Version 8 of DC1 NetStore was a major makeover to give it a modern and responsive look and feel.
It was achieved by using new standard techniques like HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Angular JS and Web services. That makeover was the start for the implementation of a lot of new functionality to DC1 NetStore.
You can use DC1 NetStore on any device independent of panel size.
The following denotes the highlights:
- Catalogs were rearranged.
- Items are now displayed with more information in grids or table views.
- Rolling banners with links to catalogs or items was introduced.
- Sections for Most popular items, Best offers, Up-sell You may also like this, and Cross-sell You don’t want to miss these.
- The shopping cart has all functionality available on one page.
- Sections for manually adding items and a copy/paste area are available as expandable sections.
- Expandable sections are used on many other pages as well to reduce the need to jump back and forth between pages.
- The checkout process has been improved.
- Accept sales condition checkbox with link to description page.
- Support for external payment gateways that will handle credit card payments is available for NETS Netaxept and Curbstone C3.
- Shopping list function has been improved to make buying of recurring items easier, and it also supports sending quotation requests.
- Items can then be bought directly from the quotation search detail page.
- Pages, where a lot of items are displayed such as catalog pages and search result pages, use pagination which means that more items are only read when needed, i.e. when the user scrolls down the list. This technique increases performance and reduces load time for pages.
- Item detail page and item compare page has received more item related information like item attributes, user defined fields, commodity code, etc. What information to display is controlled by BackOffice settings.
- DC1 NetStore specific item web texts can be displayed where the item is displayed.
- A cookies disclaimer section has been added with a link to a page which describes how cookies are used in DC1 NetStore.
- A new E-mail enquiry facility that allows the user to send general or item specific questions to a predefined recipient.
- DC1 NetStore now supports matrix items, in addition to normal items. The user can buy different varieties of an item from a matrix table shown on the item detail page.
- It is also possible to buy individual child items for an order structure item from the item detail page.
- The backend of DC1 NetStore has been upgraded with, for example, Java 8 and the latest version of SOLR.
- SOLR is the search engine that is used to improve search, sort and filtering of items.
- With the help of SOLR, indexing of all kinds of item data has significantly improved, and allows DC1 NetStore users to easily and quickly find items using their own language.
- The version 12 of DC1 NetStore will have a new improved and secured user password function.
- Improved web administration with monitoring.
- A new cross reference type for Related items Spare parts/accessories.
- Performance improvements and more.