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Looking good...

Kool looking kart!!!! I kan't wait to purchase the update.
Way to go Nick!

smart looking shopping cart , anybody spotted typo error on wish list header graphic    http://devel2.kryptronic.com/khxc/ccp0- … bf550.html   WIST LIST?,

It looks like I can't spell and the beta team is not doing it's job   I've corrected that.

any chance of seeing a demo with an imported ccp51 standard skin? or will it look like the demo, also does the option of currency change mean uk version of 5.1 work fully when imported into us version.

The standard skin shipped with CCP6 is what's running on the demo right now.  Because the HTML code in the 5.1 skin is far from XHTML Strict compliant, an option is in the upgrade code to import or not import that skin.  If you choose not to import it, you'll want to make changes to the CCP6 skin you see on the demo.

Concerning your currency change question, the upgrade between US->UK and visa/versa will work and import as much data as possible, however you will not have VAT, a few UK specific processors and the Royal Mail script in the US version.  On both the core and application levels you have the option to choose your base currencies.  This means you can run the KHXC in USD and CCP6 in GBP and still allow users to view prices in JPY (or whatever else they may like).

Thanks, Howard.  Just to note: 

The base Kryptronic CCP6 has user defined shipping in it as well.  I don't want anyone to have the impression that the software does not support custom shipping - it does.

Additional items in the base version that were previously in the UK only version include thumbnails in the cart and currency conversions. 

The base version supports international addresses as well (as CCP always has).  What Howard is referring to with UK customized addresses is the addition of UK-specific regions to the state/province listing.

Howard

For the UK Version of CCP 6 you said it will include UK specific payment gateways like:
Protx, Secpay, Nochex, HSBC, ePDQ etc will only be available in the UK version.

Will it also include velocitypay as this is the payment gateway we use in CCP5.1

Thanks

When in the shopping cart, it would probably be better to have buttons for checkout and continue shopping rather than text links.  People expect to see buttons.  Had to look for the text links too long.

Just my 2 cents

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Dec 16, 2006

Like the other demo link posted, this demo exhibits URLs that are definitely not search-engine-friendly.

Ambassador
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Couple questions:

If one has already the ATS SEO mod, will the URLs change again (nightmare with housands of pages already in Google)?

Will the update just overwrite the ATS mod with the same scheme?

Will the SEO URLS demonstrate the same bad characteristics of the ATS mod? -- namely, this portion of their rewrite rule - RewriteRule ^cat--(.*)\.html - where (.*) = ANYTHING. That allows your competitor or anyone else to take one of your URLs like http://www.someplace.com/cat--whatever--cat2.html, put anything they want in the 'whatever' area and still access the page -- no big deal unless they decide to submit a bunch of changed URLs that lead to the same page for you thus creating mounds of duplicate content.

Will we be able to use two-digit years? My Quickbooks uses two-digit and can't be changed.

Currently when uploading new products, I export comma delimited from Lotus Approach, copy/paste to the product.csv and FTP the new product.csv to the server -- will I still be able to do that?

The 'minor' changes we have made like the payment options display order and such -- will those be overwriten and revert to defaults etc.?

Thanks..

Hopefully the proper rewrite rule instructions will be posted here or made part of CCP6 documentation? Regarding Quickbooks, currently when I import, all of my invoices and payments appear in QB with the year 1986. I use an older QB Pro that can't be changed to 4 digit year. I'd really rather not have to spend $200 for a newer QB just for that (or have to edit the export file prior to import).

I'd also like to know whether the methodology we currently use for design changes (site layout, etc.) will change. Will we be able to customize the html to the same level (I don't buy skins) -- add buttons in place of text links for checkout, etc.?

Will the manual be more comprehensive and understandable, have an index of Elements along with their purpose and default locations, and management and customization be more intuitive? I've spend hours untold searching for Elements and whatnot that control displays I was trying to modify -- I've needed a CCP5.1 atlas many times!

Forgot to ask...

Will we be able to better control drop shipping? Currently, the handling charge is per order - I need it per supplier. If customers purchase items coming from more than one supplier on the same order, there needs to be a drop ship charge (handling) for each supplier in the order along with the real time shipping from the supplier's zipcode.

webmaster wrote:

The handling charges in CCP6 are applied per shipping group (groups of products having the same ship method, destination and origin).  It is entered as one global rate (does not change based on supplier) but is added to each different shipping group.  Shipping groups are determined by the drop shipper location, the destination (entered by customer) and the product shipping options selected.

Boy do I need that! All of my prods are drop ship with many suppliers. However, Nick, it would be oh so nice if the ship group could also include the supplier's variable. We could have two suppliers with the same zip code and lose a handling charge. In my case, the first two characters of the product ID designate the supplier. Any way to incorporate something like that? Maybe in the product admin another field?

shipper zip      shipper email      **shipper code  or perhaps to simplify, another admin page for setting up suppliers information so all you need is supplier's code as the only variable except for the rate calculations -- AND, some suppliers don't use real time rates. Some have flat rates. Would be nice to have the shipping all supplier specific!

Something like that could be very handy for auto generating memos on the orders and emails like -- Please Note: Shipping is calculated separately for each supplier. ABC products are drop shipped directly from the maufacturer, ABC, in the altered state of CALIFORNIA and will ship separately from other items --  ABC usually ships within 3 working days of the order confirmation.

We also have return policies etc. that are specific to supplier. So a screen with all the supplier contact information and such right in the admin would be nice and could provide the supplier variable needed to better control drop shipping.

...Slydog

Webmaster wrote:

"The URLs are search engine friendly for anyone: (1) Who has the ability to accept cookies or (2) whose browser reports iteself as one of the fifty or so recognized robots, spiders or crawlers."


When viewing the demo using the Internet Explorer 6 browser/Microsoft Windows XP Professional/Service Pack 2 - with cookies turned off - the URLs observed were definitely not search engine friendly.  Thus, based upon this observation, it would seem that cookies are indeed required for SEF URLs.  If this observation is not flawed in some fashion then the search-engine-friendliness of the new software is most disappointing.

Ambassador

Last edited by ambassador (12-21-2006 23:14:20)