Archive: ecommerce

If you are thinking of adding a confirmation of e-mail address to the front-end registration pages of your store e.g the Checkout billing page or the customer account registration, the little snippets below could be of use to you For the Checkout billing page 1. Locate the magento checkout billing page (billing.phtml) which can be [...]

Thanks to the acquisition of Magento by eBay, one of the major extension developers, Ess, now has an agreement with eBay/Magento to provide their integration extension free. Here's their site and here's the extension on Magento Connect It's also worth knowing that the extension is avaiable on Magento Go, so if you're looking for hosted-only, [...]

On occasion, google and other tools will tell you there's errors with your sitemap.xml file and not give you the information of what exactly is wrong, so we wrote this little tool to crawl the sitemap and check for 301 redirections and 404 errors. It is a noddy file and should have much more error [...]

It may be obvious but after a discussion in the office we decided to put together a simple guideline for getting into e-commerce. This is a list of things that you need to do in order to start selling from your own web site. Get a Domain Name These are so cheap yet so fundamentally [...]

If you need to update a large number of rows on a single table then your first reaction may be to write a loop that updates one row at a time. Of course if the table is large then this can result in a very large number of SQL queries. Taking a bit of inspiration [...]

So now that everyone uses Google Shopping, Google are making life difficult for the merchants and they all have to jump through hoops. The current push from Google is enforcing some things that are very difficult for small companies to conform with :- * EAN Numbers - This is the BIG one, Google are making [...]

I've recently had to upgrade a shop that lists products on amazon. They wanted to automatically add new products and keep their inventory up to date, so I set up a feed generating system and installed AMTU to send the data through to amazon. After putting together a test run I saw that the Inventory [...]

I have just finished working on a nice little project for Magento API for our client CNG Florist Sundries. The Aim of the project was to make Magento API use SKU's when pulling out the product information. By default Magento API accept a variable productId which can either be a product id or sku. The [...]

Magento Site Upgrade Kevin Mayhew Ltd. required their Magento site to be upgraded from Enterprise 1.7 to the current release. They are looking to do this because the current site is having problems with some of the functionality which can only be correct by upgrading an extension and the extensions latest version is not compatibility [...]

We are now working on developing a new Magento based e-commerce site for a UK based company called Dressnimpress. Our client specialises in designer clothing for both male and female and will be targeting a world wide marketplace for selling designer clothes covering all the latests and famous brands. The site will be developed from [...]