Niqkita's Sock Journal

As things go, our plans to add gift cards in time for the holidays did not go off without a hitch and one of them was that we were not able to get the official plastic version in time so we improvised by having the graphics printed on nice card stock. Anybody who ordered before noon yesterday got this version, it was nice, but not exactly what we had in mind. Now the “real” ones are here! Gorgeous little credit card sized plastic cards with official card carriers as seen above. One last minute decision was not to have the amount printed on the card itself as we had with the cardstock version, it was going to be an extra step in the printing and without the amount on there we now have more flexibility, we cannot possibly run out of any denomination and will add an option with our next update that will allow you more choices for the gift amount than the current $10, $25, $50 & $100.
And, about that update, we have one major step before we can do it, we are switching to a new host this weekend that will allow more features to be coded into the site. Once the move is complete and all is working as expected we will begin the planning of the next update, at this time we do not have a time frame scheduled, but it should be before spring and will include several more things we have been talking about including many things suggested by you and the many other sock lovers who have written and called us. One idea that has been mentioned that we will not be doing is adding the journal to the front page, it’s a nice idea in theory, but isn’t something I want, at least not now or anytime soon. Customer log ins, tracking notices, back in stock notifications, maybe even back ordering options are on the list though, along with several other enhancements.
We’re a little short handed this week due to losing an employee right in the middle of December, vacation time for some this week and an illness or two. So we might be behind in replying and can’t always catch the phone while it is ringing, but we are getting all orders pulled and sent and do not need to hire anyone else just yet.
This weekend I plan to get some more new items added so stay tuned…

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