We were getting reports that customers were not receiving email for resetting passwords, order confirmations and account creations. We had a test account to verify the email sending problem. The test account would never receive any email correspondence. The Magento logs didn’t record any issues accept where the customer entered the wrong email address....
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Read more →You would think that upgrading to Paypal’s “Pro” edition would come with a PROfessional experience! But I am writing to let you know that is simply not the case . . . well partly. We have a client that was using Paypal Website Payments Standard and they asked if we could upgrade their Magento...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →Looks like Ebay has agreed to acquire Magento. Here is Magento’s very own FAQ on it all: http://www.magentocommerce.com/images/uploads/Magento_eBay_FAQ_External.pdf Check out these articles for more in-depth info: http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/comments/ebay-agrees-to-acquire-magento/ http://gigaom.com/2011/06/06/ebay-acquires-magento-builds-a-commerce-os/ http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ebay-to-acquire-ecommerce-platform-firm-magento-2011-06-06 http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chibrkbus-ebay-buys-rest-of-ecommerce-platform-magento-20110606,0,7369091.story You’d think the LA times would post something? I guess all of us who have spent countless hours learning and developing for Magento or...
Read more →If you are like me and have noticed the subtle changes in 1.5.0.1 most of them are good changes that give you that happy aaaaah like feeling inside. Well one of those happy changes seemed to have affected the way Magento formats customer address data for pdf usage. It’s not one of those store...
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