IMPORTANT: As of January 31st, 2010, StoreSync will be only available to Shopify customers. All existing customers running another e-commerce platform will no longer be able to make use of the product, and their accounts will be deactivated.
Shopify, a provider of turnkey hosted e-commerce solutions, today announced its acquisition of MNDCreative, developers of the StoreSync application.
StoreSync extends Shopify’s online store tracking, reporting and management functionality to the Apple iPhone with an integrated mobile interface.
Shopify is a hosted application platform that allows merchandisers to quickly and easily create beautifully customized, full-featured online stores. The Shopify platform allows them to organize products, accept credit card payments through payment gateways, instantly update storefront images and content, track and respond to orders in real time, and manage all aspects of online sales.
The StoreSync mobile interface application provides instant mobile access to online store sales statistics, order processing, shipment status and product and customer information from an iPhone, anytime, anywhere. As part of the acquisition agreement, the StoreSync mobile application will be available exclusively to Shopify customers as Shopify StoreSync.
As a Shopify certified developer partner, MNDCreative was able to use our API to integrate the StoreSync mobile interface into the Shopify system, and they took full advantage of that to create a great application, but there were still limitations to what they could develop and deliver to the market,” commented Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify. “Going forward, we will combine our e-commerce and mobile application expertise to deliver more robust, richer applications that reflect the features and functionality that Shopify customers want and request.”
MNDCreative’s founder and president, Matt Newberry, will join Shopify as Mobile Lead. In his new role, Newberry will be leading development of an ambitious new mobile payment solution.
Both Shopify and MNDCreative are privately held companies; financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
We’ve added timezone support for orders times and transaction logs. To set this, login to the StoreSync admin, click on your store, and select your timezone.
Also, we’ve added a snapshot of our logs for each store. Not seeing data? This is the place to check.
Since our launch just over a month ago, we’ve received tremendous feedback from our customers and industry affiliates. We’ve learned quite a bit about our market, and the needs of our customers. The transition from beta to release has been a challenging endeavor, and we’re working tirelessly to deliver a more refined and polished product. 
We’re aware that the transition hasn’t been as smooth as expected for a small percentage of our customers, and I wanted to write you all personally to ensure the StoreSync community that this has not gone unnoticed.
StoreSync is the first product that our studio, MNDCreative, has released. For the four years prior, we served as a consulting and development group servicing the needs of customers in primarily the e-commerce industry. We’ve not only transitioned StoreSync from beta to release, we’ve also transitioned our company from service-based to product-based as well.
We appreciate the feedback and support of our community, and are committed to delivering on our product.
Please feel free to contact me directly with any questions, concerns, or suggestions.
Matt Newberry
Founder, StoreSync
matt [at] storesync.com
I must say that I’ve been wanting to write this post for some time now. The infrastructure that runs StoreSync was quite the task to establish, however we were able to automate 100% of the operational functions that run continuously. We have 16 servers that power StoreSync, ranging with functions from database hosting, web hosting, and automated CRON jobs.
We’ve been on the Rackspace Cloud now since July, and have had both good and bad experiences with them. Here’s what we’ve encountered: Read more »
Bringing StoreSync to market has been the single largest challenge that we’ve faced as a company (MNDCreative). We spent the last 4 years as e-commerce developers, and with the introduction of the iPhone, we saw it as the perfect next step.
Enter StoreSync.
Design
StoreSync development started back in November of 2008 with a few books and a copy of Xcode. We started by designing a few of the screens in Photoshop, and then started slicing, and implementing them into Xcode.
The design evolution:
The design of the app will continue to evolve as we listen to customers and enhance the product, but we’re pleased with how far it’s come already. Read more »
