Blog posts of '2015' 'March'

While running an e-Commerce business, it is important to every story owner to keep an eye on the current stock in order to make sure customers are able to place order online without any hassle. If any item is low on stock (or even out-of-stock), it can easily lead to losing a customer because online shoppers do not like to wait, if you do not have an item, shoppers with go on some other website to place an order.

Low stock report is a great solution for keeping an eye on the current inventory. 

Recently, I received an email from one of the nopCommerce user in regard to the question about adding blog posts on homepage. Adding blog posts on homepage is not a very difficult task but at the same time it is not very straight forward also for developers who are new to nopCommerce or ASP.NET MVC.

So,  today I am going to demonstrate all the necessary steps required to accomplish this task (i.e. adding blog posts on homepage).

Majority of the internet users are aware of the fact that many websites can be access by typing the url (or domain name) "with" or "without" the WWW prefix. It means that, if you go to Google site, you can either type "google.com" or you can type "www.google.com".

An interesting thing that you should notice in the URL while visiting any website is that, majority of websites changes the URL and add "WWW" prefix automatically even if you do not type it initially.

Now, the question is, why do we need to force the WWW prefix on your website domain name? The answer is quite simple; to avoid duplicate content on search engines.

It is always a good practice to keep consistency when it comes to SEO and forcing WWW prefix avoids search engine to index 2 different version of your website "with" and "without" WWW prefix.

Today we will go over the process of forcing WWW prefix on your nopCommerce store site.

There is a "known" paypal partial refund bug in nopCommerce 3.50 version that has been reported by several nop users.

Issues (reported by users):

1) Anytime when a store admin issues a partial refund via paypal, the nopCommerce dashboard automatically shows that the entire total amount has been refunded

2) The order notes does show the correct issued partial refund amount

3) The issue leads to incorrect profit / sales numbers because even the cancelled orders are there as a part of the sales / profit section in nopCommerce


Today we will discuss, how to fix this bug in the nopCommerce code.

nopCommerce back in stock notification features allows customers to subscribe to list of products for which they would like to get notified (or get alerts) when the products are back in the stock. This is one of the most user-friendly feature that many customers look for in an online store site as it allows them to keep a track of products that has gone out of stock. Options like "back in stock notifications" keeps the online shoppers engaged with the store instead of going to any other store site to order the item.

Today we will go over this feature of "back in stock notifications" in nopCommerce.