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Magento Shipping Table Rates

prolutions — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 02:57:53 +0000

If your frustrated trying to setup Magento’s shipping rates table here are a couple pointers:

Website ID: (typically this is the value 1)
Country ID: This is a 2 digit value, I’ve seen a lot of posts referencing a 3 digit ID, if your setting up the United States the value is ‘US’
Destination Zip: Make sure your import hasn’t stripped off the zeros for zips with leading zeros
Condition Names: The values for this column are: ‘package_weight’,’package_value’, or ‘package_qty’
Condition Value: Set the value to 0.0100 if your trying to enter zero. A zero based value may not work because of the free shipping logic in the system

Hope this helps, I had to figure out a lot of these the hard way

eBay Prostores rumored to be closing, moving to Magento?

prolutions — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:56:36 +0000

A recent article on eCommerce Bytes titled Magento Go Leaving ProStores Users in the Lurch? suggests that with the recent purchase of Magento by eBay that eBay is looking to migrate its current Prostores merchants to the Magento platform, the Magento Go platform specifically.

Moving to a new ecommerce platform can seem like a daunting task but the move to Magento would be well worth it for Prostores merchants. Magento is now the fastest growing ecommerce platform and the development community and software third-party add-ons are the best in the industry. Its a given that eBay will slowly move away from Prostores and steer its merchants toward Magento.

Are you looking to make the move? Prolutions offers a well-defined and cost effective ecommerce platform migration process. Contact us today to learn how we can move your eBay Prostores website to Magento.

Download Magento 2.0

prolutions — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:55:30 +0000

Magento has begun pushing an early development copy of Magento 2.0 up to Github – as a Magento professional developer and integrator we are very excited to get our hands on the early release and see many of the major changes coming in this major release. To get a copy of Magento 2.0 visit this link to Githhub.

New Magento Connect for Magento Go

prolutions — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:31:03 +0000

Some existing news out of the Innovate conference with the announcement that Magento Go Merchants can now leveragethe full power of Magento with extensions. For the first time, merchants using Magento Go – the Software as a Service solution for small and emerging businesses – can access extensions that enhance their stores.

The key benefits of using extensions include:

Flexibility: Magento extensions enable merchants to cuztomize and enhance every area of your store – front and back end, integrations with other web services, marketing tools, themes and more.
Simplicity: The New Magento Connect enables merchants to purchase and activate many of these extensions with just a few clicks.
Confidence: “Trusted Extensions” let you know that Magento has reviewed the extension and found that it meets or exceeds specifications for security and performance, and that the extension comes from a trusted developer who has agreed to provide regular updates and technical support for the extension.

Need help installing extensions on your website? Contact us today for a free, no obligation estimate for assistance with your installations.

Magento Developer Certification

prolutions — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:30:30 +0000

Magento is announcing at the Innovate conference that they will be offering certification in the Magneto platform. Prolutions welcomes the certification as an opportunity to prove our expertise in the Magento platform. Prolutions has sent all of their developers to Magento’s certified training courses over the past year to ensure they are up to date on the latest features Continue Reading

Latest Release of the Magento Platform Delivers New Site Management Tools

prolutions — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:29:55 +0000

A new release of the Magento platform, Magento Enterprise 1.11, Magento Professional 1.11 and Community 1.6, addresses two important priorities for merchants – site management and increasing revenue. We are providing merchants with a number of tools that help them better manage their online business with data management tools and greater ability to effectively administer all aspects of an order. As always, we strive to develop features that improve the consumer experience and help increase conversion rates for merchants. This new release also includes features that make it easier for consumers to shop and manage their orders.

Return merchandise authorization (RMA) – administrative capabilities that support customer and merchant administration of returns, support for partial order and individual item returns, customer notifications, support for multiple shipping methods and much more. Learn more about this feature.
Persistent Shopping - customers are able to start shopping and maintain items of interest in their shopping cart, wish lists and recently compared items between browsing sessions and from device to device using a long-term cookie established for browser/device combinations. Together with customer segmentation capabilities, merchants are able to increase customer satisfaction and tailor offerings and promotions for higher order value. Learn more about this feature.
Shipping integration with label printing – support for all major carriers; labels can be created and printed for new and existing shipments and multiple labels can be printed for select shipments and orders.
Configurable order tracking widget – customers can track status of existing orders and returns without the need to log in to their account.
Scheduled Import/Export - import and export product catalog data either locally or from remote FTP servers. Merchants can configure for error handling, status reporting and backup.
Price and promotion permission - merchants can create and control multiple admin roles for reading and editing prices and promotions.
Refactoring multiple databases – allows developers to extend module development to different databases by accessing abstract RDBMS with a set of routines; developers can reduce code and logic duplication, maintain backward compatibility, improve maintainability of code and make it easier to make changes and add new features.
Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) – allows merchants to provide their customers with special promotional/sales pricing while adhering to pricing rules set by manufacturers. Merchants choose how and when to display special pricing – in shopping cart only, prior to order confirmation or on gesture at the catalog level.
Interface improvements for Paypal’s Order Payment Action within Magento.
The improvements include:

Additional parameters during express checkout
Updates to Magento order creation
Updates to Magento invoice creation
Special Brazilian Support

Magento Now Supports Facebook Open Graph 2.0

prolutions — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:25:47 +0000

Magento recently announced at the Innovate conference that Magento now supports Facebook Open Graph 2.o. This is a great marketing tool for your online store. You can provide your customers the ability “Want” or “Own” own your product. Once the select one of these options information about their Want or Own is posted on their Facebook Wall, driving social based traffic to your website. The social buttons can be easily installed on product and catalog pages and are provided as a Magento core extension for Magento Community and Enterprise.

For assistance in installing this great feature on your Magento based website please contact us today for a free, no obligation estimate.