Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by chinesedream 0n October 27 2008

Right now, if a user accidentally adding the same product to wishlist or compare more than one time, the message still shows: ‘Product Universal Camera Charger successfully added to compare list’.

Though the item isn’t duplicated in the compare list, I think it works better if Magento warns the user that the same product has already added to the compare list. A small UI non critical issue but if it gets fixed/improved, will no doubt improve quality of Magento as a whole – small things do add up and when it comes to ‘quality and excellency’, small detail counts smile

That said, the differences between good designer and best designer is that the later pay attention to details. This goes to software too I believe, poor UI kills the software, and Magento has quite a number of UI issues that really need to improve.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by RoyRubin 0n October 27 2008

We are pleased to announce a licensing change from OSL 3.0 to AFL 3.0 (Academic Free License) for the following Magento Connect extensions:

- Blue Skin
- Blank Theme
- iPhone Optimized Theme
- Modern Theme
- All Language Packs

What does this mean to me?

With this change, it is now clear that modifications made to the extensions listed, although they are derivative works of the extension under copyright law, need not be disclosed to anyone. This license is identical to OSL 3.0 except it does not require you to disclose the source code of derivative works. (See section 1(c) of AFL 3.0.)

The licensing for Magento software as distributed by Varien (outside of the aforementioned files and third party libraries) continues to be licensed under OSL 3.0 (http://opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php) with no changes whatsoever. Further licensing relaxation is expected as of the next release (1.1.7), expected by the end of November.

It is important to note that changes made to the files licensed under OSL 3.0 are considered derivative works. As such, you must disclose any changes you make to the OSL 3.0-licensed copyrighted works whenever you distribute Magento or make your Magento store or software available over the web to a third party. (See sections 1(c) and 5 of OSL 3.0.). For example, modifications made to the Magento Core files and distributed must be licensed under OSL 3.0 and made publicly available.

For organization seeking to waive the OSL 3.0 license requirement to disclose such changes for derivative works, Varien offers a Magento commercial license. Varien’s dual-licensing for Magento is based on the principle of quid pro quo – Latin for “something for something” or “a favor for a favor.” In return of the advantages you gain from using Magento, we ask that you contribute your changes back to the Magento community under the same license. Alternatively, as mentioned, you can obtain a commercial license from Varien which waives the requirement to disclose such changes.

Varien’s OSL 3.0 and AFL 3.0 licenses do not require you to disclose independent works, including extensions that you create yourself or that you license from a third party even if they override functional classes in the Magento Core—as long as those works aren’t copies or derivative works of Varien’s copyrighted Magento software.

Varien encourages participation by both open source and commercial parties in the Magento platform. We offer Magento under OSI-approved open source licenses. We encourage you to build unique online commerce sites using our software and we are excited to foster a community process and a software architecture that permits your private and commercial extensions to be combined freely with Magento.

Questions?

A new licensing forum is now available to discuss licensing issues. We welcome your feedback and appreciate your continued support.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by arecuk 0n October 24 2008

For organization seeking to waive the OSL 3.0 license requirement to disclose such changes for derivative works, Varien offers a Magento commercial license.

any other information about commercial license?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by jackie.d 0n October 22 2008

How do I upgrade via the Magento Connect Manager? All I see is “Install New Extensions” and “Manage Existing Extensions”.

Am I missing something? I feel ike this should be easy.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by tjscgroup 0n October 20 2008

OK, so I was hoping to start using Magento in a live test environment (was planning on launching a small shop just to discover want needs working on before moving main shops to Magento in nine months or so) but I just cannot figure out how I can due to the way Sales/Invoice/Credits is currently working.

I know this has been mentioned before but none of the forum comments seem to help me so I thought I would start another topic…

From my understanding…

Orders are set as “Pending” if automatic payment has not been received (i.e. an offline payment like purchase order). However, orders are set as “Processing” if an automatic payment has been received (i.e. an online payment like Protx Direct)

So far so good…

First problem:
- the [business] customer who selected purchase order wants an invoice before sending payment…but if I create an invoice via admin, admin assumes payment has been received. I just want admin to allow me to print an invoice that I can post, then put customer into a status called “awaiting payment”, after customer has paid, then I need to go back into the admin and tell the system payment has been received in part/full.

So, lets forget about offline payments for the moment and assume that all customers pay straight away (if only)…

I click ship and send the item, status changes to “complete”…I’m happy

Second problem:
- the customer calls me up and says “it was delivered late blah blah blah, I don’t want to pay for shipping”. I say no problem, I’ll refund the shipping charge…off I go to the admin, click credit memo and find that there is no way of part refunding the customer! Even if I wanted to fully refund them, the order status stays as “complete” rather than changing to a more sensible “Refunded” or similarly named status.

How is everybody getting around this problem in their live shops at the moment? Also what use is the “On Hold” status?

Basically, I feel more statuses need to be added, such as:
Pending (offline payment selected during checkout)
Verifying (online payment selected during checkout but order is awaiting approval)
Awaiting payment
Ready to dispatch when stock arrives
Ready to dispatch
Ready to dispatch – Picked
Ready to dispatch – Packed
Part dispatched (rest to follow) and payment received
Part dispatched (rest to follow) and awaiting payment
Part dispatched (rest to follow) and awaiting return
Part dispatched (rest to follow) and part refunded
Dispatched and payment received
Dispatched and awaiting payment
Dispatched and awaiting return
Dispatched and part refunded
Returned
Returned and refunded
Returned and part refunded
Part returned
Part returned and refunded
Part returned and part refunded
Cancelled

I could obviously get my developers to hack a fix together but this seems like a fundamental flaw of Magento that is bound to be fixed in future releases so I am loathed to spend time thinking and fixing this just for the Magento core team to release their own solution.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by callumbush 0n October 04 2008

We are really surprised that there isn’t a module yet for integration with NOCHEX. I greated a NOCHEX group to try to persuade someone to do this, but it has been a few weeks and noone has shown interest to do this.

Is someone able to create this?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by RoyRubin 0n October 01 2008

After two smashing Magento Meetup events in Frankfurt and Paris, we are happy to host our first US based Meetup at none other than the Magento HQ in Los Angeles, CA. We’ll be joining forces with Mixergy which organizes events and publishes how-to’s for web startups.

In attendance will be the guys and gals behind Magento as well as folks from the Los Angeles tech community. If you’ve ever wondered what its like running an open source business, don’t miss this event. We are expecting well over 100 attendees, so make sure to RSVP to reserve your spot. We hope to see you then!

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by RoyRubin 0n October 1 2008

After two smashing Magento Meetup events in Frankfurt and Paris, we are happy to host our first US based Meetup at none other than the Magento HQ in Los Angeles, CA. We’ll be joining forces with Mixergy which organizes events and publishes how-to’s for web startups.

In attendance will be the guys and gals behind Magento as well as folks from the Los Angeles tech community. If you’ve ever wondered what its like running an open source business, don’t miss this event. We are expecting well over 100 attendees, so make sure to RSVP to reserve your spot. We hope to see you then!

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