At Dragnet Systems we're busy working away on the next instalment of our excellent online store software for businesses. We have added some new features to the basic store package that make it a very desirable piece of software to help any business make an impact selling products online!

We're also readying a new site update for EasyHouseExchange.com which will let customers know what new properties within their chosen swap locations have been uploaded into the site.

The latest release of our online store software is heavily focused on the Admin tools that we provide to our end users for managing their sites. The updates include some of the following options:

• If you have similar items and you want to use the same text that was entered for an existing product on the site then you can very quickly and easily auto populate the text for the new product with the click of a button. No more copy pasting text boxes! This feature was requested by a few customers so we just had to include it to help ease data entry for them.
• Sticking with similar items, we have a new grouping scheme built into the system. Many stores have the same product but with different quantities or sizes. We now give the option to display 'Also Available In' details for similar products so our customers can give their customers more product options.
• WorldPay integration is now another payment gateway that is provided out of the box. We already have PayPal and Realex supported so having WorldPay support just another option for our customers to choose when deciding on which payment system to use.
• Colour picker for products is now available. Does your product come in multiple colours? Well we have a really simple tool to let you enter in the different colours your product comes in so that your customers can choose the right option for them.

We have new online stores launching very soon that use our store software. I will blog more about these as they launch in the coming weeks.

We are also rolling out a new update to EasyHouseExchange.com for the end of the month. We have been running the site for free for the last 7 months but the time has come to put the subscription service live for the site. The money we're going to be collecting from fees will be pumped back into making the site the best it can possibly be! For example, we are also adding in some new admin monitoring tools for the support guys here to offer high level support to end users on the site and setting up a monthly notification services to let end users know what new properties in their selected swap locations have been uploaded.

We have had numerous write ups in some of the well known papers like the Financial Times in the UK and the Irish Times in Ireland over the last few months. We have also had a few emails in to say "thanks" from some of the users who have managed to swap their homes from using the site. It's great (and scary!) to think that a piece of software I wrote is making such a big difference to people's lives!