CoreCommerce

We just released CoreCommerce 7.5. We have added many features you have been requesting (of course we have more in the queue). We have redesigned the admin interface based on customer feedback surveys. We thank each one of you who helped participate in that process.

* Drag and Drop Design Mode – If you are using generic design or any of our free templates you will be able to drag and drop any existing widgets in your store front. You will also be able to edit any word or phrase by simply clicking on the word and editing it right on the fly. Important Note: If you already have a pre-designed template installed you must restore it to use this new functionality. There is some extra code and css which is needed to be in your templates. If you do not restore the templates, the drag and drop will not behave correctly. Remember, restore will remove any design changes you made (it won’t remove products or categories, etc).

* Phone Order System – You can now quickly place orders on the phone directly inside of your store’s administrative interface.

* Template Stylesheet Management – You can now edit your css and header/footer templates without using FTP with our new code editing with syntax highlighting. To use this feature, just click on the configure active design under the design link on the top right of the admin. Then click on templates/css.

* Custom Dashboard Layout – The old admin main menu is now a drag and drop dashboard. You can create custom Key Performance Indicators, connect with RSS feeds and more.

* Google Site Search Integration – We have integrated with Google Site Search. You will now be able to have the search widget use the power of Google Search to power your store’s searching capability. This does require a fee to Google to use this service. To access this feature, put your mouse over settings in the top right of the admin panel, click on widget settings, then click on search result logic. There you will see the option to use this feature.

* 3D-Secure Integration – With PayPal Payments Pro, we have integrated with 3D-Secure to work with Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode.

* Auto Meta Tags – Have us do some of the meta tag work for you. We will auto-populate your meta tags to help improve your search engine results. This happens when you add a product, category or content page and leave the meta tags blank.

* Free Shipping Membership Groups – You can set an entire membership group to receive free shipping.

* Custom Lists Can Now Have Meta Tags – When you create any custom lists you can now set meta tags for each list.

* Recently Viewed Widget Update – The recently viewed widget will now display the product thumbnail image.

* Featured Product Update – Specify the number of products to display in the feature product widget (previously you could only have 1 at a time in the widget).

* Gift Certificate Expiration Dates – You can setup gift certificates to have expiration dates for your store.

* Shipwire Integration – We have integrated directly into Shipwire fulfillment.

* Upload a Photo to a Customer – You can now upload a photo on the admin customer form. This is typically used for folks who require a fax of an ID to prove they are over a specific age for certain products.

Thank you,

CoreCommerce Development Team

CoreCommerce has now released version 7.0. There has been many new features added, along with revamping of existing features to allow for more flexibility.

We have worked a long time on revamping shipping, options and adding personalization. We have also added features like the iphone view. We have also added another way you can submit tickets by going to this url: https://www.corecommerce.com/myaccount. If you ever have trouble logging into your admin to submit a ticket, you can always do so by going to this link.

* Admin Design Change – Changed the overall admin design for easy navigation to features.

* IPhone View – To access your admin with your iphone, just go to your admin URL on your iphone and from there you will be able to login and view orders, tickets, and messages. You will be able to submit tickets, respond to tickets and close tickets directly from your iphone.

* Product Options – We sent out a message about a week ago on this. The message is below to help explain this new feature. We also have added a training video for this feature.

* Product Personalization – We sent out a message about a week ago on this. The message is below to help explain this new feature. We also have added a training video for this feature.

* Product Detail Layouts – You can choose from up to 6 different pre-designed layouts for your product detail template. You can of course create your own layout here also. To use this feature though, you must restore your pre-designed template. To read more about this go here.

* Shipping Zones – You can now setup multiple shipping zones. This will allow you to setup different shipping methods based on the shipping location of the customer. We also have added a training video for this feature.

* Product Cost Report Update – Added the SKU column to the report.

* Quickbooks Update – You can now send the product/option sku over as the QB item name/number.

* Photo Group Sort – You can now batch update photo groups when viewing the photos section of a product.

* Order Subtotal Shipping Update – You can now add a percentage sign for the rate value to use a percent of the order subtotal versus a flat rate.

* Hyperlink Product on View Cart – You can have the product on the view cart page hyperlinked back to the product detail.

* Meta Tags Multi-Lingual

* Inventory Reports Update – Added a print/view all option for inventory reports.

* Easy Design Editor – By clicking on the design link and choosing easy design editor you can quickly edit product, categories, add widgets directly from your storefront.

* Delete All Products – Quickly delete all of your products in your store. Be careful, once deleted they cannot be restored.

* Canadian Tax Update – Orders with Canadian tax now break down the GST, HST and PST tax amounts.

* Coupon Shipping Method – You can create a coupon, if used, will create a new shipping method based on the amount you specify with the coupon.

* Added New Order Status – Added a status Processing

* AtLast Fulfillment Integration – Can be used if using AtLast fulfillment.

* Newsletter Update – You can batch assign all customers to a mailing list by clicking the assign link in the newsletter section.

* Email Receipts Update – .You can now select whether or not to send out admin and customer receipts when the order is placed or only when it is saved as approved.

* Upload a Flash Logo – When using pre-designed or generic design, you can now upload a flash logo directly from the admin.

* Sales Price Date Field – You can use the sales price date field to active a sales price some date in the future.

* Emails Support Multiple Languages

* Maximum Order Quantity – Under the advanced section when adding/editing a product, you can now specify a maximum order quantity for a product.

Everyone of these features have been driven by the requests of our customers. We would like to thank each one for all of their suggestions.

Also stay tuned for even more features. We are having follow up releases in the next few weeks to add even more great features.

Our development team at CoreCommerce continues to add additional features into CoreCommerce based on our customer feedback. Here are a list of some of the new features added.

• Email Auto-Responders – When customers order specific products you can now send them automatic email auto-responders. These responders can contain information about up-selling or cross-selling products or additional/helpful product information like warranty plans.

• View Abandoned/Live Carts – You can view each live cart or abandoned cart in your store. This will let you see the items in the cart, along with the customer (if registered) who is tied to the cart. All live carts or abandoned carts that were in the system before this new feature will have not registered for the customer name, but all new ones will have a customer assigned to if the customer is registered.

• Import Tracking Numbers – If you receive a file with tracking numbers, you can import those directly into CoreCommerce. You would just need to get those tracking numbers into a csv format with the order number it is associated with and with a click of the button your tracking numbers will be inserted into CoreCommerce.

• Splash Page – You can create a splash page from your CoreCommerce administration area. A splash page is a web page that is before your regular homepage which some sites use to display for a short time a promotion or lead into the site.

• FedEx Label Printing – You can print FedEx labels directly in your CoreCommerce admin area. To use this feature, you must configure FedEx in the shipping settings and then click on any order which has been placed. There you will see a link below the order for FedEx Labels.

• Design Widget Layout – We recently added the ability to change the categories widget layout, we have now expanded that ability to the vendors and information widgets. You can set rollover colors for each widget. Giving you more design flexibility.

• States and Provinces Exclude List and Surcharges – You can exclude certain US states and Canadian provinces from appearing to your customers on your storefront. You can also charge surcharges for certain US states or Canadian provinces. An example would be if you wanted to charge a surcharge for Alaska and Hawaii of $10 which would add $10 to all shipping quotes for those two states.

• Turn WYSIWYG on or off – You can now turn the WYSIWYG editor on or off. This can help speed up loading products or categories if you don’t use the editor.

• Custom Meta Tags – Add custom meta tag information without knowing HTML. This requires the full meta tag parameters and will automatically be placed on your homepage.

Stay tuned for more new features in a couple weeks!