Content Management System Updates

The Content Management System (CMS) helps you to keep your website up-to-date by organizing the way you access and update: people, products, pages, images, etc.  From time to time we make improvements to make life easier for you.  The following is a list in reverse chronological order of the features we added and why.  This helps you know when new features are available and why minor changes in your website may appear.  According to the Terms of Service it is your responsibility to check for changes in your website from time to time and to let us know if we have changed something important.

March 15th, 2010 -  User Manager now shows subordinates (which dealers belong under what distributors). Also, listing when users last logged in is now supported.  Product Editing For Sale options where not saving correctly.  Fixed. 

March 10th, 2010 -  Feedback forms now support Whitelists to insure delivery. (Contact us for Advanced Support for assistance if your feedback form keeps ending up in junk mail)

March 3rd, 2010 -  Pick tickets now show address off of ticket, not user profile.

February 26th, 2010 -  UPS packaging tracking changed.  Updated to match new UPS system.

February 25th, 2010 -  Beginning of QuickBooks support for exporting inventory to QuickBooks.  Coming soon...

February 24th, 2010 -  Catalog styling fix for greater flexibility.

February 22nd, 2010 -  Cart ads fix.  Coupons supported.  Security using Roles supported.  Articles styling customizable.   Gallery fix.

February 18th, 2010 -  Ads now include a type field for greater flexibility.

February 17th, 2010 -  forsale checkboxes added to product Edit screen for easy of use.  Multiple countries now supported.

February 15th, 2010 -  Cart can be named anything for for search engine optimization

February 11th, 2010 -  Catalog outline can now use full size images for sharper images.

February 10th, 2010 -  Auction improvements and User Manager group searches improved

February 3rd, 2010 -  Classifieds improved.  Cart understands selling of advertisements. 

January 26th, 2010 -  Catalog made more flexible.  Product name can show instead of Item # in the navigation.

January 21th, 2010 -  Auction upgrade makes testing easier.

January 15th, 2010 -  Our Article manager has been simplified and made easier to use.

January 7th, 2010 -  Register.com upgraded their email server. If you are having trouble with your email please contact us for assistance.

December 8, 2009 -  If you are having trouble receiving e-mail from orders or feedback forms read this update!

• Background - Websites generate e-mail.  In order to reduce "spam" e-mail providers are often too picky and throw out good e-mail messages from your website.
• This problem is compounded by the fact that often times the only symptom is a low amount of e-mail or order notifications.
• The solution requires two steps.  First, your e-mail service must support "white-listing by sender" which means that e-mail from a certain person is always delivered.  Second, you cart and feedback forms must send as if it was from that white-listed address.
• Finally, the good news.  Our latest Cart and Feedback forms now support this white-listing, to insure e-mail delivery. 
• If you believe there might be a problem, please call for assistance setting this up and testing.
• Remember to test your order and feedback forms from time to time if you notice a lack of activity.

December 1, 2009 -  Shopping cart improvements

• Cart can not be configured to allow visitors to check out as guests, without registration 
• Cart can be  configured to surpress all Shipping (address and charges)
• Billing address copied from shipping address, if empty

November 25, 2009 -  Product Item numbers restricted

• Product Item #s may contain only: numbers, letters, underscore and dashes. Everthing else will be stripped from the number when you save it.

November 24, 2009 -  Cart current customer bug fixed.   

November 18, 2009 -  Security update (preventative) & Flexibility Added

• Security lock down on access to all major parts of the system.  Explicit access must now be given to a website in order to activate a feature.  Links (not *.hide files) are used, allowing greater flexibility (object oriented modeling)
• Please contact us if something which was accessible (such as the User Manager) is no longer accessible.
• Fixed User Subordinate screen bug fixed.

November 12, 2009 -  Simplified user interface for sites not using advanced features

• Administrators can use the shopping cart to buy and check out as any customer in their User Manager. (Find the user, click "New Order", click "Cart", shop and check out as them. 
• Simple Inventory feature added.  This allows "scratch pad" inventory tracking (no adjustments/purchases/cost tracking). 
  Administrator screen is very simple and part of the Edit screen.
• Full control of who gets Wholesale pricing.  Wholesale pricing can now be removed entirely.
  Again, Administrator screen is very simple and part of the Edit screen.
• Mfgs #, Accessories, Features and other advanced features can now be hidden entirely to keep the Administrator interface as simple as possible.
• Help screens added to Page Manager and will continue to be added as time permits.
• Cart now supports manual order processing.  This means visitors can check out without paying and you can run their charges through on a non-web interface.  This saves many charge related to running a cart on line.  However, you do have to run charges manually.  This option is best for products which are either expensive or customized and the client must be contacted anyhow.

November 2, 2009 - Catalog & Cart Search Engine Upgrade Upgrade.  Cart Improvement.

• The new shopping cart now allows you to build orders and check out using any customer. 
• This means you can build orders and process credit cards through the system, while customers are on the phone! 
• Catalog Subcategories listings have been improved. 
• URL search engine optimization has been enhanced to add any key phrase you wish to the URLs.   Better Google ratings!

October 28, 2009 - Minor Update

• User Manager hide "New Order" and "Order" tabs.  Fixed. 
• Order Manager styling improved.

October 27, 2009 - Article Manager upgrade.

• Articles appear by date published. 
• Search improved to handle multiple criteria. 
• Links to Article Search screen now supported. 
• Highlight effect added. 
• Also, help added to Page Editing.

October 23, 2009 - Better styling.

• All Managers using the universal template now have flexible CSS. 
• This makes administration screens in version 3 websites more appealing with 3-D tabs. 
• Different managers (User, Products, Categories, etc.) can now have different colors so you don't get the confused and the default gray is now gone for new websites using version 3 websites.

October 15, 2009 - Inventory Adjustment improvement

• Product Manager - Store - Inventory - Adjustment link - now automatically adds the product you are looking at to the latest unsaved inventory adjustment.  Later it will automatically create an adjustment if one does not exist and warn if the product is already in the adjustment.

October 1, 2009 - Major breakthrough!

• Version 3 websites now have complexly flexible CSS capabilities with what we call "pixel perfect" layouts. 
• Logic and styling can now be separated!

September 30, 2009 - Scratchpad Inventory tracking is now available.  Inventory reports will not work on your website but if all you want to do is keep a scratchpad of approximate inventory on hand this feature is for you.  Arrange an Advanced Support consultation to learn all the pros and cons of this solution.