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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Related Products for WP e-Commerce

Another weekend, another release! I’ve created an addon for WP e-Commerec that displays 3 related products within the Single Product template. Within the downloadable archive are the snippet for the Single Product template as well as a function for wpsc_query.php to extract thumbnail information based on a Product ID and sample styling that I used on [...]
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Summary of data integration of Mass Product Importer for WP e-Commerce

I’ve been meaning to publish a table/diagram illustrating what data fields my Mass Product Importer solution supports and what’s in queue. I’ll be updating this post regularly as I introduce new support for WP e-Commerce Product and Product meta fields. WP e-Commerce field Supported? Product Importer release Name Yes Available in Standard/Deluxe Description Yes Available in Standard/Deluxe Additional Description Yes Available in Standard/Deluxe Price Yes Available in Standard/Deluxe Weight Yes Available in Standard/Deluxe Weight Unit Yes Available [...]

Quantity added to Product Importer Deluxe for WP e-Commerce

My bulk product importer solution for WP e-Commerce has been out in the wild for over a month now and in this time have collected feedback and now implementing feature requests. First off the production line is support for product quantity and limited quantity. How this works is if a Product (row in the master product [...]
Sunday, February 14, 2010

Send to a friend support in Add to Wishlist for WP e-Commerce

It’s been on my WP e-Commerce todo list for awhile and has been finally crossed off. Allow your store customers to add products to their very own wishlist and then e-mail the list to a friend.
Friday, February 5, 2010

Send to a friend for WP e-Commerce

I’ve added a new addon that enables ‘e-mail to a friend‘ functionality to the single product page of WP e-Commerce. This is a very simple Addon for WP e-Commerce to install, setup and get running. It’s available in the Shop now for instant download.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Missing SQL file attached to Add to Wishlist

I’ve updated the documentation and included the missing SQL file to create the wp_wpsc_favourites table that stores the individual wishlist items that powers Add to Wishlist. Please re-download Add to Wishlist from the original purchase e-mail that was sent to you. Shortly I’ll be making member facilities to allow customers to log in, manage their downloads/purchases [...]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Tackling Refund Fraud on Digital Assets

Over on the Tips & Tricks HQ website I read a great article, Shop Admin Tips – Protect yourself from unfair refund claims, covering techniques to reduce refund fraud affecting digital e-commerce stores. It will help you protect yourself from fraudsters if you keep the following simple points in mind when selling online: Give detailed description of [...]
Monday, February 1, 2010

Product Importer Deluxe for WP e-Commerce Released

It’s been a single hard push from 9am to what is now almost 11pm to get product image and thumbnail generation to a standard that I am confident can be released into the wild. Bulk image upload support is here! Product Importer Deluxe for WP e-Commerce includes all of the core features of the Standard release [...]
Sunday, January 31, 2010

Bulk Product Manager for WP e-Commerce

I’ve spent the weekend piecing together a simple, easy way to manage products within WP e-Commerce focusing on product detail maintenance for store owners including a very powerful product search feature. Product search allows you to show results using logic filtering. “I would like to see products that have a price above $50.00″ “I would like to see [...]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Mass Product Importer for WP e-Commerce comes of age!

After a month of public testing, comments, feedback and feature requests, my mass product importer for WP e-Commerce is a stable solution for store owners to quickly and easily import categories/brands and products into WP e-Commerce. It’s available now for download from the Shop. Today I finished the internal theme files for the importer removing any dependence [...]