X-Cart 4.1.3 released

CACHE-Man · #31 10-10-2006, 01:25 PM

Just a quick question. We purchased xcart for a client after reading it was XHTML compliant straight out the box, and realised afterwards that the current stable version (4.0.xx) isnt.

Is version 4.1.3 safe to use for a live site yet, as the XHTML compliancy is a big thing for us, and it will be a monster job for us to convert 4.0.19 to XHTML1.

It's just not made clear if the 4.1.3 version is still a beta or a release-candidate or pre-release version. I see in this thread some of you are using it on sites already.

carpeperdiem · #32 10-10-2006, 01:37 PM

if you need some great makeup, make an order form my store. use discount code: XCART15OCT3106 for 15% off -- then you decide if 4.1.3 isn't ready for cusotmers.

4.1.3 has a few admin issues... for me, related to import/export of data -- and there were some shipping calculation and tax issues... but these have been resolved with patches... don't know if it made the distributives yet.

Also, your server's config may have something to do with what is "stable" -- we have learned that some settings are beter or worse than others...

We can't find any customer related issues for our config and our needs, so we went live. No regrets. YMMV. You're here, so that means you have a license... you can always waste a day testing? For something as important as a new ecommerce platform, a day is not a big investment.

Good luck.

Jeremy

CACHE-Man · #33 10-10-2006, 02:05 PM

Thanks for your comments carpeperdiem. And i took a look at your site which is very nice, I love your templating, fits your store very well, although it doesnt validate, but I presume you've done a lot of customisations, and validation wasnt onw of your priorities. Still, very well done.

Does anyone else have any more comments on how they've got on with 4.1.3 on a live site, and if they consider it safe to deploy live please?

timbrrr · #34 10-10-2006, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by carpeperdiem

4.1.3 has a few admin issues... for me, related to import/export of data -- and there were some shipping calculation and tax issues... but these have been resolved with patches... don't know if it made the distributives yet.

Did you get a patch from xcart for importing? What issues were you facing with the import? I've been fighting this for a few days now trying to find a clean way to import product. I use a boat load of HTML in every product to display pictures, bold, etc. Not sure if that makes a difference, but when I try to export in CSV format, the descriptions of the products are loaded with <EOL> which is why I'm sure that the import breaks with errors.
Otherwise, I'm happy for the most part with 4.13 and have been running live since the 4.1 release came out.

CACHE-Man · #35 10-10-2006, 04:09 PM

All sounds very promising timbrr, thanks

carpeperdiem · #36 10-10-2006, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by CACHE-Man

I love your templating, fits your store very well, although it doesnt validate, but I presume you've done a lot of customisations, and validation wasnt onw of your priorities

Not a priority today, but it will be soon. Lots of the validation errors are bAD CapITaliZAtiOn by 3rd parties. And then there's the <table width="100%"> that some 3rd party code insists on using... ( should be: <table style="width:100%;"> )

But yes, one of these evenings, I'll break down and make it validate. I'll learn about GREP while I'm at it...

carpeperdiem · #37 10-10-2006, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by timbrrr

Did you get a patch from xcart for importing? What issues were you facing with the import?

No, I just gave up. I had problems with certain characters (unicode) such as "trademark" -- so I just gave up and killed these. I was too tired to fight.

I had issues with sales tax calculations (related to fixed rate shipping and DST+SH calculation method). This was patched by xcart. I'll be happy to share this with anyone who needs it. They also patched a display error in sales tax (in NY, tax rates go to 3 decimal places, and do not round).

I also paid xcart to fix some things that were (in my opinion) fundamentally broken -- but it wasn't worth a fight... for about 250 points they fixed things that I needed, including masking the credit card # on customer invoice (ex last 4); making the viaKlix gateway work as a real background process; and fighting them on the "trademark" export issues, plus a few more things...

The customers have been satisfied. I have asked each one for comments on the site, and nobody seems to have anything negative to say... either they are not critical, or we are real close to having a customer friendly site. I am always open to criticism (constructive or otherwise). Bring it on!

timbrrr · #38 10-10-2006, 06:19 PM

I would be interested in the sales tax fix.... I think I've seen some kind of error with calculation of that awhile back. you can pm me or post it here for others to see.

gastu · #39 10-10-2006, 07:36 PM

it is not possible buy 2 units of he himself product with different options.

example:
http://www.x-cart.com/demo/
select 'javascript: Definitive Guide' 2 times.
now it not possible buy one with soft cover and other with hard cover.

Light Speed · #40 10-10-2006, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by gastu

it is not possible buy 2 units of he himself product with different options.

example:
http://www.x-cart.com/demo/
select 'javascript: Definitive Guide' 2 times.
now it not possible buy one with soft cover and other with hard cover.

The demo seems to work fine for me.

Click on the product to view the product page.

Soft is the default.
Click add to cart.

Click the picture of the product in the cart to easily jump back to the product.
Select Hard
Click add to cart.

Now two versions are in the cart.
One soft one hard.

Is this not what you expected?