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We are pleased to announce that SocialAds 2.9 has entered Beta! This version brings some pretty major features to the advertising scene in Joomla. This blog will give you a quick overview of what to expect. Note that this is a beta release & should only be used for testing & not on Production sites !

A Whole New Charging Option with Campaigns & Budgeting !

SocialAds 2.9 beta brings a whole new Charging Model. With this new model, SocialAds will now let you make a Pre payment to add balance to your account, then create Campaigns, set budgets & create Ads against them without having to pay & checkout for every Ad. Google Ads, Facebook & LinkedIn Ads already work on this model.

Switching to this model is optional. If you prefer to use the Pay & Checkout per Ad model, you can keep using this same. If you wish to switch, we have provided a quick migration tool that will convert your user's existing ad balances to the new model on a prorata basis.

Ad Balance & Billing

Once you are on this model, the users can use a 'Add Balance' process to prepay funds to their account on your site. A Nice looking Ad Billing view shows a history of all transactions as well as full details of how its being spent.

Campaigns & Budgets

The user can create campaigns & set a Daily budget against the campaign. Ads will be created against campaigns. SocialAds will show Ads till the daily budget is exhausted.

Beautiful with Bootstrap !

We have completely revamped the front end views of SocialAds & added some awesome Bootstrap magic. Now you don't have to wait for 3.0 to get a beautiful interface for SocialAds ! P.S. SocialAds will be 3.0 compatible by March end in the version 3.0 .

100+ Bug fixes & many Feature improvements

This version of SocialAds as of now has fixed 132 Bugs & added 6 features including the features mentioned above.

Help Us Beta Test & Give us Feedback

In order to do more inclusive development, we try & get our subscribers involved whenever possible in the planning & development process. This is your chance to help us test the beta release & also give valuable feedback on improving it. Jump on to our Beta testers Discussion forum. You can find documentation on how to setup SocialAds Beta 2.9 with Campaigns & Budgets here. 

Read on for the full changelog

Wooo hooo !!! It's here. With support for Joomla 3x, Group chat, Gravtar Integration & much more, we are releasing a major update to JBolo - Version 3.0. JBolo 3.0 adds the much awaited feature - Group chat. Whats more, an awesome new Admin Dash & Gravtar integration are some of the Major highlights. Read on for the complete featurelist, changelog & Upgrade instructions.

JBolo version 3.0 is compatible with Joomla 2.5.x and 3.0.x.

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The Demo of the Facebook Chat bar variation of Jbolo, Chat for Joomla, CB & JomSocial is now live! We have been working on the Facebook variation of the Chat system for quite sometime now & are very close to a release now. A Beta  release is expected this week. Before the release is made available as part of the general package, we hav...

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of JBolo 2.9.4 with a great new feature that allows customers of IMaqma Helpdesk to add live chat capabilities to their Support system with JBolo. JBolo integrates tightly with IMaqma & provides the following features : Ability for Support Users to Initiate a chat with Clients from a individ...

Quick2Cart v2.0 beta 2 is here for testing with the greatest features ever! We are releasing a Beta version of Quick2Cart today as a free download for all to test. This version introduces loads of awesome new features. We invite you to download this release & take it for a test run. A New Beta forum has been opened up for you to report any issu...

Woo Hooo ! Its here !! Quick2Cart 2.0 brings our biggest features ever !!! Wondering what I'm so excited about ? Lets take a look .

Social Ecommerce with Multi Vendor & Multi Store

Quick2Cart 2.0 is our biggest release to date. It introduces a Major new feature - Social Ecommerce with Multi Vendor, Multi Store & an awesome JomSocial Integration. So now you have a great way to start monetizing your Social network.

All your users can create their own stores & manage their own products. You can charge a commission on each transaction. Or if you so choose, integrate with something like Payplans or AEC & charge for this feature. Store owners can also create their own coupons. Users can buy products from one or more stores & checkout in a single step.  Note that multivendor support in this version is for for Native Products only ( Support for Joomla Content, Zoo, K2 Flexi content for Multi Vendor will be introduces in future releases).

With an awesome Vendor Dashboard, frontend coupons, customer management & much much more, this feature promises to bring a whole new aspect to Joomla ecommerce. Read more about Multi Vendor & Multi Store here.

JomSocial Integrations include Plugins to show stores & products on user profile, Activity Stream integrations, JomSocial Notifications Integration. We have also added Jlike Integration, A SocialAds promote plugin & much more ! Read more about Social Integrations here.

Flexi Content Integration

Now Add an awesome shopping experience to your FLEXIContent. Adding to our growing list of CCK integrations, FLEXIContent joins the Party !  Quick2Cart already supports Joomla Content, K2 & Zoo. Read more about our CCK Integrations here.

One Page Checkout

We have worked extensively on our checkout process to make it faster & easier for your customers to checkout. The entire checkout process has been consolidated to be on one page. And thats not more ! We have lots of new features in this new release & lots of Bug fixes too. Read on for the full changelog  for the complete feature list.

Screen Shots

Checkout out many more screenshots on our Facebook page.

Upgrading  / Installing Quick2Cart 2.0

We have upgraded our common payments API in Quick2Cart 2.0 version. So if you have JGive, SocialAds or JTicketing installed, you will lneed to upgrade them to the latest versions released today. If your subscriptions for those have expired, we have released free patches on the forum so that they can work with the new CPG plugins.

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At 29.99$ for a 6 months Subscription & 49.99 for a 12 month Subscription, the new Quick2Cart is a superb Steal ! Get Quick2Cart today !

We are delighted to announce the release of Quick2Cart 2.9.1, JTicketing 1.8.5 & JGive 1.9.2. The reason behind the joint announcement is that 'TJ Fields' an extension all of these products share for field management, has got a major architectural upgrade. This upgrade brings extensive field based filtering for Products, Events and Campaigns re...

Today, a new maintenance release of Quick2Cart, version 2.8.5 has been released. In this release quite a few bug fixes have been made. We recommend that subscribers update to this release asap.

Note that if you use any other Techjoomla extensions, this update releases the Dompdf library.

So when you update this release, make sure that you also update other extensions that use this library. Specifically you should update Jticketing to version 1.8.3 and Shika to version 1.0.6.

You can read on to see the complete changelog.

Shika 1.0.8 has been released with some critical bug fixes. We encourage updating as soon as possible. While the team gears up for the next Alpha release of 1.1 and move steadily towards a feature rich stable release, we are continuing to do minor releases of the 1.0 branch and ensure you get a rock stable version of Shilka. 

If you are not using the most ground breaking LMS in the Joomla space yet, get onboard now ! 

For the complete changelog, read on. 

We are happy to bring to you latest release of JGive 1.9 which is packed with couple of new features along with crucial bug fixes.  

The major feature updates in this release include a brand new ‘Donor List’ view for the Admin to get details of all the donors on the site. Also we have now added a “Complete Donation” feature which will allow donors to complete payments for any donations that they missed making a payment on.

Read on for the complete details of the new features as well as the changelog.

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P.S. If you renew before your subscription expires, you get an automatic discount !

We are happy to announce the release of Shika 1.0.7. This is a maintenance release and fixes some bugs in the previous version. 

We suggest upgrading to the latest release. The release is available in the downloads area. Click on read more for the full changelog. 

We are happy to announce the release of Shika 1.0.6. This is a maintenance release and fixes some bugs in the previous versions. We have also solved the package size issue in v1.0.5.

We suggest upgrading to the latest release. The release is available in the downloads area. Click on read more for the full changelog. 

We are happy to announce the release of a new version of Shika. As announced earlier, we are following a parallel release strategy allowing us to keep working on new features that a lot of users are asking for while maintaining a stable branch with regular updates & faster updates. 

In this release of the 1.0.X branch we bring you new set of bug fixes. Subscribers are encouraged to update immediately. Please read on to for the complete change log. 

Invitex is up with its new release. Faster, better and with some cool new features added to its kitty helping you expand your network with ease. What’s new? Bootstrap 3 support for Invitex A lot of templates are adopting and moving towards bootstrap 3, we thought of making sure that all our extensions should also support it and with our other exten...

We are glad to announce the release of Shika 1.0.4. In this release we have fixed over 40 bugs in the maintenance branch. We have also introduced quite a few usability improvements. We have introduced a Ajax based export for CSV to allow exporting large volumes of data. Currently only supported in the attempt report, in future versions the same will be made available for all exports. 

Current subscribers can download the new release immediately.