nopCommerce v2.30 released

a.m. wrote:
Congratulations for everything...

cheatcountry wrote:
As I've written above it's the only one reported medium trust issue today (work item 10201). Could you please my suggestion here and let me know whether it helps

After I try your suggestion, I get the following error when I try to load any page:

Could not load file or assembly 'Nop.Plugin.DiscountRules.BillingCountry, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The network name cannot be found.

Wow!

I am impressed. This version actually works well! I've loaded 45k products into the database and I can actually do browse the store. Granted it's a bit slow-ish but it actually loads and does not time-out or kill the server. And that's right out of the box without any fiddling with code or database indexes. So the biggest feature is here :-) Good job! :-)

Here are some of my suggestions for 2.4 and beyond. These two I think are pretty important:
-> Google Analytics w e-commerce tracking - any serious store needs to know who, what where and why to actually sell;
-> Full Text Search - it's much faster and actually finds the products; if customer can't find it - they won't buy it

Nice-to-haves:

-> Skinability: I am thinking wordpress style; template designer companies could take interest in the project and help promote it

->More versatile shipping rate calculation -> eg. "$10 + $4/kg" style ..

-> MultiCurrency charging: if your store is in say EUR and you add USD as a second currency to the store than the  PayPal (or many other payment gateways) than customer who is buying is going to get charged more than he thinks that he is couase paypal is going to charge them extra for currency conversion .. result: confusion and complaints ..

Just my 2-cents :-)

Filip

@fkierzek Filip, thanks for suggestions! Please go and vote for them (links are below)

fkierzek wrote:
http://nopcommerce.codeplex.com/workitem/10170

fkierzek wrote:
http://nopcommerce.codeplex.com/workitem/10350

fkierzek wrote:
http://nopcommerce.codeplex.com/workitem/9291

fkierzek wrote:
I think it can be done as a new shipping rate computation method (plugin) without including it in the official solution

Broad Question...

I am currently using NOP 1.30. When I installed that to a test server and started working with it, I quickly seen that you were upgrading....

Since I haven't done much with the new site yet, I decided to wait until bugs were fixed. In the meantime, I generated a excel sheet with my products that is compatable with the current version I'm testing (1.30). I have been working on that excel sheet while waiting for the new upgrades and fixes. I have added all my products in there with html coding etc.

Now you're already up to version 2.30... Is this a good time to do a reinstall and import the products or does the current 2.30 still have some quirks that would be benificial for me to wait on fixes?

One thing I'm hoping for is "drop shipping" cabability moduel that calculates the shipping cost according to weight/size and zip code shipped from.

Thanks for all of your hard work..

Jack

Jackluv wrote:

Hey Jack,

I know the "drop shipping" functionality doesn't exist, but to decide if it is a good time for you to switch that should be up to you. I think the nop team would almost always suggest upgrading so that you can take advantage of new features and bug fixes (1.x versions are no longer getting updated).

Try installing the 2.3 version on a development or staging machine. Play with all the main features used in your website, try importing your products and if it works to your liking then you definitely should upgrade. If bugs do exist you're going to need to decide if they are severe enough to delay your upgrade.

Also you can contact nopCommerce solution providers and pay them to do the upgrade, fix any bugs, and import your products I'm sure.

https://www.nopcommerce.com/solutionpartners.aspx

a.m. wrote:
Hi Andrei:
My 2 cents: I think the official solution could be made much more powerful and versatile with some small changes:

Now you have just one parameter for each bracket : SR= [TW * Ki] or [ST * %Ki]   (where SR:shipping rate; TW:total weight; Ki:cost/kg for braket i; ST:subtotal and %Ki percent cost for bracket i)

You could add 2 more parameters to  the formula: SR=FKi + Ki * [TW or AWi] + %Ki *ST (where FKi: fixed cost for bracket i and AWi:additional weight above the minimum (from) of the bracket i).

With this addition , besides the present Shipping by Weight, the formula will cover other frequent cases such as:

- Fixed Rate Shipping (in this case you have just one bracket and Ki=0 and %Ki=0) which is in now in a separate calculation method and cannot be combined with other methods.

- Fixed Rate Shipping per weight brackets (Ki=0 and %Ki=0)

- Fixed Rate plus Cost per additional unit of weight (%ki=0) as proposed by Filip

- All of the above combined to include Shipping Insurance Coverage (wich is a percentage of Subtotal; and in general %K1 = %K2 = %k3... = % costo for shipping insurance)

With this you can have the same shipping rate computation method applied for different shipping methods.

EDITED TO ADD
Enhace geographical selection to:
- A country
- One or more post codes (or parts of  post codes; i.e.: 123, 34, 124, ...)
as explained in https://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/16414/suggestion-to-shipping-by-weight-computation-method.aspx

eadameg wrote:
Thanks. I've just created a work item for this task.

Andrei,

You wrote the CCAvenue plugin for 2.2. right?
Will this work with the new NOP 2.3?

Thanks