So I thought it would now be good to show everyone what our planned 1.0.0 release feature list is shaping up to be. It will be a fairly full-featured cart thanks to the developers at Magento having put so much hard work into their E-commerce system.
We will be offering a beta to all our clients in 2 weeks for you to try it out and decide if you want to switch over. Ya we are pulling 60 - 70 hour work weeks as we are very excited about this new release.
Here is a list of features:
Speed
- Much better loading times on all parts of the rental system
- All the basics like product name, description, multiple images
- Related products
- Product tagging
- Product zoom
- Better product attributes support
- Easier to use reservation calendar. All is done from the product info page no separate calendar page now.
- Tier based pricing. You set the price for as many rental periods as you want. The system will chose the appropriate price based on the rental period.
- FAST LOADING inventory calendar showing how much inventory you have of your reservation products by day
- Ability to set the turnaround time on reservation products. Say you need 3 extra days before and 3 extra days after the reservation to get it ready or for shipping time.
- BIG IMPROVEMENT - enter inventory as quantity, and optionally use serial numbers for tracking each individual item. Great for large stores that don't want to individually track each inventory item, but adds the flexibility for stores that need to track each individual one.
- No more complicated configurations. There will only be a few general settings.
- Checkout & Check-in page with exportable reports to XML, Excel, PDF
Shipping
- USPS, FedEx, UPS, DHL, Flat Rate per order or product, Flat rate percent based, Flat rate mixed
Payment Modules
- Huge built-in list of payment modules, very little configuration needed just the username and transaction key
- List: Authorize.net, Beanstream, Braintree, Eway, Samurai, Stripe, Linkpoint, Pay Pal Website Payments Pro, Protx, Skrillr/Moneybookers, USA ePay,
Checkout
- Loads much faster, and allows guest checkout
- Much cleaner, great looking layout
- Ability to setup rental memberships
- Recurring billing is built-in
- Rental queue management using drag and drop instead of having to manually type priority numbers
- Send & Return page with exportable reports to XML, Excel, PDF
- Potential for box sets support - this may get pushed to version 1.1
- Very stable and easy to use admin based order creator and editor
- A big improvement over our current version - there are over 25 language packs available for download so no more reliance on setting up a google translate api key, most of the translation work is done for you
- There is also support for languages in the database
- Facebook and Twitter logins
- Like & Tweet buttons
- Mail Chimp
- Your customers will like not having to create another account, Facebook login saves them time. Also allows for future marketing opportunities
Coupons, Promotions, Wishlists, and Gift Certificates
- Greatly improved system that has flexible rules and setup
- Flat percent, flat rate per item, flat rate per order, flexible rate, and or free shipping
- Rules based such as based on item total, products, for specific users, on first order, or user has to be logged in
- Built-in wishlist system
Other Great Extras
- Affiliates/Referrals
- Google Base
- Spreadsheet product upload
- CMS
- Blog
So Will Note Make It To The 1.0 Release?
- Multi-inventory center
- Streaming & Downloads
- Product royalties
