• Fully compliant with Paypal Website Payments Pro (UK) TOS
• Payment options by credit card (Visa, Master Card, Switch, Discovery) or by Paypal Express
• No complicated SDK and integration with Paypal APIs
• Fully compatible with you installation of Zencart
• Highly customizable to adapt your own needs
• Strait-forward install instructions

Ater applying the module, your store will work as follows:

• Express Checkout

If a logged in customer clicks on “Checkout,” they’re taken to the shipping page with a “Paypal Express Checkout” button at the top. If they click on the “Express Checkout” button, they’ll be taken to Paypal where they’ll choose a shipping address and payment method, then be sent back to the checkout shipping page to choose a shipping method. From there, depending on your settings, you will go to checkout confirmation to complete the order.

Express Checkout Demo:

http://www.smartosc.com/blog/video/express_checkout/

• Direct Payment

If they log in, or create an account, and go through the normal checkout process, then they can type in their credit card numbers and the direct payment API will charge their card transparently.

Direct Payment Demo:

http://www.smartosc.com/blog/video/direct_payment/

To use this module, you must meet the following requirements:

• Zencart 1.3.x
• PHP 4.3.0+
• cURL
• SSL certificate installed - for live transactions
• Business account with Paypal UK Pro
• Website Payments Pro (UK) direct transactions approved (please check the request form on Paypal’s site on your “Overview” page when you login)
• The API certificate that you receive from PayPal after being approved for WPP

Why should you install this module?

• Complete functionality
• Customizable
• Low-cost
• Get an all-in-one payment solution.
• Accept credit card payments directly on your website
• Allow PayPal account holders to check out fast with saved information

Please contact us for a non-obligation quote.

• Over 25 bug fixes and improvements
• register_globals compatibility for PHP 4.3+ servers
• Visa PCI conformance of accepting credit card information on the checkout confirmation page
• Public titles for payment modules so the name of the payment service provider is not used as a payment method
• Maximum number of product quantities that can be added to the shopping cart (by default 99)
• New login routine for the Administration Tool
• New summary modules to display on the Administration Tool index page
• New web-based installation routine (backported from 3.0)

osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 Release Candidate 1 can be downloaded here:

http://www.oscommerce.com/redirect.php/go,41 (hosted at Sunsite.dk)

An upgrade guide for existing osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 060817 installations can be found here:

http://www.oscommerce.com/ext/osc22rc1_upgrade.html.zip

(Source: Oscommerce Official Site)

1. Optimize your images
Many of you starts uploading heavy images which increases page load. A solution for this would be installing automatic thumbnail generator with cache features. This contribution will will cache the image instead of doing it “on the fly”, thus, server load reduces considerably.

2. Think twice before adding contributions
One of the advantages for the Oscommerce community is the broad range of pre-made contributions that users can install to the stores. But then store owners make the mistake of adding too many contributions because they want to add more and more functionality. Our advice is to install only the ones you need because. each contribution you install will add overhead to process the logic whether it be pure PHP code or MySQL queries (or both).

On the other hand, if you don’t use certain default features, like : banners, “requests since” footer display, who’s online, etc. then removing these features will increase performance.

3. Do you really need to install STS ?
STS (Simple Template System) is one of the most popular template systems available for osCommerce. However, this contribution increases the number of queries, specially when you have a significant number of categories on your store up to 200-300%.

4. Index your Sessions
If you store the sessions in the database consider adding a (primary) multi-column index on sesskey and expiry columns.

5. Unable Caching
If you have a large number of categories, products, and orders, then it is important to cache data. Some experts advice to create directory ABOVE the publicly accessible document root and giving it proper permissions for the server read/write. Creating it ABOVE the document root ensures that would-be hackers cannot access it with their web browser. Once you have the cache folder created and settings configured then turn on the cache features.

6. Compress page output
Oscommerce has the feature of page compression via GZIP. The optimal setting is compression level 1 for speed as higher levels will not result in significant reduction of page size.

7. Optimize your code and database queries
There is obviously different in every store, due to the fact that each of them installs different contributions although they are based in Oscommerce.

So first of all, you have to debug your queries. There is a very good contribution (written by Chemo) : per page query output contribution which will allow you to see which queries are being executed on a per page basis and easily identify those that are redundant or taking excessive time to execute. So that’s a good place to start with.

However, there are some existing code, that can be common functions in all the stores and you might want to take a look.

a. MS3 tax class for MS2. This replaces the stock MS2 tax code with the new tax class for MS3 which is much more efficient and uses less queries per page. The tax query is executed on each price display even if the setting to display tax is disabled. So installing it will increase the page performance.

b. The also_purchased module (product info pages) is a powerful upsale tool however it is the absolutely most server intensive query for the osCommerce application. Some recommend using X-Sell contribution instead.

Finally, some contributions that will help you optimize the store:

• Faster Page Loads, Less DB Queries.

This contribution caches the data and eliminates the database query…thereby saving the table scan for when the cache is not present. This contribution is HIGHLY recommended.

• More Meaningful Data from Query Logging

This contribution replaces the stock logging code to only capture queries that take longer than “X” seconds to execute. Instead of storing every query it only stores the ones that are excessively resource intensive. Also, it stores more useful information such as query, time to execute, calling script, IP of browser, cookies enabled or not, and other nice data.

• osC Explain - for developers

This contribution adds a real nice EXPLAIN feature to every query executed. It allows you to capture each query executed and associated MySQL EXPLAIN data. If you are serious about query optimization this tool is a must.

• Queries and Parse Time Footer Output

This contribution outputs the queries executed and page parse time on a per page basis without storing it to file system. This is handy to optimize page performance on a per page basis. I use it to identify redundant queries or as a quick tool to diagnose performance issues. You can tell at a glance if the lack of performance is due to MySQL, PHP, or other page factors.

• osC-Advanced Cache Class

This contribution has the ability to cache anything you can throw at it: parsed HTML, arrays, or even executable PHP code. If you find tough areas to optimize this class will solve your problems.

Do you have any other experience ? Please share

If you successfully installed it, then you should have something like this:

1. Create a store:

You must enter Information of store, which you want to create. Then, you click “Save” button to create the store or click Cancel button to delete Information, which you have inputted.

2. Categories/products to store:

3. Create Administrators:

We have also made many changes to improve the current multi store mod. If you want to implement this on your store, please contact us for more information.

Firstly, install MR Tech Disable XPI Install Delay to remove Counter every time installing Extension ( it often take us from 3 to 5 seconds to complete this).

• MR Tech Disable XPI Install Delay 2.3 by Mel Reyes (aka: mrtech)

Then, please install next extension. However, it is not necessary to install all extensions to avoid making computer overloaded. It is because there are some extensions with the same option, so you only need to install one. Web Developer extension itself offers many tools for HTML, FORM, and CSS…, so you should install this and further if it is necessary. Moreover, if you need one more extension, please search it in the page: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/extensions/, use the key word SVN.

• Web Developer by Chris Pederick - Lots of tools
• CSSViewer 1.0.2 by Nicolas Huon - COOL
• FireBug by Joe Hewitt - Javascript debuger, cool
• JSView 1.2.5 by Ron Beckman
• Execute JS 0.1.1 by Rudolf Noe
• JavaScript Debugger 0.9.87 by James Ross, Robert Ginda
• XML Developer Toolbar 0.2 by Scott Root II
• Total Validator 3.4 by Andy Halford
• Relaxed the HTML Validator 0.9.1 by Jaroslav Hanslik
• Html Validator 0.7.9.5 by Marc Gueury
• HTML Validator (based on CSE HTML Validator) 1.2.3 by AI Internet Solutions
• CSS validator 0.3 by Michael Langley
• W3C CSS validator 0.1.4 by Mat
• FireColour 1.0 by Shivdeep
• ColorZilla 0.8.2 by Alex Sirota
• IE Tab 1.3.0.20070110 by PCMan (Hong Jen Yee), yuoo2k – view in Firefox, use render engine of IE
• IE View Lite 1.3 by Grayson Mixon - Open ra IE
• ScreenGrab! 0.93 by Andy M

In addition, it would be great to install some following extensions to enhance the ability of Firefox:

• Tab Mix Plus 0.3.5.2 by CPU, onemen
• Undo Closed Tabs Button 2.0.0 by Kurt Schultz
• HighlightAll 1.1 by Jérôme Goudey
• del.icio.us Bookmarks by Yahoo! Inc. - Sync bookmark between your computer at home and in the company.
• FireFTP by Mime Cuvalo - FTP available in the firefox
• Download Statusbar by Devon Jensen - Download progress in status bar.

We have just developed a new theme from GlossyBlue 1.4 of N-Design . We hope it will be better than the old one.

Have a look at our new theme and tell us your thoughts.

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At the beginning, everything looked good in test mode (test server) . Yeah ! All Transaction Done , Transaction Status , AVSResults, CVResults, StatusCode, etc. were in Response Message but when I switched to live mode, it responded to many errors

All errors I had got:

- Card Start not valid. (4 char.)

- CardStart and CardIssue Required. (CardIsssue still isn’t required in other Payment Gateways)

- Currency Error with Amex/Discovery Card:

The biggest problem was Currency Error with Amex Card because I was following XMLPay document and it said “allow AMEX” and in test mode amex card type worked well , result code = 0 and message is Approved but it was still different in live mode . I always got the error message “Invalid or unsupported currency code: 10558-Your processor is unable to process the Card Type in the currency requested. Please try another card type.” , Hmm I wasted a lot of time to find out currency code but it was the same and didn’t help anything. Too tired , I was going to search about “Amex and PaypalUK” and they said “Amex not allowed in PayPalUK” . Too tired with PaypalUK . Finally I finished the Paypal Pro UK module for Virtuemart without AMEX support.

And after this project all I had got is:

* Test Server of PaypalUK so bad and more different than Live Server.
* XMLPay Document too poor for development.
* Manager Paypal UK is the same.

I wish Paypal WPP UK would upgrade their system like Paypal WPP US version.

Looking forward to the next Paypal WPP UK upgrade.

- Create Lead/Partner/Account, associate them with a campaign.
- Select this Lead/Partner/Account’s campaign start date
- Send first email to Lead/Partner/Account at start_date + x (where x is in days)
- Send second email to Lead/Partner/Account at start_date + y (where y is in days)
- Compatible with all SugarCRM types: OpenSource, Professional and Enterprise.

Each user on the same campaign could get email on different days — the email date is based on that user’s campaign start day, not on the calendar day of the year.

Check some screenshots of the module:

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