What’s New

v3.7.1.0

- Totally reworked how the Multi-KC plugin functions in order to prevent a lot of the potential issues.
- Reworked how the session handling works for customers, to prevent issues with overlapping company IDs.
- Added option to allow for postpone assignment when completing orders.
- Various DLL improvements to help with stability.
- General code improvements.

v3.7.0.0

- Major rework of the CMS options layout and styling.

- Reorganisation of the CMS option groups.

- Added a warning for unsaved config option changes.

- Improved order address loading to reduce the number of DLL requests.

- Optimised a number of AJAX calls to reduce any header or footer loading where not required.

- Optimisation for the function checking if a URL is a file, to reduce DLL calls.

- Improved auto-recycler to also handle restarting the MySQL service if required.

- Fixing issues with null checks that were returning an inconsistent result.

- Adding a new "must-use" plugin that will restrict what plugins are enabled on AJAX calls.

- Added in a check for whether the KCW AJAX calls need to re-load product on category and search pages, in order to speed up add to basket.

- Changed how the KCW plugin initialisation is triggered, to allow for site-level plugin usage.

- Added in an option to allow for requiring verification when a customer changes their username, similar to how the forgotten password functionality works.

- Adding a link for reset password and username verification emails to allow customers to cancel invalid ones.

- Added in an integration for the Stripe PSP.

- Converted the payment logs to use the database rather than files to make them easier to use.

- Added in a way to view the new payment logs via the CMS.

- Converted all of the logs CMS pages into a single page to reduce the menu size and make a central reporting section.

- Added in functionality for loading "initial" low quality versions of images, that are replaced with the normal version, to help with LCP issues.

- General code improvements.

v3.6.1.0

- Improved the handling of WorldPay notifications for orders that have already been completed.

- Fixes some issues with the GA4 enhanced ecommerce tracking and improved the data types being sent in event data.

- Fixed an issue with trying to complete orders that are already completed.

- Added extra logging for double payment attempts for Opayo orders.

- Cleaned up some of the KCW CMS menu items to improve UI / UX.

- Added indexes to database tables to speed up queries.

- Added option to limit the number of products returned by the search suggestions.

- Fixed an issue with statement payments being sent as the wrong payment type for BACS payments.

- Fixed an issue with page caching for multi-kc sites, so that pages are cached per-instance.

- Making further improvements to how customer data is loaded to reduce the number of calls to Khaos Control.

- Converted all transient caching to use file cache, in order to reduce database load.

- Adding option to select whether to use database or file caching for transients.

v3.6.0.0

- Added support for statement address type.

- Improved support for multi-contact addresses, so now single contacts will be disabled rather than the whole address.

- Added extra data to products for which countries it is barred in.

- Finalised the weighting changes for search ordering.

- Added a fix for a common error when updating the KC audits.

- Reworked how Opayo order confirmation works to prevent issues with duplicate payments.

- Reworked session handling for multi-KC.

- Reworked how the customer's username is loaded, and reduced the amount of data stored in the "logged in" cookie in order to improve security.

- Added a plugin to allow for setting up dynamic pack pages.

- Added checkout usage logging to the CMS, so it is easier to see what customers do in the checkout, and what pages they drop off on.

- Fixed some issues for PHP 8.2.9 compatiblity.

- Fixed an issue with Google Tag Manager plugin not triggering events on add to basket, etc.

- Fixed an issue with how payment IDs are generated to prevent duplicates.

- Improved the CMS reset password emails so that they are sent as HTML.

- Added an option to the order confirmation email for whether an order has out of stock products.

- Fixed an issue whereby the guest checkout status would be cleared when changing country.

- Improved the BOGOF plugin so that it will automatically clear an order if the last item has the BOGOF_Parent UDA set against it.

- General code improvements.

v3.5.0.0

- Search improvements that includes better weightings for each checked section of the product data.

- Improvement to reloading the basket.

- Special offer improvements to better support auto-add special offers.

- Added option to allow part paid orders to not be set to remainder on account.

- Fixed an issue with loading previous orders.

- Reworked all of the payment integration plugins to improve performance, as well as allow for handling of deposit payments for sales orders.

- Reworked the way sub-categories are handled to improve performance, as well as allow for further extension of the number of URL levels in the future.

- Added option to restrict PSPs to specific currencies.

- Fixed an issue with the dates shown in the Email Manager, then will now show in the correct timezone, rather than always being GMT.

- Improved error handling for loading certain classes, to prevent errors being shown to the user.

- Added extra options for Google Shopping sync.