Interchange News
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Interchange 3rd-party tax support for TaxJar & Avalara
Posted on March 21, 2023 by Mark Johnson
The U.S. Wayfair court decision complicated collecting sales tax for ecommerce sales, and many businesses running Interchange catalogs lack the necessary tools for full compliance. A new Vend::Tax translation layer has been created to connect Interchange’s standard sales tax structures and routines with vendor-specific 3rd-party sales tax providers.
Vend::Tax is a general interface that delegates to vendor-specific tax gateway modules. It defines 3 new tags to calculate either estimated or live-lookup sales tax, request and store tax averages, and report tax collected for orders to a 3rd-party provider.
Connectors have already been constructed for TaxJar and Avalara in core Interchange, so that developers can use either of these popular services for calculating their sales tax with an upgrade and a few adjustments to their catalog configuration. We encourage the development of other 3rd-party providers through the creation of new Vend::Tax::<ServiceName> modules.
My blog post Interchange 3rd Party Tax Support gives more details and setup instructions.
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Alternate CGI link connector in Rust now available
Posted on March 6, 2023 by Jon Jensen
For anyone wanting to try an alternative to the classic compiled vlink and tlink CGI programs written in C, I made available my equivalent new Rust version called rust_link.
It is functionally almost identical to the other implementations, but has Rust’s strong memory-safety guarantees and nice modern language features for the developer. And was a fun little project!
The other link programs are fine, so no need to change them if they’re working for you. But in any case you may enjoy reading my blog post about rust_link for Interchange. It details the Interchange link protocol and explains what the link programs do.
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IRC chat channel #interchange moves to Libera Chat
Posted on May 20, 2021 by Jon Jensen
Today the Interchange project IRC chat channel #interchange moved from Freenode to Libera Chat.
IRC users, please join us there for real-time discussion to augment the mailing lists.
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Marco Pessotto joins Interchange core developer team
Posted on August 26, 2020 by Jon Jensen
We are happy to announce that Marco Pessotto recently joined the Interchange core developer team! Marco’s involvement with Interchange dates back to 2013 or earlier. He has contributed several core code commits and worked on many Interchange stores.
You can find Marco also involved at his web home or working on his CMS/wiki engine/publishing software called amusewiki.
We look forward to working even more closely with Marco in the future!
News archive
- 2023-03-21: Interchange 3rd-party tax support for TaxJar & Avalara
- 2023-03-06: Alternate CGI link connector in Rust now available
- 2021-05-20: IRC chat channel #interchange moves to Libera Chat
- 2020-08-26: Marco Pessotto joins Interchange core developer team
- 2020-05-14: Admin XSS security vulnerabilities fixed (CVE-2020-12685)
- 2020-04-25: Project website refresh
- 2020-03-01: Interchange 5.12.0 release candidate 1
- 2018-11-22: Domain and server move
- 2016-01-06: Interchange 5.10.0 Released!
- 2015-12-30: 2015 Perl Dancer Conference reports
- 2015-08-20: New template for Interchange
- 2015-08-18: 2015 Perl Dancer Conference
- 2014-10-13: Core team changes
- 2014-08-22: Perl::Dancer Conference 2014
- 2014-07-07: Interchange 5.8.2 stable release
- 2014-07-02: Interchange6::Cart Hackathon on 14 July 2014
- 2014-06-25: Perusion developers release two new Bootstrap based templates for use with Interchange
- 2014-03-13: Interchange 5.8.1 stable release
- 2014-02-26: Interchange 6 Hackathon
- 2013-10-30: Ecommerce Innovation conference report
- 2013-07-19: Interchange 5.8.0 stable release
- 2013-03-18: eCommerce Innovations 2013 Conference
- 2013-02-13: Extensive Hall of Fame updates
- 2012-12-28: Josh Lavin joins Interchange core team
- 2011-06-12: Interchange 5.7.7 development release
- 2011-04-14: IRC Meeting Report
- 2011-03-28: Interchange IRC Meeting: April 14, 2011
- 2010-03-24: Interchange security releases: 5.7.6, 5.6.3, 5.4.5
- 2010-02-23: Interchange 5.7.5 development release
- 2009-12-09: Interchange 5.7.4 development release
- 2009-11-05: Interchange 5.7.3 development release
- 2009-09-17: Interchange security releases: 5.7.2, 5.6.2, 5.4.4
- 2009-08-23: Next Interchange community meeting
- 2009-08-13: David Christensen joins core team
- 2009-08-12: Payflow Pro legacy API retirement on September 1
- 2009-05-25: Interchange source code migrated to Git
- 2009-05-19: LinuxTag 2009
- 2009-05-13: Experimental UTF-8 branch
- 2008-12-05: JT Justman joins the Interchange core team
- 2008-11-13: Interchange 5.4.3, 5.6.1, 5.7.1 released
- 2008-06-01: Back from LinuxTag
- 2008-05-21: Interchange 5.6.0 released
- 2008-05-17: Interchange 5.5.3 development released
- 2008-05-08: Interchange at LinuxTag 2008!
- 2008-04-29: Interchange 5.5.2 development release available
- 2007-08-21: Interchange 5.5.1 development release available
- 2007-08-08: Bug Squashing Party
- 2007-06-18: New Debian Packages (5.4.2-3)
- 2007-06-13: Debian Packages for Etch
- 2007-04-05: Interchange goes to LinuxTag!
- 2007-02-27: Ron Phipps joins the Interchange core team
- 2007-02-07: Interchange 5.4.2 released
- 2006-08-28: New Developers pajamian and thunder
- 2006-05-26: Interchange 5.4.1 released
- 2006-03-28: Improved search system on www.icdevgroup.org
- 2006-03-27: [/page] and [/order] macros
- 2006-03-25: XMLDOCS documentation
- 2006-01-31: Development tree notice
- 2005-12-31: Interchange 5.4 release
- 2005-12-12: Interchange 5.3.3 developer release
- 2005-12-12: New ICDEVGROUP website
- 2005-11-23: Interchange 5.3.2 beta release available
- 2005-11-08: PayPal Pro Payments Module
- 2005-10-18: Interchange 5.4 (stable) release schedule
- 2005-09-23: Security flaw found in Interchange demo
- 2005-06-07: Admin UI Documentation
- 2004-05-05: Interchange 5.2.0 released
- 2004-04-20: Interchange 5.1.1 beta now available
- 2004-04-20: Business::OnlinePayment support for Interchange
- 2004-04-12: Interchange 5.1.0 beta released
- 2004-03-29: Interchange 5.0.1 and 4.8.9 released
- 2003-12-15: Interchange 5.0 released
- 2003-11-12: Interchange User fMRIDC.org in Infoworld Top 100
- 2003-10-31: Interchange 4.9.9 released
- 2003-06-19: Interchange 4.9.8 released
- 2003-01-30: Interchange 4.8.7 released
- 2002-12-19: Interchange Documentation Wiki
- 2002-12-12: interchange.rtfm.info
- 2002-12-12: Interchange 4.9.5 Released
- 2002-12-02: Interchange 4.9.4 released
- 2002-11-14: Order Fulfillment: The E-Commerce Deal Breaker
- 2002-10-28: Interchange on front cover of Linux Magazine
- 2002-10-28: Some docs for Interchange 4.9
- 2002-10-26: Whither Red Hat?
- 2002-10-21: New web site look and feel, new server provider
- 2002-09-25: Interchange 4.9.3 Nightly Build Available
- 2002-08-18: Interchange 4.8.6 released — IMPORTANT upgrade
- 2002-07-22: Interchange 4.9.1 alpha released
- 2002-05-06: Interchange 4.8.5 released
- 2002-05-02: Interchange 4.8.4 patch
- 2002-04-30: Interchange 4.8.4 released
- 2001-12-04: Updates to the Developers Site
- 2001-11-28: Interchange Application Server WebCast
- 2001-11-28: Interchange 4.8.3 released
- 2001-11-19: WebTechniques reviews Red Hat E-Commerce Suite
- 2001-11-08: ZDNet Review of the Red Hat E-Commerce Suite
- 2001-10-16: Linux-Magazin (German) Interchange article
- 2001-09-24: Red Hat E-commerce Suite available for purchase
- 2001-09-20: IDC white paper on Red Hat e-commerce available
- 2001-09-20: Upcoming Webcast on Interchange
- 2001-09-19: Interchange 4.8.2 released
- 2001-08-14: Printed Interchange documentation available
- 2001-08-13: Interchange 4.8.1 released
- 2001-07-26: Interchange 4.7.7 beta released
- 2001-07-18: Interchange 4.7.6 beta released
- 2001-07-03: Development release of Interchange 4.7.5
- 2001-06-16: Development release of Interchange 4.7.4
- 2001-06-12: Development release of Interchange 4.7.3
- 2001-06-12: Interchange Training Classes
- 2001-05-10: Development release of Interchange 4.7.2
- 2001-04-17: Interchange 4.6.5 released
- 2001-04-01: Interchange 4.6.4 released
- 2001-03-28: Development release of Interchange 4.7.1
- 2001-03-19: About Interchange
- 2001-03-01: Interchange Surveys
- 2001-03-01: Interchange Tutorial
- 2001-02-09: Interchange 4.6.3 released
- 2001-02-08: Interchange 4.6.2 released
- 2001-02-06: Red Hat Acquires Akopia and Interchange
- 2001-02-04: #interchange channel on IRC
- 2000-12-03: Interchange 4.6.1 released
- 2000-10-27: Interchange 4.6.0 released
- 2000-10-20: Interchange 4.5.8 beta released
- 2000-10-19: Overhauled documentation available
- 2000-10-06: Interchange 4.5.7 beta released
- 2000-09-26: Interchange 4.5.6 beta released
- 2000-08-10: Akopia Developer Resource site launched