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Planning the Quick2Cart 2.2 Release! Tell us what you think!

Planning the Quick2Cart 2.2 Release! Tell us what you think!

We just finished the initial planning for Quick2Cart 2.2. As always we want to know what you think & want your feedback for the next awesome release!   We are planning to work in 1-week sprints & will try to make feature alphas available for testing every other week. We expect to have the major development wrapped up in around 6 weeks barri...

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Adding Multi-Vendor Taxation & Enhanced Shipping Management in Quick2Cart 2.2

Adding Multi-Vendor Taxation & Enhanced Shipping Management in Quick2Cart 2.2

As promised earlier this week, we are here with a blog detailing how we plan to implement Multi-Vendor taxation & shipping in Quick2Cart. It also includes details of how full-fledged shipping Shipping configuration, including weight-based calculations & 3PD shipping, will be handled. In order to make it completely flexible, we are making all configurations available on a Store level so that a vendor can have an independent configuration for each of his stores ( if you are also using Multi-Store) 

With this, we are also starting an exercise to better manage Shipping & taxation in Joomla in general. Just like payments, there are thousands of shipping providers with their own APIs and similar ones for tax calculation are cropping up. We hope that our work in this will lead to Common APIs for Shipping & taxation which can be used by the entire community. 

As always, your suggestions are welcome. Do comment on the blog & post any comments you might have. 

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Quick2cart 2.1.2 is here!

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 We have released Quick2Cart version 2.1.2 which contains bug fixes for reported bugs. Please check the changelog given below.

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Quick2cart 2.1.3 with jLike integration which brings likes, comments & more!

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When people buy products from an online store, user reviews & ratings are one of the most important factors that are considering in making the Buy decision. Reviews are very much like comments & reviews very much like 'likes & unlikes'. Quick2Cart 2.1.3 brings you comments & like support with a tight integration with our product jLike.  

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We recently released jLike 1.1 which adds support for Comments. This means all the extensions that jLike integrates with get the added feature of commenting that you can switch on if you want to! 

In addition, this Quick2cart also fixes quite a few bugs. Do read on for the complete Changelog. 

Buy Quick2Cart Buy jLike Demo 

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Quick2Cart v2.1 Beta1 with paid e-product support, Adaptive payments, etc is out

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We have released Quick2Cart version 2.1 Beta1 with support for much awaited paid e-product support, Adaptive payments and many other features and bug fixes. Help us test this one, get it live soon !!!

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Quick2cart brings E-commerce to Seblod

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It gives us great pleasure to announce that a Seblod integration has been developed by one of the members of the community!

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Quick2Cart's next step - Beta1 out!

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Hey Guys!

The Beta1 of Quick2Cart is out for you. We have mainly improved the UX and done some bug fixes.

Have updated the Alpha Website, so those who have registered can check out whats new. And the others can Login to the Alpha Testing site to Start testing!

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Quick2Cart Alpha here for you to test!

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Hey Everyone! The first Alpha of Quick2Cart is here!

Quick2Cart is a super flexible E-commerce solution that lets you set up a Shopping cart Quickly. With integrations for Almost every CCK for Joomla including Native Joomla content, you have the freedom to manage the products as you want while Quick2Cart handles everything related to Cart & Checkout.

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Quick2Cart - Flexible eCommerce for Joomla is in the Labs!

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Why Another Cart?

In all the years we have been working in Joomla. Be it in Product development or Providing services to customers, we have always felt the need for a flexible, scalable Shopping cart solution. There are lots of Carts in the market, but for most applications, they are just too huge & come with a lot of overheads. Since we couldn't find anything that fits the bill, we decided to Build one ourselves.

We decided that at least at first, we don't want to do the Product management. So we have provided integrations with Just about all the CCKs that Joomla has at the moment, including Joomla Content as well as a Widget that you can place just about anywhere. Which means you can use any system of your choice to manage your Products.

With Quick2Cart, we shall concentrate on a fast & easy checkout process with all the necessary bells & whistles like Discounting, Shipping, Taxation & Lots.. we really mean lots of Payment Gateways. 

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Shika 1.2.9 is here with improved Shika JTicketing integration!

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Shika 1.2.9 is here and brings a complete rewrite of the Shika JTicketing integration with a simplified workflow. Please make sure you are using v2.1.3 of JTicketing with this version of Shika. Besides this feature, we have also introduced the ability to set/update user timezones from the User import in enrollments.

Before you upgrade Shika, you must first uninstall the current version of jLike from your site. In this version, we have done some packaging changes due to which you need to specifically follow the upgrade instructions. If you are upgrading to this version from Shika 1.1.x then make sure you read the release notes.  

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JGive 1.6.3 beta is out for testing

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Hey you Joomla & JGive Lovers, We have released a feature-packed version 1.6.3 beta for JGive. Help us test this one and take it to a stable version to be used on production sites. JGive 1.6.3 beta Changelog Compatible with Joomla! 2.5.x & 3.2.x + Features: #25911: Added settings for Emails#24886: Added setting option to show filters on rig...

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JGive 1.6.7 is here!!

JGive 1.6.7 is here!!

Hi Everyone, We have released JGive 1.6.7. We have added one major feature in this release - The Country and Regions manager with multi-lingual support. The Country Manager and region manager now allow you to restrict which countries and regions you want to allow donations from. This way if you service lets say only the UK, then your users don't ha...

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JGive v1.6.3 Stable Released

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We are happy to announce the availability of JGive 1.6.3 which comes with lots & lots of awesome new features to take your Joomla Crowdfunding site to the next level. The key feature in this release is the ability to Buy Givebacks.  This means that the user can choose to pick a specific giveback & donate/invest against that. I am sure all our JGive lovers will love this;). Then we have added some great back office features letting admins add campaigns as well as donations from the back end. This means that its easier to manage donations that are not coming through the website.  

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The other Major Features include

  • Ability to add campaigns from the backend
  • Ability to add donations from the backend
  • Tighter EasySocial integration 
  • Major Improvements in Reporting & CSV exports
  • Email notification improvements
  • JomSocial Bar display option

Can't wait to get your hands on the release? Download it now from the My Subscriptions area. If you are among those still not using JGive, Buy it now!

There's more to this release that i can write up here.. So I suggest you go ahead & read our complete changelog & upgrade instructions! 

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JGive 1.6.1 is out

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JGive 1.6.1 is available for download to subscribers. This release fixes the bugs reported in version 1.6.1 and adds up some changes. Below is the changelog for same. Changelog for v1.6.1 + Features added 21964:- show currency left or right side of the amount. + Task done 23495:-Image resizing to prevent distortion23494:- Remove Campaign Type ‘Dona...

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JGive 1.6 is out. Re-imagining Joomla crowdfunding!

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Fundraising & Crowd Funding for the future with JGive 1.6

It gives me great pleasure to announce the availability of JGive v.1.6. JGive is one of our most popular extensions & this release seriously packs a PUNCH! We know this release has taken a little bit more time than initially planned, but we do hope you will find it worth the wait!

A quick glimpse of Features:

Selection 010Awesome new Pin Layout for Campaigns & a Multipurpose Campaign Display Module

Now you see all the campaigns in a fresh new layout inspired by Kickstarter. It comes with a great side bar with lots of filtering options to help your users find the campaigns they want. 

The multipurpose module will let you choose & show Featured Campaigns, Recent Campaigns, Campaigns expiring soon & Completed Campaigns on any page you want in a slick display. The best use of the module is to make copies of it & set them on different modes to make the Home page of your Funding section. 

  

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We have given the campaign details page a full revamp & it now comes with some really attractive design elements & the good looking JUI icons. 

Edit campaigns option for Admins

Site admins can now edit all campaigns from the Joomla back-end.

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Donation Checkout Improvements

This version adds the much awaited One Page checkout & VAT invoices which have been long asked for by our European clients.

Any kind of e-commerce transaction should be dead easy - then be it checking out from a Shop or making a donation or an investment. The One Page Checkout feature will let your donors do donations much more quickly without having to go through multiple pages of checkout.

Selection 012Photo gallery 

Impress your donors/investors by maintaining an awesome campaign image gallery! Lets you add multiple images to the campaign & show them in a nice gallery layout with lightbox effects.

Paypal adaptive payments to make Fees much easier! 

Paypal Adaptive payments lets you do Split Parallel payments instantly. Which means if the Donor is making a Donation/ Investment of 200$ & the fees owed to the site owner are 20$, then we can make instant payments of 180$ to the campaign owner & 20$ to the Admin for his fee. Note that this feature will only be available for the Paypal payment gateway.

Recurring Donations with Paypal

Another feature that was much awaited is the ability to do recurring donations. We will be implementing this with Paypal to start with & in later versions, depending on demand extend it to other supported payment gateways.

Community Builder Integration

The Community Builder Integration lets you show the user's Campaigns on their own profiles. 

Donors & Donations Display Module

Using this module, you can show various types of JGive data on any page you want! The module has multiple modes as below

  • My Donations - Donations of logged in users
  • Recent donations on site
  • Top donations (maximum amount) against the campaign by the single donor
  • Overall top donors

EasySocial Integration

CB Integration was always planned but EasySocial integration is the surprise extra feature in this release! The Easy Social Integration integrates pushes for all JGive activities into the EasySocial Stream. Plus campaigns owned by the user are shown on the User's Profile using the My Campaigns Application. 

Group Donations Support for JomSocial

One of the most requested features is finally here. Now you can tie in your campaign with your JomSocial groups & also show it to the Group. Now you can start doing Group specific campaigns or investments!

There's much more to this release so read on to see what else we have, plus there is a DIWALI BLAST offer inside. So Definitely Read On!

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