News

In celebration of recent upgrades made to the Ochanoko Shop Manager, we're excited to announce that we're running a special campaign to cut subscription fees.

Through 23:59 on October 20, 2017 (JST/UTC+9), the costs to subscribe for the first year have been drastically reduced by over 30%. The price for our Standard plan is only USD $6/month (from $9), and $19/month for our Deluxe plan. We hope you'll take advantage of these deals and start (or restart) a webstore with Ochanoko!

https://www.ocnk.com/payment/

On July 12th, we will be making some changes to the menus in Shop Manager, to improve intuitiveness and ease of use. These changes include removing the distinction between Simple and Advanced modes, as well as moving some pages to other tabs.

These changes can be viewed at the following link:
https://www.ocnk.com/news/adminnav.html

We’re happy to announce the release of new responsive design templates for your Ochanoko store! When a responsive template is selected, PC and mobile sites are merged, and your store display will be automatically adjusted based on platform and screen size. Our selection of responsive templates can be viewed at the following link:

https://www.ocnk.com/template/index.php

To get started with a responsive template, navigate in your Shop Manager to [Design] → [Design templates], select HTML5, and then select from the list of responsive templates. Please note that responsive templates are unavailable under legacy PC-only or mobile-only contracts.

We have also added a selection of mobile-only HTML5 templates, with a migration mode setting to make it easier to change your mobile site from XHTML to HTML5. Our mobile HTML5 templates can be viewed at the following link:

https://www.ocnk.com/template/index.php?screen=phone-html5

To learn more about migration mode, see the following FAQ article:

https://ec10.ocnk.com/admin/res_e/new/html/touch_migration_mode.html

We’ve updated our Terms of Service. It’s been a while since our last update, and we decided it was important to make some changes to improve clarity and readability. These changes are effective as of today. Many of the changes we’ve made are very small, but some of the major changes we’ve made include:

Language: We know that understanding your rights is important to you, so we’ve completely rewritten the Terms of Service to be much more readable and remove unnecessary legalese.


eCommerce responsibilities: We’ve added some details about your responsibilities to your customers, including clarifying that you need to post a privacy policy on your store in accordance with legal regulations. If you do not currently have a privacy policy, we ask that you upload one to a custom page or the customizable box of your shop information page. We intend to add a customizable privacy policy box to the shop information page next week to make it as easy as possible to post a privacy policy on your store.

Account ownership: We’ve added information about what we can do in case ownership of your account is disputed, or if you ever lose access to your account.

We hope you’ll read through the new Terms of Service thoroughly and let us know if you have any questions or comments about the Terms or our changes to them.

When approval of purchase points is set to "Approve manually" at the Point system page, points can now be approved from the order list.

To approve purchase points from the order list, navigate to the order list at Orders→Manage Orders, and click the little P✓ icon in the Total Amount column for your desired order.

We’ve changed the format of the inquiry form to match that of custom forms. As a result, we’ve changed some of the embedded tags used in autoreply emails as below:

{Content}: Message contents only
{Question}: Answers to additional questions
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{Content}: All submitted information
{Question}: Removed

These changes will take effect on 24 April 2017. Please make sure to update your autoreply emails if you’re using these tags to ensure that the contents of your emails are as you desire.

We have also changed how submitted inquiries are displayed at [Orders]→[Inquiries], as well as relevant CSV fields.

We’ve added the functionality to award different numbers of points based on review content. Previously, all types of reviews would receive the same points, but now reviews containing text, images, or videos can be awarded different numbers of points at your discretion.

Numbers of points awarded for reviews can be configured at [Operations]→[Review Settings].

We have made some changes, with the goal of increasing security, that expand our use of SSL encryption (https:// instead of http://).

SSL pages (registration, checkout, and so on) were previously hosted on ocnk pages rather than your private domain. SSL pages can now be used with private domains by enabling this setting in your Shop Manager at [Basic Settings]→[SSL private domain settings]. This change will be applied to all stores, regardless of settings, on March 14th.

All forum pages have been changed to SSL. We have disabled the display of the sidebar on forum pages, as non-SSL embedded images in the sidebar may not be displayed properly. The sidebar can be reenabled for the forum at [Design]→[SSL pages]. If enabling the sidebar, please ensure that all images it contains use URLs beginning in https://.

Lastly, the external cart can now be added to SSL-encrypted external pages. Existing external cart links are unaffected by this change, but new codes must be acquired in order to create new external cart links, on both SSL and non-SSL pages.
Maybe I'll go home in one hour and then I can make up the two hours I miss tomorrow, along with the three I missed last week.

We’ve added the functionality to include <br> and <span> tags in item names. The <br> tag adds a line break, and <span> tags can be used to change text formatting. Note that these tags will not appear or be applied inside the shopping cart.

We've added the function to disable certain payment methods on a per-item basis.
To use this function, navigate to the excluded payment methods of the item registration page.