The 6th annual plentymarkets Online Sellers Congress took place in Kassel on March 2nd amid blue skies and sunshine. The rooms were laid out differently at the event this year and our guests enjoyed wide range of lectures. With 56 exhibitors and over 1000 participants, we once again managed to break our records from the previous year.

Christmas is coming up in just a few days! When there's a lot going on, weeks seem to pass by like days. This year was full of excitement and the Christmas shopping season was a big success for our sellers: over 2.75 million sales orders were generated in December alone!

Step by step, we want to give our customers additional possibilities for doing online business on international markets.

dmexco will take place September 12th - 13th, 2012 at the Cologne Exhibition Center. Over 20,000 visitors are expected this year. plentymarkets will also attend both days of the event. This time, we will have a large E-Commerce Area, where customers and interested parties can meet up with the plentymarkets team and several of our partners. Come and see us!

Come and see us at the dmexco or NEOCOM and enjoy the chance to win one of 20 tickets to the coolest trade fair parties of the year!

Several new features were added to plentymarkets version 4.4, which allow users to do a better job of protecting their data. Therefore, we recommend that users switch to this new version as soon as possible.

plentymarkets places great value on sports and fitness - e.g. by participating in the Kassel marathon. In fact, three plentymarkets employees are passionate inline hockey players, who have enjoyed international success in the sport.

After our successful marathon debut last year, we gladly took on the 42.195 km course again on Sunday. This time we brought twice as many participants to the event and we set our sights even higher than before. Anyone who missed the event can still get a taste of the action with the following report and photos.

plentymarkets provides its customers with the ideal basis for successfully selling items on multiple channels. In fact, there are very few online sellers in this day and age who still limit their businesses to only one sales channel. Amazon is one of the most sought after markets for sellers who want to offer their items outside of their own webshop. FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) was integrated into plentymarkets quite some time ago. It provides plentymarkets customers with an easy and useful solution for having Amazon ship items that were sold on this platform.

The Kassel marathon is scheduled to take place this year on May 20th. We'll be participating and so can you!

We have developed our manual further by starting a new and very helpful chapter

We are pleased to report a continuous increase in the amount of plentymarkets SOAP API users and have already begun to work on a few new calls for the upcoming version. Unfortunately, we noticed that the SOAP API was sometimes being used incorrectly or ineffectively. Therefore, we saw the need to intervene technically and correct these errors in order to increase the quality and speed of the processes.

During the last two weeks, we made further improvements to the plentymarkets cloud. The new technology that we are using has a very positive effect on the loading times of the webshops that we host.

This year's Christmas time, statistically seen, has brought record sales for plentymarkets sellers. Until today, already 1.8 million orders have been processed in plentymarkets in December 2011. This is 42% more than during the same period last year.

We offer plentymarkets Professional as a software as a service solution (SaaS) including free hosting. Our hosting concept is currently being restructured and at the same time we are simplifying the hosting on our own servers.