Commerce

  • Commerce email notifications

    When your users place orders through your community, you typically want the user to receive a receipt. If you're shipping physical product, you may also want to notify the customer once their order has been packaged and dispatched via a carrier. Out of the box, Four Roads Commerce provides support for those scenarios and others. This blog post describes the available email features and how you...
  • A primer on the Commerce events system for CS 2007

    One of the simplest ways to inject code into Community Server is through the use of a CS module. Using a CS module, you register a method with Community Server such that the method is called when a an event occurs, such as the creation of a new user. In the same way that you can implement a module for a Community Server event, you can create a module for an event that occurs within Four Roads Commerce...
  • Collect postal address for new users

    Over the past months, we've been helping various people install and use Four Roads Commerce in their Community Server websites. One of the features people have asked for is the ability to collect a person's postal address at the time they create their account. Later the address will serve as the default billing address for the person's first purchase. Out of the box, Commerce does not modify...
  • New Versions of Commerce Released

    We are pleased to announce a new release of Commerce for Community Server 2007 and 2008. This latest release brings in features and enhancements that you have been asking for and marks the next step in the evolution of our product. Please have a look at these great new features that will help you increase your community revenue. Discounting Engine: Commerce now includes a versatile, extensible discount...
  • What's Coming Next....

    Now that the dust has settled from the Commerce for CS 2008 release, we about to embark on a set of enhancements that will allow you to use gift vourchers in your store. As with the rest of the product we will be producing the code in an open architecture that can easily be extended, so if we don't precisely fit your needs then it's worth contacting us to see if it can be achieved using an...
  • Trial Download Issues

    We have been made aware that our trial download has not been sending out the trial licenses. I have to apologize to all of you that have downloaded our trial and have until now only been able to trial 2 products. The issue has now been corrected and now when you download a trial an email will be sent including a trial license as an attachment. If you would prefer to talk about the product please contact...
  • Commerce for CS 2008

    We are proud and excited to announce that Commerce for Community Server 2008 is now available for download. The past two months have been quite busy. Feature requests for Commerce are coming in fast and we're responding to them as quickly as possible. This new version of Commerce is a significant step forward and we owe the Community Server development team a big Thank You for delivering a terrific...
  • Site Updated

    With the up and coming release of Commerce for CS 2008 we've decided to update the site to allow us to communicate better with you. One of things that we will try to be doing going forwards is to expand on what is happening on the development of our products in real time. We will also try and produce some interesting blogs about things that happen day to day during development that may help you...
    Posted May 12 2008, 06:52 PM by RobertNash with no comments
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