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I’ve just had a little spare time before the move so that’s why I’m doing all this development stuff. I promise not to bombard your mailboxes so much in the future.

I just wanted to let you know about a new HC feature — the stocking calendar. This is a quick way for you to check and see if your stocking is interfering with anyone else’s, and also a nice link to send to your customers so they can see at a glance who’s stocking. Only items with preview set to 1 will show on the calendar. If you have items that sit in the store for a while, you might want to bump the active times into the current month once in a while so your link stays on the current calendar.

http://hyenacart.com/calendar.php

Let me know if you have any questions or problems with it (I think I worked out all the bugs, but if you stock something and it doesn’t show up, just send me an e-mail).

Also, FYI, I fixed the % bug. If you put a percent sign in your title, decription or shipping info, it will automatically be changed to the word “percent.”

This is more FYI, it shouldn’t change the way you stock or anything.

Morwenna was noticing that one of her customers seemed to be getting inside info on her surprise stocking items. I thought about it, and I *think* I know how this customer was figuring out what items were being offered when. If you look at the link of an item when you’ve clicked on its title (the page with the e-mail box and the “Buy Now” button), the path is something like: http://hyenacart.com/Test_account/prod_details.php?id=3

That number at the end (in this case, 3), used to be generated numerically. So if you just stocked item 12, your next item would be 13. If you were previewing your items, everyone would have access to the links and there’s no problem. But if you were stocking a surprise item and e-mailed your group about it, a very persistent customer might start trying the link and replacing the number with the next few digits above your last stocked item, and get a sneak preview before you intended it.

So I just re-coded it so that the id number is now a randomly generated 5 digit number. That should prevent any customers from trying to guess at id numbers to get unintended previews.

I just tested it and it seems to work fine. Please let me know if anyone runs into any problems.

Sorry, I couldn’t resist I’m bothering you again today to let you know you can now have cents in your prices (it used to be whole dollars only). Give it a try. I edited a bunch of files at once, so it wouldn’t hurt to stock and purchase a test item to make sure I didn’t switch your files with someone else’s (I don’t think I did, but you never know).

LMK if you have any problems.

Just wanted to let you know I’ve added the option of changing the background color of your Hyena Cart store. Dana and Meredith have already taken advantage of that (see http://hyenacart.com/KnitwitzBaby/ and http://hyenacart.com/HiddenPearlCreations/ ) and it looks pretty sharp :) I think it looks better if you choose a lighter color since the table background is white. If you’re interested in changing your background color, just send me the hex code of what you would like (we can try a couple if you aren’t sure). Here’s a page with hex codes for colors: http://html-color-codes.com/

Also, I’ve recently realized that it’s against the Paypal user agreement to split payments between a personal and business account when accepting business related payments. I’m going to leave the option of separate funded and credit card payment buttons to use at your discretion, but just wanted to let you all know their policy:

“PayPal account holders may not split payments between a Personal PayPal account and a Premier or Business PayPal account by directing buyers paying with credit card to pay their Premier or Business account and buyers paying with PayPal balance or bank account to pay their Personal account. If we find that you are splitting payments, you will be asked to pay the fees you attempted to avoid. Personal accounts are for personal use only. If you would like to do business through your PayPal account, you must use a Premier or Business account. ”

Thanks so much for your business Please let me know if you have any questions, or suggestions for new features