CEN has been under development since 2005. In 2010 we started the redesign of the whole platform from scratch in order to create CEN 3.0 which is a platform on a SaaS model and implements all new available web technologies.

The main advantage for CEN3.0 is that it "sits" between the merchant's erp or wms system and his store or stores. Online stores have specific requirements for managing product, orders and users informations that most of the existing erp systems dont provide. 

Some of CENs features are listed below:

• Manage online store's content centrally.This includes managing products categories and product information.

• Download orders from one or more stores and keep stock levels synchronized.

• Upadate one or more online stores

• Extended rule tool that allows you to perform batch changes in product listing. E.g. bulk apply a discount based on rule, bulk change shipping cost based on rules). Rules can be combined and include filters like categories, suppliers, manufactureres, product attributes an much more.

• Offload the online store. Since an online store might require a considerable amount of work on the back end (editors, graphic designers, accounting, merchantizing, etc), this can involve a lot of people to be online and preparing information. The more people work online with your online store the more they will be eating up your server resources. This means that either more resources (cost) has to be deployed or the online store can start slowing up considerably. With CEN3.0, your team works on CEN3.0 (located on a different server) and then either invoke manually updates or the system invokes automatic updates based on rules.

• Allow many more team members to get involved. An online store requires people with different skills to be involved. This will be the case for stores that receive a considerable amount of trafffic. Such people can be content editors, customer support, warehouse personnel, and more. Most medium size ERP systems or accounting systems, will not allow for most of these people to get involved in the system. In most cases the merchant will update information at both his ERP or accounting system and his online store. Most of the times this information is dublicated.

• Different product naming for invoicing and store dsiplay (allows proper product marketing onlie, while keeping in sync with accounting requirements)

• Provide an API to connect to external services (CRM, POS, WMS, ticketing,etc).