The staff seems to be very helpful via sales/customer service, the pricing is very competitive (all packages hosted on Rackspace!), customer reviews all sound good, a very large list of features, etc. Check them out..

P.s. – I do not work for them haha. I have spent a few weeks gathering information and made a decision yesterday that we are going to move to CoreCommerce.

Do you spend a lot of time hacking Interspire making to make it more SEO friendly or do you use almost as it is?

I ask as there seems to be quite a bit of duplicate content on the stores I have using it and I have to go into the templates and alter H1 & H2 tags as I don’t think they are that great from an SEO point of view.

Incidentally, I don’t know whether you still manage Party Heros but the site seems broken:
http://www.partyheroes.co.uk/products/Santa-Belt.html

Kind regards,

H

Bug Fixes / Changes
Bug #5506: UPS online tool should allow shop owner to select Destination type
Bug #5507: Edit an user doesn’t save the user status
Bug #5508: The page should stay on reviews tab after posting a review on product page
Bug #5511: Furniture template does not have a transparent background on certain versions of PHP/GD
Bug #5117: Side top sellers panel’s layout is broken when there is only one item in the list
Bug #5523: TextLink menu items that have a sub menu and are on the right of the page should be right aligned
Bug #5524: Duplicate array key 2 for ReturnReasons, causing “There was a problem” to not show (reported by websnail/Martin)
Bug #5525: Undefined variable warning shows in log when no currency modules are selected (reported by websnail/Martin)
Bug #5533: FastCGI servers may not load statistics graphs
Bug #5535: If all the products have fixed shipping in the cart then the shipping total will be $0 in Google Checkout
Bug #5534: Ogone module generates a PHP error if the server’s IP can’t be determined
Bug #5536: Extra error handling if a product condition isn’t supplied when importing a product
Bug #5541: Store importer/exporter can hang on some servers when flushing output buffers
Bug #5532: Top links in the Furniture template are split up over multiple lines
Bug #5538: Invoices should show line item total for each item in the order
Bug #5539: System and administrator logs are not pruned automatically according to max # of entries
Bug #5540: Include tags should only allow file inclusion from a specific directory, and not allow PHP execution from local files
Bug #5542: Inventory tracking is always being turned on when updating existing products via import
Bug #5566: Uploaded category and brand images do not set the correct file permissions
Bug #5568: If all products are tax free and tax is setup to be based on subtotal + shipping, no tax is calculated
Bug #5570: Any directories created should be CHMOD to ISC_WRITEABLE_DIR_PERM, not 777
Bug #5571: The ‘Allow customers to purchase this item’ string is hard coded in the product form template file
Bug #5576: Product condition is not using the language variables on the product page
Bug #5577: Disabled categories that are assigned to products still show in the product breadcrumb
Bug #5579: Store may get stuck in redirect loop when using SSL under some server configurations
Bug #5588: Order notification email shows %numItems
Bug #5563: Configurable fields and variations on product page are displayed inconsistently across browsers
Bug #5569: Store Design area doesn’t load when using PHP version less than 5.2
Bug #5592: Google Base export uses new character cleaning function for descriptions
Bug #5602: Interspire Payment Gateway doesn’t process orders after a successful transaction
Bug #5620: Images can’t be uploaded from TinyMCE or Image Manager if their server has open_basedir restrictions
Bug #5646: Order status doesn’t update for the second ping from PayPal
Bug #5647: Upload logo image function should also allow capital file extension
Bug #5649: Edit State form field doesn’t save the updated info.
Bug #5650: Test mode option should be available for UPS online tool and the negotiate rate is not displaying
Bug #5648: Remove a product or category should remove the discount rules in customer group for the product and category
Bug #5651: SideMiniCart error when showing checkout module’s own buy button
Bug #5659: Order instructions for orders listed in customers account show variables such as %%OrderID%%
Bug #5662: New categories are not showing in the category list
Bug #5669: Adding a virtual item to an order as the first item causes the manual order page to hang
Bug #5682: Company name for addresses isn’t loaded when editing an order
Bug #5685: PHP 5.3 shows “Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated” during installation
Bug #5687: Tax that is included in the total may not be displayed in some circumstances when printing multiple invoices
Bug #5702: Checkout modules disappear in the admin when using invalid biltin checkout module
Bug #5703: Added upgrade check for the old iDEAL module which can cause checkout settings to show blank
Bug #5684: PHP 5.3 doesn’t parse ini files where the value contains a dollar symbol at the start or end of the string
Bug #5372: ‘Use billing address’ and ‘Use shipping address’ shouldn’t be able to be checked at the same time
Bug #5587: Delayed capture for Authorize.net shows incorrect message in store logs
Bug #5583: Order emails that don’t contain order comments still show the order comments header
Bug #5147: Product list display mode is broken in Shoes template
Bug #5307: Users without the Add Brand permission can still create a brand when creating a product
Bug #5729: Cannot login again in express checkout
Bug #5146: Product list display mode is broken in Infinity template
Bug #5730: Force overriding address in PayPal standard causes orders can’t be processed in some countries.
Bug #5652: CARDSTART and CARDISSUE paramaters are needed for Switch/Solo cards when using PayPal Website Payments PRO UK
Bug #5737: USPS registration link in shipping setup instructions is incorrect
Bug #5178: Checkout page can be accessed when cart is empty
Bug #5406: SideCategoryNewProducts snippet needs updating
Bug #5335: There is no paging on discount rules, so if you have > 20, you can’t access the remaining rules
Bug #5699: Some payment methods accept duplicate transactions if confirm order button is pressed multiple times
Bug #5721: Rewrite Protx direct to support 3D secure
Bug #5746: Disabling the default payment gateway with no other payment providers enabled causes “Checkout Providers” to disappear.
Bug #5750: -Or use- text sometimes doesn’t show on cart page for PayPal express checkout
Bug #5752: php errors on the page after clicking on checkout button when using Cash on delivery
Bug #5758: ‘Not Rated’ image doesn’t align with the other elements in product boxes
Bug #5760: Product rating in product boxes shows underneath other elements until page refresh
Bug #5761: Product rating is shown in product boxes when the display setting is disabled
Bug #5764: Coupons not working correctly in Google Checkout
Bug #5717: Order notifications and customer subscriptions don’t occur under some circumstances when using a gateway that does a ping back to complete the order
Bug #5675: IIS Servers Not Showing Email Templates
Bug #5774: Edit order should load products original cost so that coupons are applied correctly
Bug #5775: Manual order is saving undiscounted item subtotal instead of the discounted total
Bug #5776: Coupons are now showed below all other amounts in the order quick view
Bug #5782: BPAY module now supports setting the reference number padding length and a reference prefix character
Bug #5785: Creating the customer account AFTER the order
Bug #5787: PayLeap/Interspire Merchant Gateway produces undefined index error when doing a delayed capture
Bug #5788: Visitor numbers are showing incorrectly in the customer statistics
Bug #5789: Gift wrapping doesn’t support utf8 character set
Bug #5791: Modify paysimple to store the static key in the modules table
Bug #5799: PayLeap/Interspire Merchant Gateway delayed capture/void requests don’t work
Bug #5808: Any non-required price variables are set to 0.00 if empty when saved
Bug #5809: ‘Add to cart’ doesn’t work due to cookies not being set in some browsers when the store address is an IP
Bug #5811: $X dollars of for repeat customer discount rule not working
Bug #5812: Customer group category discount should have fixed price discount option
Bug #5813: Web servers behind firewalls without CURL enabled may go into infinite loops
Bug #5817: ‘See all brands’ link doesn’t show in the side popular brands panel
Bug #5819: Storesuite template shouldn’t be using the IE specific stylesheet for IE8
Bug #5820: Posting a product review can redirect you to an invalid product page when required fields aren’t supplied.
Bug #5821: 2Checkout integration instructions need updating now that 2Checkout have redesigned their website
Bug #5822: Visiting an invalid product, category, brand or web page should send the 404 page w/ 404 headers & not “invalid” pages.
Bug #5823: Product variations are applying tax when the base product is set to not taxable

So BUY IT!!!! And then PAY for UPDATES like this!!!!

After really listening to your feedback and talking to hundreds of customers, we’ve now officially changed our upgrades and maintenance policy.

Here’s an overview:

- All new purchases include 12 months of maintenance free
- All upgrades are provided to customers free instead of being paid
- If your maintenance period expires, you can optionally renew it, however it’s completely optional
- All customers have been given an extra 9 months of maintenance free, giving them more technical support and the latest release of the Interspire Shopping Cart free

The new upgrade and maintenance policies have been really well received by customers and we really do thank everyone for your feedback, both good and bad.

You can have your say and learn about our new policy (which was implemented last Monday) here:

http://www.interspire.com/content/blogs/477/

Cheers,
Mitchell Harper
Interspire Co-Founder
mitch [AT] interspire [DOT] com