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New: Amazon Marketplace Integration

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 16:33:00 +0000

An image showing the Scipio ERPbackoffice theme based on the popular bulma html framework.

Scipio ERP Adds Amazon Marketplace Integration#

We are extraordinarily happy to announce the addition of Amazon Marketplace integration to its suite of services. This integration makes it easier than ever for businesses selling on Amazon to manage their inventory, orders, and sales data between the two platforms.

New POS Feature

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 08:15:53 +0000

java logo

New POS Feature#

We have been working on a POS feature for you over the last few months, which is tailored to the requirements of the retail trade. Interlinked with inventory management and financial accounting, you have all your item and stock data always available.

Our user-friendly mPOS solution offers a clear navigation and enables an easy implementation with functions such as:

Memo: Java 11 Compatibility

Wed, 27 Apr 2022 07:48:04 +0000

Memo: Java 11 Compatibility#

We are glad to announce that ScipioERP will soon fully default to Java 11. Since Java 8 support has substantially waned and new versions of essential libraries now require Java 11, it is recommended to upgrade to Java 11, a stable long-term release. ScipioERP supports stable releases. The build is adapted to running on either versions, but custom components may need code adaptations due to changes in the JDK and developers may need to tweak their development environment. To make migration easier there will be log output including deprecation warnings during the build to guide you in finding classes that need an upgrade. Any warnings from stock ScipioERP files (such as Nashorn) can be ignored and will be removed eventually. All current core functionality has been updated and tested to work with both Java 8 and 11, but Java 8 should be considered deprecated as it will become obsolete and impossible to support due to third-party libraries.

New CMS Features: Scipio ERP

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:52:02 +0000

New CMS Features: Scipio ERP#

We have a quick update for you!

The CMS component in Scipio ERP just received the following new features:

– management of redirects (301, 302, 303,…)

– robots.txt management

– Bing index now integration

Get in touch with us if you have any questions.

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New Addon: DHL Integration

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 07:36:47 +0000

We have just released our new DHL integration to the ever expanding list of enterprise add-ons.

With this component you benefit from a fast and simplified shipping process. It allows you to calculate the shipping costs directly based on all goods in the shopping cart – nationally as well as internationally! Shipping labels are automatically created from within ScipioERP, a tracking number is generated and assigned to the order. The tracking number lets your customers know the status of their shipment at all times.

New: Bootstrap 4 themes – now open source

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 08:14:51 +0000

Catalog Manager application showing SCIPIO Shopping Catalog with catalogs and demo shops listed

Catalog Application using Ignite Admin theme

We are glad to announce that our Ignite – Bootstrap 4.0 based themes have been moved to Community Edition, so now everybody can benefit from such nice and functional themes for front-end and back-office applications.

Personalized customer journeys with the power of Artificial Intelligence

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:31:39 +0000

Ilscipio is partnering with Fresh Relevance#

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence can be powerful tools to increase your online stores conversion rate. It allows you to personalize content, automate the creation of newsletters and in turn improve your customer experience. To offer our customers a great option for this, we partnered up with Fresh Relevance.

New Addon: WordPress Integration

Fri, 14 May 2021 08:57:50 +0000

New Addon: Wordpress Integration#

Marketers love WordPress for its ease-of-use, wide-ranging plugins and simple setup, but when it comes to integrating your blog to your online store, WordPress can be a challenging task to handle. In the past we’ve often opted for clunky integrations, where we’d try to match the design and menu structure of the blog in the style of the marketplace. Today we are happy to say: now there’s a better solution available!

Web Performance Tuning Checklist 2021

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 14:36:08 +0000

Performance tuning 2021

So you are just looking for a hot list of potential performance optimizations for your online store? Great – you found it.

Here is all that we can think of on how to get a high Pagespeed/Lighthouse result and a perfect page load time:

TL;DR: For a more detailed explanation, read up on “How we built UK’s fastest online fashion-store “

Google Shopping API

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 09:14:47 +0000

Updating products on google has never been easier!#

Now available for the SCIPIO-ERP addon system: a complete google shopping integration. Google shopping adds full support for indexing documents to Google’s Shopping Content API with focus on Products.

Features:

ECA-based product updates as well as full reindexing which can be scheduled on regular basis, using the batch API (https://developers.google.com/shopping-content/guides/products/batch-mode )
Newly improved ECA support attempts to minimize the number of external requests with a global queue and buffering of products and generated documents
Fully configurable for store-specific configurations, localization and performance settings
Client code simply overrides document builders to generate custom documents
Reuses Solr documents and indexing for faster full reindexing even with thousands of documents
Access keys for configured merchant accounts automatically fetched and re-cached as they expire
Error-handling retries for robustness and problematic connections

Check out our end-user documentation for further information about the google shopping integration

Stripe implementation

Fri, 03 Jul 2020 07:24:56 +0000

Now available: One of the best all-in-one payment solutions#

Stripe has been gaining a lot of traction in the payment market for the past years and so it shouldn’t come as a surprised that we have received many requests for a full Stripe payment integration. We are happy to say, that we can finally provide this for you.

Stripe has an excellent API combined with a very robust back-end (dashboard) and customer support. The company supports a long list of payment methods (credit card payments, SEPA, iDEAL…) and is therefore a great choice for any ecommerce implementation. Over at Scipio ERP, we integrated the API flawlessly. The enterprise add-on is easy to configure and effortless connects with all available applications.

IDEA Integration: License changes

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 10:45:51 +0000

IntelliJ IDEA integration environment

We are changing our plugin license#

Within the past few months we have worked tirelessly on our plug-in for IntelliJ IDEA and improved many aspects over its course. What started as a simple editor for the Scipio ERP XML files, has turned into a full blown IDE that touches every aspect of development. We added a complete custom Freemarker interpreter to support our very own Templating Toolkit macros, added new menu and context actions, updated the structure view, enabled references for specific common elements and added autocomplete as well as documentation for most and even touched on the way you load and start your projects. In short: we aim to make your development work as easy as can be.

Scipio ERP Release: 2.0.0

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 09:00:14 +0000

Scipio ERP 2.0.0 release marketing icon

Scipio ERP 2.0.0 is here and it is another evolution of the software. For this release we focused on security, continuous integration, various application improvements and new developer tools, while also adding further premium plugins for our Enterprise clients.

New Features#

IntelliJ IDEA integration environment

Is the Lightning network ready for commerce?

Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:00:33 +0000

If Bitcoin wants to become a broadly accepted payment method, it will have to overcome some of its flaws that make it unattractive for many commerce applications . One of its biggest problems is “transaction speed” , which pretty much precludes it from day-to-day use and will limit its reach as a mean of payment. Crypto developers have taken on the challenge and developed new technologies that intend to improve or fix some of Bitcoins flaws. The Lightning Network is one of them and we wanted to give it a try.

The issue with Bitcoin in commerce

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 11:07:49 +0000

First off, this is a very personal post, which is the result of working with Bitcoin on a technical level for several months. I am frustrated and to get this out of the way: Bitcoin is a deeply flawed technology and many of its limitations are well-documented . Nevertheless, there is an incredible desire for blockchain technology to be used in commerce. In 2018 it remained one of the most talked about topics in the industry and people are longing for a wider acceptance of it in real-world applications, regardless of how impractical it may be .

New: Major League Demo Store

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:17:36 +0000

Major League Shop website shown on mobile and desktop displaying products

Let’s not kid ourselves: Scipio ERP is most often used by mid- to large-size businesses who are looking to add a complex e-commerce store to the mix. It is a niche in which our clients demand an enormous feature-set, coupled with a fitting modern design. It is tricky to show both off in a generic demo application, which is why we so far has opted for a very generic look-and-feel.

Excel Add-In: Beta Testers Wanted!

Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:49:25 +0000

Excel add-in providing direct access to data

A new Excel Add-In is currently being developed, which grants our users direct access to Order-, Product- and Catalog data of their own Scipio ERP installation. This is particularly handy for those of us, who are looking for a nifty little spreadsheet to keep track of current affairs. A feature to import data back into the system (for a simplified workflow) is currently being discussed as well.

Scipio ERP Update: 1.14.4

Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:30:03 +0000

Scipio ERP 1.14.4 is out and it is a another major step forward. This release is packed with some incredible new features, security updates and a new setup and cms component:

New Features#

New: CMS component (/cms)
**New:**Scipio Setup Component (/setup)
**New:**SEO & Store Improvements
**New:**Scipio Plugin Shop (Released: https://shop.scipioerp.com/ )
New: ANT tasks to create components:
- “create-component-shop-override” for a shop-component that inherits functions from original shop component and simplifies the customization process
- **“create-theme”**for an empty theme component with recommended folder structure and examples
New: MariaDB Support

Updated Applications#

Accounting
CRM
Human Resource Management
Solr
Work Effort
Warehouse

Overall Improvements#

Templating Toolkit improvements
- Improved img macro implementation
- Lookup-field improvements
- New: CMSMenu macro
RTL (right-to-left ) theme support
Performance Improvements
Apache Solr search optimization

Security fixes#

Apache Solr Upgrade

New: Angular Shop – Prototype

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 15:49:37 +0000

Angular shop prototype interface

AngularJS is a popular framework for web development. At Scipio ERP, we often like to try out different web technologies and see how they can fit with our system. Not to mention, there have also been quite a few requests with regards to compatibility to AngularJS, VueJS and React.

The new Angular Shop Prototype is a show case for a potential shop integration. Granted, it does not recreate the shop faithfully (yet), but we decided to share this with the public regardless. The shop is based on the popular Now UI-kit by Creative Tim, which provides you with very pretty visuals. The toolkit has been enhanced by new product & category pages, as well as a range of custom elements (sliders, product-slider, product preview etc.), which can serve as a foundation for your own custom store.

Software Updates in April

Mon, 14 May 2018 09:23:47 +0000

As we are closing in on the release 1.14.4 , we wanted to point your attention to the development last month:

April saw a general focus on overall code quality & security and put our attention to the human resource application and user profile pages. We realized that an application for keeping track of your own time was missing ever since we launched Scipio, so we decided on bringing back the “Workeffort” application. We began cleaning up the original sources and will shoot for a release very soon. We also updated the URLrewrite functionality for Shop and updated Solr to make it easier to manage.

Questions from the inbox

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 14:22:02 +0000

Scipio ERP is a flexible development kit that can be used for countless business applications. We receive a lot of questions about the software, so we figured it would make sense to document some of the answers. Here we go:

I’ve downloaded and installed the community edition. Basically we’d like to dive in and see what we can make of it all. To this end, is there a very basic guide as to how to work on (probably in sequence) Themes, Services, Entities, Views, the Templating Toolkit and Events & Actions?

New: Customer Reviews & Ratings

Tue, 03 Apr 2018 07:00:24 +0000

Nothing beats proper customer recommendations. When it comes to making eCommerce sales, allowing users to review and rate products is often a desirable function. As we are always on the lookout for new and exciting eCommerce functionality, we are now introducing our own review and rating system to the Scipio ERP eCommerce application:

The review and rating system is part of the official 1.14.4 release of Scipio ERP and has made its way to Github already. As a community edition feature, it is available to all users of the software.

Performance Tuning & You

Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:03:18 +0000

Website performance test result showing desktop speed score of 80 out of 100

When it comes to software, everybody wants a well running system. Unfortunately, with a system like Scipio ERP many different stakeholders have a say: Some want the system to run without any external dependencies, others want to test their own code without parts of the system interfering. Scipio ERP accommodates all stakeholders and makes sure that the defaults are set to fit most applications.

New: Social Logins

Mon, 05 Mar 2018 12:51:57 +0000

Every click counts when it comes to eCommerce. Having lengthy registration forms can be a disaster for online stores, as the few seconds can be enough to turn customers away. Social Logins can help reduce the registration process to a mere formality and can be found anywhere on the web.

We therefore added various new social logins to the system:

LinkedIn
Twitter
Google+
Facebook

All Social Logins are available to our Enterprise Edition users and can be purchased through our

Easy integrations with Apache Camel

Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:18:54 +0000

Apache Camel is now available as an Enterprise Addon and it made your third-party software integration a whole lot easier! The Scipio Camel component adds a complete Apache Camel instance to Scipio, empowering you to use the broad variety of protocols supported by Camel to expose your services or use external services. Apache Camel is an extensible integration framework which transforms and routes messages from and to different endpoints. The supported protocols and APIs include AMQP, many Amazon Web Services, DNS, Filessystem, (S)FTP(S), Geocoders, Hadoop, IMAP/POP/SMTP, LDAP, JMS, MQTT, REST, SOAP, SSH and many others.

Updated Product Roadmap

Thu, 07 Dec 2017 15:47:26 +0000

As development progresses on the much anticipated release 1.14.4 we wanted to draw attention to our product road-map in general. For us, the product road-map equals a dynamic wish-list in which we keep track of all internal development.

We collect all our user feedback and our own wishes on how to enhance the product further. We share this list with everyone and maintain it according to our own progress. The list consists of “planned” (actively developed) and “tentative” (discussed) features. As the next release nears completion, we often push our changes to Github , so that early-adopters can participate in these final stages. If single features require additional development time, we sometimes push them further back to a later release. We are thankful for all the feedback we get.

Scipio awarded ‘Great User Experience’ Award

Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:00:44 +0000

We are proud to announce that Scipio ERP just won the ‘Rising Star 2017’ and ‘Great User Experience’ award by FinancesOnline. The team behind FinancesOnline collects and analyzes hundreds of business applications and evaluates them against other solutions on the market.

According to FinancesOnline, Scipio ERP

‘gives you a wide range of features and capabilities to handle everything and anything.[…] Whatever e-commerce needs you have, Scipio ERP is loaded with all the tools you need to achieve and maintain control – all within a user-friendly, mobile-ready e-commerce platform.’.

Stunning Visuals with Custom Themes

Thu, 12 Oct 2017 09:49:13 +0000

Custom themes tutorial guide for building appealing web store visuals

Appealing visuals and proper HTML are important to ease users into a new application and to increase overall user satisfaction. Scipio ERP is built around the mantra that pretty visuals should be easy to achieve. All applications were standardized, all html rendering elements grouped into a set of easy-to-learn macros (Templating Toolkit ) and custom themes were given the complete control over all html and css definitions.

Security Update: Apache Solr 6

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:10:31 +0000

Scipio ERP relies on Apache Solr as an all purpose search engine and to increase product data lookups throughout the shop component. The benefit of using a search engine in these areas is an immediate performance increase for large data sets, as well as improved search results and additional search functionality.

Recently, there have been security concerns over the Solr version we used (5.x), which is why we updated the component to its latest stable release. We also took the time to reimplement the search functionality as a whole, leading to better search results in general. A complete list of all the Solr version changes can be found on the Apache Solr website.

Move to Java JDK 1.8

Wed, 06 Sep 2017 20:28:54 +0000

In an effort to support newer and updated libraries and several enhancements, SCIPIO ERP will now officially require a Java JDK 1.8 or higher compatible installation.

This change is effective immediately for the Git dev/master branch and will apply to the next versioned release (1.14.4).

This version has become well established and is available for installation on most operating systems, and most users are likely already using it. For operating systems which don’t have central repositories or for very old distributions, the Oracle JDK 1.8 can be downloaded from: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html (Note: Oracle had already discontinued public updates for Oracle JDK 7 for some time; anyone still using that package and not subscribed to their long-term support is urged to update immediately, even if you are running SCIPIO ERP 1.14.3 or lower)

New: Scipio Shop & eCommerce Sale!

Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:29:32 +0000

We’re very excited to announce that the Enterprise Addons are now available for everyone! Each Enterprise Addon is easy to install and allows you to further customize Scipio ERP to your own needs. Regardless of whether you need to run Scipio ERP as a European company, desire a new look and feel or want to optimize your eCommerce store, we got it all!

To kick off our store, we are running a time-limited “Leading Edge Commerce – SALE“. During the promotion, you can purchase various shop related Addons for heavily discounted prices! Have a lookout for our Social Registration Plugins or the cool new “Ignite Shop” (Bootstrap v4) theme.

Become a Scipio ERP certified partner!

Sat, 29 Jul 2017 00:50:34 +0000

Scipio ERP is great and it is growing fast! As we continue to grow, we are looking for partners to implement, support and extend Scipio ERP. We believe in strong collaborations and want to support our partners along the way.

We offer:

Partners will be listed on the official website & certified as such
Technical support from our core developers
Sales support from our sales team & provision of sales materials
Full access to our enterprise applications for partner employees
Access to our Scipio ERP Extranet

If you are interested, go ahead and

Version 1.14.3 is here!

Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:19:31 +0000

Scipio ERP 1.14.3 is here and it is a major step forward! Our focus has been on the accounting application, which we improved on all levels: new screens, restructured menus, simplified directory structure, cleaned up sources and more. Accounting is now ready for international accounting standards.

Speaking of which, a Scipio Store is going to be available soon, which will open up our enterprise components to everyone. Among them: bootstrap 4 themes for shop and backoffice (Ignite series), nationalized accounting applications & webshops (including their respective chart of accounts for SKR03/04/07, GPC etc), PayPal and more.

Updated: USPS Shipping API

Fri, 12 May 2017 17:44:59 +0000

Besides our main focus on the accounting application, Release 1.14.3 will also contain a long list of bugfixes and improvements that have been long overdue. One of which will be the updated USPS API, which allows the estimation of shipping prices during an online checkout. In old releases, the missing shipping price calculation would often leave some annoying error messages in the logs and although the screens would let users continue, the prices would be displayed as 0. The users would then continue without having paid the correct shipping prices…

Improved Navigation

Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:43:42 +0000

Our user interfaces have come a long way since we introduced Scipio ERP, but one thing has been bugging us for some time: Sometimes menu items lead to pages that are connected to the currently viewed screen. Products, for example, can be configured in such a wide variety, that around 10 menu entries are related to one another. In the past we relied on the sidebar to display these links, which would not always make it easy to spot them in the ever extending list of menu items. To make matters worse, users could potentially get lost while editing an item, simply because they misclicked and ended up losing the page context.

User Notifications

Sat, 08 Apr 2017 16:48:48 +0000

System notifications interface with message alerts and last communication timestamp

User notifications are playing an important role in modern user interfaces. And although Scipio ERP has always had the means to signal the user of page-events, we felt that there was a significant lack of notifications that can be tracked across all applications. We want to be able to notify the user of ongoing events and lead him directly to the page where an action is required.

Upcoming: Ignite Premium Themes

Sat, 25 Feb 2017 08:30:55 +0000

Ignite Premium Theme admin interface showing user management and analytics

While our work on Release 1.14.3 continues, we are also taking some time to extend our back-catalog on visual themes. We love implementing new themes, as each implementation teaches us valuable insights into how our work performs under real-life conditions.

New: Email Templates

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 00:10:51 +0000

User account creation notification email template in Scipio ERP

With Release 1.14.3 we are eagerly updating many aspects of the software even outside of our current focus on the accounting application.

One of which happens to be modern email templates, which are needed for communication events & are a core aspect of the ecommerce application. Our rendering engine has been extended by an Email renderer, which works similar to the already known FOP (PDF), HTML and Text renderers. Our templating toolkit has been adopted, so that existing screens can be rendered into emails without much trouble.

New: Invoice & Order documents

Wed, 21 Dec 2016 12:19:02 +0000

invoice

In preparation for Release 1.14.3 , we have begun to roll-out changes to our Github repository .

Part of which are updated invoice & order templates, which have been awfully neglected in previously releases. The new auto-generated documents are as always customizable and should be well suited for your own corporate identity. The new templates are currently being tested with a large set of data and will be available to a larger public in Release 1.14.3.