AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

You can enforce account sign in for all site visitors by adding "allow" authorization rule for authenticated users only. Just add the the code below before the </system.web> in your site web.config file. <authorization> <deny users="?" /> <allow users="*" /> </authorization> This apples to any asp.n...

You can add the 301 code directly on each page:


<script runat="server">
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";
Response.AddHeader("Location", "http://www.domain.com");
}
</script>

We have clients based in Australia and you are right, the 14hr. time difference may cause communication issues, but from our experience it has its advantages. For instance most site migrations and server upgrades for our clients located in U.S (East Coast, Northeast, Midwest) are scheduled during of...

If the file is encrypted the connection string must be changed from your site Admin section.

If you need to migrate an existing AC 7.0 site database from SQL 2000 to 2008 R2 you just need to create full database backup from the existing MSSQL 2000 server and then restore the backup file under a new MSSQL 2008 R2 instance. Make sure you have a valid MSSQL 2008R2 DB login assigned to the data...

If your business qualifies as Merchant Level 4 category you just need "PCI-DSS SAQ C" completed. Mercahnt Level 4: Any merchant processing fewer than 20,000 Visa e-commerce transactions per year, and all other merchants -- regardless of acceptance channel -- processing up to 1M Visa transactions per...

If the KERNELBASE.dll is generating exceptions that means OS system related issues. Try to completely uninstall DataPort, reboot your machine and run ccleaner against your computer registry.

http://www.ccleaner.com

Microsoft Azure is currently not PCI DSS compliant and there is no ETA or official statement from Microsoft regarding the issue. For merchants using third party payment processors like Paypal and Google Checkout this should not be an issue, but merchants using their own merchant account won't be abl...

Hello,

Make sure each site is running under its own application pool and application root folder. Shearing application pools and application root folders could be one of the reasons for this exception.

AbleCommerce can also run on a shared asp.net hosting for $10/month and does not require dedicated server. It really depends on what are you looking to accomplish with a particular online store and how serious is the business running behind the store. If it is a serious business and you have spent m...

Hello, AbleCommerce does not have any specific server requirements and is pretty well optimized compared to other asp.net shopping carts like AspDotNetStoreFront and BVCommerce. From our experience with AbleCommerce is the I/O server performance that make difference not the amount of server memory a...

Yes, the auth. transaction will reserve the requested amount and the transaction will show up as a Temporary (Pending) transaction regardless of the AVS status. We tried this method in a custom payment gateway we developed for our domain registration service in order to prevent fraudulent domain reg...

Transaction pre-authorization in AC is possible, but it would require custom changes in the checkout process logic. Another disadvantage of credit card pre-authorization are the additional fees associated with the pre-authorization (Auth.Net will charge separate AVS and Transaction fee for each tran...

Hello, One solution to this issue is to have your AC site installed under separate drive partition (for instance G:\Home\WWW\www.mysite.com) and then configure the same drive letter on all backup servers. We have similar concept for all AbleCommerce sites hosted with us and are able to migrate sites...

Drundo.Com offers high performance fully managed dedicated solution for both AbleCommerce 5.x and 7.x. If your AbleCommerce site is
still running in a shared hosting environment or with no site uptime and performance monitoring we can help you boost your store's
conversion rates.

Hello, The database fix is in the CommerceBuilder code. If you need to manually fix the issue for 7.0.4 you have to have access to the CommerceBuilder source code which is available as a separate product. http://www.ablecommerce.com/CommerceBuilder-Source-P95C51.aspx Once you have the CommerceBuilde...

Hi Eric,

To get detailed asp.net exception info related to the above messages check your server Application Event Log. You can send me the exact exception message from the AppEventLog, so I could take
look. Win2008R2 has some additional security settings set by default which may cause the issue.

Hello, Accessing the database directly is not a good development practice and should be avoided. Binding your code to the current DB schema may introduce hard to debug issues in the long run if the database schema gets updated by AbleCommerce patch or upgrade script. The best way is to utilize Comme...

Hi Dean, - go to the DataPort folder : C:\Program Files (x86)\AbleCommerce\AbleCommerce DataPort xxx - select the DataPort application, right click and select Copy - go back to your desktop right click and select Paste Shortcut (this will create DtaPort shortcut on your desktop) - right click on the...

Hi Nick,

What is the site configuration in IIS? Do you have separate application pool for each site or all sites are shearing the same AppPool? Also do you share any code between all sites or each site
is running under its own physical folder setup as separate application in IIS?

Hi Dean, - Start the Dataport and after you get the error go to: - Control Panel ->Administrative Tools - click on Event Viewer - Select Windows Logs -> Application - Check for any entries created after the Dataport reported an error - You can also check the Custom Views -> Administrative Events for...

Hello,

Make sure that Microsoft .Net Framework is being enabled on your Windows 7 computer. I can also confirm that the DataPort work on Windows 7 64 bit (we use Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit) on
all development machines.

Control Panel -> Programs And Features -> Turn Windows Features On of Off

The error above means that the SMTP server (running on your Exchange Server) requires authentication. Configure the email account you are planing to use on your AbleCommerce site on your local computer first using a local email client like Outllok, Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail etc. Make sure t...

If you are running a small volume ecommerce site (less than 20,000 transactions/year) your site will fall into merchant level 4 category. http://www.pcicomplianceguide.org/pcifaqs.php#5 In merchant level 4 category your site must pass a quarterly scan by an approved scanning vendor. In this category...

A load balancing solution could increase site performance if a site is under heavy load (200-300 > concurrent visitors) and the traffic need to be distributed between several servers. For low traffic sites (less than 1TB/Month) running in a single web server configuration Disk I/O performance is the...