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CBSubs 1.3 Pre-announcement

CBSubs 1.3 is almost ready for release.

It is already powering our Joomlapolis website, so start planning your upgrade now!

The CBSubs Paid Subscriptions Membership Management solution is the most complete product available for Joomla subscription based websites. It is already powering thousands of websites and every new release is adding even more features to the huge existing flexibility already included.

We have already given a sneak preview of the new CBSubs Mailer feature and as we are approaching final release we have compiled the following list of new features:

• Mailer plugin with automated, scheduled, personalized email and private messages (needs PMS extention: e.g., uddeIM)
• Multi-currency support during checkout with pricing markup based on currency selection.
• Allow formatting of primary / secondary currency displays
• New alternate Ajax way to select payment method using a radio selector instead of buttons, allowing to add descriptive text for each payment method
• Advanced Statistics Reporting (now has 9 report icons)
• Eight (8) new payment gateways: WorldPay, AlertPay, eWAY, CCBill, QucikPay, Moneris eSELECTplus, Telemoney EasyPay and CIC Credit Mutuel
• Basket filtering based on taxed status
• Offline payment slip now optional and customizable
• View (and print) invoice buttons and View (and print) all completed or all pending invoices added to Basket icon area
• Pay invoice button added to Basket icon area
• VirtueMart 2.0 integration
• GroupJive 2.5+ integration 
• Rounded template improvements (psd layer, new red icon, etc.)
• Basket timeouts (admin selectable)
• Post Affiliate Pro new API support
• CBSubs Language plugin iso-code based
• Updated documentation

In addition to above new features there are many bug fixes included in CBSubs 1.3, as well as additional support for just released Joomla 2.5.

All existing CBSubs customers should check their license maintenance period and make sure it is still valid. If your license maintenance has expired, you can just add additional years to bridge the gap and bring your maintenance up to date. This way your existing license will work just fine with CBSubs 1.3.

If you are not a CBSubs user yet, then you should learn more about CBSubs, see the short video presentation and take the CBSubs challenge and purchase your license now risk free under our 30-days no questions asked first-purchase refund policy. 

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Joomla 2.5 and life-cycle guide

Joomla 2.5 has just been released!

The Community Builder team congratulates the Joomla community for the release of it's latest Long Term Support (LTS) Joomla 2.5.0 package!

New releases are always considered as progress and moving forward. Everyone likes a shining new product and most of our 439,064 members will rush to take this baby for a test-drive.

Looking past the version jump gap from previous Joomla 1.7.3 release (actually Joomla 1.7.4 was just released also) and the hype, the following three questions should most likely be on most people's minds:

1. What's new in Joomla 2.5 ?
2. What will happen to previous versions of Joomla ?
3. How should Community Builder users react ?

Let's tackle these questions and give as much information as possible. This way everyone can make their own educated decisions regarding this release and the way forward for their unique situation.

Community Builder 1.8 b1 and CBSubs 1.3 b1 released!

We have just released Community Builder 1.8 beta 1 and CBSubs 1.3 beta 1 immedeately available for Developer members from the Developer download area. Both packages should not be installed on live websites and should only be used for testing and development staging purposes.

These builds work on all Joomla environments (Joomla 1.0.x, Joomla 1.5.x, Joomla 1.7.x) including the just released Joomla 2.5 RC1 environment. Developer members are encouraged to post feedback on both products in the Developers forum area.

CBSubs 1.3 Mailer Sneak Preview

As we are quickly approaching the new CBSubs release (version 1.3), I have been testing and documenting the new features and improvements. One of the major highlighted features is the CBSubs Mailer integration plugin that, in my opinion, will be a killer for all membership environments. So, I am sharing some of the concepts and use case scenarions  that I am working on (to by included in the documentation) as a sneak preview of this awesome new feature set.