NEW FEATURES

My Rentals

●     My Rentals is a new account feature which displays customer-friendly rental information.

○     My Rentals is accessed from the Account page and displays general rental information, rental periods, and fee details.

○     Bibliographic data of textbooks will also be displayed for rentals when it exists in RatexNet.

 

ENHANCEMENTS

Bronto Marketing Integration

●     Additional product information can now be sent to Bronto. This product information is sent in the other parameter and can include the following:

○     Product type: Textbook, GeneralMerchandise

○     Condition: Used, New

○     Textbook type (textbooks only): EBook, Rental

Courselist Builder

●     An issue displaying book short descriptions in the booklist has been fixed.

○     Previously, it was possible for a book’s description to incorrectly show as blank when HTML comments (example: <!-- … -->) were used in the description.

Entities (Product Groupings)

●     New size and color messaging allows shoppers to tell at a glance whether a product has customization options available from an Entity page.

○     Messaging will display differently depending on whether the product has sizes to choose from, colors, or both sizes and colors.

○     Messaging can be adjusted using three new String Resources (Prompts): edition.entity.product.hassizesandcolors , edition.entity.product.hassizes, and edition.entity.product.hascolors.

○      Please see Entity Pages: Size & Color Availability here

●     Fixed an issue where some entity pages could not be viewed when browsed to.

○     Entities can be “children” of other entities, allowing for grouping and subgrouping of products. Prior to this release, unpublished “parent” entities would cause their children entities to act as unpublished. It was not possible to browse to a still-published child whose parent was unpublished.

○     This has been changed so that a published entity can be accessed even if it is a child of an unpublished parent.

My Transactions

●     Line items on the My Transactions page are now grouped by shipment, when shipment information is available from RatexNet.

 

Site Administration

The Administration “About” page has been cleaned up.

●     An old “DotFeed” warning was removed.

●     An outdated EULA link was also removed.

Orders

●     Fixed an issue where switching from a PayPal payment option to a different payment option could prevent checkout completion in some circumstances.

●     Fixed an issue where the order confirmation email was not being sent for shipping methods with ampersands, &, such as Shipping & Handling.

Order History

●     The Order History section of the Account page now displays a barcode for shipments which have been processed in VR.

○     The barcode acts as a scannable shipment number.

Performance

●     Site performance has been improved for sites which use PayPal or Amazon Payments payment methods.

●     Improved performance for sites using Gift Cards.

Preorders

●     Fixed an issue where a recurring order could cause a preorder processing to fail.

●     Fixed an issue where new users who created accounts while placing their preorders would have the associated course and material information deleted from the preorder after it was placed.

Pricing

●     Fixed an issue where the subtotal shown by the minicart was sometimes incorrect.

○     This is just a visual fix and the issue did not affect the actual price of the items at checkout.

Products

●     Fixed an issue where product pages could not be viewed by some signed-in accounts.

○     This issue only affected certain legacy accounts which were configured to use an older version of the site’s skin.

●     The variant selector dropdown, which shows for product pages with selectable variants, now grays out disabled (out-of-stock) variants rather than presenting them as a selectable option.

●     Improved how images are displayed for products with variants.

○     Previously, there were some image configurations which could cause the incorrect image to display based on the selected variant.

Promotions

●     Products are now configurable to ignore promotions which would normally target them.

○     A new option,  “Exclude from Promotions”, can be configured for each product from the Product Administration page.

○     When configuring a product-specific promotion a warning will display if one or more of the products affected are configured to ignore promotions.

●     Discount shipping promotions which use “fixed” discounts now apply the fixed shipping discount even if some of the cart items do not meet the requirements for that discount.

○     This change does not apply to “percentage” shipping discounts. Percentage discounts will not target carts with a mix of promotion-targeted items and non-promotion-targeted items.

●     Enabling a Category Requirement for a promotion now presents a new option: “Invalidate Promotion if Any Item From an Excluded Category Is In the Cart”.

○     For this option to take effect it must be selected alongside option “Exclude Selected Categories”. After these options are selected, the contents of a cart will not qualify for the promotion if one of the items is from an excluded category.

○     This new option does not affect order-level discounts.

●     Promo Discounts with Minimum Cart Subtotal Requirements now only consider items targeted by the promotion as counting towards the subtotal requirement.

○     Prior to this change the full value of the cart could count towards the subtotal promotion even if the cart included non-targeted products.

●     Promo Requirement “E-Mail Address Requirement” now supports a much larger list of email addresses.

○     The .csv file import option should be used to quickly import a large list of emails.

●     A new Promo Discount is available:  “Discount Least Expensive Items”.

○     This promotion allows for Buy X Get Y-style and Discount On X Or More-style promotions. Some example promotions are:

■     “Buy 2 Get 1 Free”

■     “Buy 4, Receive $10.00 Off Each”

■     “Buy 2, Get One For 20% Off”

○     Discount Type can be Fixed or Percentage.

○     The number of eligible items to discount is set with a new option: “Number of Cart Items to Discount”.

○     The number of items required for eligibility is adjusted using a new option: “Number of Discountable Cart Items Required”.

   

Security

●     jQuery has been updated to version 3.5.1 in order to address a theoretical security exploit.

○     No action is needed for this update: it has already been applied to eRatex sites prior to the release of eRatex 1.17.

Settings added to eRATEX 1.17 

Please note: All About Me features require that the RatexNet API is correctly configured for your website. Please contact PrismRBS support for assistance.

Name	Description	Default Value	Possible Values
AllAboutMe.GiftCards.Enabled	When true, All About Me: My Gift Cards will be available from the Account page.	true	true, false
AllAboutMe.Rentals.Enabled	When true, All About Me: My Rentals will be available from the Account page.	true	true, false
AllAboutMe.Transactions.Enabled	When true, All About Me: My Transactions will be available from the Account page.	true	true, false ​