.

This software release includes the following enhancements:

• Enhanced by sending an email notification to a dealer when a new user registers and uses an existing account on the end user's web page. The dealer's email includes all information from the Register Me web pages for both new and existing accounts with one exception: password and security question information is excluded. (7647)
• Enhanced to allow the SPR Enhanced feature to activated for is.D-Force2 sites. This change allowed both ECinteractive and is.D-force2 to handle SKU types as defined by Etilize. (7844)
• Enhanced to add an assembly instruction link to the end user's Product Detail web page when using the SPR Enhanced feature. Rich content now offers assembly instructions. An additional link has been added to the end user's Product Detail page that provides information similar to a User Manual.  (7845)
• Enhanced to implement spelling suggestions from Etilize when no items are displayed on the end user's web site. This applies when using the SPR Enhanced feature. (7846)
• Corrected the Enhanced Product Detail and the Checkout print pages to correctly display the blinded generic substitute. By default, the substitute item continues to display in Order History, as it does in DealerStation. (7622)

Other Changes

For information about all changes in this release, see Program Updates (www.ddms.com/updates/searchresult2.asp?swversion=248&search=Search).

For information and documentation about enhancements we've released, see also ECinteractive FAQs.

How do I Set Up My "Down For Maintenance" Page?

Your Web storefront will be unavailable during these maintenance periods. You can schedule your site to be Offline for Maintenance by following these simple steps:

1. Log into your ecInteractive or is.D-Force2 site’s Administrative Control Panel.
2. (Optional) Click Site News, and then click Page Editor. Create or edit a Scheduled Maintenance page to include some text that will encourage your customers to log off before your scheduled maintenance period begins, so their work will be cached properly.
3. Click Global Settings, and then click Site Maintenance.
4. In the Time Settings box, check your Time Zone and Daylight Savings settings.
5. In the Automatic Scheduled Maintenance box, enter the appropriate times in the Time Off and Time On boxes, in the format HH:MM AM or PM, for JUST Weekend. (Leave the Weekday time fields blank unless you have set them up for your DDMS system maintenance such as backup and day-end.)
6. (Optional) Select your Scheduled Maintenance page, for JUST Weekend. (Leave the Weekday page field blank unless you have set them up for your DDMS system maintenance such as backup and day-end.)
7. Click the Auto Maintenance Mode On button. At the Are You Sure message, check your time settings. If they are correct, click OK.
8. Click the Update button. The changes are implemented within one minute.

NOTE: On Monday after the software update is complete, you may wish to return to these settings, and simply adjust the Weekend time off and on settings, so that your site is not unnecessarily shut down for maintenance on other weekends.

See also your online help (http://images.eci2.com/ecInteractive_adminhelp/Site_Maintenance.htm).

Find Out What's Coming Soon And More

Dealer utilization has gained considerable momentum over the last few months.

Transaction Volume: $6.1 million in June, up from $5.0 million in May

Live Dealer Sites to Date: 295

Current Released Version: 7.4.6

Next Release Version: 8.0

Development Status: Quality Assurance

Estimated Release Date: TBD

In the next few months, the ECinteractive team is releasing more hot priority features to make your Web presence more competitive and efficient in upcoming release versions tentatively slated as follows:

Note: items marked with an asterisk (*) do not apply to is.D-Force2.

• 8.0.0 (Release date TBD)
  Limit shoppers to a contract/laundry list (4539)
  Prefs for categories & lists in Contracts/Laundry Lists/Favorites (6425)
  Move Account News to Home Page (4437)
  Customize home page catalog category display order (3371)
  More home page catalog categories from your suppliers (6424)
  Filter Enhanced S.P. Richards Subcatalogs (5175)
  Use HTML for email messaging (6431)
  Approval Order page redesigned like Cart with QuickOrder fields (6896)
  
• 8.1.0 (Release date TBD; due to expanding scope of United Enhanced Content, it has been rescheduled)
  United Stationers Enhanced eContent and Search* (6907)
  Let shoppers look up RouteTrak delivery signature (3085)
  Let shoppers use Coupons (3270)
  Let shoppers use Jumptech barcode scanners (6906)
  Streamline Item Management (6866-71)
  Rank Your Own Items in SP Richards Enhanced Content.* (5175)
  Approval redesign phase two
  
• 8.2.0 (Release Date TBD)
  Display competitive pricing information in ECinteractive (6900)
  Let shoppers update their machine meter readings online (6902)

As you can see, we have an aggressive development schedule for the remainder of 2008. We have made significant strides in implementing advancements vendors make in content. We continue working with our trading partners, our mutual goal being a better experience in searching and shopping for your customers. 

To find out more about the ECinteractive family of products, see our ECinteractive Product Information (www.eci2.com/products/ecinteractive/), where you can access a demo site, marketing tools, and color themes. You can compare Dealer Station® and ECinteractive features for both your Administrative control panel and your end-user Web storefront.

We hope this information is helpful!

Sincerely,

ECi Product Management & Technical Support
http://support.eci2.com