Category / E-Commerce

Android Magento mobile boilerplate

Android Magento mobile boilerplate

Recently I realized that there are many questions regarding my “Develop your own Magento mobile application” article, and many new articles need to be written to answer them all properly and to guide you further through developing this kind of an application.

That is why I would like to present you an Android application, developed for the purpose of utilizing Magento’s XMLConnect and exploring possible modularity of the future application – mainly only a concept.
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Magento certification, why bother?

Magento certification, why bother?

Few days ago Magento announced their plans for Magento certification program. As they stated, initial round of certification will be a Beta exam, held on Innovate Developer Conference in San Francisco, October 12 and 13! Those who pass the exam based on the Beta exam analysis, will actually earn the official Magento Developer certification. Final reward for those who pass the exam? Read more

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Utilizing Magento Power within Facebook

Utilizing Magento Power within Facebook

We bring you a short article on a new platform that actually enables you to use Magento within Facebook – we’ve been in touch with the Sortal team, the brains behind this, and what they have to present is very exciting – we’re still checking it out in detail, but we wanted to give them a chance to present their platform in a guest blog post to everyone following Inchoo as it looks very promising. So, make sure to read on…  Read more

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Creating your own web shop – Part 1: Where to start

Creating your own web shop – Part 1: Where to start

Creating your own web shop can be a tedious task, both technically and time consuming. Not to mention there are tens of quality PHP based web shop systems out there available for free. One of the best if you ask me is Magento, which exceeds the term web shop system by even bigger term “platform”. However, regardless of how some much a given system/platform is feature rich there are always those special clients with special requests which exceed the possibilities of even the mightiest eCommerce systems/platforms out there. Read more

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Customer reviews and their influence on conversion rate and search engine CTR

Customer reviews and their influence on conversion rate and search engine CTR

Customer’s reviews are a powerful tool that strongly affect your online store’s conversion rates and – if implemented properly – click through rates in your SERPs. This article will cover just how much do they affect it in numbers and point out some of the best practices in acquiring these reviews and implementing them properly into your store. Read more

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Magento’s “Quote/Order/Invoice” workflow

Magento’s “Quote/Order/Invoice” workflow

The purpose of this article is to shed some light onto the flow of things that happen behind the scene in the process of creating and later invoicing order in Magento. In order to properly code new functionality surrounding order creation process, one must have a solid understanding of that process otherwise you may impose some serious issues on to the system via custom coding around orders. Read more

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HowTo – “Google +1″ extension for Magento

HowTo – “Google +1″ extension for Magento

Embedding Google’s +1 button is pretty easy and straightforward. All it takes is to include 2 code snippets in your web page. One goes in the header of the page, and the other one goes to wherever where you want the +1 button to render. To do so all you need is to follow the official Google guideline outlined here.

With that in mind, let’s build us Magento extension, preferably the non-obtrusive one. Read more

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Develop your own Magento mobile application

Develop your own Magento mobile application

Hi everybody.

Do you want to develop your own Magento mobile application?

Great! I’ll give you some pointers on how to get a grasp on Magento’s XMLConnect, an extension that serves Magento Mobile application.
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Enhanced Catalog Product Grid – Custom Attribute Filter

Enhanced Catalog Product Grid – Custom Attribute Filter

Sometimes one needs to have additional filtering criteria inside of a catalog’s product grid. Here is an extension that adds custom product attribute to search filter. You can choose to use any product attribute and it will be shown in the product grid.

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We renewed our Magento Silver Partnership Status

We renewed our Magento Silver Partnership Status

Recent acquisition of Magento rattles the cage of Magento community these days. The news brought some level of unsettlement to the souls of Magento developers. Some of them switched the panic mode on and even wondered whether it is time to leave the ship.

However, when the dust settled, people realize that not so much wil change. Most important fact is that X.Commerce will not be a platform. It is just a concept that wraps different solutions and technologies together. Therefore, Magento will stay is quite similar shape and goals as it is. In the light of these events, we renewed our partnership program because we strongly believe Magento is and will be the primal eCommerce platform in years to come.
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