Version 9.0

What’s New:

1. Interactive 3D Design Preview (Add-On Plugin)

In version 9.0, we have introduced an interactive 3D design preview of the product for your customers. It will help them understand exactly how the print product looks after it’s printed. For preview, you will have the following two options:

• 360-degree preview – for single-page flat products like business cards, letterheads, etc. It is also available for multi-page flat products like brochures, pocket folders, etc.
• 3D Model preview – for model products like mugs, t-shirts, pillows, etc.

In addition, we support custom models for other products like stubby holders, bottles, etc. at additional cost depending on their model creation complexity.

2. 3D Packaging Solution (Add-On Plugin)

Boxes are more than just a way to pack and ship items safely. They can be used to represent a brand and offer a memorable unboxing experience to the receiver.

In this version, we are introducing a personalized 3D box packaging feature with full personalization – outside and inside for the Product Boxes, Mailer Boxes, and Shipping Boxes.

Personalization:

• These boxes can be personalized by your customers in the designer studio and can be viewed in the LIVE 3D preview to see exactly how the finished product would look.
• To print packages other than boxes, your customers can directly upload their designs from the ‘Upload Design Center’ and add them to the cart.
• Apart from the mentioned box types, we can create new package box types on request at additional costs based on the availability of raw materials.

Pricing:

• For the price calculation, you can use our new advanced formula for options like printing cost, crease length cost, cutting cost, etc.
• Especially for this product, we bring you an advanced level of product options pricing. You will have the facility to create your variable formula and use those variables to define the custom formula for your product (master) options.

3. Photo Calendar Solution Enhancement

In the Photo Calendar Solution, customers can now modify basic properties like fonts, font styles, and colors, and even personalize the back cover.

When designing a calendar, you can determine the number of rows in a month, choose to split a single date cell to accommodate multiple dates and duplicate the same month on a single page within the page layout. These features provide greater customization and control over the calendar design process.

4. Canvas Solution: Center Align Image

In this release, a new setting has been introduced to control the default image alignment on the Canvas Solution. When enabled, the uploaded image will align centrally and fit the canvas without automatic zooming. This results in white space automatically being added on all sides of the image.

For instance, if the Canvas Solution is in landscape orientation and the uploaded image is in portrait orientation, the image will be centered on the canvas with more white space on the left and right sides compared to the top and bottom.

5. Photo Transfer from Smartphones to Desktops

In the online Designer Studio, customers can now transfer photos from their smartphones to desktops, simplifying personalization, which is particularly beneficial for Photo Prints Products. This process involves a few simple steps: click ‘upload from mobile,’ scan the QR code, connect the mobile device, and upload photos.

Customers can also share the link via email, allowing them to collect photos from friends as well.

6. Revamped ‘Markup’ feature

You can now configure markup percentages as either fixed or dynamic, and there’s an option for setting a master markup.

You have store-specific control over whether the markup should increase or decrease the product price. Importantly, the configured markup applies to both the product price and additional options, eliminating the need for separate configurations.

This enhanced markup feature allows you to adjust your store’s product prices to suit your business requirements.

7. Added ‘Configuration’ tab (UI Changes)

The Store UI has been enhanced for better usability and efficiency in version 9.0.

All store configuration details are now consolidated under a single tab labeled ‘Configuration.’ From this tab, you can conveniently manage various aspects including website logo, theme settings, email notifications, general settings, page customization, custom CSS, and inventory. Quick links for Email Templates and SMS Notifications have been added for easy navigation.

As part of the streamlined UI, the Inventory & Department menu item and the store tab have been moved to the new ‘Configuration’ tab, accompanied by minor UI improvements.

8. Product & Shipping Discount

You can now offer discounts to your store customers, including product and shipping discounts. This feature enables you to provide special discounts to premium customers and attract more business.

9. Approval pending order list of all department

From version 9.0, we will consolidate the list of pending approval orders from all departments into a single unified listing. This allows the approver to conveniently review and approve orders from one central location, eliminating the need to access department-specific listings and simplifying the approval process.

10. Auto-create store customer

Starting now, when you create a store, a store customer with the same email ID will be automatically generated. You can manage this feature through a setting and it streamlines the process and saves you time.

11. Create ‘Admin only’ Product (Master) Options

You can now generate ‘Admin Only’ Product Options and establish formula-based pricing for them. These options won’t be visible to customers in the front store; instead, they’ll be utilized solely for calculating product prices.

For instance, you can create options like creasing, cutting, folding, etc., where customers won’t see these choices, but their prices will be determined based on specified criteria like length.

12. Custom Size Enhancement

• Set size interval: You now have the option to define size intervals, limiting your customers to select specific size multiples. This feature also supports decimal values, such as 0.5 or 0.75.
• Cross-check size validation: You can easily enable size dimension cross-check validation for custom sizes with a simple setting. This is particularly useful when you want to allow interchangeability between landscape and portrait dimensions.
• Configure size ranges in float values: You can now configure size ranges with decimal values, for example, 0.5 to 10.5. This flexibility extends to Product Options with ‘Range lookup’ options like area, total area, width, or height.

13. Widget-based Admin Dashboard

In this release, a widget-based dashboard has been introduced, allowing you and your business partners to personalize the dashboard according to individual preferences.

Users can configure the dashboard to display information such as Recent Activities, Sales Statistics, Order Board (Order and Product-wise), Sales Trends (Yearly and Monthly), and Top Product Sales. New widgets like Recent Orders, Recent Quotes, Recent Customers, Store Quick Links, Pay On Summary, and Pending Approvals have also been added.

Widget access is controlled by predefined permissions, and configuring the dashboard is as simple as selecting and arranging widgets to create a customized layout.

This feature enhances dashboard organization, providing a unique, real-time view of your business and significantly boosting efficiency.

14. Reminder Emails

In version 9.0 we bring you, the following configurable reminder emails:

• Order Approval Reminder (B2B): Approvers will receive 2-level reminder emails for order approval each time an order is placed, reducing the chances of approval oversight. You can customize the scheduler and set up repeat reminders.
• Payment Pending Reminder: When your customers haven’t paid your payment request, you can send them email reminders.
• Failed Online Transaction: Whenever an online transaction fails, an email reminder will be sent to your customers intimating about the same and requesting them to complete the transaction.

15. New Shipping Method – ‘Shipping Cost by Order Value’

In the v9.0 release, a new shipping method ‘Shipping Cost by Order Value, has been introduced, providing additional flexibility in how you avail shipping charges. It calculates shipping costs based on the order value or subtotal.

You can define multiple subtotal ranges and set their corresponding shipping costs, ensuring that shipping charges vary depending on your customers’ order values or subtotals.

16. 2D Canvas Preview

This v9.0 release includes a new feature: a 2D preview for Single Photo Canvas Products. This setting-based preview enables customers to easily see a 2D representation of their personalized canvas.

17. Share Personalized Designs over social media

Customers can now share their personalized or saved designs from desktops to social media platforms such as email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. On mobile and tablet devices, customers can share images via WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, and the previously mentioned desktop platforms. This feature is particularly beneficial for Photobooks.

18. ZOHO Books – Accounting (Add-On Plugin)

ZOHO Books is an online accounting software that offers end-to-end financial management. By integrating it with your operations, you can efficiently handle your finances within a unified platform. This integration also allows you to synchronize your OnPrintShop orders with ZOHO Books and generate invoices for payment automatically.

19. Active Campaign – Marketing (Add-On Plugin)

Active Campaign is a marketing platform that, when integrated, helps you reach and engage with customers, foster relationships, and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

20. Trustpilot – Customer Review

Trustpilot is a customer review application that allows you to integrate it with your products and services. By doing so, you can collect ratings and feedback from your customers. This integration enables you to display your popularity, ratings, and feedback to potential customers, thereby, enhancing your reputation and credibility.

Enhancements for an edge:

1. Artwork Auto Resize in Upload Center Proofing

New precise artwork fill settings have been introduced in the upload center proofing & and upload center page – “Load actual image size,” “Fit to the canvas with aspect ratio,” “Fill to the canvas with aspect ratio,” and “Fill to canvas without aspect ratio.”

Additionally, customers can now switch between these canvas artwork fill options, enhancing the overall proofing experience.

2. Proof Approved email notifications to customers

Starting with the v9.0 release, when your customers approve their proof, they will receive email notifications in addition to you. This feature ensures that your customers stay informed about proof approval activities.

3. Product (Master) Option Enhancement

In the version 9.0 update, you can calculate the weight of products such as booklets based on the number of pages. Additionally, you can set setup costs that are specific to individual products within the Product Options feature.

Moreover, in Product Options categorized as ‘Textbox,’ you now have the option to incorporate validations, including minimum and maximum values, intervals, and default values for enhanced customization.

4. Create multiple Designer Rules

In this version 9.0 release, we’re providing the ability to establish multiple Designer Rules. This means you can now create multiple, hide/show designer rules.

For instance, if a customer selects the ‘Spot UV effect’ under Additional Options, they will then be able to upload the corresponding ‘Spot UV’ file. Additionally, if a customer opts for printing on a single side only, the Designer Studio will display only that specific side.

5. Company Name: Orders, Quotes & Customers

Within the customer profile, if you input the initial three characters in the ‘company name’ field, the system will provide a list of companies that begin with those characters, facilitating easier selection. This feature aids in rectifying any inaccurate entries made by customers. Additionally, we’ve introduced a ‘Company Name’ filter on the Customer and Order listing page to simplify data filtering.

6. Imposition Enhancement

In Imposition, you can set different margins for each side (left, right, top, and bottom) of a job. You can impose the PDF files without the need for re-uploading on multiple orders, and the job will be placed within the ‘trim box’ in the imposed file. Additionally, you can organize your imposition schemas into different categories.

7. Reports

In the Printer Order Summary report, we have made the assigned job count clickable, on click you will see the order details and order product details.

A new report “Additional Option Based Report” has been added through which you can fetch details based on the product’s additional options.

8. Product’s Image Gallery Enhancement

In the Product’s Image Gallery Settings, two more options – ‘Refer from Option’ and ‘Option combination-wise’ have been added to cover more business-use cases.

• Refer from Option: with this, you can define specific options and the system will refer to their images from the individual additional options.
• Option combination-wise: this option allows you to define a combination, and upload images for it. At the front store when the defined combination is selected, the respective image will be shown.

In Addition, on the pre-defined product’s price calculator, the displayed/selected product image will be carried forward in the Shopping Cart and Order.

9. Product-level Image optimization

Now with release 9.0, you will have the control to optimize website images for specific products.

Through the “Enable Optimization” setting in the Web Optimization screen, you can enable image optimization for a desired specific product and its images will be optimized in the background process.

10. User Images – Photo Album

The “Allow photos album for user images – Enable” setting has been added for Photobook and Photoprint product types through which you can control how your customer uploads images in the Designer Studio.

On enabling this setting, your customers will have to create an album and then upload images into that particular album for personalization.

11. More Sorting Options

In the v9.0 release, more sorting options – Popularity, newest, A-Z, or Z-A have been added on the product and template listing page for better usability of your customers.

12. Minor Enhancements

Designer Studio

• In clipart, from now onwards we will be supporting color gradients and will provide 24+ complimentary clipart.
• In the text property panel, ‘Justified’ alignment has been added.
• In the property panel, we have added new buttons, through which the selected text can be directly converted completely into uppercase, lowercase, or title case.
• The Designer Studio’s UI/UX has been optimized for a better user experience and easy navigation. For this, the position of buttons – Frame/mast, rotation, etc. have been changed for better visibility, subheadings and text option buttons have been added, default canvas fit to the screen has been set, and much more.
• The configuration fields in the left menu are streamlined with a user-friendly UI in both the Admin Panel and Front-Store for the Calendar product.
• In personalization, you and your customer can give negative value in character spacing.
• In the product’s ‘Designer Rule’ under ‘Designer Preview Images’, you will now have the option to upload mask images.
• Moving forward, you and your customers can specify float values in stroke.
• In Block PDF studio, if errors are found, the UI accordion will open and display the error, so that error is not missed.
• The photobook designer studio will now load with the number of pages specified by the customer in the price calculator.
• The admin can now create PDF block templates for Photobook products.
• Now, you will have the control to decide whether you want template auto-personalization from the caching storage or the profile.
• In mobile, when an image placeholder is selected, then the image replace pop-up will appear.

Product

• When you duplicate a product, its ‘template layout’ for standard products and ‘page layout’ for photobook, calendar, and canvas products will also be duplicated.

Order

• Now, in the order section, you can modify the user design template and send it to your customers directly from the ‘Modify Design’ pop-up.
• You now have the facility to bulk delete or update coupons.
• For online orders, the ‘Order Due date’ will be recalculated after the artwork/proof is approved by your customers.
• With the “Track your Order” link provided in the header, your customers can now track their orders with ease.
• Now, in the Modify Order screen, you will be able to modify product size as well as Job name.
• In the order listing page, the ‘Watch-list’ filter, PO number, and search feature have been added.
• You can now bulk update the ‘Tracking Number’ in ‘Order Product Bulk Update’ and ‘PO number’ in the ‘Order Bulk Update’ pages respectively.
• Now onwards, you will have the facility to update the ‘Order Processing Fee’ in any order.
• The Order Cancellation pop-up UI at the front store has been optimized.
• The workflow Admin will now only see generic comments and the assigned product’s comments.
• When the Admin changes the Shipping Method to ‘Local pickup’, they will have the facility to select the local pickup address.
• From v9.0 onwards, the transaction ID along with technical log details will be displayed in the order section for successful as well as failed payments.

Admin

• In v9.0, your customers can be auto assigned to a default user group whenever they are added to the system.
• You can now add bulk records in a single go for the product’s size, additional option’s attribute, and quantity.
• From version 9.0, the workflow admin will be able to create shipment labels only for the orders that are assigned to them and update only the assigned status (view and update both).
• In Customer and Zapier API, rewards details parameters have been added to be utilized while API sync.
• The customer settings – status, pay on account, payment due days, etc. will now not be visible to the Branch Admin.
• In the v9.0 release, you can now delete the older unused user images.
• In the Product cost estimation email, three variables – shipping info, customer name, and current date and time have been added for you to configure those details and display in the email.

Front Store

• In the price calculator, if you have a single value in fields – size, quantity, and additional options (with dropdown type), it will be shown as a label instead of a dropdown.
• You can now show Yotpo’s ratings beside the product heading, above the price calculator on Front-Store.
• You can now capture Google captcha from your guest customers and ensure secure login.
• Based on your customer’s login location i.e., IP address, the system will auto-detect the country and thus show respective currency and language throughout the front store.
• The admin can now add metatag settings at the product level and CMS page level for better SEO.
• While creating a CMS banner you can decide its display style – full page banner, inner page banner, or container width banner.
• You can now upload an SVG file in the ‘Upload file’ option throughout the system except for the logo file.
• The Terms and Conditions checkbox has been added to the customer registration (regular and guest both), subscriber/newsletter, and contact us form.
• You can now display multiple promotional messages at the same time on the same page.
• In ‘Product page Layout’, if you set the ‘Side-by-side’ layout, the visual price calculator will have a side-by-side layout for additional options with the ‘dropdown’ type.
• We have streamlined the capturing of addresses, added icons for easy identification, separated each action – add new, edit, set default, and added a new facility – ‘Set default blind address’.
• Your customers can now view the file in PDF viewer for proofing if the file is in PDF format.
• For iPad view, the layout style of the ‘All category’ menu has been changed. Now, in an iPad with 786 widths and lower, you can set the number of products displayed in a single row on the home page.

Upgrades on The Core Solution:

• Fixed decimal price mismatch issue
  • The issue, where the price displayed on the front store and the actual price had a minor difference (0.01) in decimal points due to the issue in decimal point storage, has been resolved.
  • For this, the pricing storage structure has been modified for product subtotal, shipping price, tax, etc.
• Flexible Integration: Any Digital Marketing: The coding structure of the marketing events has been centralized to integrate any digital marketing application with the OnPrintShop platform.
• Only the Super Admin can delete any user: Only the users with the Super Admin rights can now delete any user from the system.
• Upgraded all CSS and JavaScript: All the third-party CSS and JavaScript used in the solution (Front, Admin, and Designer Studio) have been upgraded for better compatibility and enhanced performance.

More Fixes:

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