Highlight features

• Mobile device support (disabled by default).
• MailChimp plugin (email marketing tool).

Improvements

• Performance optimization.
• Source code and HTML markup refactoring.
• More unit tests added.
• Updated third party assemblies to the latest versions.
• Use TinyMCE (3.4.7) as HTML editor instead of the Telerik one.
• Allow store owners to manage friendly name and display order of plugins (previously he had to manually edit Description.txt file).
• 'Display cart after adding product' setting.
• Display visual hints (*) for the required fields on registration page.
• Added CAPTCHA to the contact us page.
• Allow store owner to specify page title SEO adjustment. For example, generated page title could be (PAGE NAME | STORENAME.COM) instead of (STORENAME.COM | PAGE NAME).
• New forum post notification. Jump to last page from email.
• Bypass 'select payment method' page if we have only one payment method (multistep checkout).
• CSRF. Added AntiForgeryToken to the most important pages.
• ACL. Added a new 'UploadPictures' permission.
• ACL. Added a new 'Allow Customer Impersonation' permission.
• Allow store owner to change the default view mode ("grid" or "list"). Just update 'catalogsettings.defaultviewmode' setting.
• Admin area. Show order identifier on customer details page ('Orders' tab).
• FedEx. Added 'Pass dimensions' option indicating whether package dimensions should be passed when requesting shipping rates.
• Simplified [ProductLoadAllPaged] stored procedure.
• Public store. Updated jQuery scripts to the latest version (but admin area still uses older scripts because the Telerik MVC Extensions doesn't work with jQuery 1.7.1).
• Facebook and OpenID external authentication providers. Request and use the first and the last name (if 'autoregister' option is enabled).
• Added a 'Keep alive' schedule task.
• Insert an address during customer registration if possible (as per version 1.90).
• Set the default rating of product review to 5 (it can be also configured by a store owner - 'catalogsettings.defaultproductratingvalue' setting).
• Added a configuration page for Web Services plugin. But actually configuration is not required (just some description).
• Add new return request tokens in message templates ('ReturnRequest.StaffNotes' and 'ReturnRequest.Status').
• Order message templates now recognize customer tokens.
• Allow setting picture size in the view. This update allow designer to set image size like this @Html.Action("ProductsAlsoPurchased", "Catalog", new { productId = Model.Id, productThumbPictureSize = 100 })
• Added an option indicating whether products on category and manufacturer pages should include featured products as well (just set 'catalogsettings.includefeaturedproductsinnormallists' setting to 'true').
• Admin area > System > Warnings. Ensure that the ratios of the primary exchnage currency and primary weight/dimension are set to 1.
• Allow developers to add custom scripts or CSS files to admin area (@Html.AddScriptParts and @Html.AddCssFileParts support added).
• Updated AddThis.com share button code.
• Deleted obsolete settings (catalogsettings.hidepricesfornonregistered and shoppingcartsettings.wishlistenabled). They were not deleted during upgrade to 2.30.
• Added a new setting for product thumbnail image size displayed on product details page.
• Display month names instead of showing numeric 1..12 in the month dropdownlist (datepicker) for 'Register' and 'Customer info' pages.
• Added 'Nop.Web.Framework.UI' namespace to theme Web.config files (\Themes\{Themes}\Views\Web.config).
• Fixed all compilation warnings.
• Froogle plugin. Use product variant picture if available instead of product picture.
• Use WYSIWUG editor on campaign and message template pages (admin area).
• Do not require write permission for the root directory (some hosting companies do not allow it).
• Renamed 'AllowProductFiltering' to 'AllowProductSorting' (CategoryModel, ManufacturerModel, and ProductsByTagModel classes).
• Deleted jquery.blockUI.js (anyway it wasn't used).
• Deleted jquery.superfishmenu.js (anyway it wasn't used).
• Deleted some unused files.
• 'LoadActivePaymentMethods' method of 'IPaymentService' now accepts a customer as a parameter. That way it would be really easy to extend what payment methods are available for each user.
• More clean Telerik CSS and JS registration (_AdminLayout.cshtml file).
• Admin area. Do not throw exceptions if some entity is not found (just redirect a store owner to an appropriate list page).
• Made the following classes partial: SystemCustomerAttributeNames, SystemCustomerNames, SystemCustomerRoleNames.
• 'Free shipping over X' option. Added a new setting (Calculate 'X' including tax). It indicates whether 'Free shipping over X' option should be evaluated over 'X' value including tax or not.
• Admin area dashboard > nopCommerce news. Set request timeout to 5 seconds.
• Added two new events ('Order placed' and 'Order paid').
• Renamed 'EmailSubscribed' class to 'EmailSubscribedEvent'. Renamed 'EmailUnsubscribed' class to 'EmailUnubscribedEvent'.
• Made PrepareModel methods in the Nop.Web Controller classes callable (protected) from third party extensions.

Bugs

• Medium trust issue fixed. Plugin DLLs were locked in medium trust periodically (now we just don't copy them each time the application is started). Note: If you're running nopCommerce in medium trust, then it's recommended to clear your \Plugins\bin\ directory after a new plugin installation or deployment.
• One page checkout issue fixed when order total is 0.
• Fixed Description.txt, Settings.txt, InstalledPlugins.txt parsing issue in some cases after uploading them in ASCII mode (FTP).
• Customer could not place order or use external authentication providers if ASP.NET session mode was set to "SQLServer" or "Custom".
• Entered product info (gift cart recipient name, email, product attributes) should be persisted after posting back (if wrong data has been entered).
• Localized all hard-coded locale string resources.
• Fixed some locale string resources.
• Wishlist items should not be deleted after placing an order.
• “Copy product” option didn’t work after setting picture store location to file system.
• Information about used payment method was not included in the PDF invoice.
• Recurring payments could not be processed (after an initial order has been placed).
• PayPal Standard issue fixed when 'Pass product names and order totals to PayPal' option was enabled.
• Return descriptive errors to Telerik grid when making AJAX updates (instead of “server returned error”).
• Admin area. Added validation for NewsLetterSubscription model.
• VAT issue fixed. Checking VAT number should do ToUpper() before calling VAT service.
• Inject static cache manager using constructor into CatalogController and TopicController (previously it was hard-coded).
• Cross-sell products (shopping cart page). At least one product variant of displayed products should be available.
• One-page checkout. Skip 'select payment method' and 'payment info' pages if it isn't required.
• PDF invoice generated in admin area did not use the correct currency when 'Display all applied tax rates' was enabled and customer used non primary store currency.
• 'PrintOrdersToPdf' method of 'PdfService' and 'ProductListToHtmlTable' of 'MessageTokenProvider' should use passed 'language' parameter when formatting prices.
• The shopping cart and wishlist pages. If a customer enters wrong quantity and press the 'Update' button, an item should not be removed from the cart.
• Tax and 'Free shipping over X' issue fixed. Tax could become negative in some cases.
• A lot of other 'Free shipping over X' issues fixed.
• Clicking the "view order" link on the "Gift card edit" page referred to a wrong order page.
• 'Dynamic price update' issue fixed. It didn't work with cultures that use a comma to display cents.
• Minor issue fixed in 'Authorize' method of 'PermissionService' ('customer' parameter wasn't used).
• Unpublished entities (products, product variants) were not exported (XML, Excel).
• Updated exchange rate feed URL for Nop.Plugin.ExchangeRate.McExchange.
• 'AllowBackInStockSubscriptions' property wasn't imported/exported (Excel).
• Deleting orders should adjust inventory.
• Checkout and reward points issue fixed. When the user chooses to use rewards on the checkout process when the rewards points are greater than the cart total and then returns back to shipping to go through the steps again, the payment step is skipped. Clicking on the payment step will now redirect to confirm with no way to get back to it except to login/logout.
• 'Plugins' menu item couldn’t be hidden using ACL (when 'Hide admin menu items based on permissions' setting was enabled).
• Admin area > Customer Settings. Hide 'State/province' form field if 'Country' form field is disabled.
• A language or currency could not be deleted if it had an associated customer record.
• Newsletter minor issue fixed (working currency identifer was used instead of working language).
• Export orders to Excel should contain address info.
• Excel export issue fixed. Newline character was returned as _x00D_ (just updated EPPlus.dll assembly to the latest version).
• USPS shipping plugin 'overwrites' ZipPostalCodeFrom without checking if already set.
• USPS shipping plugin excluded free shipping items when calculating declared value International rates.
• 'Shipping by weight' plugin. Added the 'Calculate per weight unit' setting on the configuration page.
• Customer emails with order details should contain 'Download' link (if we have downloadable products).
• SeName wasn't used in Export/Import to Excel.
• 'FullSizeImageUrl' property for some entities wasn’t set in CatalogController.
• Telerik issue fixed. If you have a manufacturer or a category with quotes, then editing of products stops working because of teleric doesn't understand such name.
• SMS providers (Clickatell and Verizon) missed closing tag.
• Locale resources weren't deleted during plugin uninstallation.
• Deployment file (Deploy.bat) should create \Plugins\bin directory.

Highlight features

• Performance optimization.
• Back in stock notifications.
• Product special price support (price will be valid between specified start and end dates).
• Catalog mode (based on customer role). Added the following ACL permissions: ‘Display price’, ‘Enable shopping cart’, ‘Enable wishlist’.

Improvements

• Performance optimization. Presentation layer model caching.
• Performance optimization. Cache localizable values between requests (when you have more than one language).
• Country and state localization.
• Shipping method localization.
• Currency localization.
• Added a new GTIN property (Global Trade Item Number) to product variant. GTIN can include UPC (in North America), EAN (in Europe), JAN (in Japan), and ISBN (for books).
• Added 'Allow customer to select page size on category/manufacturer/product tags pages'.
• Plugins page (admin area). Added a link to a plugin configuration page (if available). Any specific plugin can have a configuration page now (it should implement 'IMiscPlugin' interface).
• Allow store owner to manage SSL settings in admin area.
• Display selected shipping method during checkout.
• Bulk edit. Allow store owner to search product variants by name, category, and manufacturer.
• Forums performance optimization.
• Forums presentation models don't depend on entities anymore (they can be cached now).
• SEO improvements. Set page title (HTML) for blog and news records.
• Added username availability check in the registration form and 'My Account' page (when 'Allow customers to change their usernames' is enabled).
• Added PDF setting to enable Letter page size for PDFs.
• Added 'Allow an admin to view the closed store' (as per 1.90). Check to allow a user with admin access to view the store while it is set to closed.
• Allow searching customers by date of birth (as per 1.90).
• Schedule tasks are stored into database now.
• Minor address format changes in PDF.
• Shopping cart page. Use more user-friendly fancybox for showing terms and conditions pop-up window.
• Added 'CommonSettings.EnableHttpCompression' setting (used to enabled/disable compression).
• UPS shipping rate computation method. Added 'Insure package' option (if any item's price will exceed a certain value, extra charges will be added).
• Better formatting for customer entered prices on product details page.
• Ensure that any consumers of the repositories (IRepository) will only call DbContent.Set when they actually require data.
• Added 'Clear cache' background task (as per 1.90). Disabled by default.
• Updated Autofac to the latest version (2.5.2.830).
• Ignore "favicon.ico" route.
• Added a setting indicating whether order totals should be displayed on 'Payment info' tab of 'One-page checkout' page Because total cost of order is not calculated until checkout the user does not know the total when they click the "Continue" button after entering card details. Many customers will be nervous of clicking continue when they can't see the total of the order. Set 'ordersettings.onepagecheckoutdisplayordertotalsonpaymentinfotab' setting to 'true' in order to enable this option (disabled by default).
• Allow store owner to specify minimum password length (6 by default). Just update ‘CustomerSettings. PasswordMinLength’ setting.
• Display discount coupon code on shopping cart page. Customers should be able to see what discount coupon code was entered (for discounts with coupon code).
• Added EnableIpn setting in PayPal Standard.
• Moved ‘HideAdminMenuItemsBasedOnPermissions’ setting on UI.
• Added a new setting ('customersettings.storelastvisitedpage') indicating we should store last visited page URL (disable to increase performance if you don't need it).
• Plugins should install their locale resources in appropriate 'Install' method (previously plugin resources were stored into /App_Data/defaultResources.plugins.nopres.xml file).
• Inject dependencies like HttpContextBase (instead of HttpContext.Current).
• Removed 'IAutoStart' interface and 'AutofacContrib' library because they were not used (we already have IStartupTask interface).

Bugs

• Weird characters instead of descriptive error text issue fixed.
• Plugin issue fixed. The controller for path '/Admin/{0}/{1}' was not found or does not implement IController.
• Facebook authentication issue fixed (with 'Auto register' option enabled).
• Generated PDF files did not support non-English characters.
• NopObjectContext.ExecuteStoredProcedureList() threw "An object with the same key already exists in the ObjectStateManager" exception when attaching an already attached entity.
• IE 8 fails to load onepagecheckout.js script due to supplemental comma in lines.
• Cached model validators didn't display messages in correct language (when you had two or more languages).
• Category details page. Subcategory links and image titles used parent (or top-level) category name.
• Category navigation block. Highlight category item according to currently viewed product (as per 1.90).
• Forums didn't work in medium trust.
• RTL (right-to-left) theme CSS issues fixed.
• Message tokens used in email subjects should not be HTML encoded, subjects are sent as clear text.
• Typo fixed renamed 'OpenAuthenticationStatus.RequresRedirect' to 'OpenAuthenticationStatus.RequiresRedirect'.
• PDF Invoice issue fixed. Incorrect tax label was displayed when 'Display all applied tax rates' setting was enabled.
• Removed all non-standard view locations (e.g. "~/Views/{not-current-controller}/PartialView.cshtml") so they can be overridden in themes.
• Minor tier price calculation refactoring.
• 'Fixed Rate' shipping module issue fixed. Decimal rates could not be saved in some cultures
• Text should not be decoded when editing forum posts.
• The text boxes should be cleared after news/blog comment has been posted.
• Admin dashboard. 'Incomplete orders' report should ignore cancelled orders.
• Removed duplicated <form> tag for some plugin configuration pages (admin area).
• Added some hard-coded locale string resources.
• Added some missing locale string resources.
• Insert shopping cart item event issue fixed (inside the HandleEvent eventMessage.Entity was null).
• 'Add to cart' button is disabled when 'Low stock activity' is set to 'Disable buy button'. The same should be done for 'wishlist' button.
• This text (on the billing address selection screen) should be "Bill to this address".
• Customer records couldn't be deleted when they had associated log records.
• Fixed Telerik grid formatting issue on newsletter subscribers page in IE 8.
• Customer info page. Save forum signature when both forums and signature are enabled.
• 'Shipping by weight' and 'Tax by country state zip' had issues in IE.
• Product details page issue fixed. Javascript alert messages with warnings should not be encoded.
• IBlogService.GetAllBlogPosts should return IPagedList (not PagedList).

Highlight features

• Significant performance optimization.
• One page checkout.
• 'Web service' plugin (Web Services API).
• RTL (right-to-left) support.
• Added category and manufacturer templates.
• Allow store owner to manage address fields on 'Register' and 'My account' page.
• Added a generic event system.

Improvements

• Updated jQuery to 1.5.1.
• Allow customers to complete a payment after order is placed but not completed (for redirection payment methods).
• PDF now works in medium trust.
• Installation wizard. Added an option to create database if it doesn't exist.
• Products can require that other products are added to the cart (Product X requires Product Y).
• SEO optimization. Filenames of uploaded images are SEO friendly now
• Canonical URL support added (disabled by default).
• Product searching. Support searching of the localized values.
• More advanced product import/export support. Added category/manufacture mappings and images (up to 3 images).
• Added a setting to hide admin menu items if the access control list limits access to certain functionalities. Just set 'SecuritySettings.HideAdminMenuItemsBasedOnPermissions' setting to 'true'.
• Added 'Store closed' option.
• Rich editor. Added image browser.
• Added a setting to display home page products with prices. Setting name is 'catalogsettings.usesmallproductboxonhomepage'.
• Performance optimization. Use a stored procedure for loading products.
• Performance optimization. Minified CSS files.
• Performance optimization. Compress dynamic requests (if supported).
• Performance optimization. It allows you to enable static file caching and compression for IIS 6 in web.config file (commented by default). Compressing could reduce their transfer size by about 400Kb (70% reduction).
• Performance optimization. Added the following settings: ignore tier prices (sitewide), ignore discounts (site-wide), and ignore featured products (site-wide). Tick them in order if you don't use these options on your site.
• Performance optimization. Don't use slow 'SearchProducts' method for loading related products on product details page.
• Performance optimization. 'GetSpecificationAttributeOptionFilter' implementation is quite slow. So let's ensure that we have at least one filterable product specification attribute mapping before using it. It's useful when you DO NOT have filterable specification attributes. Just set 'CatalogSettings.EnsureWeHaveFilterableSpecAttributes' setting to 'true'.
• Performance optimization. Placing order took several minutes using big databases.
• CSS changes. Removed some hard-coded styles.
• CSS changes. Added a print.css stylesheet file (used for printing order details).
• Uploaded browserCaps.config file to prevent adding of guest records for each request made by search engine
• Log error details when generating a promotion feed.
• Allow store owner to view current wishlists (similar implementation as sales > current shopping carts)
• Added a setting to allow Unicode chars in URLs (SeoSetting.AllowUnicodeCharsInUrls).
• Fixed all compilation warnings.
• Admin area. Added 'Restart application' button.
• Moved the 'products by tag' page size into the catalog settings instead of hard coding it.
• Show product images in admin area. Set 'AdminAreaSettings.DisplayProductPictures' to 'false' in order to disable it.
• Localized some hard-coded resources.
• New product templates implementation. Allow developers to set layout in templates.
• Allow the store owner to set a certain number of days that the Return Request Link will be available in the Customer "My Account" area (365 days by default).
• Allow store owner to reset the download count for a specific downloadable order product variant. It can be useful when a download has failed multiple times.
• PayPal Standard. Allow store owner to specify IPN address (override the default one specified in PayPal control panel). It's useful when you have more than one store using same PayPal account.
• Allow store owner to deleted selected log records (Admin area > System > Log).
• Added 'Show a share button' settings in Configuration.
• Optimized the order of styles and scripts. Correctly ordering external style sheets and external and inline scripts enables better parallelization of downloads and speeds up browser rendering time.
• Load '/Scripts/slimbox2.js' file on product details page only.
• Reduced the size of Facebook and Twitter images.
• Admin area. Customers page. Made an 'Email' column clickable because the customer list does not have an 'Edit' column in the grid on some machines.
• Validation. Ensure that currency exchange rate is greater than 0.
• Set period of 'DeleteGuestsTask' to 10 minutes.
• Added several new unit tests.
• Store relative database file path in Settings.txt when using SQL Compact.
• Added several new SQL CE database initializers.
• Register the MemoryCacheManager implementation of ICacheManager as a SingleInstance (DependencyRegistrar).
• PluginManager class refactoring.
• Added one more value to 'PaymentMethodType' enum. It's 'Redirection'. Use it when a customer is redirected to a third-party site in order to complete the payment.
• Allow developers to use admin views from within a plugin.
• Allow overriding of Layout (master page) in themes.
• BaseNopController (public store) refactoring.
• Added RemotePost helper class (can be used by redirection payment methods).

Bugs

• Deploy.bat file issue fixed (configuration wasn't set).
• Tier price issue fixed. When there is just one tier (with min qty 1), the "buy more and save" table shouldn't be shown up. Since it only has one tier, with the price for unit 1+, there are no actual savings in the list.
• Admin area grid issue fixed. Current page number is not reset when doing search.
• Tax calculation issue fixed for customer roles with 'Tax exempt' flag. Ensure that a role is active.
• Fixed 'LocalizedRoute' issue when running a site on an aliased domain.
• Password recovery html issue fixed. Removed an extra div's closing tag.
• Fixed 'Password recovery' and 'Account activation' email routes (didn’t work on some machines)
• Customers were logged out after changing email or username (the authentication cookie wasn't updated)
• Product tag issue fixed (unpublished products should not be considered).
• Issue fixed. 'Address 1' field should be required.
• Forum signature fields should not be visible when forums are disabled.
• Product search issue fixed. Sorting took the first category/manufacturer found for OrderBy, whereas it should take the currently selected category/manufacturer for OrderBy.
• Fixed 'Copy product' issue when you have attribute combinations.
• Issue fixed. Don't load deleted product variants in PdfService.PrintProductsToPdf and ProductService.AdjustInventory methods.
• Ensure that only registered customers can login.
• "The requested service Nop.Data.IEfDataProvider has not been registered" issue fixed.
• Reward points minor issue fixed (cancelling not completed order).
• Vat number validation issue fixed. Call to check vat using the EU-vat service will fail if the country code isn't followed by a whitespace.
• Russian ruble currency code should be RUB (RUR is outdated).
• Added missed 'Manage Plugins' permission record.
• You couldn't delete an email account with associated queued emails.
• 'languageId' parameter passed to 'ProductListToHtmlTable()' method wasn't used when getting localized product name.
• CSS. ‘Remove discount’ button was not displaying image in IE8
• Search Page. Updated search page to not search or displaying search term min length warning message on /search page load, added message for searches with no results (restores 1.90 functionality)
• Issue fixed. Advanced Search - blank search term - no error, but does not search.
• Trailing space in setting or localization name should be trimmed.
• Admin area. It was possible to leave 'Password' field blank when creating a customer.
• App_Data/GeoIP.dat file wasn't copied after solution deployment.
• Euro currency character issue fixed (didn’t work on some machines)
• Updated Australia post shipping rate computation method to use 'GET' instead of 'POST' (HTTP method).
• Delete address issue fixed (admin area).

Highlight features

• CMS plugins support (widgets)
• OpenID, Facebook and Twitter authentication support
• Added support for multilingual SEO URLs. Now you can have URLs such as 'http://www.yourStore.com/en/' or 'http://www.yourStore.com/ru/' for distinct languages (this option is disabled by default)
• Performance optimization (added SQL Server indexes, "gradual" approach to load locale resources)
• Added product templates

Improvements

• Now plugins can add their own custom scripts and CSS files
• Discount and gift card boxes should display a message after entering a coupon code
• Encrypt password which is entered during installation
• Don't allow entering of the product review text when it's not allowed (e.g., not registered)
• Added MiniProfiler (disabled by default)
• DatePicker dropdownlist is localizable now
• Separated 'Disable add to cart' and 'Disable add to wishlist' options for product variants
• Added a new setting (ShoppingCartSettings.RoundPricesDuringCalculation) setting which indicates whether calculated prices and totals should be rounded

Bugs

• Removed 'Show on home page' option on manufacturers details page (it shouldn't be there)
• Manage Countries and States missing in ACL list
• Minor StrikeIron tax provider caching issue fixed
• File permission validation issue fixed (during installation)
• The variant name should be within the brackets and spaced from the product name (admin area > low stock report)
• There was a typo in the label tag for the unsubscribe radio button that prevents the automatic selection.
• Authentication (remember me) issue fixed
• Store Name did not change footer
• Return reasons/actions were inverted
• Switching language returned the store to the main page when "Use images for language selection" option was enabled
• Fixed 'view HTML source' issue in RichEditor with multiple languages
• Fixed Froogle (Google Product Base) issues. Prepared it for the important changes to Google Product Search feed specification & policies (starting on September 22, 2011).
• Low stock report shouldn't include “product attribute combinations”
• NopResourceDisplayName caching issue fixed (when you have multiple languages)
• Fixed product review page issue in Mozilla Firefox 6.0
• Customer email confirmation issue fixed (when usernames are enabled)
• 'Download file' tooltip has wrong text on product variant page
• Store owner should not be able to disable system customer roles (such as 'Registered)
• Manufacturer thumbnail size (media settings) was not used
• 'No addresses' text was hard-coded (should be localizable)

Some notes

• You should reconfigure 'Live Person' chat and 'Google Analytics' if you used them before. Now they‟re implemented as widgets
• Added 'Supported nopCommerce versions' property to plugins. Now you should specify it in 'Description.txt file.
• Before using the updated „Froogle‟ plugin you have to reinstall it (uninstall and then install it on the plugin list page in admin area)

nopCommerce 2.00 was rewritten from scratch. Our development efforts were focused on moving nopCommerce to ASP.NET MVC 3.0, architecture improvements, further enhancements and fixing bugs. We also decided not to ship nopCommerce with all that payment modules that were included in the previous versions (about 35 modules). Only some of them are available out of the box. All other payment modules will be available as plugins.

Highlight features

• Architecture improvements
• Moved to ASP.NET MVC 3.0 (Razor syntax)
• Really pluggable architecture (just drop a plugin to the /plugins folder in your nopCommerce directory)
• SQL Server Compact support
• Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4 (data access)
• More flexible ACL implementation
• More user-friendly admin area
• Added unit tests

Improvements

• Performance optimization
• reCAPTCHA integration
• New tier prices implementation (now can be configured based on customer roles)
• Several discount requirements can be configured per discount
• Allow store owner to create a new purchased gift card without placing an order
• Some of existing discount requirements didn’t work for guests
• Search for customers by name in administration
• Merged product reviews and ratings options.
• Email wishlist to a friend
• Admin area. Show operation status after it's completed (Save, Delete buttons)
• New installation wizard (The orchard project contribution)
• Simplified register page. Removed a lot of fields that were not used at all.
• Fill the "EstimateShipping" module on load with the country/region/zipcode of the current customer
• Allow store owner to manage the number of product tags that appear in the tag cloud
• Removed warehouses and pricelists features because they were useless
• A lot of refactoring and other improvements

Bugs

• Tax rounding issue fixed
• Some shipping issues fixed
• Download catalog as PDF. Currency values had 4 decimal places
• Select payment/shipping method radio button text was not clickable
• Hide prices for non-registered customers didn’t work on tier prices
• Renamed PayPal PTI to PDT
• MS Excel importing issue fixed
• A lot of other bugs fixes

Highlight features

• Architecture improvements
• Improved existing themes (usage of three-column master page & increased page width)
• Allow store owner to manage category access by customer role (a store owner can deny access to any customer role)

Improvements

• Performance optimization
• New discount type - 'Applied to order subtotal' (discount applied before tax)
• New discount requirement - 'Customer must be registered'
• New discount requirement - 'Customer has all of these product variants in the cart'
• New discount requirement - 'Customer has one of these product variants in the cart'
• More user-friendly admin area. Added "Save and Continue Edit" buttons. When editing an item, "Save" returns to continue editing which is great at times. A "Save and return to list" would save the edits and return to the list in one click, rather than 2 clicks.
• More user-friendly shopping cart page
• Improved one-page checkout to work without postbacks
• Canonical URL support for products, categories, and manufacturers (used to eliminate loss of search engine page rank due to duplicate content penalties for multiple URLs linking to same page content)
• Allow store owner to change 'Pictures are stored into database / file system' option in production environment
• Negative price adjustment support for product variant attributes
• Allow customers to email their wish lists (configurable)
• Minimum order sub-total support
• Email a store owner when a customer makes a return request
• Email a customer after return request state change
• Allow customers to remove applied discounts with coupon code (shopping cart page)
• USPS Selectable Rates (Services). USPS carrier services selectable in admin area
• UPS Selectable Rates (Services). UPS carrier services selectable in admin area
• FedEx Improvements: FedEx carrier services selectable in admin area, additional fee added to each rate (optional), option to use discount or list rates, text names for services (e.g. "FedEx Priority Overnight" instead of "PRIORITY OVERNIGHT")
• Improved 'Fixed Rate Shipping' shipping rate computation method. Allow store owner to specify rate for each shipping method (NOTE: This method should be reconfigured if it was used)
• SEO friendly URLs for product tags
• SEO friendly page title of product tag page
• SEO changes (use <h1> tag on product details page)
• Allow store owner to select a Google Analytics script placement (before </head> or </body> tag)
• Allow store owner to view product variants on products page (admin area > products)
• Admin Area. Added a 'Warnings' page
• Allow store owner to view 'System information' in admin area
• Forums. Relative date format support (option to display 'Today, Yesterday, 1 month ago...')
• Allow store owner to filter system log by date range, message or log type
• Allow store owners to view the store while it is set to closed
• Option to select time zone during registration ('Time zone' form field)
• Option to display page execution time at the bottom of all pages in public store
• Allow store owner to manage maximum number of items allowed in cart/wish list
• Option to show the number of products besides each category (configurable)
• Option to display manufacturer part number (disabled by default)
• Option to vote on polls for anonymous users (configurable)
• PM (private messages) email notifications (configurable)
• Allow customers to change their username (configurable)
• 'Search Products' page. Allow store owner to set product page size
• 'New customer registered' store owner e-mail notification (configurable - disabled by default)
• Allow store owner to choose whether he wants to export all or only active (confirmed) newsletter subscriptions
• When clicking 'Use same as shipping address' button (checkout process) automatically select the address for the user and move to next step. Rather than copying values then having to click 'Next' button.
• Admin area. Advanced search of locale string resources
• 'Online customers' module. Display total number of registered customers and total number of visitors
• 'Online Customers' module. Store maximum number of visitors
• Allow customers to select a store theme (configurable - disabled by default)
• Improved PDF packaging slips
• Display tooltip that EU VAT numbers should be entered without country code
• Improved 'New VAT submitted' message template (include the status of VAT number and name and address of registrant - very useful info when checking validity)
• Modified 'Products in Lines 2' category template to support price and specification filters
• Allow store owners to download backups
• When a customer registers during checkout, after completing registration they should be redirected back to shopping cart page
• Skip 'select payment method' checkout step if order total equals zero
• If customers were using reward points and they had more reward point value than the total order value, they were still required to select a payment method
• PayPal Standard. Validate order total in PaypalPDTHandler.aspx
• Allow store owner to delete old PDF and excel files (Admin area > System > Maintenance)
• Added advanced search hyperlink to the main forum page
• Render order notes in PDF order invoices (disabled by default)
• Promotion providers. Added input box for product thumbnail size
• Promotion providers. Allow store owner to generate product feeds in distinct currencies
• Display entity name during its editing (product/category/manufacturer/customer details pages)
• Web.config file. Set ValidateRequest to "false"
• Shipping settings (admin area). Hide 'Value of X' field in case 'Free shipping over X' is unchecked
• Added a hyperlink to 'Forgot password' page to administration login page
• Standardized use of color definitions in style sheets to hexadecimal
• CSS. Removed several hard-coded styles
• Show 'Password successfully changed' message after changing password in admin area
• Preselect a shipping method and payment method during checkout
• 'Impersonate customer' functionality. 'Finish session' link should take administrator back to the 'administration' page a store owner started from
• Localized 'DuplicateEmailErrorMessage' and 'DuplicateUserNameErrorMessage' properties of CustomerRegister control
• Admin area. Bigger input box for setting & localization values
• Ensure that reward points are applied only to registered user
• Display customer email on 'customer reports' page (admin area)
• Developers. Source code refactoring
• Developers. Usage of IoC/DI pattern
• Developers. Pass entities as parameters to manager methods
• Developers. Use T4 for generating NopObjectContext
• Developers. Naming changes (Manager -> Service)
• Developers. Moved all promotion provider libraries to the new 'PromotionProviders' folder
• Developers. Removed a lot of stored procedures
• Developers. Added OrderPaid event to EventContext class
• Developers. Merged CreditCardTypeManager, PaymentStatusManager, PaymentMethodManager and PaymentManager classes
• Developers. Merged ShippingMethodManager, ShippingRateComputationMethodManager, ShippingStatusManager and ShippingManager
• Developers. Merged LocalizationManager and LocaleStringResourceManager classes
• Developers. Renamed IpBlacklistManager to BlacklistManager
• Developers. The following tables were deleted: Nop_DiscountLimitation, Nop_DiscountRequirement, Nop_DiscountType, Nop_LogType, Nop_LowStockActivity, Nop_OrderStatus, Nop_PaymentStatus, Nop_ShippingStatus, Nop_ShoppingCartType
• Developers. Better control over 'Online Customers' module (you can decide which page should or should not be tracked)
• Developers. Renamed Picture.Extension property to MimeType
• Developers. Removed Nop.HttpModules.BlacklistModule and Nop.HttpModules.MembershipModule assemblies
• Developers. Removed BaseNopNestedMasterPage class
• Developers. Added BaseNopFrontendMasterPage base class for public store master pages
• Developers. Added BaseNopFrontendPage base class for public store pages
• Developers. Added BaseNopFrontendUserControl base class for public store user controls

Bugs

• Medium trust issue fixed (use FCKEditor instead of HTMLEditor)
• Added ‘MultipleActiveResultSets=True’ to connection string
• PNG/GIF transparency issue fixed
• Deleting product variant attribute issue fixed
• One-page checkout and PayPal Express issue fixed
• Turned off case sensitivity for discount coupon codes
• EURO currency format issue fixed
• Sitemap issue fixed. 'changefreq' property should be lowercase (SiteMapSEO.aspx)
• Credit card number and trailing spaces issue fixed
• Free shipping issue fixed. If one product that has free shipping and one product that doesn't require shipping are placed in the basket, a shipping fee is applied here but shouldn't be
• Added missed 'ManageEmailSettings' customer action (ACL)
• Category details page. Filtering products by specification attributes with international names issue fixed (Internet Explorer)
• Shared SSL issue fixed ('SharedSSL' app setting renamed to 'SharedSSLUrl'; new 'NonSharedSSLUrl' app setting)
• Anonymous checkout discount issue fixed
• Minor dynamic price update issue fixed
• 'Customer enters prices' products in distinct currencies minor issue fixed
• Admin area. Editing guest minor issue fixed
• Pictures stored on file system minor issue fixed. When you click 'delete' for a product image it does not delete the original image
• Fixed bug in BBEditor "quote" button functionality (in case we have [code] tag inside [quote] tag)
• Autocomplete issue fixed for FF and Chrome browsers (replaced AutoCompleteType='Disabled' with autocomplete='off')
• Continue shipping rate computation on error with multiple providers
• SagePay payment method issue fixed
• Svea (hosted) payment gateway issue fixed. 'Success' parameter was not validated on return page
• PayPal Standard issue fixed when 'Pass product names and order totals to PayPal' option is enabled (shipping fee is missing)
• Tier pricing/Customer role and product variant discounts issue fixed
• 'Online customers' module. Last URL query string parameters were not stored
• Mini shopping cart + 'shopping cart' link displayed incorrect product quantity when there is more than one of an individual product in the cart
• Currency issue fixed when 'Display all applied tax rates' option was enabled
• 'Allow anonymous users to write product reviews' and 'Allow anonymous users to set product ratings' issue fixed
• One-page checkout minor issue fixed
• Admin area ('affiliates' and ' topics). Generating a link issue fixed
• LogTypeEnum.Unknown issue fixed
• Admin area > DashBoard. DateTime (timezone) issue fixed
• Password protected topics issue fixed when they are used as nested topics (Topic.ascx control)
• Wrong order date in customer emails issue fixed
• Exporting orders to excel minor issue fixed
• Cancelling recurring payments minor issue fixed
• CSS minor issue fixed (Customer profile > User latest posts)
• Maximum length of customer email/username was increased to 100
• Added static lock object to SEOHelper.InitializeSeoCharacterTable method

Highlight features

• Phone order support (allow store owner to place an order via admin panel)
• RMA (return management). Customers can submit return requests from your store
• Display all applied tax rates (e.g. 7%, 15%) on shopping cart and order details pages (configurable - disabled by default)
• The European Union Value Added Tax (EU VAT) support (Company VAT Number)
• Partial refund support
• Multiple email accounts (senders) support
• Backorder support
• Cross-sells support
• 'Customers Online' module
• Use ASP.NET Chart control for reports
• New discount requirement - 'Billing country is...'
• New discount requirement - 'Shipping country is...'
• New discount requirement - 'Applies if customer has previously spent x.xx amount'
• New discount limitation - 'N Times Only'
• New discount limitation - 'N Times Per Customer'
• CCAvenue (India) payment method
• Physical gift card support (customer is not asked for sender/recipient emails)

Improvements

• Performance optimization
• Source code refactoring
• Added an 'Estimate shipping' option on shopping cart page (can be disabled)
• Allow store owner to view all existing shopping carts on a single page
• Allow store owner to manage newsletter subscription list
• Allow store owner to import subscriber list from CSV (tab-delimited) file (Line format: email_address \t is_active (e.g. test@test.com \t true))
• Allow store owner to find customers by date of birth (ability to offer birthday gifts to customers)
• Allow store owner to find orders by GUID (or part of GUID)
• 'Call for price' option
• Enhanced 'Fixed rate' tax provider. Now a store owner can configure fixed rate per tax category (should be reconfigured if this provider was active)
• Allow store owner to limit shipping methods to configured ones (applied to 'Shipping By Order Total', 'Shipping By Order Weight' and 'Shipping By Country & Order Weight' shipping rate computation providers)
• More user friendly sitemap page
• PDF. Packaging slips and invoices include the shipping method now
• Blog. Added tag support.
• Blog. Group posts by year/month.
• Blog. Moved blog page URLs to SEOHelper.
• Forums. Advanced search support
• Topics. 'Include in sitemap' option
• Topics. Allow store owner to create password protected pages
• Topics. Added 'Topic URL' on topic details page (admin area)
• Admin area. Added 'Affiliate URL' tooltip on affiliate details page
• Pass product names to PayPal Standard (configurable - disabled by default)
• Forums. Added the following message template tokens %Forums.PostAuthor%, %Forums.PostBody%
• Forums. Latest forum posts paging support on profile page
• Display detailed payment info (supports capture/refund/void/recurring payments) for each payment method
• Configurable minimum order amount
• Display product SKU in public store (configurable)
• Option to display the quantity of a particular product which is in stock
• New checkout/product attribute control type – DatePicker
• Allow users to manage their forum subscriptions
• Ensure that gift cards could not be applied for recurring orders
• More user friendly order details page (public store)
• Localized some of hard-coded locale resources
• Allow store owner to enter product prices more than 999,999
• Disabled viewstate on some of user controls (reduced page size)
• 'Order to subtotal' discounts are applied to order total now ( + renamed to 'Order to total')
• Allow store owner to submit Froogle feed via FTP
• Added Preview buttons on category/manufacturer/product pages
• Added 'select all' checkbox on private message details page (Inbox)
• Added 'select all' checkbox on 'add product to category', 'add product to manufacturer', 'related products' pages
• Allow store owner to select preferred exchange rate provider
• Allow store owner to enable currency rate auto updating (disabled by default)
• Improved SMS implementation
• Added email SMS provider (Verizon)
• More user friendly 'Tax Settings'page (admin area)
• More user-friendly 'Global Settings' page (new 'Products' tab, changed some options ordering)
• Allow store owner to search product variants by SKU
• Moved Google Analytics settings to Global Settings page
• Option to remove favicon ('Global settings' page)
• Option to support non-western chars in SEO names (e.g. convert 'é' to 'e')
• Ensure that gift card activation/deactivation order status and reward points awarded/canceled order status could not be set to Pending
• Option to enable/disable a 'Newsletter' form field on registration/my account pages
• Admin area. Allow store owner to hide newsletter subscription box
• New 'Display cart after adding product' option
• Option to show/hide 'My Downloadable Products' tab on My Account page
• Allow store owner to disable URL ReWriting
• Option to remove of hide the Gift card / Discount options
• Minor poll changes
• Admin area. New blog/news comments, product reviews pages
• Allow store owner to update CC for manual payment method
• Admin area. Enhanced categories page by 'Published' and 'Display Order'
• Admin area. Display payment details on order details page (transaction identifiers)
• Better jQuery binding (header)
• Added CVV2 validator for Credit Card payments (3-4 digits)
• Display manufacturer info on product details page
• Admin area. Minor product details page ('Product Variants' tab) changes (don't display stock when manage stock option is set 'Don't track inventory' or 'Track inventory by product attributes')
• Minor SEOHelper changes
• Registered customers can click on their own email/username to access 'My Account' page
• Simplified ProductBox1.ascx and ProductBox2.ascx controls
• Product prices were displayed without discount in ProductBox1.ascx and ProductBox2.ascx controls
• Admin area. More user friendly paging on the following admin area pages: Activity Log, Categories, Customers, Locale string resources, Log, Manufacturers, Message queue, Products, Settings
• Removed Nop_ProductType table because it was not used
• Moved DatePicker control to Nop.Controls assembly
• More user friendly range error messages
• Added Target='_blank' to 'View address on Google Maps' hyperlink (admin area - order details page)
• Changed request validation mode on Login.aspx and Register.aspx pages
• Modified category 'Products in Lines 1' control to display subcategories with images
• Product with 'customer enters prices'. Allow customer to enter decimal prices.
• Changed tab ordering on customer details page (admin area)
• Minor DecimalTextBox enhancements (new decimal format used)
• Changed admin area tooltip wrapping

Bugs

• Issue fixed. Gift cards were not created on recurring orders except the first one
• Increased zip code maximum length to 30 chars
• USPS minor issue fixed (international requests)
• Shopping cart page and terms of services issue fixed
• 'New products' issue fixed
• 'Related products' issue fixed
• Copy product issue fixed (product attribute combinations)
• Topic control minor bug fixed (rendered empty meta keywords and meta description)
• Total forum post count wasn't updated after deleting a forum post
• Deleting the first post of forum topic caused an exception
• Formatting too long customer name issue fixed (configurable maximum length)
• Zip code was not passed to PayPal Standard
• Fixed issue with nested quotes on forum
• Export to Excel. Not all of long description was exported (200 chars maximum)
• Nop_ProductLoadAllPaged, Nop_ProductAlsoPurchasedLoadByProductID stored procedures small issue fixed
• Too long Order.CardName issue fixed (caused decryption error)
• Minor issue in ShoppingCartManager.GetShoppingCartItemWarnings method fixed
• Added no-wrap style to the header menu
• LocalizationManager.DefaultAdminLanguage minor issue fixed
• AddThis.com + SSL issue fixed
• Fixed some typos (order editing tooltips)

No major features have been introduced with this release as our development efforts were focused on moving to ASP.NET 4.0, further enhancements and fixing bugs, but it does include the following changes:

Highlight features

• Moving to ASP.NET 4.0 (Visual Studio 2010 is required to edit source code)
• Simplified data access. Using ORM now (Entity framework 4.0)
• QuickBooks integration
• Performance optimization

Improvements

• USA ePay (integrated) payment module (Thanks, Chris Curtis)
• Added refund/capture support for QuickPay payment method
• Google AdSense integration
• Updated PayPal SOAP API to the latest version (63.0)
• Global event context (developers)
• Splitted "Assigned to product variants" discount type to "Assigned to product variants" and "Assigned to categories"
• New promotion providers management UI
• PriceGrabber / Yahoo Shopping, become.com promotion providers
• New themoneyconverter.com exchange rate provider (disabled by default)
• Gift card activation/deactivation by order status (similar to reward points)
• Skip/hide "Payment info" page if order total is 0 (configurable for each payment method)
• More user friendly specification attribute details page
• More user friendly message template & topic localization
• Zoom-in capability for main product image
• Allow store owner to disable PDF/Excel options for the entire store (useful in medium trust)
• "Check all" for "Payment/Shipping restrictions by country" option
• Added tooltip resources for RSS buttons
• Minor admin UI changes
• Queued email bulk delete option
• Extended polls with "Show on home page" and "start/end date" properties
• The option to display the breadcrumb or not
• Moved MenuControl.ascx from \Modules to \Administration\Modules directory
• More user friendly weight formatting on order details pages
• Packaging slips are saved into file/ImportExport folder now

Bugs

• Copy product feature didn't copy 'prices by customer roles'
• HTMLEditor caused JS errors on some servers
• Uploading "image/icon" (not "image/x-icon") favicon issue fixed
• Typo fixed in function/property names (Weigth > Weight)
• Fixed design issue on advanced search page in IE 6.0
• Returning to a wrong page after clicking "Continue shopping" button
• In Administration\Tax\General\TaxRates.ascx file the HeaderText field should match the Text field
• Minor language flag images issue fixed
• Australia Post issues fixed (minimum dimension validation and multiple packages)
• UPS issue fixed (when shipped from outside US)
• Tier price and product attributes with price adjustment issue fixed
• "Assigned to product variant" discount minor issue fixed (when discount amount is more than product price)
• "Assigned to shipping" discount issue fixed
• Product bulk edit issue fixed
• Textboxes didn't feet column width on "Bulk Edit Products" page
• SEOHelper.RenderMetaTag() function didn't create a new tag
• Added the language name, as a tool tip (html title) and alternate text, to the image button when images (flags) are used for language selection.
• We don't need to reset default customer billing/shipping addresses after updating shopping cart (CustomerManager.ResetCheckoutData method)
• Filenames with spaces were truncated upon download in FireFox

Highlight features

• Catalog (categories, products etc) localization
• Reward Points System
• Product tags
• Configurable checkout attributes (such as "Gift Wrap" or "Enter custom message")
• Configurable customer attributes (such as "Date of birth", "Phone number")
• Individual prices can be specified for individual customer groups
• Allow customers to enter product price (if enabled)
• More analytics and reporting
• Backend order editing

Improvements

• Social bookmarking
• Allow store owner to hide prices for non-registered customers
• Allow store owner to manage whether checkout terms and condition should be accepted before checkout
• Dynamic price update on product details page when a product has attributes with price adjustments (disabled by default)
• Gift cards are applied to order total now (not order subtotal)
• Batch product editing/deleting
• Batch product image uploading
• Products sorting (front end)
• AliPay (China) payment module (beta)
• Ability to upload images using HTML Editor (admin area)
• More SEO friendly
• New shipping status – Delivered
• New product attribute control type supported - multiline textbox
• Performance optimization
• Allow store owner to upload PDF logo
• Allow store owner to decide whether a message template is active (should be sent)
• Allow store owner to display certain categories on home page
• Allow store owner to specify flag image for a language and use a new flag image control for language selection (disabled by default)
• Allow store owner to send a test SMS
• Product image thumbnails in admin area (disabled by default)
• Store IP for news comments, blog comments, product reviews
• Allow anonymous users to email a friend (configurable)
• Simplified input of a customer birth date
• Display recurring product period info on shopping cart page (for recurring products)
• URL rewriting for forum groups, forums and topics
• Paging on localization page (admin area)
• Paging on blog page
• News archive page
• Allow store owner to view customer wishlist on a customer details page (admin area)
• More user friendly %Order.Product(s)% message template token
• Rename Froogle to Google Base
• Added select all checkbox for Activity Types grid (admin area)
• New date time format on product review/news/blog/forums pages
• Allow store owner to edit customer avatar
• Allow store owner to create sticky forum topics
• Forums. Added a confirmation box for "Delete" post/topic buttons
• More forum subscription validation (a subscribed user should be active and not deleted)
• Allow a customer to remove applied gift cards during checkout
• New admin category view
• Customer notifications when receiving new PM (alert)
• Show warning if a discount could not be applied during checkout
• Renamed "apply to order total" discount type to "apply to order subtotal"
• Source code refactoring

Bugs

• Import language pack connection timeout issue fixed
• Minor CSS bug fixes
• Save Order.PaidDate when order total is zero
• Product specification attribute filter control issue fixed (with international names)
• Nop_NewsLetterSubscriptionLoadAll stored procedure bug fixed
• "When creating an attribute, an 'is pre-selected' value can cause an error" bug fixed
• "Order totals" report minor bug (admin area > dashboard)
• SecurePay and one page checkout bug fixed
• SagePay bug fixed
• iDeal product names error fixed
• One-page checkout issue fixed
• PayPal Direct recurring payment issue. CreditCardTypeSpecified property was not specified.
• Froogle issue. "Missing Product Type Values"
• Continue shipping rate computation on error with multiple providers
• Issue with a creation date for the "product copy" option
• Renamed "Is sender notified" to "Is recipient notified" (gift cards)
• Minor discount issue fixed

Highlight features

• Gift Cards
• Access Control List
• Activity Log
• Recurring Products
• New Payment Statuses: Refund, Void
• Stock Management by Product Attributes (such as, color and size)
• One-page Checkout
• Do Not Store Credit Card Information (even encrypted). PA DSS Compliance Requirement!
• Restrict Available Shipping Methods by Country
• Restrict Available Payment Methods by Country
• Live Chat Integration
• SMS Notifications
• New Discount Type - "Assigned to Shipping"
• Discount Requirements
  • None
  • Must be assigned to customer role
  • Had purchased all of these product variants
  • Had purchased one of these product variants
• Discount Limitations
  • Unlimited
  • Can be used one time only
  • Can be used one time per customer
• Discount Usage History
• New Shipping Modules:
  • Australia Post
  • Canada Post
• New Payment Modules:
  • Amazon (SimplePay)
  • Assist (Russia)
  • Beanstream
  • ChronoPay
  • CyberSource
  • Dibs (Sweden)
  • iDeal (Netherlands)
  • Moneris
  • Pay in store
  • PayJunction
  • PayPoint
  • QuickPay (Denmark)
  • SagePay
  • SecurePay (Australia)
  • Sermepa (Spain)
  • Svea (Sweden)
  • USAePay
• Several Shipping Rate Computation Methods used Simultaneously (such as, FedEx and UPS)
• System Maintenance (Backup/Restore Database)
• Weights and Dimensions (Managed by Administrator)

 

Improvements

• Simplified CSS
• More user friendly administration area
• Allowed IP address list (administration area access)
• Mini shopping cart
• Copy product option
• New product template
• Search Engine Optimization
• Shipping tracking number
• Configurable Customer Registration Methods
  • Standard
  • Email Validation
  • Admin Approval
  • Disabled
• Downloadable Products
  • License file can be attached
  • Can have an user agreement
  • 'Unlimited downloads' or 'Number of days' (when customer has access to product)
  • User friendly file names
  • "Download activation type" option
    • When order payment status is Paid
    • Manual activation
  • More user friendly work (client side)
• New newsletter implementation
  • Guests can subscribe
  • Ability to export customers (emails) subscribed to newsletters
• Pictures stored on dard disk (configurable Option)
• Display Order Notes to Customers
• ‘Out of Stock’ Orders
• Display product stock availability option
• Reorder
• SiteMap
• USPS supports international requests
• FedEx supports residential rates
• Forums
  • Active topics page
  • "Quote" option
  • Allow guests to create posts (Configurable Option)
• Language pack export
• Store owner can send emails to a customer (via Administration Area)
• Store owner can send private messages to a customer (via Administration Area)
• Customers can mark private messages as Unread
• Separate login page for administration Area
• FCKEditor replaced by HTMLEditor
• iTextSharp was replaced by PdfSharp
• PDF capabilities
  • User friendly PDF Invoices
  • Customers can print invoices in PDF Format
  • PDF Catalog
  • Packaging slips (generated in PDF)
• Improved WorldPay payment module
• Improved 2Checkout payment module
• Improved Paypal IPN
• Administrator can enter additional payment fee for most payment methods
• User friendly installation process
• Administrator can reset customer password
• Product reviews must be approved (configurable option)
• Allow anonymous users to write product reviews (configurable option)
• Allow anonymous users to set product ratings (configurable option)
• Store owner can set number of
  • Recently viewed products
  • Recently added products
  • Best sellers on home page
  • Products also purchased
• Administrators can specify BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) for each message template
• Administrators can view shipping address using google maps
• SEO can be specified for topics
• New 'Add to cart' button in Wishlist
• Product cost property
• Order paid date property is stored now
• Store owner can update favicon via administration Area
• Display validation summary on registration and account pages
• Customer can change email address
• Manufacturers page
• Store purchased product attributes in XML
• Store owner can clear popular search stats
• Updated jQuery to Version 1.4 (development)
• Better StoreRoleProvider (development)
• New pre-defined Countries
• User friendly import functionality (administration area)
• Optimized "DeleteExpiresCustomerSessions" task
• ScriptManager removed from master page (development)
• CSS adapters removed (development)

Bugs

• Import / Export bugs
• Filter by attributes
• Compare products
• 'Assigned to whole order' discount (with tax enabled)
• PayPal Standard return page
• Order details page localization
• "Server cannot modify cookies after HTTP headers have been sent" error does not exist
• Google Checkout and anonymous checkout bug
• Wrong Meta Description and Meta Keywords (after Postback)
• DatePicker control - date formatting bug (not US locales)
• Login page and CAPTCHA bug in IE 6.0
• Froogle expiration date bug
• Unicode characters are now supported in PDF
• PDF invoice includes product attributes
• Google Checkout image button and SSL issue resolved
• Does not display deleted and unpublished categories in Bread Crumb
• Updated product details page (specification tab was displayed with "reviews" tab Only)
• "Navigation only for registered customers" option restrictions removed
• Downloadable products could not be downloaded by anonymous customers
• Email templates missed some shipping information

Highlight features

• W3C compliance (XHTML)
• Admin area localization
• Paypal IPN (Instant Payment Notification)
• FedEx shipping provider
• Export/Import customers (Excel) - doesn't work in medium trust
• Export/Import products (Excel) - doesn't work in medium trust
• Export orders (Excel) - doesn't work in medium trust
• Private messaging
• eWay payment module (hosted solution - UK, NZ, AU)
• "Fixed rate" shipping provider
• "Fixed rate" tax provider
• Product specifications: Multi-Value (pre-defind). Store owner can define multi-value Product specs, such as Processor (AMD 64X2, Intel Core 2 Duo), and not having to repeat them typing again and again for each product
• Product specifications: Filtering by specification on category/manufacturer pages (e.g. color, size)
• PDF Order receipts - doesn't work in medium trust
• Unlimited textbox product attributes
• "Customers who bought this item also bought" option

 

Improvements

• Admin area permomance optimization
• Improved image generation
• Downloadable products
  • Allow store owners to upload sample files
  • Store owners can specify maximum number of allowed downloads of purchased products.
  • Made storing downloads in database configurable
• Show best sellers on home page
• Generic provider model (source code)
• Refactoring (source code)
• Admin area requires SSL now (if enabled)
• Moved "UseSSL" and "SharedSSL" settings to web.config
• All credit card info is encrypted now
• Allow store owner to add a custom note to a customer
• Admin area. Allow store owner to view shopping carts of customers
• Admin area. Don't show "anonymous@anounymous.com" email for guest customers
• Admin area. Allow store to filter guest customers (customers page)
• Admin area. DashBoard enhancements
• Customers can be tax exempt
• New product review, news comment, blog comment notifications (email)
• Google Checkout. Capture support
• Google Checkout. Authorize callback request
• Checkour. Navigation back support
• "Allow navigation only for registered customers" option.
• Allow store owner to search customers/orders/queued emails using null dates by default
• Use 4 digits to store currency rate
• Added resource expression builder that supports nop resourses
• Forums. Navigate to the latest page of topic after new post is added
• Confirm new password on password recovery page
• More user-friendly forum support
• Extended %Order.Product(s)% email token to display product attributes, text options and order totals
• Moved ScriptManager to master page
• Masked credit card numbers
• Show warning when Captcha code is not entered
• Allow store owner to delete order notes
• Allow store owner to specify whether to hide advertisements on admin area dashboard
• Updated AjaxControlToolkit.dll to the latest version
• Updated MS Enterprise Library (4.1)
• Updated jQuery (1.3.2)

Bugs

• Discounts were not displayed on wishlist page
• Paypal PDT bug
• "Contact Us" form (sending emails bug)
• Real-time shipping rate computation methods bugs (multiply packages)
• Allow to get fixed shipping rates for non registered customers
• Use category/manufacturer thumbnail size instead of product thumbnail size
• CAPTCHA image caching
• Validate category hierarchy
• [Nop_OrderProductVariantReport] stored procedure bug fixed
• Shipping fee, payment fee formatting bug on order details page
• OrderManager.OrderPlaced() method. Reset customer checkout data only if an order was successfully placed
• Checkout page. Don't hide "Confirm" button
• Payment method gateways. Encode all values
• Product ratings were not display correctly

No major features have been introduced with this release as our development efforts were focused on fixing bugs, but does include the following changes:

Highlight features

• IP blacklist.
• Additional shipping charges by product.
• Support for payment method additional handling fee.
• "Product active from date and active to date" option.
• Performance optimization.
• Allow store owner to create new customer accounts.

NOTE: nopCommerce requires .NET 3.5 SP1.

Improvements

• "Don't allow registration of new customers" option.
• More SEO friendly.
• All prices (totals) are rounded now.
• PayPal payment methods now support all currencies.
• PayFlow API depreciated. Updated to v4.31.
• Updated StrikeIron tax data provider to v5.
• Upgraded USPS to version 3.
• Allow store owner to add custom order notes.
• Allow admin to resend queued emails.
• Search page is pageable now.
• Allow admin to specify whether "Recently viewed products", "Recently added products" options are enabled.
• Anonymous checkout. Checkout as a Guest or Register question.
• Scheduled task for clearing old sessions.
• Scheduled task for clearing cache.
• Google analytics module.
• Validate maximum customer username/email length.
• Forums. Strip topic subject if it's too long.
• Update LastAccess property of CustomerSession entity.
• Admin area. Allow store owner to specify whether to display full errors with stack.
• Admin area. Advanced order search.
• Admin area. Advanced message queue search.
• Forums. "Move topic" functionality.
• Admin area. News comments/Blog Comments/Products Reviews pages support paging now.
• Removed ScriptManager from root master page.
• Create default billing and shipping address during registration (if possible).
• If a shopping cart item has several warnings, then all of them are shown to a customer.
• Store owner can specify whether anonymous customers can leave blog/news comments.
• Topics can be added to sitemap.
• Added "ReturnURL" query parameter to login page redirection urls.
• Added localized titles to all pages.
• Made configurable whether to show page debug info (page execution time).
• Admin area. Maintain checkbox state while GridView paging.
• All entity names are HTML encoded now.

Bugs

• Fixed e-way payment module.
• 2Checkout payment method. Pass product list.
• Google checkout button was not shown on shopping cart page (anonymous checkout).
• Don't show "Add to cart" buttons on productBox1/ProductBox2 controls if the product doesn't have product variants.
• Minor CSS bugs.
• Connection string for asp.net membership/role providers.
• ForumLastPost.ascx control bind data twice.
• The list of previously used shipping and billing addresses for a logged in customer was not filtered against the allowed countries for billing and shipping respectively.
• Several resource string missed.
• Blog comments, news comment, product reviews could not be empty.
• Password recovery. Don't show "email has been sent" if customer is not registered.
• Froogle issue when product variant description is not set.
• Admin area. Calendar control didn't display all days.
• Fix user latest posts sort order on profile page.
• Forums. When an user uses [code] BB code, [code] should not be displayed.
• Delete pricelist bug.
• Contact us form bug.
• Ensure that used payment method is active (during checkout).

Highlight features

• Volume discounts (Tier prices).
• Built-in forum.
• Time zone support.
• CMS Topics.
• Flexible tax support.
  • Tax rates can be assigned to different zip codes.
  • VAT support.
  • Allow store owner to specify which tax based on: billing/shipping/default/shipping origin address.
  • Allow store owner to specify whether prices include tax.
  • Allow customer to choose tax display type (incl/excl tax).
  • Allow store owner to specify tax display type (incl/excl tax).
  • Allow store owner to specify whether shipping is taxable.
  • Allow store owner to specify whether shipping prices include tax.
  • Allow store owner to specify whether to hide zero tax.
  • Allow store owner to specify whether to hide tax in order summary when prices are shown tax inclusive.
• Nested Master Pages.
• Allow customers to register/login by email or by username.
• Several account registration/activation types.
  • Automatic registration (no approving)
  • Email validation during registration

Improvements

• More community-friendly (forums, news, blog, polls).
• More admin reports.
• Redesigned, user friendly administration checkout.
• Allow store owner to select theme.
• Supports all downloadable products formats (.zip, .rar etc).
• Perfomance optimization.
• Allow admin to disable or hide the rating system.
• Several bug fixes and improvements.

Highlight features

• New store-front theme.
• CSS restructured for easier customization of design.
• Redesigned, user friendly administration.
• Anonymous checkout.
• Support for kit products.
• Partial trust version.
• Improved stock control management.
• Pricelists.
• Language resources import utility.

Improvements

• New sample data.
• Minimum/maximum purchase quantity control.
• Option variants may add to the base product weight.
• Front-end paging for catalog.
• Filter by price.
• Improved product navigation in Administration.
• Low stock email notification feature.
• Manage URL rewriting from administration.
• Several bug fixes and improvements.

Highlight features

• Web design was reworked. CSS.
• Real-time shipping rates. UPS.
• Real-time shipping rates. USPS.
• Installation wizard.
• Strike Iron tax provider.
• Cash On Delivery payment method.
• Accept Purchase Order.
• Accept Checks / Money Order.
• Google Checkout payment gateway (beta).
• PayFlow Pro payment gateway.
• Worldpay payment gateway.
• PSI Gate payment gateway.
• CDGcommerce payment gateway
• Capture payments from admin panel.
• Coupons
• Discounts can be assigned to products or to whole order.
• Cardholder data are encrypted now. Sensitive data are not stored in the database anymore.
• Simple reporting.

Improvements

• Support for shared SSL.
• SSL for login/registration.
• Image capture on login/registration.
• Language can be selected for news, polls and blog.
• Localized message templates.
• Euro currency symbol is proper displayed now.
• Featured products on home page
• Categories on home page
• ubcategories are shown on navigation menu now
• Featured products on category page and on manufacturer page
• Out of stock. Minimum stock quantity. Low stock activity.
• Low stock products page.
• Manage wishlist enabled/disabled.
• Manage blog enabled/disabled.
• Opt-in for mailings ('I would like to receive newsletters').
• When a user hit 'continue' after updating his cart, he returns to the previous product page and not the main store page.
• Putting Add to cart button beside Details button on the category/manufacturer page without see the details.
• SEO. Check box that will include the store name in front of the title.
• Several bug fixes

• Product attributes (e.g. color, size)
• Wish list
• SSL support
• Moneybookers payment gateway added (beta version)
• Froogle (google base) product feed
• Export customers/orders/categories/manufacturers/products to XML file
• Marketing manager (campaigns)
• Calculate shipping by country & total order weight
• Free shipping over $X
• Configurable list of allowed countries
  • For registration
  • For billing
  • For shipping
• Password recovery
• Email a friend
• Measure weights, measure dimensions
• Recently added products RSS. News RSS
• Product review helpfulness (Was this review helpful for you?)
• "Store is closed" feature
• FCKEditor added
• “Shipping by Weight” computation method has been changed
• New product template has been added
• Robots.txt added
• Several bug fixes and improvements

• eWay (Australia) payment gateway
• Real-time currency exchange rates (ECB)
• Product specifications (e.g. processor, memory, graphic card)
• Compare product feature (if enabled)
• Customer groups can be marked as free shipping
• Customer groups can be marked as tax exempt
• Several bug fixes and improvements

• Paypal Express payment gateway (beta version)
• Google sitemap
• Disable buy buttons for specific products
• Customer roles (groups) (e.g. Premium customers, Gold customers)
• Discounts can be applied to a customer role
• Discounts can be applied to a category
• Paging support was added to admin area
• Several bug fixes and improvements

• The source code is well commented now
• Authorize.NET payment gateway
• Several bug fixes and improvements

• Blog feature added
• Poll feature added
• Several bug fixes and improvements

• The first version of nopCommerce