Homestead Blog

Our Storefront product is undergoing another big upgrade.  Once again here’s Amr from Marketing to share some of the new highlights with you – Rochelle.

Hi everyone, we’re upgrading Intuit Homestead Storefront again to give you some extra features and improve a few things at the same time. Like last time, there’s a lot we’re adding and updating, like a streamlined checkout experience for your customers and more help with using PayPal.  We thought we ought to give you the whole long list of improvements, so here’s that list:

New Features

PayPal

• Storefront Checkout: Provides a cleaner checkout path for your customer, as well as more details on the PayPal checkout pages.
• Billing Preferences: In multi-page checkout, when PayPal Standard is the only payment option allowed, the billing page does not appear in the checkout flow.
• Store Administration: Provides more guidance to help you set up your PayPal preferences.
• Payment Wizard: Improved layout and default option selection. Credit cards and other payment methods appear in multi-column tables to reduce the need to scroll through the page.

Other Changes

• Store Administration: Provides more guidance to help you set up your PayPal preferences.
• Security: Improved Password Strength: Passwords must now meet more stringent security requirements. Passwords and authentication meet the following criteria:
  • Contain both alphabetic and numeric characters
  • Contain at least seven characters
  • Change every ninety (90) days
  • Cannot reuse the last four passwords
  • The account will be locked after six invalid password attempts for a period of 30 minutes or until reset by an administrator
  • Sessions will time out after being idle for 15 minutes

  {Update: Oops, sorry about that, I jumped the gun on the upgraded password elements. Those will not be part of this upgrade, sorry for the confusion — Amr}

Things that have been updated

• Resolved an issue that could cause an error when attempting to split an invoice that has a product with sizes, with one of the sizes backordered and one or more of the other sizes considered in-stock.
• Resolved an issue that could prevent comparison shopping information from updating.
• Resolved an issue that could cause the Sales Manager page to display code instead of the sales manager’s first and last names.
• Resolved an issue that could cause duplicate product promotions, one active and one inactive, to be created when creating a single product promotion.
• Resolved an issue that could cause an error when selecting FedEx delivery to Canada for residential home delivery services.
• Resolved an issue in which the Store Settings > General Preferences Grant permission to access your eBay seller account link remained enabled after the store locale was changed to other than English (United States). This option is only available for stores with the locale set to English (United States).
• Resolved an issue that caused the Store Admin User Attributes to not be saved when adding a user.
• Resolved an issue that could cause a promotion-related invoice to not appear in store administration even though the customer was billed for the invoice.
• Resolved an issue that could permit cross-site scripting to appear in a search parameters cookie.
• Resolved an issue that could cause a template to display incorrectly after selecting “Revert to Baseline”.
• Resolved an issue that could cause the shipping section of an eBay Pending Listing to fail to expand when selecting “Flat” or “Calculated.”

We hope these improvements will result in an even better Storefront experience for you and for your customers.  Storefront users will be getting an email shortly with more information about when the upgrade will take place.

Thanks for reading, and we hope you like the new Storefront!