Hinter den Türen des YiffyToys Shops.
Blog postings about improvements we made.
Some categories are too large.
So we break them up into smaller categories.
For the manufacturer „FurryStyle“ the links to the images got broken.
So we now replaced the old HTML content with a page-builder template.
This means the page flows differently on mobile screens then on the desktop and all the images are references to an image-galery and will never break again.
We added the option to select a second colour for the custom-made Drappa Darkstalker.
We also added the missing images of what each of the colours look like.
With the label-printing software updated and the shop extended to show the newly required information,
we just added the last required manufacturer addresses and contact emails.
In addition to our own address, the one of the manufacturer is now also printed on all new packaging. Previously we would only print the name and logo of the manufacturer.
You can now find and care-instructions, safety advice, manufacturer address and the address of the party responsible for EU product safety in a new tab on each product:
A few ones for older product, where this is technically not required, will be added as they become known.
(Sadly US companies aren’t mandated to show their full address anywhere on the website,
so we have to ask and wait.)
General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) will take effect in two month.
It mandates that we display a lot of information about product safety&care and the manufacturer+(EU) importer in the same place as the product details.
Sadly our shop software doesn’t allow for and kind of manufacturer details.
To prepare for it, we have written an extension for our shop software.
There is now an additional tab „Manufacturer“ for all products.
It lists who the original manufacturer is.
It also shows what party is responsible for product safety in the EU
…and it contains a copy of the safety and care instructions we have prepared in English and German.
We seem to have issues accepting #Paypal payments since the old API certificate expired on the 1st of August.
We did update the certificate file but the shop software just silently never saved the update.
Sadly we did not get any errors from the shop software and the ToS of all payment providers prohibit us from clicking the button ourself to test things.
(For fraud prevention.)
A customer just informed us and within an hour we found a workaround for this bug.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
As usual there is a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes to keep this tiny Dildo-shop running.
One thing we just improved is our photo-setup.
While maintaining consistent light, posture and colors across photos made in decades now,
we just added 3 new ways to hold different sized toys that don’t like to stand up on their own upright.
Previously we had to lie them down and make photos from above or hold them up and very quickly make each photo before gravity did it’s thing.
We have updated our shop software to a new version and undated to a newer version of PHP.
If you find anything not working as expected, please contact us!
We are busy testing all functions. So far everything seems fine.
The new version has been running on our internal test server for a week already.
Sorry for everyone who had the checkout page never finish loading.
We had this issue before but couldn’t find out what caused it.
TL:DR
It’s fixed and we have done serveral changes to make sure to find out very quickly,
if is or something similar ever happens again.
Long version
Due to now having a backup every time we do any change in the shop,
we think this happened every time we create a testshop to try out an update before applying it to the live shop.
Not only did we fix the result.
we added some tests to make sure we after every change we are informed if the issue was created
and we have an hourly check that send us an email whenever any critical log messages are created in the current day.
We are planning to add a number of additional products that can be build to order.
In preparation, we added a new attribute „build to order“ to filter only/none of the product that are manufactured to customer specifications instead of being instantly shipped from local stock.
In applying this new attribute we also edited the description of every custom made product to follow the same design and list the same details.
We are updating the shop module used for credit card payments to a new major version.
The update has been tested in our test system and we don’t expect any visible changed.
However if anyone experiences any issues. Please contact us.
Aparently there are some legal changes that the credit card module now must display co-branded credit card logos in the EU.
We also updated the shop system itself to a new patch-level. It doesn’t contain any visible changes and all security patches have already been applied before anyway.