SearchFit Shopping Cart v8.1 (Aug 18, 2008)

[stanley@searchfit]

SearchFit Shopping Cart v8.1 (Aug 18, 2008)
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changes and new features:
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1. NEW: the following pie charts have been implemented:
a) Top Selling Category Types by Quantity
b) Top Selling Categories by Quantity
c) Top Selling Products by Quantity
d) Top Selling Category Types by Revenue
e) Top Selling Categories by Revenue
f) Top Selling Products by Revenue
g) Top Selling Category Types by Profit
h) Top Selling Categories by Profit
i) Top Selling Products by Profit

2. NEW: the following visitors charts have been implemented, they require the built-in analytics feature enabled:
a) Yearly unique visits and hits
b) Monthly unique visits and hits
c) Daily unique visits and hits
d) Hourly unique visits and hits

3. NEW: the Product Reviews feature has been finalized. It is available for Enterprise plans only and could be purchased separately for non-Enterprise plans. New keywords are available to handle the dynamic content of the product reviews feature on the generated pages:
a) DYNAMIC_INCLUDE(PRODUCT_REVIEWS): will be replaced with detail view of the current product reviews information
b) DYNAMIC_INCLUDE(PRODUCT_REVIEWS_BRIEF): will be replaced with the brief view of the current product reviews information

4. NEW: enhanced SEO Naming Rules:
a) ability to configure SEO Naming Rules for brief product pages
b) added 3 new "SEO Fields" per CustomWebPage, Manufacturer, CategoryType, Category, and Product. These new fields act like "Additional Properties" for each of the SEO naming rules sections. The fields allow the user to further customize the SEO of the web pages.
c) optimized SEO Naming Rules page for faster load

5. NEW: the store owner can now configure the verisign credit card processor engine to issue a pre-authorization for $1 transaction before it proceeds with the actual order amount. This has been requested to avoid cases where buyers entered by mistake wrong billing information, verisign failed their transaction because of AVS check, but kept the funds on hold for come time.

6. NEW: new keywords available for the main templates:
a) AUTO_GENERATED_MENU_WEBSITE_id: will be replaced with the autogenerated Website Menu. Replace the id with id of Website Menu template you want to use for the generation. Example: AUTO_GENERATED_MENU_WEBSITE_3

7. NEW: SF branding sellers are now able to customize the News and Forum sections that appear on the home administration page by specifying their own RSS locations

8. NEW: added a new "Paid Date" field per order that is automatically populated when the order changes its paid status. Enhanced the search to allow "Paid Start Date" and "Paid End Date" to be specified.

9. NEW: ability to search by Coupon Number orders placed by cart v8.1 and above

10. NEW: finalized Power Search administration

11. NEW: the help button on the top-right corner of the admin pages has been enhanced to show the new Help and allow some more actions.

12. CHANGE: order emails are not going to be sent to all ChiefAdmins anymore, but only to the emails specified for the users that owns the store. To add ChiefAdmin emails, just add the email addresses to the comma separated list of emails of the user. This change requires that all ChiefAdmins that own stores (generate website), have disabled the emails, and would like to receive the order emails when orders are placed, have to enable the emails.

13. CHANGE: website and dynamic storage files could be uploaded to folders that are 2 or more levels sub folders

14. FIX: resolved a problem for coupons applied to group of products

15. FIX: google base feed engine did not use customized per user product properties

16. FIX: google base feed engine was stripping left and right separators if an optimization field was empty

17. FIX: google base feed engine was not formatting double quotes in field values

18. FIX: "Generate CSS Only" was generating the main CSS, but not any available CSS from the storage

19. FIX: SEO Naming Rules were not applied for custom web pages with actions "Only Page using Template"

20. FIX: resolved a built-in analytics problem for same visitors during a period of time if analytics were not compiled for more than 1 day
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Stanley Stanev
SearchFit Architect and Lead Developer
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