2014 July to December
Making Payment Easier
Posted December, 2014
Most people pay me by PayPal, either directly or via
my store.
But some people don't like PayPal - for a variety of reasons.
For a while, the payment alternative I offered was Google Checkout,
but Google killed that product off. So now I offer the following
non-PayPal options for people to make payments or donations:
- By Google Wallet to thatsoftwareguy@gmail.com
- By Venmo at
http://www.venmo.com/ThatSoftwareGuy
- By PopMoney to
help@thatsoftwareguy.com
- By credit card payment via the BrainTree payment gateway in my store,
upon request
Zen Cart Optional Payment Method
Posted December, 2014
The
Optional Payment Module for Zen Cart allows you to offer a specific
payment method to a subset of your customers.
Zen Cart Checkbox Cross Sell Updates
Posted November, 2014
Checkbox Cross Sell for Zen Cart now displays the Better Together marketing
text within the cross sell block.
It's a nice way of ensuring people realize the discounts they will get
when they buy your cross-sold items.
Blogging
Posted October, 2014
I'm working on blogging more regularly and consistently.
You can visit my blog on Zen Cart and ecommerce directly,
or if you like me on Facebook or
follow me on Twitter, you will
get my posts there. I hope you find my posts useful and interesting.
Package Discounts for Zen Cart
Posted October, 2014
If you want to provide a package discount for a kit or group of items,
you can now do this using
Zen Cart Free Gift Chooser.
This capability was already part of
Big Chooser, but it now has
the convenience of an admin panel.
My Zen Cart Mods In Action
September August, 2014
Last year I created a page
of Zen Cart Discount Preview screenshots on sites
which use my discounting mods and show the discount on the
shopping cart page using Discount Preview.
I'd like to expand this even more this year to showing off the marketing
text for various discounting mods, and various other template changes
I have offered to the community. Are you using one of my mods in a unique
way? Send me a screenshot!
Final Price modules for Zen Cart
Posted September, 2014
There are now two ways you can set a final price for a bundle of products
in Zen Cart. The first, which was introduced in April of this year,
is
Zen Cart Free Gift Chooser.
The latest is in
Zen Cart Table Discounts,
which permits you to set final prices for
bundles of items at multiple quantity levels.
So you can say the final price for a bundle of five items (specified by
category, manufacturer or product id) is price 1,
and the final price for a bundle of ten items is price 2.
Table Discounts will generate the necessary discount to get the
post-discount price to the level you have set.
It's a great spin on Quantity Discounting.
Note that the meaning of "final price" in this context is that a discount
is created such that the price of the items in question minus the
discount is equal to the final price. For example, here is a demonstration
of "Buy 4 movies for $100" using Free Gift Chooser.
OpenCart Better Together
Posted August, 2014
OpenCart Better Together
has been released as a free OpenCart extension.
Zen Cart Free Gift Chooser allows use of Linked Categories
Posted August, 2014
Zen Cart Free Gift Chooser
now has the ability to look not just at master category ID, but at
all possible category IDs for linked products.
What does this mean in practice? Suppose you have a series of items
you want to link to a clearance category. Now you can specify that
category ID as a category to choose discounted items (or condition items)
from. This flexibility is not available in any of my other modules.
Zen Cart Updates for 1.5.2 and 1.5.3
Posted July, 2014
All my updates for the latest Zen Cart Release are complete!
The following modules have been updated for Zen Cart 1.5.2 and 1.5.3:
Zen Cart 1.5.3 Released!
Posted July, 2014
Here's the
Zen Cart 1.5.3 Release Announcement.
Note that the second release candidate of the 1.5.2 beta
(zen-cart-v1.5.2-RC2-12172013)
is now officially being called Zen Cart 1.5.2.
osCommerce Updates
Posted July, 2014
Both
osCommerce Free Gift Chooser Mega Module
and
osCommerce Better Together Admin
have received facelifts for osCommerce 2.3.4. Thanks to
osCommerce wizard Gary Burton
for letting me know about this!
And speaking of Gary, he was kind enough to show off Free Gift Chooser
on his blog. Read the
Club OSC review of Free Gift Chooser.
Zen Cart Coupons No Sale or Special
Posted July, 2014
A common request is "please change coupons
to only apply to items not on sale or special."
If you want that change, please see my
Zen Cart Coupons No Sale or Special mod.
eCommerce with Zen Cart!
