Most of our customers are already on this version, it’s primarily a fast new version containing fixes and a few smaller new features.  During this release we spent most of this time working on the 2010 v1 release which will have some exciting stuff!  Here’s a recap of the highlights.  As usual check out the “Ongoing Progress & Fixes” blog for the release to know every last detail included!

• FEATURE: By popular demand, You can now quickly switch THEMES and STORES from the upper right side of the screen via a drop down menu.
  • This saves valuable clicks and menu time when you need to work on the same screen but under multiple stores or multiple themes.
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• FEATURE: Cleaned up the new validation message framework for the admin console and added more robust validation to the Order Edit page.
  • Additionally, we can now show a “Saved successfully” message across a redirect such as “Save & Return”
  • Which, once the page loads next time around, renders like this:
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• FEATURE: Updated key payment integrations
  • Support added for many new and updated gateways
  • Including our new Canadian/US/UK Payment Partner:  BeanStream
  • Sign up here for great rates: https://payments.beanstream.com/partners/application.asp?cPartner=americommerce
• FEATURE: Includes support for PayPal’s latest API versions
  • Entire supported payment method and gateway list is here: http://www.americommerce.com/kb/afmviewfaq.aspx?faqid=32
• FEATURE: Field by Field Highlighting on Errors
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• FEATURE: New analytics rules that remove adcode and affiliate code from the URL but still gives credit to these visits
  • This keeps google only indexing your base URL giving you full pagerank and also keeps you from getting an affiliate URL indexed in a search engine, giving false credit to the affiliate for the sale.
• FEATURE: New merge codes and performance and enhancements to existing ones