2009 v34 – RELEASE VERSION

The finishing touches have been put on version 5.0.34 and it is now out to the masses.  This version was very much geared to our existing and new customers getting in and using AmeriCommerce.  You will see many usability features and getting started tweaks.  New and compelling use of technologies such as AJAX, Custom Layouts and even JQuery to produce some great and seamless feature improvements.  We really want to continue focusing on our existing workflows going into the next release and tightening them up even more for mass order management because so many of our customers have grown so much since switching to us and are now processing hundreds and thousands of orders per day and need these improvements.  And of course a great new multi-dimensional product reviews feature as promised!

Take a look at some of the great new features and their uses in our latest version.  And as always the latest version includes all hotfixes and hotfeatures of all previous versions, you only move forward with AmeriCommerce, never back!

• New File System Browser & Selector
  • Manage your files right from the storefront, doubles as a selector too when choosing files from anywhere in the application.
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• New Site Explorer & Content Editor
  • Completely AJAX enabled for fast changes and no more postbacks
  • Edit links, link groups and pages from one easy system
  • Manage & build your own custom merges for sharing content across pages and themes
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• New Category Selector used across application
  • Search and find categories quickly, no more dropdowns containing thousands of categories in a big store.
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• New Content Page & Link Selectors used across application
  • Uses our new popups to search across the application by ID, name, title, content and more!
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• Custom Layout Framework
  • Take CONTROL of your category and product page layouts as well as most front end pages.  You move merges around and AmeriCommerce will evaluate the content into those spots.  No more being locked into ‘standard’ looks…
  • Add new widgets and controls, reviews, star controls, image zoom popups from category pages, quick product info popups and more by just changing the basic layout of those pages.  And better yet, never be broken/orphaned from new releases of the AmeriCommerce system!
  • Remove all unused features, CSS classes and other noise from your implementation to streamline your HTML and make keyword relevance that much higher.
  • Control each area of the page, including repeated elements like in a category product listing, the paging controls, sub category area and more.  basically each ‘area’ of the page has custom layout capabilities.
  • Put in your own CSS classes and styling to completely override our stock classes.
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• Global Site Template Now Using Custom Layout (using global theme settings page)
  • Empowers drastically different websites and themes.  Complete control over your layout, xhtml compliance and more.
  • Add to body tags, manage site header and other global areas.
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• Snapin Merges Now Supported
  • Can now place snapins anywhere on the page or theme where you want it rendered.  Put a snapin on a page and move it anywhere you want.
  • Allows for moving search box snapins, mailing list, and every snapin types.
  • Especially powerful if custom layout is also available on the snapin too, which means you get complete layout power and the power of the snapin too.
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• 50+ New button themes added
  • Pick from many different formats, pick the ones you like best for your theme.
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• New snapin: “Also Purchased Items” snapin (customers who bought this/these items also bought these items). 
  • On the product page it will show results for the current product
  • Anywhere else it will use the items that are currently in your cart.
  • Will always show the most popular items bought along with the item(s) that you are viewing/are in your cart instead of random items.
  • Also properly obeys active catalog settings. It will NOT show the item you are looking at or the items that are already in your cart, just items that were ordered with those items.
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• Setup Wizard Usability Changes
• Quick Product Entry Wizard Usability Changes
  • New file browser popups applied, new defaults, warehouse selection, quick help and more.
  • Easier entry of new categories and selecting existing ones so you dont have to leave page.
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• New Google Checkout Settings Page
  • Store specific settings and overrides specific to all of Google Checkout’s features and tracking.
  • Added support for Google Checkout logging as well so all packets can be inspected to and from AmeriCommerce
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• New analytics rules actions and filters to further fragment and control your traffic
  • The analytics module lets you control your traffic, redirect them to other pages and log them how you need them logged, these new additions give you power of AdCode setting and Affiliate setting on your sessions.
  • SetAdCode and SetAffiliate Actions Added along with some new analytics merges
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• New paging controls for front end pages allowing setting page number and selecting other paging options
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• Many New Store Text Areas Supported, Store text thumbnails also added to help identify usage
  • Too many to list, but now you can manage them all easier and filter them via AJAX, even see thumbnails of where they are used.
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• New Snapin: Custom Repeater for Link Groups
  • Can be used for tab based navigations, active tab merge used to keep it highlighted, styles for the attached test theme taken directly from styleshout.com
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• New Snapin: Custom Repeater for Categories
  • Can be used to completely take control of the category list and style it as an unordered list (UL) in CSS or do whatever needed.
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• Javascript Based Search Box for complete design control
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• $0 Order Support
  • Can send in order for $0 when setup, which can be useful for free products, catalogs, giveaways, etc.
• Added printable version of the Shopping Cart
  • Useful for printing the items in the shopping cart and having control over it in the theme separate from the shopping cart itself.  This allows you to put disclaimers and theme it completely differently and in a more printer friendly way.
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• View order page refreshed/redesigned
  • Designed to look more like the administration console, all separate save buttons consolidated under 1 single save button for easy usage.
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• Added GeoIP to View Order page
  • Will bring up the geographic information and map it on a Google Map.
• Display of existing fields that display who entered, last edited by and timestamps on orders

This version also includes all of the hotfixes and small tweaks that are listed in the release history for this version alongside any changes made to any older versions.