Flashecom Ecommerce Solutions Nominated for the 2008 CODiE Awards

Fullerton, CA- January 16, 2008- Flashecom Inc. is proud to announce its nomination for the prestigious CODiE Awards 2008. The Software & Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) CODiE Awards have been shining a light on the finest products and services in the software and information industry for 23 years. Since its creation, the CODiE Awards have showcased the leading software and information industry’s products and services as well as honors excellence for corporate achievement and philanthropic efforts. The CODiE awards provide the opportunity for companies to earn the praise of their competitors. In previous years recipients of the CODiE awards have been able to showcase their award winning products and set the bar for further improvement amongst their competitors, making the true winner the customer.

Flashecom’s eLink Solution has been nominated for “Best Ecommerce Solution”, and their eConnect Solution has been nominated in the “Best Supply Chain Management” category, for 2008. For over 12 years, Flashecom has provided top of the line Ecommerce solutions that encompasses cutting edge technology with ease of use organizational capabilities, giving online wholesale and retailers a secure online store that pushes them ahead of the Ecommerce explosion. Equipping its online customer’s with the ability to be efficient and competitive in the online marketplace is only one of Flashecom’s many motives to continuously provide remarkable products.

“This is high praise for our products,” said George Hajj, President of Flashecom Inc. “We feel our Solutions are at the top of what is available in the industry, and it is gratifying to see they are receiving recognition.”

Flashecom’s eLink Solution is filled with features that continuously push the online envelope. Most of the new, exciting features developed by Flashecom are provided absolutely free of charge to their customer base. Not only are customers given new features to utilize, they can rest assured that they will not have to use them blindly. Unique in the industry, Flashecom provides online sellers with a personal consultant, unlimited tech support and easy to follow training videos.

Flashecom’s eConnect solution is on the fore front of supply management in the computer and electronic reseller industry.

• One of eConnect’s unique features is Parametric Searching. Parametric Search gives the online shopper the ability to visually locate lists of products that are of interest to them by fine-tuning their search, with predetermined drop down boxes, making the search process easier for the consumer.

• eConnect gives the ability to customers to line up similar products and comparison shop by utilizing eConnect’s Side by Side Comparison. In one screen the customer has the ability to visually compare details of the filtered products.

• The most unique and powerful feature of Flashecom’s eConnect is their extraordinary eSpec Catalog. Incredibly, eSpec Catalog contains over 800,000 products in consumer electronics and information technology. The eSpec content is rich with images, technical specks, related items and more. It is also configured to select the best price among many distributors. This amazing feature will not only select the best price; at the same time it will check to see if the item is in stock at their vendors. On a daily basis Flashecom’s technical staff updates the eSpec catalog for their customers from big name distributors such as Ingram Micro, Tech Data, SYNNEX, D & H, and DBL. Being able to provide customers with the most up to date prices and inventory on over 800,000 products is a tremendous advantage to Flashecom’s online sellers, giving them a clear and solid advantage over their competition.

• Both Flashecom’s eConnect and eLink solution’s offer a custom non template design. Which is (CSS) based resulting in a very search engine friendly website, helping the customers get listed with in major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.

• Shopping Portals are extremely popular amongst the ecommerce community and Flashecom has created easy to follow wizards to set up export and import for their online sellers in which they then can partner with many of the popular shopping portals such as Google, Shopzilla and many others.

Flashecom’s eLink solution offers an ease of use solution that caters to online sellers who are not computer or technologically related. Elink

was designed to be an intuitive, intelligently laid out solution that gives even the non-technical user power and functionality. With ease the online seller can complete all tasks with speed and efficiency. From the moment one logs in, eLink’s graphical dashboard visually communicates the status of one’s business with easy to understand charts and color graphs. From just a glance, one can view their total sales, current orders, top selling products and more.

• Both eLink and eConnect offer an exceptional Email Campaign Manager that equips online sellers with the ability to send up to 10,000 emails per month to customers at no extra cost. Not only can the online seller send emails but they have the ability to keep track of the open rate, bounce rate and opt out rate.

• Another spectacular feature is eBay Integration. Ecommerce is not enough, clients also want to easily push their products to eBay, so Flashecom made that happen within the ecommerce solution itself. It is as easy as a couple of mouse clicks to push the products to eBay and manage with ease!

• Whether at home or at the office millions spend time on the ever popular website YouTube. ELink includes a feature for online sellers to post a YouTube video on their product display page. This gives their customers the ability to watch a video giving them more detailed information than a still image can provide.

• Complete Inventory Control is a useful feature that makes the online seller capable of 3 things…

· First, one can check stock on any particular item in stock of a certain item.

· Second, one can see if items that are low in inventory

· Thirdly, one can also set up and manage back orders.

• Recurring Invoices gives the online seller the option to create reoccurring billing cycles which includes discounts for their customers.

• Elink’s Gift Certificate feature is an awesome feature that allows online sellers to give their customer’s the option to purchase gift certificates and customize their purchase amounts.

• Many online business use QuickBooks for their accounting purposes. ELink offers their online sellers an easy to follow wizard that helps them integrate QuickBooks with their easy to use eLink management.

The CODiE Award nominations for both eLink and eConnect recognize Flashecom’s innovative, successful, and easy to use solution. Flashecom takes the time to understand each and every customer’s individual business model. All in all, both the eConnect and eLink solutions provide not only the exciting features listed, but also include key marketing tools, and a dedicated 24X7 consultant to help each client succeed online.