Category: Important Changes

Within the next 2 weeks all store owners will be required to follow new password guidelines.  These changes are a result of PCI compliance requirements and are required for all store admin logins.   Admin passwords must meet the following requirements: Must be changed at least every 90 days Must be at least 7 characters long Must include a combination of at least one upper and lowercase letter, number and symbol Cannot use a password that you have used in the … Continue reading “New Password Requirements”

Important change coming Monday March 19th for item reviews.  Currently emails are sent x days after a purchase asking for the customer to review the item.  Effective monday this will be changed and the email will be sent x days after SHIPPING the order. The email and all other details relating to item reviews will stay the same.  The only change is that we will be sending the email x days after shipping vs x days after the purchase.

For merchants who are using the GoogleBase product feed functionality please important changes coming. We have recently added a new field named Product Type in the Item Edit page under the Google heading.  Google is expecting your internal category for the item here or you can also use the Google taxonomy of categories.  We have automatically copied over existing values from the Product Category if a value exists there to get you started. It’s important to note that nearly 75% … Continue reading “Important Googlebase Product Feed Changes”

Effective Thursday January 5th there will be a small update to the customer import format specification.  Currently the customer import does NOT match the customer export format exactly.  We will be updating the customer import to match exactly with the customer export format. This change is being done to facilitate easier changes when changing via an exported customer file. Note that all information up through the billing and shipping information columns is exactly the same as before.  The differences begin … Continue reading “Customer Import Spec Changes”

The Storesecured shared SSL certificate was nearing expiration and has now been renewed and updated.  Please note that this change is transparent and will not affect your shoppers in any way.  If you have chosen to display the SSL seal on your website at checkout then you will notice that the seal has been changed has well.  This is the only visible change from the SSL update.