Kryptronic Software Support Forum

From scienceman:

>I was just curious.... are you the founder of this program and
>did you write the initial code / make most of the modifications.
>If not, how large a group of people do you work with? Is this
>your sole profession, or something you do on the side?

Yes, I am the founder/owner of Kryptronic and I have been the sole developer of CCP since it's birth in late 1999. 

From PinkPanther:

>Not Nick here - but I read this about the company... IMO, they
>are pros and I am thrilled to have found this company and
>Clickcartpro!

Thanks.  That article is ancient history.  Kryptronic owns and runs CCP, and it's all mine.

From Todd:

>I think that article is pretty out of date... most of the sites
>listed in it go to either Kryptronic.com or CCP.com.
>Nevertheless... the praise is well deserved!

Yes sir.  Definitely ancient history.  Today CCP is supported by myself, our beta testers, this great community, and a number of partner firms like eDentity Media and Web Marketing Services as well as a large number of great hosts like Hosttec.net and Velocity Server.  It's a joint effort with a sole developer, I suppose. 

Does that answer the questions?  BTW: It looks like Tuesday will be the day for tiki.  I got terribly sick the past two days and couldn't really do much on it.

___________________________

Nick Hendler
Webmaster, Kryptronic, Inc.

>BTW: It looks like Tuesday will be the day for tiki.  I got >terribly sick the past two days and couldn't really do much
>on it.

Take care of yourself, we will wait  

Kay

Peachtree exports. Cool :7

Glad to hear your feeling better Nick... and I must say... getting some insight on the history of ccp was very interesting.

It seems many people have found a real solution for their ecommerce businesses in CCP.  I also have found the solution... except I have no product to sell with it!  Kind of a bummer!

So I guess my cozy little nook in the world of CCP is helping others get their stores online.  I am hopeful though that someday I will be able to offer some product that will sell like hotcakes... until then...

Maybe I could sell sprockets. 

>Thanks.  To answer Joe, I
>just turned 30 in May.

Hey congratulations, Surfer Dude! May you catch
many more great waves...
> Last night as my
>fever was breaking I wrapped
>up the following:

Traditionally shamanic visions accompany fevers... is this the secret to your cart design genius? :-)

>
>(1) Removed the Print Order Invoice
>function from admin and added
>an Invoice link to the
>Manage Orders screen.  Now
>you edit/delete/print orders from the
>same screen.

Ohmigod thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou!

>
>(2) Switched the order of the
>Manage Orders screen to show
>the most recent orders first
>in the list.

Ohmigod thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou!

>>
>(4) Finalized the Quickbooks and Peachtree
>accounting software exports.

TOE-TUH-LEE AWESOME!!!
>
>Much more to come as I
>get good news back from
>the testers...
>
>___________________________
>
>Nick Hendler
>Webmaster, Kryptronic, Inc.

EX-TUH-REEEEMLY KEWEL!

Way to go Nick... Lookin REAL good!

Thanks so much for staying right on top of your product, and for being so responsive to feedback and suggestions from your user base (THE secret to success IMHO).

Here's to continued success for us all!
Jack

A new date for tiki (surprise surprise surprise). We're looking at the 24th or earlier - but the site says the 24th on the support schedule page.
I've got less than 10 functions that need coding finalization and beta testing, and the manual and upgrade scripting still need some work. We're very close.

Today a few cool things were added:

(1) Expanded discount functionality to allow admin to include/exclude certain products from discounts.

(2) Expanded discount functionality to decline unused discount balances (instead of just expiring them).

(3) Order numbers can be either a datestamp, epoch seconds or a random number all either prefixed by the order prefix, or not. Admin's choice.

(4) EU VAT & Canadian PST Permit logic was implemented.

(5) Larger images popups were added to the product detail pages to allow for three levels of images: thumbnail on category page, detail on product detail page, and extra large image in a popup off the product detail page. Admin can turn popups on/off for each product.

(6) Only ship to billing address function added.

(7) This one was for Jack - For checkouts where you're using a full SSL checkout (which is also an option in tiki) if you're collecting the credit card number, it's done on the same page as the order review. That saves one page - faster checkout!

As always, a few smaller fixes and additions were made as well.

___________________________

Nick Hendler
Webmaster, Kryptronic, Inc.

It seems like a lifetime to wait for the solution to most of my problems. I am extremely excited at all of the improvements. 

The only improvement that I haven't seen is the images directory running in SSL?

As you suggested I have talked to other CCP 5 users and they are having the same problems I am.

With the built-in encryption, I don't see any need of using my SSL. Especially if I can't get it to work.

keyman

I must say it will be worth the wait.  Yes there are a lot of nice enhancements, and new features in 5.1, Yes it is taking longer than everyone would like.  However

1) We want it to be complete on release don't we?
2) bug free would be nice wouldn't it? 

I think the answers to all of this is YES! 

I'm going to release a couple things that might help everyone when it IS released.  If this has been said I'm sorry to duplicate it, however it is one piece of important information.  In Tiki there is new UPS Online tools and FedEx tools.  However they require some previously not needed modules on the server.  You may want to run helper.cgi and see if you have all of them, and if not ask your ISP to get them isntalled so you will be good to go when it is released! 

The UPS OnLine® Tools and FedEx DirectConnect methods require SSL connections, therefore the installation of non-standard Perl modules is required. The modules that need to be installed by the administrator of the webserver are: Crypt::SSLeay, HTML::Parser, HTML::Tagset, IO::Socket::SSL, libnet, libwww-perl, MIME::Base64, Net_SSLeay and URI. If you attempt to set up a connection with or otherwise use UPS OnLine® Tools or FedEx DirectConnect and these modules are not installed, an error message will be presented.

So, If you are jumping to use Tiki and all of it's functions, and you really want to use one of these new features, you need to make sure the above stuff is installed. 

Nick, I know we are not supposed to devulge stuff, but I believe these features have been talked about, so I thought I'd give everyone a chance to make sure their server has the needed modules ahead of time.  

Will
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>Today a few cool things were
>added:

>(7) This one was for Jack
>- For checkouts where you're
>using a full SSL checkout
>(which is also an option
>in tiki) if you're collecting
>the credit card number, it's
>done on the same page
>as the order review. That
>saves one page - faster
>checkout!

Thanks very much Nick for being so responsive to your users!

Any time you can give us the option to shave off another page, we are getting a step closer to more $ale$... :-)

>As always, a few smaller fixes
>and additions were made as
>well.

You may have addressed this, but just in case not:

Can you pls make it easy to change the printable invoice format to PORTRAIT (i.e., the default printer setting)?

I'm getting pretty burned out on having to manually change the printer orientation every time I print an invoice.

Thanks Nick... Looks like this update is gonna be a real whopper!

Wishin you the Seventh Wave,
JJ

O.K. Looks like everyone in the forum are giving their bright ideas, so I don't want to stay behind, here is mine.

It would be a great feature if when adding a product to the cart:

1. If product was not in stock then the cart would take you in to payment page where you could only pay by off line processing and it  would read something like "item you requested is not in stock it will take x days to arrive in our store and we will ship the item immediately as soon as we recieve it.
You will only be charged at the time of shipment, If you wish to proceed please enter your CC details below if not try simular item in x categories.

2. If the product is in stock then it would take the customer directly to an online processing which would be charged immediately.

This would allow the merchant to sell even the products that is not in stock with the customers consent while giving the customer good service.

At the moment the merchant can only sell a product that he/she has in stock, assuming he uses the stock control feature of the cart.

Regards, Joey.

Wait a second... just one more feature request.

I would like CCP to do my dishes and possibly wash my car.  Now... I know this probably won't make the 5.1 version... but maybe V 6.0?

I just think a shopping cart should be able to do that.  Sure would make my life easier.

Sorry for the weird off-the-topic humor.... I have had a bit too much caffiene today!

LOL!  Shopping Cart, should do your shopping for you.  I like that. 

Will
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