Hiring someone to upgrade my cart

I have been trying to upgrade from 1.3.9h to 1.5 with the help of a "tech friend" for 2.5 hours and it is not working out for us. We've done 2 upgrades in the past and were successful. This one is a just a lot more to handle.

I am so disappointed that zencart does not allow my server host to offer simple scripts updates. It used to be so easy!

Can someone direct me to where I can hire a pro to do this.
I am thinking of switching from zencart to another e-commerce if updating is going to be that complicated each time :-(

Sarah808:

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I am so disappointed that zencart does not allow my server host to offer simple scripts updates.

Automated upgrades will not work with customised stores - and most stores are modified/customised.

It used to be so easy!

It will get easier with the next version of ZC.

Can someone direct me to where I can hire a pro to do this.
I am thinking of switching from zencart to another e-commerce if updating is going to be that complicated each time :-(

Hang in there and check your PM.

Sarah808:

I have been trying to upgrade from 1.3.9h to 1.5 with the help of a "tech friend" for 2.5 hours and it is not working out for us. We've done 2 upgrades in the past and were successful. This one is a just a lot more to handle.

I am so disappointed that zencart does not allow my server host to offer simple scripts updates. It used to be so easy!

Can someone direct me to where I can hire a pro to do this.
I am thinking of switching from zencart to another e-commerce if updating is going to be that complicated each time :-(

Why are you up-grading? Most of the 3rd party mods have not been upgraded to 1.5.0. As been said many times in the forum nothing wrong with 1.3.9h it is safe.

EZorb:

Why are you up-grading? Most of the 3rd party mods have not been upgraded to 1.5.0. As been said many times in the forum nothing wrong with 1.3.9h it is safe.

Whats' wrong with 1.3.9x is that it is not PA-DSS certified.

1.5 fills that gap - see: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=190424

especially this:

What's New In v1.5.0:
Updates include:

• Application has been PA-DSS Certified

• CHANGE-12 - Numerous system changes to support PA-DSS compliance certification

• *Admin passwords now expire every 90 days, as per PA-DSS specification

and .....

• CHANGE-12 - PA-DSS - prevent payment modules from ever storing more than 10 characters of sanitized CC numbers

• CHANGE-12 - PA-DSS - prevent built-in "gateway" payment modules from functioning if the site is not protected by SSL

• CHANGE-12 - PA-DSS - add admin detection of SSL mode change and auto-expire all passwords if SSL mode is enabled either with ENABLE_SSL_ADMIN or using an https address for HTTP_SERVER

• CHANGE-12 - PA-DSS - add two-factor authentication hook in admin login

Sure, not all mods are compatible with 1.5 as yet but they are being upgraded by their authors.

frank18:

Whats' wrong with 1.3.9x is that it is not PA-DSS certified.

1.5 fills that gap - see: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=190424

especially this:

Sure, not all mods are compatible with 1.5 as yet but they are being upgraded by their authors.

Don't forget that there are a lot of us zenners that do not need to be pci compliant, so for them there is nothing wrong with 1.39h

Design75:

Don't forget that there are a lot of us zenners that do not need to be pci compliant, so for them there is nothing wrong with 1.39h

Maybe not yet - but stand by for further developments. Eventually everyone has to be PCI compliant, no matter where you are on this globe. So it's better to keep up now..

But we are getting away from the subject of this thread which reads Hiring someone to upgrade my zen cart - let's stick to the topic.