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Welcome!
We've got a brand new version of Squirrelcart down here for you. It has major shipping improvements, new pricing features, 32% more bells*, and 26% more whistles*.
Squirrelcart v6.0.0 Overview
New ways to price your products
- Products can now be sold in sets. For example: 1 box, 2 boxes, 1 case, etc...
- Tooltips display a per piece price automatically
- Prices can be set as a factor of MSRP or Cost.
- Quantity based discounts can be passed to options
Bulk price change tool
- Easily change product pricing for one or more products simultaneously, via the new bulk price change record action.
- Specify a fixed price
- Increase or decrease price by a fixed amount or percentage
Shipping just got much more powerful
Add multiple shipping settings to your products, targeting different quantities and units.
This works seamlessly with the new "sell in sets" pricing scheme option. Add different sets of shipping settings targeting both quantity and unit.
When shipping via "specific services", you can now specify up to six specific shipping services and choose either a fixed rate, or a real-time rate.
A new Pack Method setting allows you to specify how a product will be packed with other products in order to determine shipping rates.
More shipping improvements
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Shipping rate & service rules no longer have a Priority setting. We've replaced this with a Scope setting which is simple and more powerful.
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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
Theme, SEO, and Performance 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...
- 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 images to 30 days
Store Status feature
- 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.
News module improvements
(included in Squirrelcart Pro, sold separately for regular Squirrelcart)
The news module offers a mailing list feature, and a blog feature to post news on your site. It just got packed with more features!
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Visitors can now opt in (or out) of a mailing list with just their email address, without having to create a user account.
This can be done with a new News Signup navigation block, and/or with a new News Signup content record.
- Human verification can be turned on for the new signup form.
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Email address verification feature - When a visitor signs up for your mailing list using the new form, they are sent an email with a link to verify their email address.
This is to prevent people from adding someone else to a mailing list.
- News mailings now have a simple unsubscribe link in the footer, to make it easier for users to opt out.
- A new comments feature allows visitors to comment on news posts. Their comments can be read by others.
- Comments can be moderated (or not). When moderation is turned on, an email is sent to moderators whenever a new comment is posted with links to approve, edit, or delete the comment.
- Human verification can be turned on for the new comments form.
Click here for more info!
Well slap me with a sandwich and call me Loretta. There's even more!
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)
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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.
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
Other improvements
- Time zone and date format features
- New payment method surcharge feature allows you to add a fee based on the payment method used during checkout
- Inventory control can now be turned on and off for individual products
- Improved loading time of default Orders view
Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Web Design
Like version 5, version 6 is mobile friendly and looks great on smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops! Over 60% of traffic now comes from mobile devices. If you are using version 4 or older, you are missing out on a lot of traffic!
For information on upgrading, just reply to this email with any questions you might have.
How to get this version
Squirrelcart v6.0.0 is now available for download on our Downloads page for 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 only $85 USD by purchasing a Download Renewal.
Switch to Squirrelcart Pro
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.
Epilogue
I had a dream last night that I was being chased by a giant penguin. He kept reaching for me and saying
"Larry, wait, it's OK." and "Larry, don't be scared. I just want to tell you about my amazing recipe for chicken cacciatore".
I woke up just as his beak snapped down hard on my left ear. So weird! My name's not Larry!
*This is not actually true. Squirrelcart contains no bells, nor does it contain whistles (but if it did they would sound amazing).
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