Cart not updating and multiple problems

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8 years 1 month ago #253319

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.6.4
-- Joomla version -- : 3.6.3

I am at the end of my rope with Hikashop. About 95% of the problems with my site are related to this *&$# extension. I constantly receive emails from angry customers who are unable to complete their orders. I have now just wasted several hours trying to test the cart and checkout for a simple order of a couple of downloadable files.

I logged in and added a product into the cart.

Tried to apply a coupon code. Didn't work.

Tried to add another product in the cart. Didn't work.

Tried to remove current product from cart. Didn't work.

Tried to disable all cache (system cache, jotcache, JCHOptimize, Cloudflare). Didn't help.

Tried to update Hikashop. Didn't work and got a blank screen.

Finally succeeded in updating the extension via FTP. Problem with cart and checkout persisted.

Finally I was able to resolve the cart problem by logging out of my account and logging back in.

Now the coupon code is finally working and I can remove and add things from the cart.

This is totally unacceptable for a paid extension. Why is Hikashop behaving in this erratic way? It is not only exasperating and frustrating. I don't even want to know how much business was lost because of Hikashop's totally unreliable behavior.

Thanks for any help.

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8 years 1 month ago #253336

Hi,

The blank screen you had during the update process comes from restrictions of your hosting put in place by your hosting company. It's because the install package of HikaShop is quite big. If you ask them to raise the limits in your php.ini, you wouldn't have that problem and there is nothing we can do to avoid that.

I can't say what was the cause of the cart/coupon system not working properly, but caching systems are usually the culprits in these cases since they prevent Joomla/HikaShop to reprocess the page/cart display and thus you don't see the change even though it was taken into account.
Again, that's not something we can avoid. We actually already have systems in place in HikaShop to try to cope with the Joomla cache system so that you can still activate it and use HikaShop normally, but there is nothing possible if it's a third party system caching the pages like Cloudflare.

So I'm sorry you're frustrated but it doesn't look like your issues actually come from HikaShop and HikaShop or its install being broken were just consequences of other things installed/setup in a certain way on your website/server.

We'll be happy to look at issues if you have any further down the road. In such cases, make sure you provide the links and precise steps to reproduce the issue so that we can analyze the situation.

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8 years 1 month ago #253421

Thanks for your reply. I actually wrote above that I already disabled all the cache systems, but Hikashop is still acting erratically, frequently not updating the cart, not sending notification emails to customer, etc...

I will continue to monitor its erratic behavior and will let you know if I can get more information.

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