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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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