Wednesday, December 12. 2007
AgoraCart Pro version 5.5.000, the enhanced version of the popular AgoraCart Open Source ecommerce storefront platform, is now available.
Enhanced features include search engine aware URLs, speed enhancements in dynamic category building and creation of cart session files. 50+ new database fields have been added for customization of order management and future expansion of the AgoraCart order management modules. A new and cleaner look for the web based manager also come with version 5.5.x
More details on the changes from version 5.1.000 to version 5.5.000 can be found at:
http://www.agoracart.com/version_updates.html
Links to the purchase of AgoraCart Pro version licensing, which supports the AgoraCart project directly, can be found by visiting:
http://www.agoracart.com/proforum.htm
Wednesday, February 14. 2007
Budget Lighting Inc recently sponsored, with a financial contribution to the AgoraCart project, the development of a new add-on module for the AgoraCart ecommerce shopping cart system. The new module, suggested selling, will allow a store owner to suggest other items to a store visitor that compliment or are similar to the items being viewed.
Features of the new module include: ability to specify the use of an image in the suggestion either from a list of installed images or manually typing in the image location; use of a product identifier by category of products, an individual product ID, or a unique keyword used within any product range; selection of product page layouts form installed list, and a simple code snippet (agorascript - which is perl in html pages) inserted into the layout(s) of choice in order to display the suggestions.
All functions come from a single file, uploaded from AgoraCart's revolutionary update/upgrade modules manager, that performs all the complete install and directory setups dynamically while saving the initial suggested selling manager settings.
The new module will be available shortly to Booster Pack members / supporters.
Tuesday, December 19. 2006
The Echo payment gateway is now available to current Pro members for use in AgoraCart Pro version 5.1.000 and above.
Thanks to the leg work of an AgoraCart user, named Chad (CDC Warrior), completion of the gateway was expedited. As a result, Chad earned a complimentary lifetime membership to the AgoraCart Pro web site.
Information on becoming a Pro member in order to access AgoraCart Pro is available at: http://www.agoracart.com/proforum.htm
Saturday, September 30. 2006
The long awaited AgoraCart version 5.0.000 is available to the general public. Version 5.0.000, an open source ecommerce solution. offers significant improvements over the prevous 4.0K-4b version, including CSS (cascading style sheets) design controls, greatly enhanced order management, drop-in templates and button sets with online manager/selector, international shipping with the new USPS (United States Postal Service) module, ability to have layout/header/footer files per category just by dropping them into the html-templates directory of the store, and more security. Version 5.0.000 is has a nifty module updater that allows you to update core program files that are typically not customized by most users, which results in easier upgrades saving store operators a lot of time and hassles.
This is a quantum leap forward over the previous version that was released in late 2002. There are so many features that have been updated that it does not look much like the AgoraCart of the past.
Downloads are only in tarball forms: .tgz and .tar.gz. Semi-automated installer and upgrader scripts will be available by mid-October 2006.
Check out the new version. You can dowload the new version on the download page at AgoraCart.com
Tuesday, September 19. 2006
We are proud to announce that USA ePay has sponsored the development of a new payment processing gateway package this past week. This new payment gateway is a great addition to the payment gateway line up that AgoraCart already supports. The new gateway is available now for AgoraCart version 5.1.000 Pro and will be available to 5.0.0 users when that release/version is ready for the public. Gateway files for version 4.0K-4b will also be available within the week for users of the well established 4.0K-4b series offered by thousands Cpanel based web hosting companies.
About USA ePay
USA ePay is a full-service ECI and Retail certified payment gateway which supports the First Data Nashville, TSYS [Vital, Paymentech and Global platforms. USA ePay, is a PCI compliant gateway and is certified with the Visa USA CISP and MasterCard SDP programs. The gateway supports the Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode programs. The USA ePay gateway also carries the basic features of Address Verification System, CVV2 and CVC, Recurring Billing and a free developer’s library on their website. For more information, please visit www.usaepay.com or call 866.USA.EPAY (872-3729).
Wednesday, May 3. 2006
Howdy,
Cpanel has enhanced the interface that installs and manages initial installations AgoraCart from within the Cpanel environment.
If you have access to the latest and greatest versions of cpanel via your hosting account, you will find the ability to upgrade your store as Cpanel updates their core files, the ability to move or copy your store to another directory (duplication and moving with the click of a link), and a cleaner interface.
All in all, it's very nice and adds more functionality in managing your initial AgoraCart based store installations.
Mister Ed
Monday, April 24. 2006
After a year of discussion and study, and in anticipation of the AgoraCart version 5.0.0 release, the manuals and documentation for AgoraCart, a ecommerce shopping solution, has been moved to a wiki format at AgoraCart.com . The new wiki format will allow users of AgoraCart to contribute to and improve, in meaningful ways, the much needed documentation.
Powered by MediaWiki, the existing manual pages and guides were converted to wiki format earlier this month. The new wiki format will allow users of AgoraCart to contribute to and improve, in meaningful ways, the much needed documentation for the Open Source software project.
The new location of the manual and guides is located at:
http://www.agoracart.com/agorawiki/
Experienced users of AgoraCart are encouraged to contribute to the manuals and/or make a request to become a moderator of the documentation to maintain it's integrity. Editors are standing by, so all skill levels of the written word are welcome if any person wanting to contribute needs assistance.
In the end, the new documentation format will be a giant step forward in making AgoraCart easier to use for those that are newer to online marketing.
Saturday, February 18. 2006
K-Factor Technologies, Inc is pleased to announce that the long awaited AgoraCart Version 5.0.0 Release Candidate One (5.0.0 RC1) was released today, February 18th, through it's membership program. Agoracart is an Open Source based shopping cart targeting small businesses and runs on Linux/Unix based servers.
This intial Version 5.0.0 release has been three years in the making and includes massive feature overhauls such as: improved UPS and USPS shipping, order management, better navigation, improved organization of the online management features, increased security, a new template structure that allows for complete customization or use of standard templates, a thorough CSS implementation, a version upgrade manager, and many more features.
AgoraCart supporters and members may download a copy of the cart distribution and install file at http://www.AgoraCartPro.com in the members only download sections.
Release Candidate One only comes with the Offline payment gateway enabled. Other gateways are to be updated and added with each Release Candidate.
The final Version of AgoraCart 5.0.0 is slated for release in March 2006 and will be available for free download at http://www.AgoraCart.com .
Thursday, February 2. 2006
Today marks the 5th year AgoraCart.com has been online.
Originally the site was rolled out as the only authorized tech support site for the Agora.cgi Shopping Cart project. After the original domain name (agoracgi.com) for the project was hijacked for domain aftermarket speculation by Network Solutions, AgoraCart.com became the new online home for the project in 2002. The project was subsequently renamed from Agora.cgi to AgoraCart shortly thereafter.
Since becoming home to the AgoraCart Shopping Cart project, which is Open Source Software written in the PERL programming language, AgoraCart.com has seen dramatic growth in unique visitors, now topping 928,000 as of today. Though these metrics are small compared to some sites, it was never imagined that the site would become so popular, let alone that the shopping cart would become a popular ecommerce mainstay worldwide.
All of us involved in the project, from keeper of the code to the many volunteers working the various user forums would like to thank all those that have supported the project financially and with time contributions as well as for supporting the service providers that promote and use AgoraCart. Thank you for helping AgoraCart become a success.
Thursday, December 15. 2005
A new look for AgoraCart's website, AgoraCart.com, is under way. After reviewing useability of the site for new visitors, many changes were put into development to improve the navigation of AgoraCart.com.
Changes include CSS attributes that fill a visitors screen no matter what size of monitor or resolution they use, a new header at the top, and a new menu system on the left side navigation bars.
Changes will take several week as the complete site is converted to the new design, as well as the performing of updates to much of the content to ensure it is all up to date. The online manual areas will be updated after the release of a production distribution of AgoraCart version 5.0.0
As a result, users should be able to navigate and find where they wish to go more easily and not be overwhelmed by the massive number of links, especially on the left side of the site.
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