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		<title>Frequency Discounts for Zen Cart</title>
		<link>http://thecartblog.com/2010/01/03/frequency-discounts-for-zen-cart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thatsoftwareguy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wanted to offer discounts based on how much money your customers have spent in the last few days, weeks or months?  Frequency Discounts for Zen Cart allows you to do this.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever wanted to offer discounts based on how much money your customers have spent in the last few days, weeks or months?  <a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_frequency_discounts.html">Frequency Discounts for Zen Cart</a> allows you to do this.</p>
<p><img src="///tmp/moz-screenshot.png" alt="" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/fd_promo2.png" alt="" width="488" height="439" /></p>
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		<title>1 Click Buy in Zen Cart Checkout Candy for Better Together</title>
		<link>http://thecartblog.com/2009/12/22/1-click-buy-in-zen-cart-checkout-candy-for-better-together/</link>
		<comments>http://thecartblog.com/2009/12/22/1-click-buy-in-zen-cart-checkout-candy-for-better-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thatsoftwareguy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[That Software Guy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zen Cart]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Checkout Candy for Zen Cart now includes a one click buy button for products without attributes that are displayed as possible upsells.  The principle behind Checkout Candy is simple: if you have created a  Zen Cart Better Together linkage  where one item is present in the cart and another is not, you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_checkout_candy.html">Checkout Candy for Zen Cart</a> now includes a one click buy button for products without attributes that are displayed as possible upsells.  The principle behind Checkout Candy is simple: if you have created a  <a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_better_together.html">Zen Cart Better Together</a> linkage  where one item is present in the cart and another is not, you are encouraged to buy it on the Shopping Cart and Shipping Pages. For example, suppose you create a PROD to PROD linkage between  product 3 and 10.  If product 3 is present in the cart, and the customer goes to the shopping cart page or the shipping page, they will be prompted to buy product 10 (and shown the terms of the discount). Naturally, this goes well with  <a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_discount_preview.html"> Discount Preview.</a></p>
<p>Have a look at <a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_checkout_candy.html">Checkout Candy for Zen Cart</a> and see the how you can promote your Zen Cart store&#8217;s cross-sells!</p>
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		<title>Zen Cart Edit Orders/Super Orders and my discounting mods</title>
		<link>http://thecartblog.com/2009/12/21/zen-cart-edit-orders-and-my-discounting-mods/</link>
		<comments>http://thecartblog.com/2009/12/21/zen-cart-edit-orders-and-my-discounting-mods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thatsoftwareguy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[That Software Guy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zen Cart]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are using any of my discounting software (Better Together,  Combination Discounts,  Big Spender, Big Chooser, Quantity Discounts, Frequency Discounts, Military Discounts, Newsletter Discounts) along with Zen Cart Edit Orders or Super Orders please be aware of the following issue.
Running Edit Orders or Super Edit against an order with one of these [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are using any of my discounting software (<a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_better_together.html">Better Together</a>,  <a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_combination_discounts.html">Combination Discounts</a>,  <a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_big_spender.html">Big Spender</a>, <a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_big_chooser.html">Big Chooser</a>, <a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_quantity_discounts.html">Quantity Discounts</a>, <a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_frequency_discounts.html">Frequency Discounts</a>, <a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_military_discount.html">Military Discounts</a>, <a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_newsletter_discount.html">Newsletter Discounts</a>) along with Zen Cart Edit Orders or Super Orders please be aware of the following issue.</p>
<p>Running Edit Orders or Super Edit against an order with one of these discounts will improperly change the minus sign in the discount amount to a plus sign.  So a Better Together discount of $15.00 will become a $15.00 surcharge.</p>
<p>The root cause of this bug is that both of these mods, when updating an order, enumerate through a fixed list of classes to see if the order total in question a known native discount (coupons or group discounts), and otherwise, assumes it&#8217;s a surcharge.</p>
<p>The fix is to modify admin/edit_orders.php and admin/super_edit.php as follows:  search for</p>
<pre> $ot_class == "ot_coupon"</pre>
<p>and add in the classes you are using.   For Better Together, this would be</p>
<pre>$ot_class == "ot_coupon" || $ot_class == "ot_better_together"</pre>
<p>For Better Together and Quantity Discounts, this would be</p>
<pre>
<pre>$ot_class == "ot_coupon" || $ot_class == "ot_better_together" || $ot_class == "ot_quantity_discount"</pre>
</pre>
<p>&#8220;if statements&#8221; containing this check occur several times (depending on version) in the two files; make sure you get them all.</p>
<p>A complete list of the classes I have created that require this fix is:</p>
<ul>
<li>Better Together: &#8220;ot_better_together&#8221;</li>
<li>Big Chooser: &#8220;ot_big_chooser&#8221;</li>
<li>Big Spender: &#8220;ot_bigspender_discount&#8221;</li>
<li>Combination Discounts: &#8220;ot_combination_discounts&#8221;</li>
<li>Frequency Discounts: &#8220;ot_frequency_discount&#8221;</li>
<li>Quantity Discounts:  &#8220;ot_quantity_discount&#8221;</li>
<li>Newsletter Discounts: &#8220;ot_newsletter_discount&#8221;</li>
<li>Military Discount: &#8220;ot_military_discount&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>If you want a complete if clause that handles all of these plus the built in discounts (including GV), it would look like this:</p>
<pre>if ($ot_class == "ot_gv" || $ot_class == "ot_coupon" || $ot_class == "ot_group_pricing" ||
                 $ot_class == "ot_better_together" ||
                 $ot_class == "ot_big_chooser" ||
                 $ot_class == "ot_bigspender_discount" ||
                 $ot_class == "ot_combination_discounts" ||
                 $ot_class == "ot_frequency_discount" ||
                 $ot_class == "ot_quantity_discount" ||
                 $ot_class == "ot_newsletter_discount" ||
                 $ot_class == "ot_military_discount"
) {</pre>
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		<title>Image Display for Zen Cart Better Together</title>
		<link>http://thecartblog.com/2009/12/20/image-display-for-zen-cart-better-together/</link>
		<comments>http://thecartblog.com/2009/12/20/image-display-for-zen-cart-better-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thatsoftwareguy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[That Software Guy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zen Cart]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Zen Cart Better Together now does image display in  marketing text,  Buy Both Now and  Checkout Candy. (The  Zen Cart Better Together Promotional Page including Add both to Cart already had this feature.) Older versions of Buy Both Now, Checkout Candy and the Marketing Text  are forwards compatible with the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_better_together.html">Zen Cart Better Together</a> now does image display in  <a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_better_together.html#marketing">marketing text</a>,  <a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_buybothnow.html">Buy Both Now</a> and  <a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_checkout_candy.html">Checkout Candy</a>. (The  <a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_better_together_promo.html">Zen Cart Better Together Promotional Page</a> including Add both to Cart already had this feature.) Older versions of Buy Both Now, Checkout Candy and the Marketing Text  are forwards compatible with the new Better Together, but if you  wish to use the images for Buy Both Now or Checkout Candy, you must get new versions.  Only $10 to upgrade for existing users!   Cheap!</p>
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		<title>INTERAC payment now available for Zen Cart</title>
		<link>http://thecartblog.com/2009/12/07/interac-payment-now-available-for-zen-cart/</link>
		<comments>http://thecartblog.com/2009/12/07/interac-payment-now-available-for-zen-cart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thatsoftwareguy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The INTERAC payment method for Zen Cart has now been released.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&amp;products_id=1480">INTERAC payment method for Zen Cart</a> has now been released.</p>
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		<title>Updates to Big Chooser and Big Spender for Zen Cart</title>
		<link>http://thecartblog.com/2009/12/01/updates-to-big-chooser-and-big-spender-for-zen-cart/</link>
		<comments>http://thecartblog.com/2009/12/01/updates-to-big-chooser-and-big-spender-for-zen-cart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thatsoftwareguy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Spender for Zen Cart and  Big Chooser for Zen Cart have both been updated with a new parameter called set_constraint_regprice(). What this does is ensure that any items being counted towards the  constraints (for Big Chooser) or the threshold (for Big Spender) are regular priced items not on sale or special.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_big_spender.html">Big Spender for Zen Cart</a> and  <a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_big_chooser.html">Big Chooser for Zen Cart</a> have both been updated with a new parameter called set_constraint_regprice(). What this does is ensure that any items being counted towards the  constraints (for Big Chooser) or the threshold (for Big Spender) are regular priced items not on sale or special.</p>
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		<title>Big Chooser and Big Spender for osCommerce</title>
		<link>http://thecartblog.com/2009/11/22/big-chooser-and-big-spender-for-oscommerce/</link>
		<comments>http://thecartblog.com/2009/11/22/big-chooser-and-big-spender-for-oscommerce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thatsoftwareguy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Chooser is product based discounting. Buy multiple items, get a discount on other products or combinations of products, or receive other products or combinations of products free.
Big Spender is dollar based discounting. Spend over a certain dollar amount, get a discount on other products / receive other products free.
These extensions are based on algorithms [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/osc_big_chooser.html">Big Chooser</a> is product based discounting. Buy multiple items, get a discount on other products or combinations of products, or receive other products or combinations of products free.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/osc_big_spender.html">Big Spender</a> is dollar based discounting. Spend over a certain dollar amount, get a discount on other products / receive other products free.</p>
<p>These extensions are based on algorithms of the same name for Zen Cart which have been around for a while, so osCommerce users get the benefit of field-hardened code from day one.  Big Chooser and Big Spender are ready for deployment to your osCommerce based cart today!</p>
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		<title>New version of SysCheck for Zen Cart</title>
		<link>http://thecartblog.com/2009/11/15/new-version-of-syscheck-for-zen-cart/</link>
		<comments>http://thecartblog.com/2009/11/15/new-version-of-syscheck-for-zen-cart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thatsoftwareguy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SysCheck &#8211; a program which automatically scans your cart for vulnerabilities and problems &#8211; has been upgraded with two new features:

Instead of just looking for .php files in unexpected places, it also checks for .pl, .cgi and .py files.
It prints the mnemonic hostname of IP Addresses which have accessed your admin panel.

It is available from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SysCheck &#8211; a program which automatically scans your cart for vulnerabilities and problems &#8211; has been upgraded with two new features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Instead of just looking for .php files in unexpected places, it also checks for .pl, .cgi and .py files.</li>
<li>It prints the mnemonic hostname of IP Addresses which have accessed your admin panel.</li>
</ul>
<p>It is available from <a href="http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_syscheck.html">That Software Guy&#8217;s website</a>.</p>
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		<title>INTERAC&#174; Refunds in Zen Cart</title>
		<link>http://thecartblog.com/2009/11/07/interac-refunds-in-zen-cart/</link>
		<comments>http://thecartblog.com/2009/11/07/interac-refunds-in-zen-cart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thatsoftwareguy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what the refund dialog will look like in the INTERAC payment method for Zen Cart.  I&#8217;m just wrapping up testing now.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is what the refund dialog will look like in the INTERAC payment method for Zen Cart.  I&#8217;m just wrapping up testing now.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-732" src="http://thecartblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/interac_refund.png" alt="interac_refund" width="415" height="329" /></p>
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		<title>INTERAC&#174; completed payment showing on Zen Cart checkout success page</title>
		<link>http://thecartblog.com/2009/11/05/interac-completed-payment-showing-on-zen-cart-checkout-success-page/</link>
		<comments>http://thecartblog.com/2009/11/05/interac-completed-payment-showing-on-zen-cart-checkout-success-page/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thatsoftwareguy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zen Cart]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I found that there were more steps than I thought to INTERAC.  This shows the final step having  been completed and the confirmation code for the payment transfer.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-728" src="http://thecartblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/interac_response.png" alt="interac_response" width="484" height="278" />I found that there were more steps than I thought to INTERAC.  This shows the final step having  been completed and the confirmation code for the payment transfer.</p>
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