OrderStorm WordPress e-Commerce

NOTE: Please go to http://www.OrderStorm.com to sign up for either a free or a paid subscription to use this plugin. OrderStorm is a SaaS solution. Since all data is entered and stored in the secure OrderStorm cloud, you won't see much in the dashboard after you install the plugin. You must log in at http://www.OrderStorm.com to see and use all the back end funtionality. Unlike other SaaS e-commerce solutions, OrderStorm delivers front-end applications that are resident on (not remote to) your website. Customers never leave your website and there is no linking out to complete a purchase. Product Description OrderStorm WordPress e-Commerce - A feature-rich shopping cart that runs on your WordPress website, hosted anywhere. You can sell your products with flexibility, customization, security and integrity with the OrderStorm WordPress e-Commerce plugin and achieve online success. Works with any theme. The OrderStorm WordPress e-commerce engine is a cloud computing solution. Our servers do the heavy lifting and all you need is to use the OrderStorm WordPress e-commerce plugin to access the power of our feature-rich shopping cart. The OrderStorm WordPress ecommerce shopping cart is a full featured product for serious web merchants. Categories and Products are not WordPress pages or posts. They are stored in an external SQL database. OrderStorm WordPress e-Commerce is just right for:

• Businesses that need more functionality than the other plug-ins provide
• Businesses that are drop-shipping from more than one supplier
• Businesses models that create a quote or estimate that can later be converted to a sale
• Stores with large numbers of SKUs
• Businesses that have multiple CSRs working on orders

The OrderStorm WordPress e-Commerce shopping cart offers a wide range of built in features making it easy to manage your product catalog and your day-to-day sales. Shopping cart features include:

• Creative product display
• Drag and drop categories menu
• Unlimited number of features and options
• Automatic sizing of thumbnail, medium and large images
• Drag and drop image gallery
• Color configurator to customize your item and display in different colors prior to purchase
• Related links to installation instructions, drawings, manuals or other documents
• Up-sell with optional product add-ons
• Import products from a spreadsheet
• Batch price updates
• Quantity discounts
• Product bundles - apply quantity discounts across product variations and similar products
• Automated drop shipping features including POs to suppliers
• Vendor management
• Search engine optimization (SEO) with meta page title and description for each category and product
• Integrated with the Google XML Sitemaps plugin for proper product indexing.
• Full range of transactions from simple credit card processing to complex transactions with deposits and contracts
• Accept credit cards, checks, money orders, wire transfers, Google Checkout and PayPal Express
• PCI compliant
• No SSL required - checkout uses OrderStorm's SSL.
• Large selection of gateways
• Sends email order confirmations and shipping notices
• Set coupon codes for promotions
• Accept file uploads with an order
• Sales tax collection
• Automated FAQ list per product
• Easy order management including order Notes and Action Items lists
• Mobile marketing. Manage your cart from your mobile device
• Free shipping, free shipping on orders over X dollars, charge by flat rate or percent of order total
• Flexible options for different shipping zones and international shipping
• Reports including sales per product, COGS and sales by day, month, year

Youth Sports Camps

• Online event registration
• Multiple online payment options
• Accept checks
• Collect detailed information on campers
• Camp Rosters
• Customizable camp forms
• Liability Wavers
• Manage campers
• Daily Check-in
• Numbered wrist bands
• Point of Sale (POS) – sell jerseys, balls, sports memorabilia at your camp store
• Email receipts
• Camp dashboard - Registration numbers, summaries for t-shirt/shorts orders, total sales by camp, scholarships
• Export mailing lists
• Easy Order Management
• Log phone calls and emails with the corresponding registration
• See all communication with parents

From the dashboard, under Plugins, select Add New. Search for OrderStorm. Click on Install Now. or

1. Download the plugin .zip file.
2. Log in to your WordPress dashboard and click on the 'Plugins' tab and then 'Add New.'
3. Click on 'Upload' near the top of the page.
4. Click the 'Choose File' button and find the OrderStorm e-Commerce plugin .zip file. Click 'Choose' followed by the 'Install Now' button. WordPress will now upload and install your plugin.
5. Once the installation of your plugin has finished click the 'Activate Plugin' link.

1.0.17 [2016.04.06]

• Fixed creation and renaming of default and configured product category and product pages

1.0.16 [2016.02.01]

• Added an orderstorm_ecommerce capability, initially assigned to the Administrator WordPress role

1.0.15 [2016.01.29]

• Minor patch

1.0.14 [2016.01.27]

• Updated the [orderstorm_ecommerce_display_product_page] shortcode to allow using a custom template as a parameter (a sample custom template was also included)
• Updated the Angular.js-based Categories Menu Widget to support static linking
• Added the ck variable to cartGlobals
• Updated the layout and styles for the Register New User template
• Updated the layout and styles for the product image and color picker of the Product Details template
• Updated the layout of the Product Categories template to allow a bigger maximum width for the products list images

1.0.13.1 [2016.01.13]

• Updated product description
• Added Sports Camp feature list
• Re-directed Screenshots link to the Videos page

1.0.13 [2016.01.11]

• Added templates (and styles) for Register New User and Credit Card

1.0.12 [2016.01.08]

• Changed OrderStormProductCategories.css to correct the location of no-image.png
• Changed the should_product_name_be_editable_in_title function from the main class to default to false
• Added the cac variable to cartGlobals
• Changed ostrm_ecommerce_general.js and ostrm_product_details_form.js scrips to pay attention to the above-mentioned cac cartGlobals variable
• Loading lodash and ng-password-strength for Angular.js-based components

1.0.11 [2016.01.06]

• Changed the layout of the Product Details template and reformatted its Q&A section
• Added a magnifying glass effect when hovering over the main image of the Product Details template's image gallery
• Modified the responsive characteristics of the Angular.js-based Categories Menu Widget
• Added a transparent 1-pixel no-image.png image file
• Included the angular-messages library for use with Angular.js-based components

1.0.10 [2015.12.29]

• Updated the configuration page for the Angular.js-based Categories Menu Widget
• Modified the layout of the Product Categories template

1.0.9 [2015.12.23]

• Added the Applications section to the Product Details template

1.0.8 [2015.12.22]

• Fixed bug in handling of the Document Title

1.0.7 [2015.12.18]

• Updated templates for product and category pages, fixing bugs and upgrading styles and layout
• Added templates for the new Angular.js-based Categories Menu Widget
• Upgraded the plugin to make use of the new way of handling the Document Title (introduced in its final form in WordPress 4.4) while keeping backwards compatibility
• Added styles to enable use of the Angular Material library
• Updated cartGlobals to facilitate usage of Angular.js-based components
• Fixed a bug in the Product Settings admin page template
• Modified the way meta data is handled on web service calls, to avoid a bug that prevented persistence of the CKP token
• Changed the Angular.js components' class file naming convention
• Rolled forward most of the previously-added functionality from version 1.0.5 (except from cart information caching updates)

1.0.6 [2015.11.04]

• Version bump to rollback functionality

1.0.5 [2015.10.29]

• Simplified and corrected conditionals in the jsonResultSet class definition
• Fixed caching of cart information and added the media settings information section to it, adding to the previously intended performance enhancements
• Fixed cookie handling for the Automotive Applications Widget
• Corrected conditionals for presenting the product image (or image gallery) in the category page template
• Updated the template for the Automotive Applications Widget

1.0.4 [2015.10.23]

• Added the capability of loading Angular.js-based components, including a new Automotive Applications Widget, from an OrderStorm-hosted library, allowing for easier, more efficient and configurable templating and styling of visual components
• Now cart information is cached in WordPress and is only updated via web service when a changed timestamp is detected
• Checking for a change in timestamp for cached cart information will be performed no more frequently than every 5 minutes
• Stopped throwing the "cookiesNotUpdated" error (now it just silently deletes the cookies)
• Corrected CLASS_JsonResultSet.php's resultset type checking

1.0.3 [2015.10.02]

• Now, the plugin is NOT loaded for the wp-login.php page
• Removed "text" and "textarea" inline editing of product information

1.0.2 [2015.09.30]

• Fixed "Strict Standards" warning in the main class, related to only passing variables by reference

1.0.1 [2015.09.30]

• Fixed deprecated use of WP_Widget() constructor
• Fixed "Edit this product" link to point to the new administrative user interface

1.0 [2015.09.29]

• Unified connectivity for our new infrastructure
• Added product image gallery presentation and management for administrative users
• Added category image management for administrative users
• Fixed display of categories and subcategories
• Fixed SSL host verification to use the new options available for cUrl
• Fixed the categories menu

0.6.2.1 [2013.06.12]

• Made corrections and changes in order of appearance of some elements of the product page template

0.6.2 [2013.06.08]

• Added functionality allowing presentation of "product order forms", which allow the customer to add different quantities of the same product, based on a certain feature (for instance: 2 "Happy face T-shirts" of size medium, and 3 of size large)
• Fixed the product details template to display more detailed information about each product in a product list, removing also the pricing information for the "main" product from said template

0.6.1 [2013.05.29]

• Added functionality allowing presentation of products with features of type "Products List", which are composed, of course, by various products, making it possible to add many products to the cart at once, by filling a form with their corresponding quantities
• Corrected syntax errors in many CSS files
• Updated a JavaScript compatibility function

0.6.0.3 [2013.04.22]

• Fixed syntax error in the product page template

0.6.0.2 [2013.03.19]

• Fixed potential bug related to the "Force HTTPS for product and category page URLs" backend-configurable setting
• Fixed a bug that incorrectly displayed the "item on back order" product page message

0.6.0.1 [2013.03.18]

• Fixed pre-5.3 PHP incompatibility when using func_num_args() and func_get_args() as parameters in a function call

0.6 [2013.03.18]

• Created a product category page template, supported by a new rendering function, simplifying customization for end users by making the programming interface more familiar to WordPress users experienced with theme and/or plugin customization or development
• Re-created the product page template, using the above-mentioned rendering function in a similar fashion
• Made both new templates easier to translate, using WordPress' internationalization tools, with support included in the rendering function created for them
• Added use of the "Force HTTPS for product and category page URLs" backend-configurable setting
• Fixed some assorted bugs that existed before these new templates and were noticed during this recode, but apparently hadn't surfaced on customer sites

0.5.7.6 [2013.02.01]

• Changed the default of the "Do not verify SSL peer certificate" advanced setting from FALSE to TRUE, in order to accommodate for a lot of users hosting their sites with services that, apparently, don't configure their PHP SSL settings properly, preventing cUrl from being able to verify the peer's certificate against the root certificate authority

0.5.7.5 [2013.01.22]

• Fixed a strange incompatibility with Automattic's Jetpack plugin, which caused the render_product_details.php script not to load
• Fixed the product category page to display the configured currency symbol in its products list, when there is one (it was showing a hard-coded dollar sign)

0.5.7.4 [2012.12.17]

• Fixed syntax error in the CSS selector for "menuItemsGroup" in ostrm_categories_menu.js (this is an error uncovered by WordPress 3.5, which now uses jQuery 1.8, that dropped tolerance for the previous erroneous syntax)

0.5.7.3 [2012.10.08]

• Fixed warning on the orderstorm_ecommerce_the_title filter function, for cases when the filter is applied without sending the required post ID parameter (as specified by WordPress) by some non-compliant plugins
• Fixed the same warning fixed for the [orderstorm_select_product] shortcode function on version 0.5.7.2, for all the other product information rendering shortcodes

0.5.7.2 [2012.10.07]

• Fixed warning on the [orderstorm_select_product] shortcode function, when called internally from any of the other pertinent shortcodes

0.5.7.1 [2012.08.14]

• Fixed error in rendering of Product Category pages, when honoring the "display product/category names in page title" Storefront Setting

0.5.7 [2012.08.13]

• Fixed rendering of Product Category and Product pages to honor the "display product/category names in page title" Storefront Setting
• Added generation of "description" and "keywords" META tags for Product Category and Product pages, including compatibility with Michael Torbert's "All in One SEO Pack" plugin (at version 1.6.14.6, at the moment of this release)
• Added styles to the "ships free" notice on the product details template and modified CSS accordingly
• Fixed generation of Product Category page permalinks for the list of products in the Product Category page, when WordPress permalinks are set to WordPress' default
• Fixed the way CSS stylesheets are enqueued
• Fixed the way shortcode functions are declared
• Fixed JavaScript code repeats

0.5.6.4 [2012.07.25]

• Added compatibility with Michael Torbert's "All in One SEO Pack" plugin (at version 1.6.14.6, at the moment of this release), for generation of canonical URLs for Product Category and Product pages

0.5.6.3 [2012.07.25]

• Fixed critical bug in the HTML tag code from previous versions, causing incompatibility with other plugins, resulting in multiple loads of Product Category or Product page data

0.5.6.2 [2012.07.21]

• Fixed the product details template and its corresponding JavaScript, to display and properly process a "NONE" default option for non-required features of the "Drop-down" type

0.5.6.1 [2012.07.20]

• Fixed critical bug due to the HTML tag change in the previous version, causing the Product page "add to cart" functionality to fail

0.5.6 [2012.07.19]

• Added shortcodes to allow flexible rendering of product information wherever a normal content generation shortcode can be used:
• [orderstorm_select_product]
• [orderstorm_product_name]
• [orderstorm_product_item_number]
• [orderstorm_product_short_description]
• [orderstorm_product_long_description]
• [orderstorm_product_small_image]
• [orderstorm_product_medium_image]
• [orderstorm_product_large_image]
• [orderstorm_product_not_for_sale_or_deleted]
• [orderstorm_url_for_product_page]
• [orderstorm_product_retail_price]
• [orderstorm_product_your_cost]
• Added filter for properly rendering the HTML tag for Product Category and Product pages
• Fixed generation of URLs for Product Category page links to allow replacement of the category slug with the category key (works for both types of product category link generation: SEO-friendly or WordPress' default)
• Fixed generation of URLs for Product page links to allow replacement of the product slug with the product key (works for both types of product link generation: SEO-friendly or WordPress' default)

0.5.5.2 [2012.07.17]

• Fixed generation of URLs for Product and Category page links to honor link-override settings for both types of pages
• Added an [orderstorm_ecommerce_shopping_cart_status] shortcode
• Added the "Is the product name editable in the page title?" option to display this OrderStorm Storefront setting's current value
• Deleted code left over after fixing shortcodes in version 0.5.5

0.5.5.1 [2012.07.11]

• Fixed bug in the Product Details JavaScript, caused by a change in its enqueueing in the previous release
• Fixed bugs related to our money_format replacement function in its parameter-fetching section
• The product name used as the WordPress page title for Product pages will only be rendered as an inline-editable control for the first instance (which SHOULD be the page title), if the corresponding option in the site's OrderStorm.com Storefront settings is checked, which is the default from now on

0.5.5 [2012.07.07]

• Fixed the [orderstorm_ecommerce_display_product_category_page] and [orderstorm_ecommerce_display_product_page] shortcodes, and their related scripts, so they can be effectively used anywhere a normal content generation shortcode would be called from
• Fixed the way Product Category and Product pages are rendered
• Product Category pages now use the category description as the WordPress page title
• Product pages now use the product name as the WordPress page title
• Fixed generation of canonical URLs for Product Category and Product pages
• Fixed rendering of the Product Categories Menu Widget, so it behaves well when no categories have yet been configured for the site
• Fixed a positioning issue affecting the color picker for product options
• Fixed URL generation for Product Category and Product pages to use WordPress' "Site Address (URL)" setting, instead of the "WordPress Address (URL)" setting
• In the plugin's Advanced settings page, added the "Do not verify SSL peer certificate" option (with an appropriately visible warning message), to accommodate for web sites suffering from PHP installs with improper cURL library configuration
• Replaced usage of PHP's money_format function with our custom version, using parameters configurable from the OrderStorm.com Storefront settings page

0.5.4.1 [2012.06.11]

• Added messages to the Main settings page of the plugin's administrative interface, explaining the kind of API key in use and providing the option to set the sample key in case an empty API key has been set by mistake

0.5.4 [2012.06.09]

• Added an API key signup form to the plugin's administrative interface
• Enhanced JavaScript code enqueuing and compatibility
• Fixed a multifaceted bug which affected the features data encoding and decoding for the order products detail form script
• Fixed bug displaying the item number in the products list for a category
• Changed CSS to facilitate style inheritance from the selected theme
• Modified the help text on configuration pages for Product Category and Product pages
• Changed plugin description to a more helpful one

0.5.3.3 [2012.05.23]

• Updated the product details rendering script to honor the "default feature" setting for features of the "Drop-down" type

0.5.3.2 [2012.05.07]

• Updated the product details rendering script to use text parameters from the OrderStorm.com Storefront settings page to display the following field labels:
• item number label
• retail price label
• sell price label
• extended links label
• features/options label
• other options text
• free shipping text
• no free shipping text
• Fixed several bugs found in the feature groups verification section of the order products detail form script
• Fixed URL generation for Product Category and Product pages
• Fixed layout for product list items
• Added notices in the plugin configuration pages, letting the user know configuration is to be performed in the backend (OrderStorm.com Storefront settings page)
• Minor code simplifications

0.5.3.1 [2012.03.01]

• Added preliminary support for showing a link to an OrderStorm administration page for editing product info, for users logged in their OrderStorm administration page.

0.5.3 [2012.02.29]

• Fixed display and inline AJAX editing of "Days to ship" information for product pages
• Added trimContent option to jquery.inlineTextArea.js and jquery.inlineTextEdit.js, to enhance editing of applicable product information fields in product pages

0.5.2 [2012.02.28]

• Added support for inline AJAX editing of product information, in each product page, for users logged in their OrderStorm administration page
• Updated htmlentity.js to its latest version from http://phpjs.org

0.5.1 [2012.01.24]

• Added support for PayPal Express Checkout
• Fixed page redirection for invalid Product Page URLs
• Fixed bug for adding products, without product features, to the cart

0.5.0.2 [2011.12.29]

• Added pagination to the list of products in the Product Category page
• Fixed URL rewrites initialization and rules, to accommodate the new pagination for products and fix some bugs
• Fixed search page results to null the excerpt in case the content is empty for a product or category result
• Fixed minor conditional display bugs

0.5.0.1 [2011.12.21]

• Fixed query variable validation for Product Category pages
• Fixed conditional display of category title and information fields in Product Category pages
• Fixed display of shipping information, to obey a previously-overlooked configuration switch

0.5 [2011.12.14]

• Added product and category search capabilities to WordPress search results, if those are enabled in the site's OrderStorm.com Storefront settings page
• Fixed basic support for localization (more work is needed to make all plugin output localizable)
• Fixed loading of scripts and styles, using the proper hooks to make it compatible with WordPress 3.3
• Replaced usage of WordPress' "convertEntities" JavaScript function with another open source alternative (from php.js), since that l10n.js was taken out from WordPress 3.3
• Fixed a problem with the checkout modal window, related to WordPress 3.3, where it showed underneath the navigation menu for the default theme
• Fixed generation of URLs for Product and Category page links
• Removed deprecated code from the Product Categories Menu Widget
• Fixed Product Categories Menu Widget caching
• Replaced usage of WordPress' JSON.php (part Moxiecode's TinyMCE SpellChecker plugin) with our improved version (a ticket - #19440 - and patch had already been submitted to core.trac.wordpress.org), allowing us to discontinue usage of PHP's json_encode
• Added display of settings for inclusion of search results for products and product categories
• Fixed publish page verification
• Fixed session management for WordPress web service callbacks for adding products and submitting product questions
• Fixed creation of default Product Category and Product pages, to prevent comments and pingbacks on those pages
• Fixed a typo in the product details rendering script

0.4.9.11 [2011.11.30]

• Added compatibility with the Thesis WordPress Theme
• Minor bug fix

0.4.9.10 [2011.10.29]

• Added display of settings for generation of XML sitemap entries for Product Category and Product pages
• Fixed a bug for displaying Product Category pages when usage of pretty permalinks is disabled (WordPress default)

0.4.9.9 [2011.10.28]

• Added more flexibility for handling web service timeouts
• Added support for Arne Brachhold's Google XML Sitemaps plugin, enabling it to include URLs for Product Category and Product pages in the sitemap it generates

0.4.9.8 [2011.10.27]

• Changed styles for displaying product details

0.4.9.7 [2011.10.26]

• Changed styles for displaying category tiles in a grid

0.4.9.6 [2011.10.26]

• The Product Category page URL can now be used without a category permalink, to display the main categories list
• Minor content changes for plugin configuration pages

0.4.9.5 [2011.10.24]

• Fixed creation of default Product Category and Product pages, to force deletion of pre-existing pages
• Fixed array checking for the product features array submitted by the checkout modal window to the corresponding web services proxy
• Various changes to the default layouts for categories, products list and product details

0.4.9.4 [2011.10.24]

• Fixed a bug introduced in the default pages creation code

0.4.9.3 [2011.10.21]

• Changed product validation message
• Fixed creation of default Product Category and Product pages

0.4.9.2 [2011.10.17]

• Fixed array checking for current re-write rules

0.4.9.1 [2011.09.16]

• Fixed isWellFormedGUID's regular expression, which caused the function to accept digits outside of the hexadecimal range
• Fixed range validation for the row member function in jsonResultSet
• Modified height and width calculation for the checkout modal window to better suit changes in formatting
• Replaced use of DateTime::getTimestamp() with DateTime::format('U') for categories menu caching to fix the PHP 5.2 incompatibility caused by getTimestamp and to avoid a bug it has in 32-bit systems

0.4.9 [2011.08.23]

• Added HTML5 drawings with color option selection to the product details template
• Fixed a minor categories menu caching related to AJAX communications failover

0.4.8.2 [2011.08.21]

• Fixed a bug in Categories Menu caching, which prevented it from deleting a cached menu after it was marked stale
• Fixed the product details page to display the default medium image in case the product doesn't have one of its own

0.4.8.1 [2011.08.19]

• Added color data for product features
• Added data for product HTML5 drawings

0.4.8 [2011.08.19]

• Moved the majority of configuration options from plugin settings to the corresponding OrderStorm.com Storefront Settings page
• Changed the URL-rewrite and query vars generation logic, due to the above mentioned change
• Cleaned up plugin initialization by moving environment options from the global scope to options in the OrderStormECommerceForWordPress class
• The necessary Product Category and Product pages are now created by default at plugin activation, based upon defaults from the site's OrderStorm.com Storefront settings page
• Standardized and centralized generation of URLs for links and images
• Fixed input verification in the constructor of the jsonResultSet class
• Re-designed and implemented more efficient and well-behaved Categories Menu caching
• Miscellaneous bug fixes

0.4.7.1 [2011.08.10]

• Minor changes to default colors

0.4.7 [2011.08.09]

• Initial Release