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When installed, the connector will provide tax calculation services through AbleCommerce using the Avalara AvaTax service. It is a full featured integration that includes tax calculation and address validation. It is compatible with all major features of the AbleCommerce shopping cart, for example quantity discounts, shipping charges, and multiple origin/destination addresses.

Over 40 enhancements and 150 issues have been corrected in version 7.0.4.  A summary of the more notable features includes:

• Chase Paymentech Orbital payment gateway integration (certified on Salem and Tampa platforms)
• Move, delete, and change visibility of catalog items in bulk
• Order Manager search interface improved
• Extend tax interface so that orders can be recalculated
• Allow multiple product templates to be assigned to a product
• Shipping estimate control improved
• Include a UPC field in product feeds
• New Sales Summary report
• New email send and edit feature throughout the merchant admin
• Recurring subscription amount can be taxable
• Improve the Product Templates user interface
• Category display should default sort to admin specified order
• Require user to change password at next login
• Attach or delete digital goods directly to an order
• Improve acquire serial keys feature for ordered digital goods
• Allow directory management for digital goods files
• Improve Manage Subscriptions user interface to view summary and upcoming expirations
• Improve the Edit User interface and a new Purchase History page.
• Added Purchase History report for the customer's account.
• Captcha should be supported on user registration
• Remove Microsoft Enterprise Library database wrapper (program directly against the SQL client)
• Catalog pages now render with a canonical link tag to avoid duplicate content.

July 2010 is the deadline for Phase 5 of the ' Payment Application Security Mandates*'. This VISA mandate states that 'Acquirers must ensure their merchants, VNPs and agents use only PA-DSS compliant applications'. AbleCommerce recommends merchants using a non-compliant solution to start making plans to meet VISA's requirements before the deadline. Using a 3rd party payment system such as Google checkout or Paypal Express may be a solution but will result in decreased sales conversions.

'While other vendors claim to be "PCI compliant", we are one of just a few vendors that are fully PCI PA-DSS v1.2 certified** by an independent 3rd party validation agency.' said Mike Randolph, CEO AbleCommerce. AbleCommerce software was officially PCI certified under the new, and stricter, PA-DSS v1.2 standards on June 1st 2009. AbleCommerce was one of the first shopping cart software products to be certified under the new PA-DSS certification process.

Over 45 enhancements and 115 issues have been corrected in version 7.0.3.  A summary of the more notable features includes:

• Full text search through the entire catalog for customers and admin users.
• Batch editing of any product field.
• Kitting has been totally changed and enhanced:
• Kits can be displayed in the original "bundle" style or a new "itemized" version.
• Itemized kits will support separate tax, shipping, and warehouses for each member product.
• Kits can participate in the reorder feature.
• Custom titles for member products.
• Merchant Order Admin has been improved to allow the re-selection and calculation of shipping charges after an order has been placed.
• Merchants placing orders on behalf of customers will find improvements to the user interface and now have all available payment methods.
• Scriptlets can be copied and customized for each store Theme.
• Product options now have the ability for merchant to specific a header title for the selection set.
• New tax display options for more control over how you wish to display taxes for your customers.
• Search and assign products to tax codes.
• Tax rules now have rounding options.
• Email templates are moved from the database into separate html files that can be easily edited.
• CommerceBuilder string resources are open source to allow for language conversion.
• Custom URL rewriting.
• Minimum and maximum package weights for merchants selling lightweight items.
• Interface to add 3rd-party tax integrations.
• Search and assign products to vendors.
• Installs and upgrades automatically determine database/schema version
• Upgrade FCK Editor to 2.6.4
• Implement an accepted file type filter for asset uploads
• Upgrade Protx Gateway to SagePay
• Upgrade ComponentArt Library to 2008.2 SP4
• Implement Bank of Canada foreign exchange provider
• Make .NET 3.5 Framework Default

After many months of effort and a long delay caused by the change to the new PA-DSS v1.2 certification process, AbleCommerce software is officially PCI certified under the new, and stricter, PA-DSS v1.2 standards. AbleCommerce is one of the first shopping cart software products to be certified under the new PA-DSS certification process. PA-DSS is the Council-managed program formerly under the supervision of the Visa Inc. program known as the Payment Application Best Practices (PABP).

“What a great day for AbleCommerce!” stated Logan Rhodehamel, Able Solutions Corporation's new President, “I received two great pieces of news on the same day! We have official confirmation of our PA-DSS certification and we have won the asp.netPRO Readers' Choice Award for best e-Commerce package.”