Ecwid v3.0 has been released
Posted 28 March, 2010 by Qetzal. Posted in Ecwid News, New ReleasesWe’re glad to announce a new release of major Ecwid version (3.0). All Ecwid users have been upgraded.
What features does this release bring to all Ecwid stores? Let’s highlight them.
PayPal Standard
PayPal Website Payments Standard is added — the most easy-to-use and simple-to-set-up PayPal solution.
So now you can use PayPal Standard as a common payment option and PayPal Express Checkout as an advanced solution for customers with PayPal accounts.
Discount coupons
A great tool to promote your sales and increase the number of your repeat customers.
Advanced integration with social networks
OpenSocial standard supported by many social networks, such as MySpace, Hyves, Google Friend Connect and many others, has been integrated.
If you use Ecwid with such a network, all of your customers will be automatically logged in using their profiles. Also they will be able to share any product to their news feed.
New Google Gadget
In the new Ecwid version Google Gadget has been improved, so now it fits slim pages nicely. Good option for your blog’s sidebar.
Payment method page updated
You can easily rename and update any payment method.
E-Path payment gateway
This gateway allows storing credit cards and processing them manually without any hassles and worries about PCI-DSS compliance and certification.
Affiliates features
We’ve added some affiliate features that transform Ecwid into an affiliate tool.
Since your Ecwid store can be very easily installed at many locations at the same time, your affiliates will not just place links to your store, they will place your store on their sites and you will track sales made from them.
Multilanguage
Four new translations of Ecwid storefront have been added to the Ecwid core: French, Spanish, Russian and German. You can enable and disable them right in the Ecwid control panel. Customers will see the correct translation automatically, based on their browser settings.
Don’t forget about more than 15 other translations which can be installed by modifying the integration code.
Also many other minor improvements have been made. You may not notice them, but they do make a difference.
We want to thank all Ecwid users who voted for suggestions in our ideas base. If you voted for the features that are already implemented in this release, you will get your votes back. So you will be able to vote for the new ideas.
Feel free to use and enjoy the new features. If you have any questions, we’ll be glad to assist on the forums.
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Thank you for this awesome update. Keep up the good work!
Great news! Thank you! Does this involve updating any of the joomla modules?
How to use the Affiliate Tool & Social Networking integration?
> Does this involve updating any of the joomla modules?
No, you don't need to update your Joomla module. Your Ecwid store is already upgraded.
> How to use the Affiliate Tool & Social Networking integration?
We'll post all information to our knowledge base soon: http://kb.ecwid.com
Hi Chrstphrstr,
Please refer to these articles:
- http://kb.ecwid.com/Social-Features
- http://kb.ecwid.com/Affiliates-features
Огромное спасибо за ваш проект ... вы проделали огромную работу!!!
Yes, thanks so much. I just love this system.
I'm very disappointed that the much need backup and restore with OPTIONS was taken lightly and not a priority for this release.
> "I'm very disappointed that the much need backup and restore with OPTIONS was taken lightly and not a priority for this release."
Sorry to hear about your disappointment. Please, let me describe the situation with the "option export" feature.
We agree that this feature is necessary. The ability to back up and restore an Ecwid store quickly would
be very necessary, especially for stores owners who have lots of products and update them often.
However, I should note that you, our Ecwid users, define what new features should be implemented first.
There are a lot of features which can be added to Ecwid, but we cannot add all of them immediately. So, we pick up the most popular ideas from our ideas base and implement them first.
If an idea has quite a number of votes, it means that many Ecwid users want to have this feature. So, we need to implement it first.
For example, next Ecwid version will have the "Download Security" feature, because it's one of the most popular feature requests with 195 votes. Unfortunately, the backup feature doesn't have many votes, thus it has lower priority.
However, I want to mention again, that we do understand that this feature is important and it will be implemented.
You can speed up implementation of any feature by voting for an idea or sponsoring it.