4/2/12 - Smith Cart DNN Module - Top items in development

• Smith Cart Booking Module
  • Reservation and scheduling module that allows users to register, reserve and purchase any kind of resource, such as conference rooms, machines, computers, etc. The admin console allows complete control over event management, resource data, reservation data, and other settings.
• Smith Address Book Module New Features
  • The ability for a Wholesaler or other type of company you define to place orders on behalf of other companies or users.
  • Discounts
    • Wholesalers will be able to place orders at discounted rates for any company or user.
  • Product Filtering 
    • When a wholesaler selects a company from the address book to order for and clicks the select button they will be directed to the product listing page and the products will be filtered to display only the products defined to be visible for the company selected.  
    • Products must be defined to the company role in the SmithCart “Product Role” Setup screen.
    • Products visible to the wholesaler will be the same as if the company they chose was logged in.
• Product Details Module 
  • New Tabbed Display Option - Added an option to display the tabbed interface at the top of the page and display the product overview section inside the first tab.
  • Social Networking Share Bar - Added an option to display a "Social Network Share Bar" with the following options:
    • Google Plus
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Email a Friend
  • The Social Networking Share bar allows you to share your products with popular social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
  • The “Email a Friend” button allows you to email a custom template driven email with product information to a friend.
  • Video Tab - Option to display a "Videos Tab" with product videos uploaded via the new videos module.
• New Videos Module 
  • The Videos module allows you to display a well-organized video gallery similar to YouTube on any page in your DNN portal as well as in a tab on the product details page. 
  • The Videos module will display the following information for each video: 
    • Video Title
    • Video with play, pause, rewind and fast forward controls
    • Share Bar to the left of Video (See Social Network Share Bar for more)
    • Date Created
    • Video Length
    • Video Description
    • Add To Cart Button
  • Video Filtering/Browsing options:
    • By Category 
    • By Product
  • Video Admin - Allows for centralized product video administration:
    • View videos by product
    • Add/Edit/Delete videos
    • Embedding Videos from sites like YouTube, Viddler, Vimeo, etc.
    • Uploading and playing videos using a new built in video player without streaming from youtube or other 3rd party video sites.
    • Categories - The ability to add video categories and associate them with videos.  Single level categories
    • Products – The ability to associate videos with products
• Reviews Module
  • New “Reviews Module” can be added to any page in your DNN portal and displays product reviews or non product reviews in a well-organized layout.
• Articles Module
  • New “Articles Module” can be added to any page in your DNN portal and displays product articles and non product articles in a well-organized layout.
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM Integration
• Templating
  • BuyNow module - Product Listing page
  • Product Detail module
  • Mini Cart module

• Featured Products Module - New display options
  • Recently viewed products
  • Popular products
  • Recommended products - Preference engine - Based on browsing history, recently view products, purchase history and popular products

• Vendor Module - Extends Smith Cart to provide Marketplace or "Ecommerce Mall" capability similar to vendorsbay.com.  Allows “Vendors” to sell products on your site

• Ability for product(s) to be uploaded and managed by a third party vendor.
• Aability for a vendor to review their sales and orders
• Ability for the marketplace admin to view/manage all vendors, products and orders
• Ability to pay vendors commision on their store sales
  • Return Material Authorization (RMA) Module integrated with the cart
  • Search module

• New Payment Gateway Integrations
  • Amazon Checkout
  • Cybersource
  • Setcom Payment Gateway
  • Chase Orbital
  • eWay - New Zealand and UK

• Atandra T-HUB integration
  • Level 3 - Real time product and inventory sync with QuickBooks

• Translating cart resx files to the following languages:
  • Lithuaninan
  • Swedish
  • Danish
  • French
  • Chinese (mandarin)
  • Russian
  • Arabic
  • Other Baltic languages
  • Korean
  • Japanese

• New multi-currency features enable the visitors to view and purchase products in multiple currencies/prices.
  • Adding a new button titled “Manage Currencies” on the store admin menu.
    Allows users to select multiple currencies to use in the cart and saved to a new table called “StoreCurrencies”,
  • A new drop down list has been added to the “buynow” module which only shows the added currencies on the current store instance.
  • Selecting a different currency from the dropdown list will update the price tag/currency symbol of products on the products page.
  • If no currencies have been added in “Manage Currencies” then the store will automatically run on default currency.

• Enhanced QuickBooks connector integration with Smith Cart for real time data feeds from the cart directly into QuickBooks.
• Front end for gift certificates (backend gift certificate management already included in cart)
• Ability to change product variants directly on cart screen
• Custom cart setting to enable single page checkout or regular checkout