In September, we spent some time focusing on our checkout process, continued to improve our industry standards experience, and released a few new content pages. We also rolled out the first version of our new Samtec Cares website. More on these and the rest of the major updates to Samtec.com in September 2018. User Experience Updates to Checkout Process We've added a few new features to the checkout process when users are placing orders on Samtec.com. Users will now receive a … [Read more...]

One of our major areas of focus on the website in 2018 has been upgrading the way parts are ordered and sampled on Samtec.com. We wrapped up a series of several software releases for our checkout process over the summer, and are now beginning to work on making samples even easier on Samtec.com. We first released our Streamlined Sample process in our Solutionator tool in January of 2017. This allowed samples to be placed in one simple step, rather than going through five individual … [Read more...]

In August we rolled out several updates with our continued support of industry standards, updated our homepage to feature Silicon-to-Silicon content and made a highly requested update to our product detail pages to show pricing and distributor stock. Here are the major updates to Samtec.com for August 2018. Show Pricing and Distributor Stock on Product Detail Pages Over the past several months, we’ve made a variety of e-commerce updates to Samtec.com. From improving the sample … [Read more...]

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 … [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 … [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...]