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Magento – The Natural Skincare Company

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by TwilightWebDesign 0n February 27 2009

I have finally completed my first magento website!
A steep learning curve, that has proved to be rewarding smile
I would love to hear what people think about it, so please write any feedback you have, no matter how big or small.

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Magento – Any interest in a .NET shipping system for Magento?

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by RPGShop 0n February 27 2009

We have a shipping application we’ve been using for years (back in the oscommerce days) and have updated it to work with Magento now. It’s a tool we use since we get 30-50 orders a day for 3-10 items on each order… this is a real time saver as it handles the paper work and postage and labels and all. Best of all it’s super fast and there is never any waiting on the application like there is in the web interface of Magento. We use this tool all day every day for years now and it allows one shipper to handle much more then they would otherwise.

Anyway, I was wondering if there was any interest in the community here to see us release this tool for a modest price. I welcome your input.

.NET SHIPPING PROGRAM FEATURES

- Super Fast access to orders status and details
- Printing of PICKING TICKETS to help assemble order for shipping
- Interfacing with scale for package weight
- Emailing of back-order/refund notifications
- Printing of PACKING LIST
- Interface to http://www.endicia.com to handle online postage payment and label printing
- Quick batch updating of product status and prices
- Magento backend shipping system is no longer requied at all
- Interfacing with http://www.affiliatesforall.org

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Magento – New Magento Classic Theme – FREE!

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by TemplatesMaster 0n February 27 2009

Hello community. We have just released our first free theme. It can be found at Magneto Classic Theme. Theme is available under Creative Commons License for commercial and personal use.

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Magento – Not able to set Price after upgrade from 1.1.6 > 1.2.1

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Brady 0n February 27 2009

I upgraded manually and my field to set the product price is now gone. It’s showing up as a mandatory field in the Attrubute Set I’m working with, but does not show up when adding or modify a product. The only way I can modify a product price is from the Product List screen, clicking the check box next to the product and then “Update Attributes”.

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Magento – The Magento Installation Wizard seems to be stuck in the middle of the first download phase

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by trev 0n February 27 2009

I got my host setup ok, and it meets the requirements.

After installing, I browsed to the downloader intro page and clicked “Start the download process”

It has downloaded a bunch of files, looks ok – but now has stopped for over 10 minutes at this line:

“install ok: channel://connect.magentocommerce.com/core/Interface_Install_Default-1.2.1”

Now nothing seems to be happening.
- if i try to refresh my page, it warns me that there are PEAR processes running, and confirms if I really want to navigate away (so i did not)

- but nothig is happening…..any advice please?

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Magento – Upgrade to 1.2.1.1 Major Problem for people using Google Checkout due to Issue #10572

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by chadrodom 0n February 27 2009

I have upgraded to 1.2.1.1.

Under Catalog > Manage Products > the individual product

The wording of the old option was “Not available for purchase with Google Checkout.” and the default setting was (NO)

Now…the option wording is: “Is product available for purchase with Google Checkout” and the default setting is (NO)

My problem is, all of the products that were available to use Google Checkout, are now the not available, and with several thousand products, I’m screwed…until I can go in a dig in the code, which I don’t have time to do right now.

Issue #10572 seems to be the problem here. Yes, it was resolved, unfortunately, I need some form of immediate resolution on this. I guess that is what I get for attempting to be an early adopter.

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Magento – Magento licensing query

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by freelance_uk 0n February 27 2009

I am an indepedent e-commerce consultant currently contracted to a leading UK ecommerce supplier. As part of my remit, I am currently researching a number of open source ecommerce platforms that my client can adopt as a base platform and extend (through in-house development) into a commercial product. Magento is on my list

I would like to know the following:

1. Are there any legal implications or restrictions my client needs to factor if they want to extend the platform?

2. Must any extensions my client creates in house be made available to the wider community? If so, are there any stipulations on the pricing or licensing model they can offer?

3. Can my client charge for customisation, set up etc?

4. Must my client state ‘powered by Magento’ on any site they build using Magento?

I understand a commercial license may address some of these points but there is little information available on your site and nobody answers the Varien phone or returns any messages. There is also a lack of clarity around OSL and AFL and how this would affect the possibilities from a legal perspective.

I’d be grateful for a quick response. My client has significant budget allocated and is ready to go. We just need a few answers in order to make a decision.

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Magento – Problems installing and upgrading

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by trigem 0n February 26 2009

I am testing with a 1.1.8 version installed on my local laptop, Windows Vista.

I am tryng to install some extensions and to upgrade the system to the new 1.2.1 release. I run the process: it dowloads the packages (i can see them in the pearlib/download folder). The process compltes without errors. I managed to clear cache and session deleting files in var subfolders.

When I get back to the admin, I see no changes. I wonder if it is just a system problem (Windows machine) or I am missing something more.

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Magento – Can magento run a Kiva.org type of website?

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Emperor 0n February 26 2009

I am looking to developer a Peer to Peer lending application. I need to know if it is feasible to try and implement this with magento?

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Magento – 3 box webshop

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by cibs 0n February 26 2009

first of al.. thank you for reading this topic

now, this is kinda hard to discribe. but i have been trying to find somwthing relating my situation an just can not seem to find it.

What i am trying to do is as follow.

a webshop with a 3 block front.
1 shows the current product
2 show a select box
3 cashregister(standard functionality so no problem here)

in block 2 people should be able to select en kind of t-shirt. like long sleev, colour. this i want done bij comboboxes
when they select te basicsstuf i want the picture to shop up in block 1 and the price so far in de cashregister.

then they can add more options, like a custom print on the shirt.

witch will show a different picture and will add an amount to the cashregister.

now, my question, is this possible. i can someone set me on the right course?

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