Yet another great release of nopCommerce is out the door. Nop-Templates.com have been digesting every single release of the leading .NET ecommerce system and here we are with a good 18 items on our list of what's new in nopCommerce 3.60.
1. New default theme.
The Nop-Templates.com development team has been designing and developing the new default theme for the past several months on a request by nopCommerce. Our main goal was to keep the design as clean as possible so that it can fit any retail industry and at the same time deliver a modern and functional look . Whether we have succeeded in doing so I will leave to the community to decide. Still I would like to point out a few important things.
2. NopCommerce 3.60 tightens its web security
3. Predefined values for product attributes
In nopCommerce 3.60 store owners do not have to enter attribute values for each and every product. But rather define the values beforehand and then just add the attribute to the product. I am not surprised this feature is listed as one of the major ones in the release because it is a huge time-saver.
4. Base price or PAngV support
PAngV or Preisangabenverordnung is a German law, which requires that when trading with end consumers all retailers provide the respective price per unit of quantity in addition to the final price of a product. For example if you sell 500ml of German beer for 0,80 € and you reference unit is 1L you have to show: Baseprice: 1.60€ per 1L. NopCommerce 3.60 supports automatic calculation of this base price. What you need to do is specify the amount unit of your product (kg, L, etc.), the total amount of the product, the reference unit and the reference amount.
5. Enhanced discount support
NopCommerce 3.60 comes with several important enhancements to its discount system.
6. Better CMS and SEO support
NopCommerce 3.60 improves on its existing CMS and SEO functionality by adding a a few handy features.
7. Better customer and order management
NopCommerce 3.60 adds several important new features to its customer and order management system.
8. What's new for the nopCommerce developers
As usual nopCommerce 3.60 comes with its extensive list of bug fixes and refactorings, the details of which you can find in the nopCommerce issue tracker on codeplex . There are a few new things that I would like to briefly mention.
9. Miscellaneous we love
NopCommerce 3.60 comes with many small fixes and improvements but I will mention only two of them, one for the public site and one for the administration, just to give you a taste of how the system is improving with such small changes.
I hope this blog post has given you an useful description of what's new in nopCommerce 3.60 and shows plenty of reason for you do upgrade to the new version. Do note that all our nopCommerce themes and plugins have already been released for nopCommerce 3.60. All our plugins have a trial version while our themes have stunning demo websites . So do take nopCommerce 3.60 and our products for a spin and do not hesitate to contact us if you need more information.
We have even more exciting nopCommerce products coming so stay tuned!