Beanbasket and Strands Recommender Partner to Offer Seamless Recommendations to eCommerce Customers

Beanbasket and Strands Recommender Partner to Offer Seamless Recommendations to eCommerce Customers

Beanbasket (www.beanbasket.com), a Software as a Service eCommerce platform provider and Strands Recommender (recommender.strands.com), a leading provider of retail product recommendations announced a partnership to integrate their two applications. The partnership will provide Beanbasket eCommerce platform customers a seamless way to offer personalized product recommendations throughout their website. Customers will be able to choose to implement the recommendations on their product, shopping cart, and checkout pages.

Appleton, Wis. & San Francisco, Calif. (PRWEB) September 21, 2009 -- Beanbasket (www.beanbasket.com), a Software as a Service eCommerce platform provider and Strands Recommender (http://recommender.strands.com), a leading provider of retail product recommendations announced a partnership to integrate their two applications. The partnership will provide Beanbasket eCommerce platform customers a seamless way to offer personalized product recommendations throughout their website. Customers will be able to choose to implement the recommendations on their product, shopping cart, and checkout pages. The partnership provides the customer with an easy implementation of the robust Strands recommendation system in conjunction with their Beanbasket eCommerce platform without incurring any additional fees for implementation.

Beanbasket has been providing ecommerce services to Internet retailers since 1999 and provides a web store management system that handles everything from catalog and account database management to product and static or dynamic content management. "One of our good customers, Nimli.com, was very happy with the ease of integration between Beanbasket and Strands Recommender and the benefits it provided, therefore, it was an easy decision to develop a formal partnership with Strands," said Jim O'Neill, sales manager for Beanbasket. "The partnership will allow us to provide our customers with a product recommendation solution that is easily implemented within the Beanbasket platform."

Strands Recommender allows customers to increase conversion rates and average order values on their ecommerce websites by aggregating catalog metadata, user generated content as well as multiple types of behavioral data. Working with merchandising and marketing teams, Strands Recommender provides them visibility into what is working and why at a category, brand, product selection and transactional level. "We're very excited to be partnering with Beanbasket to allow their small to medium sized web merchants the ability to take advantage of Strands comprehensive recommender system and see increases conversions and sales," Jesus A. Pindado, VP and General Manager, Strands Recommender. Please visit Strands at booth #702 at the Shop.org Annual Summit this week, September 21-23 in Las Vegas.

About Strands:

Strands Recommender is the leading provider of social recommendations and continues to develop recommendation and personalization technologies that deliver personalized shopping experiences and targeted product recommendations for online shoppers. The patent-pending Strands Social Recommender™ is capable of automatically learning people's tastes and how their preferences evolve over time. Strands customers range from billion dollars to a few million dollars in revenue, and recommendations work effectively in a vast number of vertical domains. Based on proven technology, the recommender engine can be used in conjunction with email marketing solutions, search engines, shopping carts, and ecommerce platforms. Strands is headquartered in Corvallis, Oregon and has offices in San Francisco and Madrid, Spain.

To learn more about Strands products and services, as well as our partnership program, visit us at http://recommender.strands.com or call 415.398.4333.

About BeanBasket:

Much more than a shopping cart, Beanbasket's eCommerce Services provide a powerful and flexible web store management system handling everything from catalog and account database management to product and content management, image tools, rich media capabilities, customizable business rules, pricing, promotions, localization, multiple currencies, multiple languages, 3rd party integrations and much, much more.

Beanbasket's approach is keyed to 4 areas crucial to your success - Increasing Traffic to your site both organically and integrating with marketing efforts, Increasing Conversions once people get there by using the Best of Best Practices in design and architecture, Increasing Average Order Size through good merchandizing technology, and Increasing Return Shopping because the experience was so positive.

Strands Media Contact:

Christopher Contos

Strands

Director of Marketing

Tel: 415.398.4333 x204

Beanbasket Media Contact:

Jim O'Neill

Beanbasket.com

Sales Manager

Tel: 920.954.0807 ext 204

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Contact Information Christopher Contos

Strands Recommender

http://recommender.strands.com

415.398.4333

Jim O'Neill

Beanbasket

http://www.beanbasket.com

920.954.0807