Apsona ShopAdmin - a free tool for import/mass update/reporting

delia, I don't remember getting a config file from them....? I just remember installing the plugin. I'm pretty sure I didn't get anything from them.. Could THIS be the reason mine isn't working? I installed it about 1.5 or 2 years ago. I COULD have received something from them, but I'm don't recall THEM sending anything to me. As a matter of fact, I had a problem with the install, emailed them, and a girl emailed me back. She was very nice.. but I don't remember getting anything from them to 'add' to my install.

They have found a money maker (salesforce) so they just simply have a totally difference business now. Since it is their server that it involved, unless they decide to give it away to someone else, it's out of our hands. It's the backend on the server that is the real working part to this.

Yeah, I don't like the way this is heading. My contact there hasn't worked with the store admin in a long time but I might approach them about taking over. Don't know if I want it...

One of the files you got is apsona_config.php - if you've never changed anything since you got it, then you need to make changes to your files as noted in this thread.

Well, I don't know the numbers of people that would be willing to pay to use it, but I would pay for it. Knowing what I know now about it, I would have purchased it for $50 - $100... I know that's not a lot, but I'm broke. haha.. I bought Conner's Advanced Shipper, and it's worth every penny. If you could find a way to charge for service, that would be good. deleted the last part of this post because I didn't see your post above. thanks.

Yeah, I was thinking they would move to a paid module at some point but it never happened.

I have been in contact with them, and the page is back up now.

They do intend to keep it running albeit with no support.
No, they cannot release it to the community as it has a great deal of their current codebase included.

They are in a different market now, they found the zen cart/oscommerce/open cart users didn't want to pay for anything...so they have put that development down to experience.

If it ever does disappear, I have a good friend who does something similar with reporting and he would come up with an equivalent if given a large sum of money!

Thanks delia, and everyone else too. I finally got my ShopAdmin up and running again. I REEEEEEEEALLY appreciate it!!!!!!!

I finally got my ShopAdmin up and running again.
Great...and did you need to do anything that is not already detailed in this thread?

Well, if I had to fix it again, I would follow instructions better.. ha. But seriously, no. Everything I needed is here in this thread. Don't forget, if your Admin is secure, change those 2 files!

It seems like service.apsona.com is down. Does anyone know if this is the end of Apsona?

I was assured just about 10 days ago that they had no intention of getting rid of the server. I'm hoping that they are just having issues and it will be back up later.

It's working again now.

i'm having two issues with apsona.

issue 1: it was working great and all of a sudden it stop displaying! I cannot get it to show. the url is fine but i get a small icon where an image should be in the center of a blank page.

issue 2: i look on my zencart product profile for products that were uploaded using apsona and no information is displayed. When I review the website the products are displaying and when i look in the admin categories they show as if they are there as well. But when I look at the actual product profile in the admin it doesn't display there. please help!

delia:

If you got it before now, your problems are addressed in this thread - from ssl errors to 1.5.4 etc. To get it originally you signed up on their website - essentially registering it. You have an account number in your config file.

Since the servers are still up, it's worth fixing your files rather than switching to ezpopulate as mc12345678 just suggested. Ezpopulate is extremely hard to use.

I just had a tweet only a few weeks ago from someone who works at Aspona and got no indication of problems. I'm thinking the website issue is temporary because they have a viable business doing other things besides this mod.

I'm having the same issues - suddenly today, the Shop Admin page was blank except for a missing image icon. Does anyone know if Apsona has taken down its interface?

There definitely was some sort of outage yesterday - and they have changed some things it looks like. Even if you are running admin in nonsecure mode, I found a site needed the ssl link to the server. The ssl link is totally different from the old link so I'm thinking they streamlined the access to the server. So the old code no longer works.

At a minimum, you have to change the link in apsona_config.php.
The first line needs changing to this:

$APSONA_BASE_URL = 'https://service.apsona.com';

After you do this and you are still having problems, I suggest changing browsers to see if caching prevents you from seeing the correct view.

That fixed the apsona issue one of my post.

I have a second issue that is confounding to say the least.

I cannot see the product descriptions, id, or anything on zencart yet they appear on apsona and on the live site.

i tried a suggestion included in post #539 on page 54 of this thread and updated through the store manager to no avail.

I need help in understanding why this is happening and how to fix this issue because if apsona ceases to work then I will not be able to edit any products uploaded through the software.

Please help!

delia:

There definitely was some sort of outage yesterday - and they have changed some things it looks like. Even if you are running admin in nonsecure mode, I found a site needed the ssl link to the server. The ssl link is totally different from the old link so I'm thinking they streamlined the access to the server. So the old code no longer works.

At a minimum, you have to change the link in apsona_config.php.
The first line needs changing to this:

$APSONA_BASE_URL = 'https://service.apsona.com';

After you do this and you are still having problems, I suggest changing browsers to see if caching prevents you from seeing the correct view.

Are you available for customization work on our site? I am looking for a Zencart programmer to modify some of the functionality in zencart relating to the media collection setup and i am also seeking an integrated video system that would allow video uploads to appear on any page of the site especially a video gallery page using the media manager. Is that the type of work you can accomplish for us?

The problem last week was DNS only. The server was fine but some settings got lost - so that some apsona admins stopped working. I posted a fix in post 663 and then installed apsona on a website. That site does not use SSL for it's admin and it doesn't work. So if you made that change and things are no longer working it needs to be changed back. This would only be for folks not using a secure HTTPS admin.

Is anyone using Apsona in a non-english language and seeing accented characters in the Shopadmin menus as "??" where they were ok previously?
I am, in spanish. It's not an encoding issue.

After these most recent posts to this thread, I have been checking to see if my ShopAdmin is still working. Well, it was - up until 3 days ago, when I moved to a different server. Although I have the same domain name, my url is now different (I am keeping the old url on the old server for 30 days "just in case"). Now, all I get is this:

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Sorry about the little itty-bitty picture; I couldn't figure out how to make the picture fit the Forum's picture limits. What could be causing this partial loading of Apsona Shop-Admin? Do I need to change some config file that I don't know about? I tried logging in to the Apsona website to possibly change some portion of my account, but I don't seem to know how to do that either.

Is this even related to the server change, or is it something else?

Please advise.