I wanted to take a moment to clarify how to use the galleries in the new site. If you have new larger images (1500 pixels or wider) you can setup the new galleries and when ready just check a box to use the new use galleries. However, if you don’t have large photos we have an alternative view that allows you to continue using your old galleries as long as you’d like.
The Event/Wedding site is live for everyone who currently has weddings enabled on their site. You’ll find the Wedding section of the admin has been updated and your wedding links now launch a new tab with the new site. I’ve included some videos below to show you how everything works. We’re using the content from your current wedding site so there is nothing you have to do. Even though you can manage it, take a few days to get used to it and make a solid plan before you change the site too much… it’s pretty nice as is. ;^)
We’ve added the ability for you to limit the number of days into the future a particular item can be ordered. This overrides the Store Setting of Days For Delivery for the particular item.
I’ve attached a video that shows how you can manage the feature area on the homepage of the mobile site as well as the feature area on the receipt page. If you don’t set up a feature area on the homepage it will display a slideshow of your featured products. You can do multiple slides, but our suggestion is to keep it simple since it’s mobile… maybe 2 slides tops.
Here’s the video overview of the new checkout process. It explains how everything works and what you need to do to prepare. The video take a few seconds to launch so you will just see black, so please be patient. It’s about 10 minutes and 30 seconds. You can view the video in full screen.
We’ve added a Tax Free ID to the Registered Members section in your admin. If you enter anything into this field for a member they will no longer be charged Tax during checkout (for the new checkout system) when they are logged in.
We have also tweaked the way the new checkout calculates the tax slightly. We are now calculating tax on each part of the order separately and then combining those to get a total tax amount, rather than calculating tax once from the subtotal. This should resolve the issue that some of you were encountering with the tax being off by 1 cent on certain orders.
We have deployed a new Manual Coupon Template in your admin. If you go into your admin under Marketing – Coupon Types and hit the Send Manually button you can send emails to individuals. We’ve updated the email template so that it is not tied to the current theme on the site and more closely resembles the recent mailer templates.
Here’s a video on the checkout checklist.