Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by bridgingthegap2 on January 30 2010

Sorry if this has previously been answered but after an extensive search I can’t find it.

I currently use the following settings:

In Admin – Prices are input excluding VAT (to make it easier to change if the Govt choose to change VAT again) – with the box checked to advise that the goods are taxable.

On the Web – Prices are shown including VAT

I want to export my products to Google Base including VAT – at the moment it is sending the price excluding VAT and as such is giving the customer a false impression of the price…

I read somewhere that someone had to ‘hack’ the core files – but I’m not sure how to do this or even if this is required.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by HELP ME on January 29 2010

You can add Categories so that they are not under the Default Category. They will be at the same level as Default. However, only Categories under Default will automatically appear in the Navigation Menu. If a Category is not under Default, you will need to create some other way for your customers to get to that Category.

Do you know how to get to that Category?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by PaulE on January 28 2010

Is there a way to let every store use the same increment number for orders/invoices/packing slips etc. Magento now creates per store a new increment but I just want to have a global increment which will be used for every store inside my magento installation.

I couldn’t find anything about this on the web so far.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by screege on January 27 2010

I have run magento now for 1 year, I have had a very bad problem with it which I do not seem to fix. I sell watches and lets say I have a bulova brand watch which its sub category is bangle, now I make the product, make the bulova category anchor and make a sub category named bangle, when I add a product I add it on the bangle sub category or even both bulova and bangle. The thing is if that the product is displayed in my front page or even from the search in the upper left corner where it should say
If I go to bulova category and display all products and then I click on the product it will only display the following:

Start > Bulova > Item

Still there is the subcategory missing the only way I have seen it can display the whole path is by going on the menu or selectin the layered filter Bangle then it will display correctly:

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by merigold on January 25 2010

I am working on magento shipping methods with conditions like :

IF customer buy 1 product only , then shipping charges $7.00
IF customer buy more then 1 product, then shipping charges becomes $7.00 + $2.50 each product added in the cart.

Can anyone pls show me the way how to do this?

I try to resolve this using Shopping Cart Rules but not exactly works what I required.

any help would be appreciated.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by digitalcomputernetwork on January 23 2010

I want to know how to use external hosted product images. I have about 2000 items to import. The perfect solutions would allow me to import the category, product, and use external images. Im thinking that it might be possible to add a field to the import process that stores the image url in the database. Then I would go change all the codes that referenced the old image-file structure. I would try to make it similar to the way that the product name or category is stored and referenced.

I cant do this myself but it sounds like it would work. I hope someone smarts finds this post.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by tomas123 on January 22 2010

i want to create multiple website (domain1.com , domain2.com etc) to use the same magento installation and same product and category structure?

all the other should be different and the two stores should not be sharing sales or customers

i also want for different admin to manage these stores. but that the admin would have limited access to customers, sales, CMS and manage the categories names etc.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by marowi on January 21 2010

is it possible to set the order status for paypal payment from “processing” to “pending”? It would help us if every order could starts with the status “pending”, wheter the customer has already paid via paypal.

And we have a problem with the cancelling of already completed orders, for example if the customer returns the product. In this case we are not able to switch the status from “complete” to “cancelled”. After cancelling the status is still “complete”…

Is there a solution for this?

We are using Magento Version 1.3.2.3

Best Regards,

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by piquet on January 20 2010

The site uses onepage for checkout. I want to be able to retrieve a few aspects of an order by the time I reach success – particularly, the total cost of the order just completed and the method used for payment.

I know I can get to the Order number
with $this->getOrderId()
but I am not strong on the whole magento model. I would like to be able to do something similar: $this->getOrderTotal()

Please advise how to go about the steps that would allow this.

Also, I have read much but do not have not managed a strong understanding of the whole model. Any pointers to good beginner-developer tutorials in magento would be appreciated.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by PG Branding on January 19 2010

I am wanting to update the Product’s Attributes using the XML Spreadsheet Upload.
Is it possible to submit and upload the XML Spreadsheet with only the product’s sku and attribute_set details?

Please ask any questions if you need a more detailed explanation of my question.

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Magento – Multi-select attribute questions

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by zerdox on January 18 2010

I have a multi-select attribute that has around 600 options. I noticed that when i went to edit a product and selected all of the options then saved and went back, only about 200 of them were selected. So is there a maximum number of options that can be used or did I just find a bug?

Also, with this same attribute, I am trying to dynamically populate a drop down select on my home page that will list all of the attributes options and each one would link to search results and bring up all the products for that option.

These are two things that are holding me up from going live. Please help I cant find a straight forward answer anywhere!!!

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by cesius on January 16 2010

I’m going to begin my first project with magento doing the development locally with xampp. I want to keep a copy of the project in assembla including the database. Is there another way to do it than doing a database dump manually with phpmyadmin and copying it in the folder of the project?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by PaulCS on January 15 2010

Here is a question about shipping charges. We’re new to Magento, so please excuse if this is a dumb question.

Although we ship with UPS, we don’t want to get involved with programming / connecting to UPS APIs etc. That’s not something we’re particularly good at, unfortunately…

We just need to charge delivery cost based on weight of the products and the destination country – we ship various products from The Netherlands to almost all of Europe. A fixed rate doesn’t work. So, is there a simple extension that allows me to pre-define shipping cost data manually in the store database and that picks the right rate at checkout?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by d4ufnky1 on January 14 2010

I am about to begin the mammoth task of adding Associated Products to my configurable products in the admin panel. I am adding the Small, Medium & Large sized simple products to my master configurable products and have over 1600 configurable products to add these to. I am asking if there is a way in which this can be done in bulk or via sql directly in the database rather than clicking on each individual product  choosing the attribure  selecting Associated Product searching for the relevant simple product  saving and then moving onto the next one?

If anyone could offer any advice on this it would be greatly appreciated.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by HyekiM on January 13 2010

We are swapping our current backoffice system to Magento – A function we require and need to have but can’t seem to find within Magento is a ‘Stock value report’ Is there any way to pull a stock report that includes information such as: Total stock value based on the cost price?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by PzSniper on January 12 2010

If you purchase items over the Internet from a supplier within your state, you are supposed to pay sales tax. This would apply, for example, if you buy shoes from a Florida retailer and you reside in Florida. I know how to calculate the appropriate tax for my state PLUS i need to add another 3.7% for ppl choose PayPal as payment method.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Highwayman on January 11 2010

I have Google Checkout successfully installed on my site, but I have an issue with the shipping – I want it to inherit the same shipping rates that I have set in my store in the same way Paypal does. However this is not the case.

I see the section ‘Google Checkout Shipping – Merchant Calculated’ and have tried to use this but I don’t get how it works. Can anyone with Google Checkot experience point me in the right direction? I have attached a screenshot of the problem.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by thomen on January 09 2010

how would i do a check for if current page is blah then do something? like is there a nice translation from the current page node id to something?

i don’t want to use the url example given previously as too many variables with the url

OR

is there a way i can set an attribute on a page

basically what im trying to do is show or hide a floated cart panel on certain pages..
so i wanted to set something up like cartVisible or if page is blah then don’t render the cart panel

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by race1 on January 08 2010

I modified cms pages a lot, but recently it stops saving pages and instead browser tells me “server closed connection”, or “webpage is not available” or similar. And db contains broken page, I modified main cms page so site landing page is completely broken. Luckily I had correct page content in clipboard and I was forced to fix page content in db admin software.

Now I can’t edit cms pages. I tried to restart Apache, use different browsers. What is it, could you help me? Other admin pages seems work fine.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Aggror on January 07 2010

I’m trying to get a shop with multicurrency enabled. In the configuration I’ve selected the currencies: pound, euro and us dollar.

In the frontend I can choose the currency between dollar an euro, but not the british pound.

If I would select only pound in the backend config (only 1 currency), then all products show the pound currency.

Does anybody have a solution to this?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by tmas73 on January 06 2010

I am close to freaking out, I am trying since days to figure this out, i am new to magento so i am not used to work a little backwards ( no offense).

All I am trying to do is show my categories on the Home Page (Default page when you click on the magento logo), just plain categories without any products.

How can this be done, please help.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Graye on January 05 2010

I have created a custom module that is basically a second ‘contact us’ page that I want to use as an ‘trade account’ page. Users can fill in a bunch of info and request a trade account. I have created the module and all is working with regards to the form… however, I am having some trouble with the layout.

Having done a bit of research, it looks like my problem is due to the default handle being used, though if I try to change or add a new handle to the xml document, nothing seems to happen.

Can anyone give any tips or point me in the right direction for creating a new handle that is unique to a page so I can customize the layout?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by rajbrades on January 04 2010

I’ve added a new navigation menu item called “vote”. This is essentially a limited time link for a competition and I would like to draw attention to this link by adding a star or “new” image/badge.
I’ve been searching the forums but can’t seem to find how I would do this on ONE of the links in the navigation categories ??

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by BalJassal on January 02 2010

I am searching for any clue to change Onepage Checkout Page.

In simple way onepage checkout has steps :

Billing Information  shipping Information  shipping Method  Payment Method  Make Payment

But I want to swap Billing n Shipping steps. it should be like this :

Shipping Information  Billing Information shipping Method  Payment Method  Make Payment

There should be a checkbox on Shipping Info form, “Billing Address is same”, If customer click tht then this goes to Shippig Method. Otherwise customer has to enter Billing Info.

I have search a lot for this but fail. even I try to change few files but it affects my checkout badly .

can anyone give me idea to work on this?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by BalJassal on January 01 2010

can anyone help me out. I have Aitoc layered navigation pro installed and I’m trying to have this for for each category section instead of one navigation on the home page covering all the categories.

I’ve got this result the product catalogue is appearing twice, its the bottom catalogue that updates with the ajax search. Can anyone tell me whats going on and where I should look to fix this? I only want the bottom catalogue to appear.

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