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TomatoCart V1.0.1

What we do in TomatoCart V1.0.1:

• Remove Chinese Simplified Language from default installation
• Remove Chinese Simplified font support from PDF Print to reduce memory usage
• Allow to remove product category image in admin panel

We fix bugs, including two major ones:

• [BO] A product, even though deleted, should be visible in orders.
• [Install] Fix the error "'articles_last_modified' doesn't have a default value" in installation script

TomatoCart V1.0

TomatoCart V1.0 is featured by:

• Forgot Password for Administrators
• SSL support for Frontend and Admin Panel
• Admin directory customizable for better security
• Feature products in front page
• Migration tool for osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 Release Candidate 2a
• Enable adding and deleting articles in the Information module
• Improve the Shop by Price module, applying price range for categories and search result
• Display correct category or manufacturer path for products in Breadcrumb
• Separate customer comment and administrator comment on orders
• New installation layout
• New configuration to control whether to allow customers to return products or not
• Who's online: display traffic source, identify administrators
• Shipping module: self pickup
• Payment module: bank transfer, check
• Front page Meta keyword & Meta description
• Integrate Piwik web analytics reports:Visits overview, Visits location, Referring Sites and Search engines
• Upgrade Piwik to the newest version (0.55)
• Release src in Unix style instead of windows Format, change windows style Linefeeds (CRLF) = LF into (CRLF)
• Order in PDF and invoice print in the My Account area at front end
• UTF8 support for Database tables
• UTF8 support for PDF documents (Invoice, Order)
• Allow multiple image upload for new products
• New configuration to place websites offline for maintenance
• Allow customers to set a maximum order quantity for each product
• Add published/unpublished column in the Products grid list at backend
• Batch move and publish/unpublished features to the Products list
• Short Description of products
• Use transparent background rather than white-color background when resizing images
• Replace Product Model by SKU
• Automatically assign the default SKU to product variants SKU
• Use combo box for product variants instead of complete variant combination list
• Allow users to change the page size for grid view in the admin panel
• Allow administrators to activate/deactivate publicity, gift certificate, downloadable product, and return flag in order status
• Add translation in the Languages module
• Allow to upload several images when creating a new product
• Remove PHP4 compatibility functions
• Add ~E_DEPRECATED to error_reporting function to hide the deprecate information (the deprecate function will be removed later)
• Disable variants when the product type is downloadable product or gift certificate
• Disable tax class combo box when product type is gift certificate
• Apply weight to each variant combination
• Security issue
• Backup vulnerability; disable anonymous access to the admin/backup directory

The stable release fixes the following bugs:

• [BO] Order editor: fail to change SKU, product quantity and price in the Products grid
• [Install] Fail to change the database table prefix
• [FO] Skip shipping method if there are all non-physical products in the shopping cart
• [FO] Save billing address and shipping address; set billing address to primary address when there is no primary address.
• [BO] When a decimal price is input, it is changed into an integer.
• [FO] Return request is disabled when the product is already returned.
• [FO] Wrong Go Back link in the return request page
• [FO] Shipping address remains when physical products are removed from the shopping cart
• [BO] Fix the window title for product unit class
• [BO] Fix the window title for coupon send email window
• [BO] When dialog window is maximized, the bottom button bar is missing.
• [BO] When sidebar is collapsed, dialog window is maximized and the bottom button bar missing.
• [BO] When web analytics report is maximized, it does not fill in the whole desktop area
• [BO] Coupon type Free Shipping does not work

TomatoCart V1.0 alpha5

This release adds lots of new features including:

• Account approval
• Customer registration IP recorded
• Abandoned cart
• Quick create (Customer, Order and Product) in Customer Email
• Windows Sidebar
• Order Tracking No.
• RSS Feed
• Popular Search Terms
• Import & Export (Product, Customer)
• Order Editor
• File Manager with tree structure
• Frontend translation in admin panel

TomatoCart V1.0 alpha4

New year and new version from TomatoCart.More features are added in this version:

• Who's online
• Google sitemap
• Banner manager
• SSL connection support for admin panel
• Installation Wizard
• Language manager
• SMTP mail server authentication support
• Administration log
• File manager
• Product comparisons
• New layout for store front
• CRM(Email) Module
• Auto search suggested terms

TomatoCart V1.0 alpha3

This release adds several new features including:

• Downloadable products
• Gift Certificate
• Virtual & service products
• Minimum order quantity per product
• Order increment per product
• Meta information for products and categories
• Coupons
• Customer Store Credit
• Change product attributes to product variants
• Change product extra fields to products attributes
• Return merchandise authorization (RMA)
• One page checkout
• Wishlist
• PDF order, invoice, shipping slip, return slip

TomatoCart V1.0 alpha2

This is a bug fix release to solve the problem when TomatoCart is runing under http://localhost, users can not login to administation panel. This is because the domain parameter of PHP setcookie function is "localhost", setcookie can not write value to cookie.

According to the ExtJS lisence GNU General Public License v3, we are allowed to ExtJS in our release.Therefore ExtJS 2.2.1 is included in this release.

Tomatocart V1.0 alpha1

After more than half a year's development and test it's finally there! This is the first release of Tomatocart project. We've started the first step to our aim, and it is our milestone.

We are excited to present Tomatocart to you. This is the first time that Ext JS technology has been used in eCommerce. We completely rewrite osCommerce 3 administration panel with ExtJS. Equipped with modern technology Ajax and ExtJS, TomatoCart offers significant usability improvements and makes interaction with the web interfaces faster and more efficient.