The new responsive theme in BV Commerce 2015 gets all of the attention, but what made that theme possible was the powerful enhancements to the theming architecture. [More]

We've gone to great lengths to ensure a simple upgrade process to BV Commerce 2015. Read on for the upgrade instructions for BV Commerce 2013, 5.X, and 2004. [More]

UPDATE 2: this documentation is also applicable to installing BV Commerce 2015 SP2. The only difference is that you would download BV Commerce 2015.2.1.1206 SP2 from your account in step #1 below. UPDATE 1: this documentation is also applicable to installing BV Commerce 2015 SP1. The only difference is that you would download BV Commerce 2015.1.1.1059 SP1 from your account in step #1 below. The process of creating a fresh installation of BV Commerce 2015 is identical to ... [More]

Does BV Commerce support ________ payment gateway? We hear this question all of the time. While BV Commerce does support a lot of credit card payment gateways out-of-the-box it doesn't support every one. Fortunately we provide an easy-to-use plugin architecture for developers to create new payment gateway integrations. In this article we'll walk through the plugin architecture and how to leverage it for your integration. Payment Gateway Class Create a new class in the /App_Code folder of your we... [More]

Content Columns are nothing new to BV Commerce; they've been part of the platform since the 5.0 release. You've probably used them to edit the homepage, the left columns of the product and category pages, and even the admin dashboard. A Content Column is simply an admin-editable region of a page where you can add any number of Content Blocks. BV Commerce includes many different kinds of Content Blocks such as Category Menu, Product Grid, Mailing List Signup, and Html. Take a look at the screensh... [More]

During beta testing we upgraded a production site to 2013 beta 2. This site, however, was running on IIS 6. Until this upgrade we had not tested IIS 6, though for 2013 we specifically chosen to support ASP.NET 4.0, rather than 4.5, so it would still be compatible. Surprisingly it worked perfectly with no Web.config or IIS changes (other than changing the app pool to .NET 4). However, we did notice one issue. On the first request to the site homepage (new session), the URL shown in the browser ha... [More]

We've gone to great lengths to ensure a simple upgrade process to BV Commerce 2013. Read on for the upgrade instructions for BV Commerce 5.X and 2004. Upgrading from BV Commerce 5.X The process of upgrading to BV Commerce 2013 is similar to previous BV Commerce 5.X upgrades. Let's start with the system requirements, as this is the biggest area of change compared to prior versions. System RequirementsWindows Server 2003 or above (i.e. IIS 6 or above) .NET Framework 4.0 with Full Trust SQL ... [More]

The process of creating a fresh installation of BV Commerce 2013 is nearly identical to 5.X, though there is no Windows installer app like there was on the earlier versions of 5. Let's start with the system requirements, as this is the biggest area of change compared to prior versions. System RequirementsWindows Server 2003 or above (i.e. IIS 6 or above) .NET Framework 4.0 with Full Trust SQL Server 2005 or above with Full Text Search installedSQL Server Full Text Search The Full Text Search... [More]