The following features and enhancements were released by Solid Cactus eCommerce on July 21, 2010. If you are a Solid Cactus eCommerce merchant, more information on these changes can also be found in your recently updated user guide.
StoreBuilder Images Overhaul/Improvements
* This release item is to give the merchant the ability to use multiple images for their products – and SO much more.
- Display multiple images for products with a built-in image carousel
- Upload images easily in bulk and sync to products automatically
- Unlimited images per product
- Individual image merge codes can be inserted into product templates to allow custom built image displays
- Main image, carousel top, right, bottom or left merge codes
- Import image details which allows you to change ALT text for each image in bulk (SEO goodness)
- Import allows you to acquire an image from an external image URL (.jpg, .gif, .png) and link to your product automatically – brings into the media library automatically! Great migration tool!
- Control the default display size for images on store (thumbnail and standard) – upload size is used as your click to enlarge view
- Click to Enlarge any of the thumbnail views in the carousel
- Click to Enlarge has been upgraded to a widely used component which fades the store background and prominently highlights the photo
- Rank or order images for display in carousel
- Carousel works on Featured and Related Products
- Better default image control than Yahoo, Volusion or ProStores
- When combined with multiple Product Templates, custom design should be highly flexible and capable of accommodating the most robust image wants
StoreBuilder Multiple template use
* This release item is to give our merchants the ability to configure more than three feature products. The new limit is 12.
- Use multiple templates for Categories, Products and Shopping Cart pages
- Define Multiple Master templates allowing customization of Shopping Cart templates, such as not displaying navigation, keeping customers focused on the checkout
- Create additional category templates to offer customization on a per category basis
- Create additional product templates to offer customization of each product display page
- Product import supports upload of product template name linked to product – new column “template”
- Manage assigning all templates on the Site Manager page – i.e. change all products within a category to use the same template
- Manage individually on a per product or category basis
- StoreBuilder expand Related products from 3 to 12
Gateways
- Interac Online – Add Interac (Debit Card) support to Beanstream and Moneris Interac gateways as supported payment type
- Enables customer to pay for goods and services online and directly from their bank accounts
This release item will introduce the ability to pay for purchases with Interac. Only for BeanStream and Moneris gateway merchants.
- Enables customer to pay for goods and services online and directly from their bank accounts
- Banks supporting Interac Online are members of one of these five institutions; TD CanadaTrust, Scotiabank, Royal Bank, CIBC and Bank of Montreal.
- Merchant will setup ability to accept Interac within their Beanstream or Moneris account (current participating gateways)
- Merchant will see new checkbox “You have Interac Online enabled through your gateway provider” – checking it will enable the payment method
- New payment tab displays Interac Online as a payment option on checkout page allowing customer to enter debit card/online banking sign on information
- Customer will select an account to approve payment from, and confirm, then will be redirected back to thank you page.
- The use of Interac Online is for Canadian merchants only
- Interac Online payment tab will be disabled if the customer has placed a recurring product in the cart, as it acts as an offline payment transaction.
Implement DPS PaymentExpress
- This release item will introduce a new gateway DPS PaymentExpress for our merchants to use.
To read more about these changes, you can visit the Solid Cactus eCommerce blog.
