Version History

New Features / Improvements

• Major improvements to discounts feature
  • It's now easier to create discounts
  • Specify range and limits for discounts without having to use our ruleset feature
  • Rules can still be added to further restrict discounts
  • Buy / Get type discounts can now be configured so products can be mixed and matched. For example: buy any 3 products from a category, get 2 other products 50% off.
• New setting to hide empty categories
• Added unique URL for "checkout done" page for use with conversion tracking scripts. Example: http://www.example.com/store.php?co[step]=pay&co[thanks]=1
• Database backups use less memory during creation

New Features / Improvements

• Shipping improvements
  • On product records, you can now add multiple shipping settings targeting different quantities and units.
    For example, you can now specify one set of shipping settings for 1 to 3 units, and a completely different set of shipping settings for 4 or more units.
  • This works seamlessly with the new "sell in sets" pricing scheme option. With that enabled you can add different sets of shipping settings targeting both quantity and set name.
    For example, you could have one set of shipping settings for 1 or more boxes, and another set for 1 or more cases.
  • New Pack Method setting allows you to specify how a product will be packed with other products in order to determine shipping rates.
  • On a product's shipping settings, you can control how rates & services will be determined. When set to "enabled services", rates & services will be determine by real-time rates or by shipping rules.
    When set to "specific services", you can now specify up to six specific shipping services and choose either a fixed rate, or a real-time rate.
  • Shipping rate & service rules no longer have a Priority setting. We've replaced this with a Scope setting which is simpler and more powerful.
    In prior versions you could only specify one rate & service per rule record. You can now specify up to six, making it possible to offer multiple rates & services using a single rate & service rule.
  • Real-time shipping rates can be padded by a percentage
  • Control whether or not delivery timeframe info appears below shipping rates during checkout, and can optionally specify custom timeframe text.
  • Control sort order of couriers during checkout
• Pricing improvements
  • Products can be sold in sets. Example - 1 box - $5.00, 3 boxes - $12.00, 1 case - $60.00, etc...
  • Prices can be set as a factor of MSRP or Cost
  • Quantity based discounts can be passed to options
  • Bulk price change feature - This adds a new record action when viewing products in the control panel, to more easily change product pricing for one or more products simultaneously.
• Time zone and date format features
  • New setting to set time zone in the control panel
  • New settings to control the date and time format used throughout the store
• Email improvements
  • Updated PHPMailer to 5.2.14
  • We no longer set the From header equal to the customer's email address when sending order notification emails. Instead, the customer's email address is set via the Reply To header.
  • Added new Auto Emails for the News module (Comments moderation, Email address verification)
  • New "Order - Warehouse Notification" auto email - send an email to the email addresses assigned to a warehouse when an order is placed, if the order contains one or more items shipping from that warehouse. This can be used for order fulfillment for drop shippers.
• Store Status feature
  • This feature allows you to temporarily turn your store on or off in the control panel.
  • Display a custom message at the top of every store page. This is allowed regardless of whether your store is turned on or off.
  • When your store is turned off, you can control whether or not orders can still be placed.
• Other improvements
  • Inventory control can now be turned on and off for individual products
  • Improved loading time of default Orders view
  • Control panel advanced search - Added an option to control how terms are matched (all words, any words).
  • Removed unused code
  • Increased length of the store settings phone number field
• Homepage slideshow improvements
  • New Crop on Small Screens setting so cropping can be disabled
  • New Auto Play and Transition Speed settings
  • Added CSS to ensure slideshows don't trigger "Prioritize visible content" in Google Page Speed Insights tool
• SEO / performance
  • New Async JS setting - This adds an "async" option to load JavaScript asynchronously to help load times, and to get a better score on Google's pagespeed insights tool
  • Minify HTML setting
  • Increased the cache-control timespan for retina image feature to 30 days
• Theme Improvements
  • Category navigation accordion feature - This feature will cause parent categories in the Product Catalog navigation block to expand on click using animation, without requiring a new page request.
  • New "Back to top" button feature to easily jump to the top of the page
  • Improvements to appearance of default theme
  • New setting to display product code for product thumbnails, product pages, order detail, order emails, etc...
  • Allow Theme Change setting now disabled by default for new installations
  • Added setting for text product options to turn auto complete on or off
• Payment Changes
  • New payment method surcharge feature allows you to add a fee based on the payment method used during checkout
  • PayPal Standard and Express Checkout payment icon improvements
  • PayPal Pro - added EMAIL field to payment request
  • PayPal Express Checkout - added new currency codes and updated documentation URL
  • Payeezy - added ability to turn off level III data
  • Removal of Amazon Simple Pay

New Features / Improvements

• Added support for new Mastercard card number ranges (starting with 2)

New Features / Improvements

• Cart reminder auto email feature
  • Automatically reminds customers to complete unfinished orders.
  • Offers assistance with unfinished orders
  • Emails are fully customizable in the control panel
  • Control when emails are sent based on how long cart has been inactive.
  • Add optional rules to further restrict when reminder emails are sent.
  • Create an unlimited number of cart reminder emails with different rules and messages.
• Fraud detection and geolocation tools
  • Automatically receive information about the estimated location of your customer based on their IP address.
  • Works with two APIs. FreeGeoIP.net which is completely free, and minFraud® by MaxMind.com which provides more detailed information and is very reasonably priced.
  • See the (estimated) location of your customer, including their country, state, city, postal code, and latitude/longitude.
  • With the minFraud® API, you can also see:
    - risk score (percentage indicating likelihood of fraud)
    - distance in KM from customer provided address, country match (Y/N)
    - anonymous proxy server (Y/N)
    - high risk country (Y/N)
    - city postal match (Y/N)
    - free email address (Y/N)
    - phone number matches billing location (Y/N)
    
• Photo Gallery module (included in Squirrelcart Pro, sold separately for regular Squirrelcart)
  • Display and organize your photos using albums and sets.
  • This module is great for showing off product and customer photos, and to provide additional information about your products.
  • Add effects like photo corners, slits, gloss, photo mats, tape, etc...
  • Automatically generate thumbnails
  • Add titles and descriptions
  • Include related images
  • Display larger images via a lightbox effect
  • Customers can browser albums via a navigation block or a built-in Content record
• Coupon codes can now be used on more than one record.
  • You can now offer discounts on multiple products, discounts on the entire order, offer special shipping rates, and more, all with a single coupon code.
  • Example: you may want to offer a product discount and free shipping via one coupon code. This was not possible until version 5.5.0.
• Cron script
  • This is for use with the cart reminder auto email feature and future features.
  • New Cron Script Management tool in the control panel.
  • Option to run cron script manually for testing purposes
  • Settings to control frequency
  • Logs to review operations recently performed by the cron job
• Nav blocks now use the rich text editor
• Bread crumbs links are no longer just for product and category pages. They now appear for all pages, including:
  • Order History
  • Custom pages like About Us, FAQs, etc...
  • Account
  • Forgot Password
  • Search
  • Contact module
  • Testimonials module
  • Reviews module
  • News module
  • Download module
  • Photo Gallery module
  • Store Locator module
• Email improvements
  • Logs - you can now view the subject, recipient, and sent date for all emails sent by Squirrelcart in the last 30 days in your control panel.
  • Improved appearance of order emails in email clients that do not comply with CSS standards (Outlook, Gmail, etc...)
  • Email errors shown in the email diagnostics tool in the control panel (and in diag mode) are now much more detailed, making it easier to troubleshoot email issues.
• Shipping Rate Troubleshooter
  • New control panel tool which displays helpful information about your shipping configuration.
  • Lists possible problems and how your configuration may cause problems.
  • Offers troubleshooting steps and advice to help resolve shipping rate issues.
• New storefront effect fades elements in on page load and when scrolling down.
• Image files now keep their original names (sometimes with an added suffix)
• Added a "Users - ordered items" view to make it easy to view all items ordered by individual customers, with ability to search and export that data.
• Order stats improvements - new (optional) Profit / Loss column, settings to hide unused columns
• Change to prod thumb when only one product is on the page: Prior to this change, when only one product thumbnail was on a page it would take up 50% of the available space. This looks a little odd if you have "products per page" set to 3 (which is the default). This removes that functionality so the product thumbnail takes up the same amount of horizontal space regardless of whether or not it is by itself on the page.
• Responsive option for carousel (for developers). When creating a carousel via your own HTML, you can now add an HTML attribute with values that control how the elements appear on different sized screens.
• All tables now use the InnoDB storage engine for better reliability
• If no payment gateways are enabled, an error is now displayed during checkout. Prior to version 5.5.0, the order would complete for testing purposes without an error message.
• Authorize.net: Updated URLs to new Akami versions.
• NMI payment gateway support
• Control panel fields can be set to read only for record #s under X (for developers)
• Added $parent_rn parameter to sc_product_catalog_nav() function to make it easier to create custom nav blocks showing sub categories of certain parents.
• Small shipping tweaks - disabled shipping methods are now hidden when working with most forms in the control panel.
• Validation improvements for control panel record forms
• Tracking URL field added for custom shipping couriers
• Tax exempt shipping
• Groups and users (via first and last name) can now be typed directly into email address fields in the control panel. Prior to this, they had to be selected using email address picker.
• Modal dialog tweaks and CSS changes

New Features / Improvements

• Updated USPS Web Tools for their Jan 17th changes

New Features / Improvements

• Theme improvements
  • New mobile responsive option. Looks great on all major browsers, smart phones, and tablets. This is enabled by default for new installs, and can be enabled for custom themes - see documentation for instructions. (Responsive versions of the Main St. and Highland Ave themes are planned for a future release).
  • New depth options to control shadows and gradients, with modern "flat" option
  • New webfont options for body text, buttons, and titles
  • New form header options with icon fonts
  • New title styles
  • Responsive width option can be set to regular or wide (fullscreen).
  • Many improvements to the appearance of the store
  • Themes using "custom style" settings can now have individual starting point values changed and merged with custom style settings. This can be used to make use of the new options mentioned above without losing custom style settings made previously.
  • Responsive homepage slideshow - can be used to show image and content slides on homepage, with links to products, categories, or other pages.
  • Storefront modal dialog boxes to help prevent unnecessary page loads and improve user experience. Used for:
    - Displaying options when clicking "add to cart" from product thumbnail view
    - Displaying product option detail info
    - Prompting user to view add-on products
    - Empty cart confirmation
    - Credit card security code help popup
    - Order status info and order notes
  • Improved handling of product options
  • New mobile responsive theme passes Google's "mobile friendly test", and gets a 100% score on their "Mobile User Experience" PageSpeed insight test.
  • Added an uninstalled default custom theme folder named "sc_custom" to make it easier to create a custom theme for new installations.
• Image improvements
  • New "Auto Size" feature - when enabled, you will see only one primary image field for product and category records in control panel. Different sized images are automatically created on save. This makes it easier to manage your images, and keeps images in the storefront looking consistent.
  • Retina image support for high pixel density screens (like iPhones and new smartphones and tablets)
  • Extra images now appear via carousel feature (Owl Carousel), in two different modes. Swipe or drag to navigate through images, with auto play and lazy load options.
  • Slimbox replaced with new lightbox script (Magnific Popup), which works on all devices.
  • Frame image feature to make non isolated product and category images look nicer. Can be turned on and off storewide, and for individual records.
• Many shipping improvements:
  • Shipping estimator feature on "view cart" page.
  • Endicia - generate postage paid USPS shipping and return labels, track, check rates, schedule pickups, address validation, buy postage, more...
  • Fastway Couriers API support (Australian shipping courier)
  • Shipping rates can now show as "TBD" (to be determined).
  • Products can be flagged as shippable (or not)
  • Storefront shipping feature (estimator, shipping address form) are hidden automatically when no shippable products are being ordered.
  • Changed service sort order for FedEx rates during checkout. Lower rates now appear first.
• Address form improvements -
  • Google Maps API - for auto completion of addresses
  • Updated state and country records
  • Added Australian states/provinces
  • States can be assigned to country records in the control panel
  • Individual states can be disabled without having to delete them
  • Address forms in store will only show states corresponding to the selected country.
• Converted many storefront fields to new HTML 5 field types: email, url, phone, date, number. This causes many mobile devices to vary the keyboard shown when typing in a field to best suit the purpose of that field.
• Image file upload product options can now be restricted to certain dimensions
• Many other storefront and control panel appearance improvements
• Human verification improvements:
  • Updated reCaptcha to v2, which is far superior and easier to use than to the old version.
  • TextCaptcha support
• Products now have a new "Summary" field to display a short amount of text first, above your product options. The full description is shown lower on the page.
• Feature to enter email address for "skip address" option on account choice page. This helps gather user's email address as soon as possible, making it available to merchant under "Carts" for possible follow up of abandoned orders.
• Added setting to hide or show Product Data section on product pages storewide
• Added support for jQuery.
• Added new control panel views to show products w. options, and option stock levels
• Payment related changes:
  • Added Braintree Payment Gateway support
  • PayPal Payments Advanced / PayPal Payments Link updated
  • PayPal Payments Pro - updated, rewritten from scratch
  • PayPal Express Checkout - rewritten from scratch - can now be used as a separate service, separate from PayPal Payments Pro
  • Sage Pay - updated to protocol v3
  • Deleted retired payment gateways
  • Rebranded some payment gateways
  • ePDQ - added 3D secure support for DirectLink
• Improved way functions are included to reduce memory usage
• Many performance improvements, reduced memory usage, faster page loading
• Added some missing database column indexes
• Workaround for Google Chrome's mixed content SSL warnings
• Remember Me feature now hidden when it can't work
• Unchecking Searchable on product records now hides item from New Products/All Products/Best Sellers categories
• New "Category: Product Total" condition option added to ruleset feature
• VAT # validation via web service
• Max line item setting to prevent orders with more than X number of unique line items.
• Removed "Image of Name" field for categories, options, and option choices
• Remove "missing field indicator" and "required field indicator" settings in control panel. Required field character now handled via CSS classes.

New Features / Improvements

• Updated USPS Web Tools for their May 31st changes - IntlRate API integration changed to use IntlRateV2 API

New Features / Improvements

• Improvements to stock logging feature

New Features / Improvements

• Major SEO & Metadata improvements
  • Facebook Open Graph metadata support
  • Schema.org Microdata support.
    Squirrelcart automatically adds the correct Schema.org microdata fields to your pages, so search engines and other systems can understand them.
    Aggregate rating microdata added to products that have reviews (requires Reviews module).
  • Twitter Cards metadata support
  • Added more settings to control metadata for various pages in throughout the store, including: search page, checkout pages, account page, order history, content pages, all module pages, and much more.
  • Canonical URL link added to avoid duplicate content:
    <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/books" />
  • Meta rel="prev", rel="next" links added for data sets (like multi-page categories):
    <link rel="prev" href="http://www.example.com/books/page-1/" />
    <link rel="next" href="http://www.example.com/books/page-3/" />
  • Added feature to add a storewide prefix and/or suffix to title tag, and meta keywords and description tags.
  • 3rd party advertising and referral tracking parameters in URLs no longer trigger 404 errors.
  • Added "Store Name" field. If needed store name can now differ from company name.
  • Blank meta keywords and meta description tags are automatically removed
• Additional inventory fields: GTIN13, ISBN, Model #, Manufacturer, Mnf. Part #, Brand, Condition
  These fields appear on your product pages (when set). They also work with Schema.org Microdata.
• Product attachments - to add spec sheets, instructions, and other product info.
• Zones feature
  • Group locations into zones, by country, state, city, postal code, or postal code range. Create your own zones, or use our built-in zones.
  • Use zones to control anything in Squirrelcart that already uses our ruleset feature, including: shipping, discounts, downloads, payment methods, order fees, etc...
  • Built-in zones: Domestic, International, US - Contiguous States, US Census Bureau Zones, UN M.49 country regions.
• New View All category page, to view all items on a single page.
• Print multiple orders from a single page.
• Shipping: Control whether couriers and services are enabled using zones and rules.
• Shipping: Services resulting in more packages per shipment than other services are no longer offered, unless the total shipping cost for that service is lower than all other available services.
• Shipping: Updated FedEx Web Services to the latest version, including support for FedEx One Rate.
• Added additional views and improvements to make managing related records easier, such as Groups/Users, Categories/Products, etc...
• Categories can be flagged as Brands and Manufacturers
• Search page now supports searching by brand and manufacturer
• Updated country records according to latest ISO 3166 standard changes.
• Extended stylesheet and JS caching time from 60 mins to 30 days to improve load times for subsequent visits.
  Note: No need to cache the stylesheets and JS files for that short amount of time because Squirrelcart detects changes to these files and sets a qry string parameter to force them to be reloaded if they have changed.
• Option to open a "content" link using SSL.
• Reduced size of DB backup files
• New birthdate address field, for account and address forms.
• Change to work around Google Chrome issue that incorrectly reports "mixed content" when viewing a secure page that contains a form action that is not secure.
• Authorize.net - order now completes with "payment pending" status when held for review.
• First Data Global Gateway e4 - Added support for Hosted Payment Page
• First Data Global Gateway e4 - additional fields for level 3 purchases
• Cybersource Secure Acceptance - Silent Order POST
• Payment gateway connection methods renamed.
• Enabled payment gateway now easier to determine when viewing list of gateways.
• Stock logging feature for diagnostics use.
• Updated labels for Twitter login strategy settings form
• Various control panel improvements

New Features / Improvements

• USPS Web Tools - Updated to Rate V4 (Rate V3 retired as of 9/28/2014)

New Features / Improvements

• Persistent cart feature - to maintain cart independently of session expiration
• Added Inactive Carts page in control panel
• Active and inactive carts can now be deleted in control panel
• Active and inactive carts can now be converted to a completed order by the merchant in the control panel, for cases where payment was made but not submitted through the cart to completion.
• Payment methods can be restricted via rules
• Payment method icons are now part of theme
• Products can be excluded from searches
• Reduced session size
• ePDQ Direct Link payment gateway added
• First Data Global Gateway e4 added (Web Service API)
• Added HttpOnly attribute to all cookies
• Changed browser detection script
• Minor changes to Authorize.net code (cleanup)
• Removed unused Store_Information.Email_Default_Format column
• Added ability to hide columns in table views, via new "Hide_Columns" field on Query record. (internal code change)
• Added ability to override table header/page title. (internal code change)

New Features / Improvements

• Intuit QuickBooks Payments (QBMS) payment gateway

New Features / Improvements

• Automatic group feature, to add users to groups automatically
• Automatic email feature
• Settings for all the built-in emails that Squirrelcart sends have been moved to the Automatic Emails section of your control panel
• New built-in automatic email to notify a user that a status of refund issued has been added to their order.
• New built-in automatic email to notify a user that a note has been added to their order.
• Include file attachments in any auto email
• If a user orders an item that has a file upload option, you can now receive those files as attachments to the order notification email.
• Include vCards with contact information (requires the Contact module).
• Resend order receipt and account welcome emails via record actions in the control panel.
• Send account reset emails to users that have lost their username or password, via a new record action in the control panel.
• Customize the bulk of the content of built-in automatic emails without having to modify template files.
• Include order, user, store, and other info in your emails, using variables. This can be used to personally address a user by their first name, or include information from their order in the body or subject of the email.
• Order statuses can include notes
• If you have an automatic email setup for an order status, you can include the note for that status in the email sent to the user.
• Customers can view notes on their order history page.
• You can assign private "staff only" notes
• Assign notes to multiple orders in a single action, using our record action features.
• Unobtrusive control panel status messages
• When an admin logs in as a user and then logs out, they are automatically logged back in as admin.
• Updated control panel buttons and toggle switches
• Updated control panel login form
• New version notices in control panel
• New Order (last completed) rule type
• Setting to control sort order of subcategories
• Setting to specify default quantity for add-on products
• More helpful storefront login failure message
• Croatia added to EU
• Small changes to order stats (removed currency suffix, changed 0 amounts to '--')
• Products flagged as Exclude from Best Sellers no longer show as also ordered.
• PayPal Payments Pro - removed meta refresh option.
• Diag mode window now shows values used when comparing conditions.

New Features / Improvements

• Improved SEO URLs feature, with Smart Base setting
• New add-on products feature, to make existing products add-ons for another product
• Re-organized product and category settings on visual settings page
• Added setting to control whether thumbnail images appear in checkout and order views
• Shipping_Couriers.Logo_Image_Small column removed (was no longer in use)

New Features / Improvements

• Updated rich text editor (CKEditor) to version 4.3.1

New Features / Improvements

• Removed Google Checkout (service no longer exists)

New Features / Improvements

• Product images can now be shown using slideshow module on product pages
• Added ability to control alt tags for extra product images
• Improved error handling in the event that account creation fails

New Features / Improvements

• Added sc_parse_ini_file() function to get around hosts that disable the parse_ini_file() function

New Features / Improvements

• ANZ eGate payment gateway support
• Improved error handling in the event of user account creation failure

New Features / Improvements

• Added feature to login as a customer, via link on user record in control panel.

New Features / Improvements

• USPS Web Tools - updates to support upcoming changes made by USPS on 1/27/2013

New Features / Improvements

• NAB Transact payment gateway
• 2Checkout - added support for "Header Redirect" Direct Return option
• FedEx Web Services - forced Declared Value so it does not exceed 100.00 when packaging type is FEDEX_PAK or FEDEX_ENVELOPE, per FedEx service guide.
• Cybersource security update to add orderPage_environment variable support

New Features / Improvements

• Export feature - to export data from any table/view in CSV, XLS, and XLSX format
• Changed "Other" State/Province choice to "-- NOT LISTED --" so it is more noticable
• Added "Payment Processed" order status for future use
• FedEx - added Duty Payor setting
• Added indexes to Orders_Discounts table
• Added code to automatically set the add_to_cart variable to 1 when adding items to the cart manually

New Features / Improvements

• Sales agreements can now be shown at checkout, on the account form, address form, and product pages.
• Active carts feature - view orders in the control panel as they are being placed
• Order fees feature - add additional fees to orders, as either handling or a merchant specified fee type, with support for applying fees based on rules.
• Combined module stylesheets to use a single stylesheet URL for faster storefront page loading
• Order statistics improvements - stats now exclude refunded and voided orders, view sales by years, months, days, hours...
• Shipping (UPS): Updated code for UPS Developer Kit (formerly UPS Online Tools)
• Shipping (UPS): Added label support
• Shipping (UPS and FedEx): Added ZPL and EPL thermal label support
• Shipping (UPS and FedEx): Print thermal labels to IP based or local printers
• Shipping (UPS, FedEx, USPS): Auto confirm setting for shipments, to skip confirmation when rate is within specified threshold, to make label generation faster in control panel
• Shipping (UPS, FedEx): Auto create shipping labels behind the scenes, the moment your customer submits their order
• Shipping (UPS, FedEx): Auto print thermal labels that were "auto created" during checkout, to an IP based thermal printer. This will result in the printing label being printed the instant the customer completes their order.
• Shipping (UPS): Support for creating return shipping labels
• Shipping (UPS): Support for obtaining negotiated rates
• Shipping: Added icon/link to Orders table to reflect current status of order
• Shipping (UPS, FedEx, USPS): Updated forms in control panel. Many improvements to make generating labels easier and faster
• Updated ISO 3166 country names and codes
• iDeposit.net payment gateway support
• Emptying the cart now returns customer to store homepage, instead of a mostly blank page.
• Added code to prevent search engines from following thumbnail add to cart links (ending in ?patc=1)
• Product forms no longer retain entered values immediately after adding an item to the cart
• Code cleanup: Removed all references to old get_products_from_category function.
• Optimized some database queries
• Security improvement: Removed support for passing session IDs via URL
• Added an Additional_Text column to Products table, which can be added to product templates to display additional information about a product.
• Shipping address box no longer appears above orders (during checkout, in emails, order history page, etc...) when Show Shipping Address is turned off.
• Support for new Store Locator module (sold separately)

New Features / Improvements

• Recently Viewed Products nav block
• Related Products feature
• Also Ordered Products (customers who ordered this also ordered...)
• New "thumbnail, with add to cart" product display option
• New "table" product display option
• New "table, with multilpe add to cart" product display option
• Support for adding multiple items to the cart with a single operation, via the above product display option.
• Purchased Items automatic category
• Improved email handling, with support for emailing using either: PHP's mail() function, sendmail, or SMTP (with or w/o authentication).
• Email upon account creation - to merchant and to customer
• Store Access Restrictions feature
• Improvements to the way discount information is displayed to customer and merchant
• Variable price product options
• Coupon codes - can prevent customer from re-using a coupon with the block multi-use field
• Minor behind the scenses code changes
• Cart preview now shows total units in cart instead of total number of line items
• Rich text editor - updated to FCKEditor 2.6.6
• Page request for missing product and categories now triggers 404 response code
• Added support for including a noindex meta tag to Forgot Password page (and futue pages)
• Better detection for missing product images
• Order emails - background image removed for Outlook and other email clients
• Support for saving content records information to the theme config xml file, for content records that the theme links to, for more reliable theme installation.
• Added "storefront page" as a "Link to" option for Link records
• Added "search page" as a "Link to" option for Link records
• Rule sets - changed "Product Total" condition to "Product Total (before savings)", and Added "Product Total (after savings)".
• VAT - prices show inclusive of VAT
• VAT - new setting to charge VAT on shipping
• Rewrite of security_level() function to sc_in_group()
• Control panel filter feature removed - necessary to improve performance
• Improved checkout login, account, and other settings
• Better handling of session time outs for control panel
• Reduction of session size when logged in as store admin
• Removed the Default theme changed to... message that appears when first entering the control panel.
• Small improvements to layout of order detail page for printing
• USPS - added Separate Receipt Page option
• Ezic payment gateway - added support for Postback CGI URL to complete orders even if a customer doesn't click return link
• WorldPay payment gateway - added currency code setting

New Features / Improvements

• FedEx Web Services - this replaces FedEx Ship Manager Direct

New Features / Improvements

• Support for new Highland Avenue theme (sold separately)
• New behind the scenes theme improvements:
  - Support for a variant3, and optional stylesheet
  - Support for a new optional theme file "variants.php" to define variants manually
  - Variant stylesheets are now optional when using the variants.php stylesheet file. It's possible to offer a theme with variants, while only using a single stylesheet, or only stylesheets for some but not all of the variants defined in variants.php. theme features to support a third variant.
• Added index for column Products_Sold.Product_rn

New Features / Improvements

• Netbilling payment gateway support (for single time non-recurring payments)

New Features / Improvements

• CCBill payment gateway support (for single time non-recurring payments)

New Features / Improvements

• Many product option improvements as follows:
  
  • Text and Textarea options now support minimum and maximum character fields
  • When there is a maximum character limit, we count off that limit via Javascript
  • If you have our tooltip feature enabled, you have the option to designate a help tooltip for options
  • Options now support optional quantities. This allows a customer to specify how many of a particular option they want for the product. You can set a minimum and/or maximum quantity, use either a text or select field, control the label, and specify a help tooltip like the one described above. If the option has a price, the price is multiplied by the option quantity and then the product quantity.
  • You can now specify a tooltip for the option detail links as well
  • Ability to choose multiple choices for a single select option
• New Automatic Categories - All Products and Best Sellers
• Gray box in control panel to give visual cues when loading, saving, etc...
• Table names now appear above data grids in control panel
• New "return to last category" Add to Cart Behavior
• Google maps on customer and order records in control panel
• Warehouses changed to Locations, which can be flagged as warehouses, retail stores, etc...
• Added target attribute to Links records in control panel
• ISO-3166 Country code updates
• ACH (e-check) support for PayFuse payment gateway
• FirstData Global Gateway documentation and field name changes
• Authorize.net payment gateway declines now show more detailed error messages
• Changed Protx payment gateway to Sage Pay
• Improvements to prevent some unneeded functions from loading in control panel
• image_output.php script now caches images for better performance
• New diag_upload.php file to troubleshoot and test file upload capability
• Squirrelcart theme: Changed main columns from absolute positioning to floats to fix some issues when customizing
• Squirrelcart theme: Tooltip for logo image now appears only when mousing over the logo image, and not the div surrounding it.
• Empty folders inside functions folder no longer cause problems
• Subcagtegories now appear as images, if Thumbnail Image on subcategory record is populated
• Added LESS for PHP library, for Slideshow module and future use
• Quantity Based Discount storefront wording improvements
• sc_link() function now has a "url" parameter to return only the URL for the link requested
• UPS minimum weights now forced - UPS won't return weights for shipments weighing anything less than "0.10" lbs. This forces the weight for rate requests to be at least .10 lbs so rates are returned.

New Features / Improvements

• PayWay Net (by Westpac) payment gateway support

New Features / Improvements

• eProccessingNetwork payment gateway support
• eWay New Zealand payment gateway support

New Features / Improvements

• Ability to hide individual themes from customers
• Added tooltips for subcatgories
• Canada Post Sell Online support
• CSS changes for Cart Options navigation block - to prevent conflict with Main Street theme
• Consolidated shipping courier columns
• Control panel menu improvements - Shipping tools only appear for enabled couriers
• Diag mode window improvements - to allow you to scroll and copy text from window
• eSelect Plus (USA) - added support for US version of Moneris payment gateway "eSelect Plus"
• Improved code to issue 404 status for non existent category pages
• Products.Show_Base_Price column changed to Products.Hide_Base_Price
• Purchase Order payment method
• Removed CSS reset for UL and OL tags, to keep lists added by you looking like they should by default
• Removed some PHP short open tags from a fieldset in the control panel
• Cleaned up some code in storefront
• Changed the way tfoot was handled for order detail, so footer no longer appears on every printed page

New Features / Improvements

• Assigning a "Shipped" status to an order now triggers a shipment notification email, without requiring that you create a shipment record
• Database backup improvements, to better handle backing up large databases
• Values generated for SEO URLs no longer contain multiple consecutive space characters

New Features / Improvements

• Removed feature that attempted to load missing extensions with dl() function, as that function is now deprecated.
• If a category page is requested and that page is not available, a 404 is now generated.
• 2Checkout no longer supports triggering test mode, so we've removed the Test mode option on 2Checkout's payment gateway record in the control panel

New Features / Improvements

• PayPal Website Payments Standard - updated list of available currency codes
• Added ID attribute to <form/> tag in product thumbnail template
• Increased length of Choices.Name field
• Added support for using coupon codes on shipping rules
• eWay UK - new payment gateway added
• Payleap - new payment gateway added
• Added code to prevent search bots from affecting inventory control levels
• sc_email() function now supports attachments (for future use)
• Updated UniTip library to v10.26.2009
• Updated UnitPNG library to v07.21.2009

New Features / Improvements

• Added "Main Menu" navigation block to automatically show Links assigned as "Primary Links"
• Inventory control - restock items when order is deleted, canceled, refunded, etc...
• Updated URLs for Payflow Pro
• Added default value for Products.Show_Base_Price column
• Navigation blocks that are empty no longer appear in storefront

New Features / Improvements

• Changed sales tax to support 3 decimal places
• Added support for e-Path.com.au payment gateway
• Google Checkout and Checkout by Amazon no longer appear as options when the order total is $0.00

New Features / Improvements

• Major theme changes - templates have been rewritten to validate as XHTML transitional 1.0
• CSS has been rewritten from scratch to validate as CSS 2.1 and to provide more control over the appearance of storefront
• Themes now support 2 variant types to offer themes in various colors and/or screen widths
• Reduced the number of individual template files via consolidation - making them easier to locate
• Added a theme export feature, which creates an XML theme config file everytime a theme record is saved, for use when porting a theme to another Squirrelcart installation
• Changed control panel location of links for Navigation Blocks, Images, Themes, and other theme related tables - grouping them on a "Themes" page.
• Navigation is now controlled on a per theme basis making it possible to change the navigation blocks used for any theme without affecting other themes
• Content sections can be created for the storefront home page, and controlled on a per theme basis
• Storefront page (store.php by default) is now controlled by a template file, allowing a theme to completely change the appearance of the storefront. In older versions, you could not change the layout of the storefront page by changing your theme setting.
• home.php is now a template file - store_home.tpl.php
• Added ability to optionally have store_home.tpl.php act as an entire full page template instead of being nested inside main store template
• All templates now use "<?php print" instead of the PHP print shortcut <?= , which allows the PHP setting short_open_tags to be turned off if desired
• Added a Categories per Row setting to show categories in columns.
• Changes to category/product viewing settings on category records
• Added reCaptcha support to payment form
• Added built in (optional) support for Slimbox script (a clone of Lightbox)
• Replaced Rich Text Editor module with built in cross browser compatible WYSIWYG editor (FCKEditor)
• Added optional tooltip feature
• Added Unit PNG Fix script support to add transparent PNG support for IE 6
• Storefront pages now trigger standard compliant mode for IE 6+
• Most storefront images are now transparent background PNG files with alpha transparency which will have smooth edges regardless of background color
• Better handling of discounted pricing display
• Support for setting search results per page/per row
• Breadcrumb nav can now be turned off
• Catalog Home portion of breadcrumb nav can be turned off
• You can now change labels on account and address form fields easily via control panel
• Entire checkout process has been rewritten, removing 2 clicks from the checkout process
• More noticeable user msgs (warnings, info, prompts, etc....)
• gzip compression for script and CSS files when supported by server
• Improvements to diag mode handling
• Discount badge feature
• Improvements to qty based discounts...can now do 1 only, 2 or more, etc....
• Customize out of stock msgs for individual products
• Improved image manager - you can now upload from the image manager, create new folders, and sort
• CMS feature: Support for creating custom pages
• CMS feature: Support for creating custom content sections on home page
• CMS feature: Support for creating custom links
• Removed all inline Javascript from Storefront page for faster page loads and SEO
• Record forms in control panel now show table name at the top
• Ruleset Feature now supports checking product options
• You can now pad real time shipping rates at the courier and shipping method level
• Changed all special path variables to constants
• Updated UPS Online Tools to use new URLs
• Added support for using SEO URLs without $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'], provided $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] and $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] are available.
• Text options now have optional weight per character setting
• Added support for Checkout by Amazon
• Added support for MSC Secure payment gateway
• Added support for Beanstream payment gateway
• Added support for Netcash payment gateway
• Added support for Trinity payment gateway
• Added links to documentation on Payment Method and Payment Gateway records in control panel
• Payment gateways/methods that require an additional click will now redirect automatically to gateway
• Added a "Confirm Email" address to account and address forms
• Cookie changes to support PCI DSS compliance
• Added Quick Search feature to control panel toolbar
• All prices in the storefront can now be shown with a currency prefix and/or suffix.
• Added optional feature to disallow use of PO Boxes in address and account form
• Offline processing feature has been removed

New Features / Improvements

• Virtual Merchant payment gateway support

New Features / Improvements

• Amazon Payments - changed name to Amazon Simple Pay
• Moneybookers payment gateway support
• Upgrade script improvements to fix mismatched character encoding

New Features / Improvements

• Amazon Payments (PBA) support
• Easy to implement quantity based discounts (for regular customers AND groups)
• HTML email appearance improvements for Outlook 2007 email client
• UTF-8 character encoding support for reliable presentation of Unicode (non ASCII) characters
• Added more field validation in control panel
• Ability to control order of appearance for payment methods during checkout
• Pressing tab key while editing records in control panel now skips over field labels

New Features / Improvements

• Support for new Testimonials module
• Human verification feature using reCAPTCHA
• Per character charge for text and textarea product options
• Payment page skipped when order total is $0.00
• Improvements to cookie handling

New Features / Improvements

• Google Checkout UK support
• NoChex updated to use new Payment Pages system
• PNG theme image support

New Features / Improvements

• Updated USPS API Rate V3 to work with changes made by USPS on May 12th 2008

New Features / Improvements

• Address picker window for address fields now bigger and resizable
• Groups now appear first in address picker window so they are easier to locate when sending mailings (via News module)
• Coupon code change - Before, if a coupon code was entered and it matched BUT other rules/conditions on the discount record failed, the customer would still receive a message saying the code was added even if the discount was not applicable. This changes that, so the code is only added when the discount applies.
• Added Bulgaria and Romania to the EU
• Orbital (payment gateway) used to only support currency code 840 (USD) for their Tampa platform. They now support currency code 124 as well (CAD). This removes the code forcing currency code to 840 when platform is set ot Tampa so any currency code can be used.

New Features / Improvements

• Added support for new Reviews add-on module
• SEO URL feature for search engine friendly URLs
• File upload product options
• Product search improvements
• Sort products when viewing category
• Mass record action feature
• Email setting improvements
• Selected record rows now colored when working with tables
• Control panel field validation for some records
• Discounts: can now be disabled or enabled via new Enabled field
• Discounts: added more information to order detail
• Discounts: now product total based discounts use the pre savings product total at all times.
• If the customer logs in, and they don't have a required address form field set on their user account, the address form will automatically appear to gather the missing data.
• USPS: Upgraded to RateV3 API. The RateV2 API doesn't work for Priority packages with SIZE set to LARGE. Because of this, we've added support for RateV3 to replace RateV2.
• Added support for showing tracking numbers for couriers that don't support RTR on the order detail page.
• Australia Post requires packages to be at least 5 cm on 2 sides. This defaults to those measurements if the dims passed to RTR are smaller than that so rates are still obtained.
• Cybersource payment gateway improvements
• ePDQ payment gateway improvements
• GoEmerchant payment gateway changes
• LinkPoint payment gateway changes
• Paystation (New Zealand) payment gateway support
• PSiGate payment gateway changes
• Google Checkout improvements
• PayPal Payflow: PayPal bought Verisign. Verisign Payflow Link and Pro is now "PayPal Payflow Link" and "PayPal Payflow Pro". This change does the following:

  1. Changes the name of the gateway in the control panel
  2. Changes the name of the gateway file
  3. Updates URLs to paypal.com
  4. Gets rid of use of PayFlow Pro SDK and pfpro extension requirements
  5. Updates documentation with name change and new screenshots

• PayPal: When the country field is missing on the address or account forms, PayPal standard will respond with an error as follows:

  "Unable to process payment. Please contact the merchant as the shipping address provided by the merchant is invalid, and the merchant has requested that your order must be shipped to that address."

  This change handles this by using the default country setup on the address form settings page when it's not available.

• Warning in control panel when sc_data folder is web accessible.
• Image output changes - better stability
• Slight change to inputs2array() function. Before this change, input fields HAD to have a space directly before the closing greater than bracket.
• Relocated functions for all modules
• Added Street_2 field to the order_detail template file
• Removed ability to nest a categories inside itself (caused recursion loop problem)
• Added support for setting up certain tables (via their Table Definition record) as "Additional_Data_For" another table.
• Stylesheet changes (minor)
• Workaround for REMOTE_ADDR problem - some servers have garabage chars in $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], which can cause problems with PayPal and others when IP address is sent via XML. This sets that var to 192.168.1.1 whenever it's invalid.
• Smal changes to demo mode

New Features / Improvements

• Added support for CommWeb (Australian Payment Gateway)
• Protx payment gateway update to support changes made by Protx on 08/01/2007.
• 2Checkout updates - added billing address information
• Cybersource - support for changes Cybersource made to their system on 09/26/2007

• SC071022 - Critical update - SQL injection patch

New Features / Improvements

• Updated USPS Webtools support for changes made by USPS on May 14th 2007

New Features / Improvements

• Westpac payment gateway support
• Transaction central payment gateway support
• Net1 name changed to Sage
• Google sandbox URLs updated

New Features / Improvements

• Support for Payment.com.au - Australian payment method similar to PayPal
• Increased size of Records per Page column in store settings
• Increased size of Street and Street 2 columns in store settings

New Features / Improvements

• Added new PayPal Express Checkout button to replace old one

New Features / Improvements

• Ability to exclude items from best sellers
• Added alt attribute to images for categories and products where missing
• Added CURL error information to Diagnostics Mode
• Added instructional message to control panel when "Add New Theme" is clicked
• Added option to not allow records in certain tables to be copied
• Added database column indexes to improve performance of some queries
• Improved error messages in DB backup utility
• Full support for changing weight and dimension units, with feature to convert all weight/dimension field values from in to cm, lbs to kgs, and vice versa.
• URLs appearing on records in control panel are now truncated when too long
• Changes to diag_curl.php file
• Order status improvements:
  1. Cart will now automatically add "Awaiting Payment" or "Payment Received" status to orders upon completion as follows:
     Payment Pending: For check/money order, PayPal without AutoReturn, StrataPay when "Pay Later" is chosen, etc...
     Payment Received: For all cc methods, added when PayPal IPN reports back that there is a payment
  2. Adds a "Private" field on order status options, which when checked will hide the status from the customer.
  3. When manually adding an order status to an order, date now defaults to current date and time
• Security improvements:
  1. Removed register_globals = ON simulation code
  2. SSL can now be used in control panel - configurable in Store Settings with a default of ON.
• 2Checkout - removed v1 support - no longer needed
• Google Checkout - added settings to control which checkout button image is requested
• Cybersource - better error detection when using server to server connection method
• PayPal - added date for each entry in IPN log on Orders table
• NoChex - changed description field
• Optimal Payments gateway support
• StrataPay gateway support
• Transfirst ePayment Services gateway suppport
• Tranzilla gateway support
• USPS improvements:
  1. Shipment tool - to generate labels for packages
  2. Track/Confirm tool - to get tracking and confirmation information
• Australia Post real time rates
• UPS - added some shipping methods that were not present

New Features / Improvements

• MySQL 5 support

New Features / Improvements

• News module
• Google Checkout support
• Improved speed of real time shipping rates
• Added support for obtaining USPS international rates via RTR
• Added continue shopping button, changed "checkout" button to "view cart", and added a checkout button below cart table
• Support for ePDQ (Barclays UK) payment gateway
• Support for PayFuse payment gateway
• Add support for making HTTP requests to remote sites using fsockopen(), as an alternative to CURL
• Reduced amount of data stored in session.
• Improved performance in control panel
• Added option to hide options with no cost when viewing cart
• Added ability to copy image fields when copying a record in the control panel
• Added setting to control reply email address for order emails sent to merchant
• Improvements to install script
• Added option to hide File Type field on file upload field sets in control panel
• Added setIFrameHeight() JS function to automatically expand iframes on news page (for News module)
• Minor changes to code that displays navigation blocks
• Small change to deduct from the width of fieldsets that can be used with the Rich Text Editor, so they appear correctly when the Rich Text Editor is not installed (or not supported).
• Icon on warning boxes in control panel was overlapping some text
• Made database backup link more noticable in install script
• Added ALT attributes to Menu buttons in control panel
• Cosmetic changes to UPS OnLine Tools registration form
• Changes to code that includes files for modules
• Added support for field validation in control panel

New Features / Improvements

• New Rule System
• New installation / upgrade process
• Module tracking, install and upgrade via control panel
• Option information displayed differently on order detail and checkout pages
• Minimum and maximum product quantity
• SecurePay payment gateway support
• Ezic payment gateway support
• Orbital payment gateway support
• eWay - support for using different URL to collect card security code data
• Changes to subcategory display
• Better handling of errors and config.php file
• Added curl_opts variables to config.php
• Download module (sold separately)
• QuickTotal module (sold separately)
• Rich Text Editor (sold separately) - Exclusion of includes for non IE to reduce page size
• Rich Text Editor (sold separately) - Support for toggling visibility in control panel forms
• Changes to delete inhibited records in control panel
• File upload support (for Download module)
• Added "-f" option to mail() function calls to workaround AOL blocking of generic Return-Path header.
• Bread crumb navigation category link changes
• File Types table
• Minor changes to nav_block styles in store.css
• Performance improvements for show_category() function
• Code cleanup
• OnMouseOver field help in control panel now uses AJAX to cut down on page size
• Minor code changes to control panel Field Sets
• Improvements to database backup - no longer uses mysqldump.
• Added code to use a trans SID regardless of the session.use_trans_sid PHP setting
• Better support for detecting SSL
• Remember me now uses login_process()
• Link to storefront had a ? at the end, which has been removed
• Relationship fields had 2 ids - did not cause a problem but fixed to make valid
• When logging in using the Account Options box, you would be taken back to the home page. This change causes you to stay on the page you are on, unless that page happens to be the logout page (?logout=1).
• Added company name to HTML order emails
• Change to get_functions.php
• Added function to generate random strings (for use with new Coupon Code feature)
• Turned off Autocomplete on credit card and echeck fields so sensitive data won't be cached in browser
• Removed fixed widths from Account Choice page
• Adding tracking fields to Query table
• Control panel menu changes
• Improved performance for toggleCheckBoxes() JS function for IE
• Search by category
• Added $_REQUEST var for PHP < 4.1.0
• Updated Sajax library

New Features / Improvements

• Added code to allow items to be manually added to the cart
• Added finer control of how referring URLs are checked when forms are submitted

New Features / Improvements

• BluePay payment gateway support
• Cambist payment gateway support
• Innovative Gateway payment gateway support
• SECPay payment gateway support
• eSelect Plus (Moneris) payment gateway support
• PayPal Website Payments Pro - added error message for when payment address is unconfirmed
• Added referrer parameter to ssl_connect() function for hosts that require it
• Discounts will now drill down through a parent category specified on a condition to match on subcategories as well
• PayPal Website Payments Standard - added support for sending full state name for non US addresses
• Ship notification emails can now be sent regardless of courier used
• Updated gd_version() function to make use of built in gd_info() PHP function when available
• Removed page refresh after deleting records in control panel

New Features / Improvements

• Improved performance of Product/Category editing in control panel when a large number of options are in the database. AJAX is now used to load options on the fly as they are chosen from the options menu. Prior to this change, all options on a Product/Category record where loaded and hidden on the page until chosen, causing the page to take longer to load.
• sc_query function now returns test output (when $test parameter is set to 1) surrounded by a <pre />tag for easier reading.
• Minor code cleanup
• Viaklix - added ssl_customer_code variable

New Features / Improvements

• PayPal Website Payments Pro support
• PayPal Website Payments Standard - added currency code field in control panel
• Cybersource - better error reporting on transaction failure
• Added more column indexes to improve DB performance
• Minor change to get_functions() function so it will not include functions that already exist
• Changed default search mode in control panel to 'entire table'

New Features / Improvements

• Date field support for records in control panel with no fieldsets assigned
• Added sc_version() function to return version number
• Template row improvements
• Improved column indexes
• Added support for passing table name to control panel without variable name in query string
• Improvements to sc_email() function
• Set $user_rn variable in account.php for future use
• Option detail page does not try to show choices if Choices_per_Row is set to 0
• Minor improvements to account and address form code
• Added support for the NOCHEX APC feature (Automatic Payment Confirmation)

New Features / Improvements

• Minor improvements to data grid sizing during page load
• Column indexes added to speed up performance on large queries

New Features / Improvements

• Control Panel now supports most major browsers:
  
  - FireFox 1.0+
  - Internet Explorer 5.5+ (IE on Mac no longer supported)
  - Mozilla 1.6+
  - Safari 1.2+
  - Camino - Netscape Navigator 7.2+
  
• Greatly improved speed and database performance
• Improvements to record browsing - filtering, searching, etc...
• Improvements to record editing
• Status bar with save icon and history
• Better support for copying records
• Support for Net1 payment gateway
• Support for Protx payment gateway
• Support for SkipJack payment gateway
• Support for Payquake payment gateway
• Support for MerchantPartners payment gateway
• Support for PayMeNow.com payment gateway
• Support for FastCharge.com payment gateway
• Support for PayPointUSA.com payment gateway
• Support for QuickCommerce.com payment gateway
• Support for FedEx Ship Manager Direct
• Handling fee support
• Image feature improvements
• Nav Block / Navigation editing
• Cleaned up old database records
• Support for taxing shipping and handling
• Account Choice page
• Overall design changes to storefront
• DB backup - Added "-Q" option to the call to mysqldump to add ` ` quotes around column and table names.
• Browser detection data now stored in $SC['browser'].
• Added advanced option to Cart Preview to display line items in Cart Options nav block
• Option to display payment method choices as images during checkout
• HTML email support
• Truncated text in field help in control panel
• Checkout progress indicator
• DB history tool in control panel
• Force an "update cart" on quantity change or coupon code entry
• Major improvements to product options
• Support for minimum order amount enforcement
• PayPal Autoreturn, IPN, and PDT support
• Reduced number of database queries to improve performance
• Support for Rich Text module (sold separately)
• Search improvements in storefront
• Template improvements

New Features / Improvements

• Added support for VAT (Value Added Tax)
• Added "State Other" fields

New Features / Improvements

• Added support for VeriSign Payflow Pro Payment Gateway
• Added support for VeriSign Payflow Link Payment Gateway
• Added support for CyberSource Payment Gateway
• Performance and reporting improvements to the DB import script and query tool.

New Features / Improvements

• Added support for passing session ID when needed, regardless of PHP/Client settings. Cookies are now completely optional. This was designed with Shared SSL certificates in mind.
• Search Engine spiders will no longer see session ID in URLs.

New Features / Improvements

• Added support for Star Processing payment gateway

New Features / Improvements

• Added support for NOCHEX UK payment processor

New Features / Improvements

• Added ability to print order detail on thank you page

New Features / Improvements

• Filter records in admin interface based on relationship
• Customer computer info now stored in order record
• Database backup utility - import, export, and direct query functions
• MySQL dump importer function
• Added per item to shipping rules
• New powered by squirrelcart images (With contributions from forum member EpkesCreative. Thanks Greg!)
• Print ability to admin interface
• sc_query() function to handle advanced queries
• Shipping and packing details now appear with order detail in admin interface
• Warehouse features - you can now track inventory totals at multiple locations, and specify different ship from locations.
• Theme changing in storefront can be disabled in store settings
• Consolidated email functions
• Date picker fields
• Diagnostics mode - to output behind the scenes info for troubleshooting
• Discounts feature - comprehensive rule based discounts
• Dynamic title and meta tags based on product and category information
• Echo payment gateway support
• Field help is now a popup on mouseover
• Fixed brushed steel theme login form field alignment
• GoEmerchant payment gateway support
• Improved Authorize.net SIM support
• Improved admin interface speed
• Improved ability to determine referring URL information
• Improved shipping rules
• Improved add_record() and modify_record() functions
• Made subcategory detail table based to allow display in rows and columns
• Minor changes to display of product options
• Greater control over category viewing in storefront
• Organized functions in folders
• Remember me feature
• Removed page refresh after submitting payment to payment gateways
• Renamed all function files to end in php
• Renamed email merchant function and template
• security_level() function now supports group rn as well as name
• Shortened special variable names to superglobal equivalents
• support for AUTH ONLY and CVV for TrustCommerce
• Thank you page shows cart contents for printing
• Theme updater - automatically adds theme record when corresponding theme folder is uploaded
• Truncated brief product description at checkout
• UPS real time rates - support for Oversize and Dimensional weight
• ViaKlix payment gateway support
• Wonderpay payment gateway support

New Features / Improvements

• Automatic population of shipping fields when "same as billing" is checked
• Minor psiGate payment gateway changes
• Better error reporting for MySQL authentication
• Attempt to load extensions if they are not loaded (curl, mcrypt, etc..)
• Shortened manual add to cart links
• Support for cvv2 card code to usaepay payment gateway
• Ability to set default country, and first country in list on address forms
• Added payment method to Orders table
• Support for PaySystems.com
• Admin section now checks for browser version, and gives error if not IE 5+
• Minor improvements to best sellers layout

New Features / Improvements

• Added "Order Placed" as default order status
• Added MSRP, My_Cost, and SKU fields to Products table
• Data entered as URL now displays as link in admin section record tables
• Support for eWay payment gateway
• Major image field improvements - image manipulation via GD, autogenerate images, etc...
• Improved front-end form submissions so you can use back button without refreshing
• Improvements to table definitions
• Minor code improvement to xml_post_sc()
• Register globals dependency removed
• Removed copyright by ldev in powered by link
• Default theme is now SuperSquirrel

New Features / Improvements

• UPS OnlineTools
• Order Management feature
• Best Sellers feature - shows single best selling item on home page, and top ten selling items in nav box
• New Products feature - displays subset of new products on home page and as a category
• Sales Agreements feature - to issue agreements at time of purchase
• Improved error handling
• Added "Please Wait" indicator in admin section
• Added templates for showing category header and footer
• Content management improvements - no longer need a separate content record to determine whether to show another content record
• Delete Inhibit - important records can no longer be deleted
• Layout Improvements - overall design changes to main cart page and home.php
• Redesigned SuperSquirrel theme
• Added support for LinkPoint payment gateway
• Added ability to specify custom order numbers
• Requirements and server settings are now listed in admin section
• Courier Logos
• Magic Quotes independent - cart works with it set to ON or OFF
• Squirrelcart link - adds a link back to Squirrelcart.com

New Features / Improvements

• Inventory control
• USPS real time rate integration
• Ability to change sort order for categories
• Ability to collect CVV2
• Ability to collect electronic check info
• Ability to disable category expansion
• Ability to run custom scripts after certain events
• Ability to select and deselect all check boxes for a given field
• Ability to specify countries easily
• Added Display_Name field for categories
• Added more functionality to payment gateway records
• Better support for Authorize.net
• Added support for Trustcommerce payment gateway
• Added support for Itransact payment gateway
• Minor alterations in USAePay gateway file
• Brushed Steel theme
• Can now create categories with the same name
• Cart returns to originating page when editing a product record
• Changed authentication to DB
• Changed relative links to full paths
• Delete Unused Images option
• Display of order stats on admin page
• Email users feature
• Improvements to admin menu
• Maximum quantity setting
• No need submit form to refresh most fields in admin section
• PhpBB integration (separate module)
• Small changes in displaying records
• Store settings page changes
• Updated shipping rules to allow use of City
• Updated version control function
• When canceling emptying cart, checkout is now shown

New Features / Improvements

• Support for Bank of America payment gateway
• Support for WorldPay payment gateway
• Support for USAePay payment gateway
• Added a referring URL check before customer is allowed to update cart (quantities, etc...)
• Added support for ISO 3166 Country Codes for use in communication with payment gateways
• Improved error messages given to customer when attempting to post from an unauthorized host
• Made it easier to enable and disable records in the admin section
• Improved payment gateway return options - added a canceled order return handler
• Now only one payment gateway file can be enabled in the cart

New Features / Improvements

• Added refering site address to order email sent to merchant
• Separated non configuration info from config.php file
• Added new theme - 'Tiger Frame'

New Features / Improvements

• Made cart use SSL if available starting on the shipping info page. Cart used to only use SSL on the credit card info page.
• Added invoice number to PayPal gateway
• Added logout button to admin menu
• Added text input product option (for user to enter greeting card messages, etc...)
• Improved payment methods page. Only shows form for credit card info if a credit card is enabled
• Added support for PSiGate payment gateway
• Themed item breakdown for emails to customer and merchant
• Added store info to check payment module (Mail payment to information)
• Added version number to admin menu. Also checks for current version at squirrelcart.com, and indicates whether you are current or not. (this can be disabled if needed. ask us in the forums!)

New Features / Improvements

• Ability to change cart behavior when added item to it
• Made Product_Code variable available in template "view_cart_item.php"
• Added calculator for general use, and to subtract transpose number from transposed cc numbers with a single click
• Ability to change the sort order of products from store settings in admin page
• Ability to change current theme from admin page. User used to have to go to store front to change this.
• Added ability to force customer account creation, before being able to complete purchase. defaults to disabled.
• Added support for Groups (this is in its infancy in this release, and is only used to make a user an admin of the store)
• Improved category preview - previously, the products preview (labeled "Category Preview" in demo store) was displaying all of the remaining items in the current category, excluding the one that the customer had clicked on. This did not work well for categories with a large amount of products. The behavior of this feature now displays the number of items set in a field on the store settings page.
• Made all images in the cart, such as "add_to_cart" image, etc...part of the themes for easier customization

New Features / Improvements

• added support in the "Payments_Gateways" section for 3rd party processor "2Checkout.com"
• added more help on a few tables at the top of them, when viewing their records. Tables include Payment Gateways, Payment Methods, Shippinc Couriers, Shipping Rules, Shipping Methods, etc....

New Features / Improvements

• added ability to request password reset and retrieval if forgotten by customer
• added very thorough information in order emails sent to owner, and confirmation emails sent to customer. Also made these cofigurable through templates
• added support for emailing credit card numbers to merchant at bottom of order email
• reconfigured many administrative options to store settings page for easy access

New Features / Improvements

• added ability to mark categories as "not for sale", for seasonal items, or out of stock items, etc...
• bread crumb navigation added (i.e. Product Catalog : Books : Fiction : Stephen King, as links at the top of the cart)
• enabled sales tax for multiple states, customizable by store owner
• improved look of default templates that display products