Writing Tutorials = Discount
0 Comment(s) | published by Halarewich D. on Friday, February 05, 2010
We are working hard to build up learning material on LemonStand and we would like to ask for your help. In exchange, we'll provide you a discount on a license for LemonStand.
Now that the beta is available, it's easy to do: Download and install LemonStand Beta, get familiar, write a tutorial, tell us about it and get a discount.
You can publish the tutorial or screencast on your own website, on our forum, give us permission to pubslish it on our blog, or all of the above. Just contact us with your information and we'll make arrangements.
If you are wondering how you can get familiar with using LemonStand to build websites, go through our Wiki. You'll find lots of helpful information there that is constantly being expanded.
Tell us what CMS features that you want
1 Comment(s) | published by Halarewich D. on Thursday, February 04, 2010
LemonStand is not only a shopping cart, but a CMS as well. We realized that it's very rare for an eCommerce site to not have content management needs beyond the product catalog. There are often static pages, homepages with a mix of dynamic and static content and sometimes a blog.
We already have a blog module in development, and we plan to release it shortly after version 1.0 is becomes available. So now you know that is coming.
That being said, we have foundsome people asking us if LemonStand could be integrated with third-party CMSs. We would like to find out from the community why some of you would like to use other CMSs - because of habit/comfort or because LemonStand is missing some key CMS features. Granted, there might be some cases where complicated content management features are required that are beyond the scope of all or most already existing CMSs and a custom solution is needed. But we want to get your opinion on what how you think we can improve the CMS feature set within LemonStand.
Tell us what you think. Comment on this blog post, or get involved on the forum discussion. This is your chance to direct the future of LemonStand!
First LemonStand Store: Seventh.Ink
0 Comment(s) | published by Halarewich D. on Thursday, February 04, 2010
On February 1 Seventh.Ink opened the virtual doors of their new store, now located at www.furyshirts.com
It's a custom eCommerce site powered by LemonStand. Owner and designer, Matthew Johnson has been with us since the early stages of testing and has built a terrific custom shop to sell his clothing line.
The store design is clean and easy to navigate. The beautiful t-shirts and other items pop over top of the dark background and really put the focus on the great products.
Seventh.Ink is currently running some great sales, with shirts starting at only $10, so be sure to check that out too.
We look forward to seeing more LemonStand powered sites pop up. If you want to tell us about yours, be sure to send us a message.
USPS shipping module now available
0 Comment(s) | published by Bobkov A. on Monday, February 01, 2010
Since the Open Beta started we have been recieving valuable feedback from the community. We have been able to fix and update many minor problems in the application and installer since the start of testing. We also added some features as a result of discussions with our testers. Among the added features are:
- Added the product search feature
- Integrated a better syntax highlighter - CodeMirror
- Added the product image ordering feature
- Added the top category products feature
- Added the custom payment method, which allows to create custom payment pages, for example for the bank transfer payments
- Major optimization work done - the pages open faster and with less memory usage
A couple of days ago we created a shipping moduile to support USPS integration.
We faced only one issue with the USPS integration. It uses its own country name list, instead of relying on the ISO country codes. We learned that people have issues using the USPS service in other shopping carts because of this. USPS expects specific country names, for example Great Britain should always be Great Britain, but not United Kingdom. As we usually do, we solved the problem on the system level. In our implementation you can name countries in your database as you like, even in your national language. LemonStand will find a correct USPS country name by the country ISO code and will send a correct name to the USPS gateway.
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