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I think his question is the same as mine would be.

Since the release of 6 appears to be at least reasonably close, will there be some kind of free upgrade offered to people who buy version 5.1 with 6 so close to release.

Many software products do this (VMware to name one), where if you buy a product, and they release a new version shortly after you purchased it, they will give you a free upgrade (mainly because they don't consider it fair you purchased a product, only to force you to pay for at least part of it again only a few months down the road).

Microsoft also offers this kind of thing (called 'Software Assurance').

I myself am considering buying CCP, however if I'm going to get foisted with a hefty upgrade fee within 3 months of spending almost $200 for CCP5, I might look at other products.  Even though CCP is the best I've seen around (and I'm actually looking at choosing it over an open source product which is quite good, but does not support as many features (such as discount codes, etc)).

BTW - I realise this is probably not the place to ask, but there are only two things that I am wondering about CCP6 (since I'm assuming it will maintain all current functionality of CCP5).

First, does it have 'inventory variant' support (also known as 'multi-option quantity' support) - namely so a) I don't need 6 zillion copies of options 'S', 'M', 'L', 'XL', etc. so that I can track the quantities of each item I have, and b) so that I can combine colours and sizes as different options, but one 'shared' quantity (ie. I have 6 Black XL shirts in stock, 2 Black M shirts, and 3 Red XL shirts).  Incidentally, the afore-mentioned open source product has this, which is one of the reasons I was considering it.

Second, has a 'gift certificate' feature (ie. the ability to BUY a gift certificate on the site, and automatically issue a certificate number and e-mail it to the user, without manual intervention) been added to the core product (I saw that for CCP5, there is someone selling this modification).  Also, is ther a posibility of adding a 'donation' field to the final order confirmation (useful for sites/organizations that live of donations, such as the EFF/OSI/etc).  Another note with the gift certificates - I noticed a discussion (complete with code hack) about being able to select whether tax is applied to the pre- or post- gift certificate amount, is this in CPP6 as an option?

PreZ

Can't speak for the "Wishlist" system, but I have your "Inventory Variant" working.  Also I am getting the  installed this week.

Just one other feature I just remembered might be cool.

The ability to add comments (possibly ratings too) to product pages - this would allow other users to get feedback on what to expect from products.

Obviously, the ability to hold comments until approved by a moderator, or at the very least, for a moderator to delete comments would be helpful, and possibly some keyword filters (so the comment could be auto-rejected for cursing, or whatever).

Not a necessity, but certainly an idea

Not sure if my e-mail got through, but I sent the e-mail.

Its a shame you don't have a downloadable evaluation version of CCP.  There are certain things that are disabled in the admin demo, so I can't play around with it completely.  I'm really looking forward to beta testingt CCP6, by the sound of it, its awesome.

I've been playing around with lots of carts, both open source (eg. oscommerce, interchange) and commercial ones that allow an evaluation period (best of these I've seen is x-cart).  Obviously pros and cons for each, though CCP6 sounds like it will have a lot of the stuff CCP5.1 was missing (eg. wish lists, inventory variants, etc).

Best of all, of course, is that CCP supports postgres - which is a huge selling point for me, since I don't like mysql, and don't want to have to install it

Thanks,

PreZ

Hmm i'd be much happier if it was going to be released to the public in time for the holidays.......   It'd be nice to have some of the new options, such as gift certificates, available around xmas.

Don't sweat it. Nick is very busy and he will get back to you. Besides we don't have a beta in our hands yet.
james

The top pinned message in here gives the latest dates.... We hope to have beta in our hands by 10/12 at this point...   

webmaster,10/01/2004 01:54:59 PM wrote:

One thing I do want to know, is how to become a beta tester?

Email beta@kryptronic.com with a request.  Your PostgreSQL help would be greatly appreciated.

PreZ, if you look back toward the middle of this thread, you will see where Nick responded to you about being a beta tester!