iSenseLabs Weekly 113: What's New in Your OpenCart Extensions
It's finally here and completely free! The mighty new Square Payments for OpenCart!
The team at Square and iSenseLabs worked together to create a powerful integration with the popular payment method and it's now better than ever.
Here are the highlights...
- Fully integrated Apple Pay (Configured Out-of-the-box)
- Square Catalog & Inventory Sync
- Automated Refunds & Re-Stocks
- Automatic Currency Conversion
- Accurate Square Order Reports
Grab the updates now for free! A big thanks to Square for the partnership!
New OpenCart Extension Updates Released:
Square 3.1 | Download for OpenCart 3.0.x
What's New
- Catalog Sync. The extension can now upload your OpenCart products to the Square Items Library. OpenCart is always the source of truth.
- Inventory Sync. The extension can modify your OpenCart product quantities based on the Square Inventories. Square is always the source of truth for inventories.
- Itemized Refunds and Re-Stocks. You can now issue refunds for individual items in your order. At the time of refunding, you can also re-stock refunded items.
- On-Demand Sync. Typically Inventory and Catalog Sync run in specified intervals. With On-Demand Sync you can decide when to trigger Catalog and Inventory Sync.
- Apple Pay supported out-of-the-box. No need to do any additional setup. Just update and you are good to go! Note that Apple Pay is available only on Apple devices.
- Automatically convert the transaction amount to the Square location currency. The conversion is made based on the OpenCart currency values.
- Square orders now contain all of your OpenCart line items. This allows for more accurate reporting in your Square Dashboard.
- A Square security icon can be displayed in the credit card form in checkout.
- A quick-access link to the Square extension has been added to the Admin > Extensions menu.
- Webhooks. Configure webhooks to receive inventory updates from the Square dashboard.
- Push inventory changes to Square in case of purchases/refunds from within OpenCart on other payment extensions.
What's Improved
- Introduce Journal3 template files.
- List only Square locations capable of credit card processing.
- Allow changing of merchant accounts, preserving the transactions of the previous accounts.
- Better Settings UI showing only the most necessary data.
- Product edit page warning in case you have enabled Inventory Sync.
What's Fixed
- On Journal2, there were cases when an error in the credit card form was making the page unresponsive.
- On some checkout systems, the checkout button was not working.
What's Cleaned
- Customer phone is no longer passed to Square.
- Sandbox mode is now completely removed. You can test credit cards via 2-stage checkout (Authorize + Capture).
Square 2.1 | Download for OpenCart 2.x
What's New
- Catalog Sync. The extension can now upload your OpenCart products to the Square Items Library. OpenCart is always the source of truth.
- Inventory Sync. The extension can modify your OpenCart product quantities based on the Square Inventories. Square is always the source of truth for inventories.
- Itemized Refunds and Re-Stocks. You can now issue refunds for individual items in your order. At the time of refunding, you can also re-stock refunded items.
- On-Demand Sync. Typically Inventory and Catalog Sync run in specified intervals. With On-Demand Sync you can decide when to trigger Catalog and Inventory Sync.
- Apple Pay supported out-of-the-box. No need to do any additional setup. Just update and you are good to go! Note that Apple Pay is available only on Apple devices.
- Automatically convert the transaction amount to the Square location currency. The conversion is made based on the OpenCart currency values.
- Square orders now contain all of your OpenCart line items. This allows for more accurate reporting in your Square Dashboard.
- A Square security icon can be displayed in the credit card form in checkout.
- A quick-access link to the Square extension has been added to the Admin > Extensions menu.
- Webhooks. Configure webhooks to receive inventory updates from the Square dashboard.
- Push inventory changes to Square in case of purchases/refunds from within OpenCart on other payment extensions.
What's Improved
- Introduce Journal3 template files.
- List only Square locations capable of credit card processing.
- Allow changing of merchant accounts, preserving the transactions of the previous accounts.
- Better Settings UI showing only the most necessary data.
- Product edit page warning in case you have enabled Inventory Sync.
- The modification file has been removed in OpenCart 2.3.x and it has been fully superseded by the OpenCart 2.3.x event system. In OpenCart 2.0.x - 2.1.x, some modifications have been moved to the event system, wherever possible.
What's Fixed
- On Journal2, there were cases when an error in the credit card form was making the page unresponsive.
- On some checkout systems, the checkout button was not working.
What's Cleaned
- Customer phone is no longer passed to Square.
- Sandbox mode is now completely removed. You can test credit cards via 2-stage checkout (Authorize + Capture).
Square 1.1 | Download for OpenCart 1.5.x
What's New
- Catalog Sync. The extension can now upload your OpenCart products to the Square Items Library. OpenCart is always the source of truth.
- Inventory Sync. The extension can modify your OpenCart product quantities based on the Square Inventories. Square is always the source of truth for inventories.
- Itemized Refunds and Re-Stocks. You can now issue refunds for individual items in your order. At the time of refunding, you can also re-stock refunded items.
- On-Demand Sync. Typically Inventory and Catalog Sync run in specified intervals. With On-Demand Sync you can decide when to trigger Catalog and Inventory Sync.
- Apple Pay supported out-of-the-box. No need to do any additional setup. Just update and you are good to go! Note that Apple Pay is available only on Apple devices.
- Automatically convert the transaction amount to the Square location currency. The conversion is made based on the OpenCart currency values.
- Square orders now contain all of your OpenCart line items. This allows for more accurate reporting in your Square Dashboard.
- A Square security icon can be displayed in the credit card form in checkout.
- Webhooks. Configure webhooks to receive inventory updates from the Square dashboard.
- Push inventory changes to Square in case of purchases/refunds from within OpenCart on other payment extensions.
What's Improved
- List only Square locations capable of credit card processing.
- Allow changing of merchant accounts, preserving the transactions of the previous accounts.
- Better Settings UI showing only the most necessary data.
- Product edit page warning in case you have enabled Inventory Sync.
What's Fixed
- On Journal2, there were cases when an error in the credit card form was making the page unresponsive.
- On some checkout systems, the checkout button was not working.
What's Cleaned
- Customer phone is no longer passed to Square.
- Sandbox mode is now completely removed. You can test credit cards via 2-stage checkout (Authorize + Capture).
Yotpo 2.3 & 3.3 | Download for OpenCart 2.x - 3.x
What's Improved
- Journal3 Compatibility.
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