March 2008 Release Notes
March 7, 2008 | In News & Announcements |Last week we announced our latest infrastructure improvements, and this week we are happy to announce the latest product features to be released. I will outline some of the new features in this post, but others will be addressed in a separate follow on post coming shortly after this one. So without further ado, here are features we released tonight:
American Express CID Codes
Merchants now have the option to process CID codes for shoppers paying with American Express. First Data Merchant Services (FDMS) recently added support for American Express CID (Card Identification) codes and we have updated Checkout Manager to allow for displaying this field and passing the value through FDMS to American Express.
Merchants who would like to use the CID code when accepting American Express will need to contact American Express directly to enable processing of the code and then publish your order settings. If your orders show a response code of “P” (Not Processed) then American Express has not enabled CID support for your merchant account yet. Please consult our Risk Tools help for more information about this feature.
Default Product Image Format Selection
Ever wonder why your product images may look different from the original image after uploading? Currently in the Store Editor, if you upload images larger than the values specified in your Image variables for product images, your original image is resized and converted to GIF format. With our upcoming release there will be two new variables added which allow you to control the default file format for resized images. This allows you the flexibility to choose the format that best meets your needs, including GIF, JPEG, or PNG.
You can also choose a default value for images generated by the Store Editor for navigation buttons or display text; this is more commonly used in the 2.0 Editor templates that generate images for side navigation buttons. The default setting of GIF will remain so no changes will be made automatically to your images. You can find these new variables in the Image Dimensions section of the Variables page. For more information please refer to Help.
View by Specific Date Range
We have added a date range option to the Page Views, Sales, References, and Searches reports. With this feature if you are running a short term promotion that launches on a specific day and runs for a specific period, you can set the date ranges to correspond to that period and view and export the results to help determine the impact for that period. Likewise, if you make a major change to your site, such as a redesign or change to checkout, you can run two reports with the date ranges set before and after the date of the change to help determine what the impact may have been.
Two Other Changes for Cross-Sell
We have also made improvements to our Cross-Sell Manager to provide merchants who have this feature with the flexibility and insight into cross-sell performance they have requested. We will dedicate a separate blog post just to these improvements, but here is a quick preview of the changes:
- Customizable labels for price, sale price and cross-sell discount on product and cart page cross-sell listings. Consult Cross-Sell help for more details.
- New graphs available in the Graphs page to show the performance of automated rules, manual (merchant created) rules, and both combined so merchants can decide on where to prioritize their cross-sell efforts.
So look for another post which will get into all of the details for the improved Cross-Sell features shortly. We look forward to bringing you many more releases this year and continue our wish to be a true partner in your online success.
Paul Boisvert
Yahoo! Small Business
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Nice NEW features.
Question:
Can the TEXT Card Verification Number: be changed to CVV/CID Number: ???
Comment by bobsc — March 7, 2008 #
Bob
You can change the label of the field to whatever you wish in Checkout Manager > Page Configuration. Select the Card Verifcation number field and click Edit. Then you can change the label, and you can also change the field-level help for this field to link to another popup on your site with custom images and wording.
Comment by pboisver — March 7, 2008 #
But, I can’t change the American Express IMAGE to “card verification number”.
It would be nice to refer to it the same way for IMAGES and TEXT.
Comment by bobsc — March 7, 2008 #
Bob
You can change the text label to be CVN/CID or even Card Verification Number/Card Id Number so that the label for the text field is reflective of both labels on both images. American Express does refer to the card security code as a CID.
Paul
Comment by pboisver — March 8, 2008 #
Is Default Product Image Format Selection feature working? I was not able to change the image output format using these variables.
Comment by Sunil — March 10, 2008 #
Paul,
Great news about the new features. When will the image format options be functional? I see the 2 new Variables as well as the new “source-type” attribute for the IMAGE RTML operator. I assume that attribute can take @Uploaded-img-default-type as a value. But setting that Variable to JPEG and adding it as a value to my IMAGE statements does not seem to have any effect.
Is this feature on the “coming soon” list or am I overlooking something obvious (which is always a distinct possibility at this hour).
Comment by Bruce Randall — March 11, 2008 #
Sunil,
The new variables are working but we need to clarify the expected behavior around these since there is some confusion. Changing the variables to a new file format (say from GIF to JPEG) will only change the file format for resized images that are subsequently uploaded (or reuploaded by FTP or a multi-image upload). Existing images will not change format unless you reupload them. Hope that helps clarify.
Paul
Comment by pboisver — March 11, 2008 #
Bruce,
Both the source-type (associated with IMAGE) and image-type (associated with IMAGE-REF) attributes take the following values:
:gif
:jpeg
:png
In terms of ordering and setting a value for this, engineering has provided the following information:
There are several ways of specifying the value (for uploaded default image type), and, in the order listed it’s “first one wins”:
1–several operators now have image-type parameter, if non-NIL, it is used
2–variable override is checked next and used if non-NIL
3–variables are checked, and used if non-NIL
4–GIF is the default.
Hope that provides some more detail on these new variables.
Paul
Comment by pboisver — March 11, 2008 #
That sure helps, Thanks Paul
Comment by bobsc — March 11, 2008 #
Thanks Paul for clarification and explaining the operator.
Comment by Sunil — March 12, 2008 #
Merchants should be aware that according to American Express, Yahoo store merchants cannot use the CVV feature yet, unless you’re part of a “select” chosen group by Amex. Its a mystery as to why Yahoo has not let everyone know this.
Comment by G Stofer — May 6, 2008 #
G,
This is a good opportunity to remind merchants that American Express has outlined a process for Yahoo! merchants to activiate CID verification. Merchants must either contact their Amex account manager (if they have one), or submit their request to a particular email address that has been set up by Amex. You can find out more about how to submit this request, and the email address it should be sent to, here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/store/risk/risk-12.html. Please note that you should not phone Amex customer support to request this feature.
Jennifer
Comment by jfarwell — May 15, 2008 #