All emails from the YiffyToys.de -shop (and the english Yiffy.Toys shop of cause)
should now be cryptographically DKIM signed.
This is, so that no spammers can use our domains for faked sender addresses.
We also have a DMARC policy, so all email still arrived but we get a report about how everything is working from the receiving email sercers.
Once this has shown no problems for a while, we will change the policy to first quarantine and later reject all unsigned emails with our shop as a (fake) sender address.
New server
We are currently in the process of setting up a new and bigger server for our shop.
This Blog has already been moved to the new server and we are making preparations to move the actual shop within the next few days.
Update
On Sunday (the morning after) we noticed a misconfiguration that broke the unencrypted website.
It was not noticed right away because modern browsers would alway try the TLS encrypted website first but easily fixed.
We also forgot a Reverse-DNS entry causing GMX to refuse a single email but this was easily fixed.
Update 2
On Sunday evening we identified and fixed an issue causing a „We can’t add this item to your shoppingn cart“ for some (but not all) products.
- Customer website works
- Shopkeeper website works
- Email works
- Ordering seems to work.
- Credit card payments seem to work.
Automatic DHL label creation seems to be broken but we can’t find out why just yet. We can however do that manually to continue operating.DHL issue fixed too.- Waiting to see if any live Paypal orders are coming in
- While at it, we also performed a larger software update of the shop software
„by manufacturer“ selection fixed
After an update the „by manufacturer“ section was broken.
It would display ALL categories of the shop and not just the different manufacturer names.
This has just beed fixed.
Sorry for not detecting this earlier.
1% Paypal fee
Starting this month, Paypal charges significantly higher fees.
They have become significantly more expensive then processing credit cards (and of cause way more then SEPA payments).
We do struggle in this combination of inflation, shortages and exchange rates in freefall, just like everyone else. So we where forced (and luckily PSD II allows us to) charge a 1% fee for Paypal payments. This makes up for a fraction of what they charge to process each payment and retains balance with the already expensive credit card payments.
The fee is made clear in the very name when choosing the payment method and is clearly shown as a separate item in the overview.
FYI: The cheapest online payment method will always be the SEPA bank transfer as it’s only a few cent per transaction in banking fees but no payment processor takes a cut.
Math baby!
Obviously we can’t bring ALL THE TOYS to the Eurofurence dealers den.
So we already have a statistic that tells us what boxes of toys sell best, to make a selection based on how many boxes we can fit into our booth.
What we are currently doing is another statistic: What pairs of toys should swap boxes.
So that we don’t leave any well-selling toy behind just because a box of great products also contains one that is just collecting dust.
More details in invoice
We changed the VAT settings to display more details in our invoices and during checkout.
This should not change any prices displayed in the shop and it should only have an effect for customers in EU countries other then Germany.
What you may notice is that:
- out of stock products are displayed again
- the link to shipping cost next to the product price is fixed
- a glitch with prices in 100ml not getting a 1l price displayed for a short time is fixed
- you can now get notified when an out-of-stock product get in stock again
- the accidentally enabled review-product feature is disabled again. (it caused massive spam issues in the past and we rather spend our time restocking the shop and counting inventroy then deleting spam)
New manufacturers page
We have added a better overview of the „deep down -> by manufacturer“ selection page.
It now features the logos of all manufacturers we offer and does not need us to manually update this page each time we add an additional one.
New box sizes
We just for en entire truckload of new shipping boxes delivered.
They are still 30% more expensive baut we couldn’t delay it much longer or risk running out of boxes too ship in.
new DHL rates
For international orders DHL now offers better prices for a new category of small parcels. So we did order boxes matching their limits.
While the smaller boxes are (counter Intuitively) more expensive, the postage will be cheaper for a few, select items.
The prices don’t work out for domestic shipping. Only for foreign destinations.
However since the shop calculated shipping cost by weight with no regard for dimensions, it will be a while until we find a good heuristic to offer these new shipping prices for very small items.
National
Sadly this new DHL offers doesn’t work for national shipping because international the limit is 10cm of thickness but national it’s only 5cm.
Fixed email templates
The last update of our shop software broke the email templates.
Sorry that we didn’t notice this earlier.
This manifested in automatic emails e.g. about an order being shipped to be mostly empty.
Except for one thing, they should all work again and we also clarified the wording in many places.
The missing fix is that the label for a new status of the order is currently displayed in German even for English customers. This was fixed a long time ago but the way it was fixed (a specific function call in an email template) is no longer allowed (no more function calls. Only variable access.).
We did raise an issue in the GitHub repository of the shop software pointing out this regression bug and why it came up again.
new „deep down“ category
We updates the design of our „deep down“ categrory of dildos.
While you can already reach „by size“, „by species“ and 2by manufacturer“ directly from the start page, some people do click onto the fox first.
We now display the existing selections found in the 2 subcategories as tabs here instead of an outdated table view.
We hope this is more consistent now and easier to navigate.