1063650_37233894Today marks a great day in the development of Cart Viper our ecommerce solution for DotNetNuke, we have just release version 1.6 of the product.

This is a major release with over 35 great new features or improvements to Cart Viper. Over the coming days and weeks we’ll be talking some more about some of the key new features in this release and why it can help you create a great ecommerce store for your customers.

  1. Numerous performance improvements
  2. Ability to sell events - AJAX events calendar module (please note this is an extra add-on).
  3. Google Sitemap support for getting the best possible SEO.
  4. Youtube videos on product details
  5. Categories support Youtube videos.
  6. Pre-checkout notification callback method to validate the order before allowing it be placed within the store.
  7. Export new orders to the Amazon Message Queue SQS, allows integration into external systems to process placed orders.
  8. New payment gateway Cyber Source
  9. Support for three new currencies JOD, HKD, THB and MXN
  10. Mix and match discounts, buy 6 items from this category and get 10% off the items for example.
  11. Let customers request a quote for a large order, moderate and adjust the prices then allow the customer to pay for the order online using a credit card.
  12. Optionally define customer managers that need to approve orders from sub accounts before the order can be placed within the store. Great for B2B sites that need basic order moderation for their corporate clients.
  13. Define a global quantity limit and quantity purchase pattern for a product to mean that only specified quantities of the product can be purchased.
  14. Ability to use custom smtp settings per portal when sending the emails generated by Cart Viper.
  15. Support for an unlimited number of options for a variant, user interface just expands as you enter product options.
  16. The product tabs and related products output is now controlled using a token, so you are free to place this controls anyway you like within the template.
  17. Improved product tab feature including, token support, embed modules, tab header, tab security roles and better sorting.
  18. The template system used to style the store now allows you to import an existing DNN module into the template.
  19. Define product facets which allows customers to filter products based on the product facets, size, colour, type, manufacturer etc.
  20. When search by keywords the products can be filter to a given manufacturer or category using the keyword facet search.
  21. An unlimited number of variants can be imported via csv.
  22. Ability to send order confirmation emails to multiple email addresses with your organisation.
  23. More tokens added to the custom email templates.
  24. Mark a product as in-store pickup only, means the customer must collect direction from the store.
  25. Optional ability to apply a percentage or fixed amount surcharge to an order placed with Paypal Standard.
  26. The store admin can now search for all orders placed during a start and end date.
  27. New order status - partial shipped.
  28. Batch printing of orders, select the date range and the order status then generate a PDF containing all the orders, print out and include with your package.
  29. Ability to restrict which states in the USA you will ship goods to.
  30. Cyber Source external tax gateway support, exact tax calculations based on the customer’s address.
  31. Newsletter subscribers management page to display a list of existing subscribers. Export the list to CSV.
  32. Allow products to be visible only to users with the required role.
  33. Include a shipping tracking number when you dispatch a customer’s order.
  34. Support for defining tax rates by each Canadian Province for stores located in Canada.
  35. New mega menu style category menu this can be rendered either vertically or horizontally. Optionally we can output the standard DNN menu into the mega menu to create a complete menu solution for your store.
  36. Recurring billing support when using Authorize.net payment gateway.

We are excited to have created this release and we hope you’ll take the free 14 day trial and see for yourself.

Existing customers from earlier versions can download the new version and upgrade for free, simply download and install the free trial, your existing license will unlock this to a full version.
We strongly recommend that you follow the upgrade steps in the manual and take a full backup of your database and existing site.