SearchFit Shopping Cart v8.0 (Jul 01, 2008) (Major Upgrade)

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SearchFit Shopping Cart v8.0 (Jul 01, 2008)
SearchFit Shopping Cart v8.0.1 (Jul 15, 2008)
SearchFit Shopping Cart v8.0.2 (Jul 28, 2008)

SearchFit v8.0 represents a major upgrade to our industry-leading e-commerce platform designed with our customer’s e-commerce success as our #1 priority.

New Search Engine Optimization features like "SEO Naming Rules" will increase your rankings and reduce production time. Boost your conversion rate with new, dynamic functionality added to your static pages like "Compare Products" and "Product Filters". Automatically create and deliver your product feed to Google Base and increase your revenue today! These, along with many other outstanding features have just been added.

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changes and new features: v8.0 (Jul 01, 2008)
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1. NEW: implemented new layout v8.0, new home page with recent news, latest forum topics, and others

2. NEW: SEO/NamingRules implemented where the store owner can specify the rules of constructing some prime properties like page names, page titles, meta descriptions, meta keywords, image names, and other. In addition, the store owner can specify that SEO naming rules are disabled for specific Custom Page, Manufacturer, Category Type, Category, Sub Category, or Product.

3. NEW: enhanced "Export Products" feature to allow store owner to choose which templates will use the new SEO naming rules and which not. If the new SEO Naming Rules feature is turned on then the store owner has to analyze what export product templates have to use it, because by default they do not.

4. NEW: SEO/SiteStructure implemented to help store owners analyze easier the structure of their websites

5. NEW: Built-In Analytics implemented

6. NEW: Built-In Adwords implemented (requires adwords account managed by SearchFit)

7. NEW: Automatic Google Analytics Integration

8. NEW: Automatic Google Base Integration

9. NEW: Automatic QuickBooks Integration (Beta)

10. NEW: implemented hourly sales chart, which is shown by just clicking on a day of the daily sales chart

11. NEW: implemented Product Filters feature, where unlimited filters can be created, grouped, and assigned to category types and categories. Once assigned, the store owner must select the filter values for every product. The new DYNAMIC_INCLUDE(MENU_FILTERS) is available for the main templates and shows in a dynamic way a special "Narrow Items By" form where buyers can find what they are looking for easier and in a more interactive manner. Ability to import/export the product filter values. In the product templates, the content between the new <product-filters>...</product-filters> elements will be processed only if the product has filters assigned. See the product template help for an example.

12. NEW: implemented Compare Products feature. There is a new keyword for the product templates that enables a "Compare" checkbox to be shown per product. Customers can select as many product "Compare" checkboxes as they want and compare the selected products in a dynamic panel. Ability to choose what product properties are to be compared via the Settings/ConfigurePerUser/CompareProducts configuration tab.

13. NEW: ability to select "CREATE+MODIFY" permission for the users screen that will allow logged users to create and modify existing users, but not able to delete them

14. NEW: ability to assign image per category type

15. NEW: implemented DYNAMIC_INCLUDE(PRODUCT_QTY) for product templates that will be replaced with the current quantity of the product. Useful variation of this dynamic include is: DYNAMIC_INCLUDE(PRODUCT_QTY, argOutOfStockMsg=Out of Stock, argInStockMsg=In Stock) that will be replaced with "Out of Stock" message if the product is out of stock or replaced with "In Stock" message otherwise

16. NEW: ability to change some product link properties like name, description, webpage name, related products, etc. to prevent duplicated content and help SEO. Ability to import those properties.

17. NEW: ability to change product properties like name and brief description per manufacturer to prevent duplicated content and help SEO. Ability to import those properties.

18. NEW: ability to change category properties like name, description, webpage name, etc. per manufacturer to prevent duplicated content and help SEO. Ability to import those properties.

19. NEW: new keywords available for the product templates:
a) AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_CATEGORY_URL: will be replaced with the URL to the category page of the product

20. NEW: enabled admin activities from the same browser during generation

21. NEW: manufacturers may have alternate names

22. NEW: UPC and ISBN can be entered per product. Ability to import/export them

23. NEW: if the following meta tag is included in the headers of the custom pages, category types, categories, or products then the generation will not include its default robots meta tags: <meta name="robots" ...

24. NEW: by default, the system footer link is shown only on the generated custom pages and it points to the webpage of the selected plan

25. NEW: ability to use on the "Thanks" page and export the following order properties:
a) ORDER_MEMBER_ID: member's id
b) ORDER_MEMBER_USERNAME: member's user name
c) ORDER_MEMBER_FULLNAME: member's full name
d) ORDER_MEMBER_EMAIL: member's email address

26. NEW: the system now keeps track of all latest generated page names. It exposes a website's getCurrentPageNameByMissingPageName service operation to resolve missing page names with their currently generated ones

27. NEW: the generation engine modifies the website's .htaccess file to handle "404 Not Found" events and resolve to an existing page based on the requested entity type and id

28. NEW: the new product "Generation Info" tab contains an information about all latest generated page names of the product and an indication whether there have been visitors requesting a missing page that has been resolved to the actual generated one.

29. NEW: all SF and YUI javascripts will be compressed, minified, and bundled into single sf-all-min.js and yui-all-min.js files and distributed to the target websites for faster load

30. NEW: indicate on the generation screen whether or not the SEO Naming Rules are enabled

31. NEW: by default, the system footer link is shown only on the generated home page and it points to the webpage of the selected plan

32. NEW: if not restricted, the store owner is able to view a member, click on the new "Login as this Member" link, and change some additional member's properties

33. NEW: the "Edit All Products" function allows to edit all options of the products as well

34. CHANGE: for PayPal Pro, changed their PayPal PHP API to send the original CVV2 instead of the changed CVNum XML element in the SOAP request

35. CHANGE: manufacturer keywords can now be used in the descriptions of the products

36. CHANGE: the credit card expiration date that is included in the order confirmation emails is now masked (hidden)

37. CHANGE: the system footer links are now footer_link_system class, so different CSS settings can be assigned to them than the standard footer links

38. CHANGE: increased the length limit of a template

39. CHANGE: the default affiliate cookie expiration period was changed to 1 year

40. CHANGE: products "Travel" tab has been deprecated

41. CHANGE: export orders: the ORDER_ITEM_OPTION_NAME will be replaced with the group name of the exported option. For example: Color, Size, or whatever the group name is.

42. CHANGE: product option names now accept up to 250 characters

43. CHANGE: moved "sitemaps.org" properties to the SEO/XMLSitemap screen

44. CHANGE: the shipping engine has been changed, so the real-time shipping estimation adds the adjusted weight to the order even if all items in the cart do not have weight. This way, the store owner may have products with zero weight and the real-time shipping estimation will still work if the shipping method has adjusted weight that is added to the order.

45. CHANGE: log a warning and return to google a 500 http code if the google checkout notification cannot be processed to stop further same requests

46. CHANGE: introduced .htaccess to allow website's javascripts and css files to be cached for 24 hours from the visitor's browsers to improve the overall webpages loading performance

47. CHANGE: if keyword ORDER_SHIPPING_METHOD_NAME is used in the order's confirmation or dropshipping email templates then the shipping method name is not included with the ORDER_DETAILS keyword anymore

48. CHNAGE: entered &quot; and &amp; in the templates are not changed to " and & anymore, but stay as &quot; and &amp;

49. FIX: fixed the PayPal PHP SOAP SDK to handle cpp-header-image, so it is correclty shown on the PayPal Express web page

50. FIX: the "Products per row"="Controlled via CSS" configuration of product templates was not working for product groups

51. FIX: "Credit Card Holder" does not appear anymore in the confirmation email of the order when paid by check

52. FIX: better handle website templates, because SF code generated at the bottom of every page was not included if include tags were used in a specific way

53. FIX: do not send automatic emails to vendor that has disabled them

54. FIX: double quotes in some descriptions of product links were escaped with slash

55. FIX: removing custom menu record was not removing related custom pages records

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changes and bug fixes: v8.0.1 (Jul 15, 2008)
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1. CHANGE: unlock the admin pages to be used while sending an email to a long list of subscribers or members

2. CHANGE: improved the SEO/SiteStructure view to better serve bigger stores

3. CHANGE: for websites transferred via ftp, the transfer engine checks if SEO Naming Rules have been changed after the latest transfer and it defaults the "Transfer Product Images" to "All" if that is the case

4. CHANGE: show appropriate message as a result of AJAX activities when session has expired

5. CHANGE: the row that is shown above the group of options uses now the product_options_title class and can be changed via the main CSS

6. CHANGE: show the shipping method on the orders' tooltip

7. CHANGE: For appropriate plans, the Built In Analytics is now enabled by default to allow built-in reports and charts to work unless the customer decides to turn them off.

8. CHANGE: Built In Analytics will no longer display it's tracking image.

9. CHANGE: slight login screen changes

10. FIX: ability to compare upsell products on the checkout pages

11. FIX: update seoGeneralSettings and xmlSitemaps had problems, because some versions of PHP like 4.3.9 have issues with specific pass and return by reference arguments for functions

12. FIX: google analytics auto generated code had a problem with the script closing and reopening tag

13. FIX: SEO optimized images for category links where not available on the target website

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changes and bug fixes: v8.0.2 (Jul 28, 2008)
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1. CHANGE: the Product Reviews feature has been revisited and completed

2. CHANGE: ability to download previously prepared google base feed

3. FIX: resolved important built-in analytics problems

4. FIX: resolved 500 Server Error on servers that do not have mod_expires or mod_deflate installed
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Stanimir Stanev (Stanley)
SearchFit Architect and Lead Developer
www.searchfit.com
www.stanev.com