SearchFit Shopping Cart v8.8 (Nov 17, 2009)

[stanley@searchfit]

SearchFit Shopping Cart v8.8 (Nov 17, 2009), Changes and New Features:
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1. NEW: New keywords available for the order drop shipping email templates:
a) ORDER_ITEMS_DETAILS_ASTABLE - will be replaced with the ordered items using a table layout showing the quantities, options, item names, sku numbers, manufacturers, mpn numbers, cost prices, and more

2. NEW: New keywords available for the order confirmation email templates:
a) ORDER_ITEMS_DETAILS_ASTABLE - will be replaced with the ordered items using a table layout showing the quantities, options, item names, sku numbers, manufacturers, prices, discounts, and more

3. NEW: Product Link Images now have the following:
a) Ability to have customized regular and extra images
b) Ability to import product link images
c) Ability to customize product link images SEO naming rules
d) Use main products images when product link is not customized

4. NEW: Ability to mark all product links at Settings/ConfigurePerUser/Generation or a particular product link (via an import or while reviewing the product link) to automatically include the new Google canonical link tag during the generation that specifies the URL of the source product. Google introduced the canonical link tag to allow store owners to publicly specify their preferred version of a URL. If the site has identical or vastly similar content that's accessible through multiple URLs, this format provides with more control over the URL returned in search results. It also helps to make sure that properties such as link popularity are consolidated to the preferred version. The new "Product Links: use canonical links" setting at Settings/ConfigurePerUser/Generation allows the canonical link enabled storewide with a single configuration change.

5. NEW: New keywords available for the export orders template:
a) CUSTOMIZE(ORDER_ITEM_NUMBERS, delimiter=|) - combined SKU of the purchased item and all selected options, where all SKUs are delimiter by the specified "|" character

6. NEW: Enhanced the generation of the title and meta tags of web pages that are result of splitting manufacturer and category pages to support pagination when the number of products is greater than the products per page. The 1st web page keeps its title and meta tags untouched. The rest of the split pages now have the name of the 1st shown product appended to the title and meta tags of the page to make them unique throughout all split pages of the entity.

7. NEW: Integrated with eWAY (www.eway.com.au) payment gateway to better serve customers in Australia

8. NEW: Integrated with StoneEsge to support Orders Import, Real Time Inventory, Customer Import, Product Import, Order Status Updates. StoneEdge streamlines and automates the process of managing orders, customers, inventory, shipping, drop-shipping, and credit card transactions.

9. NEW: Google Base Feed has been enhanced to support Google Taxonomy. New screens have been implemented to allow the store owner to automatically download the google taxonomy entries. The taxonomies can be assigned to category types, categories, and producs. The assinged entries will be automatically provided to google during the feed create and submit. Made the feed generation to split feeds into 100k products or less per file. Product extra images are now included in the feed. Allowed google base filtering by category type and category. Ability to customize the feed suffix file name to easy track the target feed problems in the google emails.

10. CHANGE: Drop shipping emails do not include the payment method of the order as it is irrelevant for the vendors

11. CHANGE: For the FullCircle feed, use the customer's billing email and phone if the shipping email and phone are empty

12. CHANGE: Drop shipping emails are skipped for vendors that are configured as "Automatic Emails" = "No"

13. CHANGE: Provide Bing with the order number instead of internal order id

14. CHANGE: Ability to change the target Bing feed FTP server

15. FIX: On dynamic pages, the quick look content did not load specified dynamic includes

16. FIX: The Download Sample Product Feed With X Products function was preparing less than X products

17. FIX: The XML SiteMap has been changed to generate xml files that include no more than 50K url entries as Google is requesting


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SearchFit Shopping Cart v8.8.1 (Nov 23, 2009), Changes and Fixes:
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1. CHANGE: Added notes field to each google base property filter set of fields to help keep track of the purpose of entries

2. CHANGE: Added Google Checkout to the google base payment accepted field. It is to allow people to be able to purchase the products directly from Google and never visit the site.

3. FIX: The RSS lastBuildDate and pubDate elements have been changed to use correct date format

4. FIX: Resolved an issue on the taxonomy panel when labels contain an apostrophe

5. FIX: The disable automatic vendor emails setting does not affect the manual request to send the emails from the edit order screen

6. FIX: Discounts that had the same start date were not sorded in descending mode by the min order amount when they were considered to be applied hence some lower priority discounts were considered first instead of the more preferable

7. FIX: Fixed the calculation and format of the expiration date for google base products

8. FIX: Fixed American Express payment google base accepted value to NOT have a space in it

9. FIX: Resolved StoneEdge issues:
a) OrderDate is not in GMT anymore
b) Provide CreditCard fields like VerificationValue, AVS, TransID, AuthCode, ProcessLevel, etc.
c) Provide PayPal fields like PayerStatus, Status, Amount, TransDate, ReasonCode, PendingReason, etc.
d) ProdType is tangible for regular products and download for eProducts
e) Honor the batchsize parameter when downloading orders
f) ExpirationDate element had a typo


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SearchFit Shopping Cart v8.8.2 (Nov 30, 2009), Changes and Fixes:
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1. NEW: Introduced "Ordered Item SKU Strategy" and "SKU Delimiter" for StoneEdge. Ability to send Coupon, GiftCertificate, and IPHostName elements to StoneEdge.

2. NEW: Added product taxonomy append capabilities. Added new taxonomy naming rule for use with taxonomy append rules.

3. NEW: When drop shipping is enabled then the orders import form is enhanced to allow the following choices in the "Send email to" drop down:
a) All (Admins + Customer + Vendors)
b) All (Admins + Customer - Vendors)
c) Admins
d) Customer
e) Vendors

4. CHANGE: The following variations of the dynamic product price:
a) DYNAMIC_INCLUDE(PRODUCT_PRICE): will be replaced with the current DB list+sell price
b) DYNAMIC_INCLUDE(PRODUCT_PRICE, type=list): will be replaced with the current DB list price only
c) DYNAMIC_INCLUDE(PRODUCT_PRICE, type=sell): will be replaced with the sell price only
d) DYNAMIC_INCLUDE(PRODUCT_PRICE, type=diff): will be replaced with the current list and sell DB price difference
e) DYNAMIC_INCLUDE(PRODUCT_PRICE, type=diffperc): will be replaced with the current list and sell DB price difference percentage

5. CHANGE: If the "Login or Register" label is customized as empty then there will be no such choice in the "My Choices" dropdown on the 1st checkout page

6. CHANGE: If available, show the https shipWorks and stoneEdge service endpoints on the configuration pages

7. CHANGE: In the states dropdown, the options --- U.S. STATES ---, --- CANADA PROVINCES ---, --- UK COUNTIES --- were changed to --- Select US State ---, --- Select Canada Province ---, --- Select UK County ---

8. CHANGE: Title and description cutoffs don't break in the middle of words

9. CHANGE: Previously generated home links like http://www.domain.com/index.html, http://www.domain.com/default.htm and similar now point directly to the target website http://www.domain.com. No index.html and default.htm are specified in the link anymore.

10. FIX: Existing CategoryType and Category images were broken when importing other than image CategoryType and Category properties

11. FIX: Resolved Bing feed min_shipping_fees for some special configurations
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Stanley Stanev
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