Dear users of www.smetradecenter.net!

We would like to inform you about the recent changes made to our Central Asia Internet Trade Portal that are to make your use of the website even more effective and ergonomic. We would like to take this opportunity to present our upgraded Marketplace.

In order to make www.smetradecenter.net one of the most effective and popular global trading b2b websites, not only do we regularly implement the latest achievements in this area, but also always try to put ourselves in the users' shoes. This enables us to not only identify problematic issues and eliminate them, but also develop new forms and methods of implementation of working tools and consistently expand the range of services offered. In addition, while guided by the usability rules in development of the website, we strive to make our clients' use of the website easier, simpler, and less time-consuming. The considerations above were the reason for the latest changes and improvements that we have developed and implemented in the electronic Marketplace recently.

We would like to draw your attention to new principles, characteristics and advantages of the operation of the Marketplace and searching on it.

We have regrouped the product and service codes with product groups having been enlarged. Today, instead of 98 tabs that appeared before clients whenever the marketplace was opened, all goods and services have been grouped into 22 sections that basically fit into one Internet page which makes a search for a need category much easier and faster.

Users who selected a needed section themselves decide whether they wish to view tabs that the section in question contains or proceed to viewing all offers that the latter contains. In case of the former, all users need to do is click on the name of the section, and in case of the latter, they have to click on the field that shows the number of offers the section in question indicates to contain.

In addition, we eliminated the practice where offers were split into offers in the given groups and with a given code, since this somewhat delayed and complicated the search for the needed offer for our visitors. Now the offers present in each tab are merely split into buy and sell offers. We have thus simplified the very principle of splitting of offers by various groups and subgroups while the action chain to be followed by clients while working with the electronic marketplace significantly decreased. This means that now instead of locating the needed offer, clients only need to click once or twice instead of 4 to 8 clicks that had to make before.

The changes were also made in the search system implemented in the Marketplace. Prior to implementation of changes, after entering the name of the needed product in the search filed, the system generated all tabs that contained offers containing the item searched. Users had to open all the parts one-by-one and then the offers the latter contained. Today, though, the system immediately generates the entire list of offers corresponding to the query. Thus, in order to perform a search, today clients only need to set the search criteria and no longer have to follow the multi-level click chain.

All changes and upgrades at the electronic marketplace are to make our users' work at the Marketplace easier, simpler and less time-consuming. We hope that the developments and changes implemented will facilitate the increase in the number of our website's users and that their use of the website will become more effective and ergonomic.

Please send your comments and questions regarding the new features of the Marketplace at rtp@iteg.kg.