[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) ☰ Documentation # HikaShop 1.5 change log Details Written by: Administrator Category: [Global informations](/support/documentation/hikashop/global-informations) Published: 25 October 2026 Hits: 51 All the HikaShop 1.5 releases. The other old releases are listed in the [HikaShop Change Log Archive](/support/documentation/537-hikashop-changelog-archive.html), the recent ones in the [HikaShop Change Log](/support/documentation/56-hikashop-changelog.html). ### HikaShop 1.5.9 **Release date : August, 15 2012** #### Bug fixes (12) - 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 (6) - 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 (19) - 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 (15) - 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 (15) - 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 (13) - 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 (16) - 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 (15) - 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 (12) - 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 (23) - 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 (22) - 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 (17) - 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 (19) - 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 (7) - 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 (8) - 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 (13) - 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 (2) - The traditional Chinese translation has been completed - The Finnish translation is now complete #### Improvements (6) - 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 (14) - 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 (17) - 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 (2) - Front end Slovenian translation now available - Persian translation now available #### Improvements (17) - 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 (23) - 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 (19) - 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 (19) - 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 (14) - 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 (12) - 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 (8) - 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 (10) - 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 (13) - 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 (17) - 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 (2) - Catalan translation now available - Thai translation now available #### New features (15) - 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 [](#top)