SearchFit Shopping Cart v8.4 (Mar 24, 2009)

[stanley@searchfit]

SearchFit Shopping Cart v8.4.1 (Apr 07, 2009), Changes and new features:
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1. NEW: the new "Show onMouseOver Product Image" property at ConfigurePerUser/Orders allows the store owner to specify whether the specified product image will be shown as a dynamic popup on mouse over the items in the cart. Some store owners have a lot of customers which print the cart on large orders and attach it to their purchase order, so not having the photos is a plus.

2. NEW: integrated with NetBanx.com credit card processor

3. NEW: ability to export a particular order by specifying the target file format in addition to the export order template

4. NEW: the new "Products: show options on same row" property at Settings/ConfigurePerUser/Generation allows the store owner to specify if the groups of the options for a single product are going to be shown on the same row or not. Some store owners require that their options are shown on the same row because of their specific design.

5. NEW: the products "Edit All" function now has the ability to change ProductListPrice, ProductCostPrice, ProductSellingPrice, ProductUserPriceDiff, and OptionCostPrice

6. NEW: products can be added to product groups by the new "Add products by comma separated product SKUs" action

7. NEW: The integration with Payflow Pro (former Verisign) credit card processor now supports "Prior Authorization Capture" transactions with a click of a button. Improved integration to send more customer information.

8. CHANGE: the generated products under the manufacturers are now sorted by the category they belong to in addition to the default sorting

9. CHANGE: the import products form now supports 3 digit column index values

10. CHANGE: the product and option screens now show the Cost Price and Gross Profit in addition to the other product and option properties

11. CHANGE: the export members engine makes sure the exported email address of the member is never empty. It uses the username as email address if necessary.

12. FIX: credit card number was not visible on the last "Verify and Finalize Order" checkout page

13. FIX: captured textfield product option values were not visible for the order

14. FIX: resolved an issue with the update product option prices by import

15. FIX: resolved an issue where small product image was not shown as a link if the "Products: click on image" was configured as "Show Larger Image" and there was no larger image assigned to the product

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SearchFit Shopping Cart v8.4 (Mar 24, 2009)
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changes and new features:
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1. NEW: ability to enter or import one or many comma separated shipping tracking numbers per order. The tracking numbers are included as links in the emails sent to the customers. Also, the tracking numbers appear on the "Check Order Status" screen as links. When the buyer clicks on a tracking number link then he is forwarded to the shipping carrier's website where tracking details about the shipment are shown.

2. NEW: new keywords available for the Order Confirmation Email template:
a) ORDER_SHIPPING_TRACKING_NUMS: shipping tracking numbers links

3. NEW: ability to restrict an active user to login to the admin pages

4. NEW: ability to choose two more options when showing the printable order version
a) Include Internal Information
b) Include Tracking Numbers

5. NEW: ability to send an email to the customer while giving him an award

6. NEW: the REMOTE_ADDR that is captured from the buyer's browser is now shown on the review order screen and included in the email sent to the store owner as an IP Locator Link. It helps the store owner to easily identify the location of the IP address where the buyer has ordered from.

7. NEW: the new "Deny IP Addresses" property at ConfigurePerUser/Orders allows the store owner to specify one or more comma separated IP addresses of buyers to be blocked. Use this feature with caution, because denying one IP address might block many individual people.

8. NEW: increased the number of product additional properties to 25 per product. Ability to import and export them, use in product templates, mark to be shown on checkout pages, use in product feeds, use in SEO Naming Rules

9. NEW: the new string function available for export orders templates gives ability to replace strings using a regular expression. The engine uses the PHP's preg_replace at http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php
Example: <string preg_match="/[1-5]+/U" replace_with="*">ORDER_ADDITIONAL_INFO</string>

10. NEW: on the product Misc tab, ability to browse and select additional property values from all available property values in the store. This helps store owners develop their stores faster as they don't have to remember all property values when entering them for the products, but just browse and select.

11. NEW: new keywords available for the product templates:
a) AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_PRICE_COST: will be replaced with the cost price of the product

12. NEW: ability to export a single order while reviewing it using the available export order templates

13. NEW: to meet requirements where a "Good Order" for Inventory Control is considered by only the order status and a "Good Order" for Gift Certificates, Rewards, eProducts, and Wish Lists is considered by both the order and paid statuses, the following properties at Settings/ConfigurePerUser/Orders have been introduced:
a) Consider Good Order: for Inventory Control only
b) Consider Good Order: for Gift Certificates, Rewards, eProducts, Wish Lists

14. NEW: ability to specify "Import Options Action" as:
a) "Update or Create or Delete": the engine will try to find the importing option by name and update it if exists, create it if does not, and delete all that have not been upgraded or created for the product
b) "Update or Create": the engine will try to update the existing and create the new importing options keeping all old ones
c) "Delete and Create": the engine removes all old options for the importing product and recreates all new ones import products form, which enables the store owner to update product options by name instead of deleting them and recreating with new Ids

15. NEW: the "Show This Page Help" in the top-right dropdown help menu opens a new window with the help of the currently selected page (screen) to allow customers to position to the corresponding help section easier (context sensitive help)

16. NEW: enhanced the social network apps to better serve some social network policies where no external CSS and JavaScript can be loaded from the app. The OpenSocial app now has the ability to customize the Home view to be different than the Profile view.

17. NEW: ability to override the global "Inventory Control" setting per product

18. NEW: ability to export members' names and email addresses

19. NEW: support eProcessingNetwork Payment Gateway as Authorize.net emulator

20. NEW: ability to charge with a click of a button previously authorize.net "authorized only" orders on the review order screen. Authorize.net allows the store owner to charge only once for a total of up to the previously authorized amount.

21. NEW: the new "Show Items Using" property at Settings/ConfigurePerUser/Orders allows the store owner to specify the layout of the items on the checkout and admin pages:
a) Standard: Compressed View
b) Advanced: Group Options View - this is the new, cleaner view, where all ordered options are grouped hence it is easier to see especially when multiple options are involved

22. NEW: the products and product options import engine now accepts the following special values of the importing quantities:
a) prefixed with ++ then the quantity will be increased with the specified amount
b) prefixed with -- then the quantity will be decreased with the specified amount

23. NEW: the "Edit All" for products has two choices now:
a) Edit Products Only
b) Edit Products and Options

24. CHANGE: the "Categories: subCategories per page" and "Categories: products per page" properties at Settings/ConfigurePerUser/Generation now accept 3 digit numbers

25. CHANGE: the new lines characters of the exported products and orders result data are now defaulted to CR+LF (windows format)

26. CHANGE: BankOfAmerica credit card processor has been deprecated

27. CHANGE: Credit card numbers are shown on the printable version of the orders only if they have not been configured to be processed by a credit card processor

28. CHANGE: Ability to use Version 2 Application URL of the created by the system OpenSocial applications. Version 2 apps target social networks like MySpace that restrict the applications to use iframe on the canvas views.

29. CHANGE: the add2cart popup's page content is now wrapped with <div id="addToCartInfoContainer">...</div> to allow the layout to be CSS customized apart of the checkout pages layout

30. CHANGE: the "Check Order Status" feature has been changed for orders paid by a credit card to prompt the buyer and validate for the last 4 digits of the credit card used to place the order

31. CHANGE: if product with required options has been added to the cart with shown option quantities then the buyer can remove particular product options if at least one required remains in the cart

32. CHANGE: when an item is backordered then an indication of the backordered status of the item is included in the email only if the inventory control has been configured as "Enabled: allow orders with out of stock items, show backorder message"

33. CHANGE: product reviews and compare products dynamic panels now support better visitors with 800x600 screen resolutions

34. CHANGE: only ChiefAdmin is able to change "Unlock Key for Orders" of the users

35. CHANGE: the "Groups Delimiter" property at the Options tab of the product is not available anymore. All option groups are separated by new line.

36. CHANGE: the "Append Price to Option's Name" property at the Options tab of the product is not available anymore. All option prices are shown if the option group is configured to use different prices.

37. CHANGE: improved security of member activities

38. CHANGE: for the manufacturer pages, the generation strips any duplicated products of type links whose regular products are already included for the same manufacturer

39. CHANGE: for the search function, the search engine strips any duplicated products of type links whose regular products are already included in the search results

40. CHANGE: added author_email="..." attribute to openSocial apps to satisfy some networks that require it

41. FIX: if product template is specified for a manufacturer then the template will be used for the brief and detail pages of the products that belong to the manufacturer

42. FIX: the scart_isfreeshfees property that is posted to configured external shipping scripts now has the correct values when a free shipping coupon is applied

43. FIX: the order's credit card processing reference number was not recorded for few credit card processors properly

44. FIX: apostrophe in email problem when placing an order

45. FIX: resolved an issue where files from the storage were not copied to the target websites when using the "Multiple Users" generation function

46. FIX: when a discount was configured as "Allow Maximum X discounts per Y mins" then the discount engine was considering the placing order by mistake before it was actually placed

47. FIX: when a coupon is applied to a group of products with specific quantities, the message that was indicating the quantity the coupon applied to was incorrect

48. FIX: when options from one product were copied to another then they were all copied as active even if the source product had inactive ones

49. FIX: "Free Shipping" discounts failed to apply to products with price 0 like catalogs

50. FIX: resolved a visual problem while reviewing categories under a category type of generation type "By Manufacturers"

51. FIX: resolved a problem when moving product of type link from one categoryType to another categoryType

52. FIX: resolved a problem when product filters were working on products of type links only

53. NOTICE: Example of an affiliate URL and a link, where the target page is test.html and the id of the affiliate user is 123. Notice that the link uses the target URL in the href attribute and the affiliate user id in the onclick attribute. This allows the search engines to grab the target URL, but never use the URL with the affiliate attribute when crawling and showing links to potential visitors:
a) Affiliate URL: http://mystore.com/test.html?scart_affiliate_id=123
b) Affiliate link: <a href="http://mystore.com/test.html" onclick="window.location=this.href+'?scart_affiliate_id=123';return false;">Link Name</a>
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Stanley Stanev
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