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zed eCommerce and WebCRM 7.5 now PCI-DSS compatible

For Immediate Release - Upon successful completion following three months of rigorous testing and review by the PCI Security Standards Council, the latest release of zed eCommerce and WebCRM has passed the Payment Application Data Security Standards (PA-DSS) validation. This validation will bring new, tighter payment account security to ensure protection and confidence for customers when making a purchase, online or offline.

Securing your zed eCommerce Web Site

Several customers have requested the ability to make the whole zed eCommerce site secure. Currently the only built-in capability to do this focuses on specific aspects of the site such as checking out or logging in using webflow functionality.

The following plugin will accomplish this task by checking if the current page is secure and if not, redirect to the secure page. The advantage of using a plugin to do this is it can be theme specific so ThemeA can force a secure co...

How to update the text in the administration user interface

zed eCommerce and zed WebCRM store all text used in the user interface in the database. The string import/export functionality is used If the text is to be updated  or translated. In version 7.0.2, several text changes were made in the English US localization and to get these changes for your installation, follow the steps below.

First you'll need to login to the administration as manager or a user with super user privileges.

Then choose Definitions, L...

Forward Internal Users to the Admin Homepage Upon Login

You may wish to have sales people, support people, and the manager user automatically forwarded to a page in the admin after they click login, rather than going to the My Account page first.

To do this, edit the "login webflow" and assign the web flow to the account type "internal"

To edit the login webflow, login to the admin as manager or a super user. Click Layout > Web Flow

On the web flow list screen select "Login" from the dropdown menu and th...

How to Use the Synch Data Map

 

In previous versions of zed eCommerce and WebCRM, as well as WebTools, a document (NP2SBO-DataMap.xls) was shipped in the SDK\Code Examples\SynchPlugin\ folder that contained a mapping of how the data synchs from one system to the other. However, not everyone knew this document was there and the information contained in it was considerably out of date. As part of the 7.1.2 release of zed eCommerce and WebCRM we wanted to include the updated information as well as ...

Migrating live eCommerce website to a new webserver

If you are looking to migrate an existing eCommerce site to a different server, here are some things to keep in mind.

Perform a new install on the new server and request a new license rather than trying to copy and recreate the eCommerce environment. There should be a test server license option available to choose from when requesting a new license.

Once you get the new install done, copy the website files from the current site (except web.config and bin folder) ...

Go-Live Activities for zed eCommerce

This document outlines the steps necessary to launch a zed eCommerce. website. Much of this information is outside the scope of eCommerce, and should be completed by a knowledgeable consultant with experience launching eCommerce websites.

This is not an installation document for zed eCommerce. This document assumes you have done all the work necessary on the eCommerce website, including licensing, synchronization of data with B1, site design, B2B or B2C logins creat...

On upgrading zed eCommerce and WebCRM to the next patch level

Neither the basic theme or any theme that does not include changes to the default system files will be overwritten by the upgrade process. Only when default system files(outside of the assets/common/themes/themename folder) are modified will you lose changes made to the theme.

A backup archive of every file in the folder for the website(inetpub\wwwroot\zedsuite) is made and placed in the installer directory C:\Program Files\zedIT..\Installer, so you will always have a ba...

Upgrading from SAP Web tools SP2 to zed eCommerce 7.4

 

Upgrading from SAP Web tools 6 Service Pack 2 to zed eCommerce 7.4 requires knowledge of the Web tools product and should be completed by a person that performed the implementation or is familiar with it.

Customizations made to the Web tools distributed source code files will need to be reapplied to the zed eCommerce files, therefore some programming knowledge will also be necessary if this was done.

This document only serves as a guide and may ...