Change Log

HikaShop 2.1.3

Release date : May, 3 2013

Bug fixes

There was a query issue in the filtering system for the filter module on the product page with the related products module activated
The system was not always staying on the checkout when a product was removed from the cart on the checkout even though other products were still in the cart
We removed the warning PHP message when using the custom fields 'customtext'
We fixed a query error with category listing modules synchronized with the content based on the product categories on the product page with variants
We fixed the selection of the product on "product page" and "comparison page" type menu items
We fixed some potential issues on the bootstrap popups.
We fixed the "inherit" value handling for the "ordering direction" option of category listing modules which was producing a query error.
We removed the "cart to wishlist convert button display" option which was present twice in the configuration
We fixed an issue with the tax category during the import
We fixed an issue with chosen on Joomla 3.0 whereby the preview of the custom field was not working for dropdowns
We fixed an issue with the product prices calculations for the cart module
We fixed a display issue with filters on custom fields in some rare cases
We fixed an issue with the delete icon from the cart module which could potentially display the add to cart popup notice
The PayPal Pro plugin now handles coupons properly
We now hide the button to display multiple carts if the option multiple cart is disabled
We corrected an issue to set the default currency for the MSRP price
The frequency option of the "out of stock", "order auto cancel" and "waitlist notify" was not taken into account and the plugins were triggered for each cron beat.
We fixed the DS constant being undefined on Joomla 3.1 for some plugins
We added a fix for the options display related to the sale end setup of the variants
We corrected the suppression of the votes for the product type
We solved a problem with the created date on the akeeba subscriptions plugin
We added additional checks to avoid issues with ordering direction's inherit value on listings
We fixed a filtering conflict between the product gallery and the product listing
We corrected some problems related on the cart/wishlist popup, and module
We corrected the title tag in backend which had html tags because of some code change in latest versions of Joomla 2.5

Improvements

The MIGS payment plugin has been updated to handle ticket information display in pay mode
You can now create custom fields of the type "link"
The canonical product URLs can now be different per language
We don't display the "the order will be process when the payment is received" anymore in the order creation notification for the orders with the collect on delivery payment selected
We added a check to make sure that the users are logged in order to use the wishlists
We improved the javascript calls for custom fields to use the same domain and protocol than the current url
The "No SSL outside checkout" plugin now handles better the popups during the checkout
We added the possibility to filter the products by category on the falang translations listing thanks to james
We improved some css properties for the comments part to be adapted for small resolutions
The products copy button is now available for all the editions

New features

We added an option to display or not the badges in the modules/menus displaying product listings
There is now an option to deactivate the chosen library on the frontend
We added the CECA payment plugin which was donated for integration in HikaShop by dyvymtvar (Thanks !)
We added a payment plugin for the Amazon FPS payment gateway
We added a payment plugin for the eSelect/Moneris payment gateway

HikaShop 2.1.2

Release date : April, 9 2013

Bug fixes

The custom user fields were not displaying on the joomla profile edition page on Joomla 3.0
We fixed a detailed tax calculation issue with coupons with fixed amounts
We also fixed a rounding issue in some cases with the detailed tax calculation system
We fixed the products listing bottom pagination in "table" display when the "number of items" is different from the default 20 elements
The quarterly period of limits was not working properly
We changed the classes name "hiakshop_slider_button" to "hikashop_slider_button"
We removed an error with the vote for products without a name in the listings
A translation was missing for the waitlist feature
We added a fix in the xmap plugin to avoid query issues when menus having non valid categories
We now properly handle the current language for the facebook buttons in xfbml mode
We removed the option "Canonical URL" for the variants as it is not needed
The retail price is now taken from the main product if not set in the variant
We fixed bug with "no registration" mode leading to users not able to register several times with the same email address since 2.1.1
We fixed some warnings with the acymailing integration plugin
We fixed the sorting of comments on the frontend
We fixed the quantity update calculations for the ordering of several variants of the same product in some cases
We removed some warning messages with the HikaShop product tag insertion plugin
The retail price could potentially be displayed in some rare cases in the cart and wishlist modules
We've modified the HikaShop menu because the JSN PowerAdmin component was removing the HikaShop menu bar on Joomla 3.0
We added a condition to hide the wishlist button to unregistered users, if the option is enabled
We fixed a problem with the user account creation admin notification whereby both the user and the admin got the email instead of only the admin
Carousel bug corrected for IE 7, images were not hidden outside the carousel div
We updated the waitlist notifier to handle variants
The path was not correct in some cases for the pc.x and pathfile files generated by the ATOS plugin
We added the state of Mexico for the Mexico country
We fixed a redirect link to the dashboard after a widget options saving
We fixed an error with the carts listing display which was happening only in some rare cases
We fixed the shipping methods auto-selection through the checkout in some rare cases
The products code could potentially be displayed twice on the invoice
The "show faces" option of the social network plugin was not taken into account properly when using the xfbml mode
When a product was added the first time in the cart it was displaying the wishlist popup in some cases
We removed notive when saving a custom field with the type customtext
The Akeeba Subscriptions pluginnow properly handle the timezone based on the joomla options for the dates of the subscriptions
We fixed a bug with the delete button of price cursor filters
We fixed an issue with the selection of the products with menu items of the type "product comparison"
We fixed an error in some rare cases with custom order fields display on the admin notification email
We now get the thumbnail size from the config to display a product in a joomla content
We removed a fatal error when a class hikashopBridgeView was declared somewhere else than in the helper
We fixed the fedex plugin language override strings which were not added properly

Improvements

We now handle multiple selection of values of custom fields for dynamic filters
The product listings now display "choose options" when the products have custom item fields and that the "Display custom item fields" option is turned off on the listing
We added the price display with or without tax depending on the option for the cart display page's total price display
We renamed the alertpay plugin to payza
We updated the jQuery library to the latest version
We added a new trigger for emails: onMailListing
The ReCaptcha plugin now supports Akeeba Subscriptions' form
You can now enter negative decimal values for rounding in the currencies
The vote system in HikaShop was improved to be able to handle votes from other extensions (for HikaMarket vendors rating for example)
We now deactivate the "after initialization" option of the affiliate plugin by default to avoid issues with template selection per menu
We now display the cubic character for volume units on the shipping methods volume restrictions unit selection dropdown
The dynamic display of filters now also works for filters in the filter module
The URL used by the MIGS plugin can not be modified by the user
We improved the content elements files for JoomFish and Falang regarding the translation of images, files and badges
We now handle the site name display in the page title when the page title is entered for products and categories

New features

We added a new option to badges in order to be able to display badges based on the quantity of the products
We added the support of Joomla Multi Sites in order to have different categories of products for different virtual websites (require the latest version of Joomla Multi Sites)
We added an option to display the product images in the cart module
We added a canonical URL option for categories & brands
You can now disallow some shipping methods for some products when using the option "Use price per product"
The AcyMailing integration can now be used to send emails automatically to users after X days with an order not confirmed ( that way you can discuss with the user on why he couldn't pay and potentially increase conversion)
The MIGS payment plugin now handles both the VPC DPS method and the VPC Pay method

HikaShop 2.1.1

Release date : March, 12 2013

Bug fixes

We fixed the user address deletion when user is deleted from the Joomla user manager
There was a warning in a special case with discounts
We fixed HTML tags on user edition form in some cases on Joomla 3.0
There was a caching issue on the backend when creating new orders
The vote form on the backend had some minor HTML issues
If the UPS plugin couldn't establish a connection to the UPS server to calculate the shipping rates, the error message code was actually producing an error
Some things have been fixed in the AliPay plugin
Several fixes have been added to the add to cart process
We fixed an issue which would change the active menu on the category listing page when not needed
We added a fix to force the prices used for calculations to be the ones for which the price_min_quantity match with the quantity of the product in the cart
We now use the alias instead of product name in URLs for the xmap integration and in the cart of the checkout when the alias is provided
The USPS/UPS plugins weight calculations have been improved
We fixed detailed tax calculations with coupons in some cases
We removed some notices ont he cart display page in some cases
The proceed to checkout link in mini cart mode for the wishlist module is not displayed anymore as it doesn't make sense
We added some code to avoid loops on auto load coupons when loading the cart in some rare case
We fixed the credit card slider in some special case where there was a javascript error
We fixed the main product price update after a copy of a product with variants as it was not working properly
We don't check the limits if the product is added to a wishlist, we do it only for when it's added to a cart
We fixed the category selection in the module category listings in some specific case
Several fixes have been done to the table type widgets/reports
We added a fix to the add to cart for products included in joomla articles when the hikashop cart module is not displayed on the page
We now refresh shipping/payment methods when a product is added to the cart where before it could potentially create shipping/payment mehtods display issues on the checkout
We fixed the current URL retrieval on some specific sever configurations
We fixed options ordering issues in some edge cases
The comments were quoted twice on the frontend in some cases
We fixed the pay link in the order creation email
The onAfterCartUpdate trigger was not triggered in all cases after a cart modification
The minimum number of products option of coupons now use the quantity of the products in the cart and not the main quantity of the products
We changed the state field ajax URL to not use SEF as it can sometimes lead to issues with SEF
We fixed the generation of thumbnails in some specific cases
There was a bug when editing a waitlist on the backend and that the waitlist was for a variant of a product
The badges image thumbnail was not displaying properly on the badge edition form
There was a bug where the cart was not cleared at the end of the checkout when products in the cart were free and the confirmation email sent
We fixed the option button on the dashboard on Joomla 2.5
We fixed the "with tax" option of the manual shipping plugin

Improvements

Do not display the product option anymore if all the variants of the option are not available (not stock/unpublished) anymore.
The ePay.dk plugin has been updated (for people using that plugin who are updating, please configure again the plugin after the update as some options changed)
The WorldPay Business gateway URL has been updated with the new one recommended by WorldPay
The pagination system has been reworked to be able to display the number of items per page dropdown even when the template's pagination doesn't support it
We now display a wishlist popup when adding a product in the wishlist, instead of the cart popup
There is now a rebuild button on the categories listing of the backend to rebuild the whole category tree (useful when the data in the database is screwed or after an import via SQL)
The votes&comments options of the configuration have been modified a bit
We moved around some options in the configuration so that it makes more sense when you're searching for them
When you set prices with minimum quantities in main products and not in variants the price calculated in the cart is now based on the total quantity of all the variants in the cart where before it was only based on the total quantity of each variants
Accepted currencies for the PostFinance plugin have been updated
The badge translations have been added
You can now create reports/widgets of the most clicked products
We now handle custom order statuses in the acymailing integration plugin
The product export has been updated in order to be able to add the XLS support in the future
We removed the unecessary JS call to hide the price option in mini cart mode for the cart module
Lot of new triggers have been added in HikaShop and we also updated the developer documentation so that you can easily find them
We added an additional check on the plugins, menus and modules fields to not load the HikaShop helper when not necessary
We added several indexes in the database to improve performances for shops with more than a few hundred of thousands of products
We add a default subject to the order cancel notification email
We now display the custom item and order fields on the PDF invoices of the PDF invoice plugin
We now display the "Choose options" button instead of the "add to cart" button on listings for products with options
We add spaces between values when displaying the values of custom fields of the multiple dropdown
We now keep the product data when there is some missing data in required custom fields on the product edition page for a new product
The jomsocial plugin integration is now compatible with Joomla 3.0
The CanadaPost plugin now handle the International expedited shipping method
The custom fields on the product edition page for new products are now displayed based on the category where the user was when he clicked on the "new" button
We removed the default - in the UPS warehouse options
We added hidden config options to be able to rename the category_pathway and the related_product parameters of URLs
We added the possibility to filter customers listings by product bought, order statuses, etc in reports
We added a new price display option for the acymailing integration
We now logout users if their user groups have been changed after the purchase so that they have to login after and get the new user groups permissions
We now handle the view override for the registration_bootstrap view file
The import now supports the import of images/files with similar names albeit different

New features

You can now enter a MSRP for each product which will be displayed on the product page
We added a field to enter the canonical URL of each product so that you can avoid SEO penalty because of URL duplication for the same content
We added a new option in the configuration on Joomla 3.0 to be able to choose the popup display mode on the frontend and either use the bootstrap responsive popups (the default on 3.0) or mootools popups (which is the default on 1.5/2.5)
The "no SSL outside checkout" plugin is now included by default in HikaShop
There is now a Ogone payment plugin in HikaShop
There is now a new option for badges in order to keep the original size of the badge everywhere it is displayed.
HikaShop now handle the user account creation notification option of the joomla user manager options and you can even edit that email via the System>Emails menu in the Business edition). We also handle the "send password" option of the joomla user manager for the user account email notification to the user
We added two options: one to save a comparison as a wishlist and another one to compare the products of a wishlist. They can be activated via corresponding options in the configuration of HikaShop
We also added an option to hide the "add to wishlist" button for guest users and to hide the "convert cart to wishlist" button on the checkout cart.
We added the support of the facebook send button and XFBML handling in the social networks plugin

HikaShop 2.1.0

Release date : February, 5 2013

Bug fixes

AlphaUserPoints points caclulations corrected in some cases
The links to the plugins edition page from the configuration page on Joomla 2.5 and 3.0 are fixed
Several warnings and Strict Standard messages have been fixed in HikaShop
There could be some issues with the checkout workflow in some rare edge cases
The options variants were not ordered correctly in some cases on the product page
Table widget translations are now displaying fine instead of keeping the English
The import of the column price_value_with_tax has been fixed
The "read more" link on the tabular product page layout has been fixed
The microdata plugin was not setting the price tag on the product page main price in some rare cases
The "email confirmation" field of the registration form was not checked properly
We fixed some rare cases of duplicate product results when searching for products in the backend listing
Several widget calculations/display issues have been fixed
An image URL issue has been fixed for facebook like buttons which was happening only in some cases
The comment form hidden HTML elements are not displayed anymore when not needed on the product page
The add to cart of options could be problematic in some cases
The limits restricted to categories were not working properly when the products had variants
The export of products/orders has been fixed for Joomla 3.0
The upload for custom item fields on products with variants was not working properly in some cases
The shipping/coupon value was displayed with taxes on the invoice even though the display prices with tax option was turned off
In some strange case, the coupons could not be added to the cart
A bug has been fixed in the Servired plugin
The publish/unpublish toggles for translations were not working properly on some screens
Several bugs have been fixed with the wishlist system
The recently viewed products listings were sometimes not correct
It is now impossible to add free products to the cart via direct call if the "display add to cart button for free products" option is turned off
The column selection for the products search plugin has been fixed on Joomla 3.0
The active category is now properly selected on the page weven if more than one category listing module are on the page
Cursor filters can now handle the submit on change
The export of CSV for reports has been fixed
For 'same brands' and 'same categories' products listings on the product page, we do not display the current product anymore
The weight and dimensions of the main product was not passed to the variants for the shipping calculations
The order download links have bee fixed in the backend
Some bugs have been fixed with the CanadaPost plugin

Improvements

View files in the menu Display->Views are now only shown for their respective template (frontend templates for the frontend view files, backend templates for the backend view files) which should reduce errors of edition for the wrong template
You can now have the "proceed to checkout" button in the cart module in mini-cart mode
Falang/JoomFish integration files are now installed automatically on the configuration (you don't need to install HikaShop after Falang/JoomFish anymore)
Check and bank transfer payment plugins now have an option to send or not the order status notification email after the checkout
Instead of enter prices for your product variants, you can instead enter the percentage of the main product price that you want for each variant's price
The Community Build integration now set the name of the user in Community Builder during the registration
The cart module and the cart view of the checkout now take into account the main "link to the product page" option of the configuration so that you can remove the link to the products from the cart displays
The size of several input fields have been increased for ease of use
The Dynamic calandar now handle date ranges
You can now specify to not have any products in the xmap plugins by setting the products level depth option to 0
Error messages are no displayed for the UPS and CanadaPost plugins when the connection to the server cannot be established
The Recaptcha plugin is now compatible with Joomla 3.0
A proper error message is now displayed when the code already exists on discount/product edit
The state custom field has been improved to be nicer and still display even if the country field is unpublished
We now allow UTF8 credit card owner names
There is now a list of reserved words for custom fields so that you cannot create custom fields which are forbidden by MySQL
There is now a rate types selection for the FedEx plugin
The ordering of files/images is now handled in the import and copy functions
The prices of products when added to an order in the backend is now the current order user's price and not the currently connected administrator price (it's useful when you have different prices for different user groups for example)
The display of the user control panel on mobile phones has been improved

New features

We added a PostFinance payment plugin (Switzerland)
A new and easy (we hope) to use configuration page
An option to reset invoice ids periodically has been added to the configuration (useful when you want to restart your invoice numbering to 0 each year, each month, etc)
A new checkout workflow editor has replaced the previous one
An image selector has been added in the backend when editing your products
There is now a backend interface to manage waitlists
There is now an option to choose to update stocks only when the orders are confirmed and not when they are created
Auto linkage of subcategories to submenu items (to avoid duplicate content with two categories listing URLs going to the same page)
You can now have an alias for categories and products
You can now allow/disallow the access to the entire HikaShop (all editions) component based on the user group directly from Joomla without having to use ACL manager
You can now activate the bootstrap layouts on Joomla 2.5 and deactivate the bootstrap layout on Joomla 3.0 in order to adapt HikaShop to any template thanks to a new option of the configuration
You can now filter the orders listing by dates

HikaShop 2.0.0

Release date : November, 5 2012

Bug fixes

Images for the Facebook like button were not always displaying properly
The order cancellation notification email to the administrator was not working
The product minimum quantity field value was not copied when duplicating products
When using filters on price with a minimum of 0, free products are now displaying
The font selection for Facebook button could lead to the like button not working in some cases
With a joomla plugin using the "config" cookie, the save of the configuration wasn't working as the cookie was overriding the data of the configuration
RSS/Atom feeds on brands listings were not working properly
Product sales and quantity update on order status modification were not calculated porperly in some cases
Several issues and bugs have been fixed with the reports/widgets calculations
Some variant data was not displaying properly on the product page and the main product data was displayed instead
Thumbnails on the comparison table were not displaying porperly due to a regression from HikaShop 1.5.8
The values sent by the paypal pro plugin could sometimes not be rounded properly leading to the payment not being possible
Several tax and discount calculation issues only hapenning in some rare cases have been fixed

Improvements

We now clear the buffer before outputing download files so that in case something else displays garbage before, the downloaded file is not corrupted
The export of products now also export the ordering of the product
Translation overrides now also work in the backend and for emails sent from the back end
The 'validate free order' plugin has now an option to send or not the confirmation email
When the price of shipping methods change because of a modification in an address the shipping data is now updated in the cart
VAT numbers checks have been improved
The filter button has been improved so that the enter key works all the time
Additional classes have been added in order to fine tune CSS styling
The product page tabular display has been improved
Downloads restrictions have been improved in order to handle product quantities
The system now uses the main zone when a shipping method overrides the shipping address selection with the shop address (for pickup delivery)
The payment id is not displayed anymore in the payment selection dropdown of the listing of orders on the frontend
The default state dropdown is now displayed in PHP so that it will still display even if you have javascript errors on your pages
The popups now use a new popup system so that they will always open, even if you have javascript errors on your pages
You can now import product prices with tax using the column name price_value_with_tax in your CSV
Lot of triggers have been added so that third party developers will be able to override HikaShop behaviour easily and to prepare for our multi vendor solution which will be a separate extension and available shortly
HikaShop 1.6.0 has been audited by Compass Security AG and two minor issues have been reported and fixed for 2.0.0

New features

HikaShop is now compatible with PHP 5.4 and support for PHP 4 is now over.
HikaShop is now compatible with Joomla 3.0.x
The interfaces on Joomla 3.0.x use bootstrap so that the layouts adapt to the size of your device
The social network plugin now handles pinterest
New options have been added for the votes display
You can now create menu items of the carts listing, the current cart, the wishlists listing and the current wishlist
There is now a separate invoice number from the order number and both format can be configured independently
A new option has been added to the manual shipping method to select whether or not to use taxes for fee calculations
You can now select in the configuration whether to display the weight on the product page or not
A related products module is now created automatically during fresh installs so that when you add related products, you can see them on the product page without doing anything
The Akeeba Subscriptions integration plugin now supports recurring payments

HikaShop 1.6.0

Release date : August, 29 2012

Bug fixes

The HikaShop {product} tag replacement plugin could in some cases create a fatal error.
We fixed handling fees calculation rounding for UPS and FedEx plugins
Filters do not display anymore when the product listing is empty (excepted if they are used)
We fixed a rate calculation issue in the FedEx plugin
When the "include sub categories" option of the coupons was checked, only the published categories were taken into account
There was a problem produced by the HTML of the HikaShop {product} tag replacement plugin
We fixed some warning messages with the initialization of some display configuration options
We fixed a problem which was happening in some cases with the add to cart buttons in the previous release
We fixed a notice message with the add to wishlist buttons
total price on cart module was not aligned with product prices because of a missing td tag in the previous release
We fixed the price tag of schema.org plugin which wasn't being added at the correct place
The dashboard could be corrupted in some cases with the previous release
We fixed some issues which were happening in some cases with the AJAX processes related to the cart introduced in the previous release
The images of variants were not using the main product image in some cases on the product page since the previous release
The handling fees are now rounded properly for UPS and FedEx plugins
We fixed a display issue on invoices with custom order fields
The publish/unpublish button for shipping methods did not work anymore
The US state of the address of the user was not transfered to PayPal properly

Improvements

The HikaShop menu is now automatically above the content instead of under the title in the backend when the RocketTheme MissionControl or the APLite template are used to avoid the menu being broken by the templates
You can now have a minimum value of 0 for cursor filters
When address's VAT number is wrong, the information on the registration form is not lost anymore
We added a warning for the "Put the store offline" option of the configuration
We added new options in the configuration to display or not the wishlist and cart management features
There is now an option to select whether or not to capture immediatly the transaction in the authorize.net plugin
You now have checkboxes and a unique add to cart button to add the products from a wishlist to the cart where before you had to add them one by one

HikaShop 1.5.9

Release date : August, 15 2012

Bug fixes

The counting of products on listings now also works for brands
Quantity handling on add to cart has been corrected for some specific cases
We fixed some regression bugs of 1.5.8 related to some tasks not properly registered for the products and zones publishing/unpublishing and the default address selection
We fixed a problem with the address_street2 field
In some rare cases having options and characteristics on the same product could produce a javascript error
Coupon calculations could be off in some cases when the "show detailed tax" option was activated
In some cases, the billing and shipping addresses of an order were coupled together resulting in the modification of both when editing one
Weight and volume calculations for shipping plugins were wrong in some cases
Characteristic filters values were not ordered properly
The min/max quantity options of variants were sometimes not taken into account properly
The order_discount_tax value was not calculated properly in some cases
The Akeeba subscription plugin and the group plugin were not working properly with some payment plugins in some cases

Improvements

You can now import products with characteristics using the characteristics alias
When adding characteristics to products which already have characteristics, the variants are now regenerated automatically, no more "no values found"
The weight/dimension units handling has been improved to avoid issues when the products had already a unit configured which was removed from the list of possible units
The address/zone of the user is automatically selected when logging in, even when not logging in via the checkout
The menus/modules/plugins are now unlocked when you go to their hikashop options
New backend menu for HikaShop

New features

New iPayDNA payment plugin
New MIGS payment plugin
New OKPay payment plugin
New VirtualMerchant payment plugin
New Canada Post shipping plugin
New FeDex shipping plugin
New custom tax caclulation plugin which allows you to calculate taxes based on the total and not for each product
There is now an ordering column for characterstic values
You can now have product information/add to cart buttons inside joomla articles with a new HTML editor button
We added a page title override field for products, categories and brands
We added a badges system so that you can automatically tag the images of your products (the images are overlayed so it's different from watermarking
The carts can now be managed on the back end and on the front end.
Users can select their current cart from all their active carts
There is also a wishlist system so that your users can potentially share their products selections with others
Together with it, there is a wishlist module which displays similarily to the cart module
We added a reporting system along with improved widgets so that you can produce much more advanced statistics
The default address of the user can be used automatically when you select a user for an order in the back end
All new menus and modules now inherit the default options of the configuration so that you can configure their display from one single place while still being able to configure each one separately
Thare are now default preconfigured menus and modules in HikaShop so that it's easier to start a shop for beginners.

HikaShop 1.5.8

Release date : May, 29 2012

Bug fixes

Ratings were not working properly with Mootools 1.12 on Joomla 1.5
We fixed some bugs related to filters of the type "text"
The categories search plugin was not building all the conditions of the search query properly and could lead to wrongly displayed results
Coupons now handle variants properly for category/product based restrictions
When the "include sub elements" option was turned on for discounts, the discounts were applied to all the products, regardless of the category
For addresses in the USA, the SagePay plateform was sometimes returning an error stating that the state field was missing
The CSV export of products with variants was adding an extra empty column in the CSV
Several display fixes on the comment/vote system
The product search plugin had an error with Joomfish and and ACL support in the Business edition
The import of translations was not working properly
We fixed the number of products count which could be wrong on categories listings in some cases
We fixed calculation issues with the Australia Post shipping plugin
The recently viewed products option was not working properly
Entering a coupon code during the checkout was reseting the shipping method selection when in fact it was not necessary
The system was messing up the order number format option of the configuration in some cases

Improvements

You can now handle the translation of filters via Falang/Joomfish
The Google Analytics plugin now handle payment methods where the order is validated while being created
The watermark feature now handles non standard transparent color properly
New icons in order to match Joomla 2.5's look
Search plugins are now compatible with Falang
We improved the votes and comments feature
The documentation can now be translated automatically via Google translate
The Spanish states have been fixed
The min and max fields of a product when the product has characteristics now rules on the quantity of all the variants of the product in the cart and not each variant like before
The Sales menu is now called Orders for better consistency
The Discounts menu is now under the Orders menu
The manufacturer term has been renamed into "brand"
The checkout won't validate the order anymore if the user tries to refresh the latest step of checkout
We added UK postal counties to the list of UK "states"
The styles of the user control panel are now handled with CSS classes

New features

Shipping methods can now be configured on a per product basis
HikaShop is now compatible with the update system of Joomla 2.5
We added new options to the AlphaUserPoints plugin in order to handle points grouping, virtual points, and minimum not yet reached messages...
Custom fields of the table user are now displayed on the joomla user profile edition page
You now have the possibility to display the details of the order in google checkout
The authorize.net plugin can now handle DPM
We added a new shema.org plugin which adds HTML5 microdata to the HTML of the product pages for better SEO
We simplified the taxed prices display setup with only one central option
We added a global product code display/hide option for the whole front end/invoices/emails
You can now configure payment fees for each of your payment methods
We added a new AliPay Direct payment plugin for the Chinese market
We added a custom price plugin for donation products (business edition)
A separate PDF invoicing plugin as been released allowing you to automatically attach the invoices to the orer confirmation email (coming in a few days)

HikaShop 1.5.7

Release date : March, 14 2012

Bug fixes

When using the comparison feature, if you products had several categories you would see your products several times in the comparison table
When deleting several elements on the back end, the count in the success message is now correct
In some cases the variant name was not added to the contact email subject
We fixed the "back" button on the order details page of the front end when users were coming from their CB profile
We fixed a problem with the thumbnails on the product page with characteristics
We fixed some problems with custom field filters
We fixed some problems with filters on manufacturers listing pages
We removed a warning when Joomfish was installed but that no languages were configured
The contact us button was not displaying properly for products with characteristics when the contact us button display was on a per product basis
The wait list was not working properly for products with characteristics
The name of languages was not always displayed on the languages listing of the configuration
The transparency was lost when resizing images for some png formats
We fixed a problem with the date filter in the AcyMailing integration
The coupon value with the option "Coupon percentage applies to product only" was not calculated properly when products had characteristics
The subject of payment notifications in the eway payment plugin was not set properly
The carousel sliding effect was not working properly in IE7

Improvements

The Russian and Ukrakian states don't have stress marks anymore (thanks to progreccor)
You can now sort products by name via the filters
We changed the size of decimal fields in the database for new installs so that HikaShop can handle prices over 10 million (useful for some currencies or if you're selling really expensive stuff)
We corrected some spellings in the UPS plugin
We added a tooltip on the remove coupon icon of the checkout
We added a subject to the order admin notification
The filters module can now display the results directly via a products listing menu so it's simpler to setup
The sub categories on categories listings are now ordered the same way as the main categories
The HikaShop options link is not displayed anymore in menus/modules/plugins joomla options when the access to the HikaShop options of them are not allowed for the user's user groups
RSS feed now uses the main image of the products instead of the last uploaded one
We changed the states of Malta so that it better reflects the reality
The user was able to click on the + while ordering more that the stock. We now block that
The HikaShop menu items type on the menu items listings of the menu manager are now translated
Custom order fields are now displayed in the invoice on the back end
The contact email can now be edited via the System->Emails menu

New features

We added an alias option to characteristics, in order to manage them more easily
We created a new plugin to redirect the Joomla user registration to HikaShop's registration
We added a new option to the hikashop manual shipping plugin so that it will handle the shipping address interface better based on whether the customer is collecting the goods from your own store or have them delivered to them (update SVn from jerome)
We added a new option in order to display a confirmation email field on the registration form
HikaShop is now compatible with the Falang extension for multi lingual support on Joomla 2.5
Validate free orders plugin
We added a new option to custom fields of the type text and textarea so that you have have them in readonly mode
Vote and rating system for HikaShop
You can now reorder product images
We added the possibility to specify a URL for the files of products
Users can now select their default address
We added a new CSS file option in order to handle additional styles for HikaShop (to be coming soon !)

HikaShop 1.5.6

Release date : January, 26 2012

Bug fixes

When the products didn't had any options or custom fields and that the "Use AJAX when possible for add to cart buttons" was turned off the notice popup on add to cart was not displaying
When the coupon view was not on the same page as the cart view in the checkout workflow, it could happen that the coupon wouldn't be handled properly
The category/product name in URLs from the search of Joomla were not correct if non ascii characters were used
The checkout workflow edition tool could mess up the checkout workflow in some cases
When the option "Use AJAX when possible for add to cart buttons" was turned off, the option "After a product is added to the cart" was not taken into account on products listings for add to cart buttons
Pagination was not working for modules under the product page
The geolocation plugin uses now the new API v3 of IPInfoDB
We fixed a bug in the HikaShop orders filter of the AcyMailing integration plugin
The contact form was not working properly in some cases when there was no add to cart button on the product page
We fixed some warnings which could appear in some cases for filters
The cursor filters were not displaying properly in some cases
For some dimensions and weights, the fees calculated by the Australia Post plugin were not correct
The graph widget was not displaying correctly for days at the beginning of the year
You could get a "passwords do not match" error message on the checkout when changing the products in the cart in some cases
The tooltip text was not correct for the out of stock notification plugin
When deleting a product with options from the cart, in some cases in didn't work properly
Images for the cursor filter didn't had the correct path in the CSS
We fixed quite a few problems with the AlphaUserPoints payment plugin so that it handles the calculations correctly
We fixed a compatibility problem between jquery easy and the filters of the type cursor
The "price with options" of products on the product page is now displayed even if the price of the product is 0
With the ATOS payment plugin, when the user makes a mistake three times for the credit card and click on the button to go back to the store, he was displayed a blank page instead of a redirect to the checkout
The redirect link for a successful order was not correct in the ATOS plugin
When you select an existing product to be added to an order, if you naviguate through the categories, it will now work properly

Improvements

We changed a bit the xml of the HikaShop Community Builder plugin so that the plugin can be reordered in CB
We improved a bit the SEF URLs with sh404SEF
The credit card collect plugin can now also be used for payments made from the orders listing
The UPS plugin is now compatible with the shipping methods restrictions of payment methods
The products search plugin now handles better the category_pathway parameter of products URLs
The "menu" option of products listing modules under the product page is now used for links in the module instead using the current itemid if that option is set
The ReCaptcha plugin now handles the contact form on Joomla 1.7 and is not displayed when the user is logged in
We added the order number to the administrator payment notification emails
We added ranslations for address titles
We updated the worldPay plugins with the new URLs and new naming convention in place
The Cancel button on the order details page (which can be used to go back to the previous page) is now called Back to avoid any misunderstanding
Category listings displayed in list with the "Show sub categories" option set to "all sub elements" now handle the current and active class names so that you can style easily the currently selected element
The error message for conection error has been improved for the PayPal Pro and Authorize.net payment plugins
HikaShop now also counts the number of downloads for free product files and not just paid files
The out of stock notification plugin can now notify you when a quantity is reached before the product goes completely out of stock
Now you cannot set a core custom field type to 'custom text'
Custom fields of the type products and categories are now displayed on products and categories listings of the backend according to the category restrictions you configure in them
AUD and GBP have the proper decimal and thousands separator by default when installing HikaShop
The date restrictions for cusotm fields of the type date now works with any format of date
When there is a problem with the registration of the user on the registration page of HikaShop, the user will now see again the registration form with the information he had previously entered
The checkout does not submit the page anymore when the user clicks on an address which is already selected
The watermarking now only applies to products images and not categories/manufacturers images

New features

We changed some stuff in order to be compatible with Joomla 2.5
On Joomla 1.6 1.7 and 2.5, we added "save & new" buttons on edition screens on the backend to improving usability
We added a copy button on the discounts and zones listings
Manufacturers filtering on products listing when manufacturers are created (CCC contribution)
simplified registration with password (CCC contribution)
Custom item fields can now be displayed for each product on products listings
There is no an integration with Shadowbox Media Player as an alternative to the Joomla lightbox system in order to display the images gallery on the product page
You can now display listings of last viewed products
We added an option to display the number of products inside a category in category listings
We added another option to not display categories without products in category listings
The AlphaUserPoints plugin can now handle points in increments and we also added a maximum number of points possible option
We added new events to handle custom price calculations based on custom fields and/or other information in hikashop plugins
We added several layouts for the product page so you can select the one you want to use
You can also now choose different product page layouts for different products/categories
You can now have URLs without the category_pathway and related_product parameters thanks to a new option of the configuration for SEF. It is activated by default only for new installations
You can now disable the search for manufacturers in the HikaShop categories search plugin
You now have different options for products page image size and the listings in the configuration of HikaShop so that it's simpler to setup

HikaShop 1.5.5

Release date : December, 7 2011

Bug fixes

The print functions were not working properly on the front end with internet explorer and were displaying the whole website chrome around the invoice/cart which should not be the case
There were some display problems of products with options in the cart
In a specific case, the ATOS payment plugin would validate the plugin even though the payment was invalid (we recommend that you update if you use that payment plugin)
The cookie for the affiliate system was not working properly when the banner URLs were SEFed
The commissions of affiliate sales with flat fees were not calculated properly
The URL of download files in the order status notifications where not correct when the order was confirmed from the back end
The URL of images in RSS/atom feeds were broken
The reset download button was not working properly
The URLs of breadcrumbs didn't support Joomla 1.6+ UTF8 URLs
We fixed a problem with UPS for packages below 1 lb
We fixed a translation problem in the ePay plugin
We fixed some HTML typos in the social plugin
The pagination was not displaying properly when filters were used
There was a javascript error with custom fields when using the display limitations
We fixed a potential warning on the address selection of the checkout which happened in some rare cases
We fixed the pagination on the orders listing on the front end
We fixed the filters selection in the filter module on joomla 1.7
We fixed some warnings when creating filters or displaying them in some rare cases
We fixed some issues with the creation of custom fields of the type "custom text"

Improvements

We added the display of the selected modules for the option "Modules under the product page" of the configuration
The title on hikashop content pages now takes into account the option "show site name" of the configuration of Joomla 1.7
You can now use cl for dimensions
We improved the error messages of the UPS plugin
Now, we do not display the HTML tags surrounding listings when there is nothing to display in the listing
The stock of the main product is now updated, when customers buy variants of that product
The import now handle translations of products information

New features

New option for custom fields of the type date to allow only dates in the past or in the future
New options for limits in order to create daily limits, or limits per cart
New option to give the possibility to customers to cancel their orders
New option for coupons (thanks to brainforge for sharing his modifications)
We added a CM-CIC payment method plugin
We added a iPayDNA payment method plugin
You can now configure a waitlist so that customers can subscribe to out of stock products they would like to buy and be reminded by email with the product is available (commercial editions)
You can now activate a product comparison feature for your products (Business edition)

HikaShop 1.5.4

Release date : September, 27 2011

Bug fixes

We fixed the options names when several characteristics where selected for the option
There was an error when deleting a custom field
When ordering manual shipping methods, the system was duplicating them
The payment method restriction by shipping methods was only effective after the refresh of the page on the checkout
The currency switcher module with SEF activated was broken by last release
Cusotm fields restrictions on categories were not working when the products had characteristics
The amount could be wrong in the moneybookers plugin in some specific cases
The access level restrictions weren't working properly for discounts and coupons on Joomla 1.6 and 1.7
The "include sub categories" option of the discounts and coupons were working in the opposite manner as intended
The start date and end date restrictions where not working properly on products limits
The search plugin was not filtering products properly in some cases
We fixed several issues with mutliple currency support for affiliates
We fixed several issues with options display when options had several characteristics

Languages

The traditional Chinese translation has been completed
The Finnish translation is now complete

Improvements

We improved the menu listing title display
You can now have products without a price with a minimum quantity of 0
The automatic itemid retrieval for products and categories links on the joomla search page has been improved
We improved the address creation handling on the checkout
We improved the handling of options with multiple characteristics on the product pages
The search plugins now handle dynamically the itemid if not specified in the options of the plugins

New features

We added a new option to the credit card payment plugin so that you can ask their card type to your customers
We added an option so that you can select whether or not the options should be grouped together with the main product on the cart and the checkout
The payment log file can now be seen in the config
New checkout workflow configuration tool in the configuration page
Payment methods can now be filtered by currency
The downloadable files are now directly linked to in the confirmation email
We added a new option to display products image on the checkout
We added a VM redirect fallback plugin so that once you migrated from VM to HikaShop, your old links will redirect to the new product pages on HikaShop
We added a payment plugin for servired payment method ( made by Webemus )
We added a payment plugin for payment express
Customizable filters on products listings so that users can easily search throughout your products (Business edition)
Out of stock notifications plugin (Business edition)
You can now create new orders from the back end
You can also now easily add products to orders by selecting them from existing products

HikaShop Essential and Business' license is now the GPL.

HikaShop 1.5.3

Release date : July, 29 2011

Bug fixes

We fixed the quota on users for coupons
The payment methods would be missing on the payment methods selection dropdown of the orders listing of the user if the ordering was not defined for each payment plugin
The category search plugin wouldn't display properly the category page for manufacturers because of the itemid. We added a new item id option for it
The autralia post shipping plugin was displaying an error message when the package could not be delivered by sea where it should just have skipped the sea method
The hikashop social networks plugin now handles HTTPS properly
The onBeforeProductUpdate and onAfterProductUpdate evetns are now triggered when publishing/unpublishing the products via the main buttons on the listings
The feeds are now displayed properly when you have tags in the descriptions
Menus names with quotes were cut on the hikashop options page
The price_min_quantity column name was not correct on the export of products
We fixed a notice on the checkout when entering an invalid coupon code when the errors display was activated
The download area on the product page is now only displayed if there are free files attached to the product where before it was displayed even if there were only non free files attached to the product
The alphaUserPoints plugin was not attributing the points correctly when the orders were confirmed from an external payment gateway
The total unpaid amount of partners was not always displayed properly on the users listing of the back end
We fixed an error on the user panel page for joomla 1.7
We now remove the HTML tags in the products name for the title of the browser and the aliases of the URLs
The auto loaded coupons with minimum number of products were not switched automatically properly in some cases
We corrected some issues with the affiliates processing of fees with multiple currencies

Languages

Front end Slovenian translation now available
Persian translation now available

Improvements

We improved the payment and shipping methods selection views in order to display a message when no method is selected
h2 tags changed into h1 tags on the product page in order to improve SEO
We improved the error messages on the paypal pro plugin
We improved the randomized process on products listings
Dimensions and weight's display on the product page has been improved
We removed the : on the registration form for consistency with the other fields
We improved the initialization of payment plugins
We removed the meta description and keywords fields for order statuses and tax categories as they don't need it
We added the custom item fields on the cart module and the order invoice
The price minimum quantity is now 1 by default not 0. It's more logical
The price of the product with the options on the product page now handle the tax option in order to not display the taxes if that's how the option is setup in the configuration
We added a new option in order to deactivate the AJAX processing when adding a product to cart and to use instead a normal POST of the page
We added a check on the OK button on selection popups on the back end so that there are less mistakes
The import now handle manufacturers and several parents categories
There is a default tax category which is now preselected in order to simplify the tax rules setup
The options are now linked to their main product in the cart_product table of the database. That will allow us to display them together with the main product in the cart in the future
HikaShop is now compatible with XMAP 2.x

New features

We added new options in the configuration to simplify again SEF URLs
We added a new option to payment methods so that you can restrict them to some shipping methods only
We added the possibility to display the google +1 button for the social networks plugin
We added a new option to be able to deactivate the input filtering for specific custom fields
We added a new option to be able to set a maximum length for custom fields of the type text
We added a new google analytics plugin in order to track your sales with it (Business edition)
You can now restrict the number of products, the weight of products, the prices of products that users can buy over a certain period on your shop and limit the restrictions to a product or a category of products (essential edition)
We added the possibility to publish/unpublish the emails sent by HikaShop (Business edition)
We added a payment plugin for RBS WorldPay Business Gateway made by BrainForge (Thank you for contributing!)
We added a payment plugin for RBS WorldPay Global Gateway made by BrainForge (Thank you for contributing!)
We added a payment plugin for SagePay
We added a payment plugin for Google Checkout
We added a payment plugin for FirstData
We added a payment plugin for Intuit Innovative Gateway
We added an VirtueMart import plugin in order to retrieve in HikaShop the users, addresses, orders, categories and products data from VirtueMart
We added the possibility to export orders information as a CSV
We added a new pane layout for categories and products listings
We added three new layouts for categories and products listings with sliding/fading effects (Business edition)
We added a new carroussel mode with plenty of effects for categories and products listings modules (Business edition)
You can now select a size for thumbnails for each menu/module you have
You can display/hide dynamically fields based on other fields (Business edition)
You can restrict custom fields of the tables "item", "product" and "category" to only one or several categories
We added the possibility to restrict tax rules to user groups (Business edition)

HikaShop 1.5.2

Release date : June, 23 2011

Bug fixes

The parent frequence wasn't used properly in the XMAP plugin
Add titles to thumbnail images
We fixed the CSV generated when exporting the products information
The quantity calculation override wasn't taken into account for the emails
The update events were not fired when the user was using the listing toggles (for publishing/unpublishing for example)
We fixed the display of the first payment method when the auto select option would be deactivated
The default value was not set properly for options dropdowns
We fixed the order auto cancel plugin
Notices fixed for menus ACLs on the back end with PHP notices activated
ACL handling on the toolbar display for zone management was missing
We fixed some issues with payments with the PayJunction plugin
We fixed the CSV import of the price_min_quantity column
The title of category listing menus was not displaying on joomla 1.6
The donwload link for the google merchant feed was not working on joomla 1.6
The points rule was not automatically added to AlphaUserPoints when using the corresponding payment plugin
Special caracters were not escaped on Google Merchant feed for the categories name
In some cases, with several variants in the cart, variant names could have the product name duplicated in their name
The name of the states of Jamaica have been corrected
The display of checkboxes and multiple dropdowns' custom fields values was not using the names but the values

Improvements

We added the registration title on the registration page
The product page of an unpublished product is not displayed anymore even if the user tries to fiddle with the URL and access it directly
You can now create custom fields of the type "Custom text" in order to separate your custom fields in several groups
Listings of products with the list layout can now be displayed in multiple columns
The Social network plugin can now be displayed anywhere on the product page
We removed the full width/height of the image popup options from the configuration and we now use the "image" handler of the modal library in order to handle the image popups on the product pages. It's nicer and easier to use
Empty item fields are not displayed anymore in the emails sent by HikaShop or on the order details page
We improved the SEF URLs (SEF URLs are different now, so you have to keep that in mind when updating)
The "Display both" string has been splitted into two translation string for better translation of that term
The continue URL and the URL where to redirect whent he cart is empty are now smarter and don't need the full URL
We improved the addresses selection interface on the checkout as to be less confusing for customers
We improved the country and state custom fields checks to guide users who have problems with their configuration
You can now create new item box layouts in your template's hikashop views override folder and use them in your menus/modules
The coupons price was deduced of the whole order and not only from the products total price. Now the shipping fee cannot be discounted
The "Sales over the last 30 days" widget now display only the confirmed and shipped sales by default (on new installs)
We improved the HTML on the front end views for HTML validity
We improved the date handling on joomla 1.6 with timezones
Strict standard errors display level of PHP 5.3 now supported
We added a refresh image on the cart on the checkout

New features

We added a payment plugin for PayPal Pro
We added a payment plugin for CardSave
We added new SEO options for categories
We added an option to the Collect On Delivery plugin so that you can choose to send the order status notification email
We added new events for users creation, update and deletion
We added a new option to take offline the shop on the front end
You can now also set an openning and closing hour for your store
We added manufacturers support
You can now filter the products listing modules by last seen date and most seen products
You can now duplicate manual shipping methods
We added an option to product files so that you can have them available on the product page in free access.
We added the possibility to order options and related products on the product pages
We added a new option to choose when to empty the cart (when the order is created, or only when it is cancelled)
We added a new option to the Google products plugin to select whether to send the full description or the short description

HikaShop 1.5.1

Release date : May, 30 2011

Bug fixes

When no image is selected for a payment/shipping method, an empty image was displayed, now we don't display the image at all
The status of the order was missing in the order admin notification email of the authorize.net plugin
A translation was missing for the selection of the country once the "state" filter was chosen on the zones listing of the backend
The search filter was messing up the links on the views listing page of the back end
The links were missing the Itemid in the XMAP plugin on Joomla 1.6
The contact us button translation was not working properly on variants
The import of products using a template with variants was not creating the variants properly
The orders products listing columns could be misaligned in some cases
There was a problem with the insertion of states from UK during the install
We fixed the display of the downloads count for each file of a product
The link to the order details page wasn't working in 1.5.0 on order status notification emails
We fixed a problem with the import of USA states

Improvements

We added the possibility to trigger the popup notification on the checkout page
We made the order link clickable on the admin notification email
It's now possible to display the pagination on the top of a listing AND at the bottom
On categories listing modules displayed as list with childs displayed, the correct main category span is now expanded by default when one of its sub categories is selected
The quantity field is no emptied anymore when you already have an integer in it and that you click on it
We improved the import in order to handle characteristics names with similar values
We improved the way options names are displayed in the cart and in orders
Custom fields of the type order are now displayed on the order details page

New features

We added a new "address override" option to the paypal payment plugin as sometimes that option needs to be on and sometimes it needs to be off
We added a new ACL screen in the configuration so that you can manage all the accesses in the management of your store and restrict some areas to some groups of users (business edition)
We added a new option so that you can choose to hide products which don't have any stock left
We added a payment plugin for iVeri, a payment solution in South Africa
We added a payment plugin for PayJunction, a payment solution in the USA
We added the support of RSS and Atom feeds for products
We added the support of Twitter and Facebook on the products page
We added an option to select an article for the terms and conditions
We added a Google products plugin which enables you to reference your products on the google store (commercial editions)
We added an export button on the products listing page so that you can export the product information as a CSV (beta)

HikaShop 1.5.0

Release date : May, 11 2011

Bug fixes

Custom fields of the type dropdown for the table order were not working properly on the back end order modification screen
Custom fields of the type file for the table order were not working properly on the back end order modification screen
The VAT number online checking service provided by Europe has changed its location. We've changed the location on HikaShop so that it works again
We corrected a timezone issue on Joomla 1.6
We corrected an error with the address saving during registration introduced with 1.4.9
The USA and UK states were not imported correctly due to an issue introduced with 1.4.9
We've reflected authorize.net API modification to use TRUE and FALSE instead of Y and N in the variables
The characteristics name were inverted in the table display of characteristics
The minimum product quantity in an order for a product wasn't checked on the checkout and cart module
Custom product fields were not refreshed when changing the variant selection on the product page
When products had a start date with variants, the sale date wasn't displayed properly
The categories breadcrumb of the products listing on the back end wasn't working properly on safari
The AlphaUserPoints plugin was not converting the prices correctly if the current currency was different from the main currency

Improvements

We improved the image/thumbnails size calculations
The currency selected is now kept when the user logs in
Custom fields are now created as TEXT columns and not VARCHAR removing the 255 characters limitation
The default value of the custom fields of the table product are now set in the products when the field is not displayed on the back end
We added some CSS classes in the pagination
The codeMirror editor is now used instead of the textarea when it is available on the views and emails edition screens
There is now a link to the product page from the order details page and the FE and BE
We added the possibility to specify images for categories when importing them
We improves the CSV export of sales and customers by converting the dates taking into account the timezone of the website
The associated modules random option is now turned off by default when creating a new menu of the type category listing
The xmap plugin now has the name of the products in the URLs
The menu now goes over the widget graph on the dashboard
The pagination is now at the bottom of listings of products and categories
We added some CSS for the pagination on HikaShop's front end so that it looks good by default
Auto loaded coupons will now be swapped if a more interesting one is found when the cart information changes
The characteristics table display now removes the input radio when there is no stock for the corresponding variant
We added the jQuery noConflict code in HikaShop

Languages

Catalan translation now available
Thai translation now available

New features

The xmap plugin now handle the priority and frequency change with two new options
You can now restrict shipping methods by post code ranges
There is also now an option to select whether the price restrictions are only on the price of products with a weight or on the price of all the products in the cart
We added a new quota per user restriction for coupons in the commercial editions
We added custom fields on categories
We added the payment plugin SIPS ATOS for European banks and mainly French banks
We added a payment plugin HSBC which supports the CPI API
We added in the commercial editions a CSV file auto import plugin so that you can automatically update prices and quantities of your products from your suppliers feeds
We added the possibility to have options for products
We added new events for products, categories and address creation, update and deletion
We now display the downloads count for each file of a product and we also added the possiblity to reset download counts
We added the ACL support on custom fields in the Business edition
We added an option to limit coupons to be not be usable under a minimum number of products in the cart (commercial editions)
We added an option to remove the links on the main categories of listings of categories in accordion
We added the possibility to restrict coupons based on the number of items in the cart and a quota per user

HikaShop 1.4.9

Release date : April, 12 2011

Bug fixes

Properly filter out unpublished or restricted child categories on listing of categories with sub categories displayed
If the option "number of columns" is not filled, the system now defaults to 1 column instead of crashing
The payment name was not the good one on admin payment notifications when using the eWAY plugin
We added some code in the uninstall of hikashop on joomla 1.6 in order to avoid a bug of joomla 1.6 during the reinstall of hikashop
When a user was logged out and tried to click on the order link in his order creation email on joomla 1.6, he would be redirected to a non-working URL
We fixed a bug with the product_contact column on commercial versions
The creation date of users was not saved in hikashop_user
The VAT on coupon was calculated correctly and the final price reflected it but not the price without VAT leading to a wrong VAT display
The delete icon in the cart module didn't work when the quantity field was deactivated

Improvements

The default ordering of the discounts listing is now descending so that it displays the newest discounts first
The minimum quantity order option now also checks that the user can't lower the quantity in the cart during the checkout
We improved the custom fields handling so that you can now have a custom field of the type checkbox required where before the required option would be ignored
We added the 2 letter codes for canadian states so that paypal can get them automatically
Payment plugins options are now accessible directly from the joomla plugin options
We added the menu and documentation button to the epay payment plugin
We corrected the list of counties for UK
We improved the categories selection popups so that it's easier to understand
The "continue shopping" button is now out of the checkout form to avoid a problem with the enter key on IE8
The random option is now turned off by default so that pagination will work without having to turn off that option
The dates are now converted to a readable format during the export of users and orders CSVs in the widgets of the Business edition
You now have to possibility to specify any order field in the order number format
You can enter HTML in custom fields on the back end
We added links on the category listing menu's hikashop options to the associated module's options

New features

The order admin notification email and the order status update email now contain the full order summary
We added a plugin to automatically cancel orders after some time (commercial editions)
We added a plugin to support xmap
We added a new option to activate the display of the dimensions of the products on the product page
It is now possible to override the image HTML generation code via an override file in the template
We added a plugin for AlphaUserPoints enabling you to give points to the users on your store and have them use these points for payment (commercial editions)

HikaShop 1.4.8

Release date : March, 19 2011

Bug fixes

We fixed several issues with the payment to affiliates
When you had entered information in both the registration form and the login form and that you clicked on the login button, the system was registering you. Now it will log you in as expected
Users who didn't click the activation link would still be accepted by hikashop (they weren't logged into joomla though) even though an error was displayed on the checkout
We fixed a conflict between the geolocation default currency selector and the currency switcher module whereby the module wasn't working anymore
We fixed a problem of display of the payment methods on PHP4
When changing the shipping address of an order in the back end, the billing address would be changed too
The start and end date weren't taken into account for variants when set on the main products
Discounted prices might be displayed twice in a row in some cases on the checkout
We fixed the product thumbnail display on the hikashop acymailing tag plugin
We fixed a problem of display of the checkout page on joomla 1.6 with the language filter plugin published
There was a bug which filtered too strongly the shipping methods when using zone restrictions in some cases
The thumbnail of products were not displayed properly in the newsletters sent with AcyMailing

Improvements

We added Serbia in the default list of countries
The product/category name is now displayed as a tooltip when hovering on its image on the front end listings
Shipping taxes and coupon taxes are now stored in the order table

Languages

Fixing some translations which were not working properly in joomla 1.6
Partial Portugal Portuguese translation available

New features

We added the possibility to set a tax category for the price of coupons
We added a new option in the config so that you can remove the login box from the checkout
We added a new option in the config so that you can choose whether to display the pagination on top of the listings on the front end or at the bottom
You can now import multiple prices for your products and variants via the hikashop products importer
You can now import the access level of prices for your products and variants via the hikashop products importer
We added the eWAY payment method (for australia only)
We added the ePay payment method
We added the AlertPay payment method
We added the Western Union payment method
We added a new filter in the acymailing hikashop plugin allowing you to send reminder emails for the orders. That way, you can for example send a reminder to your customers who created an order without confirming it 2 days after creating it only if they didn't confirm another order in that time (only in the commercial editions)

HikaShop 1.4.7

Release date : February, 28 2011

Bug fixes

The payment method dropdown which enables you to switch to another payment method on the listing of orders of the front end has been changed so that it displays only the payment methods which are published and relevant to each order
We fixed the orders URL on the dashboard
In some rare cases, the price of items in the cart might not be the correct one if several prices are set for different minimum quantities

Improvements

You can now use the Turkish Lira for PayPal transactions
We removed the token checks on the checkout as they are not useful and can lead to problems with cache enabled websites
We added some CSS classes on the headers of some screens on the front end to ease RTL website's switch

New features

We added "read more" capability to the category description
We added ACL support on shipping and payment methods so that you can now restrict them to groups of users (business version only)

HikaShop 1.4.6

Release date : February, 26 2011

Bug fixes

Characteristics values are now displayed in the good ordering when appended to the product name
The products search plugin was throwing a fatal error in some rare cases on joomla 1.5 with joomfish
Automatically generated product codes now handle products name outside the ASCII table
The title of the credit card information tooltip was not translated properly
The admin notification email wasn't sent properly on PHP4 when it was active
When an order total is negative (with a coupon for example), the system now assimilate it as a free order
Currency conversion of discounts flat amount wasn't working properly
The "add to cart" button could not be working in some cases on joomla 1.6 when the language filter plugin was published
Remove notice on the search which could be displayed in some cases
The corresponding addresses were not deleted when the user was deleted
We fixed a display problem on the registration view when the contact option is turned on in the recaptcha plugin
When the activation was deactivated in joomla and that CB was installed, the CB user wasn't confirmed/activated automatically after registration on hikashop's end
When a watermark was specified but that no image height/width was specified, the images weren't changed properly
In some cases the pagination on listings didn't work on the first try
In same odd cases a price retrieving query could fail on the front end

Improvements

The banners ordering can now be changed without clicking on the ordering column first
The watermark image can now be deleted
The files attached to products and custom fields do not have anymore any download limit where before it was limited by the memory limit setting

Languages

Fixing some translations which were not working properly in joomla 1.6
Partial Latvian translation available
Partial Lithuanian translation available

New features

We added a new option so that you can force shipping on orders even if the weight of the products is 0
You can now display all the prices of a product on the products listings
CSS classes added to the addresses listing on the front end
Search fields on the products search plugin can now be configured in the options of the plugin
The authorize.net payment plugin now handles both AIM and SIM APIs
We added a new plugin which will display a link to the user profile edition screen from the user control panel

HikaShop 1.4.5

Release date : February, 9 2011

Bug fixes

The variants weren't copied properly when copying a product
The pagination could become screwed when changing the nubmer of items per page dropdown
When you had the login and address views of the checkout on two different steps and that you were already logged in become coming on the checkout page, you had to click twice the next button in order to go to the next step on the address step and on the shipping step
There was a fatal error introduced in 1.4.4 when creating a new menu from hikashop's content menus screen
The new address popup during the checkout on joomla 1.6 was displaying twice
A shipping address might be displayed previously on the order/invoice page even though the products in the cart were not shippable and that not shipping address was asked to the user
When adding a coupon on the checkout, and depending on your checkout workflow, the shipping fees were not added to the total unless you refreshed the page
The "file" type of custom fields was only working when the field was required
There was a faulty french translation on the manual shipping methods options
The modification of payments and shippings names in different languages didn't work properly
The payment methods translations weren't taken in account in joomfish
The restrictions on coupons weren't working due to a change on the 1.4.4 version
In some cases the total of the cart wasn't calculated correctly on the checkout without a refresh of the page

Improvements

We added CSS classes on custom fields in order to style them more easily
The access levels of prices are now copied when copying a product
Category descriptions are now processed by content plugins
The ReCaptcha plugin now also works on contact forms
We added new weight units in HikaShop: mg, ml, l and ozt
The price per weight unit is now calculated based on the taxed price or untaxed price (or both) using the same option as the main price
You can now hide the cart module when empty using the advanced module manager extension of joomla by overriding the empty cart translation and emptying it
Files attached to free products can now be downloaded on the order page without having the order confirmed

New features

We added an option in the config so that you can set the notice popup display time without editing the view
We created an admin module so that you can access hikashop's functions directly from the joomla dashboard
We added an option so that you can choose whether or not to auto select shipping and payment methods on the checkout
We changed the options of the configuration and regrouped the options related to the checkout under their own tab
We added an option to display a "contact us" button on the product page (commercial versions only)
With the new hikashop group plugin, you can now change the group of customers once they bought your products. Handy when you have a first product line which then allow users to access other resources on your website once bought (business version only)

HikaShop 1.4.4

Release date : January, 25 2011

Bug fixes

The related listing module wasn't working properly when the product page was directly linked from a joomla menu
The checkout was blocking when the owner option was activated in the credit card collection plugin
We fixed a notice on the banners listing of the back end which appeared when no banners were yet created
The custom fields of the types dropdown were not displaying properly on the user edition screen
The SSL on checkout option wasn't working on joomla 1.6
We fixed some translation strings name with a typo in all translation files and in the code
The order number format was taken into account in the admin order notification email
We fixed the tax calculation in the Australia Post plugin which wasn't working properly
Adding additional prices for products with IE7 wasn't working properly
We fixed some HTML in the product edition screen on the back end
Saving the ordering of products/categories could result in a loop in some cases
Prices are now ordered properly on the front end on the product page
The currency wasn't set for coupons generated with the acymailing plugin
The upload of a could could result in the file having the wrong access rights in some cases
When the prices were converted automatically from another currency, and that you had several of that products in the cart, it coul happen that the price was off of 1 cent due to a rounding issue
The search plugins weren't working properly on joomla 1.6
We fixed a notice in some cases in the search plugins

Improvements

We improved the save of the product information so that prices id aren't incremented all the time
We added a whole bunch of CSS classes on listing of products/orders on the back end and front end so that you can more easily customize them
We added a warning on the "catalogue mode" option as some users were activating it without realizing that it would remove all the "add to cart" buttons
The listing of categories mneus and modules now get their options initialized properly so that you don't need a complex procedure to create them, and you can just create them easily via joomla's interface without extra steps
The CSS edition now saves as well the CSS file selected when saving the CSS code modification
We improved the "add to cart" handling on the listing of products so that it displays a "choose options" button instead if the product has characteristics which need to be selected before adding the product to the cart

Languages

Complete Ukranian translation available
Complete Russian translation available
Partial Hebrew translation available

New features

We added a new option in the Australia Post plugin to be able to have one parcel per product instead of grouping them
We added a new option in the configuration so that you can now display an "add to cart" button even for free products
You can now have custom item fields on the product page (business version only)
We added new chart statistics on the custom fields (business version only)

HikaShop 1.4.3

Release date : January, 12 2011

Bug fixes

The pagination numbers could be off on the front end when products displayed would be in several of the categories displayed
The change of number of elements on the pagination for the categories listing wasn't working properly
The title of the categories listing page could be wrong in some instances depending on the options
We fixed a registration error on the checkout with joomla 1.6
When "none" was selected for the CSS, a broken CSS link was added to the html head instead of not adding anything
A fatal error happened on the orders page on joomla 1.6
We fixed a problem with the characteristics switch of the product page on internet explorer when they are displayed as radio buttons
The "price before discount" was displayed taxed and untaxed regardless of the "tax prices" option
The add to cart button was not working in some cases with some SEF components
We fixed a problem with the new button which was not working when the buttons display option in the configuration was CSS
We fixed the return URL handling in the Authorize.net payment plugin
When a currency was displayed but not published and that the customer selected that currency and then went on the checkout and that there were shipping fees, they would be displayed in that currency instead of being displayed in the main currency
We fixed a rounding issue on prices when they were dynamically converted with a currency fee applied to them

Improvements

The size of the input boxes for categories name and products main information have been improved
HikaShop now displays the order creation date instead of the current date in the order invoices
When using HikaShop along with Community Builder, the usrs registered via HikaShop would still be blocked on CB after activation. HikaShop now unblocks the users in CB if CB is installed
The login and register buttons of the login view of the checkout now use the same library as the other buttons so that all the buttons on the front end have the same design

New features

You can now enter your translations modifications as a translation override which you won't loose when updating HikaShop and its core translation files
You now have the possibility to use HikaShop's registration view of the checkout on its own
The reCaptcha plugin has been updated to work with the new registration view
We added an option to automatically update the view when another payment/shipping method is selected
We added two options to add a "become an affiliate" checkbox on the registration form (business version only)

HikaShop 1.4.2

Release date : January, 5 2011

Bug fixes

We fixed some popups issues with joomla 1.6
We fixed a notice which happened on the listing of content menus after deleting hikashop content menus but without cleaning the menus trash
The state field, when empty, was bloquing the submission of the form. It is now fixed
We fixed a php notice on the category creation form on the back end
We fixed the "joomla options" links on the modules and menus edition screen
We fixed the "hikashop options" link on the edition screen for the cart module and content modules
The import now handles correctly categories with the same name in different parent categories
We fixed modules and menus links to joomla options on the back end on joomla 1.6
We fixed the display of the redirection views of payment plugins on joomla 1.6
We fixed the notice popup when adding a product to the cart on joomla 1.6 as it was working only once per page due to a change in the way mootools 1.2 handles popups
The notice popup wasn't working correctly with IE8 on joomla 1.6
The URL of products was not displayed on the front end
The import didn't work properly if the last column contained a text on several lines
We fixed a fatal error when rebuilding categories tree in the back end
Custom order fields, when required, were not checked in javascript
HTML tags were stripped out when importing product information with the text area option
Cart module's options were not loaded on joomla 1.6 when refreshed via ajax and would thus use the default options instead of the options setted in the cart module for display
Remove some notices on the import of CSV when the CSV file isn't properly formatted
Currency conversion wasn't working properly on listings of products on the front end when the option "Price display method" of the menu/module displaying it was set to cheapest
Tax rules listing could display another category than the one selected in some special cases
When editing an already existing address on the checkout the shipping and payment selection wasn't properly reseted and it could create some display problems where the old shipping method would be applied to the order although the address would be outside the zone restriction of the shipping method
User synchronization, products search, categories search and affiliate plugins are now compatible with joomla 1.6
We fixed a rounding issue on prices' tax calculation
Affiliate earnings were not calculated correctly when the currency of the order and the currency of the affiliate was different
The option "Payment of orders not paid immediately" wasn't working in the essential edition and only in the business edition
Translation files' comments now start with a ; instead of a # to work properly on joomla 1.6 with php 5.3
The import can now handle related products all inserted together

Improvements

We changed the way we load the admin notification email so that you can change the email address dynamically in the email's generation code
We added an option to display a simplified cart module without a listing of the products in the cart
The notice popup displayed aftering adding a product to the cart now uses its own view so you will be able to easily modify it via the view interface
You can now add HTML in custom fields on the back end

Languages

Complete Czech translation available

New features

We added ACL support on discounts and coupons so that you can now restrict them to groups of users (business version only)
We added ACL support on categories so that you can now restrict them to groups of users (business version only)
We added ACL support on products and variants so that you can now restrict them to groups of users (business version only)
We added ACL support on prices of products and variants so that you can now restrict them to groups of users (business version only)
You also have now the possible to import product access via the import (business version only)
We changed the geolocation plugin from the hikashop group to the system group (business version only)
The geolocation plugin can now handle zone restrictions, i.e. limit components access to a whitelist of zones or blacklist zones which should not access components (business version only)
The geolocation plugin can now set automatically the currency based on the zone of the user (business version only)
We added a new type of custom fields which will allow you to add an upload input box so that your customers can upload a file in their order for example or enabling you to add a PDF to a product so that it can be accessible on the product page (business version only)

HikaShop 1.4.1

Release date : December, 18 2010

Bug fixes

Fixing weight unit use with variants
Fixing the main category image display of menus and modules
Fixing a mysql error on the front end when no payment methods where configured and you tried to go to the checkout and that you had the joomla debug mode activated
Fixing the edition of the order creation admin notification email and the user account email
Fixing the display of modules name twice
We added ILS in the list of supported currencies in the paypal plugin
We improved the zone loading function to avoid loops when zone relations are looping because of a misconfiguration
The user information wasn't reloaded when it was updated in the back end. That means that the interface was still displaying the old information in the interface
We added a check to avoid warnings on the order details page when all the custom address fields are unpublished
When clearing the "parent category" option of modules and menus, the main product category is now inserted automatically
When using coupon tags in AcyMailing newsletters, a fatal error could happen on some joomla websites when sending the newsletter
For product names written is some languages it could happen that some characters were not recognized by PayPal's website. We now forces the charset to UTF-8 to avoid the problem
Admin notification emails did not contain the link to the order if the translation file had been edited through the interface because of the return characters in the translation strings being interpreted directly in the translation file
We fixed the custom fields zone for state field used for other purposes so that it works properly
The toggle of the shipping address selection area on the checkout on IE8 didn't work as IE8 doesn't like onchange and prefer onclick for input checkboxes
We fixed a problem with the translations of characteristics in JoomFish
The product weight and volume units used in products were not saved properly when there was only one unit defined in the configuration

Improvements

The credit card number and expiration date are now checked so that users cannot submit an invalid number or an expired date
A message is now displayed on the listing of variants when no characteristics have been entered for a product in order to explain to the user that he must first assign a characteristic to his product before managing the variants of his product
We are now setting the page titles automatically on categories listing, products listing and product page on the front end
The custom order fields entered by the user are now added to the order creation email notification (business version only)
We added the possibility to add your affiliate id on the link of the footer
When you don't enter a category for a new product, the current category of the listing of products is now used automatically
We changed the way we load the admin notification email so that you can change the email address dynamically in the email's generation code
We improved performances on the categories listings when images are displayed (back end and front end)
We added the possibility to specify tax categories more easily within CSV files
We moved the CSS, JS, email and upload folder to the media folder to avoid overwrite problems when doing an update on Joomla 1.6

Languages

Complete Danish translation available
Complete Bulgarian translation available

New features

We added an option in the product search plugin to choose whether to display the full category path on the breadcrumb when the itemid option has a products listing menu id set
We added an option in the configuration to select whether to sort characteristics by id or by alphabetical order
You now have the possiblity to override the display of buttons and the "add to cart" popup in HikaShop with a template file override
We added an option to choose whether or not to capture the credit card owner name in the credit card collection plugin
We added an option to choose whether or not to append characteristic values to products name
We added an option to set what kind of separator will be used in CSV exports
We added an option to overwrite product information when importing product information if the product code is already in the database
We added an option to create categories when importing product information if the category doesn't exists
We added an option to force the product_published field of products to 1 if the column is not specified or if no information is given
We added the possibility to import categories via the CSV import

HikaShop 1.4.0

Release date : December, 6 2010

Bug fixes

When you removed the state custom field from the address form, the shipping and payment method filtered by zone wouldn't display if the address was already entered by the user before the change
The stocks of products were not updated when an order was cancelled or refunded
The import function did add related products, categories links, prices and images to products when the product_code key was numeric
Fixing the selection of the shipping address during the checkout
Fixing the ordering modification on the product listing on the back end which didn't work in some cases
In some rare cases warnings would be displayed when processing images
The shipping order maximum and minimum price restrictions were checked against the total of the order without taxes. They are now checked against the total with taxes
Improving a bit the breadcrumbs in some cases on the product page
Fixing an import problem when trying to import products with characteristics and variants
Hide the "add to cart html link" button when the product is a new product
The number of elements was discarded and the global joomla limit was used instead for the default limit on listing of categories on the front end

Improvements

Better default CSS for "add to cart" buttons when the option button style is set to CSS.
We added a content elements file for widget names so that they can be translated with joomfish
We added some classes in the pagination of the front end to be able to more easily hide some of the pieces
The system now cancel the order when the user clicks on cancel on paypal
We improved the import function to automatically add the product to the main product category if the category in the CSV is not found in the database
We also added the name of the caracteristics in the error messages as they can be possible columns in the CSV files

Languages

Complete Norwegian translation available

New features

We added an option to force a menu on the checkout process. That will enable you to use different modules and templates on the checkout page than on the rest of the shop
We added an option to set a class for lists in menus and modules
We added a new payment plugin to collect credit cards information for offline processing
You can now also customize the admin order creation notification email (business version only)

HikaShop 1.3.9

Release date : December, 2 2010

Bug fixes

The limitation on categories for coupons was not checked
Discounts weren't applied to products when the currency of the discounts were the same as the current currency
Discounts weren't applied when a start or an end date was applied
We fixed the creation of subzones to properly link the subzones to the main zone
We fixed the link to the related products on the product edition page
We fixed the display of the custom fields type column in the cusotm fields listing on the back end
We fixed the display of the order status on the popup which appear when changing the status of an order in the backend
We fixed the javascript check of the address edition/creation popup on the checkout
We added a check on the acymailing filters triggering plugin to avoid a crash on checkout when the acymailing version used was before 1.5.0

Improvements

We improved the error messages during the install on access right issues
We improved the checkout to display the shipping methods even when the user didn't enter his address
Whe registration screen is now displayed even when the registration is disabled if the registration option is set to "no registration" in the configuration
We improved a bit the CSS on the products listings

Languages

Complete Italian translation available (thanks Nicola Del Biaggio)

New features

We added the possibily to disable options of dropdowns and checkboxes for custom fields
We changed the "display discount" option of modules and menus so that you can choose how to display it
The description of products is now processed by content plugins so you can use content tags in it
We added the amount of the order on the order creation notification email sent to the shop owner
It is now possible to charge a percentage of the order total for shipping methods
We added an option to have a payment button on the listing of orders on the front end for orders created and not yet paid (in commercial versions)
We added a listing of entries in the back end in order to manage your entries easily (in the business version)
We also added the possibility to export the entries in CSV (in the business version)

HikaShop 1.3.8

Release date : November, 25 2010

Bug fixes

When SEF was used and for some settings of HikaShop it could happens that the coupon box would not be working
The limitation on a product for coupons was not checked

Improvements

We removed 2 br tags in the footer HTML so that it is easier to tweak the CSS of the footer
The new order status is now translated when changing it via the back end interface and also on the front end orders listing
We added a CSS class for each entry field
We added the possibility to select whether or not to open a new page when users click on the search results

HikaShop 1.3.7

Release date : November, 23 2010

Bug fixes

Fix contentelements files for joomfish so that the rows have a valid title on the joomfish listings
Fix the reset of discount restrictions
Fix a bug on the zone selection of plugins
Removing an unecessary link on the listing of products on the selection popup of products
Fix a display issue when a characteristic value was 0
Fix a bug where the custom template was not used when the layout was loaded from a module
In some cases it could happen that the user was automatically redirected to the payment method without seeing again the cart
Fix a fatal error on the edition of views on some back end templates
After deleting an address in the user edition on the backend you were not redirected properly to the user page
Fix "page break" removal on product listing
Fix a notice on the checkout in some cases when payment methods or shipping methods are not found
Fix partner fee calculation when using the percentage fee option of the affiliate program
Fix the selection of product and zone on coupon and discount restrictions on internet explorer
Fix the selection of template product on the import screen on internet explorer
When user was logged in and trying to go to the checkout it could happen that the order was automatically validated with the default checkout workflow
Fix the SSL redirection to avoid having & instead of & in the URLs
Fix the check on zone restrictions for coupons
Fix the display of the zone name on the discount edition screen
Fix the taxation algorithm in order to take into account taxation rules without any zone limitation
When the australia post shipping plugin was used and that the user didn't enter a post code an "invalid" message would be displayed. We added a message warning the webmaster that he should put the post code field to require when using that plugin

Improvements

The weight of the main product is now used for the variants if no weight is set in the variants (same for dimensions)
Shipping and payment plugins can now have images with other extensions than jpg
The product name automatically contains the characteristics values on the cart module like on the product page and the checkout
We added some indexes in the hikashop tables after stress tests in order to improve the speed of queries when you have a lot of data
The "cancel" button on the order details was changed to "back" in order to avoid confusion for customers

New features

We added a new option to display the cost per unit weight on the product page
An new entity, the entry can allow you to create a custom form page on the front end. It handles several entries to be We added at a time for one order. The system will then process the result of the form and add products to the cart automatically so that the user can pay for his entries (Business version of HikaShop only)
We added the possibility to place an order without registration (commercial versions of HikaShop only)
We added a watermark option on images (Business version of HikaShop only)

HikaShop 1.3.6

Release date : November, 13 2010

Bug fixes

The HikaShop menu was displayed in popups on the back end when the option "Menu position" was set to "Above the main area"
The URL of redirection to the checkout after clicking on the add to cart button had & replaced with & when it shouldn't have been
Added some code to work around an issue which happened on some websites where the cart info would be lost upon login
Fixed the insertion of modules data at install
Previously, the zone selection option of the payment plugins didn't work
Added some code to avoid having IE caching the cart module

Improvements

When cart is updated and that the shipping method previously selected do not meet the new requirements the shipping method choice is now reseted
Shipping selection is now improved for a faster checkout
Added some check to select a default variant if the default characteristics values of the product point to a variant which doesn't exists
Added the itemid to some redirection urls so that the modules aren't "lost" after the redirect occurs on the front end
Added some code to check on the weight and volume units in the configuration

HikaShop 1.3.5

Release date : November, 10 2010

Bug fixes

The javascript of the "add to cart" button was improved to avoid the browser aborting the update request on some servers
HTML and CSS of the "add to cart" button on products listing improved when the CSS type of button is chosen in the configuration
Server side check of the quantity to avoid adding a negative quantity of a product to the cart
The "add to cart" button wasn't redirecting to the checkout page when selecting "always go to checkout" in the option "after a product is added to the cart"
Improved the javascript of the minus and plus links of the quantity field to disallow adding less than 1 item to the cart
When you had several prices for a product with variants and that the user was displaying a module with the option "price display" to "unit price" and that the current currency wasn't the main currency, the prices weren't displayed on the listing of products of the module
Error messages checking for data input on the checkout are now skipped when the customer changes the product quantities as they were not relevant

Languages

Spanish translation available (thanks avaray)

HikaShop 1.3.4

Release date : November, 9 2010

Bug fixes

Fixing display of modules under the product page
Fixing the "cheapest price" option of modules and menus displaying products when the products have several prices in the same currency
Fixing modification of the discount table in the database for updates between 1.3.2 and 1.3.3
Fixing query error when displaying related products and that the random option is turned off and that the ordering column is selected in the options of a content module

Improvements

A shipping method is now automatically selected so that there is one less step to the checkout when shipping is required
When you add a sub zone while editing a zone, the subzone is now automatically added to the zone's sub zone listing
You can now unpublish/publish several hundreds of zones in few clicks
The install now handles the plugins installation itself instead of letting joomla do it: less memory, less processing and clearer error messages
Now adds the characteristic values to the name of the product if the name of the variant is not filled on the product page, during the checkout and then on the order information
Languages other than english were removed from the package in order to reduce its size. They will be retrievable in two clicks on the configuration page
Better names for the menu types when creating joomla menus via the joomla interface
Compatiblity with Joomla 1.6 (beta)

Languages

Swedish translation available (thanks seociable)

Features

Personalization of the order number format via an option in the configuration (commercial versions of HikaShop only)

HikaShop 1.3.3

Release date : November, 5 2010

Bug fixes

Fixing "add to cart" button display on listing of products
Properly remove related products links when deleting a product
Fixed "force ssl" option
The value "above the content" of the option "menu position" which can be used to display the backend HikaShop menu above the content and not below the title was generating a fatal error on the front end
When displaying a product with variants but without any image to display, there was an end tag missing to a div
Fixed javascript check on custom fields when both user/address custom fields and order custom fields where used on the same screen.
Fixing the sending of confirmation email to customers which didn't work in some cases
Fixed links in the categories and products search plugins
In some cases emails could not be sent to the customers as the system wasn't able to retrieve properly the email address
In some cases the image popup on the product page wasn't displaying properly.
Replace the ° character in email subjects as some email servers do not accept emails with that
Added some checks to avoid that the checkout breaks when the user adds spaces in the checkout workflow option
Fixed product ordering by ID on the back end
Now the generation of products with a template product with variants also generates the variants

Improvements

Improve files handling so that if several products are linked to the same file and that one product is deleted, the file is not deleted.
Added a javascript check for the email on the registration screen
Added a javascript check for the password on the registration screen
Generate the translations for the Joomla menu in the back end
Changed user control panel check so that if user is not logged in, he is redirected to the login page
Added a taxes row on the checkout cart which is displayed only if there are taxes
New version of the ReCaptcha plugin compatible with joomla 1.6

Languages

German fully translated ( thanks iamfree )

Features

Manual shipping methods can now have a maximum order amount restriction
Added a copy button on the listing of product in order to easily copy a product. (business version only)
Added an option for coupons to automatically load it in the cart if it is applicable based on its restrictions. (commercial versions only)
Added an option to limit the number of possible items in a cart (commercial versions only)

HikaShop 1.3.2

Release date : November, 1 2010

Bug fixes

New order status notification email could not be sent to the customers in some cases
Images on variants where not updated on product page

HikaShop 1.3.1

Release date : October, 31 2010

Bug fixes

Fixed notices when deleting a category
Fixed fatal error when sending emails with charset different that utf8 and with a text version included as multiple part
When adding a new product to the cart the quantity was not checked against the product quantity and the maximum product quantity per order options of the product
Correctly used the main product quantity for cart quantity checks when adding a variant of a product to the cart if the quantity of the variant was not filled
Fixing some notices on the front end on some PHP versions when conversion of prices occured in some places
Remove additional information screen when not used on checkout

Improvements

Improved discounts and coupons quota checks and usage increments
Now the + link of the quantity field on product details cannot add more than the max quantity per order

Languages

Fixed french translation
Bulgarian language translated
Czech language partially translated
Russian language partially translated

Features

Added an email notification on order creation
Added an option to display a message when adding a product to the cart
Added an option in content modules and menus to display an "add to cart" button on each item listed
Added an option in content modules and menus to remove the link to the product details on each item listed

HikaShop 1.3.0

Release date : October, 28 2010

Bug fixes

Use partner currency instead of order currency to display affiliate amount on an order on the orders listings
Fixed some notices on front end moduels when no entries are found.
Fixed an incompatiblity with advanced modules manager extension which resulted on fatal errors on the front end
Remove user_params column from exported data when exporting customer infos
Adding bccomp implementation to avoid crashes when the bcmath extension is not compiled within PHP
Fixed incompatiblity on some browsers with wysiwygpro editor
Fixed Custom error message on custom fields
Trim weight and dimension unit options to avoid conversion issues if users add spaces to them
Fixed default value on weight of variants causing a weight calculation error
Correctly filter out unpublished products on front end
Fixed URL of images when the website is in a subfolder of a domain and when SEF is activated

Improvements

Automatically select address after registration so that the system can display the shipping methods directly
Keep Itemid when redirecting to checkout
"Continue shopping" button option added
Now displays the download link even if no file name was entered for a product file
You can now specify the max width and height for images. Upon upload or import, they will be resized if too big
The height parameter on modules and menus listing products and categories has been removed. It was previously added as inline CSS to the DIVs. Now, the fields automatically align without it but you can still specify a height in the CSS

Features

ReCaptcha integration plugin on registration screens compatible with Joomla, HikaShop, AlphaRegistration, ccUsers and JomSocial
Import of products data in CSV
Generation of products data based on files / images and template products (business version only)
Custom fields on order to ask order-related questions to your customers (business version only)

HikaShop 1.2.1

Release date : October, 23 2010

Bug fixes

Fixing navigation on product listings after navigation into a sub category
When you deleted all the orders linked to an address, the address was deleted even though the user didn't delete it on his address book. Now, it will only be deleted if the user deleted it on his address book beforehand.
Fixing PHP notice on registration when all errors display options are turned on in PHP
Fixing the delete button link of the cart in the checkout
Fixing some english translation strings
Fixed paypal payment plugin tax calculation when a product quantity is different than 1 and that the store is using taxes
When a user was deleted via Joomla and that he had made an order in HikaShop an error message is now displayed and the Joomla user id is removed from the hikashop user information so that if he tries to register again, he will be re attached automatically to his entry in HikaShop
Fixed a query error when trying to filter orders on the orders listing of the backend
The Itemid was not properly set in modules which were used in a template position and which weren't synchronized
Fixed affiliate amount calculation on orders when "percentage fee on sales" is used
Fixed rounding issue on order total amount after payment notification
The itemid is now added to the "proceed to checkout" button so that users keep the same modules displayed after clicking on it

HikaShop 1.2.0

Release date : October, 21 2010

Bug fixes

Fixing PHP notice on product page in some circumstances
When a customer was entering his address and that the state custom field was published and required and that he selected a country without state, the system wouldn't allow it. Now, it will still work
Fixed some javascript for "add to cart" button on PHP4
Fixed Help link on dashboard
Fixed registration and login screen which was not working when a non latin language was used
Fixed collect on delivery checkout end message which wasn't replacing order number
Fixed comment extension selection on config page
Fixing shipping issue when ordering a virtual product after ordering a real product in the same user session
Fixed fatal error on config page when plugins could not be installed
Fixed a blank page which could happen on some hostings because of some strange apache configuration

Improvements

Added option to auto publish variants by default (yes by default now)
Added an option to hide/display the delete button of products during the checkout
USD is now published by default
Added check on currency status to fallback on default currency when current currency gets unpublished during the session on the front end

Languages

Spanish language partially translated
Dutch language partially translated

Features

Added terms and condition checkbox view on checkout workflow
Added product maximum quantity per order
Added minimum quantity and minimum shipping on manual shipping plugin
Bluepaid payment plugin

HikaShop 1.1.1

Release date : October, 17 2010

Bug fixes

Fixed javascript for characteristics switch on front end
Fixed breadcrumb some more
Fixed prices displayed twice on variantes display on front end
Correctly filter out unpublished categories on front end
Fixed mail sned function not working on user edit and order edit

Improvements

Keep category position on category selection listing on the product edition page
Added item id support on category and product search plugins

HikaShop 1.1.0

Release date : October, 15 2010

Bug fixes

Fixed error message on some pages when no file is uploaded on the back end
Fixed translation issue on modules on some configurations where the languages would be lost between the component and the modules
Products were not displaying on listings on the front end when "unit price" was selected
Fixed bug with PHP4 on the registration page which prevented states dropdown to be displayed
Products search plugin name corrected
Fixed breadcrumb for categories navigation which was not displaying the good categories in some cases
Pagination navigation fixed on front end
Fixed views disapearing randomly on the front end when using several modules/menus with different options because they were using the same session variables
Fixed SEF issue when a content menu was created from HikaShop and not with Joomla

Improvements

Assist the user when configuring the display of his content

New features

Integration with JomSocial
Integration with Community Builder

HikaShop 1.0.7

Release date : October, 13 2010

Bug fixes

Fixed display of price sorting dropdown
Fixed currency rate percentage fee field
When you had a menu category listing with an associated module displaying products synchronized, it could happen in some cases that the main category of the product module was used instead of the currently displayed category
On PHP4, when saving a module options by clicking on apply, the information on the screen was not updated properly
Fixed a regression appeared on 1.0.6 on categories and products ordering which broke the ordering when you didn't click on a category first before reordering items
Force the price minimum quantity to 0 when the user enters 1, as 1 can cause some display issues and both values means the same

Improvements

Improved address, shipping and payment selection on the checkout

HikaShop 1.0.6

Release date : October, 11 2010

Bug fixes

Fixed category saving which could make it invisible on the product listing
On some websites the modules translation strings were not loaded properly
Fixed ordering modifications on custom fields and banners
Fixed fatal error when creating a new content menu with hikashop instead of doing it with joomla
Fixed thank you page for authorize.net payment plugin

Improvements

Improved the behavior of the checkout when another payment or shipping option is selected and that the cart is displayed on the same step
Shipping method modification of orders in the back end has been improved for shipping methods other than the manual shipping method
Added a simplified registration option which removes the need for a password and username during the checkout on the commercial versions of HikaShop
Description field of images and files put under the image/file field to avoid people mistakenly trying to upload image in the description without filling the image field
Added an error message when people save an image/file without adding a file with the browse button
Changed table structure creation on install to be compatible with mysql >= 5.5
On the zones, orders, users, discounts listing, if you selected "display all" the system would load all the elements and might result in a crash when you have too much elements, like on the zone listing. We Added a check to set the display to 500 elements in that case so that it doesn't crash.
Added an error message when trying to delete a core custom field

New features

Possibility to force ssl use for checkout in the config (you need to have HTTPS activated on your server with a SSL certificate)
Australia Post shipping plugin added

HikaShop 1.0.5

Release date : October, 7 2010

Bug fixes

Fixed content menus listing bug which prevented the rows information to be displayed properly in some cases

Other

Files header changed on starter version to reflect GPL file header policy

HikaShop 1.0.4

Release date : October, 6 2010

Bug fixes

Fixed javascript bugs in the back end which prevented to manage product categories/related products/images/files/prices, zone childs and characteristic values on internet explorer

HikaShop 1.0.3

Release date : October, 5 2010

Bug fixes

Fixed bank transfer and check payment plugins default values and information display
Fixed category navigation on product listing on the back end
Fixed translation issue on hikashop type joomla menu item edit page
Removed product show page menus from the listing of content menu where it should not appear
Fixed saving of content modules options
Fixed translation on checkout end page when using bank transfer payment plugin
Fixed AcyMailing trigger integration plugin notices when published without AcyMailing installed
Fixed translation string on map widget

Improvements

Shorter price text on cart module
Improved breadcrumb handling
Multiple image display on product show page improved
Added pagination of product and category listings on front end
Added content module and content menu interaction
Message on back end plugins listing to explain that plugins need first to be edited before they appear on the front end
Ordering of payment plugins on front end improved and now uses the plugins joomla ordering

New features

Moneybookers payment plugin

HikaShop 1.0.2

Release date : October, 1 2010

Bug fixes

Fix for PHP 5.1.6 which prevented HikaShop to run or to be installed on a server with this version of PHP
Shipping prices before currency conversion on checkout page now displays properly
Fixed affiliate activation status on user profile on backend
Fixed save redirect error on affiliate program save on front end
Fixed fatal error when main currency changed in configuration
Payment log file path generation corrected
Fixed fatal error when displaying error message on folder not writable due to access right issues

Improvements

French language file mistakes fixed
Automatically fills the product code with the product name if code not provided
Add all joomla users to HikaShop on install ( it's a bit less confusing for users of HikaShop )
HikaShop menus added into the Joomla menu
Paypal payment plugin does not show up in the list of available payment options if the currency of the order is not in the list of paypal supported currencies
Now the explorer only shows the proper type of categories, so that it's less confusing.
Payment notification emails to admin now using a central address in the config
Payment notification emails to admin now have translated status

New features

Authorize.net payment plugin
Payment notification emails to customers
Comments on products are now possible for users on the front end via an integration with both jomComment and jComments
Catalogue mode option added to the configuration so that you can disable the "add to cart" button on the product page

HikaShop 1.0.1

Release date : September, 23 2010

Registration now handle the confirmation email which makes the checkout process smoother for the user as he is automatically logged in and redirected to the checkout when he clicks on the activation link of the email.
Behavior fixed when entering a non existant coupon
Reply-to email and name were not properly set in emails sent by HikaShop
The user password is now correctly added to the "account details" email which is sent when a user registers through HikaShop

HikaShop 1.0.0

Release date : September, 20 2010