Hi,

I really like Abantecart, it's very good generally, but I did have an unpleasant experience trying to upgrade recently. I tried to upgrade from version 1.1.9 to 1.2 and I got the critical error processing message. No idea why but I did eventually work out how to restore the site. I downloaded the backup from /admin/system/backup and reuploaded via ftp, then opened phpadmin in cpanel and imported the sql file that was in the backup. I was very relieved to fix it but I'm not sure I'll be trying to upgrade it again which is a worry as I like to keep things up-to-date.

It's just a cautionary note really to anyone about to upgrade, things CAN go horribly wrong so make sure you only try to upgrade to the next version on from the one you have and do a proper backup through the admin. To be fair it does warn you to do that anyway before the upgrade.

I suspect it's a  template issue.

Hi,

I noticed that the prices of products don't update when i had extra quantity, or select an option that affects the price. On the demo there is a "Total price" that appears underneath, but i'm not getting that. It does update when you click on add to cart though. Any idea why i'm not seeing that please?

Cleared all the cache and that looks like it's working OK now!

seo links don't work for me though, i renamed the .htacess file as instructed but still no luck.

Hi,

This is my first time using AbanteCart, I spent 2 days looking through all the available carts and settled for this one. I have successfully installed the software, tinkered with the design fairly easily to suit my site and configured most of it. I'm very impressed so far except i can't get it to do the one thing it needs to do and that's except just paypal payments.

I have gone to the Extensions/payments section and enabled the paypal extension (default_pp_standart) but when i go in to edit the paypal settings there are some things I can't change.

Store: default (that's fine)
Status: (is on)   
E-Mail: (i've entered the email i've got registered with my paypal account)   

Test Mode: (there's nothing in this box and no options to select!)   
Order Status:    (I've set to processing)
Transaction Method: (again, no options or anything)   
Location: (This is stuck on USA - but I'm in the UK)   

I have enabled Royal Mail for shipping although i haven't looked into that side of it yet to get that working, i wanted to get the paypal working first.

When i do a test purchase it bypasses paypal and just says thanks your order is being processed, or something like that.

I really like AbanteCart and i want to stick with it for this and future projects but i have to be able to get this paypal problem sorted. I'm sure it's just me and there's something obvious i'm not doing. The other thing is I haven't actually logged into my paypal account at all for this, do i need to do that at all to get paypal linked to the website?

Hope you can help!