Boy does time fly or what? It seems like just yesterday I was grinning from ear to ear and yet biting my nails and wondering if FP would catch on. Here we are a year later. 2007 was a great year. I was very happy with the outcome of it, but I am even more excited about next year.

There will be several major changes in next year that I am very excited about. One of the earliest changes in 2008 will be that we will begin accepting credit cards directly in conjunction with Paypal (of course) if everything goes to plan. I know there have been a few people are turned off by Paypal, and I can understand that, so we will be able to begin accepting credit cards directly. If either of those are a problem, we will still accept US money orders under special circumstances.

1.6 will be released in early 2008 as well. In fact, I am aiming (keyword aiming) to finish 1.6 in the next few days and have Beta 1 released to the beta testers and uploaded to the demo late next weekend. There is one large feature that still needs to be finished up, along with a few organization changes and aesthetic changes. I’ll list some of the major changes below in case you missed out on them before:

• Complete email piping functionality.
• Custom client fields
• Order specific order questions
• Organization changed a bit in certain areas.
• Mass actions
• Inline AJAX modification
• PHP Contact Form
• Offline payments
• Import & Export Clients
• Product Reviews & Ratings

And of course the highlight of the year will be 2.0. At least, I am planning on releasing it in Q4, we’ll see how that pans out though. Rewriting several thousand lines of code is no easy task. FP will become fully OOP, which will allow it to grow much quicker than with the current releases. 2.0 will be a groundup rewrite, with some very exciting features that I can’t wait to create! Plugin systems, language-specific clients, modular design, and so much more are just the tip of the iceberg.

Thank you guys for the wonderful year! It would not have been nowhere near as wonderful if it wasn’t for y’all! It was a great year, but let’s make 2008 OUR year and the BEST year!

Happy New Years to everyone! And I hope everyone has a nice and SAFE one!