TomatoCart

First Class Open Source E-Commerce Applications

TomatoCart has won the 2^nd runner up of Open Source E-Commerce Applications in the 2010 Open Source Awards, recognized to simplify online buying and selling of products. Along with the other great software and winners PrestaShop and Open Cart, TomatoCart has among the best within industry.

Access into the finalists has already been a big surprise. The top third place should be the best gift for us. This makes our efforts even more worthwhile while we shall keep moving to make TomatoCart excellent and distinguished, serving to add authority to the award.

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We are looking forward to TomatoCart next year. We believe this innovative and promising project deserves support from both you and us. We have made plans out recently:

• Roadmap comes out.
• Documentation Team Member Wanted! This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
• Developer Team Member Wanted! This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
• Community Architect Wanted!

 We are expecting community contributions and warmly welcoming you.

We are happy to announce the publication of TomatoCart V1.1.1. This new version comes to fix bugs found in the 1.1 version of TomatoCart. Thanks for all community members who have helped TomatoCart on testing, giving suggestions and feedback.

This new version comes mainly to fix bugs found in the 1.1 version of TomatoCart, which you still has Release Notes to refer to. TomatoCart V1.1.1.zip is downloadable under Download>Download TomatoCart.

You are warmly welcome to go on with testing. Bug reports under Bug Tracker are much appreciated. Or feedback under Bug Reports (Demo) in this forum.

Developer Guide is also ready!

Developer Guide is the most required features in our feedback forum. Now it’s available in TomatoCart Wiki. It contains the instructions on setting up development environment, guides to shipping module and payment modules building, and tutorials on how to build modules in admin panel and how to build templates for TomatoCart.

For any wording mistakes or other which we have tried to prevent from, we’d like to hear your voice. Make yourself engaged in our development, and you’ll find more funs with TomatoCart.

TomatoCart V1.1 got released a week ago. This week we have been preparing for resources and other support for this new version.

To learn about the new features, you may try on demo at http://demo.tomatocart.com, or go to Release Notes. Download this shopping cart software to have it run on your own store!

TomatoCart Online Translator is also ready for you! Curious about what the store is in your language? Please help with translation.

As TomatoCart is embracing sound development and an ever growing community with increasing demands, we would build the community partnership. We are looking for community partners who are willing to and will be active in providing support to TomatoCart local community speaking the same language. More detailed information can be found at Community Partners.

TomatoCart additionally offers Wiki to share knowledge and cowork. It initially includes General Information, User Document, Developer Document and TomatoCart Architecture etc. We really appreciate the community contributions. User account goes the same with that at the main site.

Good news for TomatoCart fans! Two more templates are now available, and new features are coming as well.

Furniture & Game Template

Before designing and developing Furniture and Game, we’ve learnt furniture and games are popular products at on-line stores based on the marketing investigation. Now the two have been worked out. Meanwhile, we have not called it a day, but continue to provide full-scale supports, including:

• Downloads and reviews at Extension Manager, where Demo sites can be easy to get access;
• Tutorial for applying a template, taking Toys Store Template as an example;
• Design concept and template overview at Blog>Templates.

Upcoming Features

New features in upcoming TomatoCart version will be updated at DemoSVN weekly.

Features this week include:

• Product rating: to give ratings based on more criterion to a product;
• Product attachment: to provide customers with handy guide;
• Product image zoom: to view products more clearly;
• Watermark: to protect image and article copyright;
• Polls: to collect clients’ preferences;
• Ajax shopping cart: to display the store in a modern and lively way;
• Different language in admin panel and store front: to avoid language problems if any.

You can also check these new features at Google Code, and you may get an overview of general functions at Blog>Features.