Now the full performance of Kartris is free for everyone to use
Kartris v2.0 was released today, with a complete redesign in the underlying code and numerous enhancements and performance tweaks.
- Fully open-source code with GNU GPL v2 license all core code BLLs and DALs merged into App_Code
- Upgraded to latest AJAX toolkit
- New back end skin for improved usability
- New front end default skin
- All triggers removed for improved performance and compatibility with the Microsoft Web App Gallery
- Improved password hashing for user and login accounts
- HTML templates for emails (order confirmations, password reset, etc.)
- New 'cancelled' order status, returns any items in order to stock
- Can view customer addresses from new 'addresses' tab when viewing a customer record
- New order/payment history tab with total balance for better snapshot of customer account and any overdue balance or refund.
- Support ticket improvements, fixed various bugs and added 'tagging' system to aid keyword searching
- Support ticket cross links with customer record, can view all tickets for particular customer from link in customer record
- Now using the ASP.NET AJAX HTML editor for simpler interface
- Live currency rate lookup now available to all users, rates now come direct from ECB (European Central Bank) feed, which includes all common European and non-European currencies
- Object config system extended to versions (previously only available for products)
- Back end image and media upload and handling improvements, back end images previews now properly thumbnailed
- Error handling now more efficient, error pages self-contained to avoid possibility of 404 cascades
- Front end search improved, now passes querystrings to Search.aspx page so can be invoked from external search box
- Windows 8 live tile for order and support ticket notifications on Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows 8 Phone devices
With the free GPL license, Kartris is now the only free, open-source ASP.NET cart capable of handling stores with millions of SKUs and taking hundreds of orders per day out-of-the-box.