Published on 11 August 2011

ppSD2 v1.5.3 has been released and contains a number of highly requests features. On top of the new features, a number of bugs have been solved.

Don't forget to request features and report bugs from the Collaborative Programming section of our website!

New Features

The primary focus of this update was on improving the shopping cart.

Shopping Cart Features

• Packages: Ability to add multiple products to the cart at once.
• Dependencies: Ability to force the program to add products to the cart in groups; require field submissions with specific product; or require that one product be in a cart to purchase another.
• Attribute Products: Denote products as "Attribute products" allowing them to appear on the primary product's page rather than in the cart; limit whether multiple or only one attribute product can be added with the primary product.
• Max Quantity: Limit the maximum quantity of any product that can be in the cart at once.
• Billing Information: Program auto-detects billing information on checkout page if user registering. This reduces the need to re-enter information.
• Session Handling: Improved handling of sessions.
• Tax Classes: Charging tax is much more versatile now, with each product being able to fall into a specific tax class.
• Terms and Conditions before checking out from the cart.
• Ability to alter the pricing wording for subscription products (Example: $10/month)
• Subscriptions: Ability to list all active subscriptions for a product.

Other Features

• Uploads: Allow users to upload files through their user control panel.
• User Management: Ability to create "field sets" on the user management screen for logical grouping of fields. This also applies to the member control panel update screen.
• Affiliates: Ability to show all due payments before they are due.
• Registration Code Issuing: Changed the registration code issuing screen for clarity.

Module Integrations

• Banana Dance
• TikiWiki
• TYPO3
• Mailchimp
• SugarCRM
• Joomla (integration improved)

Bugs Fixed

High Level Fixes

• Security: Potential issues with cross-site scripting vulnerabilities solved.

Low Level Fixes

• Registration: Password strength checking and password matching during registration fixed.
• Trial products: Correct pricing shows in billing logs at initial purchase.
• Permissions: Some emailing permissions issues solved.
• Notes: Issues with employees not being able to add notes due to permissions solved.
• Cart: Partial refunds still appear in the billing logs.

Updating

Special Update Considerations

A number of new templates have been added in this version. You will need to restore those templates from "SETTINGS > HTML TEMPLATES". Do not restore all templates, only the new ones:

• Product View: Attribute Product Entry
• Product View: Attribute Product Description Panel
• Update Tax Region
• Cart: Terms and Conditions
• Post Purchase Dependency Form: Complete
• User CP: Uploads
• Post Purchase Dependency Form

Tax

If you are currently charging tax without your cart, you will need to create new tax classes and assign each product an individual tax class.

Tax classes can be created from "SETTINGS > Payment Gateways".

Last updated on 12 August 2011 11:31am