“CS-Cart 4.2.2 this is a maintenance release.”

CS-Cart 4.2.2 is highly customizable software, it provides full access to the source code, and there are no encrypted files in it.

Thanks to this it is possible to make any changes, integrations and modifications according to the users’ specific needs.

CS-Cart 4.2.2 is built using PHP and MySQL, AJAX technologies are utilized as well.

Design architecture of CS-Cart 4.2.2 is based on Smarty template engine that, along with completely CSS-based template layout, makes it very simple to change the look-and-feel of the storefront.

Apart from a bundle of features and add-ons, included into the software by default, there are many add-ons and themes, created by third-party developers, which are listed in CS-Cart Marketplace (http://marketplace.cs-cart.com/)

Changes Details

• Translations of the profile field names were moved to PO-file.
• Addons: Banner details notes were added.
• API: Auth: Notify parameter was added.
• Orders: Order details page: Customer notes textarea was moved to the central box.
• PHPMailer: “Use Encrypted Connection” settings were added for SMTP server settings.
• Administration: The Users item was removed from the Customers menu.
• Storefront: Quantity: Min value in the quantity input field could be less than one. Fixed.
• Banners: Banners were not shown in some cases if the default language was English. Fixed.
• Addons: Comments and reviews: The rating parameter on the categories page was calculated based on all reviews, including not approved ones. Fixed.
• Addons: Comments and reviews: Empty thread was not created for new companies. Fixed.
• Addons: Ebay: Error message appeared when “no image” picture was uploaded via HTTPS. Fixed.
• Addons: Reward points: Reward points were not recalculated in the user menu in the storefront until the page was reloaded. Fixed.
• Addons: Tags: Add tags did not work with UTF8 characters. Fixed.
• Back-end: Search: Search did not work when admin added product and continued the search. Fixed.
• Basic theme: Contact us form was displayed incorrectly in a popup window. Fixed.
• Checkout: Credit card validation did not work. Fixed.
• Dropdown vertical menu: Submenu was positioned incorrectly if it was wider than its parent menu. Fixed.
• Exim: Quantity discounts: Usergroup was set incorrectly. Fixed.
• File Uploader: The “File could not be uploaded” error was displayed when uploading files through the Server button from subdirectories. Fixed.
• Multi-Vendor: Admin was not redirected to the vendor details page after creating a new vendor. Fixed.
• Multi-Vendor: Themes: Active theme could be removed. Fixed.
• Name-based product sorting was unstable if the product owner name was different from the shared name. Fixed.
• Order management: Payment surcharge was not displayed when editing/adding order, but the order total was increased after creation. Fixed.
• Payments: Paypal: Shipping tax was applied twice if the “Tax calculation method based on” options was set to “Unit price”. Fixed.
• Payments: Skrill: 404 error appeared if customer clicked ‘Cancel’ on the payment side. Fixed.
• Payments: Cardsave: Diacritical symbols were transferred to the payment system incorrectly. Fixed.
• Payments: Paypoint XML: Special characters were not encoded before sending to the payment system. Fixed.
• Price-based product sorting was incorrect in some case if the product owner price was different from the shared one. Fixed.
• Products: If a product was shared to several storefronts and then its original storefront was deleted, the product became uneditable. Fixed.
• Promotions: There was no text field to input value for Features->Text. Fixed.
• Responsive theme: If product tab had shipping estimation block then product page scrolled to this block. Fixed.
• Shippings: Products with the inner “Exclude from calculation” flag (Free or Bonus products) were considered when calculating shipping price. Fixed.
• Store import: company_id for the features SEO names were not reset to 0. Fixed.
• Store import: Customers were unable to complete checkout if the store was populated with data via Store Import and the Title profile field was enabled. Fixed.
• Store import: Import failed if new tables had no prefix. Fixed.
• Translation mode did not process language variables with dot in names. Fixed.
• Add-on language value re-defined by storefronts were not removed when uninstalling add-on. Fixed.
• Search: JavaScript pagination broke the search string if the string contained UTF8 characters. Fixed.
• Storefronts could change statuses for Countries, States, Taxes and Locations. Fixed.
• User profiles: Custom profile fields data was not removed when deleting user. Fixed.
• Addons: Email Marketing: Mailchimp synchronization did not work in some cases. Fixed.
• Multi-Vendor: Files editor: Vendor could edit theme files. Fixed.
• Pagination did not work in IE9. Fixed.
• Product tabs for disabled add-ons were displayed in the Product tabs list. Fixed.
• Products: 404 error appeared when user tried to unsubscribe from product notifications. Fixed.
• Widget mode: Automatic redirection to the products page occured when the ‘filter product by price’ block was on a page. Fixed.
• Console mode: set_time_limit for console mode was reset by config file. Fixed.
• Layouts: Block statuses: “Disable for” products sections did not save selected products. Fixed.
• Suppliers: Order management: Suppliers shippings were not re-calculated after deleting the supplier’s product. Fixed.
• fn_get_products did not return “full_description” for products if short description was specified. Fixed.
• Styles of the discussion did not pass W3C validation. Fixed.
• Responsive: Social buttons: Social buttons showed twice on detail product page. Fixed.
• Addons: SEO: Rich snippets: Rating-related tags were generated if product had no rating. Fixed.
• Styles of product options did not pass W3C validation. Fixed.
• Addons: SEO: Trailing slash was missing in the URLs. Fixed.

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“CS-Cart 4.1.5 a maintenance update released.”

CS-Cart is the best shopping cart solution for building an ecommerce website of any size: from a small web store to a virtual shopping mall.

A ready storefront, support for many payment and shipping options, full inventory control, unlimited products, promotional tools, and other ecommerce software features out-of-the-box.

CS-Cart shopping cart software offers a search engine friendly environment that involves the tableless layout, customizable META tags, friendly URLs and Google sitemap.

This all contributes well to the proper indexing of your web store and generally improves its ranking among the popular search engines like Google, Yahoo! Search and Bing.

Changes Details

• Core: TPL hooks: New hooks ‘orders:totals_shipping’ and ‘orders:totals_payment’ added.
• Languages: If an error occurs during PO parsing, the parser now returns the erroneous line number.
• Orders: Shipments: Carrier name added to shipping information.
• Payment methods: “Alpha Bank” payment method added.
• Payment methods: Payflow Pro: Currencies support added.
• Admin panel: Store management: The same theme is now used for cloned store as for the original one.
• Free mode: Ability to install themes from the “themes_repository” directory added.
• Multi-Vendor: Filter by vendor now supports the “More” link and “View all” options.
• Themes: Manifest: The “theme” param renamed to “logo”. The “theme” parameter will be supported up to verion 4.4.
• URL validation: “(” and “)” symbols are now considered valid.
• Addons: Data feed: SQL error occurred if the admin defined a category with no products to export. Fixed.
• Addons: Ebay: PayPal was not selected by default for the categories with PaypalRequired flag. Fixed.
• Addons: Ebay: Product features with the “Others->Text” type were not exported to Ebay. Fixed.
• Addons: Ebay: Shipping cost was rounded to int value. Fixed.
• Addons: Gift certificates: Gift certificate page logo was not added for Responsive theme. Fixed.
• Addons: Google analytics: Tracking code was not in the <head> section. Fixed.
• Addons: Google export: Features not related to Google were removed during addon uninstallation. Fixed.
• Addons: Required products: PHP error notification was shown if a product with a required product was addded to cart, and the cart had been empty. Fixed.
• Addons: Store import: Spain states overwrote custom states. Fixed.
• Addons: Suppliers: An “Unassigned” shipping method was not selected for “unassigned” products. Fixed.
• Addons: Suppliers: Shared suppliers were not displayed for non-onwer stores. Fixed.
• Addons: Watermarks: Object (category, product) images were not displayed in the customer area if appropriate checkboxes were not enabled on the add-on setting page. Fixed.
• Admin panel: Submitting the search form with Enter keypress did not work. Fixed.
• Admin panel: The “Rebuild cache automatically” scroller was not re-inited after cloning theme. Fixed.
• Admin panel: The Administration menu items could not be viewed on screens with resolution less than 1400 x 900. Fixed.
• Design: HTML tags were displayed in the testimonials block. Fixed.
• Design: Top menu: Full-width submenus were mispositioned if the parent menu had two rows. Fixed.
• Filters: The “Display all links” option was not shown on the filter creation page. Fixed.
• Languages: 3-letter PO-packages were not installed properly. Fixed.
• Languages: Empty “Available languages” tab was displayed after installing any new language. Fixed.
• Multi-Vendor: Filters: Filters by company did not work properly on the “View all” page. Fixed.
• Order management: Changing amount of products in a order had no effect on the product stock. Fixed.
• Order management: If an order had a product with free shipping, the shipping price was applied to the order total on saving the order changes, which increased the order total. Fixed.
• Order management: If an order had a promotion discount, manually defined discount could not be specified. Fixed.
• Orders: Country name was sent in an incorrect language if several languages were installed and default language was not English. Fixed.
• Orders: Purchased product amount could be incorrect if the product was included in several categories. Fixed.
• Payment methods: DPS Access: Order notifications were sent twice per order. Fixed.
• Payment methods: Westpac: Title of products with the ” symbol were truncated to this symbol when the product data was submitted for processing. Fixed.
• Payments: Taxes: If customer had the “Tax exempt” option enabled and the payment had a surcharge, tax was still calculated for such payments. Fixed.
• Promotions: If two promotions gave the same free product, only the first promotion was applied. Fixed.
• Promotions: Order management: Promotion with the “Once per customer” condition was deleted on order saving. Fixed.
• Promotions: User groups: The “User group” label was shown in email even if the customer was not in any user group. Fixed.
• Shared products: Product owner could be changed when updating category from storefront. Fixed.
• Shipping methods: Temando: The Suburb field was unreadable when calculating shipping. Fixed.
• Shipping: Packages could be split incorrectly if Shipping params had “Min items in box” option specified. Fixed.
• Shipping: State name was escaped incorrectly on shipping estimation. Fixed.
• Shipping: The “Max box weight” option did not work. Products were not split by packages. Fixed.
• Upgrade: SQL error appeared during upgrade if table prefix started from a number. Fixed.
• Payment methods: Ideal basic: Gift certificates were ignored. Fixed.
• Addons: Data feed: The Detailed image URL field was exported with the “https” prefix if the “Enable secure connection in the administration panel” option was enabled. Fixed.
• Order management: Email notifications were sent even if the respective checkbox was unchecked. Fixed.
• Promotions: Product name was displayed as [Object object] on the Bonuses page if Condition page and Bonus page had the same product as condition. Fixed.
• Addons: Required products: A product was not added to cart if its required product was assigned to several categories. Fixed.
• Payment methods: PayPal Express: Subtotal was calculated incorrectly when tax was applied and it was calculated based on unit price. Fixed.
• Sequential options: Radio-group option values were not displayed on the cart content page. Fixed.
• API: Products: There was no ability to create product with zero price. Fixed.
• Addons: Hybrid Auth: Customer was redirected to the home page from any page where they had logged in. Fixed.
• Act on behalf: Cart content could be calculated incorrectly immediately after redirect to storefront if the customer had a discount on the products in cart. Fixed.
• Design: Scroller product template: If width of an image was less than width of the block then scroller was not shown. Fixed.
• Orders: All available downloadable products for several orders were displayed in a single order for a customer. Fixed.
• File compression: Archive with several dots in name could not be created properly. The name was trimmed to the first dot. Fixed.

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