SearchFit Shopping Cart v6.6 (Nov 21, 2006)

[stanley@searchfit]

SearchFit Shopping Cart v6.6 (Nov 21, 2006)
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changes and new features
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1. NEW: ability to use product's auto-generated keywords (tags) in the product's navigation tab content

2. NEW: ability to have search form on the generated pages that allows visitors to search by product name, number, or description

3. NEW: new web service "get orders summary" available

4. NEW: ability to send test email for a user on the Store/User page

5. NEW: additional functions for the Store/Customize feature:
a) ability to select all manufacturer's products for selected user
b) ability to deselect all manufacturer's products for selected user
c) ability to assign all manufacturer's products to selected user

6. NEW: additional functions for the Handling/DropShipping feature:
a) ability to deselect all manufacturer's products for selected vendor
b) ability to assign all manufacturer's products to selected vendor

7. NEW: additional functions for the Store/Products feature:
a) ability to make the cost/list/selling price to be X% of the cost/list/selling price
b) ability to make the user price diff to be X% of the selling price

8. NEW: ability to start multiple generations (multiple users) with different types of generations:
a) Generate Entire Web Site
b) Generate Custom Pages Only

9. NEW: ability to skip transferring of the ImagesTempl to the remote FTP server. On the generation page, show the latest date when an image templ has been added/modified.

10. NEW: ability to adjust the total weight of an order by shipping method

11. NEW: ability to enter description of a shipping method. The description will be shown on the checkout pages when the method is selected from the buyer.

12. NEW: ability to mark a system user to become a seller. Sellers are able to login on the checkout pages and place orders. Orders placed by a seller will be associated with the seller. Ability to run a report how much sellers have earned for a specific period.

13. NEW: new report of type "Sellers Commissions" at Reports/ByOrders that enables to generate the commission report for all sellers in the system for a specific period. The report can be exported as CSV to allow external commission calculation logic to be applied.

14. NEW: ability to enter/import products' cost prices

15. NEW: new keywords available for the export orders templates:
- ORDER_SELLER_ID: seller's id
- ORDER_SELLER_USERNAME: seller's user name
- ORDER_SELLER_FULLNAME: seller's full name
- ORDER_SELLER_COMMISSION: seller's commission
- ORDER_PRICE_SUBTOTAL_COST: cost of the order is the subtotal calculated by the costs of the items instead of their selling prices
- ORDER_ITEM_PRICE_COST: item's cost price
- ORDER_WEIGHT - the weight of the order
- ORDER_ITEM_WEIGHT: item's weight
- ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_01: item's property 01
- ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_02: item's property 02
- ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_03: item's property 03
- ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_04: item's property 04
- ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_05: item's property 05
- ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_06: item's property 06
- ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_07: item's property 07
- ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_08: item's property 08
- ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_09: item's property 09
- ORDER_PRICE_TAX_EXEMPT: tax exempt of the order (valid for v6.6+)
- ORDER_SHIPPING_STATE_XX: abbreviated shipment state of the buyer
- ORDER_SHIPPING_COUNTRY_XX: abbreviated shipment country of the buyer
- ORDER_BILLING_STATE_XX: abbreviated billing state of the buyer
- ORDER_BILLING_COUNTRY_XX: abbreviated billing country of the buyer

16. NEW: new keywords available for the product templates:
a) AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_NAME_ONLY: will be replaced with the name of the product (not as link)
b) AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_URL_PRINTABLE_VIEW: will be replaced with the "Printable View" url (read the help for an example).

17. NEW: new keywords available for the dropshipping emails:
a) ORDER_ITEMS_DETAILS_COSTS: the details of the items ordered using cost prices instead of sale prices

18. NEW: sitemap.htm custom page will be automatically created for new users

19. NEW: ability to search by product id on the products' admin pages

20. NEW: the new "SiteMap: custom links position" property at Configure/PerUser allows the store owner to select whether the sitemap to start or end with the custom links

21. NEW: introduced new order status "Ready for Shipment"

22. NEW: added new "Customized 2" method at Payments/OtherMethods

23. NEW: ability to activate/deactivate products during "Edit All" products

24. NEW: this feature requires "iconv character set conversion facility" installed on the servers. If textareas include special symbols like
µ ×
then the symbols will be replaced with the following html equivalents
µ ×

25. NEW: the new "Rely when Order Paid Status is" property at Configure/PerUser allows the store owner to specify whether an order is being considered good if the paid status is "authorized only (funds not collected yet)"

26. NEW: ability to export product navigation bar tabs (refer to the export products examples)

27. CHANGE: increased the max length of member's email fields from 25 to 100

28. CHANGE: the "Edit Order Textarea Rows" property at Configure/PerUser has default value of 12 rows for all new customers

29. CHANGE: all discounts on the checkout pages are shown with the negative sign in front of the currency sign, example: show as -$100.00 instead of $-100.00

30. CHANGE: if the user has selected to change the statuses of the orders while exporting them then a prompt will be shown to confirm the action

31. CHANGE: updated authorize.net instructions to configure with the cart

32. CHANGE: report "Totals of Orders" is now called "Summary". The "Summary" report was enhanced to show taxable and non-taxable totals.

33. CHANGE: when a product is inactivated it is not unselected from the customized stores or drop shipping vendors. This allows the system to restore to the old configuration when the product is activated again. The inactive products are shown on the customize store and drop shipping vendors pages.

34. CHANGE: updated the UK county list, added some new counties

35. FIXED: free S&H discounts were not working properly if a store had no shipping method created

36. FIXED: the "Items Weight" on the popup window on the orders screen was not correct if the qty of a particular item was greater than one

37. FIXED: the validation of the country that shipping method is applicable for was not working correctly when all items in the cart were having free S&H discounts

38. FIXED: problems with double quotes in "Additional Product Property"

39. FIXED: the Inventory Control was not working properly when the statuses of the orders where updated from GOOD to BAD or BAD to GOOD on the "View Order" page.

40. FIXED: the shipping name of the selected external shipping calculator was missing from the order

41. FIXED: there was a problem when resending the eProduct email of an order when the selected user did not own the order

42. FIXED: empty eProduct registration number was able to be imported, the navigation bar on the electronic products registration numbers page was not correct if the number of records were more than 20
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Stanimir Stanev (Stanley)
SearchFit Architect and Lead Developer
www.searchfit.com
www.stanev.com