We are finalizing our newest version of 7cart and wanted to notify you of an upcoming upgrade. There is no need to worry; this upgrade will only require 1 - 2 minutes of downtime, if any at all.
We want to send a special thanks to our customers that have participated in beta testing and providing excellent feedback. Please take a minute and read some of the new stuff going on and expect many more exciting updates to come!

Design and Navigation
First of all, you will notice that the whole administration section has a new look... it is much cleaner to look at and hopefully you will like it as much as we do.

New Administrator Dashboard: At-a-glance views of your Sales and Top Products. View your most recent orders and click right into them. Also a "jump to order" function is available right under the Most Recent Orders block.

Navigation changed a little bit: we moved everything under "Specials and Offers" under "Marketing".

Order Manager Updates
The keyword search now searches for Products and Order Numbers in addition to the customer data.

No more having to recreate orders for customers. Just move an order out of the Shopping Cart report by first viewing the order, clicking the Payment button, then clicking the "Place Order" button.

Catalog Updates
Brand new category editor allows you to drag and drop, sort sub-categories by name, rename, hide, and more - using a context menu. Just right click on the category to see the options.

The edit category page has a new layout with a nice large description area.

Product Import and Export capability coming really soon!

Marketing
You now have an XML Sitemap Generator - A sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site. The sitemap has wide adoption, including support from Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft.

Reports
Our entire reports section has been updated to include new filters, graphs and exporting capabilities. You can now export Sales by Date and Sales by Customer! Sales by Date now includes a New vs. Returning customer graph and sales by hour.

Security and Infrastructure Upgrades
7cart ecommerce is now ASP.NET 3.5 compliant putting our platform again on the cutting edge of the .NET environment.

As usual, we are consistently updating our infrastructure to be as safe as possible and thanks to our partner McAfee, we are tested every single day to ensure we are "hacker-safe". One update you might notice is that when an error occurs, you will no longer get the dreaded red lettering. We have created a custom error page for the solution, but we still log all errors within our system so that we can continue to troubleshoot as best as we can.