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i-BikeShop System Upgrades & Updates

This page details the last 40 system upgrades and updates that have taken place to the iBS system.

All new features added will be listed, plus any system modifications.
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Shopping Cart

updated 2009-09-11 01:15:50
Added options for Trade to Trade EC Sales with VAT Number collection requirements. VAT Exempt orders

Order Admin

updated 2009-08-19 23:33:30
Order admin has been upgraded to allow the editing of ordered products:

VOID an item in an order to remove it: use this where a customer rings to change their mind.

UNVOID an item you have previously VOIDED to reinstate it in an order.

CLONE an order item: use this method where you need to alter the ordered quantity OR the price of an item. The original item will be auto-voided, the clone taking its place.

Add any number of items from the site by using the public shopping basket and then "converting" the basket into an order.

Add a single item "freehand": use this to add an item which does not exist in the website OR where you are entering a special discretionary comment or discount or similar. The price for this "item" may be positive OR negative.

Change the carriage levvied for the order, either by manually typing in a value OR by allowing the system to auto-calculate based on the revised order items. You may also alter the stored carriage/delivery region.

General System

updated 2009-08-12 02:20:57
Added user admin to CMS to allow multiple access users, on two permission levels. PRIMARY users have access to all admin systems, LIMITED users have access to most admin systems.

Product Editor

updated 2009-07-28 14:26:45
Added the option to set a default product display sorting order on a category specific basis.

Data Importer

updated 2009-07-06 22:21:30
The data importer has beeen amended to impose a lock when the system is run. This is to prevent multiple users from inadvertently importing or exporting at the same time.

If you see the lock, you need to check who is running an import or export before clearing the lock manually.

General System

updated 2009-07-06 22:20:11
I have amended Google Base and Google Adwords tracking to now exclude orders which you subsequently decline.

Please note, this may affect the reported figures.

General System

updated 2009-07-06 17:31:37
I have amended the Google Base (Froogle) tracking reporting so it now removes any declined orders from it's reporting.

Shopping Cart

updated 2009-06-26 01:35:08
11 automated sales promotion types added to product editor.

Buy One Get One Free (The BOGOF!)
Buy Two Get One Free
Buy One Get One 1/2 Price
Multi-Buy Discounts
Link Saves (Buy two related products to save x% or £x.xx)
Value Linked Discount (x% value of item X in other free goods) (CATEGORY Based)
Value Linked Discount (x% value of item X in other free goods) (PRODUCT Specific)
Reward Discount (£x.xx in other free goods) (CATEGORY Based)
Reward Discount (£x.xx in other free goods) (PRODUCT Specific)
Free Delivery (Item Only) (Edit System Icon)
Free Delivery (Complete Order) (Edit System Icon)

Each with customisable templates.

Data Importer

updated 2009-06-26 01:32:48
Product Condition field added to data import / export tools.

Product Editor

updated 2009-06-26 01:31:19
New product condition field added to meet the revised Google Base feed requirements

Google Base (Froogle)

updated 2009-06-26 01:30:41
Google Base Feed updated to include new required product condition field.

Shopping Cart

updated 2009-06-26 01:23:44
Added a new admin option to create a minimum order value if required. Message shown to customers who do not fulfil the minimum order is customisable.

General System

updated 2009-06-26 01:21:21
Order Admin Order search extended to allow keyword searching against all name and address data fields.

General System

updated 2009-06-26 01:20:09
Order Admin
Three new order status settings have been added:

Awaiting Payment
Awaiting Despatch
Goods need ordering

General System

updated 2009-06-26 01:19:19
Fraud Recorder
The fraud recorder has been extended to allow the entry of wildcard email addresses.

Each recorded data field is matched now against both customer and delivery data regardless of whether entered as customer or delivery data..

Shopping Cart

updated 2009-06-26 01:15:41
Added options to alter labels and descriptions for checkout methods.

Shopping Cart

updated 2009-04-27 14:08:30
Checkout Option labels can now be edited within the back office.

Shopping Cart

updated 2009-03-09 00:56:30
Fraudulent transactions are the worth nightmare of any online retailer. To try to help, a new fraud checker has been added into the order admin system which cross references order details against data previously recorded after being identified as fraudulent.

Field check parameters are:
Customer Name
Customer Email
Telephone Number (Landline and normal)
Address fields (A1, A2, A3 City County)
Postcode
Delivery FAO name
Delivery address (A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, City County)
Delivery Postcode
Delivery Telephone
Customer IP address

The fraud panel appears at the bottom of each view order screen, inside the "Security Entries:" box...
Clicking "Show Anti-Fraud Recorder" reveals the system panel.

Once the system panel is revealed, it will contain (prefilled) the 10 fraud data fields which relevant ones are ticked/checked to record them as fraudulent transaction filters.

Where an order is viewed that has data matching previously recorded fraud data, this fact will be highlighted at the top of the order, along with the data field names which was matched.

Matches against Email addresses, Telephone numbers, postcodes and IP addresses are classed as HIGH RISK
Matches against names and addresses (excluding postcode) are classed as medium risk

Intro Editor

updated 2008-12-13 00:44:46
Homepage editing facilites have been expanded to introduce a second free text panel and 6 page highlights, each of which adopts a uniform "block" appearance using a heading and free text. These can be used to deploay ANY form of content, whether it be ordinary unformatted text or complete HTML, YouTube/Vimeo type videos or other embedded content.

A new feature has also been deployed which enabled admin to select the exact order in which the 8 homepage elements will appear.

Additionally, admin options to deploy META description and META keywords tags have been deployed into the homepage and static pages editors.

Products

updated 2008-11-04 02:59:09
We have just completed two significant modifications of the product admin system.

The first modification is a standardisation of the product lists and editing options when you edit by Brand or Category/Subcategory AND the list of search results when searching by SKU code. Primarily, the changes affect the SKU search screen, in which you can now perform all the global modifications previously only available via Brand or Category/Subcategory route product editing.

We have also added the cost price as an editiable into the editor global modification control panels.

The second significant upgrade is the addition of the option to export the complete data for ANY product selection from the product editor screens... including the SKU search tool. This exported data can then be worked on outside your site and re-imported using the data importing tools. Find the data export option in the Global Modification Control Panel (select EXPORT DATA from the drop down options), and don't forget to select the products you want to export!

General System

updated 2008-09-03 14:52:32
Bandwidth Allocations
Monthly bandwidth allocations have just been doubled from 5GB per month to 10GB

Shopping Cart

updated 2008-07-25 13:32:44
Order Administration
Editing order details has now been extended to enable the editing of both the Order comments and Delivery comments left by the customer.

Shopping Cart

updated 2008-07-23 01:48:30
Order Administration
The internal order search options have been amended to add extra search methods to help locate orders.

It is now possible to search for an order based on any one or more of the following:

Customer Name
Customer Email
Customer Telephone
Order Reference
Order Date
Ordered Item SKU
Ordered Item Web ID (***NEW***)
Item Keywords (***NEW***)

Limiting results to orders which are:
ALL ORDERS
NEW
ACCEPTED
AWAITING STOCK
AWAITING CUSTOMER RESPONSE
BACKORDERED
COMPLETED
DECLINED
PENDING RETURN

Shopping Cart

updated 2008-07-23 01:26:50
Order administration
Within order admin it is now possible to edit all customer details, including (where enabled in ecommerce settings) the delivery address details.

This is potentially useful where a customer has mistyped details and the invoice needs to be corrected.

Shopping Cart

updated 2008-07-06 00:56:35
Inidividual shipping countries/regions can now be enabled and disabled without needing to delete them permanently and recreate at a later date.

Products

updated 2008-07-06 00:21:35
Google Base (Froogle)
The option to auto FTP your Google Base feed file over to Google has now been added. Previously, Google Base files needed to be manually uploaded, either via a Google account or via the optional FTP account.

This option requires registering the feed with Google AND requesting an FTP access account

Shopping Cart

updated 2008-06-18 01:42:25
Delivery countries has been upgraded to allow a notes/message field for each selectable shipping region.

This message (if it holds a value) is displayed if a shopper selects the country/region at the basket review screen.

Shopping Cart

updated 2008-04-22 03:00:13
Order admin:

The internal order search options have been updated.

The search panel for orders has been added to the order admin menu.

When searching orders, where only a single matching order is identified, it will be loaded automatically.

It is also now possible to search for an order based on an ordered item SKU code. Example of usage would be a part arriving in-store which has been ordered for a customer who ordered online: search for the SKU code and the relevant order(s) should be returned. The SKU can be limited to just a check on SKU1 or it defaults to both SKU1 and SKU2.

Searching by order dates has also been amended. You can now have the results include all orders from the specified date to present.

Products

updated 2008-03-18 10:50:54
Following a request, a new field has been inserted into the product system.

This field is PRIVATE and its contents can only be seen in the back office... ie it is NOT a public field
How you might choose to use this field depends, but the requestor wanted a way of leaving additional supplier part numbers or pricing detail such that the information could remain private.

To access the new field, it appears at the bottom of the product editor, only in full product editing mode.

General System

updated 2008-01-17 17:27:59
Google Sitemaps
We have been watching the situation with Google Sitemaps for some time, waiting to see if there was any negative impact to submitting your site to Google in this way.

We have long held that sites should never be submitted to search engines directly, since there was some evidence that sites could be penalised for doing so. Google far prefers to find your site for itself rather than having to be told of it's existence.

We still recommend that you wait for google to find your site, but most of the time, this has already happened by the time a new site launches since we create links to all sites from the main i-BikeShop system site.

Getting your pages listed in Google can take a number of months and it is possible that the Google sitemap system might speed up this process, even if it will not affect where your site appears in the results
We have just deployed a valid dynamic Google Sitemap into every site. To get Google to use it you access the NEW Google Sitemap Submission system and follow the instructions. If you already have a Google account, because you use Froogle or similar, you should get going faster, but if necessary, set up a Google account and follow the [simple] instructions.

Once you've registered you, your site and the feed with Google, resubmitting the feed is as simple as accessing the Submit Google Sitemap system once you've finished big editing sessions... and your new pages will be automatically submitted for spidering.

Shopping Cart

updated 2008-01-15 18:47:31
Checkout Feedback
It is now possible to ask site visitors how they found the site [or a similar question] as they pass through the checkout system.

Each site can have a specific question to ask AND supply the answers that the visitors can choose from.

Suitable questions might be "How did you find our website?" or similar.

Suitable answers might be
Google
Yahoo
Other Search Engine
What MTB advert
Cycling Weekly advert
etc etc

The list generates a set of selectors and it is also possible to choose whether to add a "Other" option with an open text field.

Blocks

updated 2007-12-07 00:48:44
NEW Search Block

Up to present, the internal site search engine has only been available within the product areas of the sites.

This is historical since updates and upgrades to the system may have left sites which had the search engine built into their template out of the upgrade tree.

Whilst it has been an option to turn off the product area based search form, it could only occur if the form was manually provided by alternative means, ie by either making a custom block OR by having the search form embedded into the site template.

We have just added an automated block to take care of this such that it is now possible to have the search form displayed wherever blocks are used/displayed.

General System

updated 2007-12-07 00:45:11
Ecommerce Button Labels

I have just completed upgrading the shopping cart system to allow you to control the text that appears on two of the buttons used in the Cart Review page.

RE-CALCULATE
is used on the button prompting your visitor to update/recalculate their shopping cart when they alter quantities, change delivery regions, select carriage extras, apply vouchers etc.


SELECT OPTION
appears when your visitor has selected a product where options (variants) exist, but where they have not made a choise from the option selections. Your customer cannot progress through the order system UNTIL they have made a selection.

Both of the above snippets of text can now be edited/updated by you through the Ecommerce settings screen and are listed as Re-Calculate Button Text and Select Product Option Button text respectively. They are currently set to RE-CALCULATE and SELECT OPTION.

Shopping Cart

updated 2007-11-29 01:14:28
Vouchers
The vouchers system has been upgraded to allow % based vouchers to be applied to restricted brands in addition to restricted Categories.

Products

updated 2007-11-27 23:06:49
Product Editing Enhansement
The option to update the Product Alert field en-masse by either Brand or Subcategory has been added.

Products

updated 2007-10-23 01:01:52
Internal Template Upgrades: Upgrade #2
The pricing Matrix template has now been removed from the scripting layer and resides in configuration files. These templates have been deployed so as to be customisable on a per-site basis as required. This change has been deployed as hard configuration and can not be adjusted via the back office of a site.

Products

updated 2007-10-23 00:56:23
BUG FIXES
Sorting Anomoly Cured
An issue whereby products which were marked as offers remained in the order dictated by their normal selling price, and a combined anomoly caused by an offer product having no set selling price has now been resolved.

A hidden field in the database carries a value for actualPrice which now forms the core of any sorting patterns.

**Current Offer** tag anomoly cured
Another anomoly, whereby products with a zero offer price but with an offer status set would be displayed in some listings as current offers has also been resolved.

General System

updated 2007-10-18 22:33:49
Commencement of internal template upgrades.

Presently, all system generated pages are defined by the same template across all iBS sites. We have recently commenced the restructuring of these intrenal templates to allow greater customisation across individual sites. Work will continue to centralise the templates into configuration files allowing even greater per site customisation.

The increase in breadth of the types of product some of our newer clients are starting to bring into the system calls for greater scope in, particularly, the product system delivery. This includes the templates right the way through each step in the product selection sequence.

Additionally, we have undertaken amendments to the system to make it deal more intelligently with smaller ranges.

Previously, a single product, in a single subcategory in a single master category would require 3 clicks to reach the product despite there being only one possible end outcome. The revised system *can* now be configured to shortcutthe subcategory selection and/or product selection steps.

For example, a Master category containing 1 subcategory containing 10 products can now jump directly to the choice of 10 products, skipping the subcategory selection step.
OR
a Master category containing 1 subcategory containing 1 product can now jump directly to the 1 product, skipping the subcategory selection and the product selection steps.

This has been deployed as a setup configuration.

Shopping Cart

updated 2007-05-21 01:18:20
Facilities have been added to allow more accurate shipping costs to be applied for overseas and regional deliveries.

At the same time, a new option to offer Carriage Extras, eg Next Day bfore 10am etc type delivery upgrades has been added.

Shopping Cart

updated 2007-05-14 00:14:24
Currency conversion rates have now been automated

For more information you can contact us on: info@i-bikeshop.com

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