April 1, 2013
Numbering software is often vague and varies from company to company. With Sunshine Photo Cart, our goal was to make the 1.0 release our official first release for sale. Up to this point, we have been working on developing features and working with beta testers to get as many bugs found and fixed as possible. […]
As of 1.7.0, we have included a watermarking feature. However, we still don’t think you should use it. Nope, we do not have an automatic watermarking feature in Sunshine. And it has purposefully been left out. Here is why: One of the biggest complaints we had with other photo carts which you installed on your […]
March 14, 2013
In the very first iteration of Sunshine, we built it so it was completely self contained. It had it’s own entire set of template files and a default theme. After beta testers got a hold of it, one of the most requested features was to have Sunshine integrate directly into their WordPress theme. This made […]
March 5, 2013
We are very happy to announce that the Stripe payment method is now complete and available in the latest 0.9.0 release! With Stripe, you are able to accept credit card payments directly on your website. Please note that an SSL certificate is required in order for payments to be secure. We feel Stripe is the […]
February 28, 2013
We are getting down to release time and that means touching up this marketing site and finalizing our sales model. I wanted to put this out to everyone following us so far… What pricing model do you think you would be more likely to sign up with? Standard vs Pro Our original plan was to […]
We just released two versions back to back. The first, 0.8.1, addresses some theme integration issues specifically related to WordPress themes by ProPhoto Blogs. The end result is a significantly improved method of having Sunshine Photo Cart integrate with any WordPress theme. It was a major overhaul to introduce theme integration by default and this […]
February 22, 2013
Originally we were going to create multiple templates/themes for Sunshine to choose from that you could then customize with fonts, colors and background images. Well it appears beta testers really wanted it to easily integrate into their own site design – and that makes total sense. After our largest update to Sunshine Photo Cart thus […]
February 19, 2013
An all night coding session has lead to another Pro add-on now available – Email newsletter integration. We have chosen to start with Campaign Monitor and MailChimp. With this add-on, users can opt into your email list either during registration or at checkout. Learn more about how to setup email newsletter lists in Sunshine Photo […]
February 18, 2013
I am very excited to say that the first Pro feature is now ready – Digital Downloads. With this add-on, you can sell the digital version of your images and make them available for download immediately after purchase. Your downloadable files are saved in their own, separate folder from the images that are visible in […]
February 16, 2013
Another maintenance and small feature release. This resolves the featured image in admin area bug that was driving me nuts for weeks! Unfortunately existing galleries may need to be deleted and rebuilt (it happens in beta software). Fix – Admins can delete private galleries again Fix – Properly saving image meta data so featured image […]