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FEATURE: New Subscription Updates

Jeremy — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:44:00 GMT

AmeriCommerce store owners can now sell Subscription Products, with automatically recurring billing, directly from their storefront.

Subscriptions Update Features:

New Automatic Subscriptions Features
- Subscriptions can automatically be created when an order is placed based on Store Settings.
- One subscription for the entire order, or a different subscription for each subscription product.
- Entire Order level subscriptions can have a default subscription renewal frequency.
- Subscriptions can be set to be automatically renewed.
- Subscriptions are automatically created based on orders from the front end or Order Edit.
- Only one Subscription per Order will be created for Entire Order level subscriptions. Editing an order will replace the subscription.
New Product Settings
- Products can be marked as Subscription products with their own frequency.
- RequireCreditCard setting on a product means the customer may only pay via credit card and a card is required even on a free product
New Subscription List View
- New columns added: SubscriptionType, IsEnabled, IsRenewalPaymentDeclined
- Added hover tooltip to view the contents of the Subscription
- View number of renewals
- OrderList Create Subscriptions – load defaults
New “My Account” Section
- New section added to display a customer’s Subscriptions
- Subscriptions listed by OrderID (Order level subscriptions) or ItemName for ProductOnly subscription.
- Edit the credit card to be used for next renewal. If editing the credit card on a “declined” renewal, the system attempts to renew again.
- Toggle Subscription Status between Enabled/Disabled.
- Full custom layout available.
Data Retention for Billing
- Will not purge CustomerPaymentMethods that are assigned to a Subscription.
New API Methods
- Trigger “Product Of The Month” type subscription fulfillments via API by creating new orders with the new product for all subscriptions based on a specific subscription item. For example, sell a product called “Fruit of the month Annual Subscription” and call this method each month with the Annual Subscription SKU and substitute the current month’s SKU such as an Orange Basket SKU, false for OnlyProcessSubscriptionsDue and false for ExtendRenewalDate.
  - public string[]Subscription_PlaceOrderFromSubscriptions(string psItemNr, string[] psItemNrsToSubstitute, bool pbOnlyProcessSubscriptionsDue, bool pbExtendRenewalDate)
  - Places and order from a selection of subscriptions. psItemNr is optional, find only subscriptions that match this ItemNr, used for Product Subscription Types (send null for none). psItemNrsToSubstitute is optional but requires psItemNr, places the new order without the Subscription Product, substituting the comma-seperated listed ItemNrs instead (sent null for none). ExtendRenewalDate will mark the subscription as renewed and extend its next renewal date by its frequency.

o Take PreOrders for eProduct items. Sell a standard non-eProduct item, then at a later date convert that product to an eProduct item and execute the following method to fulfill all orders containing the SKU. The eProduct will be emailed and show up in MyAccount as normal.

§ public string[] Order_FullfillPreOrderEproductItems(string psItemNr)

§ Modifies OrderItems for a specific ItemNr by reloading the eProductDeliveryLinkAction fiels from the original product and perform an eProduct Delivery if the OrderItem does not already have an eProductDeliveryLinkAction. Returns a list of fullfiled OrderIDs.

New Merge Codes:

Order
- ##PAYMENTDECLINEDREASON## - Order merge for displaying any response from the payment gateway as the declined reason.
Subscription
- ##SUBSCRIPTIONID##
- ##SUBSCRIPTIONTYPE## – None, EntireOrder, SubscriptionProductsOnly
- ##ORIGINALORDERDATE##
- ##SUBSCRIPTIONNAME## – OrderID: XXXX for EntireOrder type, ItemName for SubscriptionProductsOnly
- ##NEXTDUEDATE##
- ##PAYMENTMETHOD## - the Customer Payment Method used for a renewal. CardType: xxxx-0000 exp: 11/2011
- ##LASTPAYMENTSTATUS## - Success/Declined, last time the subscription renewal was attempted.
- ##ISENABLED## - Enabled/Disabled
- ##ISACTIVE## - Active/Inactive (same as is enabled, different wording)
- ###TOGGLEENABLED## - Enable/Disable - Opposite of current status as an action word. Can be passed via QueryString along with SubscriptionID to MyAccount to swap status.

My Account

Store Settings > General Tab

Product Editor > General Tab

New Theme!

ryanolson — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:33:00 GMT

We’ve just added the Health Store theme. If you are on version 2012.1.403 or higher you will have this theme available on your Add New Theme page. For a live preview you can view it here: https://themedesign.americommerce.com/default.aspx?sessionthemeid=154

UPDATE: Flyout Menus in Themes

ryanolson — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:04:00 GMT

All Base themes will now include CSS for Vertical Flyout Menus in Addition to Horizontal Dropdowns.

HOTFIX: Rule Engine Query String

ryanolson — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:02:00 GMT

Fix for null reference issue when processing the ##REFERRINGURLQUERYSTRINGPARAM## merge in rule engine actions

HOTFIX: Gift Certificate Discounts

ryanolson — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:01:00 GMT

Removed a restriction that caused gift certificate eProducts to not be considered for any discount rules.

HOTFIX: Product Cloning

ryanolson — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:16:00 GMT

Cloning a product will now also clone its custom field values.

HOTFIX: Discount Methods

ryanolson — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:14:00 GMT

When checking to see if a discount method has already been used by the customer, we will now always assume it has not been used yet if a customer is not logged in or the customer ID is not valid (customer ID <= 0). When a valid customer ID is specified it will behave normally.

HOTFIX: ExternalImaging Swatches

ryanolson — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:54:00 GMT

The Variant Swatch merge code ##VARIANTPICMATRIX[...]## will now support ExternalImaging as well as DirectReference images no longer forcing the Resizer.

If using ExternalImaging it will use the Thumb Base Reference to make the image.

This means that it may require CSS to resize the images if using either of these Photo Handling methods such as:

.varpicmax_img { width:50px; }

Because the width parameter in the merge will no longer apply since not using the image sizer.

FEATURE: Save Sort Field

ryanolson — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:52:00 GMT

Added the ability to save the sort field on the admin grid when the grid layout is saved.

In response to http://vote.americommerce.com/forums/25843-feature-ideas/suggestions/1153611-default-sort-order-control

HOTFIX: Phantom Items URL

ryanolson — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:49:00 GMT

Phantom items added to the cart will now display a link to the proper item url on the shopping cart if an item url was supplied via remote carting, otherwise the link will not be clickable (since the url will be invalid).

FEATURE: Custom Layout for the Cart Area

ryanolson — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:47:00 GMT

Added Custom Layout ability to the Cart Area of the One Page Checkout.

HOTFIX: Workflow Rule Engine

ryanolson — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:45:00 GMT

Corrected an Issue using Order Custom fields in the Rule Engine that was causing timeouts.

HOTFIX: Product Mass Editor and Inventory Editor

ryanolson — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:43:00 GMT

The product Mass Editor and Inventory Editor will now take into account Additional Categories that products belong to.

HOTFIX: Order Edit Item Link

ryanolson — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:43:00 GMT

The link to a product from the order edit screen will now open in a new window/tab.

HOTFIX: External Imaging Videos

ryanolson — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:30:00 GMT

Fixed products not showing Videos when product photo handling set to ExternalImaging

FEATURE: Grids Remember Number of Items

ryanolson — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:28:00 GMT

Adjusted Admin Grid to remember the last used Number of Items to show
per page selection via user/grid user settings. Any grid with a unique
SectionName defined will use it’s own user setting. All those with out
this defined will use a common setting. If any grids are found which
should have a unique value saved, just add the SectionName.

FEATURE: Add To Cart Message

ryanolson — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:24:00 GMT

Add to Cart Message now is importable/exportable on the Product Import/Export.

FEATURE: Print from Order Edit

ryanolson — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:22:00 GMT

This was requested by you guys. http://vote.americommerce.com/forums/25843-feature-ideas/suggestions/2560581-print-invoice

You can now Print Invoices and Packing Slips from Order Edit in addition to Order View.

FEATURE: Store Text for Quantity

ryanolson — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:54:00 GMT

Added Store Text entry for the Quantity label on the Product Details page.

FEATURE: Swatch Import/Export

ryanolson — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:52:00 GMT

Added SwatchFile and SwatchThumb columns to the Product Variant Import/Export.

HOTFIX: IE8 Eproduct download

ryanolson — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:51:00 GMT

Fixed an issue that was causing IE8 to not properly download .zip files that were sent due to gzip compression

HOTFIX: New Customer Order

ryanolson — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:48:00 GMT

Fixed a new customer issue where information could possibly be left off the record when placing an order in certain rare cases.

HOTFIX: Variant Inventory Item #s

ryanolson — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:47:00 GMT

Force variant inventory item number uniqueness when saving.

HOTFIX: PayPal Order Total

ryanolson — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:46:00 GMT

Correct order total calculation issue in the IPN handler where PayPal no longer was including the shipping amount in the mc_gross field (only used by foreign currencies)

HOTFIX: Product Pricing Import

ryanolson — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:45:00 GMT

Fixed a double quote padding issue in the product pricing import.