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That is how I added it. There didn't seem to be an admin portion to enter these amounts. However, I found entering through the database much faster. -Nancy

Hi all, In the Admin/Shipping&Packing display there is a option: "When to send the Vendor Email" with choices of Catalog/Admin/Both/Not at all The comments say to look in the readme.txt for descriptions, but I've looked in readme.txt and usage.. but can't seem to find a definition of what each option means. Does anyone know? I'm trying to get the Vendor email working in my store.. I've set some of the vendors to receive emails and some not.. and all based on a certain "status" of the order. It doesn't seem to be working.. I thought this field might be the problem. Any clues? Thanks Nancy

Hi all, I've a new vendor that gives free shipping for tangible products. I'm racking my brain to remember how this is done in MVS?! Can anyone refresh my overworked but undersized memory? Thanks, Nancy

Thanks! I'll try it!

Thanks Steve, Turning that attribute on prevented the 'carts' and the session Ids.. which allows me to tell which connections are spiders and which are customers. Q: (if I may) Is it a normal for the yahoo slurp spider and the google bots to sit on your site 24x7? If they do, is that a good thing or not? Google is on there about 3/4 of the time, and yahoo has at least 1 connection all the time. Should this concern me? Thanks!! Nancy

Actually, I did not have prevent spider sessions set to true (I'm rather red-faced right now). Thank you for pointing this out. I set this up before ever I opened my store, but didn't know much about osC (still don't, but getting better). Thanks for your help! Nancy

yippee.. I figured out where to find the answer! Yes, it does.. here is a paste of one of them: 74.6.74.31 - - [11/Dec/2006:15:09:38 -0600] "GET /products_new.php?action=buy_now&products_id=219&osCsid=f56ba6b26df5bafbf65ddae3118e7f88 HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)" Incidentally, the number of connections has gone down.. I now only have 4, but their carts have grown - and one now contains 26 items! Thanks, Nancy

Hi Jim! Thanks for this. I installed it and now my handling charges are added in! One other problem I found, however.. When I try to change/add the handling charge from the admin under Vendors/manage.... it doesn't update the database. I had to make the changes to the database manually. Perhaps, I missed something in the install? But, the essentials are working!!! Thanks!!!!!!

Ok, I need help finding the 'access.log' -Nancy

Hello, Newbie here....... but, I'm getting a lot of hits from 74.6.86.148 74.6.66.51 74.6.73.248 74.6.86.148 74.6.87.103 and so on The network id says it is the Inktomi Corporation (from domain dossier) These connections are constant, make huge guest carts, and the connections are multiplying. I now have 6 Is this a spider? I am using your spiders_large.txt in my site (renamed of course) but it is not preventing this. Is this an 'ok' connection, or something I should worry about? It seems to be cycling through all my products, over and over. Anyone have advice? Thanks, Nancy

Hello all, I added the IP Recording contribution, and it works great, for everything but Paypal IPN transactions, which is, of course, 98% of my transactions!! I think it is because the transaction is recorded in advance from the paypal_ipn.php.confirmation() function and does not run the code in checkout_process.php which inserts the ip addresses into the table. I have tried to rerun the "get ip addy" code in the paypal_ipn.php.confirmation() function, but it errors out. I tried adding the fields to the insert array, but they remain blank (not passed or global) So, I'm wondering how to pass this infomation to paypal_ipn.php.confirmation(), so I add the info to the sql insert..... I thought the easiest way would be to declare $ip adn $isp as global values and setting them, so they'll be available, but that may cause problems during a busy time.. overwriting, etc. I'd like to be able to store the ip and isp for each order.. Does anyone have suggestion??? Thanks -Nancy

Hi all, I'm showing my newbie-ness to this whole genre here.. but, I'm really wondering: What is the difference between *_thc_desc_tag and *_htc_description in both the categories and manufacturers tag fields? Thanks so much for your help - everyone!! -Nancy

Hi all, I just found out that my handling fee for individual vendors, isn't being added into the shipping charge. Has anyone come across a fix for this?? Thanks Nancy

Ok, ignore this. I meant this as a reply, and hit the wrong key... doh!!

Hi all, I just found out that my handling fee for individual vendors, isn't being added into the shipping charge. Has anyone come across a fix for this?? Thanks Nancy

Does the client get a confirmation email if he does NOT return from PayPal? On the invoice, the "customer notified" field = 'False' (by a big red X) And the database field: Order_status_history.customer_notified=0 1) So, does that mean that I need to devise an email to send to him for confirmation of the Order? Or is it already done? 2) I just got my first order from IPN and am confused as to what happens when they don't return from it. Since I have several people that went to PayPal but didn't complete the process... The only way I know I have a 'real' order, is by Paypal notification. Right? So, how do I get the process to 'complete' in osC (update Orders_Shipping, Products.products_orderd, etc) ? Is there a contrib, or something, that we can just "complete the process" manually?? Or is that what you all were talking about above? Thanks! Nancy

I'm no expert.. by any means. And this may be a silly suggestion.. but, have you checked your editing in admin/googlefeeder.php to see if you named your $OutFile = "../feeds/<filename>.txt"; with the ".txt" extention - or left it without extention?? -Nancy

Hi! Cool contrib.. It works great with google!! But, am I missing something???? I hate to sound like a complete newbie.. but, then.. I am! Am I suppose to have more files? Instructions: d. Add this to admin/includes/filenames.php: //Feeder Systems define('FILENAME_FEEDERS', 'feeders.php'); define('FILENAME_AMAZON', 'amazon.php'); define('FILENAME_BIZRATE', 'bizrate.php'); define('FILENAME_GOOGLE', 'googlefeeder.php'); define('FILENAME_MYSIMON', 'mysimon.php'); define('FILENAME_PRICE_GRABBER', 'pricegrabber.php'); define('FILENAME_SHOPPING', 'shopping.php'); define('FILENAME_YAHOO','yahoo.php'); I only find feeders.php and googlefeeder.php. Can someone point me in the right direction here??? I'm clueless... it seems. Thanks Nancy

Update: There is a patch on Ultimate SEO's that fixes the problem. I installed version 2.1d .. released on May 11 The patch was released on May 9 ..... physically listed prior to this release, but NOT included! It's not exactly obvious that you need to install it..... Everything works fine with messaging when this patch is installed on Ultimate SEO's Might want to note this in the instructions.... just a thought. Thanks! Nancy

In the admin console.. under modules/gift vouchers.. do you have queued purchased = true? If so, nothing will be done until the admin releases the gift cert. (this is done from the admin console.. Gift Voucher Queue -Nancy

Update: Ok.. I installed the 2.1d From May 11, 2006 ------ but I wrongly assumed that the contributions before it were installed with it...... specifically edgecrush3r's fixed: redirect & Param of May 9 That patch fixed the errors I was getting. So.. if anyone uses Discount Coupons or either of the CCGV's.. you need that patch installed! -Nancy

Hiya!! I have a question... I installed Ultimate SEO (great mod, btw.. thanks!) and everything worked fine! But, when I tried to install Discount Coupons and/or CCGV, I had issues with the "red-banner" type of error messages. Each time a customer triggered one of these error messages... the customer was kicked out of osC and locked out - until he closed out his browser. I tracked it down.. to Ultimate's re-write of the tep_href_link function. When I commented out Ultimate's version.. all was fine with the other mods... 1. Has anyone else experienced this? (or is it just me and my version 4.3.11) 2. Is there something I can do to make these more compatible? 3. Am I screwed with SE optimization if I let the original tep_href_link run?? Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks Nancy

Woo! I finally figured it out!!! Does anyone else have Ultimate SEO URLs v2.1 installed? Are you running ok with it? Because I found that Ultimate SEO URLs, changed the tep_href_link.. when I changed that one function back, voila! No more problems!!! VGER.. you may want to make a note of this on the instruction doc.. as Ultimate SEO URLs is a popular mod. I'll bet-ya the other CGV has the same issue with Ultimate SEO.... unless for some reason, it is only my installation that isn't compatible! Wow.. I'm so excited! I've been working on this way too long! Yippee... I'm going out to celebrate. Thanks Vger and Chooch!! for all your help. -Nancy

Thank you very much for the information. I really don't care if the "red error message" appears or the pop up box. Either or both is fine.. as long as it works. It seems on my site, that when the "red error message" tries to appear, the customer get's kicked out of osC and can't get back in without closing the browser and starting a new browser session. Everything works fine on my site with CCGV, until it tries to display the "red error message". Again, thanks so much for the information.. it may help me in tracking this down. If you have any other ideas.. let me know!!! And, thanks for the snippet of code.. I'll look at it!!! -Nancy PS. Something else I thought of.. was to just default to have a payment method checked. Everything works fine if a payment method is checked... no popups or red messages to worry with. What do you think of that??