nopCommerce 1.8 roadmap. Let's discuss.

We've prepared a roadmap for the next version of nopCommerce (1.80). It contains features/options that were in-demand from a lot of people. Estimate release time - the beginning of September.

already implemented:
- Allow store owner to place an order via admin panel (Phone order support)
- RMA (return management)
- The European Union Value Added Tax (EU VAT) support (Company VAT Number)
- Display all applied tax rates (e.g. 7%, 15%) on shopping cart and order details page (configurable)
- Partial refund support
- "Estimate shipping" option on shopping cart page
- Allow store owner to view all online customers
- Use ASP.NET Chart control for reports
- Backorder support
- Option to display to customers the quantity of a particular product which is in stock
- "Call for price" option
- Physical gift card support
- 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
- New discount requirement - applies if customer has previously spent x.xx amount
- New checkout/product attribute control type - DatePicker
- Allow store owner to create password protected pages (password potected topics)
- SMS provider model and new email SMS provider (Verizon)
- Allow store owner to submit froogle feed via FTP
- Allow store owner to enable currency rate auto updating
- Allow store owner to select preferred exchange rate provider
- Allow users to manage their forum subscriptions
- Allow store owner to disable URL ReWriting
- Increased forum functionality
- A lot of other minor enhancements
- Performance optimization

still working on:
- Google Analytics integration
- Better CMS support
- Improve one-page checkout to work without postbacks
- Architecture improvements

Andrei,

Tanks a lot - That was a fast response.

Andrei , the roadmap for 1.8 version looks great....

Could you please elaborate in what prospective you are going to increase forum functionality ?  By adding what kind of features ?

i would like to add few more things in this thread...and it would be great if all these following things will be available in 1.8 version:

1) Forum - it will be a great feature if on the forum area we get to know the status of the member, something like along with the user name we can see if the user is "Online" or "Offline"

2) We all need a better blog section, right now we have blog section with simple posts only which in comparison with others blogs doesn't stand out. Today, all blogs offer Categories, Tags, Archives, Blogroll etc..We all are in need of better blog area : For more options please visit this thread that i created on this forum for improving blog section : https://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/4883/better-blog-features.aspx

Please Vote for Better Blog Feature: http://nopcommerce.codeplex.com/workitem/8855

3) Addition of Fckeditor, i guess we should have both HTML Editors: Current AJAX html editor and Fckeditor, so that admin could use any editor according to his/her requirements...

Perhaps you could add url rewriting on product tags.
In my mind tag cloud is another tool to improve SEO, and should be rewritten, like many good shopping cart or blogging toold do.

here is an example : http://www.extensions-cheveux-naturels.fr/extensions-keratine-tag31.html this 'SEO complient' :)

I have done this and it was a very small job.

nicolas.muniere wrote:

Hello nicolas.muniere, i was looking for the exact tag cloud , Could you please guide me with the procedure how to accomplish this ... ?

nicolas.muniere wrote:

I created a new post to answer :
https://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/5434/sharing-flash-tagcloud-wpcumulus-integration.aspx

My suggestion is also add the module "Fixed Price Shipping by Country Module" to version 1.8.
See for v1.4: https://www.nopcommerce.com/p/78/fixed-price-shipping-by-country-module.aspx

There are quite a lot of people who wants the implementate this module in newer versions.
Most shipping partners in the world use the system of a price for a categorie of weight.

Is multistore still a ways off ? `
How about a web service project ?

1.8 version requires fixing of url feature in new topic section

and to make this feature better it will be great to have checkboxes after adding a new topic, all the check boxes will provide option to select masterpages. The only problem with current versions is by default new topic takes in TwoCoulmn.Master, but i guess adding this new feature will make this topic section more user-friendly. All the checkboxes should populate all the masterpages in the MasterPages Folder because there could be a chance that admin added new master pages ..

Hi Andrei,

With regards to the VAT, I see you've wired it in to the tax manager itself rather than use a seperate provider which is fine. However I'm wondering how it's going to cope with multiple VAT rates.

The 2 most important VAT rates are standard rate (in the UK currently this is 17.5%) and zero rate (0%). In the UK there's at least one other rate. There's also "VAT exempt" which means "outside the scope of VAT" - charged at zero but needs to be accounted for seperately.

The way I did this was to add a VAT rate to the tax category and make sure each product is assigned a tax category. I set the categories up as one per VAT rate. See http://nopdemo.gloucestersoftware.com/Administration/TaxCategories.aspx

Once we've determined that the customer is required to pay VAT we simply check the VAT rate of each item in the cart (and the shipping fee) to calculate the tax on each item. I favour this solution as being very simple to set up. Most products in a cart will be at standard rate but some may be zero rate (in the UK that includes common items such as books). There's no certainty that we can apply a fixed 17.5% to the entire cart. Because of this it may actually be better to use the provider I submitted, or something based on it, *to do the actual tax calculation* and add the VAT rate field to the tax category? You can also then use the TaxCategoryNullException class I submitted and make it mandatory for products to be in a tax (VAT) category when the VAT Provider is active.

Don't forget to have the update installer set to true "is in the scope of VAT" for all the countries in the VAT zone. There's a list in one of the text files. We may need to add "EU" to the countries list as I understand that's a special VAT country code for purchases/supplies made by the EU itself.

Finally, I see you're calling the web service to check the VAT number each time there is a purchase? I can see the benefits of this (the number may be withdrawn, perhaps?) but I liked as store admin the ability to be able to accept or reject a number and manually check, in the admin area, that the address returned by the service (if any) matches the address supplied by the customer. Would it perhaps be better to make this a configurable option? See http://nopdemo.gloucestersoftware.com/Administration/CustomerDetails.aspx?CustomerID=37, VAT tab. (Incidentally I found a bug in the user control on that page, which I've fixed. If you want to use the control ask me for the fixed version).

Actually I can't see any UI infrastructure for VAT so maybe you didn't get round to that yet.

(Note the VAT demo store is back online for a while as I had a request. [email protected] password admin).

Steve