Spirit Commerce now supports “SoftGoods” product download

Spirit Commerce now includes SoftGood support, or the ability to purchase down-loadable products.

Selling music, ebooks, videos, guides and games just got easier! SoftGoods is a great way to save you and your customers shipping and handling costs too.

We built this feature on top of Amazon’s S3 service to provide very reliable, fast, and [...read more]

Cookie support added to Spirit

We added cookies to Spirit 3.4.  No, not chocolate chip or oatmeal-raisin, but rather the kind that allow you to link your static website or pages to our shopping cart.  Previously, without cookies, if your visitor started their shopping experience, then they could not leave the spirit system or their cart and checkout information would [...read more]

Spirit order screen update

Hi everyone. Just a quick note to let you know that we pushed up a few changes to the admin order detail screen. For some time, Spirit has been collecting the page number from which a product was ordered as well as the catalog name from which the order was placed. If [...read more]

Spirit customer exports

We have added the handiest of buttons to the bottom of the Customer screen in Spirit, labeled ‘export’. This little button is so useful, it’s hard to believe it wasn’t their earlier. It is now a snap to export some or all of your customer data to an Excel sheet. Simply perform [...read more]

Discover Card now competitive with Visa/MC

Carl, my merchant contact here in Tucson recently told me that Discover Card has lowered it rates and is now very competitive with Visa and MasterCard’s rates.

Carl Shultz with Card Solutions, Inc. takes care of many of our client’s merchant accounts. If you are interested in checking out those rates, or enabling your merchant account [...read more]

upgraded rich text editor

Just wanted to let everyone know that we upgraded our WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) rich text editor. We are fans of the open source FCK-editor project and use their rich text editor in Spirit and Recordit. Previously, we were using version 2.4.3 which did not play well with Safari and had [...read more]

Spirit cart and checkout now more customizable

We have sent up more good stuff for Spirit 3.4. Cart, login, and checkout screens can now have customized background colors and font styling. The simplest way to set this up is in the administrator store tab. Look at the cart & layout settings. There, you’ll find some settings that look like this:

You [...read more]

new features for Spirit

Spirit for Members got some serious lovin’ recently. This past weekend we pushed up several great features for member sites (and a little something for commerce users too).

We are introducing an ‘additional info’ tab to the ‘my account’ screen which can display any number of custom fields for your members to view and [...read more]

new navigation style available for Spirit

We recently added a new flavor of navigation called “list method”. This new style takes advantage of CSS standards and HTML
<li> tags to create great looking navigation links for your site.

You can change the style of navigation your spirit site uses in the admin tool by navigating to setup and then general settings. You’ll find [...read more]

Spirit gets a speed boost

We sent up new releases of Spirit 3.3 and 3.4, which significantly boosts checkout performance. Several code and database optimizations were made. These enhancements become more noticeable as the size of your customer database grows. Folks with customer lists over 10K will see the most benefit.

enjoy!