native modules

Although this one has been quite a while on the native module list in your back office, we hadn't announced it's availability, yet. So here goes! A lot of users have been complaining about spammers for a while. At the moment it is easy to grab the URL of a contact form an spam a merchant. This module allows you to add a captcha to the login form, the registration form, the password forgotten form, the contact form and the back office login. By adding a captcha it is no longer possible to automatically create accounts, spam the contact form [...]

A feature that has been requested for a quite a while, but was never available with the Advanced EU Complaince is a module to comply with the EU cookie law. The module shows a notice to the visitor that cookies are used on the site. An e-commerce website cannot work properly without cookies. Cookies are used to keep user logged in, keep the cart and is particularly important for the checkout process. So this means that if your store is located in the EU and/or targets EU customers, you will have to show a cookie notice. In order to make it [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]

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. [...]

If you are like most ecommerce shop owners you know the importance of email marketing. At thirty bees we do as well. For the last couple of months we have been working on a MailChimp module that will put your email marketing on steroids. As with all the modules that we develop it is free too, how awesome is that. What the module does In most ecommerce platforms the MailChimp module just sends subscriber information to MailChimp and calls it a day. Some send over the orders, so you can segment your subscribers by their orders too. Not ours. Ours [...]