The perfect client area .... what do you envision ?

[x] Clean and crisp
[x] Easy to Navigate
[x] Easy to pay invoices
[x] Easy to manage orders

For many years, our "vanilla" layout has been, well, dull.  In the beginning, my thoughts behind the design of the order & client area was to build a system that could be styled and dropped into any design easily.  Over the years, people have started wanting a more complete system.  A system that looks good out of the box with minimal changes needed.  Over the past few weeks, the client area has been undergoing a complete change that is leading into the order systems overhaul.

Instead of the plain client area, that leaves alot to be desired, the system we are completing will be an "out of the box" professional looking, ready to roll out client area.  To make it even more simple, we are basing everything we are desiging around the 960 Grid system.   It creates a uniform layout that looks good on any website.

I have a few long time clients that I contact for reference points before, during and after I design, redesign or rebuild areas and modules.  So far, I think I am "spot on" with the client area and will be carrying the same look and feel into the order system.  But, I am always looking for feedback and suggestions on everything.

This is where you come in.

Tell me what you would like to see and I'll put it on that areas list.  If it can be done, and we can see it being an asset to all of our clients, I'll do everything I can to make it happen.  This will be the biggest change in the system since we first released it many years ago.  It has been a long time coming and I am sure it will be warmly welcomed by all that see it.

Until next time ... and the next release.

I appreciate your feedback and time.

Thanks!

Brandee Diggs
Founder / Developer 

As promised, all new releases will have at least a new registrar, server module, payment module or other specialty module.  This one includes the NameCheap.com domain module.  While building this module, I started pulling apart other modules so that more of the registrar offered services can be made available as addons and/or products (i.e. SSL, Private Whois, etc., ).  These extended features should be released in an upcoming version as soon as we deem all to be stable and integrating properly. 

In the middle of this release, a current licensee requested if there was a way to send out shipping notifications to clients who order products that get shipped out.  I didn't see any harm in adding a few tweaks to allow this so, you'll see a few new options in areas such as product creation, new invoice adding, and order editing that pertain to this simple shipping feature that was added.

What's next ? I am gutting the front end of the system.  Starting at the most important area of the script ( the order system ) and streamlining the entire process to make order processing faster, easier and hopefully improve abandoned order syndrome.  This is going to be a painstaking process and I have hired on another part-time coder to assist in this area.  This will be in a MAJOR release (i.e. v3.3.0 ) as opposed to a minor release (i.e. 3.2.85 ).  In the next minor release, I am throwing in support for CashEnvoy and Internet.BS Domain Registrar.  If I am able to get through the Name.com API in time, I will be adding that registrar module to the system as well in the next build.

Moving forward, I will continue all progress on the order system & client area, then turning all focus to the admin area.  No matter the area, if there is something you would like to see, something you would like added or, an tweak to an existing area, let me know.  I take all requests into consideration and, if feasible and possible, I add them to the development list.

Module Question:  Would MailChimp Integration be something you would use ?

Until Next time ...

Thanks!

Brandee Diggs
Owner / Developer

Next week, v3.2.80 will be available in your license management area ready for download and use.  This version introduces support for the first on a list of new server modules, DirectAdmin.  When building server modules, we look for basic functionality:

1. Account Creation
2. Account Suspension
3. Account Unsuspend
4. Account Upgrade/Downgrade
5. Account Termination

As we move forward with our server module list, we will be testing/building for the following after a series of current module rewrites

• Helm
• InterWorx
• WHMSonic
• SCPanel
• CastControl
• VPS.NET 

That list has been compiled based on requests through tickets and emails over the past year.  We have a handful of new payment gateways being tested also, as well as updating current ones that will be available in a future release.