mdekker

About Michael Dekker

Having made hundreds of e-commerce modules for shopping software Michael knows how to build e-commerce software in no time. His previous experience as a web performance consultant helps him build fast and stable software as well.

Stripe for thirty bees: announcing support for European payment methods + 3D Secure

2018-08-23T08:03:31-06:00May 15th, 2017|

At thirty bees we think that e-commerce integrations should not just be easily accessible, they should also be complete. Stripe has recently announced to support several European payment methods and they have added support for 3D Secure. Therefore we have worked hard to make these available on thirty bees, too. If you update the module to version 1.1.0 via your back office or with the download button below you will be able to activate these payment methods. After updating the module you will find that the following options have now been added: European Payment Methods Accept iDEAL Accept Bancontact Accept Giropay [...]

How to add custom (offline) payment methods

2018-08-23T08:03:39-06:00May 12th, 2017|

Yesterday we covered a new module: "Custom Payment Methods". Today we are diving a bit deeper. In this post we are going to explain how to configure the module for cash on delivery and store pickup. With the help of thirty bees' native payment module restrictions you can optionally charge a fee for these services. Cash on delivery In order to provide cash on delivery you will want the customer to select a carrier that supports this service and optionally configure a fee. We will first start with configuring the basic COD method and later on describe how to charge a fee. First, [...]

New module: custom payment methods

2018-08-23T08:03:45-06:00May 11th, 2017|

Ever had the need to add a custom payment method, without connecting to a payment gateway? Until now your options were pretty limited, but with the custom payment methods module we try to provide a way to add these payment methods as well. Until now you had to fall back onto paid alternatives or community contributions. We want to make these kinds of payment options available through a native module. This module allows you list an unlimited number of offline payment options. How does it work? Visit your back office, via your module list, search for custompayments. The custom payment methods [...]

New module: tawk.to – Add live chat to your site

2018-08-23T08:04:29-06:00May 8th, 2017|

One of the best ways to get in touch with your website's visitors (even before they become customers) is to add a live chat to your site. It makes it much easier for visitors to contact you and you can also pro-actively ask the visitor what s/he is looking for. All in all this can be a great tool if you use it wisely. Many services already exist to add a live chat to your website. They often track the current page of a visitor, allow you to add a widget to your site, have offline messages, allow to e-mail the [...]

New module: bees blog

2018-08-23T08:04:42-06:00May 5th, 2017|

One of the most requested features and a feature that greatly improve your SEO (as long as you actively keep filling it with content) is.... a blog! As promised on our roadmap we wanted to provide you with a blog module as soon as possible. Unfortunately we couldn't make the module for version 1.0.0 of thirty bees, but users of version 1.0.1 and above can now directly install the module from their back office. What the module does The module contains the functionality you would expect from a blog: Create blog posts Keep them in categories Add a comment section (disqus) [...]

New module: ImageMagick

2018-08-23T08:04:55-06:00May 4th, 2017|

thirty bees processes images before they are visible on your product page. A lot of images. For every type you can find on the back office page "Settings > Images" there's a new image made. thirty bees does this to optimize image display on the page. This often means that you do no longer show original photos of your products on your pages, but photos that have been resized and processed by thirty bees. Since thirty bees is a PHP framework there are two engines that it could use to process images: GD and ImageMagick. The most used engine is GD. [...]

thirty bees 1.0.1 beta

2018-08-23T08:06:14-06:00April 12th, 2017|

Yes, you read that right! Another version of thirty bees coming up. It has been weeks of hard work, scanning through old pieces of spaghetti code and refactoring large pieces of the software (don't be afraid to change the code once in a while to make it better!). The goal of these changes is to make the core more stable and/or make it easier in the future to remove bugs and to test it. This also explains why it took a while to reach the beta stage of the next version as we had to fix lots and lots of errors we saw [...]

Important: Security patch available – uno

2018-08-23T08:06:19-06:00March 15th, 2017|

We have recently learned that there is a vulnerability  in the code which allows visitors to upload their own module in your back office. This can happen if you have opened up your back office in DEMO mode. As soon as we learned about it and found the fix, we have made a patch version which doesn't require you to update your whole store, but allows to just patch version 1.0.0 instead. The next version 1.0.1 will already contain the fix. Information What is affected? Module and theme developers often provide a back office demo. If you provide a thirty bees back office demo, [...]

thirty bees: Translations

2018-08-23T08:06:31-06:00February 25th, 2017|

Unfortunately we had to pack the first version without translations, but we are happy to announce that they have been restored by now. In fact, you can download them right away from this page: https://translations.thirtybees.com/ How did we restore them so quickly, you ask? We now have our own CrowdIn project where everyone is free to make contributions to the translations. Thanks to CrowdIn we were able to recover most of the sentences via its translation memory. We have also already seen contributions from Nick N. (multicsales), Havouza, bitfork, yanivmirel, Alex (Allba), Marcelo Livramento (molivramento), vovanych and okom3pom. Thank you very much for [...]

More tests, better code

2018-08-23T08:06:44-06:00February 20th, 2017|

One of the recently added features is the new testing framework. We have invented a testing framework that will allows us to test every single line of the code. We expect that it will give thirty bees the strength it needs in order to recover from a sometimes (very) buggy code base. It will be used extensively in the coming months as it will allow us to remove bugs at a staggering rate! For 1.0.0 we have only had the chance to automate the navigation through the back office and check if pages roughly look good, but in the next four months we [...]

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