Calling all online shop owners – would you like to be a Mr Site beta tester?

Over the last few months the Mr Site team has been developing an exciting new e-commerce product, with a whole host of new shop features. This product incorporates lots of the options you have been asking us for, including:

• More advanced product pages
• Category and manufacturer mapping
• Customer registrations and accounts
• Discount codes, gift cards, wishlists and relevant products widget
• Bulk buy prices
• Customer product ratings and reviews
• Improved SEO and blog options
• Plus much more

If you have an online shop and would like to beta test this new product or just register your interest, send us an email to beta@mrsite.co.uk – don’t forget to tell us your current domain name. We’ll be letting you know more details about the official launch over the next month; so please keep an eye out for emails from Mr Site!

We’re only a few weeks into 2011 and already Mr Site has a number of exciting new features to tell you about.

Let’s start by announcing that Mr Site's free Live Chat service will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days of the year within the next few weeks. That’s right – it means you can now talk online to a Mr Site guru any time you need help with your website-and because its faster than sending an email and cheaper than picking up the phone; why not give it a try? Just simply log in to your account and click the Live Chat button in the top right of the Main Options page.

The other thing you may already have spotted is some small changes to the appearance of the Main Options page – the icons that were previously across the top of the screen, such as ‘Buy’, ‘Help’ and ‘Stats’, will be replaced with some new buttons. You’ll still be able to access all the same features, however, we think this new layout will make it much easier for you to use your Takeaway Website and should be a real time saver – plus it has allowed us to add the new ‘My account’ button. 

‘My account’ gives you a complete overview of your Mr Site account, and allows you to manage and control everything in one place. Within ‘My account’, you will be able to:

• Upgrade and renew your Takeaway Website
• Buy and add extra domain names to your website – even if they are registered with other providers
• Purchase extra web space
• Print any invoices or receipts for your payments to Mr Site
• Plus much, much more… 

You will find helpful articles about how to use ‘My account’ in the Mr Site Learning Academy – or click here for a user manual.

Over the past few months, a lot of people have asked us for a calendar widget they can add into their website. Never let it be said that Mr Site doesn't value your thoughts and feedback...as we are very happy to announce that we have now launched an exciting, new, easy-to-use calendar called Look 'n' Book – which you can plug into your Takeaway Website today!

Not only does Look ‘n’ Book allow visitors to check your availability, but you also have the option to take booking payments online, too. And just see what else you can do with Mr Site's Look 'n' Book:

• Set up as many calendars as you like and Mr Site will automatically install them into your site - either on its own page or as a widget
• You'll be able take electronic payments online, select a currency, choose a deposit of your choice and apply tax
• Look 'n' Book will generate booking reference numbers and send automatic invoices and confirmation emails to your customers
• Create and customise 'extras' for additional purchases, such as if you want to give your customers the option of adding breakfast or parking to a booking
• Apply special rates and discounts for specific dates in your calendar or block out any dates that you want to make unavailable
• Manually add any bookings that are taken over the telephone or via email
• Not only that…but you'll even get booking reports – including all customer details, any special rates you've set and the overall availability of your items. You can search, sort or print them and export to Excel

Just as you'd expect from Mr Site, we've removed all the technical jargon to make Look 'n' Book incredibly straight forward to use…making your life even easier. And, it doesn't matter what business you're in – Look 'n' Book calendars are flexible enough to suit all your needs. We've got a number of price plans for you to choose from, packages start from £4.49 a month, plus booking credits which are available from 50p a booking. We're so confident you'll love Look 'n' Book we're even giving you a free 30 day trial, with ten free bookings to see for yourself. 

For further information about Look 'n' Book and our price plans, please click here. But if you want to start your free trial today or find out what Look 'n' Book can do for your business, just email the Mr Site team at easybookings@mrsite.co.uk or call them on 0845 557 6103 and they will be happy to answer any questions you may have. We hope to see you Looking ‘n’ Booking soon!

Another feature you may have noticed is your new Mr Site webmail.  As part of our ongoing commitment to providing you with the best possible service, we have upgraded this, along with our email storage system. As a result you will see a noticeable difference in the performance of your Mr Site webmail – and if you are using Outlook, MacMail or any other email software to download your emails, you’ll also see the benefits, too. As part of this essential upgrade we have also made all passwords for your Mr Site webmail case sensitive, as this will further improve the security of your email.

If you have been experiencing any problems logging into your webmail (either via your Takeaway Website account or http://mail.yourdomain.com), please ensure you are using the correct case for your password.

If you are using Outlook, MacMail or any other email software, you will also need to ensure your password is correctly set – if you have any problems changing this, please click here for further instructions. Alternatively if you need to change your password please click here for instructions.