• Paypal Express Review, No shipping quotes and Magento irritation

    by  • November 26, 2011 • 1 Comment

    Turns out that Paypal Express and Magento were not playing very nice. Paypal would accept all the info Magento had to offer when doing a Paypal Express payment type. But it was Magento preventing the sale to go through. On the paypal/express/review/ page there were no shipping options to select causing the “Place Order” button [...]

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    Magento Product Missing Category Drop Down Solved

    by  • November 17, 2011 • 2 Comments

    Yet another interesting discovering has been made in the world of Magento product creation and management. We have a client that was unable to access specific categories from the drop down list in the Category tab on the product edit page in the backend of Magento. The list would show many parent categories with that [...]

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    WordCamp Albuquerque 2011, I was there!

    by  • September 20, 2011 • 0 Comments

    You have probably heard of this little social app called WordPress. I’m not going to say I haven’t, but it wasn’t till earlier this year that I was able to sit down and play with this beauty. But time has not been my friend lately and I have not “really, really” played with WordPress the [...]

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    Magento System Cron Settings . . . and You!

    by  • September 14, 2011 • 10 Comments

    Yeah, this little monster can really keep you up at night. Located in System > Configuration > Advanced > System > Cron (Scheduled Tasks) These settings are very critical to making sure all scheduled tasks fire correctly. What tends to throw your Magento store into a crazy ball of fire breathing bloated monkeys is when [...]

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    Magento Cron and Google Sitemap Auto Generate Mystery Solved

    by  • September 10, 2011 • 5 Comments

    After major testing and messing around with code we were able to figure out on some Magento installs why Google Sitemap would auto-generate and others would not. Turns out to be a combination of conflicts with other cron scheduling, server resources, the Cron Configuration and Google Sitemap cron configuration. Lots of variables. The solution is [...]

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    Twin Tip Nation at it Again

    by  • September 1, 2011 • 0 Comments

    If you are a snow sports enthusiast and like to ski, snowboard, snow bike, snow sled, snow dance, snow play and you live in New Mexico you are in for a treat. Twin Tip Nation, a local outdoor lifestyle company is having their winter Ambassador program for the 2011 – 2012 ski season. If you [...]

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    Authorize.net & Admin Orders in Magento 1.6 Resloved!

    by  • September 1, 2011 • 0 Comments

    In our previous post we had discovered a pretty nasty bug when using a two pass system with Authorize.net. We won’t go into all the details of our previous post but you can read it here. The good news is that the bug has been fixed making edited orders and reorders placed in the Magento [...]

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    Careful with Those Magento Admin Orders when using Authorize.net

    by  • June 15, 2011 • 2 Comments

    Turns out there is a bug in Magento versions 1.5.0.1 and 1.5.1.0. You can take a look at the bug report we submitted here. It also explains what the bug is. http://www.magentocommerce.com/bug-tracking/issue?issue=11709 Basically, what the issue is is that Magento is not capturing funds for orders placed in the admin if the order is a [...]

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