What's new in our products for nopCommerce 3.2

In the last few weeks our development team was very busy with the upgrade of all our products for nopCommerce 3.2. We don't just upgraded the products to work with nopCommerce 3.2 but also managed to add some quite useful new features and improvements.

A lot of customers have asked us what new features and bug fixes have been added, so here is a list of the most interesting new features we have added to our products.

Ajax Filters

• Scroll to element setting. You can specify a css class selector to which the client will be scrolled to after a filtration. If enabled then the default location is the top of the product listing. This new feature is very useful on mobile devices as the client can immediately see the products after the filtration without the need to manually scroll to the products panel.
• No more ajax requests when there are no filters applied. It is very common to select some filters and then to click on the Clear button to clear the filters. Then if you navigate to a new page and then go back - the filters won't reload the products on the page  as they used to do as they now know that no filters have been applied. This change improves the performance and also the client is able to see the products immediately without the need to wait for the ajax request to be made. Also you are no more scrolled to the top of the page after you click on the Clear button, which also greatly improves the user experiance.
• Support for custom formatting in the price range filter prices. Now you can use any custom formatting and it will be used in the Min and Max prices of the price range filter. We also removed the currency symbol from the currently selected prices under the price range filter as it was not consistent with the other prices in the store especially when custom formatting is used.
• Show filters on category page - new setting added. This way you can disable the filters from the category pages.
• Show filters on manufacturer page - new setting added. This way you can disable the filters from the manufacturer pages.
• Hide the price range filter when the difference between the min and the max price is less than $1 (or whatever currency is selected). It doesn't make sense to show the price range filter and allow the customer to filter by price when the price of all products is within $1 range.

Cloud Zoom

• Improved performance when the product has many images with bigger size.

Customer Reminders

• Birthday reminder added. Now you can send a birthday message to your customers just to greet them or to give them a discount to shop at your store.
• Order Completed reminder added. Now you can send an email to your customers a week after they have shopped from your store to ask them if they are happy with the purchase or just to ask them for a review of the product they have purchased.
• Simplified administration for setting up a reminder. Now you can see the interval box and interval type dropdown on a single line.
• Reminder specific message tokens are now displayed correctly with % prefix and suffix i.e %token%.
• Prefix the database tables for the reminders with SS_CR_. This way you can easily see the tables that are being used by the reminders in the database.

Quick Tabs

• Added Display Order to the default tabs - Overview(Description), Specifications and Reviews. This way you can easily order the tabs the way you would like i.e place a custom tab to be the first tab.
• Do not show the Overview tab when there is not any description for a product.
• Do not show the Specification tab when there isn't any specification to be shown.
• Simpliefied the public view (.cshtml) file, which is now much easier for customization than before.

Stay tuned as we are working on some new cool features to our products.