Al Brookbanks

Looking forward to hearing how you get on.

We are pleased to announce the release of CubeCart 6.5.0 beta 2. This is a beta release and may not be suitable for production stores. If you are not interested in adding Elasticsearch to your store or if it is not available via your hosting provider we do not recommend installing or upgrading to this release of 6.5.0. What's New? This release adds to the pervious beta with super fast search as you type. elasticsearch-cubecart-demo.mp4 How do I get Elasticsearch working? CubeCart will require Elasticsearch to be installed on your server. Please find instructions at the URL below: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/install-elasticsearch.html Once installed it can be enabled via the Advanced section of your Store Settings. Finally, you'll need to index your current inventory. To do this visit the Elasticsearch tab in the Maintenance section of your store control panel. Once indexed it should maintain itself. Release Notes Regrettably this powerful new feature is unlikely to be available for merchants using typical shared generic web hosting. Please check with your hosting provider or server administrator. Download: CubeCart-6.5.0-b2.zip

Hi Tony, Beta 2 will be available early next week worth waiting. Can't see any reason why it won't work with Opensearch. It should just be a matter of adding a line to you includes/global.inc.php file. Set the domain and port. I don't know if authentication is needed but this isn't something that is supported yet. Please let me know. $glob['elasticsearch_hosts'] = array('localhost:9200');

Hi Anne, I've added this extension to your store for you. Have a look at the Documentation tab here to get stated: https://www.cubecart.com/extensions/plugins/royal-mail-click-drop

Looks like it's working to me. What's the issue?

That's really sad to hear. I hope you get it updated ok. We have upgrade instructions at https://support.cubecart.com The customisations make it tricky.... This may help https://support.cubecart.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360003794278-How-can-I-upgrade-a-modified-v6-store-to-the-latest-version-without-overwriting-my-changes-

Can it? Not all hosts allow these settings to be changed. Worth a go though.

The work around is to increase the max_input_vars parameter.

Sure. If you choose the bank transfer or print order form extensions you can complete the order without taking payment. It would be easy to add a note to explain the process to the customer. We could do this for you on our managed support plan. https://www.cubecart.com/technical-support

A minor coding change or tweak accounts to anything deemed to take up to an hour per month. Typically it may be a combination of things such as adding an external mailing list integration and removing the existing one. Colour changes and minor layout tweaks.

Version 1 is now ready. The extension will be free to our hosting & technical support (with management) customers. It will be available to purchase form the extension marketplace for anyone else soon.

This is something I've talked with PayPal about and something I'd like to do. Stay tuned.

There is no description in that document as far as I can see but thanks for looking and sharing. The RM team are going to update the documentation... https://clickanddrop.uservoice.com/forums/399930-general/suggestions/44124252-an-api-parameter-reference-guide-for-click-drop

Progress is going well and the API is very easy to understand but there is no API reference that I can find and the support from Royal Mail is dreadful. Does anyone know what an AIRNumber might be?

It's about 90% built.

Sorry but we don't have this.

I've finally got my head around this. I've started the build of a Click and Drop integration. Hopefully towards the end of the week it will be ready.

The Click & Drop API allows you to upload orders (placed already) to get shipping prices and print labels in bulk. What it critically doesn't do as far as I can see is to allow your store to get real time quotes for available services based on your basket. On those grounds I can't see how this solution is of any interest to a typical CubeCart merchant.

That is for importing a spreadsheet of orders to print labels in bulk. There should be a stage before this to get the shipping price via API in real time during checkout.

I've been so busy I don't remember. I'll seek more info.

We are pleased to announce the release of CubeCart 6.5.0 beta 1. This is a beta release and may not be suitable for production stores. If you are not interested in adding Elasticsearch to your store or if it is not available via your hosting provider we do not recommend installing or upgrading to this release of 6.5.0. What's New? This release has just one new feature. Elasticsearch will improve and speed-up the search facility on the front end. How do I get Elasticsearch working? CubeCart will require Elasticsearch to be installed on your server. Please find instructions at the URL below: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/install-elasticsearch.html Once installed it can be enabled via the Advanced section of your Store Settings. Finally, you'll need to index your current inventory. To do this visit the Elasticsearch tab in the Maintenance section of your store control panel. Once indexed it should maintain itself. Release Notes Regrettably this powerful new feature is unlikely to be available for merchants using typical shared generic web hosting. Please check with your hosting provider or server administrator. Download: CubeCart-6.5.0-b1.zip

If it is we will prioritise an integration.

Royal Mail won't give us access to their Click and Drop API so we are not able to build this... Beyond frustrating.

That shouldn't be an issue. It checks stock regularly during checkout. I believe it will check just before creating the order and reducing. There is a setting to allow out of stock purchases. I expect that's the issue.

Well done for resolving this and welcome to CubeCart!!