New Features
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CMS Scripts & Style Sheet Maintenance — The new CMS Scripts & Styles editor enables you to create and edit JavaScript or Style Sheet files directly in CMS without having to upload a new file every time they make a change.
Tell at a glance if a page uses a script or style customisation rather than trolling through countless HTML Snippets to find which one runs a script.
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Back in stock notification email template — The template for Back In Stock email notifications has been updated and is now available in the CMS.
No more need to deal with razor code and legacy content editors! Now you can customise this email template with configurable widgets, just like the other email templates in the CMS.
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Manually Sort Product Variants in CMS — We have made it easier for you to reorder the master product attributes list by manually dragging the variants.
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Razor template caching for lightning fast restarts — Automatic DLL loading of razor templates is a fancy way of saying that website razor templates are now cached for faster site restarts.
Pre-compiled templates are stored in memory for quick loading whenever a site needs to be restarted (such as after upgrades and server maintenance). Any time a template is updated it gets automatically re-cached so that files are always up-to-date.
An additional benefit for sites hosted in Azure, which have auto-scaling enabled, this will now too allow for the scaling to complete faster..
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Remove Google Plus from Social Media Widgets — Google announced that it would discontinue its Google+ social network as of 7 March 2019. To that end, we have removed references to Google+ from the Social Widget and all aspects of the CMS.
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Invoice Approval Functionality (DRAFT) — In situations where branch offices submit orders and receive deliveries of goods, but head office processes the payments, there can be a disconnect in the information flow that negatively impacts the timely payment of invoices, especially in situations where the delivery was incomplete, or goods were damaged.
We have improved the procure-to-pay process to reduce the lag time between goods delivered and invoice payment by enabling the branch offices to validate and approve invoices. The system notifies Head Office of the order approval via the Trading Partner Network, and Head Office can then process the invoice and release for payment.
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Enhanced flexibility for product variant styling — We've just made it easier to customise the look and feel of the product variant selectors on your website. New class names for each product option type means we can target them in stylesheets to style them as per your site design.
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Fraud prevention - payment retry limits — New functionality for credit card payments now allows you to limit the number of payment attempts per order. Users making multiple failed payments will be locked out from further attempts for a specified period.
This can reduce charge-backs due to stolen credit cards and fraudulent transactions.
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RRP display for product variants — A new option has been added to the 'Product Variant List widget' that allows retailers and registered buyers to view the RRP of each child product in a list, while hiding the RRP from the guest user.
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Search Result Enhancements — Enhance your search facility by returning more comprehensive results and enabling your customers to sort by relevance or (reverse-) alphabetically by brand, description, or product-codes. Filtering by Category or Manufacturer will return more targeted search results.
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Performance enhancement for 1st time page loads — Your first web visitor of the day may have previously experienced long page loads due to the application compiling all of the templates in order to cache them.
A new performance enhancement now means the previously cached page is loaded - quickly - improving site speed and customer experience.
Fixes
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Changes update the Product & Category SEO URL — For sites where the Product Categories and Product Category assignments are maintained in PRONTO and integrated to the CSS, we fixed the issue where the Product and Category SEO URLs were not updating when the primary category or product descriptions were changed.
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Special characters in username preventing login — Customers with usernames containing special characters (I'm looking at you, Michael O'Dell) reported some problems logging in. This has now been resolved and names with apostrophes are welcome once more.
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Search within Category for multiple locations — Previously, searching for a product within a category might fail to return expected results when products were located in more than one category. This has now been corrected and products are included in search results for all categories they reside in.
