SearchFit Shopping Cart v8.3 (Jan 19, 2009) (1st for 2009)

[stanley@searchfit]

SearchFit Shopping Cart v8.3 (Jan 19, 2009), Changes and new features:
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1. NEW: implemented new product feeds at Marketing/ProductFeeds
a) MSN Live Product Feed
b) Shopzilla Product Feed
c) Shopping.com Product Feed

2. NEW: implemented new pie charts at Reports/SalesReports:
a) Top Buyers By Number Of Orders
b) Top Buyers By Amount Spent

3. NEW: ability to create and configure social network applications that list any group of products from the store. An application URL is provided for every application. Use it to add the application to the social networks of choice or distribute to your friends, business partners, and customers. Supported networks:
a) OpenSocial: social network companies like MySpace, Bebo, Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, NetModular, mixi, Ning, orkut, Plaxo, Six Apart; as well as business-oriented networking companies like LinkedIn, Tianji, Salesforce.com, Viadeo, Oracle, and XING
b) FaceBook Social Network

4. NEW: ability to specify product template per manufacturer that will override the template specified at category type level. Some vendors push for their own view of the products, so this will satisfy their requirements at manufacturer level.

5. NEW: ability to see the latest order of the subscribers in the mailing list if they have joined the mailing list when they have placed an order. Ability to see an indication if the subscriber placed an order is a member or not.

6. NEW: the new "Show Order Weight" property at Settings/ConfigurePerUser/Orders allows the store owner to specify if the total weight of the order will be shown on the checkout pages when it is greater than 0 (zero)

7. NEW: the product's "Skip Options with Name" property now accepts comma separated values to allow the store owner to specify multiple option names that are not going to be treated as selectable options. Example: "Select,Select Color,Select Size"

8. NEW: new keywords available for the Main template:
a) AUTO_GENERATED_DEST_STORE_NAME

9. NEW: new keywords available for the Product template:
a) AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_CATEGORYTYPE_URL
b) AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_CATEGORYTYPE_LINK
c) AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_CATEGORYTYPE_NAME

10. NEW: ability to select the following new file extensions of the exporting orders and products files:
a) CSV Format: will default the exporting file to .csv extension
b) XML Format: will default the exporting file to .xml extension

11. CHANGE: product reviews are now assigned to the main products even if the posted review has been placed for a link of the main product. This way the same reviews will be shown for the main product and all its product links.

12. CHANGE: the search result of the dynamic product filters feature does not include duplicated products anymore when there are both regular and link products in the result

13. CHANGE: "Search Terms" feature has been changed to "Static Search Pages"

14. CHANGE: the AUTO_GENERATED_SEARCHTERMS_LIST keyword is now deprecated, it has been replaced with AUTO_GENERATED_SEARCHPAGES_LIST

15. CHANGE: QuickBooks Merchant Services integration change to reflect a recent change in the gateway

16. FIX: when buyer has been granted a discount and he has used at the same time a coupon that was assigned to a particular category then the coupon was calculated based on the "Subtotal Without Discounts" instead of the "Subtotal With Discounts" amount

17. FIX: Product Links Naming Rules were not working when they were configured to be "Same as Products Naming Rules"

18. FIX: resolved a problem with some particular products of type link that were imported with a wrong webpage_name value of "from_db"

19. FIX: the yahoo product feed was implemented as CSV, now it is Tab delimited values

20. FIX: buyers that paid via PayPal were not added to the mailing list

21. FIX: a link to a top level category that has subcategories with products was not shown on the menu when it did not have any products itself

22. FIX: Google Analytics: Fixed a bug where tracking code can not be updated if an existing user's domain has changed from a sub domain to a top level domain after the user's creation and parent tracking is enabled.

23. FIX: product import with manufacturer info was making the logo of the previous existing manufacturer to be broken

24. FIX: when a category was inactive the label that shows the count of the active products for export was incorrect
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Stanley Stanev
SearchFit Architect
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