Since the Last Update

In October we rolled out improvements to the website checkout process and mob view, improved deals, speed and security and setup test infrastructure in Sydney.

Improvements

  • Security
    • Create bundle of certificate instead of domain per certificate file. This is preparation for the introduction of additional security infrastructure. #174033228
  • Mobile View
    • Change the default colour for “Choose Sidebar and mobile navbar link” color to darker colour to avoid losing it when shops make their background white and forget to change it. #174742365
  • Deals
    • Added an ‘Items selected’ flag on deals that shops have selected from. The items selected flag is added when items are loaded from the deal #174743267
    • Add the ability for deal owners to edit deals #174743363
    • On the deal mouse over star replace book title with deal name #173302369
  • Customer Orders
    • Create a picked Items interface within the orders by item interface #174922078
    • Create a Bin Scan feature in the picked Items interface #174922085 (Note: this is part of a bigger feature set that will be released all at once)
  • Speed
    • Remove agency update from fast search until duplicate agency manufacturer records are removed #174984231.
  • Sydney Infrastructure
    • After a great deal of work we now have infrastructure completely setup in Sydney. At this stage it is the test servers only, the next step is to migrate the production servers. retail.alpha4.circlesoft.net
  • DB Admin
    • We dropped 12 unused or under used indexes. Like a book DB indexes make finding data faster, but updating them when data changes carries an overhead so they make DB’s slower if they are not used.
  • Xero integration upgrade
    • Create Xero Invoice Builder #174778060
  • sys admin
    • Create a switch to deploy kubernetes Australia and Kubernetes Taiwan #174963089
    • Sys Admin] Migrate the Alpha DB to the Australia zone #174963107
  • APIs
    • Create an API endpoint to edit Sale Order Items #174965699
  • Website
    • New Checkout
      • update the label for “PayPal” into ‘PayPal or secure Credit Card Payment’ #174667378
      •  Change the label of the payment option from “Account” to “Business Account” #173544999
      • Make postcode mandatory and add a red star make state optional with an orange star #174210270
      • New Cart Checkout : Change the location of Cart Note to make it easier for customers to see. #175298751 (If you would like the new checkup enabled on your site email support@circlesoft.net on reply here.)
    • Create a “Static URL” under Single Product Edit page. This URL won’t change if someone from the Community updates the title which changes the SEO friendly URL. You should use this static URL when sending email campaigns to customers #174591279
    • Improved Product Information box layout #175260115
  • House keeping
    • Add HTML to the email notification about deployment #173653157
  • Background processing
    • Enable site product queues to run in parallel. This greatly reduces the time it takes data to update. #174974458
  • Fast Search
    • The fast search system has now been upgraded to the latest version on r4. This has taken months of work and late nights so great to see it done.

Currently working on:

  • Xero Upgrade
  • Migrating last stores to R4
  • Order fulfilment improvements
  • Speed on slow pages
  • Mob Backoffice