Today we’ve released the latest version of Cart Viper our Shopping Cart module for Dotnetnuke.

We’ve packed more new features and fixed up a couple of little bugs in this release.

• Language Support for Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish
• Request a Quote shopping cart
• Improved Currency support for Australian dollars (AUD), Canadian dollars (CAD), Mexican peso (MXN) and Swiss francs (CHF)
• Wishlists for shoppers
• Email a Friend with CAPTCHA feature to stop spamming

Read more about the new features on our blog http://blog.cartviper.com/?tag=/103

You can purchase the new version direct or from SnowCovered.
As always all purchases get upgrades and updates for free, forever.

We’ve added more languages supported into the upcoming Cart Viper release 1.0.3 by translating our resource files into other languages.

We now support the following languages

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Dutch

If you would like us to support additional languages please get in contact.

Cart Viper now has the ability to define products as request a quote. this allows you to list expensive items which you need to quote for on a user by user basis.

Users can assemble a special type of cart that we refer to as “quote cart”, each item that the user wants to get a quote for is added to this cart, along with the quantity of each item. Once the user has added all the items they want to receive a quote they then continue to the checkout page.

At the checkout stage the user simply completes the form, this then generates an email which is set to the store administrator.

To define which products are “request a quote” the administrator simple checks the box in the product admin page.

To make the checkout process simple we only allow the user to have either a normal cart or a quote cart at anyone time. If a user were to attempt to create a quote while they had a normal cart they would receive a warning tell them to complete the checkout process before creating a quote and vice versa.

Continuing the series about new features coming in release 1.0.3 of Cart Viper today I’m going to talk about the additional currency support that has been added.

In the initial release transaction where limited to Euros, GBPs or USDs. However in 1.0.3 of the shopping cart we’ve added support for Australian dollars (AUD), Canadian dollars (CAD), Mexican peso (MXN)  and Swiss francs (CHF).

We’ve also moved the currency symbols for each currency into the SharedResources.resx file in App_LocalResources so this give you complete control on how you you would like to display the currency symbol. You can simply edit the default entries as required.

If you would like additional currencies add just get in touch and we’ll try our best to help you out.

Stay tuned for more posts about up coming features!

Continuing the series of posts about new features in release 1.0.3 of Cart Viper its time to look at the Wish List feature.

This allows users to store a list of items they would like to purchase.
On the product details page a user would simple click the Add to Wishlist link to have the item store for them in their wish list.

The wish list is display on the My Account page with the ability for the user to add an item into their cart directly from the wish list.
All wish lists are private and only the user that created the list is able to view it. 

Allowing your users to create wish lists is an optional feature, you can disable wish lists by unchecking the Enable Wishlist in the store admin.

Here at Cart Viper we have been busy working on version 1.0.3 of our DotNetNuke shopping cart that is full of new features , over the next few days leading up to the release of version 1.0.3 Mark and myself are going to do a series of posts discussing the new features. This post will discuss “Email A Friend”.

Due to the flexibility of Cart Vipers template driven display simply by including the [EMAILAFRIEND] tag in your productDetail.htm template you output the necessary control onto your page that allows a user to send an email relating to a product on your site.

Example template:

Example page created from template:

When “Share With A Friend” is clicked upon the email a friend control is displayed via jQuery.

Email a friend control:

The email subject and message are pre-populated with the name of your store and a link to the page with the product on, if the user is logged in the email from is also pre-populated with their email address. All fields can be edited by the user before the message is sent.

Before the message can be sent all fields are checked for profanity if found the user is informed and the message is not sent, furthermore recaptcha has been added to avoid spam being sent.

It is worth noting for privacy reasons a copy of the users message is not stored in the system.