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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’...

Staff Profile: Fei Guo

Five years ago when I finished college life in China, I dreamed of travelling around the world, finding a nice place to live and dedicating myself to a career that I truly love. Luckily, my dream gradually took shape after I came to New Zealand. I’m now settling in a chic small town, working in a close-knit team that is full of brainstorming for fast iterative products and with a typical kiwi culture identified by peals of laughter every day. I am Fei, a native Beijing girl born and grown up ...

Making Google Shopping easy with Rocketspark

Google Shopping is available as a paid advertising service from Google that promotes products from your online store in Google search results. For the online shopper, Google Shopping is a section on Google where you can browse for items that are for sale. ...

New features for coupons, promo discounts and picking up in-store

We are continuously developing the Rocketspark platform and a key focus at present is the development of new features to help our ecommerce clients generate more business — and to streamline the operational side of things so that their business can scale well. Two recent examples of this focus were the launches of Laybuy and GoSweetSpot integrations and now we’ve just launched a new set of features to help with running specials with discounted pricing and collecting an order from a physica...

Streamlined shipping to save time & money with GoSweetSpot and Rocketspark

At Rocketspark we get genuine enjoyment from seeing businesses launch and grow. A common theme amongst clients as they grow is how to scale well and minimise their operational admin time and run more efficiently. We see this efficiency theme particularly amongst our ecommerce clients. ...