October 2006
October 2006
 
 

It's Finally Fall!

The best season of the year is finally here (well, one of the four best). We've already bought our Halloween candy, and it's almost gone. I'd blame it on the kid, but she's away at college and the cats don't like chocolate unless there are little bits of mice inside. ;) It says Squirrelcart up top, so I better get to the Squirrelcart news...

Announcing the new and improved Squirrelcart v2.4.0!

We are proud to announce the official release of Squirrelcart v2.4.0. We've added more features and improvements than you can shake a stick at! (Get a stick and try it if you don't believe me)

Some of the many new features and improvements I got a rock.
  • USPS Shipment tool - to generate labels for packages
  • USPS Tracking and confirmation tool
  • Australia Post real time rates
  • More UPS shipping methods
  • Ability to exclude items from best sellers
  • Improved performance for some database queries
  • 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.
  • Google Checkout - added settings to control which checkout button image is requested
  • PayPal - added date for each entry in IPN log
  • Optimal Payments gateway support
  • StrataPay gateway support
  • Transfirst ePayment Services gateway suppport
  • Tranzilla gateway support
Order status improvements
  • 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
  • New "Private" field on order status options, which when checked will hide the status from the customer.
  • When manually adding an order status to an order, date now defaults to current date and time
Security Enhancements
  • Removed register_globals = ON simulation code
  • SSL can now be used in control panel - configurable in Store Settings with a default of ON.

The features above are just an excerpt of the full list, which can be found here.

View Demo  |  Find out more!

Free Hosting for a Year

Free Hosting We are proud to announce a partnership with Jumpline.com to give all Squirrelcart customers a free J2-VDS hosting plan for one year!

Existing owners of Squirrelcart are already qualified, and can take advantage of this offer by clicking the offer link on your account page after logging in.

To learn more, click here.

Thanks!

Thanks for taking the time to read this, and for being a customer! Hope you don't get a rock this year. :)