Hi, I have recently updated my zen cart to 1.5.0 since I thought that was what was causing the problem I am asking about. The version I had running was 1.3.7, and I have updated using the official procedure for updating. We had a simple store, with no additional modules installed. We are running MySQL version 5.0.96. The php version is 5.2.17 and was updated through the hosting company well in advance of the problem described below.
The site was working perfectly fine for quite a while (a number of years, actually). Then, sometime between 11/24/2012 and 1/4/2013, the new orders function stopped working. We no longer receive an order confirmation email to the email address listed in Configuration > Email Options, and the customer does not receive it either. The email function on my server is working fine, as I tested it outside of zen cart, and emails are received.
My hosting company is godaddy, and to my knowledge, there were no major updates in that period. Also, the order confirmation emails, as well as all other email functions, were working properly prior to November 24, 2012. At this time, if an email is sent through the cart, the email is not received. So, all email functions have stopped working, although prior to November of 2012, I was not able to send emails properly through the cart, however, the emails that should be sent to the administrator were being sent properly. This was not a big deal to me.
In addition, when an order is placed, the paypal transaction goes through (with no purchase information), however, the order disappears. In other words, it does not appear in the "New Orders" area on the main admin home page, and it can not be found in Customers > Orders either. I assumed that it was an update issue that would be resolved when I updated the cart, but that has turned out not to be the case.
I need to get this working, as right now I have been forced to email people who make a purchase outside of zen cart, asking them what they purchased. I am able to obtain their shipping information from the "New Customers" tab on the home page, since that works but their order is not recorded.
As I said, no other admin settings were changed between that time and now, and I can't figure out why these two functions, having to do with order recording, have stopped working simultaneously. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
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