What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4. July 2015

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1 What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 July 2015

2 2 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 Copyright by Electronics for Imaging, Inc. All Rights Reserved. EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 July 2015Digital StoreFront version 8.4 Document version 1.00 This publication is protected by copyright, and all rights are reserved. No part of it may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means for any purpose without express prior written consent from Electronics for Imaging, Inc. Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Electronics for Imaging, Inc. Patents This product may be covered by one or more of the following U.S. Patents: 4,716,978, 4,828,056, 4,917,488, 4,941,038, 5,109,241, 5,170,182, 5,212,546, 5,260,878, 5,276,490, 5,278,599, 5,335,040, 5,343,311, 5,398,107, 5,424,754, 5,442,429, 5,459,560, 5,467,446, 5,506,946, 5,517,334, 5,537,516, 5,543,940, 5,553,200, 5,563,689, 5,565,960, 5,583,623, 5,596,416, 5,615,314, 5,619,624, 5,625,712, 5,640,228, 5,666,436, 5,745,657, 5,760,913, 5,799,232, 5,818,645, 5,835,788, 5,859,711, 5,867,179, 5,940,186, 5,959,867, 5,970,174, 5,982,937, 5,995,724, 6,002,795, 6,025,922, 6,035,103, 6,041,200, 6,065,041, 6,112,665, 6,116,707, 6,122,407, 6,134,018, 6,141,120, 6,166,821, 6,173,286, 6,185,335, 6,201,614, 6,215,562, 6,219,155, 6,219,659, 6,222,641, 6,224,048, 6,225,974, 6,226,419, 6,238,105, 6,239,895, 6,256,108, 6,269,190, 6,271,937, 6,278,901, 6,279,009, 6,289,122, 6,292,270, 6,299,063, 6,310,697, 6,321,133, 6,327,047, 6,327,050, 6,327,052, 6,330,071, 6,330,363, 6,331,899, 6,340,975, 6,341,017, 6,341,018, 6,341,307, 6,347,256, 6,348,978, 6,356,359, 6,366,918, 6,369,895, 6,381,036, 6,400,443, 6,429,949, 6,449,393, 6,476,927, 6,490,696, 6,501,565, 6,519,053, 6,539,323, 6,543,871, 6,546,364, 6,549,294, 6,549,300, 6,550,991, 6,552,815, 6,559,958, 6,572,293, 6,590,676, 6,606,165, 6,633,396, 6,636,326, 6,643,317, 6,647,149, 6,657,741, 6,662,199, 6,678,068, 6,707,563, 6,741,262, 6,748,471, 6,753,845, 6,757,436, 6,757,440, 6,778,700, 6,781,596, 6,816,276, 6,825,943, 6,832,865, 6,836,342, RE33,973, RE36,947, D341,131, D406,117, D416,550, D417,864, D419,185, D426,206, D439,851, D444,793. Trademarks The EPS logo, AutoCal, Auto-Count, Balance, Best, the Best logo, BESTColor, BioVu, BioWare, ColorPASS, Colorproof, ColorWise, Command WorkStation, CopyNet, Cretachrom, Cretaprint, the Cretaprint logo, Cretaprinter, Cretaroller, DockNet, Digital StoreFront, DirectSmile, DocBuilder, DocBuilder Pro, DocStream, DSFdesign Studio, Dynamic Wedge, EDOX, EFI, the EFI logo, Electronics For Imaging, Entrac, EPCount, EPPhoto, EPRegister, EPStatus, Estimate, ExpressPay, Fabrivu, Fast-4, Fiery, the Fiery logo, Fiery Driven, the Fiery Driven logo, Fiery JobFlow, Fiery JobMaster, Fiery Link, Fiery Prints, the Fiery Prints logo, Fiery Spark, FreeForm, Hagen, Inktensity, Inkware, Jetrion, the Jetrion logo, LapNet, Logic, MiniNet, Monarch, MicroPress, OneFlow, Pace, PhotoXposure, PressVu, Printcafe, PrinterSite, PrintFlow, PrintMe, the PrintMe logo, PrintSmith, PrintSmith Site, Printstream, Print to Win, Prograph, PSI, PSI Flexo, Radius, Rastek, the Rastek logo, Remoteproof, RIPChips, RIP-While-Print, Screenproof, SendMe, Sincrolor, Splash, Spot-On, TrackNet, UltraPress, UltraTex, UltraVu, UV Series 50, VisualCal, VUTEk, the VUTEk logo, and WebTools are trademarks of Electronics For Imaging, Inc. and/or its wholly owned subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or certain other countries. All other terms and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners, and are hereby acknowledged.

3 Contents 3 Contents What s New in Digital StoreFront Dynamic Forms in Variable Data Products... 5 Progressive Disclosure of Form Elements... 5 Benefits of Using Dynamic Web Forms... 5 Binding Edge Print Option... 7 Orientation in Special Pages... 9 A Use Case of Binding Edge and Special Page Orientation Intelligent Ticketing: Recommend Alternatives Address Book Searches User Registration and DSFdesign Studio Jobs Additional Variables in Templates Improved File Retention and Removal Garbage Collection Management Changes to Integration with Google Drive and Picasa Support for Fiery XF 6.1 Color Modes Fusion Pro: Support for Images in Common Data MIS Access to AccuZIP USPS Files What Was New in Pre-8.4 Versions of Digital StoreFront Digital StoreFront Shopping & Checkout Fulfillment Shopping Products Displayed in List or Grid View Fast Shopping Rapid Checkouts Intelligent (Enforced and Recommended) Ticketing Re-Orders of Products with Changed Content or Ticketing Options Changes to Content Files for Static Products Changes to Ticketing Options Single-Page Previews Combo Mode for DirectSmile and FusionPro Products PrintMessenger Redirection Multiple First-Level Domains (Self-Hosted Installations) User Authentication: SAML 2.0 Support SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Enhancements Select Merchant Accounts at the Company and Department Levels Kits and Matrix Products High-Resolution Preview for FusionPro Products Digital StoreFront Entity Model Enhancements to AccuZIP Direct Mail Support MIS Enhancements Merchant Account Support Fiery Central Support for Banner Pages (Separator Sheets) Variable Data Printing (VDP) Support Single-Record VDP for Digital StoreFront Essential... 47

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5 What s New in Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 Dynamic Forms in Variable Data Products Digital StoreFront s dynamic web form functionality enables administrators to build smart VDP web forms that respond to buyer input by adapting subsequent data input choices based on previous data input choices. For instance, administrators can build conditional rules-based (if-then) logic into VDP forms. For example, say a business card web form has a Region field (common element) with three options: Northeast, Southeast, and Midwest. If you have defined rules for what happens when buyers select each of these options, then you can make buyers lives much easier. When buyers select Northeast from the Region drop-down list, your rule, which says If Region is Northeast, then auto-populate the Address, Slogan, and Web address fields with the values in Address-NE, Slogan-NE, and Web Address-NE, will save buyers several steps because they will not have to manually enter the address, slogan, and web address fields corresponding to their region. This type of rules-based logic not only saves buyers time, but ensures consistency in how forms are filled out. Progressive Disclosure of Form Elements A dynamic web form can also be configured with progressive disclosure, based on your web form and rule settings. Progressive disclosure means that the form will be displayed to buyers one field at a time. This is useful, for instance, to ensure that subsequent fields unfold with valid options based on buyer input in previous fields. How progressive disclosure happens: A dynamic web form displays fields in a particular sequence (based on the Order on page specified for the elements on the Products - Progress 2 Web Form page) until it reaches a field that has a rule assigned to it and requires the buyer make an input selection, at which point the form stops disclosing fields until the buyer selects an option. When the buyer selects an option, any rules associated to that form field will be applied and the form resumes disclosing fields until it reaches the next data element field that has a rule and no value assigned to it. Benefits of Using Dynamic Web Forms Improved accuracy of data input: Buyers are prevented from entering inaccurate or inappropriate data. Single-sourcing of templates and products: Administrators can use a single VDP template and Digital StoreFront product for multiple workflows. Time-saving: Saves time for both administrators and buyers. Enhanced usability: Progressive disclosure lets administrators predefine the sequencing or flow of data input, which limits the amount of data requested at any time while improving the quality and accuracy of data input.

6 6 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 Rules are defined on the Manage Dynamic Web Forms Rules page: Rules can be assigned to fields that are a list type input (i.e., checkbox, dropdown, etc.) and are: Common VDP type for FusionPro and EFI VDP Adors or Dial for XMPie On the add rule section, define the rule: Source Value: From the pull-down list, select the source value for the field that will govern the rule. This is the if part of the rule, i.e., If buyers select this value... Action: From the pull-down list, select the type of action for the rule. This is the then part of the rule, i.e., If buyers select this value, then take this action (hide, disable, enforce, recommend)... Hide Element: Select this option to hide the value for another field when buyers select the specified source value. Buyers will not be able to see any options that are hidden. Example: You would choose the Hide Element option if you wanted to hide a certain category of weekly specials when buyers select a particular product category. The effect of this rule would be: For Data Element Instrument if buyer selects Source Value Guitar, then hide the Destination Element Weekly Drum Specials. Disable Element: Select this option to automatically set the value for another field when buyers select the specified source value. Buyers will be able to see but not select any disabled options. Example: You would choose the Disable Element option if you wanted to disable (without hiding) a certain category of weekly specials when buyers select a particular product category. The effect of this rule would be: For Data Element Instrument if buyer selects Source Value Guitar, then disable the Destination Element Weekly Drum Specials. Enforce Value: Select this option to automatically set the value for another field when buyers select the specified source value. Buyers will not be able to choose any other option than the forced value. Example: You would choose the Enforce Value option if you wanted to automatically supply (force) an address when buyers select a particular home office source value. The effect of this rule would be: For Data Element Home Office if buyer selects Source Value Boston, then automatically set Destination Element Address to Destination Value 89 12th Avenue, St. 198, Boston MA Recommend Value: Select this option to recommend a value for another field when buyers select the specified source value. Buyers will be able to either accept the recommendation or decline it and select another option. Example: You would choose the Recommended Value option if you wanted to recommend that buyers select a particular currency when buyers select a particular country source value. The effect of the rule would be: For Data Element Country if buyer selects Source Value United States, then recommend that the buyer selects the Destination Element Currency Destination Value US Dollar. Enforce List: Select this option to automatically set the list to be displayed in another field when buyers select the specified source value. Buyers will be forced to choose one of the values on the enforced list. Example: You would choose the Enforce List option if you wanted to automatically supply (force) a certain list of selections when buyers select a particular home office source value. The effect of the rule would be: For Data Element Home Office if buyer selects Source Value Boston, then

7 What s New in Digital StoreFront automatically set Destination Element First Name to display the list of employee first names for Boston (FN-Boston). This lets you limit the number of values displayed to buyers For example, If you set a rule for Field 1 that says for Data Element Country if buyer selects Source Value US enforce a list of US states for Field 5. Without enforcing the list, the buyer would be presented with a list of all US states, all Canadian provinces, etc. potentially a very long list of values. Hide Value: Select this option to hide a particular value for another field when buyers select the specified source value. Buyers will not be able to see the hidden value. Example: You would choose the Hide Value option if you wanted to hide a certain value from the category of weekly specials when buyers select a particular product category. The effect of the rule would be: For Data Element Show Me if buyer selects Source Value Guitar Accessories, then hide the Destination Value Drum Sticks. Destination Element: From the pull-down list, select the destination element to apply the action of the rule to. The Destination Element and Destination Value are the part of the if-then rule that specifies what the action is applied to, i.e., If buyers select this value, then take this action (hide, disable, enforce, recommend) on this element and/or value. Destination Value: From the pull-down list, select the destination element to which you want to apply the action of the rule. Binding Edge Print Option Designed to be used with binding print options, the new binding edge option can be added to a ticket template to allow jobs to be bound on the left edge (as before), on the top edge, and on the right edge (to support languages that are read right-to-left). The Binding Edge print service category and options are also compatible with intelligent (or conditional) ticketing (can be used in both site-level and ticket template-level intelligent ticketing). The Binding Edge print service on the Manage Print Services page:

8 8 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 The preview reflects the buyer s selection. For example, for top edge binding, the first page looks like this: Subsequent page spreads look like this:

9 What s New in Digital StoreFront The binding edge option is available on SmartStores and in Visual Product Builder on classic storefronts. Orientation in Special Pages For greater flexibility in designing the content of documents, administrators can enable orientation for special pages in ticket templates: Orientation in special pages is useful for documents that include foldout inserts, especially when they are on media of different sizes (for example, an 8.5x11 document with a 17x11 folded insert). When orientation is enabled for special pages, buyers will see an Orientation selection on the shortcut menu when they right-click a page:

10 10 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 Orientation will also be a choice in the Special Pages window: A Use Case of Binding Edge and Special Page Orientation The Binding Edge print service category lets buyers choose on which side certain pages in their documents should be bound left, right, or top. This is useful, for example, in setting up jobs in which buyers use the Orientation print service to specify that certain special pages (e.g., those that are of a different size) are to be produced in a different orientation from the other pages in the document. For example : Buyer has a 24-page bound document that she wants to be printed as follows: Pages 1-2 are to be produced on letter-size media, portrait orientation, and coil-bound on the left edge Pages 3-4 are to be produced on tabloid-size media, landscape orientation, folded with a half-fold, and coil-bound on the left edge (these pages will be a fold-out) Pages 5-24 are to be produced on letter-size media, portrait orientation, and coil-bound on the left edge Using the Binding Edge print service in combination with the Orientation print service (with special pages) will eliminate issues with the dynamic preview of the job, which would be problematic if, for instance, all pages in the job were set to be bound on the long edge, etc. Intelligent Ticketing: Recommend Alternatives Digital StoreFront 8.2 introduced the ability to enforce print option selections as well as recommend additional selections based on print options that buyers selected. Digital StoreFront 8.4 expands this functionality by

11 What s New in Digital StoreFront allowing you to define a ticketing rule that recommends an alternative option based on what a buyer selected. For example, you could set up rule that recommends coil binding as an alternative whenever a buyer selects stapling. If the buyer accepts your recommendation, the alternative option replaces the buyer s previous selection (staples in this example). Recommendations for alternatives offer an opportunity to upsell your services. You manage intelligent ticketing by selecting a ticket template on the Manage Ticket Templates page and clicking Manage Intelligent Ticketing on the Manage Ticket Template page. To recommend an alternative to a selection the buyer makes, you set the Action to Recommend Alternate, select a print service on the left (e.g., 2 Staples Left Side), and select the recommended alternative(s) on the left (e.g., Coil Bind, Gray and Coil Bind, Clear). You can enter a note in the Message text box to let buyers know why you are recommending the alternate option. You can recommend more than alternative from a particular print service category (as shown in the figure below) and you can recommend alternatives from multiple print service categories. When buyers order a product based on this ticket template and select 2 Staples Left Side, a popup window recommends two alternative options: Coil Bind > Clear and Coil Bind > Gray. The buyer can then select one of these recommendations, which will replace the one previously selected (the staples in this example). Address Book Searches The address book search options have been expanded. More information is now displayed about each address, and buyers can search the address book using many more criteria (e.g., first or last name, , company, address, phone, etc.) when managing their address book or selecting recipients from the address book during checkout.

12 12 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 User Registration and DSFdesign Studio Jobs Anonymous buyers who work on personalizing a DSFdesign Studio job are now given the option of registering on the site after they click Save Job (if they are not already registered). As a result, no work is lost buyers can come back to the job later. Anonymous buyers will also be able to register on the site after clicking Save Job when using Visual Product Builder on classic storefronts to customize other types of products. Note For products using Classic Product Builder, the registration option is unavailable after you try to save a job as an anonymous buyer. It is also unavailable when customizing products other than DSFdesign Studio products on SmartStores.

13 What s New in Digital StoreFront Additional Variables in Templates Numerous new variables are available for inclusion in notification s. For example, the OrderLineItemDetail variable lets you include the details of the product ordered by the buyer. System Variables for Use in Notifications [AdminFirstName] [AdminLastName] [ApprovalDetails] [ApproverCompany] [ApproverFirstName] [ApproverFullName] [ApproverID] [ApproverLastName] [ApproverMiddleName] [AuthorizedAmount] [CaptureAmount] [CatalogItemDisplayAsName] [CatalogItemLongDescription] [CatalogItemShortDescription] [CatalogProductType] [CompanyName] [ContentFileNames] [CurrentOrderStatus] [CustomerAddress1] [CustomerAddress2] [CustomerAddress3] [CustomerCity] [CustomerCostCenterNumber] [CustomerCountry] [CustomerCustomField1] [CustomerCustomField2] [CustomerCustomField3] [CustomerCustomField4] [CustomerCustomField5] [CustomerDefaultPrintShopAddress] [CustomerDefaultPrintShop ] [CustomerDefaultPrintShopName] [CustomerDefaultPrintShopPhone] [CustomerDepartment] [Customer Address] [CustomerFirstName] [CustomerFullName] [CustomerLastName] [CustomerMiddleName] [CustomerPhone] [CustomerState/Province/Region] [CustomerTitle] [CustomerZip/PostalCode] [DeliveryAddress] [DeliveryCompany] [Delivery Address] [DeliveryMethod] [DigitalDownloadDetailsVariable] [DigitalDownloadIncluded] (Yes/No) [Handling] [ImpressionColorMode] (Color/B&W) [ImpressionType] (Simplex/Duplex) [ItemStatus] [ItemTax] [JobName] [JobQuantity] [JobTotal] [Media] [MISCommunicationFailureDetails] [MISDataFailureDetails] [OrderApprovalAmount] [OrderApprovalCustomerQualification] [OrderApprovalDateTime] [OrderApprovalProduct] [OrderApprovalReason] [OrderApprovalReasonNeeded] [OrderApprovalStatus] [OrderApprovalType] [OrderApprover s] [OrderApproverLevel] [OrderApproverName] [OrderDate] [OrderDeclinedReason] [OrderDueDateTime] [OrderDueDateTimeOld] [OrderLineItem] [OrderPlacedPrintShopAddress] [OrderPlacedPrintShop ] [OrderPlacedPrintShopHoursOfOperation] [OrderPlacedPrintShopName] [OrderPlacedPrintShopPhone] [OrderTotal] [OrderTotalOld] [OutputDevice] [OutputDeviceId] [PaymentMethod] [PaymentMethodDetails] [PaymentMethodNumber] [PreviousOrderStatus] [PrintShopAdministratorFirstName] [PrintShopAdministratorLastName] [PrintShopAdministratorMiddleName] [PrintShop ] [PrintShopPhone] [ProductIcon] [ProductName] [ProductType] [QuantityShipped] [ShipmentDetailsVariable] [ShipmentInstructions] [ShipmentStatus] [ShipmentTrackingCode] [ShipperURL] [ShippingCharges] [ShippingQuantity] [ShipToAddress] [ShipTo ] [ShipToName] [ShipToPhone] [SpecialInstructions] [SubTotal] [Taxes] [UnitPrice] [Upload date and time] [UserId]

14 14 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 Improved File Retention and Removal You now have greater control over how long files are stored in the system and when Digital StoreFront performs garbage collection, which is the process of removing files from the system. For example, you can control when buyer-uploaded content files, production PDFs (generated by Digital StoreFront), and credit card transactions logs are removed. You can also control file removal at the company level as well as the site level. The File Expiration section in Site Settings > Basic Settings now includes some new settings: Files: These are files buyers upload when creating products (ad hoc, DSFdesign Studio, VDP). These files include images, text documents, CSV data list files, images saved to galleries, etc. and both the original files and converted PDF files. Job Files: These are the files Digital StoreFront generates in the process of producing jobs. Note that FusionPro and DSFdesign Studio job files are not automatically cleaned up using this file expiration setting. Saved Files: These are files buyers have saved for later use. Credit Card Transactions: These are files associated with credit card order transactions stored in the transactions table in the database. Periodically purging these files will cause the Credit Card Transaction page to load faster. In the Company settings, you can override the site-level File Expiration settings if necessary for Files, Saved Files, and Credit Card Transactions: The default is Use Site Level File Expiration Settings. Garbage Collection Management Digital StoreFront 8.4 introduces a more robust set of tools to help administrators manage temporary files on their sites. The Manage Garbage Collection page enables them to delete specified file stores on demand. The accumulation of files can degrade system performance and consume massive amounts of disk space. The controls on this page let administrators prevent or remedy this by cleaning up temporary files, uploaded files,

15 What s New in Digital StoreFront support logs, etc., as needed. You can add or edit temporary folders/file extensions to delete at specified intervals. Reviewing the folder structures of uploaded and ticketed files on the Folder Structures tab will help you analyze how much disk space each node is consuming and therefore make better decisions about which folders/file extensions to delete. The number in parentheses indicates how much disk space in gigabytes (GB) a particular node is consuming.

16 16 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 Clicking Show Ticketed Folders Structure lets you view the ticketed folders by date. Changes to Integration with Google Drive and Picasa Google Drive is a free cloud-based file-sharing service that enables users to access photos, documents, and videos from anywhere. Any file saved to the user s Google Drive will automatically save to all their computers, phones, and even the Dropbox website. Digital StoreFront s workflow integrates with Google Drive so customers can select their Google Drive files and upload them to Digital StoreFront as they would any other files stored on a local computer. Picasa is a free cloud-based application for organizing, managing, and sharing

17 What s New in Digital StoreFront image files. Digital StoreFront s workflow integrates with Picasa so customers can select their Picasa files and upload them to Digital StoreFront as they would any other files stored on a local computer. In May 2015, Google introduced a new API (OAuth 2.0 API) for integrations with its services such as Google Drive and Picasa. If you allow (or plan to allow) buyers to download documents from Google Drive and/or Picasa, you must obtain a Client ID and Client Secret by creating a project in the Google Developers Console (accessible from a link on the Site Settings > Basic Settings tab): You will also have to register your site URL as well as any branded company short URLs or entity short URLs with Google. Then you will enter the ID and secret Google provides in the Cloud Providers section on the Site Settings > Basic Settings tab. Once the admin configures Google Drive and/or Picasa in the Site Settings, downloads from those services will work as before buyers will experience no change. Support for Fiery XF 6.1 Color Modes To support Fiery XF 6.1 (and therefore improve support for EFI VUTEk and Jetrion printers), the Color Mode print service category in Digital StoreFront includes the following new color modes: CMYKO

18 18 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 CMYKV CMYKOV CMYKcmO CMYKcmV CMYKcmOV CMYKRB Fusion Pro: Support for Images in Common Data FusionPro combo products (ones with both common and versioned data) can now include common images. (This was not possible in Digital StoreFront 8.2.) MIS Access to AccuZIP USPS Files When an MIS is integrated with Digital StoreFront, the USPS files that are generated by AccuZIP can now be accessed from the MIS. You no longer need to get the files from within Digital StoreFront.

19 What s New in Digital StoreFront What Was New in Pre-8.4 Versions of Digital StoreFront Digital StoreFront 8.2 Shopping & Checkout Digital StoreFront 8.2 adds several new features and enhancements to improve your customers buying experience. Fulfillment Shopping Category Settings You can now create fulfillment categories that make it easier for buyers to shop for products that require no buyer input (e.g., non print products, static products that cannot be customized, or digital downloads). A fulfillment category lets buyers select multiple products and then click an Add All to Cart button to place all the selected products in the cart at once. Fulfillment categories apply to SmartStores only. On the admin side On the Manage Categories page, you can open or create a category, go to the settings, select the Is Fulfillment Category check box, choose whether you want products in the category to be displayed in List View or Grid View, and save the category. If you are upgrading to Digital StoreFront 8.2, note the warning about resolving any HTML or style sheet conflicts on a storefront before publishing the fulfillment category to it. Storefront Settings To turn on fulfillment shopping in the Featured Products section of a SmartStore, on the Edit Page Elements & Styles page in SmartStore Builder, you must select Enable Fulfillment Shopping.

20 20 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 Note that these storefront settings apply to the featured products and search results but have no effect on category settings. All other category behavior is governed by the category settings. On the buyer side When buyers display the contents of a fulfillment category, an Add All to Cart button is always displayed. This lets buyers know that they can select multiple products and add them all to the cart at one time. Buyers just need to enter or select a quantity for the products they want (selected products will be shaded) and then click Add All to Cart. If a fulfillment category includes a product that requires customizing, the product cannot be added to the cart as part of a group. Buyers must customize the product as usual and add it to the cart individually. If list view was enabled for the storefront (see Products Displayed in List or Grid View below), buyers may want to switch to list view to expedite product selection. What happens after products get added to the cart depends on how the storefront was configured. See Fast Shopping on page 22. Products Displayed in List or Grid View As of Digital StoreFront 8.2, you can give buyers the option of displaying products in a category in grid or list view. Grid view is the standard block-style display available up to now; list view is a table-style listing which makes it possible to display more products at a time. The ability to switch between grid and list view must be set at the storefront level, but you can then specify a default view for a category (which buyers can change if they want). For example, you may want a fulfillment category with many products to be displayed in list view by default. This makes it faster for buyers to select multiple products at a time. The ability to switch between grid and list view applies to SmartStores only. If you are upgrading to Digital StoreFront 8.2, storefronts are displayed in grid view by default. If you want the option of displaying products in list view, you must set this at the storefront level and reconcile any CSS/HTML discrepancies. On the admin side You can use a new category setting to control the default product listing style for a category. If you publish a category to a storefront that does not support list view, selecting List View in the category settings will have no effect products will be listed in grid view and buyers will not be given the option to change the view.

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22 22 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 On the buyer side If list view is supported on a storefront, new buttons are available at the top of each category to let buyers switch between views. The default view is based on the category settings (as shown above). Click to switch from grid view to list view Fast Shopping You can now configure a SmartStore to allow buyers to continue shopping after they add a product to the cart instead of being taken immediately to the shopping cart to begin checkout after adding each individual item. The ability to keep shopping is also known as fast shopping because buyers are not interrupted (by being taken to the cart) when they are purchasing multiple products. Configurable Cart Behavior On the admin side On the Edit Page Elements and Styles page in SmartStore Builder, you can control what happens after buyers click Add to Cart (or click Add All to Cart in a fulfillment category). The default behavior is Add + Goto Cart. To allow buyers to keep shopping, select Add + Continue Shopping. This is a storefront-wide setting. When you are upgrading to Digital StoreFront 8.2, the ADD TO CART BEHAVIOR options will be disabled if there are conflicts in the HTML and style sheet for the storefront. A message will tell you what to do (close the SmartStore Builder, go to the Storefront Management page, click the conflict icon, and resolve the conflict). The default behavior after upgrading to Digital StoreFront 8.2 will be Add +_Goto Cart, which is consistent with the way the system behaved prior to upgrade. On the buyer side Depending on what was selected in SmartStore Builder, buyers will either continue shopping after they add products to the cart or be placed in the cart to begin checkout. If they automatically continue to shop, buyers can just go to the cart when they are ready to check out. Alternatively, if buyers are placed in the cart after they add products to it, they can go back to shopping if they want. Rapid Checkouts You now have a choice of two additional types of checkout that can be configured for a company: rapid checkout and very rapid checkout. You select the type of checkout you want on Manage Company page under Checkout Settings.

23 What s New in Digital StoreFront The table below shows the standard, rapid, and very rapid checkout workflows: Standard Checkout Workflow In the shopping cart, buyers: Rapid Checkout Workflow In the shopping cart, buyers: Very Rapid Checkout Workflow In the shopping cart, buyers: 1: Click Proceed to Checkout. 1: Click Proceed to Checkout. 1: Click Proceed to Checkout. 2: Specify shipping options on the Shipping page. 2: Specify shipping options on the Shipping page. 3: Click Proceed to Payment. 3: Click Proceed to Payment. 4: Specify payment options on the Payment page. 4: Specify payment options on Rapid Checkout pop-up window. 2: Specify shipping and payment options on Rapid Checkout pop-up window. 5: Click Place My Order. 5: Click Place My Order. 3: Click Place My Order. All Payment Types Supported Buyers skip the Payment page in the process. Supported Payment Types: Pay At Store Cost Center Accounting Codes PO Number Buyers skip the Shipping and Payment pages in the checkout process. Supported Payment Types: Pay At Store Cost Center Accounting Codes PO Number Rapid Checkout If rapid checkout is configured for a company, buyers complete a Rapid Checkout payment window instead of the standard payment page: Rapid checkout can be configured only if a company uses the following payment methods: Pay at Store, PO Number, Cost Center, and Accounting Codes. If a company uses other payment methods, rapid checkout will not work (and the standard checkout process is used instead). If Pay at Store is the only payment method defined for a company, the Rapid Checkout window is bypassed altogether buyers are taken directly to the Order Confirmation page.

24 24 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 Very Rapid Checkout If very rapid checkout is configured for a company, buyers skip the standard shipping and payment checkout steps and select a shipping and payment method in a popup window: If a buyer selects a shipping method that is not Customer Pickup, the order is automatically shipped to the address in the user s profile. If you offer very rapid checkout, make sure buyers have current addresses in their user profiles. If Pay at Store is the only payment method defined for a company and only one delivery method is available, the selection of a shipping and payment method is bypassed altogether buyers are taken directly to the Order Confirmation page. If you configure either rapid or very rapid checkout, EFI recommends that you let your buyers know what to expect during the checkout process. Intelligent (Enforced and Recommended) Ticketing Digital StoreFront has two levels of intelligent or conditional ticketing designed to constrain buyer options based on various choices they make in the product ordering process. Pre v. 8.2: Print service and print service category intelligent conditional ticketing: This functionality (available on the Print Services and Media pages) enables administrators to establish incompatibility rules to prevent buyers from making illogical or ill-fated choices in the ordering process (i.e., by selecting two incompatible print services or a print service that is incompatible with a particular media). Introduced in v. 8.2: Ticket Template level intelligent conditional ticketing: This functionality (available from the Ticket Templates page) provides administrators with additional options for tailoring the ticket (i.e., aside from simply making a print service incompatible with another print service or media) to determine what happens when a buyer selects a particular print service. The administrator can also recommend one or more additional options based on buyer choices or enforce a particular option (e.g., a banner for outdoor use must be printed on vinyl). This level of intelligent ticketing is covered in this section. What is the purpose of intelligent ticketing at the ticket level? Buyers are often unaware of best practices in the print production process. For instance, a buyer ordering a wide format product might specify that a banner intended for long-term outdoor use with a viewing distance of more than 10 feet be printed on an inappropriate media that will not weather well. Intelligent ticketing at the ticket level is intended to prevent buyers from making such unsatisfactory choices based on buyers stated intent (i.e., as expressed through the choices they make). When the buyer selects a print service that you specify on the Intelligent Ticketing dialog (as described below), the system will either enforce or recommend certain choices or alert them to an incompatibility. You can create print services designed to reveal buyers intent. These print services will serve as an intent questionnaire that will help you make ticketing decisions on behalf of the buyer to best meet the buyers needs. For example, for wide format products, you could create the following print services aimed at getting at your buyers intent, how they intend to use the product:

25 What s New in Digital StoreFront Display Environment print service with the following options: Indoor, Outdoor, Mixed-Indoor & Outdoor, etc. Viewing Distance print service with the following options: Less than 10 feet, More than 10 feet, etc. Length of Use print service with the following options: Short-term (less than one month); Long-term (more than one month), etc. Based on the options buyers select for these print services, you can use intelligent ticketing to constrain their choices so they get the finished product they need. For instance, if a buyer chooses the Outdoor, Less than 10 feet, and Long-term options, you might opt to enforce vinyl media, 600dpi resolution, and UV inks. Enforced ticketing at the Ticket Template level applies to SmartStores only. On the admin side You manage intelligent ticketing by selecting the ticket template on the Manage Ticket Templates page and clicking Manage Intelligent Ticketing on the Manage Ticket Template page. You can select one of three actions to take when the buyer selects a print service to define the intelligent ticketing relationship: Enforce: This option forces application of the specified print service based on the option the buyer chose for the selected print service. For example, if a buyer chooses the Outdoor use print service option, the system will force the job to be printed on vinyl (or another weather-resistant substrate). Incompatible: This option excludes one or more options based on buyers selection of the selected print service. For example, if a buyer chooses the Close viewing print service option, the system will not give the option of printing at a resolution less than 300dpi. Recommend Additional: This option makes one or more recommendations of additional print service options to the buyer based on the option the buyer chose for the selected print service. For example, if a buyer chooses the Close viewing print service option, the system will also recommend that the job be printed at either 600dpi or 1,200dpi. For any recommended action, you can add a custom message explaing the recommended action to buyers in the Message text box.

26 26 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 On the buyer side As buyers select print options for a product they are ordering, they are informed about their selections as necessary: Incompatible print options: For example, if a buyer selected color printing, the media/paper selections may be limited to those that are compatible with color printing. The buyer would need to change the selections as necessary. Recommended options: A print option buyers select may result in a recommendation for one or more other print options. For example, if buyers select landscape orientation, a particular media may be recommended. (Buyers are not forced to accept the recommendation.) In another example, if buyers select outdoor viewing distance, certain types of vinyl media may be recommended:

27 What s New in Digital StoreFront Enforced options: An option buyers select may automatically result in another option being selected automatically. A message explains what is being enforced. Sometimes no message is displayed when print options are enforced, but such required print options may affect the price of the job. Buyers can see the required print options in the job summary or pricing summary. An enforced option may sometimes require further information from buyers, in which case a red icon at the top of the window alerts them: If buyers move the pointer over the icon, they can see what is required. For example, if they selected a welded hem, grommets may be required, and buyers must select the required grommet option and then provide information about grommet spacing or position. If buyers do not notice the alert or they ignore it, they are reminded again when they click Add to Cart, and are prevented from continuing until they provide the required information. For example, they may need to make further selections or provide dimensions. Re-Orders of Products with Changed Content or Ticketing Options When buyers re-order products, the system now better detects and handles any changes that may have occurred since the product was last ordered. For example, the content for a static product may be different or ticketing changes such as different media or binding selections may affect the product when it is re-ordered. Changes to Content Files for Static Products You can control how changed content files are handled during re-orders. A new option in Site Settings > Basic Settings lets you define the default behavior for re-orders of a static product when content files change: Use Buyer File(s) (the original files) or Use Current Product File(s) (updated files).

28 28 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 On a product-by-product basis, however, you can override the site settings if necessary with a setting on the Product > Upload Files page: If you select Inherit, the default site setting is used. Otherwise, you can select Use Buyer File(s) or Use Current Product File(s): If you select Use Buyer File(s) and make any changes to the content files for the product (delete a file, add a file, or change the order of files), the new/changed files are not used when buyers re-order the product; the original files are used. A new order, however, will use the latest content files. If you select Use Current Product File(s) and make any changes to the content files for the product, the new/changed files are used when buyers re-order the product and buyers are informed that the content is different. This option is useful, for instance, if a static document product contains time-sensitive material that is updated on a periodic basis. Take, for example, a product catalog that is updated every quarter (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall). A buyer orders the catalog in January and receives the Winter catalog. If she reorders the catalog in May she will receive the Spring catalog if the Use Current Product File(s) option is selected or the prior Winter catalog again if the Use Buyer File(s) option is selected. Which option is right for you? If most of the static document products on your site contain time-sensitive material subject to periodic change (e.g., quarterly product catalogs, course materials that change each semester, seasonal sales collateral), you might want to set the Use Current Product File(s) option at the site level and override those products that are not subject to change at the product level.

29 What s New in Digital StoreFront For backward compatibility, when you upgrade to Digital StoreFront 8.2, the site setting is set to Use Buyer File(s) and all static products are set to Inherit. You can change these settings as necessary. When buyers re-order a product with changed content, and Use Current Product File(s) was selected by the administrator, a message in the cart informs the buyer. If the product allows buyer configuration (in the product settings), Click here to review (as shown below) is also displayed so the buyer can review what has changed. If the product does not allow buyer configuration, Click here to review is not displayed and the rest of the message is just informational.

30 30 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 Changes to Ticketing Options As before, the way changes to ticketing options are handled during a re-order is controlled in the shopping cart settings on the Manage Company page: Behind the scenes, however, the system can now better figure out which ticketing options are still valid during a re-order of a product and automatically update the new job accordingly (when Reorder in the company settings is set to Use latest/current ticket template). The system can also detect if special pages or tabs still apply. As with changed content files, changed ticketing options are identified in the cart (and in Visual Product Builder where applicable). Depending on the product, buyers may be able to click a link (as shown in the figure below) to review new/changed print options and change the selections if necessary. Even if no message about changed ticketing options is displayed, it is always a good idea for buyers to review a product they are re-ordering (if they have permission to do so). Single-Page Previews To make choices clearer to buyers when configuring products, you can configure ad hoc and static products to display one page at a time in spread view (instead of two facing pages). Select this option if you want multipage documents to be shown to buyers one page at a time (single-page view) instead of two-up (i.e., two facing pages in spread view). Single-page view is especially useful for double-sided products in landscape mode such as a tri-fold brochure. This feature applies to SmartStores only. On the admin side On the Product > Settings page, when Dynamic Preview is Enabled, select the Show Single Page View check box.

31 What s New in Digital StoreFront Single-page view will not be shown to buyers in Visual Product Builder when Binding, Staple, Drill, Tabs, or Covers print options are selected. When Show Single Page View is not enabled, the back side of a sheet will be displayed as if the page had been turned along the binding edge, and the content will be oriented based on the duplex type standard Double- Sided or Double-Sided (Tumble). This is true whether binding is set for the job or not. Back side of page if standard Double-Sided is selected: Back side of page if Double-Sided (Tumble) is selected:

32 32 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 When Show Single Page View is enabled, the back side of a standard duplex sheet will be displayed right-side up with the top edge oriented at the top of the VPB. First page is shown right-side up (of course): Back side of page is displayed right-side up when standard Double-Sided is selected:

33 What s New in Digital StoreFront Back side of page if Double-Sided (Tumble) is selected: On the buyer side When a product is configured for single-page preview, only one page is displayed in spread view (instead of two facing pages), unless the buyer selects a print option like binding, stapling, drilling, or covers for this type of product, in which case two facing pages are displayed. Combo Mode for DirectSmile and FusionPro Products As of Digital StoreFront 8.2, DirectSmile and FusionPro products can be set up in combo mode. Multi-record VDPs can be set up as combo products. The term combo (combination) refers to a mix of common (same for all records) and versioned (unique for all records) data. For example, a batch of postcards that a realtor distributes can combine common elements (all the postcards have the realtor s address; same for all records) and versioned elements (recipient customers names and addresses; unique for each record). Buyers enter the common information into form fields (i.e., the web form) and assign a data source for the versioned information. For each field on your DirectSmile and FusionPro template, you can specify whether it is Versioned or Common. Note that for FusionPro products, image field types should not be set as Common Data Same on all Records because this functionality is not currently supported.

34 34 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 PrintMessenger Redirection Digital StoreFront s PrintMessenger is a print driver application that buyers can download from your site that enables them to submit jobs using File > Print option in the desktop applications they use to create documents (e.g., Word, PhotoShop, Illustrator). The core of the application is a print driver that converts native file formats to PDF for processing in your Digital StoreFront workflow. PrintMessenger Redirect enables you to associate a particular product with PrintMessenger so that when buyers submit a job through PrintMessenger they are taken immediately into the associated product s workflow (the Visual Product Builder) in Digital StoreFront (without having to manually select a product that matches the submitted file). If you have only one ad hoc product, PrintMessenger will automatically route all jobs submitted through it to that product. PrintMessenger Redirect works only with ad hoc products.

35 What s New in Digital StoreFront Buyer Workflow Without PrintMessenger Redirect: If you have two or more ad hoc products on the storefront and do not use PrintMessenger Redirect, PrintMessenger will not automatically route jobs to any of the products. Instead, it will take the buyer to the Upload Successful! landing page in Digital StoreFront that informs the buyer that the file was added to the Files list and directs him/her to click the Get Started button to begin. After clicking Get Started, the buyer must then select the product for the submitted file. Buyer Workflow With PrintMessenger Redirect: If you have two or more ad hoc products on the storefront and use PrintMessenger Redirect, it will save buyers a step in the workflow because you select the default ad hoc product to associate with all jobs submitted through PrintMessenger. Thus, when the buyer submits a job through PrintMessenger, Digital StoreFront will open Visual Product Builder for the designated default product so the buyer can immediately begin configuring the product. You select the default ad hoc product for PrintMessenger Redirect on the Companies page: On the buyer side, buyers will not get a Get Started link after they upload files with PrintMessenger. Instead, they are taken directly to the product customization step; no product selection is necessary. Multiple First-Level Domains (Self-Hosted Installations) Digital StoreFront 8.2 supports multiple domains. This allows companies or entities to have exclusive branded URLs. Self-hosted customers can use multiple first-level domains within a single instance of Digital StoreFront. This extends the short URL functionality (i.e., that supports sub-domains such as books.iprintstuffgood.com or cheapposters.iprintstuffgood.com). Multiple first-level domain support is robust enough to support customers who want to have a Digital StoreFront site at their own domain such as rather than BestPrintingCo.iprintstuffgood.com. Note that multiple domain support is currently supported only for self-hosted (standalone) sites (i.e., not cloud, or EFI-hosted, sites). Primary Use Cases for Multiple Domain Support A service provider wants to productize an offering with unique URLs ( and A managed services provider with multiple clients wants them to have their own vanity URL ( and not one with the service provider in the URL (yummyfoods.iprintstuff.com). Multiple domain support prevents managed services customers from needing separate instances of Digital StoreFront for each URL (because self-hosted customers were previously permitted to have only one top-level domain). By extending the framework that EFI introduced with short URLs, a single self-hosted Digital StoreFront site can assign different top-level domains at the company level. This makes management across multiple clients easier and less complex.

36 36 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 You add supported domains on the Multiple URL Configuration page. User Authentication: SAML 2.0 Support Digital StoreFront 8.2 adds support for the SAML 2.0 federated identity services protocol. SAML stands for Security Assertion Markup Language. This option is for sites whose identity standard calls for SAML 2.0. The SAML 2.0 protocol supports Shibboleth, a free and open source federated identity solution. For more information, visit You configure SAML 2.0 by selecting Administration > Site Settings > Authentication > Federated SSO and selecting SAML 2.0 as the Federation Protocol. For more information see administration online Help.

37 What s New in Digital StoreFront SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Enhancements Digital StoreFront 8.2 enhances search engine optimization (SEO) for self-hosted sites with SmartStores so that they work well with: (1) a recent change in which Google no longer indexes keywords on pages and (2) Digital StoreFront s single-page architecture. URL Change to Improve Rankings In Digital StoreFront 8.2, the site URL will be changed to use a hash bang URL. For example, a URL that was previously in the format will be changed to in 8.2. This will enable Google to recognize the variations in the URL after the # fragment and convert the URL to Sitemap to Improve Rankings A SmartStore specific sitemap was also added to improve the page ranking. Note that in v. 8.2, sitemaps will be generated only for the default storefront. All products and categories published on the storefront will be available in the sitemap with a distinct URL. This will allow buyers to search for any product or category/subcategory available on storefront page that is accessible to anonymous users. The relevance of the data available on pages and number of matches of the search term will help achieve better ranking in Google. Category and product detail page URLs were also changed to be more user friendly by adding the category/product name in the URL. This, too, will help in improving the ranking with search engines. Complete instructions on how to register and submit a sitemap to Google is available in the administrator online help topic Google Analytics Tracking. Limitations: Sitemaps will be generated only for the default storefront and search engine registration can be done only for self-hosted (standalone) sites. Select Merchant Accounts at the Company and Department Levels You can now select credit card merchant accounts to use at the company and department levels. Thus, you can select the appropriate credit card merchant account for each company and department (i.e., independent of the merchant account specified at the print shop level).

38 38 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 Kits and Matrix Products As of Digital StoreFront 8.2, a kit can now be part of a matrix product and a matrix product can be part of a kit. (A matrix product is a composite product that combines two or more related products into a single product with various options so that buyers have a convenient way of choosing the options they want, e.g., a hat in the size and color they want.) High-Resolution Preview for FusionPro Products Digital StoreFront 8.2 now supports high-resolution previews for FusionPro products. Various resolution options were added at the product level so that an admin can choose optimal resolution for each product. For example, a small product such as a business card might benefit from a higher preview resolution, whereas a wide format poster may be perfectly acceptable at a lower resolution.

39 What s New in Digital StoreFront Digital StoreFront 8.0 Entity Model Entities are new building blocks in Digital StoreFront for defining organizational structure. Entities offer a topdown, multi-level approach to sharing (or not sharing) products, media, storefronts, pricing, etc., in different parts of a single Digital StoreFront installation. Entities can be used for: Enterprise organizations with subsidiaries These may be separate business units or regional subdivisions with a combination of shared and unique Web-to-Print needs. Example: A large corporation based in New York City has five subsidiary branches US, Canada, Brazil, Europe, Asia that have both shared and unique Web-to-print needs. The Digital StoreFront parent administrator (for the license-holding U.S. branch) would thus create five entities (one each for the international divisions). Administrators at each of the entities could in turn create sub-entities as needed for branches beneath them. The entity model lets the corporation administer Digital StoreFront from a single instance for consistency of pricing, product offerings, user database, reporting, etc. This is more efficient than using separate instances of Digital StoreFront while still providing the flexibility for each branch to administer non-shared (unique) assets. Managed service businesses Service businesses typically include many parallel customers with unique Web-to-Print needs. These are B2B organizations that service client organizations (e.g., printing, shipping). Without the entity model, each client organization would typically be set up as a company in Digital StoreFront. The entity model offers a more flexible way to manage multiple parallel customers with unique Web-to-print needs vs. company-level management. Example: ServiceProVida provides managed Web-to-print services to multiple discrete client companies, each with a unique set of needs. The entity model provides a way to silo the client companies from a single instance of Digital StoreFront much more effectively than company-level management. For instance, it will create higher walls between client companies to ensure there is no intermingling of user data, product data, pricing data, etc. The branches can be built with as much or as little interconnectivity between them as needed. The Digital StoreFront parent administrator (for the license-holding ServiceProVida) would thus create entities for the each of the organizations the company services. Administrators at each of the entities could in turn create sub-entities as needed for branches beneath them.

40 40 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 Marketplace sales Here affiliates or partners can sell their products online in a space they control (e.g., a photographer offers prints and cards for sale), but the primary Digital StoreFront owner produces or fulfills the products. The marketplace sales concept in the entity model provides printers with an effective way to partner with content creators (such as photographers, fine artists, book authors, publishers, etc.) they produce products for by giving them a branch or space on Digital StoreFront site through which they can sell their products through their own storefront (i.e., that you will print and fulfill). Each content creator can have a separate space on your site with limited administrator access and capabilities you define. Example: MarketPlace Printing wants to provide each of its content creation partners with its own site to drive business both to the partners and the printer (who produces their products). The entity model enables the printer to give each content provider its own space on the printer s Digital StoreFront instance with limited administrative access and control. The Digital StoreFront parent administrator (the licenseholder) would thus create an entity for each content creation partner. Administrators at each of the entities could in turn create sub-entities as needed for branches beneath them. The chart below illustrates how the entities and sub-entities might be organized.

41 What s New in Digital StoreFront Key Concepts Structure You can have multiple levels of entities in the form of parent-child relationships. Permissions and sharing A parent entity gives permissions to its children (sub-entities) to control how much or how little the child entities can do in Digital StoreFront. Parent entities can only pass down permissions they have themselves. Products, print services, pricing, storefronts, etc., can be shared. They are always shared downwards, from a parent entity to its child entities. Print shops, however, are the exception they can be shared any way you want among entities. Existing Digital StoreFront elements groups, companies, users, etc. still play a role in Digital StoreFront. Entities do not replace them, but rather expand the options. Licensing Entities require separate licensing you can purchase licenses for as many entities as you need (similar to purchasing print shop licenses). Notes Any optional module (e.g., EFI VDP Powered by DirectSmile or DSFdesign Studio ) for which you have a license is automatically available to all your entities. These licenses apply to the entire Digital StoreFront installation; you cannot purchase licenses for optional modules for individual entities. Defining Entities A new Entities link lets administrators define the entities in their organization.

42 42 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 You can set up multiple levels of entities. The figure below shows a single level below the parent organization, but each of these entities could include sub-entities, which in turn could include sub-entities, and so on. The number of levels you have depends on the needs of your organization. Rules Rules control what each entity can do. The rules control whether the entity can: Create print shops When you allow an entity to create print shops, you specify the number of print shops it can create. (This must be within the limit of your license the system shows you how many licenses remain.) An entity that can create print shops also controls how its print shops are shared, e.g., globally, by selected entities, etc. (Sharing permissions are part of the print shop settings.) Create sub-entities When you allow an entity to create sub-entities (child entities), you specify the number of sub-entities it can create. (This must be within the limit of your license the system shows you how many licenses remain.) Note that an entity with permission to create sub-entities can only give its sub-entities the permissions it has itself. For example, if the parent entity cannot create products, it cannot allow a subentity to do so, but if it can create products, it can either allow a sub-entity to create products or prevent it. Create new products Depending on your organization, you may want to control which entities can create products. In some situations, you may want all products to be created by the top parent entity and shared with all the sub-

43 What s New in Digital StoreFront entities in the organization. (For information about sharing, see page 43.) In other situations you may want to give entities the option to create their own products, which they can offer in addition to any products shared by the parent entity. When a sub-entity cannot create its own products, its products come from the parent entity through sharing. The sub-entity, in turn, can share products with its sub-entities (if any). For information about sharing, see page 43. Change pricing Pricing can be fixed (controlled completely by the parent entity), or you can allow the pricing defined by the parent entity to be marked up and/or down, or overridden by a sub-entity. For example, if the entity can mark the pricing up or down, a price sheet will give the option of marking an item up or down by a fixed amount or a percentage. The prices from the parent entity are always available so you know what you are adjusting. Default Storefront When defining an entity, you also decide whether the design and branding of the storefront can be changed, and whether the entity can manage or add featured products and categories on the storefront. (Only SmartStores are supported.) For example, you may want one look throughout the organization with the same featured products, in which case you would not allow branding or featured products to be changed. What you allow depends on your organizational needs and structure. Sharing Many items in Digital StoreFront (products, media, print services, ticket templates, merchant accounts) can be shared by a parent entity with its sub-entities (children). By sharing, you make the items available to subentities. With the exception of print shops, the sharing is always downwards from a parent to a child. In all places where sharing is possible, a new Sharing Permissions section is available. You always have a choice of sharing with all sub-entities or with selected sub-entities (by clicking Add Entities). For example, when defining a product, the Security product settings include Sharing Permissions.

44 44 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 Items that are shared by a parent entity cannot be changed by a sub-entity; the sub-entity can view the details of an item (e.g., product or ticket template), but only the parent entity that created the item can modify it. If you allow sub-entities to create their own products, you may want to share media, print services, and ticket templates with the sub-entities so they have the necessary building blocks for product creation. Sharing also standardizes what the entities are using. If you do not allow a sub-entity to create its own products, you must share products with it, or it will not have any products to sell. Print shops, as mentioned earlier, can be shared with any entities, not just by a parent entity with its child entities. The entity that created a print shop can share the print shop with all entities in the system (globally) or share it with selected entities anywhere in the system. Impersonating Sub-Entities To facilitate the setup and configuration of sub-entities, a Digital StoreFront administrator can impersonate a sub-entity. A new Impersonate Sub-Entity Admin link is available at the top of the Administration page. After you click the link, you select the sub-entity you want. No separate login is required. After you finish working with the sub-entity, you just log out. Queries and Reports You can use dynamic queries to obtain entity-related information. In addition, the following standard reports account for the entity model: 72 Hour Outlook by Company 72 Hour Outlook by Print Shop Output Utilization by Print Shop Revenue By Company Revenue By Print Shop Taxes Collected for Period Transaction Report

45 What s New in Digital StoreFront Enhancements to AccuZIP Direct Mail Support Digital StoreFront 8.0 adds the following enhancements to the AccuZIP direct mail integration: On the admin side, additional support was added for the USPS PostalOne! Mail service. The mail.dat file is now available in a downloadable zip file (Maildata.zip) from the Postal File(s) section of the production job ticket.

46 46 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 On the buyer side, you can now enter individual zip codes and ranges of zip codes for EDDM (Every Door Direct Mail): When buyers preview a direct mail product, they can now preview just the first 25 records of the job. This prevents the print shop from being charged for the list processing if the buyer ends up canceling the order. MIS Enhancements New MIS Estimate Id Field for Products When Digital StoreFront is integrated with an MIS, a new MIS Estimate Id field is displayed below the Product Id field in the Product Information settings. This MIS Estimate Id is for associating a print product with a particular estimate in the MIS so the MIS knows which specifications should be used to produce the print job. During the upgrade to Digital StoreFront 8.0, the system will copy the value in the Product Id field to the MIS Estimate Id field to maintain backward compatibility in existing MIS integrations. Going forwards, administrators would manually enter a value in the MIS Estimate Id field to link new print products to a particular estimate; the Product Id field will no longer be used for this purpose. Since the MIS Estimate Id field is editable, it could be used for any product type in an integrated system, but it is intended for print products. For any new print product that you want linked to an MIS estimate, you must manually enter an MIS Estimate Id. The system continues to populate the Product Id field for fulfillment products sent from the MIS. Until MIS systems support the sending of an MIS Estimate Id as part the CatalogUpdateRequest, Digital StoreFront will copy the MIS Product Id to the MIS Estimate Id field only if the field was not populated. This will prevent values that administrators may have manually entered from being overwritten. For PrintSmith Vision and Classic integrations, Product Id will continue to be used to link all products. Merchant Account Support Digital StoreFront introduces support for the Authorize.Net payment processing services. For more information on Authorize.Net or to establish an account, please visit Authorize.net.

47 What s New in Digital StoreFront Fiery Central Support for Banner Pages (Separator Sheets) Digital StoreFront 8.0 now includes the production job ticket PDF as a banner page (also known as a burst page, job sheet, or printer separator sheet) for Digital StoreFront jobs routed through Fiery Central. The production job ticket PDF banner page is generated each time a job is submitted to the Fiery output device so that the generated PDF includes the latest changes the operator has made to the job ticket. A link to the projection job ticket PDF is included in the commenturl field in the JDF file. The format of the banner page is defined by a banner page report file. The banner page report file ( rptjobticketbanner.rpt ) and its xml file ( rptjobticketbanner.xml ) is stored in the AutoLocalize folder in the CrystalReportsFilesDirectory: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\DSF\dsffiles\upload\[SiteGUID]\Data\Reports\ReportFiles\AutoLocalize For sites licensed for the entity model, the report file will be located in the folder: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\DSF\dsffiles\upload\[SiteGUID]\Data\Reports\ReportFiles\AggregateReports Administrators can create their own report file and replace the rptjobticketbanner.rpt with it (so long as the name remains rptjobticketbanner.rpt ). Customizations to the banner page are available from the EFI Digital StoreFront Professional Services team. Variable Data Printing (VDP) Support XMPie 7.1 Digital StoreFront 8.0 adds support for XMPie version 7.1. FusionPro 9.3 Digital StoreFront 8.0 adds support for FusionPro version 9.3. Single-Record VDP for Digital StoreFront Essential Digital StoreFront 8.0 offers single-record VDP for EFI VDP powered by DirectSmile as a licensed option. This option allows Digital StoreFront Essential sites to offer basic, single-record variable data product (VDP) products to their buyers, such as personalized business cards and stationery sets. Digital StoreFront 7.6 EFI VDP Powered by DirectSmile: Digital StoreFront 7.6 introduces a new variable data print (VDP) module (available as a licensed option): EFI VDP powered by DirectSmile. EFI VDP powered by DirectSmile

48 48 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 is Digital StoreFront s VDP template designer (StoreFront Studio) and artwork generation engine that enables you to create a full range of variable data products from simple one-off greeting cards to fullblown variable data marketing campaigns with personalized images and AccuZIP direct mail services. Image Personalization: An optional image personalization feature lets you create EFI VDP powered by DirectSmile product templates with personalized images. These images allow you to embed variable text in a background image. The text can be rendered with conventional fonts or in several graphical formats including clip fonts, which render small images on the path of the font, or picture fonts, which are image shapes for each letter. Image effects such as blur, shadow, transparency, and glow can be used to enhance the effect. Direct Mail Service Integration: Digital StoreFront 7.6 introduces integration with AccuZIP mail service solutions. When you integrate Digital StoreFront with AccuZIP, you can configure an EFI VDP powered by DirectSmile product as a direct mail product. This gives you a way to offer products to your buyers for their direct mail campaigns. Language Management at the Company Level: Digital StoreFront 7.6 introduces language management at the company level. You can now customize language for each company. You can customize the text (strings) on SmartStores (i.e., this feature is for SmartStores only) for a selected company or selected companies on your Digital StoreFront site. User Authentication: Active Directory Federated SSO: Digital Storefront 7.6 introduces a new user authentication method intended primarily for cloud (EFI-hosted) installations of Digital StoreFront: Federated SSO authentication. In Active Directory Services with Federated Identity Services, Digital StoreFront communicates with one or more Active Directory Federation Servers (AD FS) that contain a directory of user information and associated privileges. When users log into Digital StoreFront through, for instance, a company-branded URL, their credentials are authenticated against the appropriate Active Directory Federation Server, which in turn will communicate information on the user to Digital StoreFront. Digital Download Enhancements: Products of every type except non-printed, multi-record VDP, and ad hoc can now be configured as downloadable files either as purely digital products or along with a printed version. MIS Integrations: Delivery Methods for Direct Mail and Digital Downloads: When buyers order a direct mail product or digital download, no shipping information is required in the cart. When an order is sent to an MIS, however, a delivery method is required (even if it does not apply to the type of product being ordered). To support this, new default shipping method settings were added at the print shop level (on the Administration > Print Shops page). These settings must be mapped to delivery methods. The delivery methods can either be ones defined in the MIS (and transmitted to DigitalStoreFront) or they can be one of three new delivery methods added to Digital StoreFront: Digital Delivery, USPS First Class, and USPS Standard Mail. Wide Format Product Enhancements: To enhance support for wide format products, Digital StoreFront 7.6 includes two new print service categories for grommets and four new print service categories for hems and support (bottom, top, left, and right). Several new billing and range units were also added to support these enhancements. Merchant Account Support for Braspag Pagador: Digital StoreFront 7.6 introduces merchant account support for Braspag Pagador payment processing solutions. For more information on Pagador, visit Braspag on the Web at To inquire about setting up an account, contact Braspag via to [email protected] or phone to Support for UPS CONNECT Shipment Calculation: Digital StoreFront 7.6 introduces support the UPS CONNECT shipment calculation tools. UPS CONNECT is a shipping cost calculator that enables customers to compare shipping rates and choose the method that best suits their needs. The UPS CONNECT shipping cost calculator provides site administrators with an accurate means of calculating shipping prices close to the actual cost of the shipment based on different shipping options. This will minimize the risk of overcharging for shipping (a reason for lost sales) or losing money by charging your customers less than actual shipping charges. Support for Company-Branded Short URLs: Digital StoreFront 7.6 adds support for short URLs for company branded sites/storefronts. Previously, company-branded URLs were in the format

49 What s New in Digital StoreFront x://[servername]/dsf/asp1/companies/[companyname]/storefront. When the page is rendered, the companies/[companyname] sections would be removed from the URL. Bookmarking the redirected URL would take the user to the default Digital StoreFront Site rather than the company-branded one. The new short URL will take the user to the branded company so that bookmarking it will have the intended effect of taking users to the company-branded storefront. An example of a short URL would be: Digital StoreFront 7.4 Digital Downloads: Digital StoreFront 7.4 introduces digital download products, for example, ebooks, course materials, forms, or photographs delivered in digital formats. These products are downloaded, not printed. A digital product may consist of a single item (an ebook or software application) or may consist of related items, for example, some study notes and an article required for a course. A digital product may also consist of the same item in different formats (PDF, EPUB, etc.) so it can be read on different devices. (Digital downloads are supported only on SmartStores, not classic storefronts.) Digital Downloads of Production PDFs: In addition to creating digital download products, you can configure certain products to be available in both printed and downloadable form. In the cart, buyers then choose whether they want just the printed PDF or both the printed PDF and the digital download. Matrix Products: A matrix product is a composite product (like a kit product) that combines two or more related products into a single product with various options so that buyers have a convenient way of choosing the options they want. For example, say you offer a spirit-wear shirt in three colors (red, blue, and green) and three sizes (small, medium, and large). Instead of publishing each variation (e.g., a small red shirt, a small blue shirt, etc.) as a separate product on the storefront (cluttering up the storefront), when you create a matrix product, you will publish one product on the storefront (e.g., SpiritWear Shirt ) and buyers will be able to select the color and size they want from pull-down lists. Approvals Rule with Accounting Codes and Cost Centers: You can now configure approvals based on accounting codes or cost centers using the import/export functionality in Digital StoreFront. New columns were added to the Approver Configuration. For example, this is useful for an organization that wants to assign distinct approvers based on the account the buyer is using because it enables a larger organization to more selectively assign approvers based on the specific part of the organization they bill to. Ogone: Administrators can now select an option to hide the billing address from buyers. A new Gateway Does Billing Address checkbox was added to the Ogone merchant account page. Checking that box allows Digital StoreFront to send the buyer s profile information to Ogone as the billing address (i.e., so that buyers do not have to enter their billing address). Please note that Ogone has changed its name to Ingenico Payment Services. Digital StoreFront 7.4 does not reflect this name change, however (the merchant account is still referred to as Ogone in Digital StoreFront. When customers setup an account with Ogone, however, they will do so on the Ingenico corporate web site (which will redirect from the Ogone web site).

50 50 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 Pace MIS Enhancement: As of Digital StoreFront 7.4, external certificates for SSL communication are handled differently. They must be selected from a drop-down list. If you were using an external certificate in a pre-7.4 version of Digital StoreFront with the same name as the default system certificate, or if you have multiple certificates with the same name as the external certificate you selected before, you must re-establish the communication channel. Support for CyberSource Secure Acceptance Model: Digital StoreFront 7.4 adds merchant account support for the CyberSource Secure Acceptance Model, which replaces the current CyberSource Hosted Order Page (HOP) payment solution. Support for Mixed Impression Mode: Products can now be configured so that buyers can create special pages with color on one side and black-and-white on the other. New impression modes were added in Pricing to allow different pricing for this functionality. Mixed impression modes are supported on SmartStores and in Visual Product Builder on classic storefronts. Search Engine Optimization for SmartStores: To improve the accessibility and ranking of your SmartStore site on the Web via Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Digital StoreFront 7.4 introduced several SEO fields to make a SmartStore site indexable by Internet search engines such as Google. SmartStores Support for Ariba: Digital StoreFront 7.4 adds enhanced SmartStores support capabilities for Ariba functionality. LDAP Integration (Optional Module) Enhancement: Administrators now have the option of turning on an SSO (Single-Sign-On) button in the login block for SmartStore storefronts (not supported on classic storefronts) that would redirect the user to the SSO URL. Digital StoreFront 7.2 Estimated Pricing: Digital StoreFront 7.2 introduces estimated pricing functionality to cover those cases in which Digital StoreFront is not able to calculate the actual tax and shipping charges for an order. In such cases, the order prices in the shopping cart are estimated rather than actual. Configuring an estimated pricing policy will help you manage how this subject to change information is communicated to buyers in the shopping cart to prevent unexpected discrepancies between the estimated price quoted in the shopping cart and the actual price charged to the buyer s account when enough data is available to render actual amounts. Multi-Level Approvals Administration Page: Digital StoreFront 7.2 introduces a new Approvals page for managing multi-level approvals. Digital StoreFront provides two ways to set up multi-level approval rules. (1) Individually on the Approvals page, which is ideal for most users because it offers a page for managing approvals including search on companies, products, approvers, etc. (2) In bulk using the Import / Export functionality, which is ideal if you have many approvers. You will download a template, populate it with your data, and then import it to Digital StoreFront on the Import page. You can then manage the approvals on the Approvals page (accessible from the Manage Approval Settings link on the Administration Home page). Fiery Presets: Digital StoreFront 7.2 provides enhanced integration with Fiery assets through added support for Fiery virtual printers and job presets. A preset is a defined set of print options (e.g., media size, color, duplex) that the Fiery will apply to a job. These presets override the print options that a buyer may have defined for a job. For example, the buyer may have specified a 8.5x11 media, whereas the Fiery Preset calls for a 12x18 paper.

51 What s New in Digital StoreFront Product Level Taxation: Digital StoreFront 7.2 introduces product level taxation to support multiple tax rates. For instance, most European countries have two tax rates (and no concept of tax authority groups). There might be a general tax rate of 20% and a reduced tax rate of 6% for products such as books and educational materials. Product level taxation accommodates this need to have a general tax rate on a print shop / site level as well as a separate tax rate on a product level. DSFdesign Studio Enhancements: In Digital StoreFront 7.2, the following enhancements were made: Ability to crop and rotate images added from a gallery. Weight specifications for products: To help in assessing shipping costs, you can now specify a weight for a DSFdesign Studio product. More controls over what buyers can do: administrators can now control whether buyers can use free form selection when cropping images, download a PDF proof, or add images to a gallery. LDAP Integration (Optional Module): Digital StoreFront 7.2 introduces enhanced LDAP authentication functionality for self-hosted (standalone) installations. With this new LDAP, when users log into Digital StoreFront with single sign-on, the system automatically creates (registers) a user in Digital StoreFront. This prevents administrators from having to import users manually. Administrators can customize registration fields to map with corresponding LDAP fields. SmartStore Support: Digital StoreFront 7.2 adds enhanced SmartStores support capabilities for additional features and functional areas of Digital StoreFront such as extended applications and VWeb+ campaign management (buyers can now order VWeb+ campaign products on SmartStore storefronts). Digital StoreFront 7.0 SmartStores: Digital StoreFront 7.0 introduces SmartStores, the second generation of storefront design in Digital StoreFront. SmartStores make use of HTML5, AJAX, and other responsive technologies for building contemporary product catalogs and storefronts, and enable a storefront to scale smoothly from traditional desktops and laptops to mobile devices (such as tablets and smartphones). Product Ordering Workflows: Visual Product Builder (HTML5) Enhancements: On a SmartStore, you can offer the following types of products: ad hoc, static, superwide format, kit, VDP (XMPie and Fusion Pro ), and DSFDesign Studio. All these types of products use Visual Product Builder and all but DSFDesign Studio products take advantage of HTML5 technology, which offers cross-platform compatibility. (DSFDesign Studio products are currently still based on Adobe Flash, but they do reflect some elements of the site s CSS styling such as colors.) Cart and Checkout: In SmartStores, the cart and checkout process were streamlined and simplified. MIS Integration Enhancements: Several enhancements were made to Digital StoreFront MIS integrations: New Completed and Invoiced status; Credit card capture message sent to MIS; CCH tax details now sent to MIS. Mobile Device Support for Products: Digital StoreFront 7.0 introduces an option for administrators to specify whether a particular product is supported on mobile devices. There is now a Mobile Supported setting on the Manage Products page that enables administrators to make the product available on the site displayed to buyers on a mobile device. Support for Windows Server 2012 (64-bit) Operating System: Digital StoreFront 7.0 introduces support for Windows Server Support for XMPie version Support for FusionPro version 9.2 Digital StoreFront 6.7 VWeb Campaign Product Option Changes to Cart Checkout Process Digital StoreFront 6.6

52 52 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 Approvals: Digital StoreFront 6.6 introduces robust new functionality that supports single- and multi-level approvals based either on product (i.e., all orders that include a specified product will require approval) or on price (i.e., all orders placed by buyers who belong to a specified print shop, company, department, user, or group that exceed a specified price point require approval). Thus, the approval system supports hierarchical approval policies in which each level typically corresponds to a higher price point and a more senior manager. Ticket Overrides: Including Pre-Defined Special Pages and Tabs in Static Products: A static product is a document with fixed content (e.g., a course-pack of readings, a training manual, or a new employee handbook) and limited print and finishing options for buyers. You define the static product for your buyers and offer them limited options for customizing it compared to ad hoc products. Enhanced Support for Fiery XF 1.5 Integration: Digital StoreFront 6.6 introduces automatic device capability mapping between EFI Fiery XF output devices and Digital StoreFront print services as well as expanded support for all default JDF color modes and resolutions available in such Fiery XF-driven output devices such as EFI VUTEk in the Digital StoreFront Color Mode print service. This enhanced mapping integration with Fiery XF output devices eliminates the need for operators to have to manually map Color Mode and Resolution. A new Print Direction print service category was also added that includes two print services: Bidirectional and Unidirectional. Support for CyberSource Hosted Order Page Payment Gateway: Digital StoreFront 6.6 enhances merchant account and credit card payment processing with support for CyberSource s hosted payment solution, Hosted Order Page. The CyberSource Hosted Order Page merchant account works on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Digital StoreFront. Variable Data Printing (VDP) Support: Digital StoreFront 6.6 introduces support for XMPie Digital StoreFront 6.6 introduces support for FusionPro 9.0. Enhanced Support for Fiery XF 1.5: Digital StoreFront print services were expanded in the v. 6.6 release to include all possible JDF values (from the JDF spec) for each print service. This enables Digital StoreFront to provide wide-ranging support for JDF-enabled output devices. For instance, Digital StoreFront s Color Mode print service can map to all JDF color mode values. Digital StoreFront 6.4 Inserting Blank Pages and Reordering/Removing Pages: Ad hoc and static products that are configured to use Visual Product Builder can now also be configured to offer buyers more options when they customize a product, and the content is in PDF format. Digital StoreFront 6.2 Custom Terms & Conditions: You can add your own terms and conditions as part of site usage agreement. On the Language Management page, you simply edit the Customer.UsageAgreement string. Intelligent (Conditional) Ticketing: With intelligent (or conditional) ticketing you can simplify the ticketing process for your buyers by preventing them from making illogical choices when ordering products. You can specify relationships among print services, media, and job thickness to provide print buyers with more logical print option choices and thus prevent buyers from selecting options that do not work together (such as ordering double-side printing on transparencies). When buyers attempt to select an option that is incompatible with a previous option they made, they are alerted through a message that tells them which option is not available and why. DSFdesign Studio Enhancements: In Digital StoreFront 6.2, several enhancements were made to DSFdesign Studio. Enhancements to Fiery XF Support: Digital StoreFront 6.2 introduces several enhancements to the Digital StoreFront Fiery XF integration (for superwide format printing). These include enhancements to device capability support for Fiery XF devices. Clicking Get Fiery Capabilities on the Manage Devices page prompts the Fiery XF device to send a JMF message listing all the device capabilities (e.g., color modes, ink set capabilities, and resolutions) of the printer. Digital StoreFront then parses the XML data, stores it in the database, and displays it in the Fiery Capability Mapping section of the Manage Devices page.

53 What s New in Digital StoreFront Digital StoreFront 6.0 Downloads from Picasa Web Albums: In addition to allowing print buyers to download content files from Google Drive, Dropbox, and PrintMe, you can now allow downloads from Picasa web albums. Visual Product Builder and Flash Support: In Digital StoreFront 6.0, you can now configure ad hoc products to use Visual Product Builder without this being a problem for print buyers when Flash is unavailable. When a print buyer selects such a product on a device that does not support Flash, the system will automatically switch to Classic Product Builder (the HTML interface) so the buyer can configure and order the product. DSFdesign Studio Enhancements: Beginning with Digital StoreFront 6.0, DSFdesign Studio templates can be exported to a zip file and then imported into the same or a later DSFdesign Studio-enabled version of Digital StoreFront. This will ensure continuity of product offerings after upgrading to a later version of Digital StoreFront. Depending how a DSFdesign Studio product is configured, print buyers may be able to take advantage of the following new features as they personalize a DSFdesign Studio product. Kit Product Enhancements: Digital StoreFront 6.0 introduced several enhancements to kit product functionality. Kits can now include all product types including personalizable products such as DSFdesign Studio and VDP products in addition to ad hoc, static, and non-printed products. Kits can include products with both types of ticketing interface, both standard HTML and Visual Product Builder, or Flex, interface. This provides buyers with more flexibility in composing kit products. Administrators can also choose to let buyers change the default quantity for some or all of the products (line items) in the kit. MIS Integrations: Ability to Include Print Preview Thumbnails: A new Include Print Preview Thumbnail check box on the MIS Systems page lets you send a thumbnail of the first page of a print job to the MIS so it can be included in documents generated by the MIS. Extended Applications: Digital StoreFront 6.0 introduced a new licensable option that passes user credentials to both EFI and non-efi third-party external applications. The external application is then presented in a window within Digital StoreFront. This new feature extends the capabilities of Digital StoreFront by allowing users to have external applications such as MISes or print business management systems (such as PrintStream ) displayed in a Digital StoreFront window. Please note that data is not communicated between Digital StoreFront and the external application. Ticket Template Product Compatibility Checking Utility: Digital StoreFront 6.0 introduced a new template-product compatibility checker that compares the product settings against the selected ticket template and alerts administrators to any incompatibility issues it detects. Remote Print Center (RPC) Security Enhancement: Digital StoreFront 6.0 introduced a new version of Remote Print Center (RPC) that secures all RPC web services. Upgrading to this new security-enhanced version of RPC is optional. To enjoy the benefits of the new security enhancements, however, you must reinstall RPC. During installation you will be prompted to enter Digital StoreFront user credentials. Please enter credentials for a user (e.g., administrator) who has privileges to manage print shops. Digital StoreFront 5.10 Booklets: Digital StoreFront 5.10 introduced support for booklet products. Cloud-Based Content Files: To give print buyers additional ways to provide content files, you can now configure the site to allow buyers to download content files from Google Drive, Dropbox, and/or PrintMe. Single-Record VDPs in Visual Product Builder: Single-record variable data products (VDPs) can now be configured to take advantage of Visual Product Builder. In Visual Product Builder, print buyers can see all the relevant information about the product they are personalizing data, print options, and preview in a single window. (The VDPs can be based on either XMPie or FusionPro designs.) Enhancements to Promo Codes: Digital StoreFront 5.10 includes several enhancements to promo codes. Enhancements to Spending Accounts: Digital StoreFront 5.10 added several enhancements to spending accounts. Enhancements to MIS: MIS Transaction Viewer: The MIS Transaction Viewer page lets you review all the orders that were sent to the EFI MIS (for example, Pace or Monarch) with which Digital StoreFront is integrated. In particular, you can review orders that failed to reach the MIS and re-submit those orders to

54 54 EFI Digital StoreFront What s New in Digital StoreFront 8.4 the MIS. To see the relevant list of orders, you must know the name of the print shop that is associated with the MIS. Digital StoreFront 5.6 DSFdesign Studio : Digital StoreFront 5.6 introduced DSFdesign Studio, a Web-based product design tool that equips administrators to create templates for a variety of products (greeting cards, flyers, business cards, brochures, stationery, banners, etc. within Digital StoreFront) that buyers can personalize. Visual Product Builder: Changed Terminology For clarity, what was referred to as the single-page workflow (introduced in Digital StoreFront 5.2) is now referred to as Visual Product Builder. When print buyers order products that use Visual Product Builder, all aspects of customizing a product (providing content files, selecting print options, and previewing) take place in a single window with immediate visual feedback to the buyer. In contrast, the multi-page workflow is now referred to as Classic Product Builder. (Here buyers are stepped through the pages where they customize and proof the product.) Preview Enhancements. FusionPro Variable Data Product (VDP): Digital StoreFront 5.6 added support for FusionPro VDP Suite 8 (Creator, formerly known as FusionPro Desktop, and Producer). For more information on FusionPro Suite 8, visit PTI on the Web at Digital StoreFront 5.4 Digital StoreFront Fiery Integration: Digital StoreFront 5.4 introduced enhanced capabilities for integrating Digital StoreFront with EFI Fiery System 10-driven output devices. The goal is to provide seamless integration between SaaS (EFI-hosted) or self-hosted installations of Digital StoreFront and Fiery-driven printers in your print facility. Digital StoreFront will discover and display information on the media and finishing options in all available Fiery-enables printers, enbaling operators in Digital StoreFront to route jobs to the appropriate output device based on the job ticket and printer capabilities. Ogone e-commerce Integration: Digital StoreFront 5.4 introduced integration with Ogone Payment Services for payment processing. VDP Support: XMPie Support, FusionPro 7.2 Support. Digital StoreFront 5.2 Custom Notifications: Digital StoreFront 5.2 introduced several enhancements to settings and notifications. Print Services: Added a new print service category and some new print services. Improved Digital StoreFront Fiery XF VUTEk Integration: Digital StoreFront 5.2 added improved integration with Fiery XF and VUTEk printers. Digital StoreFront media are exported to Fiery XF, which in turn maps them to the VUTEk printer s media sets based on color mode and resolution. Device View: Digital StoreFront 5.2 added a Device View dialog accessible from a link on the Operator View that enables operators to monitor and manage the output devices associated with each print shop. Direct Product and Category Linking ( Deep Linking ): Digital StoreFront 5.2 introduced direct product and category linking (also called deep linking ). A direct link is a link to the specific page where the product file or product category is located. Media: Dynamic Tab Creation: Digital StoreFront 5.2 provided an enhanced set of tools for defining tab stock media. On the buyer side, the procedure for inserting tabs was improved. For single-page workflow products (Flash-based), various formatting options are available (font, style, color). Product Ordering Enhancements: Sitemap: To give buyers another way to find products, a Sitemap link was added. Buyers can click this link to see a hierarchical list of categories and products and go directly to a particular product. Single-Page Workflow: Digital StoreFront administrators can now take advantage of a single-page workflow for ad hoc, superwide format, and static products. Buyers can select print options; provide their files (unless the product is static, in which case the files are pre-supplied); and preview their selections all on a single page. Shopping Cart: Enhancements were made to the shopping cart.

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