What's New in Version 9.3
New Features in ProStores
Pay-Per-Sale Marketing
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Pay-Per-Sale Logo:
Add a logo to your enhance your Pay-Per-Sale brand recognition.
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Conversion Rate Help Center:
The Store Administration Home page will display suggestions to help improve your storefront conversion rate.
Store Design
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Simplified Themes:
New Build Your Own themes simplify creating a store design. With Build Your Own themes, you select a color scheme, add or create a store logo, add optional reputation builders, and your store design is done and ready to go.
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Theme page:
Improved hints help you pick and customize the right theme for your store.
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Theme Builder:
This new page allows you to customize your store's theme by selecting colors, adding a store logo, and adding reputation builders such as safety icons, payment marks and more!
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Preset Store Logo Size:
For Build Your Own themes, the store logo has a predetermined size which helps improve layout consistency of your store pages.
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Fonts and Colors Page:
Use Theme Builder to customize Build Your Own themes. The Fonts and Colors page cannot be used to customize a Build Your Own theme.
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Limits on Image Resizing:
In order to provide cleaner, more consistent store pages, images will be limited to the following sizes, in pixels: 200 x 200 for thumbnail images, 400 x 400 for product detail images, and 650 on the longest side for large product images.
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Layout Retirement:
Certain layouts are being retired. Merchants who use any of the retired layouts will receive notification suggesting they switch to another, current layout.
Enhanced Shopping Experience
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Improve Category Display:
Build Your Own themes support category lists that a shopper can expand or collapse. Featured categories appear first in the list.
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Storefront HTML Buttons Removed:
Storefront pages no longer use HTML buttons.
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Maximum Per Page Search Results Limit:
In order to improve search response time, search results pages are limited to 100 results per page.
eBay Integration
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Improve Listing Description Processing
When importing eBay listings, ProStores will remove JavaScript and CSS and other markup not applicable to ProStores product descriptions. See the help section for a list of HTML elements removed during import.
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Free Shipping on Calculated Rates:
ProStores import and process the free shipping flag on eBay Listings so when the item is created in ProStores using eBay Product Sync or Blackthorne listing creation, the ProStores listing mirrors the shipping options of the eBay listings.
PayPal Integration
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Payflow:
Upgraded the Payflow gateway to incorporate changes required by PayPal.
Other Changes
Resolved Issues
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Resolved an issue in Order Manager > Ready for Shipping that could cause an error when cancelling an invoice in a Starter store.
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Resolved an issue that caused PayPal Direct payment gateway to return an error when the store credit amount for a customer equals or exceeds the item subtotal on an invoice.
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Resolved an issue with PayPal Standard that could cause incorrect line item details when a customer purchases multiple quantity of the same product, but with different attribute selections.
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Resolved an issue that could cause the Product Preview page to display incorrectly.
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Resolved an issue in the Product Add/Update page that could causethe Package dropdown list to load incorrectly.
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Resolved an issue in Product Level Shipping that could cause changes to the surcharge for flat rate rules to not get saved.
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Resolved an issue with Sitemap that could cause a sitemap rename to fail.
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Resolved an issue in Store Design > Design Settings that could cause Store Preview to incorrectly preview the store.
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Resolved an issue in Store Design > Link Builder that could cause the "Search by category" custom link to not show the categories.
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Resolved an issue in Store Design that could cause the Page Template Manager page to occasionally load without the list of templates.
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Resolved an issue in One Page Checkout that could cause the Lock icon image to show a jagged gray color around the top of the image if the user changes the background color.
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Resolved an issue that could cause an error during anonymous checkout when the customer selects USPS as the shipper, enters a shipping promotion, and leaves the postal code field blank.
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Resolved an issue on the storefront Product Detail page could cause the page to require an SSL certificate and the tabs to not work.
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Resolved an issue in storefront search results that could cause a product to appear in related products even if the related products have no inventory and "hide from catalog when inventory is zero" is enabled.
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Resolved an issue in storefront search that could cause the search results to include all products when an "OR" search is used and the first word is a stop word ("the", "an", etc).
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Resolved an issue in storefront Product Level Shipping that could cause incorrect insurance options to appear.
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Resolved an issue in storefront Product Level Shipping that could cause only one handling charge to be added to the shipping quote when a handling charge is applied to calculated shipping, and more than one item is added to the cart.
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Resolved an issue in storefront Product Level Shipping that could cause the insurance amount to remain unchanged if the merchant changes the insurance option from required or optional to not offered.
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Resolved an issue in Support Manager > Import Product that could cause an error when importing products if the product file is in the FileExchange format.
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Resolved an issue in eBay listing that could cause eBay Motors listings to not use their associated themes.
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Resolved an issue in eBay listing that could prevent the ability to change the listing type when listing to eBay Motors using a template.
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Resolved an issue in eBay listing that could cause a return policy error when listing to eBay and eBay Motors is selected.
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Resolved an issue in eBay listing that could cause item details to not update if the category is changed while listing using a template.
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Resolved an issue in eBay Motors listings that could cause item details to display incorrectly if the category was changed on the eBay Motors listing template.
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Resolved an issue in the eBay Outcome Refresh Service that could cause an error when the service is run if a product has been deleted.
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Resolved an issue with eBay listing templates that prevents the clearing of the "Surcharge" checkbox for UPS shipping.
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Resolved an issue with eBay listing templates that can cause an error to occur when submitting an eBay listing using a quicklist template that is specific to eBay Motors.
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Resolved an issue in eBay Tools that could cause an error when using the copy tool if the eBay description contains special characters.
Prior Version Release Notes