Check out this forum thread to download pre-release versions of CE and comment on the product: http://creloaded.org/forum/82/35970.html  

It is a mainly a maintenance release with new PayPal and CRE Secure integrations.

The CRE Secure module includes ability to store card tokens and a method to submit new charges to the gateway with those tokens via the order admin page. This is Huge. This allows merchants that need to do additional authorizations of cards after an order to do so WITHOUT storing the card data in their site. The idea is to get out of PCI Compliance scope. Completely. And in doing so, save money on the scams that are ASV scans and actually know your card data is secure. 

Yes I said it. ASV Scans are scams for small and medium merchant websites. They do not protect you, they are just smoke and mirrors to cover the collective asses of the payment industry. Passing a scan does not absolve you of any fees or black balling if you get breached.

CRE Secure is the absolute best method to get out of the mess that is PCI for your website, not only for CRE Loaded carts but other carts as well.

In the weeks and months to come you will see more on CRE Secure and how it solves the PCI Compliance problems, not only for your store, but for the industry as well. Yes CRE Secure is going to save the credit card industry. You’re welcome.

Also the update will include a feature fix to the sales by category to include sale makers missing capabilities.  

Your’s evilly,

The Evil Overlord.

CRE Loaded announces the release of CRE Loaded 6.4.1

New Features:

• Admin log in as customer. With this you can login with the cutomers email and your admin password to see their account as they see it and place orders on their behalf with full checkout process and success module support
• Paypal Website Payment Standard (it’s baaaack) is now installed, pre-enabled and ready to go in every fresh installation
• Paypal Express Checkout pre-installed and ready to enable
• Paypal Payflow Pro via CRE Secure
• Paypal Website Payment Pro via CRE Secure
• CRE Secure module preinstalled – pre enabled, see it in action. Now connects to: Authorize.net, Chase Orbital, Payflow Pro and Website Payment Pro gateways. USAePay, Skipjack and EProcessing Network direct availability in Jan.
• Admin Password hardening to satisfy PCI PA-DSS requirements 8.5.10 and 8.5.11

Enhancements and Repairs

• Google Base is reintroduced after repairs
• Algozone EZ Template Installer is reintroduced
• Template Framework backward compatibility with older attribute logic introduced
• Upgraders now allow for refreshing of new customer, order data from live site without redoing entire upgrade
• Buysafe Module now bonds all orders by default more trust, more orders, more revenue share
• Multi Vendor Shipping code overhauled and stabilized
• One page Checkout shipping display repaired
• Several other bugs fixed see change log

Just a quick note to let you know what we are working on for the first update to 6.4.1 no release date has been set.

Your login from the CRE Forums will log you in here. We are proud to bring this new site to the community and look forward to your feedback.

New features of the community site are:

• Support Forums (existing forums content and users converted)
• Extensions directory 
• Community Developer Showcase
• Community Store Showcase
• Community Issue tracker
• The Progress Bar blog
• Freelance Market (replaces crelance)
• Developer Center
• Community News

Magento Imagine Conference in Las Vegas ended a couple of weeks ago, however, the positive effect created among the 1200+ participants seems to still remain (@MagentoImagine). More than 100 solution partners all over the world attended the conference. SmartOSC, being the only Vietnamese partner present this year, had the opportunity to experience this fun, inspiring and productive event.

Magento registered a high development during the past year. Acquired by Ebay in 2011, the Magento community now has over 800,000 members, 5600+ extensions made by 2,500 developers, and nearly 400 solution partners. Over 100,000 merchants rely on the platform.

During the three days, many topics of interest have been covered, from technology-focused sessions such as security, caching, deployment of Magento Enterprise, to business presentations such as “Web Merchandising”, “How to sell globally with Magento”.

It’s not so hard to notice that Asia is one of the growing markets for Magento, and while Australia has registered a high demand during the recent years, countries like China or Vietnam are showing up as very potential markets.

This year’s theme “What’s your Story” seems to be perfect, connecting merchants, developers, and agencies from all over the world.

So what’s our Story?

Since it’s inception in 2004, SmartOSC has positioned itself to become one of the leaders in the e-commerce service providers market. In late 2008, after implementing +100 ecommerce projects, we figured out we needed to focus on a serious platform. Magento was a perfect fit. Today, Magento is one of the most recommended and implemented platforms for our customers.

As of April 2012, with over 80 people, SmartOSC are proud to be one of the leading players within the Vietnamese markets, with more than 300 customers served, 400 projects completed and 200 extension licenses sold.

Finally, we would like to say “Thank you!” to all our old and new friends we met at the Conference. This is an amazing community, and the new business partnerships made during the conference is perhaps the most valuable thing we gained.

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Our Tripletex extension lets you easily synchronize all the invoices from your Magento online store directly into Tripletex, where they are being recorded properly. Accountants can get full access to Tripletex, and will thus be able to manage the accounts for you without either them or you having to install a single application on your local PC’s.

Features:

1. Add Payment methods:

You can add more payment methods by using Add store button

For each payment type you are using with Magento (PayPal, credit card), you must have a similar type of payment in Tripletex so Tripletex can record the payment. Payment types in Tripletex are administered via Accounting ? Settings ? Payment Types, see the section Payment.

2. Export invoice to Tripletex:

Invoice will be transferred from Magento admin shop to Tripletex accounting system.
Go to Sales ? Invoices. In the Invoices table, choose the “Not exported” invoices that you want to export to Tripletex system. Then choose Export to Tripletex action and Submit.

If the export invoice is successfully, the invoice will be displayed in the Tripletex invoice overview:

You can also configure the module, so that the transfer will automatically be processed within a specified time interval:

Export Active: Set to Yes to automatically transfer invoices taken into use.

Interval: Select the frequency with which invoices are to be transferred to Tripletex, choose between Daily, every hour or every 5 minutes.

Import Active: set to Yes to automatically check open invoices against Tripletex.

3. Tripletex Customer Number

When invoices are exported to Tripletex system, new customers will be created on Tripletex system. To check the customer number on Tripletex from Magento, go to Customer ?Manage Customers ? Account Information ? Tripletex customer number

If you have a growing business and want to expand your revenue stream in Canada, there’s a pretty good chance that you are or will be a partner of Ingram Micro (IM), the largest global wholesale provider of technology products & supply chain management services. For that, you can’t miss this extension, a comprehensive tool which organizes the orders and products from IM to right inside your Magento admin panel.

Features:

1. Order management:

- On one side, convenient grid view with search and sort functions gives you an overview of your sales activities. On the other side, order view give you a clearly view of the detailed information of orders, along with the order line items.

- Automatically grab items from Magento orders to create new order on IM so that at the end of day you don’t have to manually scan all orders, extract items and add them to the list before making order request to IM.

- Order release option allows you to decide whether to release order automatically or not, or to remain on hold for extended period. You could set the Backorder processing option if you want to order even when product is out of stock and ship when it is available at the warehouse.

- Easy save and load shipping profile with Drop Ship Id management. Let’s skip the boring task of filling lengthy address lines each time an order is created, as every new shipping address is automatically stored for later use.

- Check order status is a very simple way to know the current conditions of your order.

2. Product Management:

- You could check price and the availability of any stocks at any time. Stock can even be tracked to warehouse for estimated time of arrival.

- In addition, you could even add the product to your Magento store having most of the input fields automatically filled with data returned from this request.

The Imagine conference 2012 for Magento is right around the corner, it starts on the 23rd April. We are participating and are looking forward to getting some of the latest buzzes and trends for what is going to happen for the Magento platform.

We also enjoyed participating in the competition leading up to the conference with our short video. And we were pleasantly surprised that our video was chosen as showcasing ”. That is definitely a term that we do our best to live up to.

You can still see the short video here: http://challenge2012.imagineecommerce.com/entry/250841

For more detail please visit The Imagine Challenge Winners

Features:

1. Order management:

- Convenient grid view with search and sort functions is always the simplest way to have an overview of your sales activities. Moreover, data could be synchronized back from Supercome with just one click.

- Create new order with many configurable options: Requests sent to Supercom can be an action of Check, Quote or Order. Shipping status and note can also be added. Order can be created even when the product is out of stock with backorder option selected.

- Easy save and load shipping profile with Drop Ship Id management. Let’s skip the boring task of filling lengthy address lines each time an order is created, as every new shipping address is automatically stored for later use.

- Get tracking information for an order from Supercome, including tracking number, carrier code, serial number and part number. Up to 200 tracking codes are returned.

2.  Product Management:

- You could check price and availability of any stocks at any time. Stock can also be tracked to warehouse for estimated time of arrival.

– If the product’s price and availability haven’t satisfied you yet, detailed product attributes like image, product dimension, universal product code, category, etc. can also be obtained through product specification request. In additions, you can even add the product to your Magento store having most of the input fields automatically filled with data returned from this request.