Make sure to have your Credit and Debit Cards topped up!!! Black Friday & Cyber Monday are fast approaching. Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. The term dates back to at least 1966, although its usage was primarily on... the East coast. The term has become more common in other parts of the country since 2000. Because Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, Black Friday occurs between the 23rd and the 29th of November. According to Reuters, in 2007 135 million people participated in the Black Friday shopping rush.
The term "Black Friday" may have originated in Philadelphia, where it was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving. More recently, merchants and the media have used it instead to refer to the beginning of the period in which retailers go from being in the red (i.e., posting a loss on the books) to being in the black (i.e., turning a profit).
Cyber Monday is a marketing term for the Monday immediately following Black Friday, the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States. The term made its debut in 2005 in a Shop.org press release entitled "'Cyber Monday' Quickly Becoming One of the Biggest Online Shopping Days of the Year". According to the Shop.org/BizRate Research 2005 eHoliday Mood Study, "77 percent of online retailers said that their sales increased substantially last year on the Monday after Thanksgiving, a trend that is driving serious online discounts and promotions on Cyber Monday this year (2005)". In 2006, Shop.org announced that it launched the CyberMonday.com portal, a one-stop shop for Cyber Monday deals. In 2009, comScore reported that consumers spent $887M online on Cyber Monday (excluding travel), the second highest spending day of 2009.

Make sure to have your Credit and Debit Cards topped up!!! Black Friday & Cyber Monday are fast approaching. Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. The term dates back to at least 1966, although its usage was primarily on... the East coast. The term has become more common in other parts of the country since 2000. Because Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, Black Friday occurs between the 23rd and the 29th of November. According to Reuters, in 2007 135 million people participated in the Black Friday shopping rush.
The term "Black Friday" may have originated in Philadelphia, where it was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving. More recently, merchants and the media have used it instead to refer to the beginning of the period in which retailers go from being in the red (i.e., posting a loss on the books) to being in the black (i.e., turning a profit).
Cyber Monday is a marketing term for the Monday immediately following Black Friday, the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States. The term made its debut in 2005 in a Shop.org press release entitled "'Cyber Monday' Quickly Becoming One of the Biggest Online Shopping Days of the Year". According to the Shop.org/BizRate Research 2005 eHoliday Mood Study, "77 percent of online retailers said that their sales increased substantially last year on the Monday after Thanksgiving, a trend that is driving serious online discounts and promotions on Cyber Monday this year (2005)". In 2006, Shop.org announced that it launched the CyberMonday.com portal, a one-stop shop for Cyber Monday deals. In 2009, comScore reported that consumers spent $887M online on Cyber Monday (excluding travel), the second highest spending day of 2009.

Happy Thanksgiving

B2BGateway would like to wish all our clients, partners and friends a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Intuit Connections ISP Summit 2011

B2BGateway.Net a leading global EDI solution provider and Intuit QuickBooks Gold Developer will be attending the Intuit Connections ISP 2011 Summit in Orlando, Florida this October 9-12, 2011.
This year’s summit takes place at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld hotel. The theme of this years event is “Connections,” to represent the important role the summit plays in connecting ISP (Intuit Solution Providers) with peers, vendors, and Intuit representatives as they look for new ways to improve and expand their business.
“Connections” will be an intimate, high touch, business and innovation focused event showcasing the industry’s best solutions including B2BGateway.Net’s Cloud\SaaS based fully integrated EDI solutions for all Intuit QuickBooks products. As in previous years, B2BGateway.Net will be a technology sponsor of the event and will have a booth in the main floor. Make sure to drop by and say hello if you are planning to attend this event.

B2BGateway.Net EDI enables the Clash of the Ash!

Hurling is the name given to a traditional Irish sport played with sticks called hurley's and a small leather ball, it is also known in colloquial terms as the Clash of the Ash - referring to the hurley sticks used which are crafted from Ash trees. Each team consists of 15 players and a game typically consists of two periods of play of 35 minutes each. Hurling is older than the recorded history of Ireland. It is thought to predate Christianity, having come to Ireland with the Celts and has been a distinct Irish pastime for at least 2000 years. The earliest written references to the sport in Brehon law date from the fifth century. The tale of the Táin Bó Cuailgne (drawing on earlier legends) describes the hero Cúchulainn playing hurling at Emain Macha. Similar tales are told about Fionn Mac Cumhail and the Fianna, his legendary warrior band. Meallbreatha describes punishments for injuring a player in several games, most of which resemble hurling. The Seanchás Mór commentaries on the Brehon Law state that the son of a rí (local king) could have his hurley hooped in bronze, while others could only use copper. It was illegal to confiscate a hurley.

Traditionally hurley sticks have been sold at club or team level or passed down from player to player, however, B2BGateway.Net EDI solutions have brought the sale of hurling sticks into the 21st Century! Champion Hurleys Ltd., one of the leading hurley manufacturing companies in Ireland started selling their hurley's to Musgraves (SuperValu & Centra retailers) and needed EDI to submit their invoices electronically to the retailer. Champion Hurley's contacted B2BGateway.Net who set them up on their cost effective, web based EDI solution - WebConnect. Champion Hurley's can now submit all their invoices electronically, bringing over 2,000 years of tradition into the 21st Century!

B2BGateway.Net offers EDI for Amazon Drop Ship Central

B2BGateway.Net offers EDI automation to Amazon Drop Ship Central users. Instead of having to manage everything manually, end users can now avail of B2BGateway.Net's EDI X12 solutions to automate the process. Documents handled include: Order Fulfillment Processes (850, 855 and 856), Consolidated Invoices, Packing Slips and Inventory. Visit www.b2bgateway.net
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B2BGateway.Net develops TASC - EDI Testing Portal

Global EDI Specialist, B2BGateway.Net have expanded their offering in the Cloud with a new SaaS EDI Testing Portal - TASC (Testing And Supplier Compliance) Portal. The TASC portal offers On-Demand 24/7 EDI Testing & Validation Services for Large Format Retailers, Manufacturers and Third Party Logistics Providers (3PL’s). As more and more firms become EDI compliant the pressure on trading partners to implement successful EDI testing, mapping and validation procedures can put a huge strain on any firms resources. With B2BGateway.Net’s new TASC portal, however, firms can now access on-demand 24/7 EDI Testing and Validation services thus freeing up personnel to focus on their production environment. The advantages of using B2BGateway.Net’s TASC portal include cost and time savings, consistency, ease of use and the portal is fully customizable to meet the individual needs of any particular client.