March 2012
1 post
Changes to footers
We recently fixed a security issue that allowed a storeowner to alter the contents of the cart without a customer’s consent. We have resolved the issue, but as a side effect, we had to disable all HTML content in footers.
We’ve always intended footers to be written in Textile and the fact that pure HTML was allowed was an oversight on our part. Luckily, most stores were not using HTML and for...
January 2012
5 posts
Enstore weekly - Week 3 & 4
We put the last hand to migrating to a new storage system. During a short downtime we’ve moved the last data into the new database and we’re now happily running off of the new system. You should not notice any differences between the old and the new system, but if you do please let us know.
This was all part of our grand plan to going out of beta and we’re thrilled to being one...
Maintenance rescheduled
Please note: Enstore maintenance has been rescheduled and your web store will be down for several hours Wednesday, January 25th (1:00 am to 6:00 am EST). During that time we’ll be migrating to a fancy new storage system with the goal of better reliability and less downtime (planned or unplanned). We have big plans for 2012.
We appreciate your patience,
The Enstore Team
Enstore weekly - Week 2
Maintenance
Enstore will be down for several hours Thursday, January 19th (1:00 am to 6:00 am EST) for planned server maintenance. During that time we’ll be migrating to a fancy new storage system with the goal of better reliability and less downtime (planned or unplanned). We have big plans for 2012.
API
Fixed: Template revision was not readonly
Fixed: Variation product labels were...
Enstore weekly - Week 1
Checkout
Fixed: Infinite redirect when directly navigating to the checkout page
Fixed: Infinite redirect when cart data was unavailable
Fixed: Order succes page loaded insecure content
Fixed: Shipping method icons loaded incorrectly
Enstore weekly - week 52
First of all, happy new year! It has been an eventful year for Enstore and we have been hard at work after the acquisition. We’ll have something exciting progress to share at the end of this month, for now here are the changes that happened in the last week of 2011.
Checkout
Fixed: Custom payment methods had no icon and were showing a broken image instead
Stores
Fixed: Very rarely...
December 2011
4 posts
Enstore weekly - Week 51
Signup
Fixed: Use the correct version of the Enstore icon in signup verification emails
Checkout
Fixed: Javascript files wouldn’t load correctly in Google Chrome
Fixed: Internet Explorer showed a warning about insecure content
Enstore weekly - Week 50
General
Fixed: The case on the Enstore lines icon (shown on error pages) was incorrect
Stores
Fixed: The maintenance bar button was still referring to the old admin
Fixed: Show the store email address, if available, when Checkout fails
Fixed: Checkout failure page had no link back to the store
Manager
Fixed: Logo upload errors used an incorrect alert style
Enstore weekly - week 49
Manager
Fixed: Issues with closing popovers in Safari
Fixed: Disable ‘Show / Hide in store’ menu action when there is no selection
Fixed: Payment section could scroll horizontally
Enstore weekly - week 48
Maintenance
Tomorrow Tuesday December 6th at 5:30pm PT / 8:30pm ET we will perform routine maintenance and Enstore will be unavailable for up to 60 minutes. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Documentation
Fixed: The link to setup paypal credentials was broken
Fixed: The link to payment on the manage page was broken
Fixed: In some browsers it was impossible to click links...
November 2011
4 posts
Enstore weekly - week 47
Manager
Added: Option to show and hide a menu from the context and actions menu
Fixed: Product setup actions button would show the context menu
Fixed: Deleting a theme using the delete or backspace key would appear to work
Fixed: Theme selection changed when deleting a theme
Checkout
Fixed: Order emails would not be resend if the first attempt failed. We now retry indefinitely
Enstore weekly - week 46
Enstore Designer
Update: The built-in themes
Checkout
Fixed: Several Mastercard credit cards were detected as Diners club
Manager
Fixed: http://manager.enstore.com/ would pre fill the handle field with ?handle=
Fixed: Trying to create a new labels based menu would show the list edit view
Removed: the list based option all together since it’s not yet possible to create lists
Enstore weekly - week 45
Signup
Fixed: When logging into the manager for the first time the license would show again (new users have already agreed on the signup page).
Checkout
Fixed: Using special characters during checkout when paying with Ogone
Manager
Fixed: Creating a price based shipping method would appear as a weight based.
Changed: The URL for pre filling a store handle in the manager. The old way was...
Enstore weekly - week 44
Checkout
Fixed: Checkout would fail if customer information or product name contained special characters
Fixed: Custom payment methods
Fixed: Our order total and Paypal’s would not always be the same, resulting in an error during checkout. More details at the bottom of this support discussion
October 2011
6 posts
Enstore weekly - week 43
Website
Fixed: the demo store (http://www.enstore.com/demo) opened with Raconteurs not Serenity
Fixed: Randomize the order of the showcases. If you haven’t already take a look at how customers are using our theming utilities to create awesome customized stores.
Checkout
Fixed: Show order summary on Paypal’s site when using Paypal Express
Fixed: The “Continue Shopping“ button...
Enstore weekly - week 42
Updated EULAs to reflect the change of ownership. You manually have to agree to the new agreement when logging into the manager or using Enstore Designer. The current one is always available here http://www.enstore.com/eula.
Enstore designer
We released 1.0.10, this release fixes problems with deploying themes on Lion and has updates to the EULA and Acknowledgments. Get the new version by...
Enstore and NYC
At the end of the day, I’m quite certain you’re more interested in selling your wares from an elegant, easy-to-use web store than any corporate maneuvers behind the scenes. Still, the two are connected. Enstore has new parents. Acclivity NYC is a newly formed satellite of Acclivity (makers of AccountEdge) dedicated to Enstore and Checkout development. We’ve retained Klaas Pieter as Enstore’s...
Enstore weekly - Week 41
Enstore weekly is smaller than usual because we’ve spent the week working on new features.
Checkout
Fixed shipping method name was None in order confirmation email
Enstore weekly - Week 40
Stores
Fixed Enstore would sometimes show a unformatted error page
Correct common theme error causing problems in Internet Explorer
Manager
Make delete confirmations plural when deleting multiple items
Added a create submenu action to the Product menu context and action menu
These changes conclude our first release of the new manager. We think it’s now at a level where it’s...
Enstore weekly - week 39
Manager
Fixed scrolling and resizing on the login page
Fixed an issue where entering a number smaller than 1 would prevent a shipping method from being saved
Fixed the left label in a custom price based shipping was formatted using the currency from the configured region. If the region and currency differed this resulted in an incorrect currency display.
Signup
Fixed clicking a signup...
September 2011
6 posts
Enstore weekly - week 38
Checkout
Fixed Ogone not showing credit card logos
Fixed issue where the checkout page would incorrectly say that there were no shipping methods configured
Fixed issues with shipping during checkout
Manager
Fixed custom payment method instructions showing raw HTML content. Instructions might have to be edited and saved before this fix shows.
Fixed a minor issue where a payment method logo...
Manager temporarily available at different...
We’ve run into complications with maintenance that is affecting the Enstore manager. The manager will temporarily not be available from it’s default address (http://manager.enstore.com). While it’s offline please use the alternative address.
Update
The situation has been resolved and the manager is accessible again at it’s usual location.
Enstore weekly - week 37
Manager
Fixed being able to set an invalid home page by deleting the currently selected page or by changing it’s handle
Fixed home page popup not updated when the name of a page changed
Fixed creating and editing shipping methods
Fixed persisting order of shipping methods
API
Allow shipping methods without destination or origin country codes
Make the shipping method isInternational...
Enstore weekly - week 36
Stores
Resolved outage. More details in our previous blog post
Manager
Fixed Textile editing in manager
Pages without menu items that were created in the old admin will be available as hidden page based menu items under Navigation in the new manager
Fixed issues in Internet Explorer
Improved load time
Enstore September 8, 2011 outage
On September 8, 2011 Enstore was down from approximately 4:37 PM until 9:38 AM EST. The issues have been resolved and Enstore should be operating normally again.
The outage was caused by an update to Google App Engine (our hosting provider) which introduced subtle changes to how data is returned. Enstore could not recognize the data and in stead showed the default server error message.
Enstore weekly - week 35
Enstore weekly is a weekly recurring blogpost detailing last weeks changes.
This week we deployed 4 new versions of Enstore that contained 6 fixes:
Stores
Fixed pagination issues
Added new and removed discontinued theme from the example store. Take a look at all our stunning themes at http://www.enstore.com/demo
Improved order confirmation email by adding the shipping customer name, custom...
July 2011
1 post
Big Enstore update
After months of hard work, we’ll be rolling out the new Enstore manager for all Enstore users today. This new manager will definitely improve the way you work with Enstore. The new URL to log in to the manager is manager.enstore.com, so please update your bookmarks!
To create the new manager, we decided to rebuild the entire app from the ground up. This allowed us to fix a lot of things we...
March 2011
1 post
What's in store for Enstore?
We’re still here and we’re working harder than ever, but because it’s sometimes hard to see what we’re doing exactly, we want to give you an inside status update about Enstore’s development.
When we started with Enstore less than a year ago, the first step was to make Enstore available as an extension for Checkout – our point of sale software – and later we made it an extension for...
January 2011
1 post
Fixed and improved: changelog
While working on some larger new features we have fixed lots of small issues and improved a few parts of Enstore.
Store
Slugs and search are now smart about diacritics so for example Jürgen is searchable with “jürgen”, “jurgen” and “juergen”.
Improved the way Enstore deals with duplicate slugs (used in product urls). It will try to build one from the name,...
July 2010
3 posts
Help us testing custom domains for your store (eg:... →
New Templates Designs and Tips on Editing... →
New domains, lots of new stores and a template...
It’s been a while since our last post. We’ve been working on some new features for Enstore which we hope you’ll like.
New Store URLs
Until today all Enstore stores had an address like this:
http://www.enstore.com/mystore
From now on we will use a subdomain for every store, looking like this: http://mystore.enstore.com
Besides being aesthetically pleasing and easier to...
April 2010
1 post
Fixed Issues: Changelog
Store:
Fixed issue where the second custom shipping method name would not display on the checkout page
Better looking error pages for not found, server and payment errors
Fixed the cart on iPad and iPhone
Fixed currency formatting on specific browsers like MSIE8 and Safari Mobile
Templates:
Added secret debug information screen to all stores, hold ctrl-shift-v to activate
Solved an issue...
March 2010
1 post
Today's big update: Tons of new features and...
After weeks and weeks of hard work we’re proud to announce the latest update to Enstore. This is by far the biggest update since the beta release of Enstore. Up until this point we’ve only fixed bugs, added small usability and visual enhancements, supported more countries, and tried to solve all the issues our loyal beta testers reported. Thank you all for helping us make Enstore the...
January 2010
4 posts
Fixed Issues: Counting, Images
Fixed an issue where browsing a tag would draw an incorrect pager; it seems there were more pages with product while there actually weren’t. Going to the next page with results would result in an empty browse page. If you still have this issue on your store, please contact support as we may need to do some manual tweaking.
Solved a caching issue with images where they would keep...
Admin Login News Banner
We’ve implemented a news banner on the Admin login page. The news banner shows the last couple of updates to this blog. Take a look at it when logging into your own admin or see it in action on the examplestore admin login page.
Fixes: Canadian FedEx, Product Search, Nihilist...
Updated indexing for fulltext searches. A product with cool-aid in the description will now be included in the results if you search for “cool”, “aid”, “cool aid” and “cool-aid”.
Fixed an issue with fulltext search where trailing characters like ., would not get stripped properly, resulting in sometimes strange search results.
The Nihilist...
Lots of Small Updates
Fixed an issue in Firefox where a list of countries and states would appear on the checkout form step two.
Fixed an issue on the checkout page step one where some countries without states would still require the buyer to enter a state.
Corrected spelling errors in the months throughout the site.
Added American Express as a supported credit card for Paypal Direct.
Fixed FedEx ground shipping.
...
December 2009
4 posts
Improved Checkout (Buy) Page
We’ve made some changes to how the country list on the buy page is displayed. Previously all countries were displayed, independent of whether your store actually had shipping methods available for those countries. If clients from an unsupported country fill out the form, they would be presented with a warning on the next page.
From now on, only countries that the store can ship to will be...
Asynchronous Google Analytics
Google Analytics tracking for EnStore now works with the new asynchronous api. This should make your store load faster as the browser will now load the analytics script in the background. That way it can start displaying the page even before the tracking script is fully loaded. You can read more about the async api here.
Transparent Image Scaling Supported
You can now resize images in the PNG format without losing transparency. We used to replace the transparency channel with black, but from now on it will stay intact. This is for example great for using your store logo with different sizes and background colors.
Search Bug with Ünicøde fixed
Fixed a bug where you would get an error page if you’d try to search with unicode characters. Now you can search on every character there is.
Fixed an issue where products on the item page would sometimes not get updated correctly.
November 2009
7 posts
Sortable Product Variations
Product variations can now be sorted on the product page in all templates. This will make selecting a product easier for your clients, especially when there are lots of variations available.
Navigation Setup Visual Update
Due to time constraints we had to release the admin tool with some visual glitches we were not happy with. Today there was time to fix one of these glitches.
Before:
After:
Visual Template Updates, Bug Fixes
Templates
Fixed “Back to Store” button link in Bishop template.
Fixed layout issues with Bishop, Nihilist and Tripwire for when the product descriptions would become too long.
Removed the “X Items in Cart” badge from Raconteurs because they would mess up the page layout if the description or price became too long.
Bugs
Generate better slugs (short names for products...
Shipping Options Added, Automatic Retries
New FedEx Shipping Options Available
The following Fedex Ground shipping methods were added:
FedEx International Ground
FedEx Ground
FedEx Ground Home Delivery
You can set them up in the EnStore Admin. Please make sure they make sense for the products you are shipping on the FedEx site: http://fedex.com/us/services/ataglance.html
Automatic Retries
Sometimes EnStore would return an error...
Two Minor Updates to Admin Tool
The first was an issue which allowed empty selections when adding a shipping service, or when adding a country to an already created international shipping service.
The second was a usability issue. It was not possible to double-click a country or shipping row to dismiss the dialog and add the country or shipping service.
Paypal Issues Fixed
Some users reported an error when trying to set up their store with Paypal (direct or express). On processing the payment they would get a “Security header error”. We’ve been talking to Paypal and fixed the issue.
Paypal Direct now works as expected with British Pounds.
EnStore Development Blog
In order to keep everyone in the loop on what we’re working on, we started this blog. We will post regular small updates here describing the changes/fixes we make. Enjoy reading our updates and let us know if you have any questions at http://support.enstore.com.