Over the past several months, we've made a variety of e-commerce updates to Samtec.com. From improving the sample checkout process, to improving the online order process, to upgrading the APIs that My Samtec uses, and a few others, the e-commerce experience of Samtec.com is steadily improving. Recently, we have added our standard book pricing and distributor availability to our Full Part Product Detail pages. This currently exists for logged-out users on all pages that feature a full part … [Read more...]

In July we rolled out several new content updates to the website, as well as a brand new streamlined checkout experience. We also made some updates to the recently released FSE locator tool to make it far easier to find your local Samtec FSE. Here are the major web updates for July 2018. Silicon-to-Silicon Content Updates As data rate requirements approach and surpass 56 Gbps, developers are challenged with balancing increasing throughput, scalability and density demands with concerns … [Read more...]

Since January, we've been quietly testing a new checkout process experience for a small subset of users. This new process has been drastically simplified, taking what used to be a 5 step (and a bit painful) process, down to just a single streamlined one-page experience. After a number of small tweaks based on user feedback, we're excited to announce that we've just released this new process to (almost) all users. If you're an OEM user, CM user, or Guest user, you'll now be presented … [Read more...]

In the footer of Samtec.com, we’ve always made it easy to contact us by phone, email, or live chat (even fax back in the day!). To continue to progress this theme, you’ll now find a new helpful tool in the footer area of Samtec.com. This tool will match you up with your local FSE (Field Sales Engineer) based on your current location. Previously, to find this information was a few step process to navigate to our Locations page, find your location, and then sort through a list of names near … [Read more...]

In June, we spent the majority of our time beefing up several areas of My Samtec. We also made a few tweaks to the Tech Specs pages to provide even more technical data to help you make your product decisions. Here are the major updates to Samtec.com for June of 2018. Performance Increases to My Samtec My Samtec is our e-commerce portion of the website, where users can manage procurement activity, such as pricing and lead time information, samples, orders, quotes and more. We spent … [Read more...]

We rolled out several small updates this month to continue to enhance your Samtec.com experience. We continued the tweaks to our search tool, released an upgrade to our standards page, added a new product category in our RF section, and made it easier for you to find our sales locations. Here are the major updates to Samtec.com for May of 2018. Search Upgrades After a small tweak to our search rules, you'll now find that it is much easier to find products containing decimal … [Read more...]

We continued this month with additional updates to our on-site search tool on Samtec.com to make it even easier to find the products you need as quickly as possible. Here are a couple of tweaks we've made this month and a few things to look out for in the coming months. Easier Matching for Products with Decimal Places One of the things we've taken note of over the past several months as we've continued to tweak our search matching rules is an increase in the number of searches … [Read more...]

It's been over a year since we last updated the Samtec homepage. As you may have already noticed, we recently took some time to refresh it. You can see a comparison below of the old homepage (top), vs the new homepage (bottom). The new update puts more attention on our high speed cable products, which is a heavy area of growth and innovation for Samtec with technologies and capabilities such as flyover architecture, flexibility and customization, and our continuously evolving manufacturing … [Read more...]

In April 2018, we rolled out a refresh to our homepage to better feature our web tools, as well as our high speed cable products. Additionally, we made a few more tweaks to our Search tool, and rolled out some additional content updates to our VITA web experience. Here are the major updates to Samtec.com for April of 2018. User Experience Updates to Search We continued making user experience tweaks to our on-site Search this month. Here are a few of the highlights. Increased priority … [Read more...]