Recently on a new server move, we ran into a issue that almost drove us insane. The homepage of the site would NOT come up … Read More
With a lot of security improvement with Magento2, one that we found a bit confusing was that when a guest customer checks out and has an issue with their credit card, a generic popup error message appears that says “Unable to place order. An error occurred on the server. Please try to place the order again.”
Starting 2/13/2020 at 5:40AM EDT it appears some new bot network is scanning for a new form of exploit regarding a Magento (1) Bitrix connector … Read More
If you have a Magento2 store that frequently has a lot of customer service representatives putting in orders for customer manually in the admin, it is very helpful to know who exactly put in what order. When a customer calls in with a question about an order, you can immediately reference the order history comments and find out what customer service member full-filled the actual order.
Migrating some older Magento1 EE code to Magento2, we came upon an issue where we could not figure out how to retrieve the Rewards Points that were used on an order by a customer.
For SEO purposes, you always want to make sure that the canonical url always is consistent with the url. So if you allow both a URL with and without the trailing slash, you need to make sure that your canonical is the same for both.
We started seeing weird issues recently where a label provider (ShipStation) was running into issues with the WAF firewall Incapsula.
The label would print in ShipStation, but ShipStation’s subsequent call back to Magento would set the order as “Complete” and all items shipped, despite the actual shipment details being present.
If you’ve spent enough time working with e-commerce carts, the chances that you’ve run into the dreaded “CURL Connection Error” are pretty high. Thankfully solving it is not that difficult.
Integrating Square and Magento usually requires the purchase of an intermediary system for synchronizing order and product level data. The largest issue we have faced is the case when the SKU of a product is not necessarily the same as the UPC barcode for a product. Variations of data and/or missing barcode data on certain products, can force a Magento store to use a different value for SKU numbers than the actual read-out from a UPC tag.
These are just a few tips that we have added to our standard security hardening service over the years. Some of them are fairly easy to do, while other might require some developmental effort.
