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A little later than expected but finally it is here. Thirty bees version 1.3. This is a major release and unless security updates are needed we expect this version to be there for the long term. Next major version 1.4 will be released in approximately 6 months. What is added in functionality in thirty bees 1.3? Please check carefully if you need to change something like translate or updating mail templates. We have added: merge accounts of users (old + new email can be merged) - Passwords will not be sent by email but can be changed by clicking the recovery link in the email (update template if you customised it) coreupdater - new version that tracks errors so we can follow-up on upgrade issues work queue - mechanism to execute work jobs asynchronously in order to speed up request processing theme extensions - ability to extend themes, which allows us to introduce new front office features like new password reset work on php8 compatibility - module installation overhaul (1.6 still supported) product page tabs permissions - one can give for example a translator only access to certain parts Also note that version 1.3 is the last version that supports php 5.6. If your store still runs on this old php version, please update soon. If you fail to do so, you won’t be able to update to the next major releases. We have to introduce new perks for super awesome backers and higher! Super Awesome Backer: We aim to view your post within a few days and will give you an answer and direction to look in to the problem so you can try solving it yourself. (Mention @datakick in your post) Bronze Sponsor We aim to view your post within a 3 days, and provide a concrete solution. (Mention @datakick in your post) Silver Sponsor We aim to view your post within a 48 hours, and provide a solution that you can directly implement. (Send a forum message to @datakick) Gold Sponsor We aim to view your post within a 24 hours, and provide a solution that you can directly implement. (Send a forum message to @datakick) How to use this service? Well you have to sign up as backer and after the first month we will start fulfill the backers advantages. If you then post a topic just send the topic link in a privet message to @datakick he will then take care of you! If you think we can do this even better, just let us know your ideas and we will try to enhance the backers program. You can post your topic in a regular forum or in the supporters forum. And as always: Don’t forget to join as a backer! Small or big we enjoy the beer we can buy from it. You can become a supporter for as little as $5 per month. And when you tip in more we can make nice enhancements to thirty bees.

Diseases pretend not to announce themself, unfortunately... And don't give a start nor end time. But I agree we could have announced an expected delay sooner, a learning point 😶

Haha, depending on the roadmap. Well when you give a expected date there is always a big chance people will hang on to it. I expect it to be a few days. It's almost finished but we did some test last week that causes some issues to be fixed. Better a good version than to hurry! Also some people added flag improvements and translations that we try to add 🤣 Any specific reason you like the update to be fast there?

Due to some informal corona care tasks of one of the lead programmers, 1.3.0 has a little delay. It is our top priority, to get is quickly out. Will keep you posted!

Almost there but we had a little bit programing hours this week then expected. So stay tuned! Its always dangerous to mention a date 😉

@datakick has a few days off, next week I am sure he will answer your email 😉

Quick update. We expect version 1.3 in the first or second week of september.

Great thanks a lot for you nice words, it very much appreciated and also very nice you will join the backers group! I hope that soon we will give some more perks to backers 🙂 Stay tuned!

@john_rees did you find the issue and solution?

We are also working on some enhancement of the core updater soon to be released 🙂

We are aware of the issue now and will investigate directly on Monday. Sorry!

We expect in 2-4 weeks from now. Sorry it sounds wired but I could not find the php issue for the 1.3 sprint in Jira 😉 But if I am correct 1.3.0 will support 7.4.... Don't nail me down if I am wrong 😉

Yeah that can be done but we like to see it a bit differently and want the same price for aal stores. We adsorb the few % more or less in taxes. We now calculate the sales price from the main store back to a new base price for another store. I now think about how it should work for one store installation...

That would be great, can you can tell me how we can guarantee that to you? What would you need? It feels a bit like you are asking I hire an employee and ask he to be sure he will stay with us for minimum of 3 years with you 😉. Or maybe like a agency that you hire and you ask them will you be there over 10 years? The owner will die and the agency is gone. But we are not a government which can ask for eurobonds or like wise. We have a big intention to go for the long term as shown in the past half year. And it is open source so you can support it always in case something goes wrong with the company. You can send me a message and we can discuss further 😀

Hi All! It has been a while since you received a newsletter form thirty bees! Well it was certainly time to send one out. I love looking forward to the future of TB but just a few words about the struggles we have encounter. Taking over TB is not an easy as expected task but all is on track to move forward as expected. Beside that I have to run my own stable ecommerce company which can be challenging with covid changes all things we took a year ago a granted. As a merchant I decided that for me it was worth taking over TB as I love the system and wanted to hire a full time programmer anyway. So we can extend the system for all of us and keep it cutting edge. This does cost a lot of money and at this moment is losing money. For all the people buying support and who back us this is great and keeps the system open, thank you 😊! Not a backer yet? Consider it, it would be great to get you on board so that we can work on more community requests. You can do this easily by going to the forum and choose support thirty bees! We recently launched the latest version 1.2.0. which has a lot of bug fixes and core improvements. Nothing fancy in the frontend or Backoffice though 😉 We like to keep it the most stable shop system out there and release stable regular updates. We will release more updates soon but expect after the catch up other updates can take a few months. We do expect version 1.3.0. very soon. It has quite some nice enhancements and improvements, like an new modern way of customer password recovery. scheduled tasks - sort of like build-in cron job work queue - mechanism to execute work jobs asynchronously in order to speed up request processing theme extensions - ability to extend themes, which allows us to introduce new front office features like new password reset work on php8 compatibility module installation overhall (1.6 still supported) product page tabs permissions What will the future bring? It expect TB to be a system that can work on a small scale but also on a bigger scale. For example with a advanced warehouse system which integrates smoothly but works as a separate system. Same for a product information system, and the fields needed for TB and all the different marketplaces. Also the frontend needs some updates as well as elastic search. We are also willing to discuss any enhancements big or small and if it is a good fit add it to the core or module. This can sometimes be free of cost or for a very affordable rate. Reach out to us and we can set up a meeting. Don’t forget to join as a backer! Stay tuned happy selling, all the best!

Can you share some pictures, its a bit of a broad question. Did you also consider updating?

I have noticed this also with I think discounts for customer groups. It keeps fluid I think it is clear why als you also do a order line change it checks all the prices. Maybe we can improve it @datakick

I am also interested in Amazon, for me orders and quantities would be enough. What about you @30knees?

Do we need to bee something else than a cute geek project? Do we need to be a shopify/lightspeed with 🤑 investors? Do we need to be a Prestashop with less and less functions and more and more 🤑 modules and empty newsletters? Or should we just do that one thing good, stable and adding new modern functions that I and other merchants really miss. Wait and see where we will go, we are just started putting energy in the project for a few months.

We are also currently working on a module that keeps the end price the same and the store owner takes depending on the country a bit more margin or a bit less.

Is this a voluntary job application for community manager 😉 or any like wise position?

Good to see people are caring a lot for this project. I have to divide my time between my normal store and TB. This can be a challenge and even more with all the changes in the world (raising prices preventive home stay and more 😅). They don't make it more simple. But we will get there and soon a short newsletter will be send out. And as more people mention in this topic, what do you expect. Within this topic there is only one paying support costumer and one backer. And I don't have to tell you what a developer in the EU will cost 😉 So please join as backer it support us in the feeling we do good and we can have a biscuit with the thee! Currently I pay this project for more than 95% with my own money, and we would love to change this in the opposite 🙂 I don't need a profit, but break even would be nice some day!

I have noticed this bug myself long time ago and have always payed to much taxes on shipping to the government. Will try to push this bug to be fixed a.s.a.p.

This seemed to be also an issue that can occur due to the use of a low PHP version. For example update PHP 7.2 to 7.4.

@Mark Thanks for your feedback, there were two choices, make a fork for my own ecommerce company like @wakabayashi or try to do something for the community. I did choose the later and hope we will succeed together.