aris1234

I can see where you are going here. I Would not have used CC if there was not a free version 3 which easily installed from Fantastico. I subsequently bought te copyright removal key. But this lie version is not in the same league. You would have done better having a true lite version. Limit the features, and the number of products (5 perhaps) but not the number of orders or users. By all means paste 'cube cart lite' all over the screen - and possibly some Adwords! Let people use your product - don't restrict it. Perhaps then we will get a community around CC again. As it is, it looks like it is dying a slow death.

Not exactly a 'lite' version - more of a demo? after 250 orders, what happens?

Yes, but what are the features going to be? Obviously i'm hitting my head against a wall here asking....

Development of what though? Just bug fixes, or will we see some new functionality? If so, what?

At this point I don't even know if the developers are interested in further developing the product or are just in cruise mode on v5. Will there be a v6? Who knows! Certainly all the main talented mod developers seem to have gone AWOL while competing carts seem to include loads of those features for free. I don't want to move - i'm comfortable with CC and it suits my needs - but i've been stuck on v3 for a long time now because some essential mods I use have not been updated. At least give us a glimmer of hope for the future! Or should I take the pain of migrating to something else now rather than later.

I think the response (or lack thereof) to this thread answers my question!

No response from Devellion? Come on guys - I like CubeCart and would like to continue using it - but it seems that you have lost your heart - and so have many mod writers which made CC the kind of product we want to use. Where are we going? How about some nice new features? I know they are difficult to develop - but why not consider buying or licensing them off of existing mod writers and making them part of the supported base product (even if a small incremental fee is payable)? Things like postcode shipping options would be a good addition!

Is there a rough roadmap for CubeCart so we have an idea of where we are going with the product? I'm hoping to upgrade from v3 to v5. What is delaying me is an essential shipping mod to be ported from v3 to v5 - shipping by zone/postcode. It is taking ages for the developer to finish (i'm not even sure if he has started). There is another option - from Estelle - but she seems to have abandoned her mod business in favour for motherhood. Nothing wrong with that of course, but it does leave customers in a bit of a bind. What is happening with CC right now then? Are you working on CC6 - or how about adding more features - like the ones we see in the mods - to the standard product? I'm happy with CC and don't want to move to another cart. Not only is it a big job, but it is disruptive to my customers too. Thanks for your attention!

Daimonsoft had a shipping by postcode module for CC3 which I am still using and very happy with. They are working on making it CC5 compatible - but it is long long overdue. http://www.daimonsoft.com/CubeCartModules.aspx Perhaps if you e-mail them they might encourage them to hurry up :)

I did find one (and I suspect the one you are referring to) - but with a copyright removal costs more than Cubecart itself! Pricing is relative to the time it takes to develop and likely quantity sold to make it worth while doing. Quite true - but quantity sold is also relative to the price - just look at how many $0.99 or £0.59 iPhone apps are sold! I think mobile functionality will become the norm for all web based apps in the near future. I would not be surprised if Devellion come up with something in a future release.

I did find one (and I suspect the one you are referring to) - but with a copyright removal costs more than Cubecart itself!

Best to ask over at www.cubecartforums.org Jason With mobile internet becoming so ubiquitous - I would have thought this is something that Devellion should have on their roadmap.

Any chance of a mobile template/skin for v5?

Hmm, sounds to me like I need to skip an upgrade to v4 and try a different cart.

As Estelle says - this seems to be due to paypal not notifying the store before the customer gets back the store. I'm wondering if it might be a good idea to put a 10 or 15 second delay at the beginning of 'confirmed.php' to give Paypal a chance to update the cart. Does anyone know the best way to achieve this? Would this be OK? <?php // sleep for 10 seconds sleep(10); ?>

Ah ok, so as soon as the IPN notification comes through to cubecart - it will update the status? I'm wondering if I could do this with CC3 too?

I'm on v3 and considering upgrading to V4. Does V4 suffer from the problems shown here: http://forums.cubecart.com/index.php?showtopic=23589 In particular, when the customer is sent back to the cart from Paypal IPN _before_ Paypal IPN has a chance to send a notification to the cart - does it say 'failed'? Thanks,

Agreed - I am thinking of upgrading too - but I may well go to another cart if this has not been fixed. Can anyone confirm?

I still get this occasionally too - and I don't think Devellion are interested in fixing it. If the customer persists, it does eventually revert back to my chosen currency. I wonder if version 4 has this issue.

Ok, my host upgraded to PHP5 also and I started seeing this. I made this change and it appears to have fixed it but for the life of me I can't figure out what this does! :-) Is there any chance of it affecting other parts of the cart? What do those hieroglyphics do?

Estelle, Will the fix here: http://forums.cubecart.com/index.php?showtopic=23589 resolve this you think?

I have customers who have occasionally complained about the 'order failed' error, but the order does go through and the status does get set to 'processing' and an a CubeCart confirmation email is sent to the customer too. With this fix resolve this? I'm thinking the problem I am seeing is a timing issue too.

My host supports both zend and ioncube - is there one which is preferable over the other? For performance perhaps?

When upgrading from v3 to v4 does the upgrade script take into account all of the old user data and past sales? Are these migrated across to the new v4 database? Besides mods, what can I expect to lose from an existing v3 system when I upgrade to v4? Thanks,

The default is USD, so if I removed it everything would be USD, and I want GBP.