Overview of Changes in XONIC Shop System Version 4.5

Front End

Search Functions

• Advanced Search: Integration with CMS, News, and FAQ
• The search function can now be kept expanded permanently if desired
• Live search in the management system

Performance

• Significant performance boost by reducing the number of database queries required
• Marketing Tool: A wide range of new conditions and actions, massive performance improvement
• Detailed improvements to increase the PageSpeed Score
• New image class that operates faster and offers new capabilities, such as layering images
• Revised sitemap/link generation: Slave products with the "Standard" family display type no longer generate unnecessary links in either the sitemap or the store. This reduces the total number of links and avoids unnecessarily straining Google’s crawl budget. This improves the user experience by avoiding unnecessary clicks.

Product Display and Management

• Delivery Time Display: Displays the longest delivery time in the shopping cart when delivery times vary
• Badges: Automatic landing pages for badges
• Shopping Cart Page: Configurable product sliders and content pages
• Product Details Page: Expanded view for short descriptions/features can be configured
• Slider: Different mobile image can be set
• Automatic width scaling for subcategories can be enabled or disabled
• Product category discounts
• Revamped configurator for product presentation and marketing: background colors, new types such as rating sliders
• Rule Editor: Live changes now remove elements from select fields instead of hiding them via CSS (better compatibility with Safari)
• Automatic manufacturer description in accordance with GPSR (Product Safety Regulation). This can optionally be supplemented with a manual manufacturer description.

User Interface and Navigation

• Lazy Load: Implementation for images in boxes and in the footer notice
• Additional elements in the left off-canvas are now configurable
• Revised checkout entry
• New modal window for selecting between private and business customers
• Minor corrections to the country list and assignments
• New quick-entry tool and file upload feature for adding items to the shopping cart
• The navigation bar can now be moved to the bottom if more space is needed
• As of May 4, 2021: The minimum and maximum values for input fields now more strictly align with available inventory levels when sales are not permitted beyond stock on hand. This ensures an improved shopping experience and reduces customer frustration

Management System and Customer Support

• Email function (including signature) to one or more assigned customers, including history
• Note function per customer
• Customer-specific products, product blacklist, upsell products in the shopping cart (new slider type)
• Manager Status: Managers now have an active/inactive status independent of assigned customers

Tracking and Analytics

• New tracking: Microsoft Clarity
• New tracking: TikTok

Security and Administration

• Two-factor authentication via Authenticator in a separate step
• Automatic database optimization every 30 days (configurable)
• Customers: Account and checkout locks with separate notifications; locks now also apply to Express Checkout
• Introduction of customer group types
• Improved IP verification in maintenance mode
• Improved attack prevention in the xoAI: Security module
• Configurable email blacklist filter for custom blocks

SEO/SEA

• Significant reduction in the number of links from the store:
  • Actions such as adding to the wish list no longer generate links
  • If a product’s category origin is unknown in the detail view, it is automatically redirected to the canonical URL
  • Product links in the listing with an unknown category origin automatically link to the canonical URL
  • Standard slave products no longer generate their own link but link directly to the master

Backend

Payment and Orders

• Adyen: Auto-restore feature for unintended abandoned carts
• Amazon: Bug fix for tracking with spaces
• Stripe: Apple Pay/Google Pay fixes for gift cards and special shipping
• Order Overview: Configurable columns, new column type: ordered products

Product Management

• Product Extra Fields: Search function added
• Product Features: Improvements such as copy and migration functions, deletion of unused values and options
• Product Badges: Store and custom badges with a configurable landing page and revised settings
• Product Reviews: Activation of the new review slider
• Features: Grouping using subheadings for a clearer overview of complex products

Marketing and Multichannel

• XONIC Premium: Marketing/Automation/AI: New events, massive performance improvements
• XONIC Premium: Multichannel: New markup tool, various quality-of-life improvements—including the product overview list now responding correctly to current settings

Interfaces

• OpenAI: A wide range of new AI function buttons, as well as integration of ChatGPT-4 as the default model for task processing
• DeepL: A wide range of new translation buttons
• XONIC Premium Product Designer: Templates can now be edited directly in the backend; no need to make adjustments via template files
• DHL: New REST API, including automatic generation of customs documents
• New Interface: Shopvote: Collect reviews and automatically import them into the store
• Otto: Revised authentication process in accordance with current guidelines
• Stripe: Support for Klarna added

Export/Import

• xoport: New export/import types for downloads/uploads, product tabs, and CMS pages
• Creation of an e-invoice (XRechnung 3.x/DIN EN 19631)
• Starting May 4, 2021: e-invoices can also be created in the Zugpferd format

Google Merchant Center

• Segmentation by primary attributes, tiered pricing, width, height, length, EC/EPREL certificate support, product detail transfer
• New availability: “Available for order” added

Afterbuy

• Revised retrieval of tracking data and shipping information

Country list

• Search function added

Reports

• Most Viewed Products: Complete overhaul including live search and new filter criteria such as product category, time period, etc.
• The “Who’s Online” view has been completely redesigned with features such as sorting, live search, and GEO functionalities

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