What's New

Version 6.0 updated March 2017 adds many new features including:

  • Payment: Updated iTransact, First Data Global Gateway, PSiGate, SecurePay, Ingenico (Ogone), Virtual Merchant and Elavon.
  • Shipping: Updated USPS tracking API to V2
  • Updated StoreAdmin, samples and documentation

Version 6.0 updated August 2016 adds many new features including:

  • Payment Support sending credit card information directly from client's browser to Authorize.NET or Stripe. This method complies with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).
  • Mail: Support STARTTLS connection for port 587
  • Updated StoreAdmin, samples and documentation

Version 6.0 updated July 2015 adds many new features including:

  • Shipping: New USPS International Api version 2 support
  • Shipping: EasyPost support for getting rates / Tracking / labels for all carriers
  • Updated StoreAdmin, samples and documentation

Version 5.1 updated May 2015 adds many new features including:

  • Location: Support phone number lookup (PhoneToCode)
  • StoreAdmin->Location: Support US sales tax by zip codes
  • Updated StoreAdmin, samples and documentation

Version 5.1 updated January 2015 adds many new features including:

  • Payment: Support First Data Global Gateway e4
  • Shipping: Support ShipTime for UPS and FedEx, and template for DisplayRate
  • Database: Support Sql server database in Azure and MS Access *.accdb
  • New CustomerDetails and CalculateShipping user controls
  • Updated StoreAdmin, samples and documentation!

Version 5.1 released October 2014 adds many new features including:

  • Payment: Authorize.net Customer Information Managemenet (CIM)
  • Payment: Process card store, addition, management seamlessly without storing cards locally.
  • Support company property for billing and shipping address
  • Updated samples and documentation.

Version 5.0 released December 2013 adds many new features including:

  • Shipping: UPS now supported with rating and tracking.
  • Shipping: USPS return handling updated.
  • Payment: Google checkout removed (closed down by Google)
  • New License Agreement template before completing an order for softgoods stores.

Version 4.8 Update released September 2013 adds many new features including:

  • Shipping: Updated DHL rate and tracking.
  • Fraud score: Enhanced Fraud score calculation and adding FreeEmails property for overwriting default free emails.
  •  Enhanced store front display in mobile and tablets.
  •  Fixed uploading items and categories images in IE 10.

Version 4.8 Update released March 2013 adds many new features including:

  • Search enhancement: Support sub-Items search with different criteria same as regular items.
  •  Sub-Items: Show subItems stock in Inventory report.
  •  Customer Invoice: New user control with html and Pdf print versions.
  •  Payment: New "TransFirst" gateway support has been added.
  • Payment: Support overriding address for PayPal payment.

Version 4.8 Update released December 2012 adds many new features including:

  • Support adding existing options to the items via StoreAdmin->Catalog->Item details-> options tab.
  • DisplayCatalog: New user control with more options and easy configuration.
  • Payment: New "Stripe" gateway support has been added.
  • Payment: Supporting recurring billing for PaymentTechOrbital, Authorize.NET , GlobalPayments, LinkPoint, Stripe and PayFlowPro.

Version 4.8 Update released September 2012 adds many new features including:

  • Supporting Items cloning in StoreAdmin-> Catalog -> Item Details
  • PDF Report: You can now create PDF reports with embedded charts via StoreAdmin -> Report -> Dashboard
  • DisplayCatalog: Show related and suggested items for each item in your store’s front-end catalog
  • Payment: New "PayPal Advanced" gateway support has been added
  • Payment: Paymentech orbital and Authorize.net account verification support (zero dollar authorization)

Version 4.8 released July 2012 adds many new features including:

  • Email body format configuration (Text or html) via StoreAdmin->Settings->Email section.
  • Supporting items with more than one version using subItem: eBook, Paper cover, Hard cover
  • FedEx shipping: support Account rate, Smart Post and home delivery services.
  • PDF Invoice: Creating a printable order invoice in PDF format. See CustomerInovicePdf user control.
  • Item Review API with user controls for adding a review, displaying all reviews for an item or customer.
  • Managing Reviews via StoreAdmin->Catalog->Reviews
  • MiniCartLink: Provide a mini cart with a link to checkout or catalog. See ItemControls\MiniCartLink.ascx

Version 4.7 released March 2012 adds many new features including:

  • Shipping: New USPS API support and package type settings.
  • Payment: New First Data Global Gateway Connect 2.0 method support including bypass form.
  • Language: Supports adding custom name/value strings. See StoreAdmin->Settings->Language tab, "Add New String" button.
  • Bundle: New user controls for mini cart, suggested and related items and customer also bought items.
  • Bundle: New GridView catalog user control with the same skin as DisplayCart user control.
  • Customer admin new design with multiple skin selections.
  • Supplier item management added to the backend administration interface. See StoreAdmin->Inventory->Order Items section.
  • DisplayCart: Enhanced user control with Header and footer settings for simplified customization and new column sorting support.
  • AddItems: Demonstrates different ways for adding items to cart for custom integration. See DisplayCatalogSamples/AddItems.aspx
  • Skin Templates: A set of skin templates has been added to help with other custom areas of your store design. See the Templates folder.
  • GlobalPayments: Updated certification for different transaction types including partial payments.
  • Profit Report: New item cost enables item and customer based profit reports. See StoreAdmin->Reports->Profit
  • Billing: Enhanced credit card handling by displaying accepted credit cards images and customer's credit card type image as the number is provided.
  • Payment: Supports multiple payment providers at the same time alongside traditional gateways and processors including PayPal, PayPalExpress, Amazon and GoogleCheckout.

Version 4.6 released February 2011 adds many new features including:

  • New design with multiple skin selections.
  • Support for multiple admin users created by the master admin account. See StoreAdmin->Settings->AdminUsers for details
  • ActivityLogs report. See StoreAdmin->Settings->ActivityLogs section.
  • Item inventory reporting. StoreAdmin->Inventory->Report.

Version 4.5 released November 2010 adds many new features including:

  • Ad Campaigns and customer tracking system: Provides comprehensive information detailing where sales and store visitors are coming from.
  • Referrer's report: Provides different charts and web based reports for sales, orders, items and visits by referrer, predefined querystring value and domain.
  • Enhance grids control: extended language string support to cover grid settings and support column sorting.
  • DisplayCart: Added estimate shipping features and calculation to help customer determine shipping costs prior to checkout.
  • Vital native processing: Updated certification for different transaction types including partial payments.

Version 4.4 released October 2010 adds many new features including:

  • Imgnav: An image navigation control which allows for intuitive browsing of large images at multiple zoom levels. Includes an automated administration system for seamless upload and just-in-time image processing. For more information, follow then "ImgNav Zoomer Sample" link in the bundle's first page.
  • Language System:Extended to cover the StoreAdmin section in addition to the sample store frontend.
  • Visual studio web application compatibility enhancements. Now you can convert the sample store to a Web Application in a few clicks.

Version 4.3 released September 2010 adds many new features including:

  • Language System: All text values used by the bundle can be now customized from the store admin language GUI for simple internationalization. See StoreAdmin->Settings->Language tab to customize string values or create new language files.
  • Customer passwords now support unique hashes. As always, passwords strings are not stored and the only person who knows a password is the customer. Password updates are completed by sending a temp password to the customer's email which they can use to reset the password to a value of their choice.
  • Automatic AJAX detection and support for different framework versions and the GUI web controls.
  • Orders: Added new search options including ReferenceID.

Version 4.2 released July 2010 adds many new features including:

  • Currency: Displays all the currency values based on store currency setting or customer.Currency.
  • Multiple images: Supports displaying multiple images for a single item in store catalog.
  • Checkout: Provide an option to checkout as guest for registered or unregistered customers. Evaluate customers' registration status as soon as they entered their emails.
  • Store Stock handling: Provide an option to enable or disable stock handling easily. See How To...
  • Price group: Load and displays different price for an item based on the customer.Group.
  • Rotator: Rotate items with 4 options: SmoothScroll, SlideShow, ContentScroll and RandomSlide.
  • MiniCart: Provide a mini cart for quick review.

Version 4.1 released April 2010 adds many new features including:

  • Payment: Supports FirstData, Elavon, SagePay, QuickBooks, RBS WorldPay, PayPalPro 3D Secure Authentication and other enhancements.
  • Shipping: Supports International and Freight for FedEx.
  • DisplayCart: Supports AJAX for updating coupons and taxes when changing an item's quantity or options.
  • Store Catalog: Supports AJAX for displaying item's price based on option's selection.
  • StoreAdmin Catalog: Supports changing item's category and orders through store admin UI.
  • StoreAdmin: Supports changing "StoreAdmin" folder's name to any arbitrary name with full functionality.
  • dotnetButtonSamples: A complete set of samples for generating buttons using the .netBUTTON add-on.
  • Tracking: Saves and displays customer's tracking information (Referrer, Inbound querystring and IP address)