Magento has just released a website holiday preparation guide to ensure your website is prepared for increased traffic for the holiday season. Its a pretty … Read More
After upgrade to EE1.12 or greater, some adminhtml custom buttons that were created for Orders, did not work. Magento changed the way the code was … Read More
Planning a successful Magento Enterprise Upgrade. Magento is a very complex and powerful shopping cart system. Customization comes at a price however, when it comes … Read More
During a very busy holiday weekend, one of our clients running their ecommerce site on Amazon EC2 ran into a rather large snag. Their order email confirmations to customers were being delayed and sometimes not being sent out for hours later.
Recently we had noticed that several of our success messages, such as “Product Name was successfully added to your cart”, where actually being added twice. … Read More
The Magento ecommerce system is a very complicated architecture, fraught with hardware and software tuning, caching systems, and database tuning. On a dedicated server, this can be a challenge to manage on a day to day basis. Moving it to the cloud presents a whole set of factors that will need to be considered.
Magento is a very hardware intensive system that requires extremely fast disk speeds. This is why most Magento hosting providers tout SAN and/or 15k RPM disks on all of their hosting accounts. If you try and run it on an ordinary, shared hosting account, you will be in for a very rude awaking.
As most Magento developers or administrators know, the upgrade process from version to version can be a bit dicey and time consuming. We have run … Read More
While working on a client’s Magento CE cart, we noticed that their diskspace had jumped astronomically over the past few weeks. Coincidentally, this started right … Read More
We are full of quick “tips” this month!
We have been doing some automated product system integrations using a third party data feed and a pre-existing Magento install. The C# Sharp calls to Magento’s API work quite well (seemingly a bit slow), but we ran into a brick wall recently. Essentially, while adding images to a product, they would NOT load automatically into the default view of the store. So on the front-end the images would always appear “broken”.
UPDATE 12/20/2013: We’ve moved a few clients away from the Google Plugin, in favor of the PHP file feeds. The Google Plugin, in our experience has caused a lot of problem and bugs with other plugins and was not consistent (for whatever reason) in reporting the data to Google.
Also, we have added an important note below regarding the “Success” page stance and guest users.
If you run a Magento shop and you depend on Google as part of your sales strategy, the Google Trusted Merchant badge is almost a requirement. From the MediaPost (Source), merchants are seeing upwards of 4% increase in sales just by having the badge on their store.
Do not wait! Contact Us today to have us setup your Google Trusted Store account ASAP.
UPDATE 5/21/2013: There is a plugin available for Magento now (Here). We are not a fan of it, since it forces you to create an FTP account to send your feed. To us that isn’t really a “Feed” then. People have posted mixed results installing it. As for anything, if you need any expert Magento advice do not hesitate to Contact Us
As a part of Googles new trusted store feeds, merchants are required to implement several real-time tracking devices as well as a daily feed for shipments/cancellations.
We found a great post on how to do some of the Magento real time implementations (see: here), but we had to build our shipment and cancellations feeds from scratch. We’ll leave out the gory details of how to test/upload your feeds to Google Merchant, but listed below are code snippets for both of our feeds.
