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Kartris .net beta being packaged for release

21 May 2009

The Kartris beta will be released for download from www.kartris.com in the next few days. This release will be significantly faster that the previous alpha versions running as demos on the web site as most debug and logging code has been removed. We have also made various performance enhancements by eliminating many double-postback scenarios and providing direct links to each tabs of multi-tabbed pages.

The beta version includes support for SagePay Direct and Form payment methods as well as Google Checkout. Further payment methods will be integrated over time, with Kartris's modular gateway system requiring no code changes to the main code branch for such plug-ins. This opens up the possibility of payment gateway companies being able to create their own Kartris support packages if they have suitably skilled developers.

For using the Kartris backend, we would advise ensuring you are running an up-to-date browser such as IE7, Firefox 3, Google Chrome or Safari. In fact, IE8 should do a better job than IE7 owing to faster javascript and the ability to render full web standards. At present there are some minor issues with Opera which we are looking into, though the vast majority of the functionality works. The HTMLeditor is also proving a little problematic though we expect to get those problems sorted if not in the first beta, then in a second soon after.

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