Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by jaming 0n January 21 2008

I’d like to start using Magento as my new shopping cart going forward.

Every time I start evaluating the capabilities I get stuck on the import process and give up only to try back again hopping it will be improved in the new version. I have about 14,000 products that need to be updated daily with automation. I still don’t see a feasible way to use the import utility it seems incomplete.

I use D&H;distributing and have the requirement to do daily updates with minimal user intervention. I keep getting stuck on certain missing features.

Images:
3 Image files are required per product: thumb, small, large. The product should create thumb and small with GD2 from the large image, similar to other shopping carts. I have never seen an inventory from a drop shipper with three image fields, how would you automate image sizing? Like Virtuemart for example.

Inventory:
Without the ability to import inventory count there is no way to use the cart in production this is a critical missing feature.

Field enclosure (why is it forcing this on me):
In a comma delimited file how can I remove this requirement, it forcing me to use .xml which requires conversion on my end.

Categories: It seems the categories are not importable. This is a necessary feature without it how do you import more than 10-20 products if you have to manually edit them.

Manufactures: I am completely confused, they don’t import, yet I match the fields up. I edited the attribute and changed it from a drop down to a text field the products appear to import manufacture correctly. Is this documented somewhere?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by roskolnikov 0n January 15 2008

So i asked the CTO Yaov , about integrating 2checkout with Magento for all those countries which are not prohibited yet do not have pay pal support. Anyway Roy and the boys are really busy putting out the stable version of Magento, therefore, Yoav asked that i start this thread to catalyze a solution by our community guys.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by harjot 0n January 12 2008

Could someone please help me or if not point me in the right direction because it seems like the magento xml file for dhl shipping is wrong, Where is the file located, and if i would to edit that xml file would it work with magento or would it just be a waste of time. I know dhl international shipping api works but the USA system is different and doesn’t work with magento. I have the xml file from os commerce for there dhl system which works fine, maybe we could adopt there script for dhl and get it working with magento. Could some one give me a response if anyone knows anything about dhl api with magento.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Azkul 0n January 11 2008

When setting a product to the visibility of “Nowhere”, it still shows up in both the search and the /catalog/category list.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Grayson 0n January 09 2008

I’ve created a new interface with a default theme and tweaked some CSS, images, etc. So far that’s working fine. However, when I go into my custom interface and create a non-default theme, none of the changes I make there are reflected in my shop.

Here’s my setup:

app/design/frontend/butterwing_madras/default and skin/frontend/butterwing_madras/default – contain all the files and directories.
app/design/frontend/butterwing_madras/xmas and skin/frontend/butterwing_madras/xmas – contain only the image files I’ve changed so far, under skin/frontend/butterwing_madras/xmas/images.

The custom interface default theme is working fine (butterwing_madras/default); I see my changes there reflected in the store. But I don’t see the changes I make in butterwing_madras/xmas reflected in the store. It’s as if Magento is ignoring the theme and only looking at the default theme.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by SeL 0n January 08 2008

I saw that one can change address format for specific country by running the following command in SQL client:

In my example, address format is specific for France (no region, and postcode before city).

What about providing Magento team with address format of your own country ? So that they can integrate it in the database of stable version.
In my case, i don’t know how i should write down an address for Netherlands (even if it’s not far from France…). It would be better to centralize this, no ?

What do you think Magento team ?

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