New features and improvements in ProductCart v2.7

What's new in ProductCart v2.7

Another free update for ProductCart users providing a number of new features, and tons of big and small improvements to existing features. Here is a partial list of what's new in ProductCart v2.7. As always, you can download the free update directly from your ProductCart Control Panel.

New Features:

• New Discount by Code (Coupons) features to give you even more powerful marketing tools. Among them: (i) give free shipping via a coupon; (ii) limit a coupon's applicability by product; (ii) limit a coupon's applicability by category of product; (iii) limit a coupon's applicability by customer. Put electronic coupons to work for you: here are some examples of what you could do.
• New Category-driven Quantity Discounts. You now have the ability to apply quantity discounts to a category of products, rather than just to individual products. So if a customer buys 6 different music CD's and you offer a 10% discount for purchases of 5 or more CD's, the customer will receive the discount, regardless of which CD's they buy.. Until v2.7 (and in most other ecommerce applications) quantity discounts could only be assigned to individual products.
• More control on which shipping options are shown to customers during checkout. You can now set up a custom shipping option to only be shown to international vs. domestic customers.
• Allow the purchase of $0 products. Let customers add a "freebie" to the shopping cart and place an order: shipping, handling, payment fees, and taxes (if any) are still added to the order.
• Calculate and show VAT (Value Added Tax) on the catalog pages and in the order details page. This feature applies to stores located in the UK and other countries that use VAT.
• Ability to suspend an account: the customer can log into the account and browse the catalog, but not place an order. Accounts can also be locked, where the customer can no longer log in.
• Build To Order Only - We further improved the product configurator by removing existing limitations and by adding new functionality. Specifically: (i) if a category is set up to allow multiple selections, you can now set a default item; (ii) if a category is set to allow for multiple selections, you can now set it to be required. An already powerful application has just gotten even more flexible.
• Build To Order Only - BTO products can now be downloadable products.
• Full support for the new Apparel Add-on, perfect for showing and managing inventory on product variations (e.g. blue/large is different from red/small).
• Full support for the new Gift Add-on, which allows you to get your store ready for the holiday season by selling gift certificates, allowing customers to create and manage gift registries, and providing multiple gift wrapping options.
• View a complete list of features >>

Improvements:

• Improved advanced search feature so that keyword phrases are always searched on as if the customer were using the boolean AND. If the customer wants to search for an exact phrase, he can do so by checking a check box labeled "Search on exact phrase".
• Improved performance on the advanced search page on stores that have a very large number of category. The admin can now opt to hide the category drop-down menu from the page through a new store setting.
• Added a price check when repeating an order so that the new order always uses the most updated prices.
• Added to the import feature and to the global changes feature the ability to set the quantity validation for a product (Validate for multiple of N). Previously this variable could not be set for multiple products at once.
• Added to the import feature the ability to import short and long category descriptions.
• Improved the tax module to use more complex tax data file that ensure full compliance with US sales tax calculation rules. Among other feature, the system now supports different tax rates for the same zip code by prompting the user to select which county they reside in.
• Added product SKU to several drop-downs and other product lists in the Manage Cross Selling section of the Control Panel in order to allow the admin to more easily identify products when creating cross selling relationships.
• Improved 'Upload & Resize' feature by extending support to the SAFileUp/ASPImage combination of server components. It used to support only the ASPUpload/ASPJpeg combination of server components.
• ... and many others.

ProductCart is a reliable, secure, feature-rich ecommerce application used by online stores all over the world. If you are new to ProductCart, buy it today and build a truly professional online storefront. If you are an existing ProductCart user, use the "Check for Updates" feature to download the updated files. If you need more information...

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