The ability to get notification when an out of stock item becomes available is a very common one for an e-commerce site. In an effort to launch in time for the holiday season, we had to put this feature off. We didn’t think that we would need such a feature so soon. To our pleasant surprise we had real trouble keeping a lot of our merchandise in-stock. We’ve already had to replenish our inventory several times. It’s hard to believe that it’s only about 2.5 months since we launched!

So in the last couple of days I spent some time and whipped together our “in-stock” notification feature. In an event that an item becomes out of stock, there is now a way to add your email to be notified when it becomes available again. This feature was released early this morning.

From Cool Mom Picks:

Continually asked for safe teething toys by parents, we’re always quick to suggest Sophie Giraffe, Vulli’s European fave for decades. But now the company has transitioned from the animal kingdom to the vegetable garden, with a trio of totally cute mushroom teethers that we spotted at CMP top shop, KangarooBoo.

Blue Chan, pink Pie and yellow Gnon (a play on the french word for mushroom, champignon) …

Thanks Liz!

Check out Chan Pie Gnon.

One of Australia’s top bloggers, Karen Cheng has this to say about us:

what I love best about KangarooBoo is that they specialise in quality wooden toys, they stock a whole range of cool European brands, a portion of all sales are donated to charity, and every toy has been hand selected, which means their range is excellent.

She’s also noted some of her favorite products.

Thanks Karen!

Apartment Therapy Nursery recently had a completely new design and layout and is now known as ohdeedoh. They are also currently doing a Holiday Gift Bag giveaway where you can win free stuff from their favorite stores just by leaving a comment. A new contest is posted every day till the end of the week I think. They started last week. So head on over to Ohdeedoh.

Oh! and look out for a certain Flensted Mobile giveaway tomorrow.

Leighann over at The Full Mummy wrote an entry about KangarooBoo:

Finally a company that makes you feel good-on so many levels.

One of our Melissa and Doug products was also featured on Leighann’s Holiday Shopping Guide.

Thanks Leighann!

When an order has been fulfilled and is on its way, an email is sent out to the customer. In the email there is a URL linking to the UPS.com site to track the package.

A customer from Illinois wrote us this week and made this suggestion:

I have an improvement for tracking packages.

Compare the link you give me for tracking packages to this one:

http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/processInputRequest?

TypeOfInquiryNumber=T&InquiryNumber1=XYZTRACKINGNUMBER

Perhaps you can update your automatically generated link to something like the one above? [yours requires that I do some additional clicking, the one above takes me straight to the status of my package]

As of last night, the tracking URL that is sent out to customers has been changed to reflect the better and easier tracking method. Thanks Kevin!

We value our customer’s input, comments and or suggestions. It is with feedbacks such as this that help us in providing the best shopping experience to you, our customers. So please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have something on your mind. We’d love to hear from you.

When Jennifer at Des Moines Moms asked if we offer gift cards or certificates, we immediately decided to make it our top priority to offer gift certificates. That was about a month ago. We’re glad we did that because it took us a lot longer to implement than expected (isn’t that always the case?). So after a few weeks of coding it’s finally ready.

Late last night, we deployed a new version of KangarooBoo with the ability to purchase gift certificates. For those who don’t really know what gifts to get, how about the KangarooBoo Gift Certificate?

Sandy C. at ConnectingMoms interviewed me the other day. I talk a little bit about KangarooBoo during the interview. She did a fabulous job and asked a lot of great questions in the interview. Please go there to read all the details.

Thank you Sandy!