f-Commerce Go has been released
 

http://static.x-cart.com/images/products/f_commerce_go.png

We are glad to announce final release of our new “fCommerce Go” module that lets you add X-Cart shopping cart to your business or community Facebook page and use it as a sales channel for your main store.

Some time ago we discontinued FacebookTab module that did the same trick using “FBML technology”. Reason: Facebook quit supporting “FBML technology” since January 01st 2012 and is going to remove it completely in June 2012 (see https://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/).

That’s why we invested in development of “fCommerce Go” module. The new module inherits all the features of the discontinued “FacebookTab” module, adds new ones and uses completely different technology to integrate with Facebook.

fCommerce Go is a subscription service unlike FacebookTab. There are two “fCommerce-Go” plans:

• Basic plan: it is free and allows to show featured products from the root category on your Facebook fan-page.

• Silver plan: costs a fee and has many nice features, like “Full store stock”, “Categories browsing and products listing in categories”, ”Products search feature”, and much more.

We have to charge subscription fee for fCommerce Go due to the following reasons:

• Facebook changes its API regularly and we have to correct our integration module every time in order to keep Facebook integration working as advertised.

• With new updates of Facebook API new bugs are “released” as well (Facebook beta-tests updates on real users) and we have to deal with them as well.

Those who purchased a FacebookTab module license before Jan 1st 2012 will get one-time 50% discount for the “Sliver” plan. FacebookTab licenses purchased after the January 01 2012 will be exchanged to 6 month free “Silver” fCommerce Go subscription.

Please do not hesitate to ask questions.

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Great! I think that it's really nice of you guys to offer the free version. This will be all some merchants require. Those that want more, will upgrade and have more capabilities. After you get a few sales from using this module, the Silver plan will pay for itself I'm sure.

Thanks QT.

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And it adapted to the new facebook pages view. Here is the quick link for the demo: https://www.facebook.com/xcart?sk=app_165931960160897

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Not a social sites fan but it seems like something like this is wanted by many users. Congrats on the release, hopefully it will be good addition for many stores.
By the way a suggestion - if the top static strip is not only for the demo consider moving it to one of the sides - right now is covering the top FB page area.

I can't resist to mention - Replace Facebook with X-Cart below - sounds familiar?

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Anybody else getting this SQL error when exporting orders:

INVALID SQL: 1054 : Unknown column 'WEB1490' in 'where clause'
SQL QUERY FAILURE:SELECT IF(extra_data LIKE '%added_in_facebook%', 1, 0) FROM xcart_order_details WHERE orderid = WEB1490

Mike

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Seems to be related to these lines in the fCommerce_Go config.php file.

// Get the results for current pages
if (defined('IS_XCART_44')) {
$fb_orders = func_query("SELECT $sql_tbl[orders].*, $sql_tbl[customers].id AS existing_userid, $sql_tbl[customers].login, IF($sql_tbl[order_details].extra_data LIKE '%added_in_facebook%', 1, 0) as has_fb_products $search_condition ORDER BY $sort_string LIMIT $first_page, $objects_per_page");
} else {
$fb_orders = func_query("SELECT $sql_tbl[orders].*, IF($sql_tbl[order_details].extra_data LIKE '%added_in_facebook%', 1, 0) as has_fb_products $search_condition ORDER BY $sort_string LIMIT $first_page, $objects_per_page");
}

Mike

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Hello Mike,

Just a quick question, if your web-store had a customization related to the orders?
I'm asking because the default X-Cart orderid value type is "integer", but as I see from the SQL-log provided here, the value seems to be a "varchar".

And one more: Do you have same problems with the orders search when the "fCommerce" module is disabled?

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No mods have been done related to the orders and the error does not occur when the fcommerce is disabled. In fact to export the orders to Quickbooks I have to disable the mod.

I am using X-Cart version 4.3.1, could that be an issue?

Mike

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Subscription based? No thank you.

What a rip-off, I bought the FB module on 2 Sep 2011.

Sound to me the same as saying that x-cart license has to be subscription based because PHP changes all the time (now in version 5.3 for example).

The right thing to do is to honour the existing licences of FB module with lifetime license. If you want to go subscription based, do it for the new purchases.

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I agree with Supercanon, I bought mine Dec 26 2011
No thanks.

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agree with Supercanon, I bought mine nov 2011
No thanks.

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If you bought the FB module on 26 Dec 2011 then raises a serious concern. The x-cart newsletter says that facebook announced the "new" system on 30 Sep 11. So x-cart was aware of the change when they sold you the "old" module in December. They knew that they were selling you something with 6 months life....

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First of all, thank you. We appreciate any feedback, positive or not.

The fact is that the FBML technology is almost dead and there is not our fault. The ⌠FacebookTab■ module stays live till the FBML-engine is disabled by Facebook engineers. However you still the owner of lifetime license of FacebookTab FBML version and can use it until Facebook-team stops the FBML working. It like if all hosting companies stop using PHP and start using other cgi script.

f-Commerce go - is totally new module and technology. And we are in our right to do new purchases for it. However we think of our existing users and try to find the best offer for exchange for new module.
⌠f-Commerce Go■ provides more features than the ⌠FacebookTab■, it has entirely new engine and another philosophy. The part of it is a hosted solution so we have to spend time and resources to support it, that is why the ⌠Silver■ f-Commerce plan costs a fee.
The on-time paynig licenses for such service is unprofitable.
However we decided to give a discount to existing ⌠FacebookTab■ owners. We think It▓s a good deal.

Also there is the free ⌠Basic■ plan. It is simple and doesn▓t require much resources.

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What aggravated me the most is that nobody told me that this would happen before, one of my reasons to choose xcart was the Facebook Tab.
And if you bought this app on December 26, 2011, it hurts if you can only use it for six months.
I am going to build another 3 shops, but I am going to look definitely what other software options are on the market.

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And that's why we are providing a 50% discount for subscription plans for all the owners of FacebookTab license.

We hope you will choose X-Cart with f-Commerce Go. The new product will be improved all the time and here are the ideas which will be implemented by our team: integration with OpenGraph API, integration with Pinterest, checkout on the FB side.

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Good news!

We have released a new version of "f-Commerce" integration module. It's ready for downloading.

Here the list of changes:

• Corrections on the products list. The detailed list descriptions HTML tags are stripped to avoid the main layout breakage by an unclosed tags.

• Improvement on the product details page. The product description content is parsing to find and replace relative links and images sources (a[href] and img[src]). All the links in the product description now leads to a new tab or window (target='_blank').

• Small corrections in the 'modules/fCommerce_Go/tpls/customer/product_options_prepare.tpl' template. Related to the default product variant image.

• Fixed bug related to the $smarty pre-filters. When templates are cached and a product with options is not adding to the cart (displayed the "check_options not defined" js-error).

• Improvement in errors handling. Now the module should continue its running even fatal error has occurred. The errors are passing to the Facebook-part and the page-admin can see them.

• Module install correction. The "snapshot generating" step now missed.

• Added a new option to the module admin-side, named "Products per page". It controls the default products amount on the product list pages.

We are looking forward to your feedback.

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To upgrade to the new version, do we have to install it or just copy the files over the existing ones?

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I just installed this mod without any problem and plan to use the free version for the next little while. When I go to the products tab in FB I get this error:

The site https://www.mysite.com/ returned following errors: Fatal error: Call to undefined function onsale_load_sales_for_cat() in /home/mysite/public_html/modules/On_Sale/onsale_home.php on line 34

(Note: I've edited my domain from the error msg)

All of my featured items in the home category are are on sale using Altered Cart's On Sale mod. Any ideas how to fix the error without having to remove the special sales I have set up?

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to denlem:
Just copy the files over the existing ones. It's not necessary to re-install.

to heather@MX1:
open the %xcart_root%/fcommerce.php
and paste the following code under the "The further processing" comment (before the "if (isset($is_installed))" condition):

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to heather@MX1:
open the %xcart_root%/fcommerce.php
and paste the following code under the "The further processing" comment (before the "if (isset($is_installed))" condition):
[/quote]

Thank you Constantin, that worked. Only problem now is that the thumbnail images are not showing as well as the add to cart.

EDITED: I traced the thumb image not showing to the fact that it seems to be called as https rather than http - when I edit it using firebug to http the image shows up. I just don't know where I would fix this? There's still the problem with the "details" button not showing either.

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Try to change the assigned store URL in connector (apps.facebook.com/f-commerce-go) from "HTTPS" to "HTTP". Or install a valid SSL to your server and use HTTPS.

If the issue still exists, please provide me with your store URL, I'll try to sort this out from my side.

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Hi Konstantin, when I go to apps.facebook.com/f-commerce-go I get the message: "Unfortunately, you have no more pages that can be connected" and there are no other options other than documentation, Facebook Profile ID, etc.

I do have a valid SSL installed. I've had it for over 2 years now. However, when I upgraded to 4.4.4 I had an issue with HTTPS which a few other users on the forum experienced as well. But that was sorted out, so not sure why this issue. My store is www.mx1canada.com

thanks

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to heather@MX1:
Thank you for the information.

It's uncommon because connector should show you a pages list under the "The pages where products tab is already added" header.
Did you enter a clean URL, without the "?show_steps=Y" parameter, just https://apps.facebook.com/f-commerce-go/?
However, I've chnaged your site URL from HTTPS to HTTP in the connector database. Please, check how thumbnails are showing now.

As for the HTTPS issue, I'd recommend you to contact with our support team since that can be related to the default X-Cart functionality.

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thanks Konstantin, thumbs are now showing up. Just 1 other issue now is the "details" button. It's just an orange block (see screenshot).

Also, if I contact support it is my understanding that I would be required to purchase a block of time upfront. I'm not prepared to do this, especially if its a known issue with xcart.

Question: if we choose the free version, are we able to control the css - for example it seems to be pulling the short description of the item and in my case quite a few have bullet lists which do not show up on the fb page. It shows up as 1 long paragraph. I use a custom skin which is calls a different css other than stock xcart, is this why it appears different in fb?

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This is the "lbl_details" language variable. Check your web-store admin side to be sure that this variable is not empty.
Also you can add your own one instead of that. Just open the "%xcart_root%/modules/fCommerce_Go/shop.php", find the line #179 and change the 'lbl_details' variable name to yours created especially for that button title.

Thank you for noticed that issue with the HTML tags in a product description. We've corrected the Basic version.
As for the custom CSS code, it is available in the Silver version. There is the "%xcart_root%/files/fcommerce_skin.css" stylesheet where the default fCommerce styles can be overlapped by custom ones.
For the Basic version users, they can only control CSS within the products descriptions.

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So i installed this thing and my products do not show at all on my products tab. it recognizes when my store is open or closed, but thats it, any help ?

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The "Basic" version shows the root featured products of your store. I mean those featured products which are showing on the home-page of your store.
Just open the admin side of your store, follow to the page %www.yourstore.com%/admin/categories.php and scroll down. Then find the "Featured products" section and add a products there.

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I have to add each product one by one? Another "User-Friendly" feature, awesome!

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Yes, you should add your featured products manually. Well, they're featured, not random, right?

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ok, I see that the product description now appears "somewhat" properly - I say somewhat because I use a custom bullet class in my product descriptions so I guess this is why the bullets still don't show (?), however it is breaking the description up into a list so it looks better than it did.

thanks for clarifying that

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I uploaded the installation files to our test store directory and when I run the install script, the license agreement doesn't show nor any buttons to agree to it and proceed. (see image) Just the header and the title above the license agreement window appear.

I've double checked the file upload and everything is in it's proper place. I used 3 different browsers and all with the same results.

X-Cart 4.4.4 is our installed version in the test store.

Thanks.

EDIT: Nevermind, somehow the COPYRIGHT file for the 4.4.4 installation was missing. That fixed the error.

Ana

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Article about "Six Steps for Social Commerce Success" from Ruslan Fazlyev, founder of Ecwid and X-Cart:
http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2012/04/06/six-steps-for-success-in-social-commerce.aspx

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Can anyone advise how we get the 50% discount if you recently purchased facebook tab? There doesn't seem to be anywhere obvious?

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Please contact our staff via the HelpDesk. We'll be glad to help you.

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I installed the free version, everything went exactly as the installation guide, URL showed up as correct in facebook, but the Shop page is empty:

http://www.facebook.com/byaliciaklein/app_165931960160897

xcart version is 4.4.5

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It seems that you don't define featured products on your store. In Basic version the products from this section are shown on facebook side

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Ack you're right, thanks for that.

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The minor 1.1.1 version of "f-Commerce.go" has been released. There are two files affected only:
* fcommerce.php [Added a new variable $debug_data, the "fb_debug" now is excluded from the serialized data]
* modules/fCommerceGo/config.php [Changed function name: "func_fb_add_og_meta" -> "func_fb_add_og_meta_tags" to avoid the fatal error for the "FacebookTab"]

So it's strongly recommended for all who experiences troubles with the "FacebookTab" and "f-Commerce.go" simultaneous usage to update the modules/fCommerceGo/config.php file. People who has uninstalled the "FacebookTab" can disregard this update.

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Also I would recommend to subscribe for our fan-page on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/fcommerce.go

Like the page to receive the last updates about f-commerce go solution and related social media news

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Well I installed this module today and am having a few issues with it running smoothly.

The first issue I have is that it has a conflict with the onsale module with the following error,

The site returned following errors: Fatal error: Call to undefined function onsale_load_sales_for_cat() in /home/website/public_html/modules/On_Sale/onsale_home.php on line 34

Secondly turning this module off results in the following errors when navigating through the store on FB

Something went wrong. Web-store server is not responding.

in my debug message I can see the following,

[18-Apr-2012 20:59:26] (shop: 18-Apr-2012 20:59:26) DEBUG message:
Logged as:
Debug [0/1]: Array
(
[0] => <img alt="text is here" align="middle" width="300" height="150" src="/userfiles/images/imagename(4).jpg
[1] => img
[2] => src
[3] => /userfiles/images/imagename(4).jpg
)
Request URI: /fcommerce.php?fb_debug=1&tab=1&ajax=1&pageid=11529 9013520&store_url=http://website/&cat=297&productid=2347&fb_mode=product_details
Backtrace:
/home/website/public_html/modules/fCommerce_Go/func.php:1085
/home/website/public_html/modules/fCommerce_Go/product_details.php:194
/home/website/public_html/modules/fCommerce_Go/shop.php:208
/home/website/public_html/fcommerce.php:121
-------------------------------------------------

for clarification this is running on a 4.3.2 store.