After nearly 5 months of development work to make our VrCommerce a more robust and feature-rich eCommerce system, Virtual Web Designs are proud to announce the next release of VrCommerce PRO v2 Beta.

This version will only be available to register members, for testing. Please use our forums to report any bugs, etc. We hope to have the final release very soon.

Features – Summary (Not a full list)

• Reward Points System
• RMA System
• Grid, List Product listings
• Gift Voucher System
• Credit System
• Reorder System
• Wish List System
• Affiliate System
• Option Text Fields
• Banner Manager
• One-Page Checkout
• Welcome Page Module
• Choose Shop Module
• Slideshow Module
• Product Comparison
• Now incorporates the use of shared SSL, instead of just a personal SSL
• Shipping Estimate
• Restrict categories to groups
• Specific template design for each section with override
• Attributes
• Category Filter
• Master Password
• Facebook and Tweeter
• Create Manual Orders
• Visual Admin Rows
• HTML Modular
• Weight & Size packing
• Display Categories on home page
• Updated jQuery to the latest build
• Royal Mail Shipping updated
• Updated - Add configuration for PDF - Display categories, Display 6 products to prevent the image displaying on next page
• Updated Live Search
• Updated Customer who also bought
• Added PDF catalog module to the admin / frontend
• Added PDF Single Product Flyer, user can create there own PDF datasheet
• Added MSRP to admin / frontend products
• Added visual rows to the admin pages
• Added Customer Activity report
• Added Restricted Customer Groups
• Added Call for price
• Added Next / Previous links to the frontend products
• Added VAT to customers accounts
• Added Customer who bought this product also bought
• Updated Invoice / Packing slip
• Added Ajax live search
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We are proud to release our next version of VrCommence, this release is a bug and some new features.

v1.101 to v1.101 – Release Notes

FIXES
• Colspan fixed for admin product list when no products found
• Search not working on all pages fixed
• Removed For each in Cache::get function since it returns after the first file anyway
• Added touch() to cache file before unlink to avoid the file race condition
• Add IP back to order edit page (accidentally removed in 1.100)
• Removed language status check for download edit
• Fixed language auto detect to check if language is enabled
• Fixed php error when loading information controller with no information_id
• Possible additional fixes for mail to use base64 encoding in subject
• Fixed column width issue fpr product totals in admin order edit
• Updated Paypal Standard to latest patch + auto-bypass for 0.00 totals
• Fixed text_error in category page
• Email validation simplified to check for *@*.*
• Fixed security issue with Money bookers payment gateway
• Fixed USPS issues do to 2011 change
• Fixed flat rate wording on description (broke in 1.100)
• Fixed Paypal Pro currency conversion issue

ADDED
• Added PDF catalog module to the admin / frontend
• Added PDF Single Product Flyer, user can create there own PDF datasheet
• Added MSRP to admin / frontend products
• Added visual rows to the admin pages
• Added Customer Activity report
• Added Restricted Customer Groups
• Added Call for price
• Added Next / Previous links to the frontend products
• Added VAT to customers accounts
• Added Customer who bought this product also bought
• Updated Invoice / Packingslip
• Added Ajax live search
• Specials listed in the admin product list also show when start or end is 0000-00-00
• Allow resetting invoice id to 1 by changing invoice prefix
• Added invoice_date field to order to store the date the invoice was generated
• Added invoice date to actual invoice print
• Added additional help text for some features to explain their function better
• New Account Create alert mail option
• Added email to db insert for admin on new install
• Converted setting.php controller to use the new proposed optimization standard methods (cut file size in half)
• Added additional security params in htaccess
• Additional minor code optimizations
• Updated USPS to use RateV4 API
• New Account Success continues to checkout/shipping instead of checkout/cart since it is more intuitive
• Removed FedEx placeholder files since they reference a deprecated api
• Added date header to mail class to help prevent spam filtering

Common rules

1. Only one account per person is permitted.
2. Do not pretend to be/represent somebody else. Your account will be deleted if found to be in breach of this rule.
3. When registering, a valid email address has to be used. Disposable email addresses are not permitted. If found, we will remove the account in question.
4. Keep all posts on-topic.
5. All posts must be in English, unless posted in a specific international forum. If posting in a international forum, please use the language of that forum, and not English.
6. DO NOT SEND SUPPORT REQUESTS VIA PM, unless expressly invited to do so. Using PM to actively solicit work is not allowed. Post, in accord with the rules in the correct forum. Abuse of the PM system in this way can lead to your membership being removed.
7. Do not discuss illegal activities.
8. No useless posts. This includes: Thread bumping, useless one liners, repeated requests about new versions, Flamewars, Trolling and Spamming.
9. Do not propose/link to any site that contains warez/copyrighted software/materials that can be downloaded illegally.
10. Do not link to any site that contains adult content, sexually oriented material or might otherwise be considered offensive. Any post containing an inappropriate link will be deleted and the poster will receive a warning.

At all times

1. Keep all commentary civil, and be courteous at all times. Constructive criticism is welcome, but insults directed towards other users or the site admins will not be tolerated. Coarse/insulting language will not be tolerated.
2. Choose an appropriate subject line. Try to summarise the problem briefly in the subject, and elaborate in the message itself. A title like "Have you seen this..." or "Help needed!!!!" will be deleted.
3. Spend 10 minutes with the admin panel before posting common sense questions like "How do I see orders", or "How do I add products". If you go through each admin menu you will find all you need to know about the basic features.
4. Search before posting. You may need to search multiple variation of the terms.
5. Any posts deemed to be self promotion, advertising, or spam can and will be removed. NO SPAM - NO ADVERTISING eg. Posting and making excessive, inappropriate and unnecessary references to your products and websites is self promotion.
6. Don't lump sum mods and inquiries in one post. People asking for help and at the same time attaching a contribution should be avoided. Contributions go in the contrib thread. Help goes in one of the support threads, based on the affected element (modules, templates, languages, general, etc).
7. Bugs go into the bug area ONLY after you have searched the bug forum and found nothing similar.
8. Hijacking threads because you feel the need to whine or complain about your personal opinions that have nothing to do with the main topic of the thread will be instantly deleted at will!
9. If you feel a post violates any of these rules, or you need to bring it to the attention of a moderator (move threads/close/split), please use the ‘report this post’ link to notify the moderators.

Signatures & Avatars

1. Must be setup in your Profile (user Control Panel) , and not manually added to your messages.
2. May not contain any pricing, sales, product etc. details.
3. Only exact URLs allowed ie not LOOK HERE - No tinyurls, affiliate links etc either, only exact, literal URLs
4. Maximum font size should not be larger than normal +1.
5. Signature shall not have more than 4 lines (at a line width of 75 chars).
6. Any signature or avatar that is offensive or insulting to either us, our members, or our staff, is prohibited.
7. Signature size should not exceed the maximum size of 60 x 180 px (height x width).
8. Avatar size should not exceed the maximum size of 75 x 75 px (height x width).
9. Signature & Avatar images may not contain any copyright material (e.g. trademarks)
10. We reserve the right to ask you to change and/or remove your signature or avatar at any time, for any reason.

Failure to abide by these rules may result in an editing, negative moderation or deletion of your post.
We reserve the right to ban users from the site.
We reserve the right to change these rules at any time.

Common rules

1. Only one account per person is permitted.
2. Do not pretend to be/represent somebody else. Your account will be deleted if found to be in breach of this rule.
3. When registering, a valid email address has to be used. Disposable email addresses are not permitted. If found, we will remove the account in question.
4. Keep all posts on-topic.
5. All posts must be in English, unless posted in a specific international forum. If posting in a international forum, please use the language of that forum, and not English.
6. DO NOT SEND SUPPORT REQUESTS VIA PM, unless expressly invited to do so. Using PM to actively solicit work is not allowed. Post, in accord with the rules in the correct forum. Abuse of the PM system in this way can lead to your membership being removed.
7. Do not discuss illegal activities.
8. No useless posts. This includes: Thread bumping, useless one liners, repeated requests about new versions, Flamewars, Trolling and Spamming.
9. Do not propose/link to any site that contains warez/copyrighted software/materials that can be downloaded illegally.
10. Do not link to any site that contains adult content, sexually oriented material or might otherwise be considered offensive. Any post containing an inappropriate link will be deleted and the poster will receive a warning.

At all times

1. Keep all commentary civil, and be courteous at all times. Constructive criticism is welcome, but insults directed towards other users or the site admins will not be tolerated. Coarse/insulting language will not be tolerated.
2. Choose an appropriate subject line. Try to summarise the problem briefly in the subject, and elaborate in the message itself. A title like "Have you seen this..." or "Help needed!!!!" will be deleted.
3. Spend 10 minutes with the admin panel before posting common sense questions like "How do I see orders", or "How do I add products". If you go through each admin menu you will find all you need to know about the basic features.
4. Search before posting. You may need to search multiple variation of the terms.
5. Any posts deemed to be self promotion, advertising, or spam can and will be removed. NO SPAM - NO ADVERTISING eg. Posting and making excessive, inappropriate and unnecessary references to your products and websites is self promotion.
6. Don't lump sum mods and inquiries in one post. People asking for help and at the same time attaching a contribution should be avoided. Contributions go in the contrib thread. Help goes in one of the support threads, based on the affected element (modules, templates, languages, general, etc).
7. Bugs go into the bug area ONLY after you have searched the bug forum and found nothing similar.
8. Hijacking threads because you feel the need to whine or complain about your personal opinions that have nothing to do with the main topic of the thread will be instantly deleted at will!
9. If you feel a post violates any of these rules, or you need to bring it to the attention of a moderator (move threads/close/split), please use the ‘report this post’ link to notify the moderators.

Signatures & Avatars

1. Must be setup in your Profile (user Control Panel) , and not manually added to your messages.
2. May not contain any pricing, sales, product etc. details.
3. Only exact URLs allowed ie not LOOK HERE - No tinyurls, affiliate links etc either, only exact, literal URLs
4. Maximum font size should not be larger than normal +1.
5. Signature shall not have more than 4 lines (at a line width of 75 chars).
6. Any signature or avatar that is offensive or insulting to either us, our members, or our staff, is prohibited.
7. Signature size should not exceed the maximum size of 60 x 180 px (height x width).
8. Avatar size should not exceed the maximum size of 75 x 75 px (height x width).
9. Signature & Avatar images may not contain any copyright material (e.g. trademarks)
10. We reserve the right to ask you to change and/or remove your signature or avatar at any time, for any reason.

Failure to abide by these rules may result in an editing, negative moderation or deletion of your post.
We reserve the right to ban users from the site.
We reserve the right to change these rules at any time.

Dear Valued Customers,

Very Important Information – Our servers will be moved from our current data centre to an all new purpose built 100% green data centre on the 9th April 2011 at 22:00 to 2:00 am

During this time you will be unable to access your account or your website, or access your emails. All emails will be held in an email queue and picked up once the servers are back online.

We would like to apologies for any inconvenience caused, by this migration.

Dear Valued Customer,

On the 15th January 2011, we will be carrying urgent upgrades to all our servers, we estimate that the upgrades will take no longer than 3 hours. This will involve brief downtime for customers, while we restart the Apache server(s) no more than 5 minutes.

We will be upgrading the operating systems to the latest version and making some new modifications to the Apache configuration and PHP configuration. We will also be installing some new security updates / modifications to the servers.

If customers are running specific customised software configuration (Non Standard), could you please let us know, as this may effect how the software runs.

We will also be taking this opportune to upgrade specific software to the latest stable software releases.

We will be upgrading the following software:

Centos Operating System
OpenSSL
CPanel
PHP 5
Apache
NuSphere Express
PhpMyAdmin
MySQL 5 Database Server
ASSP – Anti-Spamming Software

May we take this opportunity to thank you for your custom throughout 2010 and to wish you a Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year for 2011.

24th – 29th December – Closed
30th December – 10:00 – 13:00
31st December – 4th January 2010 Closed

We will still offer email support over the Christmas and New Year period, however this will only be available for emergency issues only. Customers who are on support contracts, can contact us on our out of hours number as per normal.

After nearly 11 months of development work to make a robust and feature-rich helpdesk support suite, Virtual Web Designs are proud to announce a beta release of our new helpdesk suite called VrDesk, this has been designed to run on PHP 5.2.x and 5.3.x

VrDesk is helpdesk software that allows you to process your daily support request. It will help you to create a customer support centre where you can facilitate eased communication and issue tracking between customers and support staffs.

This version will only be available to register members, for testing. Please use our forums to report any bugs, etc. We hope to have the final release very soon.

VrDesk will be a major new release to our exiting range of software, and addresses a number of key issues, adds a lot of new functionality, and further increases the power of our Vr range of software.

Summary
• Easy and quick to manage your daily support request.
• With fully template based, it is very flexible to customise the look of the helpdesk.
• Save your money and get more compared with other competing software.
• Free update for one year.

Features

Front End User
• Create new ticket with or without user registration
• Ticket history and view individual ticket
• Customer can create and reply ticket via helpdesk website or by email
• Rate and comment tickets
• Knowledgebase directory
• Download directory
• Announcements
• Page

Back End (Admin and Staffs)
• Create new ticket for customer
• Browse and view tickets
• Tickets statistic
• Predefined reply
• Scheduled POP3 email processing to create tickets automatically
• Manage knowledgebase directory
• Manage download directory
• Manage announcement
• Private messages among staffs
• Manage departments
• Manage users unlimited number
• Job schedule for staff
• Ability to ban user through email address or ip address
• Flood control to avoid double ticket submission
• Customise helpdesk appearance using style sheet and template files
• Manage email templates

After nearly 10 months of development work to make a robust and feature-rich eCommerce system, Virtual Web Designs are proud to announce the final release of our new eCommerce software called VrCommerce, this has been designed to replace VrShop PRO and eShop Multishop. This version will consist of Multi-Shops and B2B functions and will also be compatible with PHP 5.3.x.

VrCommerce will be a major new release to our exiting range of eCommerce software, and addresses a number of key issues, adds a lot of new functionality, and further increases the power of our eCommerce range of software.

v1R3 to v1R4 – Release Notes

Fixes:
• Bug - Notice: Undefined index: postcode_required if country set to please select
• Bug - customer checks out and wants to change either the Shipping or Payment address, a "The page you requested cannot be found" error appears
• Bug - Homepage modules cannot use document library class methods because the "header" module was loading before the homepage modules.
• Bug - Disabling Bestseller items causes the limit to be (limit-1)
• Bug - setting controller had copy/paste bug for icon/logo check
• Bug - php.ini setting "max_upload_filesize" should be "upload_max_filesize" which explains why it didn't work
• Bug - Paypal standard sandbox mode shows "text_testmode" instead of the correct testmode message
• Bug - Postcode callback for address page was wrong
• Bug - When reviews disabled, sort by still shows reviews in list
• Bug - undefined index: default on customer edit screen for multiple addresses
• Bug - mail subject and sender were not decoding html for ", &, ', ø, etc causing mail not to send

Added:
• New - Additional attempts to get rid of the cache unlink error messages
• New - Paypal passing of state and phone for credit card address
• New - Copied products are disabled by default and marked with [*]
• New - Product Price Column on Product List page including special price
• New - Google Base Feed support for currency (USD, EUR, GBP)
• New - Removed "self" from related products and category parents
• New - Added Trim to address details to avoid spaces
• New - Added UCWords to address details to auto capitalize
• New - Alternating color rows for admin lists
• New - Added x_invoice_num to authorize.net
• New -Added slight improvement to category caching for empty categories
• New - Added support for discounts greater than product total for paypal standard
• New - Admin Order Edit
• Upgraded - document class loading in header.php
• Upgraded - currency library functions

We are delighted to announce the immediate release of VrReservations v1R2 final version. VrReservations is an online booking system for Hotels, Guesthouses or anyone who requires a booking system for there website. The bespoke booking software allows you to start your own online booking system within minutes.

VrReservations has also been designed to simplify the task of online booking and to be incorporated into any website very easily. It also provides users with a unique, intuitive and easy to use interface that improves the way people use the web today.

Ideal for:

• Hotels
• Bed and Breakfasts
• Campsites
• Tour and Travel Company
• Or anyone who requires an online booking system
• And many more …..

v1R1 to v1R2 Release Notes

Added:
• New - Added 2Checkout Payment Provider
• New - Header Text, Slogan and Footer text for each language: General -> Settings -> Visual Settings
• New - automatic translation via Google: Languages Settings -> Vocabulary [Edit] [Translate via Google]
• New - Meta Tags <TITLE>, <KEYWORDS> and <DESCRIPTION> for each language: General -> Settings -> Visual Settings
• New - new settings in Contact Us module: time delay between sending emails and captcha verification
• New - Admin to ban users by IP or email: General -> Ban List
• New - Admin to change date format
• New - Admin to create and manage discount campaigns
• New - Admin to create/edit email templates via Mass Mail & Templates -> Email Templates
• New - Admin to define availability for rooms Hotel Management -> Rooms Management -> [Availability]
• New - Admin to define minimum nights stay per booking Modules -> Booking Settings
• New - Admin to define VAT for whole site or for separate country. General -> Countries [VAT]
• New - Admin to define whether to send or not copy of booking email to admin
• New - Admin to enter additional payment value: Bookings -> [Edit]
• New - Admin to pre-moderate comments via Modules -> Comments Management
• New - Admin to reserve rooms via Bookings -> Make a Reservation
• New - Admin to send mass mail to customers via Mass Mail & Templates -> Mass Mail
• New - Customer to leave additional info while booking and admin can read this
• New - Search available rooms with new parameter: max. adults
• New - WYSIWYG editor for Room Description fields and Hotel Info
• New - new system page "Terms & Conditions". Menu & Pages -> Edit System Pages [Terms and Conditions]
• Upgraded - Able to change system page name and automatic drawing of system pages at the top and bottom
• Upgraded - statistics for bookings: Added monthly "Income" calculation
• Upgraded – Can now edit date/time for news
• Upgraded - Added some changes in Gallery Module
• Upgraded - Contact Us module - Added telephone field and text-direction
• Upgraded - CSS Styles in default template
• Upgraded - Added local time on Front-End: now it show date/time translated into local language
• Upgraded - minor changes in admin panel style
• Upgraded - minor changes in installation module
• Upgraded - on rooms availability page Added more info, like price per night etc.
• Upgraded – Extra security against session hijacking attempts
• Upgraded - SEO links generating, also Added SEO links for news pages
• Upgraded - site styles renamed in templates and Added xml description for each template

Fixes:
• Bug - in calculating room price for booking, shown in booking description in admin panel
• Bug - in drawing calendar for availability search
• Bug - in drawing images for rooms in Front-End
• Bug - in drawing of module links in footer menu when module was installed
• Bug - on creating new customer with password encryption md5
• Bug - on creating new room with empty images
• Bug - removed \' from the search result text
• Bug - wrong currency displayed on Room Description page
• Bug - wrong prices values on room description page
• Bug - wrong time zone synchronization between Hotel and Rooms Availability calendar
• Bug - in saving meta tags for pages
• Bug: - "Web Page expired" message after search availability page
• Bug: - on create account page, when password encryption is turned 'On'

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