- Leaps and Bounds Jan '08
We are pleased to release Spring Updates for 2008.
There are a several discrete changes that have sneaked their way into pureCommerce over the last few months, and this "Whats New"
describes some of the more important or interesting Updates.
These Updates bring the current version of pureCommerce to 9.4.
Customer based Order Alerts & Notes
As you probably know, pureCommerce allows for various types of notes to be attached on a per Order basis. Now you can view how many of these notes/Alerts and Types are in place per Order from within the Content-Zoom of Customer Information (e.g. click on the triangle in the Sales Listing in the "Customer Info" Column).
Additionally, you can access customer based Order notes from the Sales Listing by finding and selecting one or more Order records and Clicking on the OPTIONS tab (top left of the results) and clicking on the option
"Customer Alerts For Selected Orders". This will list all order based alerts & Notes for all... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Stocking Stuffers - Updates Dec '07
Welcome to the Winter. We are pleased to announce Holiday Season updates "Frostie's Stocking Stuffers".
There are a number of changes that have been made of recent; this "Whats New" describes notable items or updates that may benefit from further Seasonal Illumnination.
These updates bring the current version of pureCommerce to 9.3.
StoreFront - Product Detail Redirector
We have modified the Product Detail page to detect when a particular product is unavailable (regardless of status) and to attempt to find an item of the same SKU and redirect to that product if we find one. This feature can help when a product line or variation set is discontinued or transferred to alternative product formats, or simply became deleted and re-created.
If a matching product is not found, then the typical popular items options will be made available.
Tax State Orientation
We have provided the ability on a per-product basis to determine an over-riding State/Region... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Farewell Summer - Updates Oct '07
There have been a number of minor enhancements made recently. This "Whats New" describes the cummulative noticable changes.
This brings the current version of pureCommerce to 9.2.
Admin Activity logging
Under Office > Activity Logs, you can now see the duration and status of activities performed in the back office.
This can be useful in identifying areas that are starting processes that do not seem to be finishing (based on the status of the activity record)
and also useful when indicating activities that seem to take a long time and therefore may be processor intensive.
Any level of detail associated to an Admin Activity Log can be read by clicking on the silver drop arrow next to the title of the activity record. This is a replacement of the previous JavaScript alert.
Cache Manager
Under Office > Cache, you can now clear the server Trusted Template Cache. This is a time regulated activity and you can only submit a clear cache request every two minutes or... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Performance Pack 2 (PP2) (Updated) Jul '07
We are pleased to announce the release of Performance Pack 2. This release provides Back Office enhancements and optimizations for workflow and performance.
This update also provides a Site Media Audit tool to assist in determining which images and files are not used by the system and could be removed to increase performance.
Noticeable changes are described as follows:
Advanced Pricing & Advanced Billing enhancements
For those of you with the Advanced Pricing and Advanced Billing modules, we've added the ability to assign price rules and scheduled charge rules from the product areas, in addition to being able to select products from the price rule and scheduled charge rule areas. On step 4 of the product creation wizard, and on the individual product editors, these controls now appear at the bottom of the pricing area for all stores. On the last step of the product creation wizard, as well as the multiproduct updater, the controls appear under all the pricing... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Summer Updates Jul '07
We are pleased to announce Summer Updates for pureCommerce 9.0.
This update brings your version of pureCommerce up to 9.1.
Advanced Billing
We have introduced a new module entitled Advanced Billing. This module enables you to create and assign sophisticated schedules and fee payments to products.
You will be able to create Schedule template such as daily, weekly, monthly, yearly each with its own start date, recurrence properties and Schedule-End criteria.
A schedule in combination with a fee amount and number of fee payments to spread out over the schedule makes up a Schedule Charge Rule or "Subscription Rule".
A Subscription Rule can be applied to all products or just the products you select.
When a product is purchased that has an attached Subscription Rule it can also be marked as Pro-Rata.
This means that a customer may purchase a subscription type product in the middle of a schedule period and be charged only the pro-rated portion of the schedule period ... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- pureCommerce 9.0 Launch Jun '07
We are pleased to announce pureCommerce 9.0. This release features several major new features and extensive "behind the scenes" work to the software environment.
Point Payment Module
With the new point payment module, you can return your customer's loyalty with reward points. As part of the product pricing, you can set how many points a product will earn for a member when purchased (with money not points), and/or how many points are needed to buy a product. You control whether a product can be bought with points, purchased with currency, or both. The point purchase and reward capabilities are only available to logged in registered members. If one of your stores does not permit the display of point based purchasing or rewards then the display can be turned off via the respective store's preferences. (Office > Stores)
When a member buys a product with a point earning price, the total number of points earned will be added to their Point account: which will be automatically... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Spring Updates Apr '07
Variety Palette Picker
Variety types can now have a selector type of "icon". What this means is that you can attach an icon (for example, a color swatch) to a variety, and your visitors can pick the variation value by clicking on the icon. To continue the example, the visitor could see a set of color swatches, and would pick their desired color by clicking on it. If you have separate product images for the color-based variations in the example, then the respective product image will be shown to match. This means that your storefront customers can choose from variety types using radio buttons, select boxes and now image palette selections.
Custom Process Fields Updating
With each order, there are some custom fields [ProcessField1] and [ProcessDate1]. These fields are typically used for integration or annotation purposes. However, you can now modify their values (individual or many) from the Sales List page under Options.
Member Group Registration
There is facility to ... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- January Embers Jan '07
Greetings and a Good New Year to you all.
We have made some minor updates that you may have already noticed, but just in case, we summarize the changes here for your information.
Order Edit
Under the Payment Processing area when editing an order, you will see a checkbox and a link saying "Don't calculate and balance the order." If you click on this link, or enable the checkbox, you will be warned the following:
If you process payment with this checkbox enabled, the Order will not be calculated and balanced automatically.This means that you must be sure that all line item prices, delivery costs and any affecting values are correct or acceptable.
This check box is defaulted to ON/checked if the order has at least one good transaction record (which assumes the order was placed). You can use this option to perform transactions that should or should not affect the cost of the order.
E.g.
If it is OFF/Unchecked, then when you perform a transaction, the product prices will... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Performance Pack 1 (PP1) Dec '06
We are pleased to announce the release of Performance Pack 1. This release provides Back Office enhancements as well as storefront optimization for certain processes. There will be other performance packs in the near future.
It also includes our Field Insight module that can considerably increase the accuracy and speed of administrative searches.
Noticeable changes are described as follows:
Field Insight
When viewing search forms, you may notice that some of the text form fields have an alternative border color. These fields facilitate the pureCommerce Field Insight feature.
Start typing in one of these fields, and when you need assistance / if you pause, a list of the top 20 results, similar to the text you have entered, will
automatically appear beneath the field allowing you to optionally select from the list. This feature helps tremendously with postal codes, email addresses, product SKUs and last names. Explore the search forms and try out the field insight features... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Utility Update Nov '06
We are pleased to provide this utility update for pureCommerce 8.9. noticeable changes are described as follows:
Library
When you view images in your library (under Office) you can edit them.
When you edit an image, you can resize it proportionally or by an alternative width and height also, if the image is of a JPG format you may choose the compression/quality factor.
The tool has been modified with a more intuitive UI and utilizes our new image component, replacing previous scripts.
With our new image component we can later provide other image manipulation features such as, watermarking, rotating, scaling, cropping, and text overlays.
Attributes/Descriptors
When you edit a descriptor you will find that it now has a check box that enables it to be searchable.
If you enable any descriptors to be searchable, then under the advanced search of your storefront(s) a text field will be made available to the customer for each search-enabled descriptor.
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- Inventory Maintenance, and more Oct '06
There have been a number of changes to the inventory management system built into pureCommerce.
Most of the changes are invisible to the everyday mechanisms of the software but some are noticeable.
In addition, other areas have changed as described below.
Inventory
Inventoried items are deducted from inventory automatically at two distinct points in the system.
Store Front: When the order is reviewed and submitted.
Back Office: When the first good payment transaction occurs. Can be offline but is not counted if denied, declined, rejected, or reporting an error.
Note: If an order is placed on a Store Front, then it should already have a "First Payment Transaction Record".
Therefore, performing additional transactions on the order will not automatically deduct inventoried items. After an order has a first payment transaction, all inventory management tasks are performed at the discretion of the administrative user(s).
The Inventory Edit screen has been re... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Service Pack 5b Applied (SP5b) Oct '06
We are pleased to announce our Service Pack 5b for pureCommerce, the best in eCommerce solutions.
This patch upgrades your software to pureCommerce 8.9 EU2-SP5b.
Major Effects:
This service pack provides important framework enhancements to the back office. Centralization and improvements on existing functionality has allowed us to strip rarely used code bytes from the everyday system. We said that we would be utilizing our on-demand Content Zooming more and more in the near future and we will continue to do so to provide a cleaner, quicker, more efficient user interface for our merchants.
Script Enhancements
Improved performance and capabilities of on-demand scripting features.
Centralized core functions
Expanded capabilities of core functions
Provided slight delay for mouse Over content zooming and better control over positioning so that it should always appear where it is meant to even if you mouse over other content zoomed areas.
Calling multiple ... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Service Pack 5 Applied (SP5) Sep '06
We are pleased to announce our Service Pack 5 for pureCommerce, the best in eCommerce solutions.
This patch upgrades your software to pureCommerce 8.9 EU2-SP5.
Major Effects:
This service pack provides some general enhancements to the back office and usability as well as some core changes to support future enhancements.
Sticky form is improved and even smarter than before.
Fixed bug with purging Classified information that did not reset the next Purge Date.
Sales
The sales search form has been improved (yes even more) and now you can toggle affiliate / affiliate groups and search by recipient.
The sales listing has been optimized a little more, and also now provides on-demand content zooming. If you mouse-over the Cart Icon in the ID column, you can see an instant overview of the recipients, shipping, and items purchased without needing to edit the order or view the product breakdown. The same feature has been added to the Alerts column. This allows you ... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Candy Patch 2 Applied (CP2) Aug '06
We are pleased to announce candy patch 2 for pureCommerce 8.9.
"What's a candy patch?" I hear you say.
Simply speaking, just new, free, cool stuff not part of any scheduled maintenance or security upgrades or service packs.
Candy Patch 2 additions:
Improved Home Page
Added Quick Jump options for jumping to Orders, Products, Customers, and Categories using IDs or text criteria.
Added Fast Links for common tasks and reporting information.
Organized content to provide more information in same space.
New and added clearer iconography.
Added Step down auto graph for cart conversion. This can be configured to not show (like news, weather, and comments), please contact your support representative.
Sales
Added Recipient search capability for sales.
Included Affiliates with Affiliate groups for sale searching on affiliated sales.
Added new Alert note type... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Post EU2 Information Update Aug '06
The following changes and additions to some exports and imports are in now in place:
Product Export
Three columns to facilitate product long descriptions have been appended and the short description column has been moved to the end.
The product Export Column List is now in the following order:
Sub Store ID, Sub Store Code, Sub Store Name, Master PID, Product ID, Bundle, Full Product Code, Prod Code 1, Prod Code 2, Prod Code 3, Variation Code, Status, Product Name, Product Subtitle, Product Variation, Primary Category, Currency, Payment via Currency, Payment via Points, Cost Price, Retail Price, Wholesale Price, Store Price, Special Price, Minimum Advertised Price, Sale Price, Safe Price, Point Price, Point Earnings, Handling Cost, Profit Margin, Min Order Qty, Max Order Qty, Weight Calc Type, Weight, Length, Width, Height, Uses Inventory, Inventory Status, Manufacturer, Supplier, Detail URL, Small Image URL, Large Image URL, XLarge Image URL, Short... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Evolution Upgrade 2 Applied (EU2) Jul '06
We are pleased to announce our Evolution Upgrade 2 for pureCommerce, the best in eCommerce solutions. This evolution upgrades your software to pureCommerce 8.9 EU2
Major Effects:
This upgrade is part two of two and provides additional promotional features, order manipulation, data integration points, and smart controls for keeping your storefront(s) fresh.
Sales
The sales search form has two additional status options to select from: "Funds Authorized or Captured" and "Funds Captured or Received".
This provides better facilitation for finding orders that are valid based on a number of status values.
Sale Edit
When editing a sale, the overview indicates if the order is a first time order at the top right. This icon is now clickable to provide the administrative user the ability to consider the order a first time order or vise versa.
This means that if you have set up a first time order Free Item Promotion, you could then proceed to pick from the free item... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Service Pack 4 Applied (SP4) Jun '06
We are pleased to announce our Service Pack 4 for pureCommerce, the best in eCommerce solutions.
This patch upgrades your software to pureCommerce 8.9 EU1-SP4.
Major Effects:
This service pack provides features that assist in data portability and integration as well as additional software tools and miscellaneous patches.
If you register with FedEx through Office > Delivery > Sub Store Shipping Carier area, you can rate retrieve and fulfill from FedEx in real time as well as create and fulfill packages with automatically retrieved shipping labels that can be printed via Print Slips or Fulfillment Slips that facilitate them. This includes a miriad of Extended Shipping options for FedEx.
We have added a statistical product sorting option that can be provided to your storefront customers (styles may need modifying if enabled) this currently provides Default, Most Popular, and most purchased sorting options to your customers when browsing through categories or... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Evolution Upgrade 1 Applied (EU1) May '06
We are pleased to announce our Evolution Upgrade 1 for pureCommerce, the best in eCommerce solutions. This evolution upgrades your software to pureCommerce 8.9 EU1
Major Effects:
This upgrade is part one of two and provides highly scalable pricing and Sub Store (Store Domain) features such as ten price types, price rules/schemas, user interface enhancements, and optimizations for page rendering including the new flexible pricing display options.
Storefront searching and display of products that are discounted or price-ruled render dramatically faster and products not discounted render almost instantaneously.
Sales
The sales list, where available, displays an IP address under the "Created" column that indicates where the sale was generated from. This IP address is linked to a window that provides information about the organization using the IP address. This information is also linked to the Alert & Notes information window. Now you can find out who is messing with your... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Order Maintenance & Fraud alerts Apr '06
Orders, when created, now log the IP address and country of the associated user creating the order.
If this country does not match the country of the billing address for the order then a warning alert will be associated with the order.
The warning described is an automatic order note entry and may be enhanced in future versions of pureCommerce. Order Notes of various types can be added, cleared, or deleted at any time from the order list and order edit areas of the back office.
The order list page has a new column entitled "Alerts" and shows the distict types of alerts and notes associated with the order by displaying icons. Clicking these icons will display the details and also provide an interface into adding new notes or clearing existing notes.
From the order edit page, the distinct alert types are displayed within the Order Summary area.
NOTES:
if no open alerts exist, then an "add" link will be present.
On the order list and edit pages only OPEN... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Candy Patch 1 Applied (CP1) Mar '06
We are pleased to announce candy patch 1 for pureCommerce 8.8.
'Whats a candy patch?' I hear you say.
Simply speaking, just new, free, cool stuff not part of any scheduled maintenance or security upgrades or service packs.
Candy Patch 1 additions:
Sales List
Added an icon to the sales list in the check box column to view the product break down data for that specific order. Clicking the icon will open the 'Product in Orders Summary' window and display product facts about the order.
Added product breakdown items under the OPTIONS link. Click on OPTIONS and you will see that you are able to show product breakdown data for all sales results or selected sales records.
Reports
Added a Sub Store Search Log Option. You can view the various keywords, phrases and search entries as typed into your storefront(s). Overview and specific breakdown result tables are provided.
You can also filter by date... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Reporting Maintenance Mar '06
Report maintenance has been applied to the pureCommerce back office reporting set.
Certain reports were previously pulling data from the instance in time that they were indexed with no ability to further re-index them.
This only occurred in certain reports and was originally structured this way to reduce server overhead and increase reporting rendering speed.
Also to provide a snapshot in time. We have found that some pureCommerce customers utilize this data as an end reporting facility in comparison to the live sale detail exports and therefore the numbers would not perfectly match. In the spirit of facilitating such a need we have spent considerable time making changes to the structure, data indexing and reporting rendering code.
We can now retrieve this particular data set in real-time from the database without undue server load.
The following reports were affected to facilitate this structure change
Orders
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- Online User Guide Update Mar '06
The pureCommerce Online User guide has been updated to reflect many changes of recent.
There are still areas of detail and modification that need applying to the user guide as will always be the case as pureCommerce and it's help are living objects in our world of software.
We hope you find many of the new additions helpful and remind you to utilize the in-page help options as a first recourse for troubleshooting or discovering the nature of an element or message.
NOTE: If, for any reason you do not see an updated Online User Guide when clicking on the OPEN the online User-Guide link, then you may need to initialize your software. This can be done by opening the ABOUT window and clicking the red button.
After initialization, you can visit the Administrative Home page and the new user guide should be available form the link.
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- Service Pack 3 Applied (SP3) Feb '06
We are pleased to announce our Service Pack 3 for pureCommerce, the best in eCommerce solutions.
This patch upgrades your software to pureCommerce 8.8 SUG2-SP3.
Major Effects:
This service pack is primarily Shipping centric and most changes will not be visible at your back office or to your
storefront customers. This service pack provides core data and code structure to facilitate further features to seamlessly migrate into the up coming version 9.0.
Shipping methods and all rules are now administratable per store domain (Sub Store) providing the most flexible solutions for shipping needs. This affects the check out code at the storefront pertaining to shipping method selections, as well as free shipping listings and descriptions.
The back office is modified with new shipping method edit and listing pages deprecating the previous Sub-Store shipping method assignment line of pages.
Sub Stores now have further control over various product display engine properties... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Service Pack 2 Applied (SP2) Feb '06
This service pack upgraded your software to pureCommerce 8.8 SUG2-SP2 and applied some additional funtionality, gadgetry and information to the adminitrative back office.
This upgrade pack is primarily security centric and applies only to your back office. Encryption and data safety tools have been further refined and necessary logging will occur more concisely.
Again, these changes are to continue our committed steps in assuring that pureCommerce conforms to
Visa and MasterCard’s most stringent security policies where other eCommerce software companies continue to lag behind.
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- Security Upgrade 2 Applied (SUG2) Feb '06
Part two of our expected security upgrade is now applied to bring into full compliance with VISA and MasterCard stringent security standards.
All Administrative User Profiles now have an additional security aspect named "Access Level" and all usernames and passwords are stored with strong encryption.
It is important to note that if you have an access level of 0 (zero) then you will not be able to read sensitive payment related data although,
if you have relevant access and zone privelages you will be able to enter new payment data. See Access Level Matrix below.
Access Level Matrix
LevelAccess DescriptionPre SUG2 Equivalency
0No read access of sensitive payment data. An administrator with level 1 or 2 access can temporarily unlock access for a single viewing for you.No equivalency, all previous administrators with zone privelages had read access.
1Read access to sensitive payment data permitted.
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- Inventory Location Maintenance Jan '06
Provided interface for adding, updating and deleting inventory locations along with location code and adddress from the Inventory section of the back office. Inventory Location codes are used by the fulfillment import and must match the location code used when importing fulfillment records to identify the fulfillment location.
In later versions inventory management may be in union with inventory locations so that certain items can be fulfilled from a variety of locations depending on stock availability and proximity to the customer.
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- Sales Export enhancements and changes Jan '06
From the sales listing under options Exporting sales records is available.
Performance has been dramatically increased for sales exports thanks to code enhancements and new data column dispertion from the previous format to the current one as listed here.
Exporting sales in an "Order Summary" format now provides the following data fields...
Order ID, Store Code, Number of Addresses, Num of Items, Created Date, Created Time, Completion Date, Completion Time, Fulfillment Status Date, Fulfillment Status Time, Status Date, Status Time, Internal Order Status, Order Status, Fulfillment Status, Affiliate ID, Affiliate Name, Product SubTotal, Tax, Shipping, Order Total, Bill FirstName, Bill LastName, Bill Email, Bill Street 1, Bill Street 2, Bill City, Bill State, Bill ZipCode, Bill Country, Bill Primary Phone, Bill Alternative Phone, Bill Fax, Payment Method Code, Customer Comment, Opt In, Referrer URL, Landing URL
Exporting sales in an "Order Line Item Detail" format... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Service Pack 1 Applied (SP1) Jan '06
This service pack upgraded your software to pureCommerce 8.7 and applied some additional funtionality, gadgetry and information to the adminitrative back office. Other 'behind the scenes stuff' is also in place for future enhancements and goodies coming down the line.
Major Effects:
Visibly, the telephone numbers are presented in form fields by area-code, then phone number, and then extension information.
E.g. [555] [555-5555] [only call after 7pm]
This can be seen at storefronts and the back office areas.
To ensure no data loss relevant data in your database has already been manipulated to facilitate this service pack. Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Matrix Product Updating enhancement Jan '06
Matrix updating for products has been enhanced.
This option can be found in the product maintenance listing under the "options >>" link and is used to easily update common information or other properties for multiple products at once.
Symptoms:
When listing variation products (this is an option within the search form) updating would change the maintenance mode of the product to "Child Mode" under the assumption that editing individual variations meant there would be individual differences and, therefore,
require protection from accidentally overwriting such changes. In this assumption product updates from the top level (non variety product editing) was disabled.
Solution or work around:
The matrix updators no longer assume to modify the maintenance mode of the product and now provide a checkbox in the information tab for forcing the mode of variation products to "Child mode" (AKA protection mode), this is now the administrative user's decision.
This option is only... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.
- Security Upgrade 1 Applied (SUG1) Jan '06
Part one of two security upgrades expected for to be implemented in the first quarter of 2006 is now applied taking necessary steps to bring
pureCommerce into full compliance with new stringent VISA and MasterCard security standards.
Strong encryption of payment related data will occur for past orders and transactions and ensure that all such future data is entered in the same encrypted fashion.
We have also upgraded our IPS hardware firewalls for those hosted with us to further show our commitment to the prevention of identity theft and safe internet eCommercialism.
You data has already been encrypted to a high standard to facilitate this security upgrade and you should see no problems or even differences at this stage to your storefronts or back offices.
Many more security elements have also been applied with this upgrade for your own benefit.
We are pleased to announce the full and complete success of this major step to keep pureCommerce as the best, most reliable and... Public Viewing is Limited. Log In under [Client Portal] in the main menu.