We’re glad to announce a new release that makes your store faster, smarter, and more flexible. In CS-Cart 4.19.1, we focused on the essentials that drive modern eCommerce forward:
Nova Theme — a clean, mobile-first storefront design available right out of the box. Product Videos — bring your products to life with YouTube and Vimeo integration. Varnish Full-Page Cache — boost performance and handle heavy traffic with ease. Payments by Country — offer the right payment methods depending on customer location. PHP 8.3 Support (Test Mode) — the platform is ready for the next-generation environment.
With CS-Cart 4.19.1, you launch faster, convert more on mobile, and stay stable under high load.
All updates are already available — activate them right after upgrading!
I personally do not like new theme mobile bottom functionality. I have to leave the page to quick view cart or other menu?
A person collecting many items to cart must leave category or product details page in order to see whats in cart? Seems like regress not progress or am i not getting something here?
Isn’t that a common behaviour on many large ecommerce sites? Even on Amazon you will be taken to the cart content page. I think customers already expect that.
Unitheme is one of the few that enable quick viewing of cart by clicking on the cart menu.
I think the mobile bottom menus are useful and inline with modern mobile design. A user can add the site to their Home Screen and get an app-like experience.
not sure about others, but on sites you mentioned usually buy just one of few items. Since I sell for business where sometimes they buy even 50 units of different products, it is handy to have sliding cart without need to leave page (speaking about emerald theme).
Got you. So you don’t think the bottom nav in general would be appreciated by your business customers? Even if slightly modified to behave the way you want it? I mean sounds like your site is already thriving, perhaps you could hire a pro to customise it?
How is everyone getting along with this update? Has it gone smoothly, or are there problems? I’m trying to figure out whether to go ahead and update or wait a while.
Based on posts here, seems like a lot of people are having issues. Even Cs-cart’s own demo isn’t updated. Haven’t updated myself, not worth the troubles.
I have to update before the USPS changes in January, otherwise live postal rates will stop working. But I’m not going to rush into it. Looks like it would pay to wait until most of the bugs get squashed.
Hi Ed,
I updated to 4.19.1 SP1 last Thursday and it went smoothly. Be sure to download a new copy of the theme - v3.19 was updated after it was initially released.
Because of the Smarty bug in 4.19.1, IF you run the bug tracker, I’d recommend turning it off during the upgrade. The bug is fixed with SP1 but will get in the way of your interface if the tracker is on during the upgrade process.
The upgrade will not start. I get a message that says “Execute ‘collisions’ validator,” and then nothing further happens. What is the problem? I don’t think I’ve ever had this happen before.
Nova Theme — a clean, mobile-first storefront design available right out of the box.
Product Videos — bring your products to life with YouTube and Vimeo integration.
Varnish Full-Page Cache — boost performance and handle heavy traffic with ease.
Payments by Country — offer the right payment methods depending on customer location.
PHP 8.3 Support (Test Mode) — the platform is ready for the next-generation environment.