From the “Here we go again” The latest round for Patches from Magento (Supee-7405) is a brand new bundle of critical patches. Just like the previous 6788 version, this is proving to be anything but an easy patch.
Amazon WorkMail Basic Email Hosting
There is a dizzying array of cloud hosted email services available for those offices that rely on Outlook/Microsoft software, and now Amazon is jumping into the mix with their new “WorkMail” solution.
Magento Multiple Stores with Seperate WordPress Instances
We’ve started to bring another store online recently that was to be added to an existing Magento hosted store. The existing store already had a blog setup and running with the store under a specific sub-directory. The challenge was the we wanted to bring online a new blog instance that was completely separate from the existing store, but not clutter up our root structure.
The solutions was a bit of HTACESS hacker and domain name management.
WordPress Cloudflare Flexible SSL
Every firewall service company is now touting the ability to have HTTP2 enabled on their site. The problem is to gain any benefit for HTTP, you must have SSL fully enabled on your site. If you have any complicated caching turned on that does not work with SSL directly, then this can be a problem.
Kicking the Magento 2 EE Tires on EC2
Magento 2 was released a few weeks ago and we hadn’t had a chance to review it yet, so we decided to try it out … Read More
Magento EE Check If Order Item Has Been RMA’d
One great feature of Magento Enterprise is that it comes with an RMA system completely built in. Its a very good feature to have if you have a high volume of sales. The system is a bit confusing to learn, from a user interface perspective, but once you get the hang of it its not that difficult.
From a programmatic perspective, it makes sending out order specific information a bit more complicated and will also affect any sales data forecasting tools that you have custom built. Below is a snippet of code to help determine whether an order has any RMA’d items, programmatically.
Magento Supee-6788 Troubleshooting Tips
The latest round for Patches from Magento (Supee-6788) have seemed to have caused a lot of confusion. While important, the patches fail to take into consideration that a few stock files may have been changed (.htaccess) or removed (.htaccess.sample). The patch also errors on cryptic messages and seemingly provide very little to troubleshoot with.
We have applied it to a few community edition Magento versions as well as an enterprise install and have had a mixed bag of results. We have documented a set of common tips that have helped us trouble shoot most of the issues with the new patch.
Magento Custom Bundle Pricing
One of the nice features about doing orders in the Magento back-end is the ability to create manual orders and setting a discount price. The only problem is that this custom pricing was only available with simple products.
We managed to create magento custom bundle pricing in just a few steps.
Declined Card Transaction Management
Recently our client saw a surge in suspicious activity where a user would seemingly login, place an item in their cart, and then proceed to attempt to use fraudulent cards repeatedly. We were able to determine that either this was an absolutely amazing robot processing the orders OR a very determined group of individuals. We suspect it may have been a live person, because all of the IDS web sniffers detected that it was an authenticated browser user.
Magento Tablerate FreeShipping Tax Included
We recently had a client that wished to have their free shipping rule be triggered on the subtotal of the entire order, including tax. The solution was fairly simple to implement.