Wednesday, February 20, 2008

New functionality to the webshop

Besides the 'Garage', we are also expanding the functionality of the webshop software!
You might already have noticed on the 'new products' page the 'Currently out of Stock' notification.
This identifier is part of new functionality. In the very near future we will expand the stock with cars that are expected, but not yet in stock. Say, the newest Kyosho Mini Car collection, or new Corgi releases.
Until now we never did this because we could not handle orders with cars not in stock.

The new functionality provides a 'Reservation' option for each new car that is 'Expected'.
When you 'Reserve' such a car, it will be added to your personal Reservation list. We take notice of this list and when the car actually is released and in stock, you will receive an email about this. Then you have one week to actually order the car via the normal way (creating an order).
After this week the Reservation is canceled automatically and the car is added to the normal stock level.
We think this is a great feature and will certainly help all collectors to make sure they don't miss any desired cars!

We expect to have this functionality available next week.

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