June 2012     •     Volume 18     •     Issue 1

Price Increase on July 1st

We've kept the same low price of $995 for nearly a decade, however we need to increase the price to offset the increased cost of development as the scope of the product has increased over the years.  Effective July 1st the base price of AbleCommerce will increase to $1295.00 and the Annual Software Subscription will increase to $395.00.

AbleCommerce 8 Pre-release special

Through June purchase AbleCommerce 7.0.7 for $995.00 and receive a free 1 year subscription which includes an upgrade to version 8.  That is a $694.00 savings over our new pricing effective July 1st.  Place your order for AbleCommerce AbleCommerce and we will add on the free subcription for every copy you order through June!

AbleCommerce 8 Technical Highlights

AbleCommerce 8 is all about bringing the best Asp.Net shopping cart in line with current technologies.  Our core API has been rewritten using technologies like NHibernate, Castle Windsor, and Lucene.  We have incorporated over 600 (and counting) automated integration tests to verify that our software meets higher standards of quality.  We have also upgraded our web scripts to the Web Application Project architecture to provide faster startup times with the pre-compiled website.

Developers and custom site designers alike will appreciate our restructured scripts that make better use of standard asp.net technologies and less use of proprietary techniques.  Master pages make it easy to make global changes to layout or design, and our WC3 valid HTML provides plenty of hooks for designers to make your website fit your unique company image with CSS.  One look at our sample store themes and you will see the wide variety of look and feel that can be applied without any changes to our source code!

AbleCommerce 8 Feature Highlights

  • Improved HTML - no table layouts, more CSS friendly, and retail scripts are w3c valid

  • Much faster product searches without requiring SQL Server Full Text Services

  • All new store themes

  • Reorgranized admin with easier access to important management tasks

  • Updated user account management with tabbed interface

  • Improved image gallery for product browsing

  • Redesigned checkout experience

  • Merchants can now process refunds of gift certificates

  • Easier entry of meta keywords and descriptions for products and other web content

  • New tabbed interfaces for order and product management

  • Capture payments from the main order screen

  • All new features for managing website content.

  • Import and export store themes

  • Make changes to your store theme with the new CSS editor

  • Customize your page layouts with the new layout manager

  • Orders can now be deleted by superuser admins

  • Valid payment is now required for an order to be submitted

  • Choice of 3 new Admin themes

FedEx Web Services Patch

On May 31st, 2012 FedEx discontinued their older API that integrates with AbleCommerce 7.0.x. You must install this patch to  upgrade to the latest version of FedEx Web Services. Additionally you must configure a new shipping gateway and create new shipping methods for it

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