CubeCart Hints & Tips
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CubeCart 6.8.0: Atrium, the First New Skin Since Foundation
CubeCart 6.8.0 brings Atrium, a new default storefront skin, a stock audit log, verified reviews and confirmed sign-ups. What it changes and what to check.
CubeCart Sales Reports: The Seven Reports and How to Use Them
Seven built-in reports with xlsx export, including the Search Terms report that tells you what shoppers looked for and did not find. Plus the pagination bug that made earlier exports unreliable.
CubeCart 6.7.0: Sales Reports, Email Overhaul and Audit Logging
CubeCart 6.7.0 added a full sales reporting suite, asynchronous email with open tracking, and an audit log. It also removed the in-app database backup tool and the cookie consent banner.
CubeCart and Elasticsearch: Better Relevance, and the Failure to Watch For
Six relevance improvements, a graceful fallback when the cluster is down, and a quiet failure mode where the indexer reports success but indexes almost nothing.
404 Errors and Custom Error Pages for Your Shop
Most of the 404s in Search Console want leaving alone. Which ones actually matter, what to do with discontinued products, and why a soft 404 is the one genuinely worth fixing.
Argon2id Password Hashing in CubeCart: What It Means for Your Store
CubeCart now hashes passwords with Argon2id and migrates existing accounts transparently on login. Why memory-hard hashing matters, and the hosting requirement that could mean you are not getting it.
CubeCart 6.6.3: Argon2id Passwords, a Better Dashboard and Smarter Search
CubeCart 6.6.3 upgraded password hashing to Argon2id with transparent migration, overhauled the admin dashboard and made six improvements to Elasticsearch relevance.
Managing CubeCart Extensions: Marketplace, Visibility and Maintenance
You can now see which extensions are installed, which are disabled, which hooks they own and which scheduled tasks they run. Plus a twice-yearly routine worth adopting.
CubeCart Hooks: The Editor, Extension Ownership and Template Security
Hooks are why you can customise CubeCart and still upgrade. The hook editor, extension ownership in the registry, and a Smarty security policy that changed four times.
The CubeCart REST API: What It Does and How to Use It Safely
CubeCart’s REST API covers nine resources with Bearer token authentication and per-key rate limiting. What you can build with it, how authentication works, and the one version you must not run it on.