I want to thank the independent developer for fixing the image problem, I awoke to find an update for the module which fixed the problem (btw, you forgot to increment the version number as it is still listed as version 5.3.1).
If you are reading this, I would like to beg, plead, get on my knees and hope that you are open to adding these additional bug fixes and features to the module.
The Variants Table View add-on that is available for x-cart version 4.x has these features and the fact that they are missing from the 5.x version is very sad and is causing us loss of sales.
(please see the link below to the screen shots that will explain the issues in a more visual way)!
List the bugs and features that we hope can be fixed and added to this module:- (Bug) - If a variant is out of stock, the 4.x version would gray out the 'Buy' box and instead say 'out of stock'. The 5.x module allows you to enter in a quantity and then displays an error: 'Maximum Value is 0'
This should be a priority as it is very confusing to customers.
. - (Critical Feature Missing) The 4.x version has a mini 'add-to-cart' button next to the 'buy' quantity of each variant table row. Using the 5.x version you have to type in the quantity and then scroll all the way down to the bottom to find the 'add-to-cart' button.
This is very confusing to the customer, many of which simply abandon that page as they cannot figure out where to add the items to the cart. Especially if there are a lot of variants and the page stretches down far.
. - (Important Feature Missing) The 4.x version allows for the main product beauty Shot to be a separate image. The new 5.x version now takes the first variant and makes that image the 'category' image. This makes no sense as our main category shot us usually a grouping of the many different product variants and then the variants are the photos of the individual items (see attached).
There is a terrible work around where we have to create a 'blank' variant and force it to become the 'primary/default' variant. This is not an acceptable solution as it allows customers to select the blank variant and add it into the shopping cart.
. - The 4.x version of the module would pop up a larger image of the variant if you hovered your mouse over the image...sadly this beautiful feature is missing in the new 5.x module.
This is less critical as the bugs/missing features above are far more important to fix.
Please see the attached images to see how fantastic the 4.x module was compared to this new one and thank you in advance for your help in fixing these bugs and hopefully adding the missing features.
Screenshot of 4.x Variant Table View showing variant 'out of stock'
http://i.imgur.com/YMKS54U.png
Variant Table View 4.x showing 'hover over image' feature and how main (boss) image is independent from the Variant images.
http://i.imgur.com/1MzMild.png