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Today we will see how to set up shipping in thirty bees, and what kind of options we have to customize and fine tune carriers and prices. Preparing products Before messing with any shipping options, it's important to understand that many of the carrier settings will be affected by how each product's shipping options are configured. Let's access a product, and tab to "Shipping": The first three options are seldom used without third party modules, as the standard carrier system only considers each item's size for the limits, rather than summing them all up, so we can freely skip them. The [...]

As a merchant, it is important to have a streamlined process to handle order submissions, to facilitate the shipping process and deliver as quickly as possible. Let’s have an in depth look at thirty bees’ order statuses’ inner workings and see how they can help us organize and ship orders in the most efficient possible manner. What is an order status? To understand what statuses are, let’s reach the Orders page in the back office to start with. What reads under the Status heading represents the state the order is currently in, and it’s meant to inform both the merchant and [...]

In the past 6 months I have mentioned that we have thought about pulling the plug on Patreon and moving to an in house system. Now is that time, we are finally ready to put Patreon to rest and move over to a better system for the future of thirty bees. Something more flexible, something that we can control more. Something were we control the data and users do not get randomly banned for what their store might be selling. The new system We are replacing Patreon with a function of our forum. This is going to allow us to better [...]

One of the core features of thirty bees is the ability to add any custom html code anywhere on the site, directly from the back office. In this tutorial we will take a deeper look at the HTML module, and see how to use it to customize our shop without having to hire a professional to do it. Locating the HTML Block configuration The HTML Block module comes pre-installed with thirty bees. As soon as we access the back office, we can find it at the very end of the menu bar, on the left hand side of the page: Should [...]

Creating wedding or baby shower registries with thirty bees   If you need to add a Wedding or Baby Shower registry to your web shop, then thirty bees is the perfect solution, coming with a full-fledged wishlists system out of the box. Today we will see how to install, use and customize it to fit our business needs. The first thing to do is install the Wishlist module, from the back-office’s Modules and Services panel: After it’s successfully installed, let’s reach the front office, login as a customer, and in the My Account page, we will see a new link reading [...]

If you are like everyone else in our community, you have been wondering what we are up to. What we have been working on the last few months is thirty bees version 1.1.0. It will be the latest, greatest, and shiniest version of thirty bees yet. At the same time we are still sticking to our guns and preserving compatibility with PrestaShop 1.6. Which, for a lot of merchants is a key feature of thirty bees. So I know you all are wondering what thirty bees will be, lets dive into what changes it will have.   Bug Fixes The 1.1.0 [...]

By Markus "Traumflug" Hitter One might think that displaying and calculating prices is of stellar importance for e-commerce. Selling goods is all about finding the right price for the customer, displaying it nicely next to the product and adding it up correctly for the cart an the invoice, after all. And then a bug report came in which made me scratch my head a bit. A matured e-commerce software like thirty bees, but rounding in the cart was plain wrong. Total of the product didn't even match the cart total. Long story short, this report triggered an audit of all the [...]

It started its life as the Git Updater module, but we wanted to come up with a name that would have a better explanation of what the module accomplishes. Nothing is more frustrating than coming across a term you do not know, or a module that you do not know what does. So we have changed the name of the Git Updater to the Core Updater module. This is the same module that you, our community crowd funded. This is the module that will make updates for versions of thirty bees quick and painless from today forward.   The module A [...]