Magento Enterprise 1.12 has just been released at the Magento Imagine Conference.
Here are the new features for for 1.12
Mobile Store HTML5
Magento 1.7 brings out an optimised storefront for Mobile devices. Your customers can now shop on their mobile phones. Previously only the checkout was Mobile optimised but version 1.7 brings out optimisation for
- Media Capabilities (Audio and Video)
- Mobile friendly search and results
- Mobile friendly product pages
- Zooming of images by pinch, multi touch etc
- Swipe functionality for multiple product images
- Mobile Optimised cross sell and upsell capabilities
- Drag and drop shopping cart
Visitor Segmentation
Now you are able to segment unknown site visitors who are either
- new visitors
- visitors who haven’t logged in
you can also target them with special promotions to turn them into customers
Enhanced Rule based Product Relations
You can now target specific customer segments with product recommendations (upsells, cross-sells and related products)
Auto Generate Coupon codes
This new functionality allows you to automatically generate coupon codes for promotions and export them for offline use.
Layered Navigation Pricing Improvements
The layered navigation pricing has been enhanced based on having a similar number of products within each range.
Multiple Wish Lists
Customers can now
- create multiple wish lists
- make wish lists public
- search public wish lists
As a store owner, you can review these wishlists to improve your store.
Customer Group Pricing
This is a great enhancement which allows you to set different pricing for different user groups (such as wholesalers and retailers) or customers/ prospects, VIPs vs non VIPs.
Search and Add to Cart by SKU
Great for large product base, you can now search and add to cart using SKUs.
REST API support
As noted previously, 1.7 comes with REST api making it easier to integrate with Magento through its API. The first iteration allows you to
- Create a simple product
- Retrieve details for a simple product
- Update a simple product
- Delete a simple product
- Retrieve a list of orders
- Retrieve order information for an order
- Update Catalog Inventory
- Retrieve Catalog Inventory
- Create customer information
- Retrieve details for a customer
- Update Customer information
- Delete Customer information
Backup and Rollback
Great for developers. This feature allows you to backup your Magento installation and roll back to the backup. Great for
- Testing new modules
- Testing new customisations
- Upgrading Magento
The types of backup supported are
- System Backup
- Database Backup
- Database and Media Backup
CMS Page Hierarchy Improvements
You can now
- add CMS pages to the navigation menu
- Create copy or delete different CMS hierarchy trees for each website and store
Payment Bridge Updates
Payment Bridge now supports these on top of existing Paypal, Authorize.net and Payflow Pro.
- Psi Gate
- RBS Worldpay
- Braintree
- First Data
- Card Gate Plus
- DIBS
- eWay Direct (Great for Australian stores)
- Ogone Directlink
- Paybox
- Payone
- Sage Pay
- CCAvenue
Captcha Support
This is great for cutting down on spam form fills and Account Registrations. This will only allow a person and not bots. This can be enabled for admin as well as customer areas.