E-Commerce • Inchoo

Category / E-Commerce

How to translate product names in Magento through .csv files

25th MAY 2011 | Posted by Ivan Galambos in Checkout, Frontend, Magento, Orders, Products, Programming

Let’s add to cart one item from our Magento community edition. If you have MCE with sample data you can visit something like this: http://loc.magento.com/sony-vaio-vgn-txn27n-b-11-1-notebook-pc.html?___store=german&___from_store=default
Add item to your cart and you’ll see success message “Sony VAIO VGN-TXN27N/B 11.1″ Notebook PC was added to your shopping cart.”. Now if we add in our .csv file for de_DE translations something like this:

"%s was added to your shopping cart.","%s wurde zum Warenkorb hinzugefügt."
"Sony VAIO VGN-TXN27N/B 11.1" Notebook PC","Sony Deutsch VAIO VGN-TXN27N/B"

If you have already setup all required things for “German” translations, then try again buy same product and you will not be able to see our translated “success message”. It’s not only because of “"” in product name.
Read more

Count on us to Design your Magento Go Store

23rd MAY 2011 | Posted by Lyssandro Reis in Design, Magento, Magento GO

Magento Go is a good idea for startups getting acquainted with online retail and to get things moving at low cost. The platform offers a clear path to growth and access to advanced features, such as bundled products, cross promotion and coupons with no need of development whatsoever.

The good news is that, besides being a Magento Silver Partner, we are also part of a selective list of Design Providers endorsed by Magento…
Read more

Doing Business with Croatian Software Exporters

3rd MAY 2011 | Posted by Aron Stanic in E-Commerce

Last Friday Inchoo attended the first official meeting of a newly established association of Croatian independent software exporters – CISEx. The meeting was held in Zagreb with 40 odd members of the association present. Read more

Palic beauty and the Magento beasts

13th APR 2011 | Posted by Aron Stanic in E-Commerce, Fun & Events

This is a short story of how a bunch of Inchooers attended an ecommerce conference in Palic, Serbia. It was legen – wait for it… Read more

How to increase Magento sales? With one simple extension!

1st APR 2011 | Posted by Mladen Lotar in Extensions, Magento

Carl Dwyer/sxc.hu

After a week of discussion, we’ve decided to release a free Magento extension that we’ve already tried on one of our premium clients that we can’t name due to NDA restrictions and itself increased sales by astonishing 1893%!
Read more

How to add Currency selector to Magento’s header

31st MAR 2011 | Posted by Mladen Lotar in Configuration, Frontend, Magento, Programming

Since Magento has built in functionality for currency, this article will be pretty much straightforward. I’ll explain how to do it step by step. So you might say it’s a tutorial for beginners.
Read more

Facebook “Friends Already Connected” functionality

30th MAR 2011 | Posted by Mladen Lotar in Extensions, Frontend, Magento, Programming

I had a request to implement Facebook “Friends Already Connected” functionality together with “Facebook Connect” into Magento’s registration form. For Facebook Connect, I used old Ivan Weiler’s extension as base. And now let me guide you through the process. And note at stat. This is strictly developer orientated article, there’s no final solution.
Read more

Layered navigation, but not quite

30th MAR 2011 | Posted by Iva Korlevic in Magento, Programming

Recently I got a chance to rewrite Magento’s layered navigation standard functionality. The request was very specific as the client wanted to keep all of the “filters” visible all the time. For example if you wish to filter your results by Color (let’s say you have yellow, green, red, blue and magenta) products are filtered but the layered navigation displays all filters. This way a costumer can re-filter the products in current category without the need to return to the category view.

How to add new custom category attribute in Magento

28th MAR 2011 | Posted by Vedran Subotic in Configuration, Database, Extensions, Integration, Magento

Sometimes you need to extend functionality of Magento categories. There is several ways to do that, I will show you how it can be done.
You can do that by modifying and adding data into some of tables directly, but it can be waste of time if you don’t know what you are doing.
This post will describe how you can add new custom category attribute in your Magento store via sql_setup script.

Google Rich Snippets in Magento

23rd MAR 2011 | Posted by Vedran Subotic in Frontend, Integration, Magento, Marketing, Products

Probably most of the store owners would like to have their products to be highlighted among other search results in search engines.
Google’s Rich snippets can help you to get desired results. All you need is to integrate them in your Magento store.
Read more