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Jan 14, 2025

Checkout 3.5.6 - January 2013 Update

Checkout 3.5.6 addresses performance issues and accuracy regarding product costs and margins.

Important: This update requires a database upgrade that could take some time, so please plan accordingly. For example one of our largest test stores with more then 100,000 orders took about 2 hours on the latest iMac. The upgrade process is about 5x faster than the 3.5 upgrade, but your experience can differ depending on the performance of your computer.

This upgrade includes a brand new implementation of product cost and margin. This implementation is roughly 50x faster than previous versions and also significantly reduces memory usage. Your store’s cost and margin data will be recalculated automatically.

  • Upgrading
    • Fixed: Faster upgrade for those few stores that experienced a very slow upgrade to 3.5. All stores should now be able to upgrade to 3.5.
  • Product Manager
    • Feature: The stock correction user interface has been changed to allow positive stock corrections to carry an user-provided cost.
  • Orders and Sales
    • Fixed: A performance problem at payment time involving a sale with a product which has been sold thousands of times has been resolved.
  • Employee
    • Fixed: A rare crash involving changing a user’s password has been resolved.
  • Quote
    • Feature: Quotes no longer allocate stock.
  • Reports
    • Feature: The “Stock” report now shows the default cost and the cost based on your store setting (FIFO or average cost).
    • Feature: The “Stock” report now allows you to specify a date range and see product stock/cost at a previous point-in-time.
    • Fixed: The “Tax” report now properly calculates VAT tax purchase amounts.
    • Fixed: The “Employees” report no longer shows deleted employees and properly displays employees with blank names.
    • Fixed: Reports which display margins (“Customers”, “Employees”, “Orders”, “Performance”, “Products Sold”, “Sales”, and “Stock Correction”) now show accurate margin/cost results.
    • Fixed: The “Performance by Tag” and “Products by Tag” reports are faster in the case where your store has no Tags defined.
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