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The software is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners,
programmers, designers, and consultants that think e-commerce could be and
should be done differently.
ADMIN AREA ¤
"New Version" checkup and notification in Admin header, notifying you of
patches if they are available.
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Admin-area Color-coded action buttons (with legend) in many areas, esp
product/category/attributes.
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Ability to search for almost ANYTHING in most admin areas (Did you know if
you search for a word, it'll show you both categories and products on same
page?)
¤ HTML editing of
MAIN_PAGE, CONTACT_US, PRIVACY_POLICY, SHIPPING_INFO, CONDITIONS,
INDEX/PAGE_2, 3, 4 pages.
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Statistics area ("admin HOME") now also shows Active/Expired for:
Specials, Featured Products, Sales.
¤ Better security over login/logoff, and password
resets.
¤ Admin-area label-text /
buttons refined, and now definable in language files via constants (This
is a code-level thing)
¤ Welcome
Email now shows an HTML-enabled preview of the welcome message which is
sent if the store's HTML-MIME email settings are enabled.
ATTRIBUTES ¤
flags for: display only, free, discounted, base-price-included,
required.
¤ onetime fees
¤ Quantity pricing
¤ Text-Pricing: price-per-word/letter
¤ attributes price sorter
¤ attributes controller enhancements
(Option Name Manager)
¤ Attribute
swatches
¤ and lots more
BANNERS ¤
Banners-On/Off-in SSL
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Banners-Open-New-Windows
¤ Banners
Groups - You can separate your banners to appear in various/multiple
places. 8 positions available.
CATEGORIES & PRODUCTS ¤ Price Manager:
¤ - Product Pricing
¤ - Specials
¤ - Featured Products
¤ - Discount Qty Pricing (rules over specials or sale
prices)
¤ HTML/WYSIWYG editor
available for entering product descriptions.
¤ optimized category-delete process.
¤ Category Restrictions
¤ Category/Product Status (ON/OFF switches)
¤ Ability to show/disable category display
on main page, and to set a "Top Level Category".
¤ If no image supplied for product, defaults to "no
picture available" graphic (turn on/off via Admin)
¤ Product Types
¤ - General Products
¤ - Music Types
¤ - Document Types
¤ Product Sort Orders
¤ Meta Tags enhanced to display a more intelligent
price.
¤ Customizable setting for
"New Product Listing" definition.
¤ Ability to add/delete all of the Option Values for
a product/category/shop.
CHECKOUT ¤
Shopping Cart contents summary added more detail.
¤ Show Accepted Credit Cards.
¤ Shipping Estimator in Shopping cart to show
probable shipping costs.
CONFIGURATION ¤ shipping configuration error detection (checks that
origin zip code exists, USPS configuration configured, Order-Weight-Zero
status check)
COUPON-ADMIN / GIFT VOUCHERS/CERTIFICATES ¤ HTML-enabled emailing of coupons &
GV's/Gift-Certificates.
¤ Smarter
GV handling for free-shipping items.
CUSTOMERS ¤
Group Pricing / Discount Pricing available (discount applied at
checkout).
¤ Customers can select
to receive HTML or text-only emails (or opt-out).
¤ better sort options in admin for customer
mgmt.
¤ now displays number of
orders in customer-mgmt area.
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Customer login levels :
¤ 0 =
normal shopping (browse with prices),
¤ 1 = Login in order to shop (or see prices),
¤ 2 = Can browse but no prices
(Store is showcase only)
¤ PHPBB
login integrated (nickname entered during
registration/create-account)
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"New Products" display options enhanced.
DOWNLOADS MANAGER
MAIL ¤
COMPOSING - Can now compose and send HTML-based messages directly in
relevant Admin modules: Send Email, GV Mail, Coupon Admin.
¤ Email template system lets you position
content where you want on HTML/MIME email messages.
¤ Customer can select whether to receive HTML or
text-only messages.
¤ All messages
sent from store will go in HTML unless customer has requested text-only
format (if HTML mail is enabled)
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All emails contain a disclaimer and copyright text (editable of
course)
¤ Emails can be archived
to the database for later retrieval.
NEWSLETTER MANAGER ¤ newsletters can be composed in rich text / HTML
directly.
¤ basic template system
can be customized to display content as desired (HTML-only templating
support)
¤ Customers can now click
on the supplied "unsubscribe" link in the newsletters they receive, for a
one-click confirmation of removal/opt-out.
ORDERS ¤
Billing and Shipping mismatch check built in, to help prevent CC
fraud.
¤ Shipping Tare &
Large-Pkg handler (can set either and/or both a percentage or weight for
Tare and Large Package)
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Low-Order fee enhanced
¤ COD fee
added
¤ has built in auto
generating order total classes for the style sheet. You can define the Text
and the Amount for each order total module.
separately for the checkout
confirmation. (checkout Confirmation Text-ot-xxxx and ....Value-ot-xxxx)
PAYPAL IPN ¤
Now you can view all your completed PayPal IPN transactions from the Admin
section.
PHPBB INTEGRATION ¤ Cart account grants access to phpBB system
integrated into shared database.
PRODUCT REVIEWS- Now you can configure Product
Reviews to require Admin Approval before posting.
SPECIALS- now have a start date, as well as an expiry
date.
STOCK ¤ New
report available to list low-stock items.
¤ Emails can be sent to Store Owner when stock is low
on a given product.
STORE MANAGER
Now you can reset/update all kinds of
settings from the Admin Tools section: ¤ Update attribute sort orders, Products Price sort
orders,
¤ Reset the store hit
counter, products-viewed counter, master categories ID, Order/Invoice
ID.
TEMPLATES ¤
Define Pages Editor - Now you can edit these from your Admin Panel:
MAIN_PAGE, CONTACT_US, PRIVACY_POLICY, SHIPPING_INFO, CONDITIONS, PAGE1,
2, 3,4
¤ Developers Tool Kit: Now
you can use the Admin area to look up text items from all over the files
in your store. (Admin | Tools)
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Parse Time -- added # of queries to display ¤ Left/Right Column layout in template system
separated. Now there's the built-in capability to have different side box
styles in each column.
WHO'S ONLINE ¤ Enhanced for more details.
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