Media Releases

• Ecommerce Module

  Sitefinity ecommerce offers the flexibility and all the features needed to manage a successful online business. The new ecommerce module offers granular control over critical ecommerce tasks, such as product, manufacturer, and departmental management, while remaining intuitive and easy to use. With support for custom product types and variations, formulas-based calculation, and hierarchical categorization, the module offers infinite flexibility for products presentation.

  

  Sitefinity ecommerce also facilitates real-time shipping and tax calculation, as well as payment processing, enabling fast, efficient, and reliable store administration. Other key features of the new Sitefinity ecommerce module include:

  • Managing items on sale
  • Customizable regional currency and exchange rate settings
  • Support for common payment services such as credit cards and PayPal
  • Multiple sorting, tagging, and presentation styles for front-end product listings
  • Flexible reporting and metrics tools

  To review all features, visit the Sitefinity ecommerce page.

• Performance & Stability Improvements

  The latest release of Sitefinity includes essential improvements making the system faster and more stable than ever. This is a part of an ongoing initiative to refine and optimize the product with each new release. Leading up to this release the team worked with a small group of customers to expose upgrade issues from real-world scenarios not encountered through regular testing.

  Sitefinity 4.2 also includes better performance for websites running on Microsoft Azure.

• File Storage Provider for Libraries

  By default, Sitefinity stores uploaded files in the database. With the new release, images, videos or documents uploaded via the Sitefinity CMS administration are already stored on the file system closer to the end users. This guarantees improved connectivity and faster data transfer of files.

  

  The file provider is configured by Library. For example, Sitefinity CMS Users can create a Library called “Product Images” and another Library called “High-Rez Product Images”. The “High-Rez Product Images”, which require larger disk storage, could be configured to use the file system.

  Files can easily be transferred from one library to another and Sitefinity will automatically handle the conversion.

• Localization of Page Templates

  Sitefinity 4 already enables customers to create localized versions of pages. With the latest release, CMS users are also able to localize Page Templates.

  

• Multi-lingual Search

  Once you created and published content in different languages, you will need to allow your site visitors to search multilingual content quickly and accurately. Sitefinity 4.2 allows you to filter search results based on the visitors’ language preferences.

• Filtering for Publishing

  Publication feeds & notifications can now be filtered by language, dates and/or taxonomy (tags, categories).

  

• Fluent API improvements

  The Sitefinity 4.2 release also introduces lots of improvements to the Fluent API, which will dramatically simplify and reduce the code needed to create new modules or customizations to existing Sitefinity modules. Full backwards compatibility has been maintained.

• Integrated Help & Resources

  The new Help and Resources page in the Sitefinity administration allows easier access to helpful resources and latest announcements.

  

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