Office Live Store Manager Private Beta

Office Live Store Manager is currently in private beta with a few of our select small business customers and one of the first implementations has emerged on the web from Larouex Gourmet Foods.  They make fine tasting food products and are based in Washington State in the US and I paid a visit to their online store where they have some sauces and meats available to buy.

The store manager portion of Office Live enables this small business to have an online store tightly incorporated within their website with the minimum of fuss.  Prior to this they had integration with Paypal and had some complicated ASP pages to get around the problem of selling online - hardly something a small business wants to be doing!  This encapsulates what Microsoft is trying to achieve with Office Live: a one-stop-shop for all online activities for small business following the mantra of easy to use.

I'm just off to buy me some Memphis Styled BBQ Sauce and Firehouse "Five Alarm" Hot Pepper Sauce because they sound really good! :)

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• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  PingBack from http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=721

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Hi Melissa We're expecting to see it go live in the coming months - stay tuned! James

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  January 01, 2003
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• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
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• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
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• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  This look like just what we need.  Any new status on when it might go live? Thanks Bob

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
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• Anonymous
  November 03, 2007
  How do I get Store Manager for my web page?

• Anonymous
  November 16, 2007
  How do I get store manager too?  Any inside info?

• Anonymous
  December 13, 2007
  Hello, I am very interested in the Store Manager add on.  Is there anyway that I can be contacted when this would be available? Thank you

• Anonymous
  January 05, 2008
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• Anonymous
  February 13, 2008
  Hi, looking everywhere to try and activate Store Manager on my Office Live account. Wondered if you could point me in the right direction. Been registered for about 12 months now and this new feature is just what I need. Thanks.

• Anonymous
  September 14, 2008
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• Anonymous
  January 05, 2009
  Is store manager going to be available in Canada ever?

• Anonymous
  March 20, 2009
  I would love to have a store manager fuction for my website. I intend to sale American product to Chinese people. How can I get this function. I am in Ohio now. Thanks.

• Anonymous
  April 15, 2009
  What is the status of Store Manager?  I am in the U.S. and can only see that it is still in Beta.  If so, when do you anticipate the release?