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What's new in Photo Cart 5
 
Taxes

Charge tax by zip code. You can upload a spread sheet of zip codes  and tax rates.
Admin -> Settings > Tax

If you are charging VAT , you have the option to show pricing including VAT
Admin -> Settings > Tax

Checkout shows taxable total on the page.

Ability to tax or not tax "image options"

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Discounting

New tiered discounting on single image prints.
The new tiered discounting means you can charge different prices on multiple prints on the same image & size

For example: 1st 5x7 at $10.00. Second one at $8.00. 3 or more at $7.00

You can create quantity discount description that are shown to the customer.

NEW discount all images in a size.
Now you can offer discounting on multiple prints of different images in the same size. For example, the more they purchase of a 5x7, the cheaper they become.

Have the quantity discount chart automatically display or have them click to open and view.

Set specific early bird discount end date per gallery

Option to include gallery items or not in the early bird discount

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New Options

The options for standard products and packages have totally been redesigned.
1) Offer a standard select list, text field or graphic select list.
The graphic select list give them images to click to make their selection.
2) You can create a default value for options
3) you can make options required in any section
4) if an option is required and they don’t select something, they receive a message right on the page.
5) You can copy options from one item to others.
6) For custom packages you can make an option that determines how many images are included in the package.

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Batch editing
New batch editing for galleries, images, and pricing.

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Watermarking
New watermarking option to watermark display and / or zoom images. This allows you to not watermark the display image and watermark the zoom image.
Admin -> Settings > Watermarking

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Galleries
Offer a free image download with options of which size & to watermark or not, on a per gallery basis.

New hover over thumbnail image information for admin

Keywords for searching images in a gallery

Reads IPTC data on upload for Title, Caption, and Keywords  (if exif is supported in PHP with your hosting company).

Read EXIF on upload for date / time taken (if exif is supported in PHP with your hosting company).

Upload a separate gallery preview image.

Total gallery sales when viewing a gallery.

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Product  & Pricing

New labeling within a price group for standard products & packages. This allows you to separate types of products in the same price group. For example, Standard prints, canvas prints.

You can offer the "Zoom" and “Display” size images for automatic download.

Price groups show the total of galleries assigned to it.

You can list galleries based on Price Groups from the pricing section.

You can disable the "Image Options" for individual products in the a la cart pricing.

You can disable the "Coloring Options" for individual products in the a la cart pricing.

New option to mark product as a digital item but not downloadable.

Print Credits
Admin -> Pricing > Print Credits

Batch duplication of coupons
Admin -> Pricing > Coupons

Export coupons and print credits
Admin -> Pricing > Print Credits
Admin -> Pricing > Coupons

Batch editing of packages

Max quantity selection for products.
Admin -> Pricing > Select Price Group : Edit Price Group

You can add a sample image or images to packages.

Now when offering packages that includes only 1 image,  it will automatically add the current image to the package.

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Customer side functionality

New thumbnail menu at bottom of view image page. This can also be disabled
Admin -> Settings > Gallery & Image Layout

When Add to cart & view gallery restriction is set to Must be logged in to cart but not view images, it doesn’t show the pricing, but message to log in or register.
Admin -> Settings > Basic Settings

When a customer logs in and has galleries in their “My Pictures”, it will automatically show them and most recent galleries (if public) on the home page.

New functions for add to favorites and compare images

Invite family and friends from all galleries (not just private ones)

Zoom images are now dynamically displayed on the same page.

Zoom images also retain viewed crop and color options
Customer can delete all favorites at one time.

Customer can bulk order same size images from favorite.

New gallery information section where you can create a paragraph about the gallery above the thumbnails that shows how many images, when the gallery expires, invite link.

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New miscellaneous  file section
Conveniently upload miscellaneous files and create links or image source tags.
Admin -> Misc. Files

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Email Logs
Any emails sent from Photo Cart are now logged and viewable from the Customers section.
Admin -> Customers > Email logs

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Price Format
Admin -> Settings > Website Text & Pages: Currency & Price Format

Option to change the display format of prices.

Trim zeors in price display: This feature trims off the .00 of the price of products  and shopping cart view until the checkout stage. Just makes a nice clean look if you are not pricing cents. Example $25  instead of $25.00.

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Style & Category Styles
Create a new header and footer for each style template

Select a style template for categories and display for galleries in that category. Also when a style is in a category, the style remains to the customer until they view another category or gallery without a style select.

This allows for you to create branding on your Photo Cart based on category.

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Admin Settings

You can change the name of your admin folder if you like. To do so:
1) Via a FTP program or file manager, rename the current admin folder to what you like.
2) In the setup.php file in the main Photo Cart folder, change the following line:

$setup['admin_folder'] = "admin";

Change where currently admin (inside the double quotes) to the new name of your admin folder.

Manage.php file now resides in the admin folder.

Every admin login is recorded with login  date / time & IP address
Admin > Home page

Choice of admin color, dark or light.
Admin -> Settings > Admin Settings

When you are logged into the admin, you don't have to enter in access codes for private galleries

Option to change how filename are spearated when exporting filenames from an order.
Orders > View order


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Customers

View all recent favorites added
Admin -> Customers > Recent Favorites

View all shopping carts
Admin -> Customers > Shopping Carts

Ability to empty customer's shopping cart from admin

Records customer's last IP address.

Orders capture the customer's IP address


Other

New database backup utility

Gallery stats won’t count admin

 


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