Photo Cart 7.1.0 Upgrade
Upgrade your older version of Photo Cart to the final release of Photo Cart, version 7.1.0. When upgrading you will NOT lose any of your data (pricing, images, orders, customers, design, etc... will remain intact).
You may also want to checkout Sytist for something fresh.
Upgrade Instructions
You basically just have to upload new files via FTP. Instructions located in the new manual in the Upgrading section. Also a page on Upgrading with screen shots available.
Be sure to read the Read Me First section before upgrading and the After you have upgraded section after upgrading.
Download the upgrade files
You will need your Photo Cart registration key to download the upgrade
files which can be found on the home page of your Photo Cart
administration area.
Upgrade Installation Service Available
The upgrade is pretty simple if you know how to use your FTP program. An upgrade installation service for $30 where PicturesPro can install the upgrade on your website for you.
You can purchase the upgrade installation service on the Buy page. After you have purchased and submitted your information, you can expect the upgrade to be completed within a few days.
Photo Cart 7 Manual
A real manual this time!
Changes from Photo Cart 6
- New design and functionality of front & back end.
- Specific version for iPad.
- Mobile version. The mobile version does not offer sales but customers can log in and add to favorites (and free downloads if offered).
- Separate header for mobile version.
- Add photo to package from thumbnails
- Download all download photos on an order in a zip file
- New "Buy All” packages
- View packages for sale from thumbnail page.
- New way to add photos to packages.
- New option to "tile" watermark file over photo. This will take a smaller watermark file and tile to cover the entire photo.
- Larger photo viewing that will adjust to the size of the screen.
- Mouseover photo to enlarge photo inside the photo container.
- Photos fade in & out when changing.
- Next & previous arrows to the right and left of viewing area.
- You can use the arrows on your keyboard to navigate photos.
- Simple slideshow option when viewing photos & products.
- Scrolling thumbnails in galleries - they populate as you scroll down the page.
- Thumbnails fade in when they load.
- New display option for galleries with the thumbnail above the gallery name.
- Customer can rotate crop area
- Global sale system
- Added order total and number to new order emails and payment received emails.
- Added shipping method selected to new order emails and payment received emails.
- Added how they plan to pay (if selected) to new order emails.
- When a customer logs in from viewing a gallery, they are returned back to their last page.
- Added captcha to request access to gallery form
- Accessory store revamped.
- HTML slideshows for slideshow add-on.
- PayFast gateway
Admin Specific
- Sub galleries display on the page
- 1 click selection of gallery cover photo.
- Option to regenerate display photo file sizes.
- Drag & Drop rearrange photos
- Drag & drop rearrange sub galleries
- Total sales for the galleries show when listing galleries.
- Gallery sales calculations figure in tax, discounts, etc...
- You can select thumbnails to hold in the tray for batch adding key words, deleting, moving, and batch editing.
- Admin is redirected to last page viewed if logged out or clicking on an order from an email and not logged in.
- Option to Delete all used / expired coupons
- Admin calendar now shows how many visitors and how much sales for each day.
- Total product sales show when viewing price group (starting with sales in version 7)
- Total package sales for packages when viewing packages (starting with sales in version 7)
- When all photos on a order are for download, the order a (d) is shown after the order number when listing orders in the admin.
- Option to close all paid download only orders when viewing the order list. (only applied to orders placed after upgrading to version 7).
- Added tax options on orders with only downloads in Settings > Tax:
- Option for Download only orders, do not require address (Settings > Customer Registration & Login Settings) Note: If they don't enter in a state, then they may not be charged tax.
- If customer has an admin note, it will show when listing orders by their name. Mouse over note icon to read.
- If customer adds a note to an order, it will show when mouse over the note icon.
- When a gallery is marked as Not Active or Preregistration, a link is shown in the gallery to change to Active.
- You can view shopping cart contents of unregistered users.
- When deleting a price group it will remove it from custom price groups assigned to customers.
- Larger photo viewing that will adjust to the size of the screen.
- Photos fade in & out when changing.
- Next & previous arrows to the right and left of viewing area.
- You can use the arrows on your keyboard to navigate photos.ts.
- Scrolling thumbnails in galleries - they populate as you scroll down the page.
- Thumbnails fade in when they load