Interspire Shopping Cart 4 Released! Take Phone Orders, Bulk Discount Pricing, Gift Wrapping and More

Hi everyone. I'm blogging to tell you that today marks the official launch of Interspire Shopping Cart version 4. This is a major product upgrade which our developers have worked extremely hard on.

The main focus of version 4 was to make it even easier for anyone to sell online, regardless of technical ability. We also wanted to increase the number of different industries which could use Interspire Shopping Cart to sell online. We've done that by including features specific to different industries, as shown in the feature list below.

Version 4 is available for purchase from our web site right now and includes the following new features:

• Ability to add/edit orders in the control panel
• Ability to add/edit customers in the control panel
• Support for 20+ new payment gateways (see the list)
• Bulk/quantity discounts on a per-product level
• The ability to mark individual items in an order as shipped one at a time
• Gift wrapping and the ability to choose if individual products support it
• Ability to upload an image and/or type text into a box when adding a product to your cart (for custom t-shirts, etc)
• Line item shipping (option for different shipping addresses for each item in the cart)
• 10 new, industry-specific store templates
• Ability to tag products with keywords and view the tag cloud on the front end
• Product variations can now edited once created and are 5x faster
• RoyalMail shipping integration
• Customers can add a note when placing an order
• Improved QuickBooks support and synching
• Login as a customer from the control panel
• UPS Online tools shipping quotes
• Delayed authorized/capture for Authorize.net and PayPal
  

New Store Designs

As usual, we've also been busy working on new store designs. Version 4 includes 10 new designs, which of course can be downloaded from your store's control panel after installing/upgrading to version 4:


Software


Gadgets


Fashion (Jewelery)


Skincare


Office


Luggage


Watches


Kitchenware


Nightwear


Shoes

Increased Product Limits

With the release of version 4.0 we've also substantially increased the number of products you can add to your store in each edition:

• Starter edition has increased from 50 to 100 products
• Professional edition has increased from 500 to 5,000 products
• Ultimate edition has increased from 100,000 to unlimited products

Existing customers can simply get their new license key from the client area and paste it into the license key field on the Settings -> Store Settings page of their shop's control panel to immediately increase their product limit!

How to Upgrade

Existing Interspire Shopping Cart customers will receive version 4 as a free upgrade. To upgrade, follow these steps:

1. Download version 4 from the client area
2. Backup your existing store files to your computer using an FTP client
   
3. Upload the version 4 files over your existing files
4. Go to www.yourstore.com/admin and the upgrade wizard will start
5. Click the "Start Upgrade" button to upgrade your store

Please note: Version 4 includes significant changes to template files. You *MUST* update your templates files for all new features to function correctly.

How to Purchase

You can learn more about our e-commerce software on our website and also see pricing or purchase online.