HC Blog

Just wanted to let you know I’ve added a page on how to customize the look of your HC store here: http://hyenacart.com/customizing.php Let me know if you have more questions beyond that. Also, I updated the FAQ’s page: http://hyenacart.com/hc_faq.php Even you ‘oldies’ might want to glance through it, just to make sure you’re not missing any features, etc.

I’ve been getting some bug reports about images not resizing or loading really fuzzy. If you’ve been having problems, please try downloading Firefox and using that as your browser if you don’t already. Also, this may not work, but check the extension of your filenames. If they are in caps (i.e., JPG or JPEG), try changing them to lowercase letters and seeing if that helps. Let me know how things are going by posting on this thread: http://hyenacart.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=8502

Also, I am going to be clearing out old images in the near future. Everything older than 3 months will be purged. There are over 15,000 images in that directory at the moment (yikes!) and that may be making things wonky as well.

If you have been unable to use image uploading for over a month, please let me know and I’ll adjust your paid date to compensate you.

For HC Multi users again –

Just want to make sure this is clear — it’s perfectly clear to me, lol

You can now delete any products that you don’t need any more and it *will not* affect orders that have already been placed, whether they were placed before last night or not. The orders that are showing [Item deleted] are from items that were deleted previous to the changed I made last night. None of your future orders should show that message.

Sorry for any confusion!

About the editing / deleting products editing and deleting items in the order histories. From now on, once an item has been ordered, that order history is fixed. Deleting or editing an item will not affect orders that have been placed. However, orders that were placed before last night which contained edited or deleted items are still not listed correctly because there was no way to retrieve those old orders. If items were edited after the fact, then they are still wrong in the order history. If there were deleted, then you’ll see an [Item deleted] for the title. From now on, though, all orders placed will function correctly. Hope that makes sense

I’ve taken a hiatus from KSS knitting so I can concentrate on Hyena Cart stuff. I’ve added some features and fixed some bugs and have mostly been posting them at the HC Forums, but I thought I’d write an email and update those of you who haven’t had a chance to read there much.

First of all, I’ve added a feature for the customers to be able to view their 10 most recent spots on their “My HC” page. Some of you have asked for a way to see how many times your items have been spotted and that’s on my to-do list.

I added some new categories to the store listing possibilities, including Patterns and Home Decorations & Bedding.

I’ve fixed some HC Multi bugs that have been hanging around since HCM launched including: 1) “Invoice already paid” error message from Paypal, 2) e-check payment handling, and 3) editing / deleting items edited or deleted order histories of orders that had already been placed, 4) the “viewall” option on the store config’s never worked properly; so those are all fixed now.

If you’ve emailed me recently, you’ve probably discovered my web-based phone tree. I think it answers most questions and common inquiries. If you have a question, try checking out this page to see if it helps: http://hyenacart.com/more_info.php

Finally, the HC Forums are really hopping these days and you can often get an answer to a simple question there faster than I can provide it. Try posting at the HCQuestions forum if you need help: http://hyenacart.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=3

My next big to-do’s are to add the capability for congos to easily re-order their stores on their main shopping page, and I may have a solution for the disappearing emails we’ve always had (or not had). There are tons more on the list, but those are the next ones up. If you ever have a request, you can post it at the HC Bugs & Requests forum: http://hyenacart.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=24

I’ve just added some more opportunities for you to customize the look of your store. If you check your Profile page, you’ll see two new fields at the end that allow you to add header and footer code to your product details page. Combined with the code you can add to your main store page (in the Intro and Counter fields), you can now set up your HC store to seamlessly coordinate with your main site. To see what I mean, click on this test store: http://hyenacart.com/Test_congo/

In addition, you can add some style code in the product details header section to change the font and sizing of the page. Here’s an example:

the description after P controls the bulk of the text, and the description after H1 defines the title style.

If you’re curious, that’s a new project I’m working on, HyenaCongo. I know quite a few of you are running informal congos. This will be a more formalized congo which has separated stores and individual vendor logins. The cost will be $25 / month, so you’ll probably want at least 5 vendors together to make it cost effective. This should be ready to go before the end of August.

Some smaller items:

- Added a new store category, “Little Bit of Everything” for those of you who don’t quite fit into any of the other categories.

- Changed the default dates for stocking a new item to the current date at noon.

- Added Yahoo group and FAQ links to the bottom of the vendor page.

Other things I’m working on:

- HyenaCart+ which will be a more traditional cart which allows customers to fill up their cart and check out with multiple items

- Discount codes

- Mass edits (editing multiple items at the same time)

- A listing of web designers who can help you customize your HC store

I’ll keep you posted as I finish things up

Oh, one last thing — I can accept cc payments now. E-checks are also fine and I will reset your stocking date when you send payment, before the check clears.

Thank you so much for choosing Hyena Cart!