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Developer Tutorials

In this tutorial, lead SoftSlate developer David Tobey takes you through downloading and setting up SoftSlate Commerce as an Eclipse project.

Lead developer David Tobey continues by installing SoftSlate Commerce as an application running within Eclipse's debugging environment, using Apache Tomcat.

In this tutorial, lead SoftSlate developer David Tobey takes you through an example of integrating an HTML design into the SoftSlate Commerce JSP templates and CSS stylesheets, to make the storefront match a new or existing design.

Video Demos

We added two new enhancements to the Advanced Search feature in version 3.1.2 of SoftSlate Commerce: highlighted excerpts (using the Lucene Highlighter) and search term stemming (using the Snowball Analyzer). This video demonstrates each of the new enhancements.

New with version 3.1.6 is the ability to send customers emails apprising them of their order status and any other messages you need to send them. Lead developer Dave Tobey introduces this feature.

Starting in version 3.1.8, you may set up your store to allow customers to purchase Gift Certificates, which they can give to their friends to pay for other items in the store. (Note: the SQL script mentioned in the video is /WEB-INF/classes/resources/product/insert.sql.)

Starting in version 3.1.2, administrators may create gift certificates for redemption by customers. In this demo, lead developer David Tobey takes you through the feature.

In this demo, lead developer David Tobey describes the two tax processors available in SoftSlate Commerce and shows how they are used: the default Basic Tax Rates processor and the new AvaTax integration (in version 3.1.2 and later).

Here is video demo of some of the order management tools available with SoftSlate Commerce. Lead Developer David Tobey takes you through a quick tour of the features in the web-based Administrator that can be used to manage and process orders after they've come in.