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#11

News and Announcements / AbanteCart Version 1.4.3 is no...

Last post by abantecart - October 16, 2025, 08:02:00 AM

We are thrilled to introduce the latest release, AbanteCart v1.4.3!

Release include broad Windows compatibility and a major move to Form Manager, enabling merchants to edit forms, add new fields, group fields, customize field icons, apply restrictions, and control validation messages. Customer registration, customer details, address, and guest checkout forms now load from the database (AForm).

🌟 Highlights

• Form Manager everywhere (merchant-editable). Most customer, account, and checkout forms now come from the database and are managed via the AbanteCart Form Manager—edit/add fields, group them, customize field icons/tooltips, set restrictions, and tailor validation/error messages.
• Windows compatibility. Large refactor and many targeted fixes across the core, controllers, extensions, and the installer.
• Large cart performance update. Faster cart updates and improved robustness for very large carts.
• Payment restrictions by customer group. You can now restrict which payment methods are available per customer group—applies to all payment extensions. Sponsored by Mikko.
• Tax. AvaTax SDK updated with full PHP 8 support; shipping taxation behavior fixed.
• Option value: `require_shipping`. (Sponsored by Mikko.) New `require_shipping` toggle on product option values so options can explicitly force shipping when selected.
• Libraries upgraded: Font Awesome 7.0.0; Bootstrap 5.3.7.
• Internationalization: Languages moved to a dedicated repo: `abantecart/abantecart-languages`. The admin can load 20+ languages directly from that Git repository.
• UPS extension updated to the latest PHP SDK; adds shipment & label creation.
• PayPal Commerce: New card fields UI with billing address for AVS, clearer validation/errors, webhook update fixes, and totals alignment.
• Installer/Upgrader: Download credentials on finish; CLI pre-install of extensions; sample data improvements.
• Database changes: Default MySQL character set/collation switched to `utf8mb4` for full-Unicode support.

More details:
https://github.com/abantecart/abantecart-src/releases/tag/1.4.3

#12

Opinions / Re: Advantages over Shopify an...

Last post by ngk ajdouroso - October 15, 2025, 09:14:01 PM

This is a great question! I'm also curious about AbanteCart. It's good to hear it might be a strong option for smaller businesses. I'd love to know more about how it compares to Shopify and PrestaShop.

#13

General Support / Re: Layout Menu Not updating i...

Last post by pugoing - October 13, 2025, 10:27:45 PM

I'm having the same layout menu issue with the novator theme. The dropdown links just show as plain text without href attributes. Hope this gets fixed in the next update!

#14

Customization help / Re: Customize pricing dependin...

Last post by margaretkcrosby - October 13, 2025, 05:02:25 AM

I actually had the same issue a while back! I wanted to adjust poster prices based on custom length and width too. What worked for me was creating a custom formula in the admin panel that updates automatically when dimensions change. It took some tweaking, but it solved everything perfectly.

#15

General Support / Re: Phone Number Field Not Acc...

Last post by Basara - October 13, 2025, 03:01:50 AM

Hello.
What is your AbanteCart version and phone regex setting?

#16

General Support / Phone Number Field Not Accepti...

Last post by Ali Arslan - October 12, 2025, 04:38:34 AM

Hi AbanteCart Team,

I've encountered an issue on the checkout page related to the phone number input field. The field doesn't seem to accept any phone number format even the format shown in the placeholder example is marked invalid.

I've tried multiple formats but none of them work. I'm currently using the Mercato theme and I believe this issue might be related to the frontend. It seems that the input value isn't even being sent to the backend, so the validation error might not be coming from there. The frontend appears to be misbehaving on that field.

When I enter any number the field highlights with a red outline indicating that the input is not acceptable. However, no specific validation error message appears so I'm not sure whether this is a formatting issue, a validation rule misconfiguration or a bug in the input component.

Could you please confirm:

What is the correct phone number format expected in this field?

If it's a bug, can you suggest a fix?

Thanks in advance for your help!

#17

General Discussion / Re: Free shipping banners

Last post by Basara - October 10, 2025, 04:17:57 AM

Hello.
Go to Design → Layouts and disable the banner block.

#18

General Discussion / Free shipping banners

Last post by Bill Lugaila - October 09, 2025, 02:52:46 PM

How do I change the Free Shipping banners and remove them.

#19

Installation and Configuration / Re: Customer Order Update Emai...

Last post by Basara - October 09, 2025, 05:44:11 AM

Hello, 
It looks like there might be a typo or an unclosed tag in your email templates. This can cause the default values to appear instead. Please review the demo to get default email template code https://www.abantecart.com/shopping-cart-demo

#20

Installation and Configuration / Re: Customer Order Update Emai...

Last post by ixl - October 09, 2025, 02:25:35 AM

Hi, Anyone able to help at all please?  Thanks.