Hi,
I'm finding it tedious to update your plugins when something is out of date, shouldn't processes like this be automatic or notices be sent out about things like this?
We did send a newsletter to all users subscribed in April 2022 about this new plugin (among other things). However, I can see that you only subscribed to our newsletters in 2023, so that's why you were not notified.
Also, we published the news on our Twitter:
Twitter post
We're up for renewal at the new year, but things like not being able to integrate amazon stores, difficulty integrating google merchant, shipping plugins/apis, instagram shop and others. Plus having to make custom fields and etc on your companies behalf to get google merchant going instead of having these integrations just work is making platforms like Shopify, Wordpress and other more palatable than staying with Hikashop.
We've been in the web development world for quite some time and have had hika since we started our company but at this point its starting to seem that we are spending more time hunting down inefficiencies that we have to code, fix or do custom edits instead of things just integrating and working.
HikaShop has many shipping plugins available for it. In 2023, we developed a whole new shipping plugin for UPS. In 2024, we'll be developing a whole new shipping plugin for FedEx.
We release a new version of HikaShop every 2 months or so. Each time with many fixes, improvments and new features. Besides this, we also release new versions of other extensions, new plugins on our marketplace, free or not, etc.
Yes, there are not hundreds of shipping plugins available. Nothing we can do about it. We're a small team, and we're not making enough money which would allow us to have tens or hundreds of developers, like Shopify or Wordpress.
If you can't accept that, that's your choice and you'll have to look elsewhere I'm afraid.
For instance, we currently are having issues exporting all our products. We hit export to csv and everything is in one cell by itself. Its not separated in rows, columns or anything of the sort to be able to manipulate data to import it on other platforms. Making it seem that hikashop is proprietary and you have to start donig some excel work to get things organized right.
Sorry to say, but it seems that you're complaining without looking into the matter first. The CSV HikaShop outputs by default is totally valid. The problem is with the software you're using to open it which doesn't offer you by default an interface to select the separator or automatically detects it. Plus, there is actually a setting in HikaShop to select which separator to use for the exports, in order to better match with your software:
www.hikashop.com/forum/import-export-csv...products.html#287995