Hi again,

Still very happy with the cart, just another thing I realized. This time with downloads.

I have downloads set to activate when the order status is 'processing' which is my default order status for the store.

Now, I decided that whenever a customer would download the file, I would manually change the order status to complete. Unfortunately this created a problem. After the manual change, the order status 'complete' doesn't match the download requirement 'processing' and this deactivates the download for a customer.

At first I didn't understand the warning message I was getting from this change of order status.  The warning message would appear in the order summary under the downloaded files tab.

Eventually I recognized the problem and changed the order status back to 'processing' and this solved the problem.

Why is this a problem?

1. If customer downloads file and I change the order status to 'complete', he can't go back and make another download even if I allow several downloads of a file.
2. If I need to push an updated version of the file to the customer after I change the order status to 'complete', this file cannot be downloaded by customer

My suggestion for future carts would be:

1. would it be desirable to allow for several selections to be made under the downloads setting so that users can activate a download when order status is 'processing' and / or 'complete' and / or ...

2. if I were to change the store default order status to 'complete' then I would have to change all my downloads to activate on 'complete' and I have dozens upon dozens of them. Perhaps a feature to make batch changes to products would be a nice addition.

3. is there another option (besides no longer manually changing order status)?

Thanks,

Martin

Hi,

After sending various text emails to clients via the standard AbanteCart Cart interface, I finally noticed that AbanteCart Cart defaults the 'message body' text area in 'html/text.' The tab colors make it difficult to know what option is selected... and I certainly got it wrong.

This means that no paragraph breaks were ever coded into the mail I send and that my recipients were getting one continuous horrible looking blob of sentences.

TIP
When you send emails through AbanteCart Cart's interface, make sure you click on 'Visual' to check the layout of your mail.

Elemental Watson! I know, but again the coloring scheme of AbanteCart Cart makes it difficult to easily recognize what option is selected.

Hope this helps.

Hi there,

I have my store setup in a subfolder, like mydomain.com/store

I have an htaccess file in mydomain.com that includes code to force https and www use.

My problem is that the AbanteCart htaccess file stored in my /store subfolder overrides this because I have SEO on. So if a person types url mydomain.com/store, browser takes person to mydomain.com/store (no www and no https). When this happens, some of the AbanteCart icons don't display.

If person types mydomain.com/anyotherfolder it will direct to https://www.mydomain.com/anyotherforlder.

I have tried a few things to correct this but no success. I either break the SEO ulrs or worse.

I know that when I delete the htaccess file under /store, then the url will redirect with the https and www

Anyone know what code to add so that I can have https, www, and SEO urls?

Hi,

I can't seem to remember how to set up ad tracking in AbanteCart. I have gone through so many e-commerce softwares that I may be confusing capabilities...

I know how to use a graphic banner and give it a link, but how to I create a special link with a tracking number so that I can monitor ad campaigns from different websites?


Thanks

Hi,

I have been tweaking the top cart on the top header line and have two cosmetic issues I couldn't figure how to fix.

1. When I hover over the cart and I get the drop down showing cart contents, the box that appears is larger than then size of the original cart area and is shifted to the left, leaving the 'pointy arrow' pointing outside the cart box. See image.
-- Where do I control the width of the drop down box or the cart box?

2. The other issue I would like to fix is: if you look really close at the height of the 'search' box and the 'cart' box displayed on the top header, you will notice that the cart box is slightly bigger than the search box.
-- Where do I control the height of both the search box and the cart box?

Looked and looked around but the code lines I could not find...

Thanks for your help.

Hi, please visit bluestarway.com and let me know how it works for you and what you think.

I'm already aware of two little display glitches but haven't figured out how to solve them yet. One is with how abantecart aligns my 'related products' and the other one is with the number of content page links I have on my footer.

Thanks a lot

Hi,

In the process of testing and reviewing my site, I clicked on the 'related products' tag of various products and noticed that while some images and titles display ok, some don't. See images.

No clue what makes the difference. I tried changing the product name and image of the related product showing the problem to see if this would fix anything but it didn't.

Any thoughts?