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Release Notes - Accware Online 5.1, January 2002.  
 
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Accware Online 5.1
 
What's New ?
 
Item Relations
A new feature that allows items to be tagged to multiple attributes and view other items with similar attributes. E.g., While viewing the details of a movie you could tag all Movies/DVDs available in the store with Actors, Actresses, Directors etc. and view information of other movies of the same Actors or Directors.
Returns/RMA
Returns/RMA is enhanced to accept different warranty types for each item. Now shoppers can return items online in four easy steps by choosing the return type being either refund/credit/repair & replacement
Wish List
Wish List is extended to all templates and is enhanced for the shopper to create more than one wish list and invite friends/relatives to view and shop for their event.
Promotional Coupons
This feature enables offering promotional and special pricing schemes on the web store. Promotions can be run for particular Items, Categories and Brands.
Downloadable items
This new feature allows downloading of digital items like books in Zip format, music tracks and software, being purchased online. It allows merchants to configure and control the download activities.
Shop by Brand
Shoppers can now view items by the Brands associated in addition to the existing view by Categories. This new feature enhances showcasing of items on the Web store.
Item Links
It is possible to have a single item in multiple categories by utilizing the Item alias profile in Accware. This feature will provide merchants the ability to link items to multiple categories with different web description & price.
Destination Zones/Freight Rates
Freight rate calculation now includes calculations based on the Origin and Destination Zip code with facility for input of FedEx/UPS rate lists.
 
Enhancements/Fixes
 
Cart Management
This functionality is extended to include flexibility of controlling the number of days to store a cart and fix the period of validity of the prices in a saved cart.
Quantity Pricing
Now it is possible to do quantity pricing for items by defining the percentage or flat rates in item profile's special pricing.
Credit Card Processing
We have enhanced the secure transaction of credit card processing by eliminating the generation of duplicate card entry during order process.
Kit Pricing
The fixes for Kit prices being different in various pages of the shopping site has been fixed with the "Club total" option in Kit profile also being fixed in the latest DLL.
Search Mechanism
Updates made to search mechanism to avoid crashing of the web sites. Please check known issues also.
 
Related Items/Add-Ons
Upgrade/Downgrade items are renamed as Related items from this version. The functionality continues to be the same.

The Related items caption is renamed to "Add-Ons" and is going to reflect in Item description/profile page allowing the shopper to view accessories needed thus enabling cross selling capabilities.
Email Services
Enhanced to include email notifications to accommodate additional functionality introduced in this release such as creation of RMA, Saving Carts, and Purchase of downloadable items..
Multiple Website Services
Extended to include handling of multiple web sites and individual handling of email services. An extended facility to specify and limit the size of Log files and email notification on Log file being full is added.
Accware Online SDK
A toolset for enabling e-commerce application development, AOSDK provides all the technical documents and online help documentation, sample codes and tools for developers to take advantage of the sample working code and understand better usage of the shopping cart application and fine tune to specific needs and requirements.
Express Checkout
Express CheckOut when enabled, reduces the process of order creation to a single step by considering the default details of the registered user. The Sample Code of this is available in AO SDK.
Smart Login
The information necessary for creation of a login account is presented in a single page.
Look and Feel
All the 25 templates are revisited for font consistency and enhanced the look & feel. 10 New themes are added to "Techno" template.Look at our online poll results.
Related Items Preference
The new preference in Item profile will allow merchant to hide/unhide related items being displayed on item profile page online.
Returns
A new page for the Returns/RMA has been added for a better look and feel by separating Order tracking from Returns.
Sample Data
The sample company database has been updated for the new features such as Item Relations, Shop By Brand etc.
 
Known Issues/Limitations
Search
We are in the process of enhancing the search function to yield better search results, this could come as a patch in the next release.
 
Payflow Pro
The current release check for AVS (Address Verification) for "Y", "N", and "X" and will be enhanced in later versions depending on the business flow from Payflow Pro.
Browser Compatibility
Compatibility for Netscape version 6.x, will be optimized in the next releases/patches.
Credit Card Processing
All processor related details are now being stored in a new file processor.dbf. All prior info in icprefer.dbf will have to be reentered into the new file.
 
Returns
Returns/RMA does not support returning of Kits/Configurable Items online.
Returns/RMA will not support rounding off of prices, if the value to display is set to current price in the web site preference.
 
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