Too right...get with the program Scott! I like the butterfly Jo Ann

The downturn has affected folks on a worldwide basis, including China. Whilst there are green shoots of recovery, most businesses are going to be down on sales volumes for this year at least. The unemployment figures are probably one of the best indicators for how an economy is doing.

Whilst the pro version won't bring you in extra customers by itself, it will enable you to better manage those customers that you will have in the future. The businesses that are firmly established and riding out the recession, are the ones that will be in a strong position to prosper when things start to pick up again.


Subtle yes, but not profound. Folks need to have realistic expectations of what the pro version will do for their businesses. Sadly it's not a 'magic wand' that will open the floodgates to hordes of new customers. It will certainly be a massive improvement over the basic version of Cart Creator and allow shop owners to have more definitive control over their enterprise. At the end of the day however, business success relies just as much on what you are selling and the demand (actual versus perceived) for those products.

Although mostly a design aspect of creating a cart, pro cart can really help make a difference between a cart looking amateurish and professional. The feature-set is key for that. Pro will have such a drastically improved feature-set that it will really help the cart creation/design process. For clients who do not know our world, they think something like sub-categories are a standard cart feature, or offering coupons, or being able to properly search a cart, etc. And for the most part they are correct, in almost every major shopping cart system out there, these are standard features.

This is why when the pro version is released (along with its subsequent updates), it will be real competition for those big shopping cart vendors.

So, magical, probably not. Well, maybe just a little.

something is weird with the forum, when you view a post from the link in an email, then login, it throws page not found..

The CoffeeCup cart creator program is still at a very young age. It is not really fair to compare it to cart systems that have been in the works for years.
However, even with it's short release history, it still has features that the big players do not have...
I will leave it there, unless you want me to break down all the issues with all the cart systems.

People have different needs from shopping carts and the pro version is never intended to be direct competition for the powerful database driven solutions out there. Once it even started to remotely get near that level of complexity, it would lose one of its major selling points, its ease of use. Coffeecup has a strong reputation for developing easy to use applications, that are supremely user friendly and the development team always have to keep that ethos in focus.

You may want to contact CC team or post this in the site feedback thread in the Embassy Forums Dave, just to make sure they see that, that could be a bug in the forums.

Its been doing it for at least a couple years. I don't know that I have ever been able to click on a link and it go to the actual page. Only happens in a forum post though.

Strange, I click email links all the time to go to pages on the forum and I don't think I've ever had this happen but a couple times maybe. And I'm pretty sure they were exactly like Dave mentioned, where I wasn't logged in at the time so I had to login first and then got the page error.

Yeah, click through has always worked for me, even on my Blackberry's browser. Worst case it makes me log in, then all is well.

well, it worked this time.. I know what it is..
PEBKAC 'problem exists between keyboard and chair'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEBKAC#Acronyms_and_other_names_for_a_user_error