Version 8.0

What’s New:

1. Product Price by Linear Interpolation Formula

In this release, we are introducing the ‘Linear Interpolation formula’ feature for the ‘Range-based with multiplication’ and ‘Dynamic/Custom size’ pricing methods. For this, a ‘Apply Linear Formula’ setting has been added to the Add or Edit Product screen.

This advanced feature will estimate the value of intermediate points between two known values.

When the product price for each quantity within a range varies, the price for each unit will increase in arithmetic progression.

With this feature you will not need to configure a long price range, instead just set up a few points with equal intervals and the formula will calculate the varying price for all the intermediate points within the range.

2. Product Options – Master

Another major feature that we are introducing in this release is Product Options. Through this, you can configure Product Options only once and assign them to multiple products. The main advantage is that in the common option, you can configure all the possible attributes while assigning them to products and enable only the applicable attributes.

You can configure product option master Pricing based on formulas, Multiplier, Linear Formula, or no price at all. Also, you can configure range-lookup based on Quantity, Area, Total Area, or the number of sheets.

This feature will save you a lot of time for individual Product Option creation.

3. Additional Options before Product Size (Especially for Label product)

Now, based on a new setting – ‘Display above size’- you can display Additional Options before Product Size.

Additionally, in the Options Rules screen, a new option – ‘Additional option-based size hide’ has been added to define a rule for the additional options that are displayed before Size.

This feature will be very helpful for the Label Products price calculator, you can display additional options like Label Type, Shape, etc. before selecting a size.

4. Custom Size Product: Quantity-based Additional Options Price

In the v8.0 release, we’ve expanded our pricing options for custom products to include a ‘Quantity-based’ pricing configuration for Additional Options as well. Previously, this feature was exclusively available for the Product base price. Now, when it comes to additional options, you have the flexibility to configure either attribute prices or quantity-based attribute prices. You can tailor the quantity range to align with your specific business requirements.

5. Re-order From the Admin Side

Now, the admin can initiate a reorder directly from the Admin Panel. This empowers the admin to handpick specific products from the entire product inventory within the current order.

Furthermore, providing shipping and payment details can trigger payment requests, much like it would for an offline order. The Order ID for the reorder will follow the sequence of the original order, making it easier to track. This feature streamlines the process of placing a reorder, eliminating the need to log into the customer’s account.

6. Dynamic Height calculation for Shipment package

We are excited to introduce a new feature that allows you to configure dynamic height calculations for your Standard Product Shipping Packages.

With this feature, the system will calculate the number of packages required based on your order quantity. From there, it will automatically determine the quantity of products to place in each package based on the calculated number of packages and the thickness of the products. This ensures that the height of each package is dynamically calculated for optimal packing.

Additionally, you have the flexibility to configure an additional height that can be added to the calculated dynamic height, allowing you to customize your packaging further.

7. Shipment package calculator

In the v8.0 release, we provide you with the advanced facility to calculate the best-fit box and the right number of box packages required for Order Shipment all by yourself, for an existing product, or any custom product.

You will just have to provide details like order weight, product weight, box weight, gross weight, and the dimensions of boxes and click calculate.

The system will auto calculate the wastage for all the given list of boxes and suggest the best fix of box packages along with the possible.

8. Upload multiple artwork files (Product Upload Center & Upload field)

In the Product Upload Center screen, your customers will have the provision to upload multiple artwork files, unlike side-specific only front/back. Similarly, for the ‘Upload’ field of the Product Additional Option and the Form fields, your customers will be allowed to upload an ‘n’ number of files.

Both features will be available at the front store as well as in the Admin Panel and they can be managed through the “Allow Multiple File Upload” and “Allow Multiple Job” settings provided at the product level.

9. Phone number validation

Now, you can perform the phone number validation via Google API, for the majority of countries across your Front-Store to maintain a clean list of the contact database.

This validation will automatically identify the country as well as validate its format and digit length based on the country along with displaying the flag of the respective country.

When the customer enters a phone number, based on the country calling code, its country will be auto-detected, and the customers will only be able to enter the number for the allowed length.

10. Download Artwork without Placing Order

In version 8.0, you can allow your corporate customers to download their product artwork at the front store just by the “Download Print File” quick setting in Product. This will allow your corporate customers to download their customized artwork, or the ready-to-buy templates before placing an order.

In addition, you can track which customers downloaded which product’s templates along with the download count through the new ‘Download Print File’ report.

11. Rule-based product assignment to Vendor (Printer)

You can now assign products to the Vendors (Printers) with different Product Rules based on Size, Quantity, and Additional options. For this, you can simply create Product Assignment Rules and assign them to appropriate Vendors.

Later, whenever customers place an order at the front store, the respective product will be assigned to Vendors based on the configured rule.

12. Custom Art/Logo Maker (Add On)

With this release, your customers will have the advanced facility of ‘Custom Art/Logo Maker’ in the designer studio through which they can:

• Create their own Art/Logo along with naming them.
• Save the created Art/Logo for future use.
• Access saved art and edit it anytime!
• Re-use saved Art/Logo.

This new enhancement will provide personalization flexibility for your customers and also will improve the design experience.

13. Upload Google Fonts directly from Google Font Library

In the v8.0 release, ‘Google Fonts’ has been added to the library plugin in the Designer Studio. As an admin, you can now effortlessly include any Google Font into your Designer Studio in just three steps – Search, Apply, and Save.

The system will automatically convert the file format into all the required formats for all the available Font Styles (Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bond/Italic) for the searched Google Font Type (Roboto, Open Sans, Poppins, etc.).

14. New Usability Features in Designer Studio

• Template Objects – by-default lock positions: You can now default lock all the template objects for all the system templates with the “Lock Objects Position & Allow to unlock and Delete” single setting. If required customers can easily unlock the objects and move them around in the template to avoid making unintentional changes in the template while they edit other parts of the design.
• Object Grouping: You and your customers can select multiple objects on the canvas and group/ungroup them as well as stretch the whole group making it easier to work with multiple objects.
• Format Painter: With the new “Format Painter” tool, the customers can now select a text, click the ‘Formatter’ button, and apply the same format to any other text on the Designer Studio canvas. It shall copy all the effects – font, size, font style, alignment, color, etc. and will be available for all the products.
• **Swap Images:**You and your customers can now swap images directly using the Swap button. It will be possible between any two images irrespective of the page they belong to.
• **Font resizes without aspect ratio:**The Font/Text Scaling setting has been enhanced by providing options – Font scaling with/without aspect ratio and none instead of a toggle switch. When Font scaling without aspect ratio is configured you and your customers can scale the font/text vertically as well as horizontally without aspect ratio.
• Display Template’s used colors & fonts: With the new “Enable Used Color & Fonts from Design” quick setting, you can enable your customers to view all the colors and fonts used in the template for easy maintenance of consistency in the template.
• Display Template’s default & bound colors: Based on the new “Allow Default Colors” and “Allow Default Fonts” settings, now can show the template’s bound color as well as default colors to your customer in the Designer Studio.
• Canvas Orientation Option: For a single photo canvas, we have introduced the icon to orient the canvas on the front store.
• Canvas Guidelines Enhancement: Moving forward, we will save horizontal or vertical lines whenever customers save the design and come back again to the Designer Studio canvas through any source, the guidelines will be visible just the way they were set when the customer last saved the designs.

Enhancements for an edge:

1. Additional Options Rules

The Additional Options that are marked as required have the option – ‘Select Option’. You will now have the facility to configure rules based on the ‘Select Option’ checkbox option. Similarly, for the Request Quotes of existing products, you can configure additional options rules based on the ‘Select Others’ option.

In addition, the Options Rules listing page will now have a sorting option.

2. Modify Order in the Admin Side

While modifying the order you will now have the dropdown list to select additional options and won’t have to manually type them along with specifying any custom additional option value. The dropdown list item will be available for additional options with datatype – dropdown, radio, and checkbox.

The value of the additional option will be converted and displayed in the configured default language, and it will be displayed in Order, Job Ticket, and Invoice based on a site variable.

3. Request Quote Form

For an existing product quote, all the price calculator fields of the particular product will now be displayed. In this setting-based feature, along with existing product fields, the Quote Form Fields will also be displayed.

You can configure this feature and allow your customer to apply for a quote by specifying options from existing fields. The best part is that you don’t have to configure all the fields in the Quote Form fields.

4. Auto-update Order payment status

Now onwards, whenever you mark a raised Corporate Invoice as paid, the payment status of all the Order IDs associated with the Invoice will be auto-updated to ‘Paid’.

5. Re-direction to Corporate Login Page:

Now in the emails, the corporate users and the retailers will have different login page links. The Corporate users will have the Corporate Login Link.

6. Extra Fields

Two new extra fields, “Checkbox and Switch (toggle) button” have been added. Through Checkbox, you can let your customers select one or more options of a limited number of choices whereas the Switch button lets your customers choose between two mutually exclusive options and always have a default value.

7. Email Notification Template

In the email notification templates, you can now set ‘BCC’ as well as ‘From Name’ along with ‘From email ID’.

Example: OnPrintShop Support <onprintshop.support@radixweb.com >

8. Photobook Module

The following enhancements have been made to the Photobook module –

• The Inner Side of the Cover Page (Flipbook) has been customized and we will call it “Flipbook”. Through this feature, you and your customers can customize even the inner side of the cover page of a Photobook. While configuring, you can only mark a Photobook product as a Flipbook (softcover) and all its pages shall work as inner pages. This will be very handy for Magazines and similar printing products. This Flipbook (softcover) feature offers your customers a seamless personalization experience.
• For the Photobook template, the configured layout category will be displayed in the Designer Studio.
• You and your customers can now perform one-step undo and redo on layout apply or change.
• Now, the admin can create a side specific layout.
• The Designer Studio features, “clear page and layer button” will now also be available for Photobook products.

9. Minor Enhancements

Product

• In the Product Page Layout, two new blocks – “Product Description 2” and “Product Extra Message 2” have been added for you to provide added product descriptions to your customers on the Front-Store.
• You can now configure default/minimum value for Additional Options with datatype – ‘Textbox – with/without multiplication’ to be displayed on the Front-Store.
• You can now configure size-wise setup costs for Products to show size-wise minimum product price to your customers.
• You can now duplicate the Additional Options for the same Product.
• Now, you can configure product-specific order cut-off time, if not, the system will consider the existing site level (common) setting for the same.
• In the version 8.0 release, you can set an interval in the Product setting, and on the front store, your customer will only be able to specify quantity in the multiple set Interval in the Price Calculator.
  E.g. – 20|10, where 20 is the default quantity and 10 is the interval, in the price calculator customers will be allowed – 20, 30, 40, 50, and so on up till the configured range limit.
• From now on, you can add Schema markup for SEO purposes for any content pages, static pages, product pages, and FAQs.
• The Meta type – Name and Property have been added for better searching and ranking by search engines.

Order

• The Super Admin will now have the Mass delete facility to delete unpaid orders.
• When you mark a raised Payment Request as ‘Paid’, you can now mention the Payment Method, Transaction ID, and any additional comments.
• You can now download multiple job tickets into a single PDF file easily.
• For better usability, the ‘Update Order’ pop-up UI has been enhanced by clubbing relative fields into respective sections. Also, some new fields such as Payment Date, Payment Method, and Transaction ID have been added.
• In v8.0, we are introducing ‘Conditional Discount’ in both ‘Combo Discount’ and ‘Discount’ and introduced ‘Order Count’ in ‘Discount’.
• In this release, item-wise order due date and production due date will be stored in the database. This storage is just for internal purposes as of now.
• A common Order Feedback listing screen has been added in the Testimonials section for you to check all the Order Feedback under a single listing. Additionally, a ‘Thank You’ email notification will be sent to your customers when they provide feedback on an Order.
• You can now update the Purchase Order (PO) number in Offline Orders to store it for future reference.

Front Store

• On the Product Category and Product Listing screen, the ‘Lazy Loading’ effect has been applied for pagination and has removed conventional pagination.
• You can now display ‘Product Templates’ on the ‘Product Info’ screen in a list instead of a slider.
• On the Product Info screen, in-text fields when your customers press the enter key, the screen will be refreshed, and the field will be highlighted. If the customer presses the tab key, it will be moved to the next field.

Admin Section

• For third-party shipping methods – FedEx and UPS, you can decide the file format (PDF/PNG/GIF/ZPL) in which your customer’s order shipping label should be printed.
• You can now block multiple IP addresses to avoid unnecessary spam emails and traffic from the Block IP screen.
• In the v8.0 release, you can now assign the Branches to the registered customers along with the option to change the already assigned Branch.
• Whenever 3rd party SMS service is enabled, you will be able to send Order Update SMS notifications to your Printers/Vendors.
• Your customers can now see Product Details in the Order-Product Cancellation pop-up. This will help them to know about any product being cancelled from the Order.
• In the XML Export file of order, a attribute has been added in the details of the print-ready files section.
• The Admin Notes of Quote will be displayed in respective Order as well.
• From the v8.0 release, you will have the option to specify Tax or choose the default Tax for the Quote Products.
• In the ‘Online Price Calculator’ pop-up of Quote, the Product details requested by your customers will also be shown for your convenience.

Designer Studio

• The ‘Sharpen’ effect has been added to the image adjustment to highlight edges and fine details in an image.
• You can upload an SVG file for a mask/frame image which will enable you to edit the print-ready file. In addition, the Mask is renamed as “Frame” in the image placeholder.
• Throughout Designer Studio, the ‘Lazy Loading’ effect for pagination has been applied instead of “load more”.
• On every element in the Proofing Tool, an accurate tooltip has been added to provide information about the element and also help the customers use the tool more effectively.
• You can now configure a warning message as per needs either for the low-resolution image or empty placeholder or for both or none.
• Whenever multi-level categories are created to sort/classify images in the Admin Panel, a level-wise classification will be displayed in the Designer Studio.

Upgrades on The Core Solution:

• Password Storage Algorithm Upgrade: The algorithm for password storage is upgraded as per the new server compatibility and security.
• format Support for customer’s password: We have introduced a new format – md5 for password storage in the database. It will be used as a secure cryptographic hash algorithm and can’t be decrypted.
• Advanced Session Storage Options: You will now have two advanced session storage options – Database-based and Redis-based (Server). Redis is a separate server for session storage. This provision will be available only for enterprise customers that use multi-server to handle high website traffic.
• libvips Library for faster Image Processing: This library has great performance characteristics, runs quickly, and uses very little memory. It will be used for operations like resizing, thumbnail creation, crop operation, etc. It will enhance your website’s performance to many folds.
• Page Speed Optimization: With the improved speed, the pages will load on the Google pages by making necessary changes like splitting CSS & JS, setting up image height to avoid CLS, etc. This is beneficial for page ranking on the Google search engine.
• Mobile UI: To offer a better user experience, the Mobile UI has been modified.
• Standard Product Order Flow without PDF generation: For the standard product, based on a setting you can choose when you want the print-ready file (PDF) to be generated – in the Product Order Flow at the Front-Store or the Admin Panel when you download the file. This will ultimately optimize the storage.

More Fixes:

We have identified and resolved some bugs in OnPrintShop to enhance its performance and user experience.