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Add-ons: A great way to get more out of your online store

Maybe you’re one of those people who likes to trick out your car so it can go super-fast. Or perhaps when you buy an airfare, you always make sure you pay for extra legroom. Or maybe when you book a resort holiday, you like to get the deluxe package. Sometimes we don’t want to settle for the bare minimum; we want to add on to what we buy. In the website biz, we call these add-ons: third-party software that you can “add on” to your Rocketspark online store to get even more out of it. Eve...

Waipa Business Awards - Celebrating Client Success

It’s unusual for a globally focussed technology business to have it’s HQ in a small town. Despite having clients in over 20 countries, we find that getting it right at home in our local community is important for taking Rocketspark to the world. Last Friday night we attended the Waipa Business Excellence Awards dinner at Mystery Creek as finalists in the Best Customer Service Cambridge category. We were also able to celebrate the success of 11 Rocketspark clients and design partners that ...

2018 Rocketspark Partner Awards Winners

Rocketspark has an awesome network of design partners and we recently celebrated their success at our 2018 NZ/AU awards dinner. Our design partners design websites for their clients using the Rocketspark platform. With 8 awards up for grabs, each category was hotly contested making judging a difficult job. Congratulations to all our 2018 winners. ...

Announcing the finalists of Partner Website of the Year

Rocketspark design partners are a talented bunch and that was more than evident by the standard of entries for our NZ/AU Partner Website of the Year award. Our design partners are designers that use the Rocketspark platform to design and build websites for their clients. We asked them to submit their best Rocketspark website with the winner to be announced at our 2018 Partner Awards dinner. Narrowing it down to 5 finalists was no easy feat and a true testament to the abilities of our network of...

Copy & link stacks: a magic carpet for your content

Want to unleash your creativity and save time spent designing a website? Heck yes, you do. So let me introduce you to a brand new Rocketspark feature that’ll maximise visual oomph, yet magically minimise time spent: copy and link stacks. ...

Get typing: New features to showcase your blog

When we thought about enhancing the Rocketspark Blog, it was a bit of a no-brainer. Blogging is one of the best ways to amplify your marketing, showcase your expertise and get found in Google. But how do you hook readers in and get them falling in love with your content? We’ve just released two new features that are designed for just that. ...

5 effective web forms built with Rocketspark

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Instagram shopping with Rocketspark

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Phishing scams: don’t take the bait

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Help, my website flunked a speed test!: What to do about page loading times...

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New form builder: The tool you need to get the customer information you want

Customers are a mysterious bunch, especially online. Google Analytics can tell you when a would-be customer visits your site and a few other statistical tidbits about them—but wouldn’t you love to know more? Like what their enquiry is about?...Or what they really thought about your customer service?...Or if you can add them to your newsletter database? The more intel you can get from your site visitors, the better you can serve them. A good webform builder, therefore, is a remarkably power...

Cambridge Seminar Series

We're teaming up with the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce NZ to run a Seminar Series. The 6 workshop series over 12 weeks will give businesses all the tools needed to be successful in the digital space. Check out the different sessions below. ...

Rocketspark, an alternative to Business Catalyst: How we can help you survive the closing down of Adobe Business Catalyst and Adobe Muse

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Sell more, stress less: How we’ve streamlined your online shop

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More intelligent stack-specific control

We've introduced significant improvements to the way stack-specific design controls get applied when you're designing. Check out the video for a full run down. ...

Announcing the winner of a free website at Accounting Business Expo

We had a great time at Accounting Business Expo in Sydney. We love seeing the look on someones face when the penny drops just how much easier their website would be to manage if they moved to Rocketspark. ...

Brewing success: MyCoffeeCapsules online retail thrives without the risk

It was that first “PING!” that did it. It was a notification announcing his first online sale, and Steve Lewis of MyCoffeeCapsules has been hooked on online retail ever since. He knew his new venture was going to need a website platform that could help turn his idea into a reality, which is why he chose Rocketspark. Now he sells thousands of Caffesso capsules (Nespresso-compatible coffee pods) a week without even having to leave the house. ...

5 reasons Rocketspark is going to Accounting Business Expo in Sydney

Rocketspark is a beautifully simple website builder and ecommerce software for non-techie business owners. Accounting Business Expo is Australia’s largest annual business event and is a great place to learn about the latest business technology and strategies that can help you optimise your business and prepare it for the future. ...

Zippay now connects with Rocketspark Ecommerce in Australia for buy now pay later

New-school buy now, pay later systems are really shaking up the world of ecommerce and this month we launched our integration with Australian payment system Zippay to do just that. In August 2017 we launched an integration with New Zealand buy now pay later platform Laybuy and for Rocketspark stores that have started offering Laybuy payments, they’ve seen really good uplifts in average order value. It is early days for our integration with Zippay but we’re hoping to see similar results for ...

Add page redirects inside your Dashboard

Page redirects are a clever way to redirect a web page visitor from one URL (web address) to another—the visitor goes to one URL and then get automatically sent to another URL so they don’t actually view the page of the original URL. There’s quite a few different scenarios why you might want to use this feature but now you can set them up yourself inside your Dashboard. ...

Vend POS - import products from a specific tag

Rocketspark Ecommerce first integrated with Vend Point-of-Sale software to help retailers sell in-store and online back in 2014 and now we’ve launched an upgrade to the way you can import products from Vend to Rocketspark. ...

More ecommerce control inside your Dashboard

This month we’ve launched a swathe of new ecommerce controls, right in the Dashboard of your store. As Rocketspark evolves into a more powerful Ecommerce Software suite, more control and flexibility is put in the hands of store owners to increase sales and store management efficiency. The thing we’ve learnt is that every store is different and there’s no one-size-fits-all—sometimes things need to be different between stores. Over the years we have offered Ecommerce customisations that n...

An all new colour picker

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New features: Customer Accounts done the right way—better for buyers, better for you

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How to create a new version of my website?

With Rocketspark there are always little changes and adjustments You may come to the point where you have had your Rocketspark for a little while, and you want to give it a redesign but don’t want your live website to be in a “half redesigned” state. The best way to do this is to create a new 30 day trial with Rocketspark to try things out and then implement this new design onto your existing website when you have the new design worked out. The other option is to use one of Rocketspark’...