Magento 1.7 beta releases
The next version of Magento Enterprise Edition features enhancements a Reward Points System, will allow you to engage customers better and increase customer loyalty. Also in the next update to Magento Enterprise Edition are new performance optimizations that provide significant benefits for merchants of all sizes along with performance boosts for Sales Reports and some new functionality in our CMS+ Engine and Magento Widgets to help you with organizing, categorizing and displaying content.
Some of the forthcoming highlights in Magento 1.7 Beta include:
- Implemented different base prices for customer groups
- Added captcha functionality to some forms
- Backup and rollback functionality
- Indexers refactoring (a big advantage if it will help the speed of reindexing)
- Redesigned theme for iPhone
- New and improved layered navigation price bucket algorithm
- Base prices based on customer groups
- Auto generation of multiple coupon codes for a price rule
- VAT ID Validation
- Support for DHL Europe
- And much more...
Some online store owners have experienced Magento 1.7 Beta and found it very helful. It brings them flexibility and outstanding changes. Below are their feedbacks:
- Old Cache files are now cleaned as part of the Magento Cron
- Improved customer address handling using PayPal Express checkout
- Email logos can now be easily changed via the admin
- Implemented front-end cookies restriction functionality
- Memcache support has been added turbo charging load times
- Library js/scriptaculous/dragdrop.js is upgraded to version 1.9.0
With all above outstanding features, Magento has become one of the most popular open souce e-commerce software. If you are using Magento as your e-commerce platform, quickly update it to Magento 1.7 to enjoy its improvements!