http://www.interspire.com/content en-us N/A false Wed, 14 May 2008 22:35:00 CDT 20 false false false clean http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/392/Private-Labeling-for-Interspire-Shopping-Cart-and-Knowledge-Manager-and-More.html Update: The private label guide for Interspire Shopping Cart can be downloaded here.

Private Labeling in Interspire Shopping Cart and Knowledge Manager

Hi everyone. After talking with hundreds of existing Interspire Shopping Cart/Knowledge Manager customers and *really* trying to figure out what our partners need to successfully sell a whole product solution to their customers, we've decided to remove the restriction on private labeling Interspire Shopping Cart and Knowledge Manager.

As of today, all copies of Interspire Shopping Cart and Knowledge Manager (including those already purchased) can be completely private labeled in both the public area and the control panel. This means you can remove our logo, "powered by" text, RSS feed, help links, etc - just like all of our other products.

And there's no additional charge to private label.

If you've already purchased the ability to remove the "powered by" link previously, please contact us and we can give you a credit towards future purchases. Private labeling is the cornerstone of our strategy, and will be a part of all current and new Interspire products going forward.

Reduced Price on Interspire Shopping Cart Ultimate Edition

We've dropped the price on the ultimate edition from $2,200 to $1,795. This price will of course be even lower for Interspire partners.

More Products in Interspire Shopping Cart Starter Edition

The starter edition of Interspire Shopping Cart now includes 50 products and not 20. Many of the customers we've talked to said that 20 products wasn't enough, and so we've upped that limit to 50. If you've already purchased the starter edition simply grab an updated license key from the client area and paste it into your settings page to go from 20 to 50 products in your store.

You've spoken, and we listened. We really appreciate the feedback.

Thanks,
Mitchell Harper
Interspire Co-founder/Product Manager
Phone: +612 9262-7770
Email: mitchell [dot] harper @ interspire [dot] com

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Introducing Interspire Knowledge Manager 4.5

After months of development and testing with on-site beta customers, we're proud to announce the immediate release of Interspire Knowledge Manager 4.5. Version 4.5 has been split into two editions - professional and enterprise, and we've added complete LDAP integration with all major providers, including:

• Microsoft Active Directory
• Novel eDirectory
• Samba
• Posix RFC2307
• Posix RFC2307BIS

You can learn more about LDAP integration here. The complete changelog is shown below:

Existing Customers

If you've already purchased Interspire Knowledge Manager, then you can upgrade to version 4.5 (professional edition) from the client area. To upgrade to the enterprise edition, please see the upgrade pricing page.

Changelog for Interspire Knowledge Manager 4.5

Big Fixes:
- Fixed small display problem with PDF icon
- Fixed quick edit and livesearch multibyte character issue
- Fixed admin showing the wrong version number
- Fixed bug with question id search in manage articles
- Fixed typo in user limit message
- Fixed bug where windows tree list was not taking user permissions and start/end times into consideration
- Fixed glossary bug where if clean URLs were off it was not using a clean URL.
- Fixed Quotation Search for Boolean Full-Text Searches

Features:
- New style installation and upgrade wizards
- Now 2 product editions: professional and enterprise
- Added new support menu in control panel
- Added complete LDAP integration (enterprise edition)

Files Modified:
docs (whole directory)

admin/includes/classes/class.auth.php
admin/includes/classes/class.engine.php
admin/includes/classes/class.forgotpass.php
admin/includes/classes/class.helper.php
admin/includes/classes/class.install.php
admin/includes/classes/class.settings.php
admin/includes/classes/class.user.php
admin/includes/helpers/helper.template.php
admin/styles/styles.css
admin/styles/styles_admin.css
admin/templates/Panels/ForgotpassConfirm.html
admin/templates/Panels/ForgotpassDone.html
admin/templates/Panels/ForgotpassForm.html
admin/templates/Panels/ForgotpassNewpass.html
admin/templates/credentials.form.tpl
admin/templates/group.form.tpl
admin/templates/help.questionimport.tpl
admin/templates/home.tpl
admin/templates/install.final.tpl
admin/templates/message.tpl
admin/templates/messagewithbutton.tpl
admin/templates/pagefooter.tpl
admin/templates/pageheader.tpl
admin/templates/question.import.step1.tpl
admin/templates/settings.manage.tpl
admin/templates/systeminfo.tpl
admin/templates/user.form.tpl
admin/templates/user.manage.tpl
admin/templates/user.row.tpl
admin/tutorials/customising.html
admin/tutorials/getting_started.html
admin/index.php
admin/remote.php
includes/classes/class.auth.php
includes/classes/class.helper.php
includes/classes/class.panel.php
includes/classes/class.questions.php
includes/classes/class.search.parent.php
includes/display/SearchCustomFields.php
includes/language/back_language.ini
javascript/iselector.js
lib/api/class.user.php
lib/upgrade_factory.php
templates/Classic/Panels/PageFooter.html
templates/Classic/Snippets/ARSSearchResultFooter.html
templates/Corporate/Panels/PageFooter.html
templates/Corporate/Styles/Styles.css
templates/Corporate/EmailQuestion.html
templates/Default/Panels/PageFooter.html
templates/Default/Snippets/ARSSearchResultFooter.html
templates/Embedded/Panels/PageFooter.html
templates/Embedded/Panels/ViewQuestionsPanel.html
templates/Embedded/Snippets/ARSSearchResultFooter.html
templates/InlineHelp/Panels/PageFooter.html
templates/InlineHelp/Snippets/ARSSearchResultFooter.html
templates/InterspireShoppingCart/Panels/PageFooter.html
templates/InterspireShoppingCart/Snippets/ARSSearchResultFooter.html
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]]> no@spam.com (Mitchell Harper) http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/391/Interspire-Knowledge-Manager-45---Now-With-LDAP-Integration.html http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/390/Interspire-Shopping-Cart-31-Released.html Introduction

After a whirlwind release of Interspire Shopping Cart 3.0, I'm proud to announce that we've just pushed the 3.1 release live. We've been working closely with our hundreds of existing Interspire Shopping Cart customers to implement requested features as quickly as we can.

New features

The features included in Interspire Shopping Cart 3.1 are shown below:

• Complete multi-currency support (with realtime conversion rates from WebserviceX)
   
  
• Multiple new payment providers, including LinkPoint, YourPay, BPay and eSelect Plus
   
  
• Affiliate conversion tracking for any 3rd party affiliate system
   
  
• Bulk import and assignment of order tracking numbers
   
  
• A new support tab in the control panel for quick access to support
   
  
• Ability to hide product pricing and also show a custom "call for pricing" message instead
   
  
• Customer groups with category/product/fallback discounts and access levels

New store designs

The store designs shown below were released along with version 3.1 and can be downloaded from the Download Store Designs tab on the Store Design page in your store's control panel.

Baby:



Beauty (Pink):



Beauty (Turquoise):



Toys:



Version 3.1 changelog

The condensed changelog for 3.1 is shown below. You can find the full changelog in the changelog.txt file in the zip file from our client area.

- Added the shipping and tax costs to the side mini cart page shown for "You Might Also Like.." cart suggestions
- Added the ability to disallow purchasing for a product on a product level
- Added the ability to specify a "Call for Pricing" label if the prices for a product are being hidden
- Added the ability to integrate third party affiliate systems in to the store from the Settings > Affiliate Settings page
- Added new 'Support' tab in to the Control Panel which links to the knowledge base, forums and client area
- Added new 'LinkPoint Connect' payment module
- Added new 'eSelect Plus' payment module
- Added the ability to import tracking numbers for orders from a CSV file
- Added the ability to create multiple store currencies and have them automatically updated from WebServiceX
- Added automatic detection for the visitors currency based on the location of their IP address if a matching currency is found in the store
- Added the ability for customers to change the select currency on the product pages to view all prices in another currency
- Added new credit card types (Australian Bank Card, Maestro, Solo and Switch) to the Credit Card (Manual) payment provider
- Added the ability for credit card types to require an issue date and issue number when purchasing (for Solo based cards)
- Added a new order transactions table to log each transaction performed for an order (used by PayPal and Google Checkout modules)
- Rewrote PayPal payment module to use Instant Payment Notification instead of PDT so that customers don't need to return to the store after payment and eChecks are correctly supported
- Added the list of categories a product is in to the product CSV export
- Added the ability when importing products to have them placed in to multiple categories by specifying them with a semi-colon (;)
- Added the ability to specify a different page title from your store name for the index page of your store (for SEO purposes)
- Added an internal data cache to cache commonly accessed items (currencies, category lists, page lists etc) to almost halve the number of queries per page in most places
- Changed the Australia Post and FedEx shipping modules to only fetch the international shipping quotes for international addresses and only national quotes for national addresses
- Added a new 403 page template to each of the templates that is shown when you don't have permission to view a particular page
- Added the ability to CC order invoices to multiple email addresses from the control panel
- Added the ability to specify custom SMTP servers for sending email messages from the store
- Move the "Recent Orders" chart on the home page of the control panel to the top of the page
- Moved 'Categories' menu to under the 'Products' menu
- Added the date an order was shipped to the expanded order view in the control panel
- Changed the background colors for the status messages in the control panel so there is a better visual indicator between them (red messages shown for errors)
- Changed credit card (manual) payment method to show the next 10 years instead of 5 for those card types that have a longer lifetime
- Added 4 new templates: Baby, Beauty (2 colour schemes), Toys, and Furniture
- Added new customer groups functionality allowing customers to be assigned to different groups to receive store wide, category level or product level discounts
- Added the ability to restrict customer groups to only being allowed to view certain categories in the store
- Changed the Froogle (Google Base) product export feeds to have an expiry time of 30 days from the export for the products
- Changed the timeout of the Austrailia Post real time shipping module to be 10 seconds instead of 60
- Changed the GetCountryList function to internally cache the result to save around 9 queries on the "View Cart" page when certain shipping providers were enabled
- Added "Save and Exit" as well as "Save and Add Another" buttons to the "Create New Page" page
- Changed the behavior of the state field on the registration and shipping address pages so that when a state text box was shown, the state is no longer required
- Changed the method that unique visitors are tracked with to only count each visitor once in a 24 hour period
- Changed the method that the 2Checkout payment module uses to pass order information to now include the individual items in an order
- Changed the method that the 2Checkout payment module uses to pass order information to now include details about the purchasing customer

We're powering along and version 3.2 is already well under development. We will be posting features coming in version 3.2 later in the week. For now, existing customers can download the 3.1 release from our client area. If you have any questions please contact us and we'll be more than happy to help.



]]> no@spam.com (Mitchell Harper) http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/390/Interspire-Shopping-Cart-31-Released.html http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/389/Interspire-Shopping-Cart-Screencasts.html screencasts page we've just put up. At the moment it contains 6 screencasts with more coming shortly:

1. Using the logo editor
2. Creating a multi currency store
3. Creating your own home page
4. Order locations using Google Maps
5. Interspire Knowledge Manager integration
6. Interspire Knowledge Manager Active Response System

For those who missed it, Interspire Shopping Cart v3.1 will include these features:

1. Multi currency support with real-time currency conversion rate updates
2. LinkPoint and YourPay payment module
3. Affiliate conversion rate tracking for any 3rd party affiliate software
4. Bulk importing and assignment of tracking numbers with order status updates
5. Customer groups with category/product level discounts and restrictions
6. The ability to hide pricing and show a contact us for pricing link on a per-product basis
7. A new support tab in the control panel which makes it easier to get help
   

We were hoping to include Google Checkout in 3.1 but it's taking a little longer than expected, so it will be included in 3.2 in a few weeks instead.

Update: Over the weekend we uploaded an overview screencast of Interspire Shopping Cart which Mitch voiced over, and so far the screencast has used over 100GB of bandwidth, so please bare with us while we transition the screencast to our Amazon Web Services account for faster streaming.


]]> no@spam.com (James MacGregor) http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/389/Interspire-Shopping-Cart-Screencasts.html http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/388/Reminder-First-Interspire-Shopping-Cart-Webinar-Tomorrow-at-1PM-CDT.html

• How to start selling online with Interspire Shopping Cart
• How to customize Interspire Shopping Cart to meet your needs
• How to drive repeat sales through your online store
• How to use email marketing to complement your new store
• Features unique to Interspire Shopping Cart that you won't find anywhere else
  
• ... and much, much more

The webinar is free to attend and begins at 1PM sharp CDT time. Click here to register.

]]> no@spam.com (James MacGregor) http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/388/Reminder-First-Interspire-Shopping-Cart-Webinar-Tomorrow-at-1PM-CDT.html http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/387/Introducing-the-New-Interspire-Shopping-Cart-Community-Forum.html Interspire Shopping Cart community forum. The forum is a place for customers, partners and those with questions about Interspire Shopping Cart to interact and discuss things such as features, customization, integration, addons, "how to" questions, etc.

Please note that the forum isn't a substitute for support from Interspire, and you should still post all support related questions from the client area so you'll get a speedy response from one of our developers.

Interspire Shopping Cart v3.1 will include a new Support tab which includes links to the knowledge base, community forum and client area, making it even easier to get help when you need it - from directly in your store's control panel.

Thanks for reading and I'll talk to you in the forum!




]]> no@spam.com (James MacGregor) http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/387/Introducing-the-New-Interspire-Shopping-Cart-Community-Forum.html http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/386/A-Sneak-Peek-at-LDAP-Integration-in-Interspire-Knowledge-Manager-v45.html
LDAP integration allows you to use your existing LDAP server (such as Microsoft Active Directory, OpenLDAP, etc) for user authentication and grouping in Interspire Knowledge Manager.

Here's the LDAP settings page in the Interspire Knowledge Manager control panel:



You can choose how tightly the integration will be, as well as whether to sync user account details across LDAP and Interspire Knowledge Manager, etc. Development will finish later this week on LDAP integration, and then we will commence both internal and external testing at customer's beta sites.

If you run LDAP on your network and are interested in beta testing Interspire Knowledge Manager v4.5, please contact us.

Regards,

Mitchell Harper
Product Development Manager
Interspire - Web Software Inspired by You.


]]> no@spam.com (Mitchell Harper) http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/386/A-Sneak-Peek-at-LDAP-Integration-in-Interspire-Knowledge-Manager-v45.html http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/385/Upcoming-Features-and-4-New-Store-Designs-for-Interspire-Shopping-Cart.html New Store Designs

The Interspire Shopping Cart team has been working hard on both new features and new store designs. We recently launched 4 new designs, which you can download from the Download Store Designs tab on the Store Design page in your store's control panel.

Here's a peak at each of the new designs, starting with the fragrance store design:



Next up is the food/wine store design:



Then we have the sports store design:



Finally we have the lingerie store design:



Upcoming features in Interspire Shopping Cart v3.1

After talking to numerous (hundreds) of potential customers over the last few weeks, we've decided to push out a few updates to Interspire Shopping Cart over the next 2-8 weeks, instead of one large v3.5 update as was planned.

Version 3.1 will include two great features - multiple currencies and Google checkout integration. Multiple currencies is coming along nicely, and I've included a few screenshots below. Basically you can enter the currency rate manually or pull it from WebserviceX.net in real time:



Here's the Add a Currency screen so far (work in progress):



I'll post screenshots of Google checkout integration later in the week as it progresses. All of the guys (and girls) in the Interspire Shopping Cart team are working extremely hard to get as many customer-requested features into the upcoming releases as possible, so if you've requested a feature there's a good chance it'll be included in the next few releases being rolled out of the coming 2-8 weeks.

Regards,

Mitchell Harper
Product Development Manager
Interspire - Web Software Inspired by You.



]]> no@spam.com (Mitchell Harper) http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/385/Upcoming-Features-and-4-New-Store-Designs-for-Interspire-Shopping-Cart.html http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/384/Payment-plans-launched-for-Interspire-Shopping-Cart.html
You can learn more about payment plans on the Interspire Shopping Cart pricing page.


]]> no@spam.com (Eddie Machaalani) http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/384/Payment-plans-launched-for-Interspire-Shopping-Cart.html http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/383/Interspire-Shopping-Cart-Released.html After two years of development and five months of beta testing we're proud to announce the immediate release of Interspire Shopping Cart.
 
The product was designed and built based on direct feedback and feature requests from over 500 Interspire customers and existing store owners. On a feature-by-feature basis it has more features than any other e-commerce software on the market.

Features You Won't Find Anywhere Else
 
Interspire Shopping Cart is e-commerce software that includes everything you need to start, run, promote and profit from your online store. It combines easy-to-customize store designs with marketing tools proven to significantly increase your sales.

Beautiful Store Designs Choose from multiple professionally designed store layouts. Easy Shipping & Payment Integration Integrate your store with all major providers. Sell Physical or Digital Products From t-shirts to computers to eBooks and reports. Advanced Product Variations Create variations each with their own price, stock, image, etc.

Drag & Drop Design Mode Arrange your store how you like it using just the mouse. No HTML knowledge required. Built-In Inventory Tracking Choose from multiple inventory tracking options, all tied into your order system. Extensive Use of AJAX Near instant page loads makes it easier to get things done. SendStudio and Knowledge Manager Integration Add email marketing and self-serve FAQ's to your store.

Feedback From Existing Customers

So far the feedback from Interspire Shopping Cart customers has been great. As well as feedback from our end users, we're also working with several larger partners who are impressed with Interspire Shopping Cart's speed, security and integration features.

Here are some of the customer testimonials we've received so far:

“I started out with FrontPage and a free shopping cart and knew I would someday upgrade to more professional products. However, I never thought that I could upgrade my website AND my shopping cart with one product. Enter Interspire Shopping Cart.” - Gary Smith, PolishAndWax.com

“The shopping cart is absolutely awesome! I can't wait to see what features come next. I really hate to tell you that we have spent many years and well more than US$75,000 customizing/using other commercially available catalogue/shopping carts, and finally developing our own custom catalogue. Nothing we have come up with compares to your offering.” - Glenn Stockton, SwingSetMall.com

“So far I have been very impressed with your shopping cart. I operate [an] online store for over 7 years now and usability in front and back end makes your cart definitely top of the line.“ - WinsTsun, Australia

“I’m excited about this product because Interspire has proven themselves over and over again year after year. I’m hard to please too!“ - Openyourstorefront.com

Learn More About Interspire Shopping Cart
 
Take a look at the feature tour, try the online demo, or contact us if you have any questions about Interspire Shopping Cart. We're available by phone or email worldwide to discuss your e-commerce requirements.


]]> no@spam.com (James MacGregor) http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/383/Interspire-Shopping-Cart-Released.html