ikas January Update: New features for your E-Commerce Success

We’re kicking off 2025 with exciting new features and updates designed to supercharge your e-commerce business! Here’s everything you need to know about the latest innovations at ikas and how they can help you streamline your online operations.

Introducing the Latest Version of ikas Core
The latest ikas Core update is packed with improvements across all key areas of the platform. Built on extensive user feedback and market research, these updates are designed to enhance usability and optimize your workflow.

Here’s what’s new:

• Order notification emails
• Status tracking
• Email Editor
• PayPal Express Checkout
• and much more!

Take Full Control of Your Order Notification Emails

Our new email options give you greater visibility and control over your order notifications. You can now track exactly when your order notification emails are delivered and opened. If an email doesn’t go through, no worries—the system flags it, so you can quickly resend it to the right address.

• Real-time status display: Know the moment your email is opened, right from the preview window.
• Detailed delivery insights: See when your message is successfully delivered or spot any failed attempts in the timeline.
• Manual resend option: If there’s an issue, just resend the email—whether to the same address or a new one.

New Email Editor for System Emails

We’re giving you more flexibility in your email communications! The all-new email editor is now enabled by default for new accounts, and existing users can switch to it via Notifications > Email Templates.

With a completely redesigned interface and advanced customization options, creating professional, personalized email campaigns has never been easier – no technical expertise required.

Key benefits:

• Dynamic data fields: Easily insert personalized elements like customer names, last names, and email addresses.
• Customizable visuals: Add your logo, images, and other design elements to all system emails.
• Real-time email tracking: Monitor email deliveries with live status updates.
• Automatic error alerts: Get notified of any delivery issues instantly.
• Multilingual templates: Communicate with your customers in their preferred language.
• Detailed conversion stats: Beyond tracking the session that led to a purchase, you can now see all contributing sessions and their details.

Advantages of the new editor

• Complete Customization: Tailor every notification email to match your brand’s voice and style.
• Dynamic Data Integration: Easily insert dynamic fields like customer name, last name, or email address anywhere in the email.
• Flexible Visual Design: Add and adjust logos, images, and other visual elements to create a consistent look across all system emails.

More Insights with Advanced Conversion Tracking

Previously, you could see which session resulted in an order. Now, you can view all sessions that contributed to an order, along with their details.

Coming Soon

• Advanced attribution models: Analyze revenue by first click, last click, and last indirect click.

Collect Billing Information During Checkout

You can now capture the billing address during the delivery information step. Simply enable the “Billing Address” option under “Customer Settings” and select the “Delivery Information” step to activate it.

Streamline your checkout process and make data collection easier!

ikas Marketing: Card Storage & Auto-Renewal

Managing your ikas Marketing licenses just got easier! You can now save your credit card details and enable automatic renewal, ensuring uninterrupted service so you can focus on growing your business.

New Update to Cart Rules: Installment Payment Option

With the latest update to the cart rules, you can now offer installment payment options based on the contents of your customers’ carts. If all or some items in the cart belong to the same brand, category, or purchase date, the installment option will be activated.

• If all items in the cart are from the “Electronics” category, you can offer or disable the installment payment option.
• For carts containing only products from a specific brand, you can apply custom installment payment plans.

This feature makes your payment options more flexible, giving your customers more choices at checkout!

PayPal Express Checkout

We’ve made the checkout experience even faster with PayPal Express Checkout. Now, your customers can pay directly from the product detail page. After logging into their PayPal account, they’ll need just two clicks to complete their purchase – boosting both user experience and conversion rates.

Other improvements

• Product brands, tags, and categories have been added to the order list.
• Shipping label improvements: The carrier’s name now appears on thermal printer labels, and A4/A5 labels include brand information.
• Bug fixes: Issues related to OG meta tags for URL and site_name localization have been resolved.
• Updated UI for custom customer data.
• New payment options: A new operator has been added for payment settings, including an “all products” option.

We’re confident these new features and updates will help take your e-commerce business to the next level. Got questions or feedback? Our support team is always here to help.