GoECart 360 was awarded the 2011 Silver Award from Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership Inc. GoECart 360 is the only end-to-end SaaS Ecommerce and Order Management System(OMS). GoECart has won this distinguished CQIA honor for the eighth year in a row.

GoECart 360 provides all-encompassing coverage to help merchants grow revenue and improve the customer experience while reducing the total cost of ownership of retail operations; it enables today’s growing and medium-sized retailers to provide a superior online shopping experience while addressing the back office IT challenges.

Addressing the 2011 CQIA winners, Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman wrote, “These are exactly the kind of businesses – and the kind of people behind them – that our economy needs right now, and Governor Malloy and I are committed to helping them and CQIA succeed.”

Even in a tough economy GoECart has proven, we have staying power!

Read the Press Release here!

Last week, GoECart submitted its application for the 15th annual Connecticut Quality Improvement Award competition.

From the CQIA’s website: “The Connecticut Quality Improvement Award, Inc., America’s first state-level quality award, was founded in 1987 utilizing the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence criteria in an effort to advance innovative programs that improve quality, performance, and marketplace competitiveness.”

Last year and in previous years, GoECart has won CQIA’s coveted Innovation Prize. The CQIA prize is a great prize for outstanding innovation leadership in Connecticut. For those of you who are unaware, GoECart’s headquarters are strategically located in downtown Bridgeport, CT right across the train and bus stations. This year, we have submitted a nomination application highlighting the innovative new features in GoECart 8.1 Ecommerce Platform. Notable new features include:

• An updated discount and promotion engine that enables online retailers to offer highly customizable and focused discounts. Some examples of discounts include: buy one product and get a second product at half off, get free shoes with purchase of a dress, receive 10% off all products in Toys category only, get free ground shipping on orders over $50, and many others
• Enhanced supply chain automation functionality via multi-vendor drop ship module enhancements. Updates include the ability to source and manage products from multiple vendors at the SKU level, intelligent routing of orders based on customer proximity, and improved vendor self-service and automation
• Amazing rich media capabilities through its advanced integration with Adobe® Scene7
• An enhanced rich transactional email module
• Robust and advanced integration has been added for FedEx® shipping services
• Improved integration with third party solutions that include PayPal® payment services, Avalara® sales tax solutions, and Omniture® web analytics.

GoECart regularly receives awards for product innovation and ecommerce leadership, which are a testiment to the tireless work of our team and their dedication to continuously updating the GoECart software platform and advancing ecommerce. For example, GoECart is also a four-time finalist in the prestigious annual CODiE Awards completion for “Best Ecommerce Solution” and expects to be nominated again this year

We will be sure to keep you posted on the results of the application and on the status of others awards, news and events via this blog. Check back often for updates!