Features included in eRATEX release 1.12:

Security Updates

• Address Validation: Shopper Visibility

Shoppers now receive a more informative notification when their shipping or billing information is incomplete during the checkout process. The new notification occurs only if the address information is complete enough to pass eRatex's built-in address validation, but not complete enough to pass through the confirgured payment gateway's validation process.

As part of this enhancement, ordererror.invalidaddress.fields has been added to the list of built-in string resources. The string value is a prefix to a series of shopper-facing notifications displayed as appropriate. Merchants do not need to take any action to enable this new behavior.

• Guest Checkout Restrictions: Email Requirement

Shoppers are now required to provide an email address when Guest Checkout is enabled. In previous versions, shoppers were not required to provide an email address under certain conditions.

Merchants do not need to take any action to enable this new behavior.

Refer to Guest Checkout for more information.

• Guest Checkout Restrictions: Better Messaging for Shoppers.

Version 1.11 introduced functionality which allows administrators to limit which products shoppers are allowed to purchase through Guest Checkout. Administrators can use this feature to force shoppers to login when purchasing certain admin-defined products.

This version 1.12 introduces a new Setting which enables administrators turn on messages in Checkout when Guest Checkout is enabled and when shoppers have added login-restricted products to their cart. Messages that appear include product names when require login before the shopper may complete the checkout process.

Set RATEX.Checkout.DisplayGuestCheckoutRestrictionMessages to TRUE to enable extended messages in Checkout.

Refer to Guest Checkout for more information.

Feature Updates

• PayPal Integration with Visual Ratex     

Support for PayPal Checkout is now fully implemented.

PayPal has designated "white-glove" staff to help merchants create new PayPal Business accounts. Details will soon follow.

• Product Display: Out of Stock Default

When a product's default variant is out of stock, the product page will now display properly. In earlier versions, certain product configurations would display blank product pages.

Merchants do not need to take any action.

Promotion Interactions with Bronto Marketing Platform

Improved support for Bronto when multiple promotions are in use during the checkout process. Please refer to Bronto Integration for more information on how to enable Bronto integration.

Merchants do not need to take any action to enable this improved support.

Quantity Calculation Improvements

In some edge-case scenarios, previous versions prevented the aggregation of identical products in the shopping cart. For example, the shopper adds Item A, Qty 1 to the cart, then later adds Item A, Qty 1 to the cart. eRatex now more reliably combines identical products in the cart and sums the Qty.

Merchants do not need to take any action to enable this improved functionality.

Admin Feature Updates

The built-in Best Sellers report now enables administrators to filter by product type when running this report.

Please refer to Reports within this manual for information on how to run built-in reports.