Posted on September 17, 2015
This article is no longer true and Sunshine Photo Cart has embraced guest checkout as a best practice for an effective checkout process. One feature request I get on occasion is for guest checkout. To be honest, this request has always baffled me. Here's why: It is definitely true that many users will abandon a […]
Posted on February 24, 2015
If it wasn't for our work on 2.0 (and already calling it 2.0), this release would get a bigger version number. We have added some new features and enhanced other areas resulting in significant theme integration improvements. Masonry Galleries A very popular request was to make galleries display using the Masonry style (think Pinterest). Now, […]
Posted on September 25, 2014
Update: 2.0 has gone on down a different track. 2.0 itself will actually not contain a single new feature and not be a complete rewrite of Sunshine as many have been asking about. Instead, it will be a fundamental shift in how Sunshine is marketed and structured as a plugin - that is the most I can […]
Posted on April 9, 2014
Sunshine requires user's to register an account in order to mark images as favorite and to make a purchase. Some photographers seem to not like this approach. Here is our take: When a user wants to make a purchase with Sunshine Photo Cart, they need to provide email, name and shipping/billing information. The difference between […]
Posted on April 7, 2014
We finally caved, you can now setup an automatic watermark feature for your photo cart galleries in Sunshine For a long while we resisted adding a watermarking feature to Sunshine. We believe clients should be shown the highest quality images when making the decision to buy. When you let a web server add a watermark, […]
Posted on February 20, 2014
Sunshine Photo Cart 1.6.5 is now available for automatic update. This release does not contain any major new features, but instead a plethora of enhancements our users have been requesting. So here are the highlights: See pricing without being logged in This was by far the most requested feature. Previously Sunshine required a user to […]
Posted on June 6, 2013
Lost in the huge 1.4.0 release of Packages was an efficiency improvement: Bulk adding of products. Several of our users sent us messages asking for ways to create all their products when setting up Sunshine much more efficiently. When you have 50+ products, we were the first to admit that this was a time consuming […]
Posted on June 5, 2013
Packages have by far been our most requested feature and today we are happy to announce this feature is finally here! A package is the selling of multiple products as a single product. For example, you could sell an 8x10 print, 20x30 canvas and a digital download all for a single price (usually discounted from […]
Posted on May 24, 2013
We have released version 1.3.0 which has some large, important updates for our growing international user base. We've also worked on improvements to make Sunshine integrate into your custom WordPress theme a little better. Internationalization We originally built Sunshine thinking it would be almost entirely US based photographers using it. However, it quickly spread out […]
Posted on April 16, 2013
So our new Price Levels add-on for our Pro version was built because we know wedding clients have bigger budgets than the annual family photo session. The new Price Levels add-on will let you setup as many prices for a single product as you want. You can then choose which price level you want all […]