Spring 2010
 

Spring Savings!

It's that time of the year again. It's getting warmer, the grass is getting longer, and love is in the air. Most of you are blowing the little extra money you have on marshmallow peeps and hollow chocolate rabbits. Because you will need all the money you can scrounge up to pay your lawn guy and get your cavities filled, we are offering you 20% off of some items for a very limited time. You lucky, lucky duck.

The fine print : this discount covers any new software items purchased between now and 4/14/2010. If you enter the coupon code PEEPS, you'll get 20% off the following items:

This does not cover services, support, download renewals, or any items not listed above. It can't be combined with other discounts, and cannot be applied retroactively for past purchases.

While this coupon is being sent to you because of your past purchases, feel free to share it with your friends. Our 20% off spring coupon code makes a great birthday gift.

Squirrelcart v3.2.0

Squirrelcart version 3.2.0 has been released. It has some new features, and all the bug fixes we've released to date. Here are a few highlights...

Purchase Order Payment Method

With the new purchase order payment method, your customers can now pay using their own purchase order number. When they choose to pay via purchase order, they are prompted for their PO#. When they complete the order, they are presented with the thank you page along with your address information for mailing payment (can be customized with additional instructions).

purchase order

Canada Post Sell Online

Squirrelcart has had built-in support for live shipping rate lookups via USPS, FedEx, UPS, and Australia Post for quite some time. Our customers in Canada have been asking for Canada Post support, and it's now available. We are now an approved partner with Canada Post. If you enable Canada Post Sell Online, your customers will see live shipping rates during checkout:

Canada Post shipping rates

You can also perform your own rate lookups in your Squirrelcart control panel via our rate tool:

Canada Post shipping rates

More Snazzy New Features

  • Hide individual themes from your customer - this is useful if you want to allow them to change their theme but only to themes you designate
  • Tooltips feature now works for subcategory links
  • Control panel menu only displays shipping courier tool links for couriers that are enabled
  • Diag mode window is easier to scroll and easier to copy text from
  • eSelect Plus (USA) payment gateway support
  • Removed our CSS reset for ul and ol tags, to better preserve your design. (Plain English: lists will appear as you want them to)
  • Cleaned up/improved some behind the scenes code for the storefront
Head over to our version history page for a full list of all the changes.

How to get this version

Squirrelcart v3.2.0 is now available for download on our Downloads page, to all customers with active download access.

You can check your download access status here.

Has your download access expired? You can renew it for an entire year for $65 USD by purchasing a Download Renewal.

Go Pro. All the Cool Kids are Doing it!

If you are a regular Squirrelcart user, you can change your license to Squirrelcart PRO for the difference in price. For a comparison of the two versions, see this page. If you'd like pricing or more information, just reply to this message. Please note, the coupon code above cannot be used when purchasing a license upgrade.

Main Street Theme

In case you missed it, we are now selling themes - starting with our new Main Street theme.
  • Set your default theme to one of 9 color variants: blue, brown, green, light blue, orange, pink, purple, red, and yellow
  • Optionally allow your customers to change their theme to any other color variant. (Customer theme selection can be disabled if desired)
  • Includes Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Fireworks source files
  • Valid XHTML 1.0 transitional
  • Valid CSS 2.1
  • Tested in all major browsers - Firefox 2+, IE 6+, Safari 2.1+, Opera, Chrome
  • Button images change on mouseover
  • A fixed width layout designed to look best at resolutions 1024 pixels or wider
  • Easily change the logo to your own using the Themes > Images section of Squirrelcart's control panel
  • Easily change wording of welcome message via a Content record in Squirrelcart's control panel
  • Requires Squirrelcart v3 or newer

More themes coming soon!

Thanks!

Thanks for taking the time to read this entire message. You are my favorite customer!