SearchFit Shopping Cart v5.8 (Dec 12, 2005)

[stanley@searchfit]

SearchFit Shopping Cart v5.8 (Dec 12, 2005)
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changes and new features
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1. NEW FEATURE: (Show Products as Links) added an option to the "configuration per user" that allows the items (products) on the check out pages to be shown as regular text (not links)

2. NEW FEATURE: ORDER_CUSTOMER_FIRSTNAME keyword is available for the order email templates

3. NEW FEATURE: if an order has items for dropshipping then dropshipping email template is allowed to be selected while viewing the order and sending emails

4. NEW FEATURE: remove all manufacturers is available for the SuperAdmins

5. NEW FEATURE: new keywords available for the dropshipping emails:
a) ORDER_VENDOR_ACCNUM: the account number with the vendor. The account number can be entered by the STORE/Users/EditVendor function
b) ORDER_NUMBER keyword is available for the dropshipping email templates

6. NEW FEATURE: the "Checkout Layout (2nd page)" property at Configure/PerUser has new "Parallel Shipping+Billing" choice

7. NEW FEATURE: dropshipping template: the ORDER_ITEMS_DETAILS contains the manufacturers (if any) of the ordered items

8. NEW FEATURE: support of an external (3rd party) shipping fees calculator service. If this shipping method is selected then the content of the cart will be passed to the specified URL using an HTTP POST method, which means that the target URL should be a kind of CGI script that is capable of processing the posted arguments. The value returned by the external service should be the amount that represent the shipping and handling fee.

9. NEW FEATURE: during an import characters like C (copyright), R (reserved), and TM (trademark) will be replaced with appropriate HTML substitutes

10. NEW FEATURE: "Check Gift Card/Cert Balance" function is available. The URL of the function is like http://www.yourwebsite.com/tool_scart.php?action=giftcard_checkbalance

11. NEW FEATURE: WishList completed. Customers can make their wishlist items public available, so friends can search for and order them.

12. CHANGE: the comment of order sent to credit card processor is now in the format "(Store Name) Order posted by SearchFit Shopping Cart vX.X (OrderId=Y)"

13. CHANGE: increased the max length of the footer links to 150 characters

14. BUG FIXED: a gift cert was available if the order was not marked PAID

15. BUG FIXED: there was a problem with the billing address when shipto=billto was turned on

16. BUG FIXED: the AUTO_GENERATED_TOOL_MANUFACTURERS was not working properly on the dynamic pages

17. BUG FIXED: the ORDER_ITEMS_DETAILS_NOPRICES was not working for some currencies' prefixes

18. BUG FIXED: customized stores were not generating category types with "Generation Type" different than "Standard"
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Stanimir Stanev (Stanley)
SearchFit Architect and Lead Developer
www.searchfit.com
www.stanev.com