Magento PCI Compliance Webinar
PCI Compliance Webinar
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 (11:00 AM -Noon, PDT)
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Please join Magento™ and Coalfire for this special PCI Compliance Webinar. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of requirements designed to ensure that all companies that process, store or transmit credit card information maintain a secure environment. No matter what size your business is, you must maintain PCI compliance or risk fines. There are many advantages to having PCI compliance, including letting customers know that you protect sensitive information.
Topics include:
- Advanced education about PCI DSS requirements and how they affect Magento merchants.
- Learn about the 12 requirements for PCI compliance validation and the details that every merchant should know to attain and sustain compliance.
- Discover details about the PCI DSS process and a cost-effective solution for protecting your business.
- Coalfire will also address your questions about PCI compliance.
This is the second webinar in this series on PCI Compliance. To view the first webinar “PCI Compliance 101 for Magento Merchants” please visit the webinar archive page of the Magento website.
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This PDF includes 203 Pages and around 13MB size, Below are the Table of Contents of the PDF.
Table of Contents
Magento Wiki Table of Contents. 9
CHAPTER 1 What is Magento. 15
Elements and Terminologies of Magento Sites. 15
Magento’s Architecture. 16
Chapter 2: Getting Started with Magento. 22
System Requirements. 22
Downloading Magento. 22
Installing and Configuring Magento. 23
Downloader Install 23
Default Install 24
Appendix: PHP5 CGI Setup. 25
Configuration during Installation. 28
Troubleshooting Installation. 28
Introduction to the Administrative Panel 28
Creating Multiple Websites and Stores. 28
Permissions. 29
Cache Management. 31
Chapter 3: Set Up Your Catalog. 32
Overview of Catalog Concepts. 32
Setting Up Defaults. 33
Creating Categories. 36
Assigning products at the category level 38
Assigning designs at the category level 39
Using static blocks with categories. 40
Attributes. 40
Creating an Attribute. 40
Manage Label / Options. 43
Managing Attribute Sets. 44
Creating an Attribute Set. 44
Manage Products. 47
Setting up configuration and Attributes. 48
Creating a Simple Product. 48
Creating a Configurable Product. 56
Creating a Grouped Product. 60
Related Products, Up-sells, Cross-sells. 62
Product Comparisons. 64
Layered Navigation. 65
Assigning Designs at the product level 67
Stock Management. 67
Creating stock management default options. 67
Creating stock management on the product level 69
Batch Updates. 70
URL Rewrites. 72
Configuration Settings. 72
Editing URL Rewrites. 73
Creating URL Rewrites. 74
Chapter 4: Get Ready for Selling. 75
Checkout Process. 75
Adding New Order RSS to Google. 81
Localization Settings. 82
Locale Settings. 82
Currency. 82
Taxes. 84
Tax Rates. 84
Tax Classes. 86
Tax Rules. 87
Shipping Options. 88
Shipping Settings. 88
Shipping Methods. 90
Accepting Money. 102
Payment Methods and PayPal Accounts. 102
Zero Subtotal Checkout. 105
Check/Money Order. 105
Purchase Order (PO). 107
Authorize.net. 108
PayflowPro. 109
PayPal Express. 111
PayPal Direct. 112
PayPal Standard. 113
PayPal UK Express. 115
PayPal UK Direct. 116
Google Checkout. 117
Chapter 5: Promotions, Marketing and Content Pages. 124
Customer Personalization. 124
Wishlist. 124
Compare Products. 125
Recently Viewed/Compared Products. 126
New Products. 127
RSS Feeds. 128
Tier Pricing. 129
Catalog Price Rules. 130
Rule Information. 131
Conditions. 131
Actions. 132
Shopping Cart Price Rules. 133
Rule Information. 134
Conditions. 135
Actions. 135
Newsletters. 137
Newsletter Configuration. 137
Newsletter Templates. 138
Newsletter Queue. 139
Newsletter Subscribers. 139
Newsletter Problem Reports. 140
Static Blocks. 140
Landing Pages. 142
General Information. 143
Custom Design. 143
Meta Data. 144
Polls. 145
Poll Information. 145
Poll Answers. 146
Search Synonyms and Re-directs. 146
Quick Search. 147
Advanced Search. 149
Chapter 6: Customers. 150
Default Customer Options. 150
Contact Options and Emails. 150
Updating Email Template Files Directly. 151
Updating Email Templates Via Magento Admin. 151
Email Sender. 152
Contact Us. 152
Creating Customers. 152
In Front-end. 153
In Admin. 154
Customer Groups. 155
Creating Customer Groups. 155
Managing Customer Groups. 156
Batch Updates to Customers. 156
Front-End and Back-End functionality for Customer Accounts. 157
Front-End. 157
Back-End. 160
Online Customers. 161
Chapter 7: Reports and Analytics. 163
Reports. 163
Sales Reports. 163
Shopping Cart Reports. 165
Products Reports. 165
Customers Reports. 166
Review Reports. 167
Tags Reports. 167
Search Terms. 168
Dashboard. 168
Analytics. 169
Chapter 8: Managing Orders. 170
Overview of Order Functionality. 170
Creating Orders. 170
Terminology. 170
Managing and Editing Orders. 171
Creating Orders. 171
Accessing the Order Page. 171
Creating the Order. 172
Sales Order Options. 175
Invoice Options. 175
Shipment Options. 177
Credit Memo Options. 179
Managing and Editing Orders. 181
Chapter 9: User-Generated Content. 185
Ratings and Reviews. 185
Managing Ratings. 185
Managing Reviews. 186
Manage Tags. 188
Email to a Friend Options. 190
Chapter 10: Upgrading Magento. 192
Upgrading Magento Via SSH.. 192
User Management- Manage Roles. 193
Magento’s Import/Export Profile. 196
Magento Free Shipping. 198
Importing Newsletter Subscribers. 201
Replacing the Logo Image in Transactional Emails. 203
Limiting Free Shipping to the Continental US. 204
Tax Rules Configuration and Settings. 205
Example of files edited in Excel (when opening on notepad or any other text editor. 205
Proper file format with double quotation marks. 205
Promotions, Discounts and Conditional Selection. 206
Issue. 206
Solution. 206
Gift Cards and Customer Store Credits in the Magento Enterprise Edition. 208
Google Base Integration in Magento. 208
Magento in 60 languages!. 209
We have 23 locales that are 85% – 100% complete. 209
13 locales that are actively translated (20% – 85%). 209
And 24 more locales that are in the process: 210
Magento Connect: Quickbooks Integration via T-HUB. 211
Video: Magento via iPhone. 211
Video: Custom Product Options in Magento 1.1. 212
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Table of Contents
Magento Developer User Guide. 9
Add Featured Products to Home Page. 9
Add Bestsellers to Home Page using the best-selling box of Blue Theme. 9
How to Fix the Breadcrumbs of Inactive Categories. 11
Create Payment Method Module. 13
Create Shipping Method Module. 21
Module doesn’t appear in frontend. 35
Module doesn’t appear in admin. 36
Backend shows errormessage when displaying the shippingmethod. 36
Magento Architecture. 37
Page request flow.. 37
Preliminary core modules dependency diagram.. 37
Changing and Customizing Magento Code. 39
Subversion. 39
Upgrading to a newer version. 40
Custom Modules. 42
Blocks. 43
Step 2) Add Block configuration to catalog.xml 45
Step 4) Extend Mage_Catalog_Block_Category_View.. 47
Step 6) Add new blocks to the app/etc/local.xml 48
Magento Easy Lightbox. 49
http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/1487/magento-easy-lightbox. 49
CSS Resources. 50
Creating CSS buttons vs Image buttons. 52
The CSS. 53
Add Home Link with functional active state to Menu Bar (Alternative Method). 55
Magento’s Import/Export Profile. 60
The New Magento Connect Design (part 1). 62
Installing Magento Enterprise stand-alone on OS X. 63
Pre-Production System Configuration Checklist. 65
1: System -> Configure -> General 65
2: System > Configuration > Sales. 66
3: System -> Advanced. 67
4: System -> Transactional Emails. 68
Top-10 Most Popular Magento Extensions This Week (Jan 31 – Feb. 5). 70
Multi-site Domain Name Setup. 71
1: Categories. 71
2: Store Configuration in the Magento Admin. 71
3: Store Configuration in the Server. 74
4: We’re Ready to Go!. 75
Magento Free Shipping. 76
Changing the Magento ‘favicon’ 79
How to Embed Google Custom Search in Magento. 80
Reward Points System.. 84
Reward Points System.. 84
Magento Development: Introduction to Magento Dataflow.. 85
Dataflow profile definition. 85
Adapter definition. 85
Magento DataFlow standard adapters. 86
Customer and Product adapters. 86
Parser definition. 88
Magento DataFlow standard parsers. 88
Standard customer and product entity parsers. 89
Mapping values. 90
Importing Newsletter Subscribers. 91
Varien’s Popular Open Source Magento eCommerce Software to Ship with Zend Server Community Edition PHP Stack 93
Availability. 94
Replacing the Logo Image in Transactional Emails. 95
How to Configure Magento Widgets. 96
Overview.. 96
What are Widgets?. 96
How to Develop a Widget. 98
Terminology. 98
Widget Examples in Magento CE 1.4, EE 1.6. 99
Tutorial: Creating a Magento Widget, Part 1. 100
Introduction. 100
Widget Basics. 100
Tutorial: Creating a Magento Widget, Part 2. 112
Introduction. 112
Available widget configuration options, types and definitions. 112
Multiple Websites, Importing Catalog with Different Price and Currencies. 123
Magento Connect Extensions for Facebook Integration. 125
Embedding HTML in the Footer. 126
Limiting Free Shipping to the Continental US. 127
Tax Rules Configuration and Settings. 128
Example of files edited in Excel (when opening on notepad or any other text editor. 128
Proper file format with double quotation marks. 128
Video: Security, Permission Roles, Encryption, PA-DSS and Logging in the Magento Enterprise Edition 129
Promotions, Discounts and Conditional Selection. 130
Issue. 130
Solution. 130
Magento Bug Tracker RSS. 132
Rich Merchandising Suite (RMS). 133
CMS+, Enhanced Content Management System.. 134
Magento Database Repair Tool 135
Magento Database Repair Tool More. 136
Usage Instructions. 136
Crash-course for the impatient. 136
Test it before running on a Production Environment!. 136
Step-by step. 137
How to Set Up a Cron Job. 139
Magento and crontab. 139
Windows. 141
Other solutions. 142
Inner workings. 142
Error logging. 143
Configuration. 143
Magento’s Cronjobs. 145
How to restore a broken admin access. 146
Log in with the new account. 147
Further information. 147
Using Magento on Amazon EC2. 148
Optimizing Performance with Apache. 148
1. MySQL Configuration. 149
2. Apache KeepAlives. 149
3. PHP Opcode Cache. 150
4. Memory-based Filesystem.. 150
Public and Free Magento AMIs. 150
Launching an EC2 Magento Demo Store. 151
Benchmarking with ApacheBench. 151
Benchmarking with Pingdom.. 151
Optimizing Performance with Nginx. 152
Data Persistance with EBS (Elastic Block Storage). 152
EC2 Pricing and FAQs. 155
Performance Improvements in Next Magento Release. 155
Todos. 155
Understanding Magento Scalability and Performance. 156
Easy Wins. 156
Measure your Magento. 158
Three Steps to Improve Scalability and Performance. 160
Going Further. 161
Conclusion. 162
Gift Cards and Customer Store Credits in the Magento Enterprise Edition. 163
Improve Conversions in 60 Seconds. 164
Magento & Zend Server Benchmarks. 165
Methods & Tools Used. 165
Magento Version Benchmarks. 166
Apache + mod-php VS Apache + Zend Server. 167
Zend Server Configuration for Magento. 168
Response time. 170
Additional technical details about the tests. 172
Things to test in the next benchmark campaign. 172
Conclusion. 173
Content Staging and Merging in the Magento Enterprise Edition. 174
Speed up your store by combining, compressing and caching JS and CSS– Fooman Speedster. 175
Upgrades Made Easy. 177
CSRF Vulnerability in Web Applications (and how to avoid it in the Magento Admin). 178
Live Chat Extension. 179
Magento Connect: Gift Certificates / Virtual Cards Extension. 180
How To Setup Multiple Magento Stores. 181
TYPO3 + Magento = TypoGento. 182
Google Base Integration in Magento. 182
Video: Google Website Optimizer Integration in Magento 1.1.7. 182
Tutorial: Integrating 3rd Party CMS Content Within Magento. 183
Getting Started. 183
Create a Local Code Pool Module. 184
Create a Layout. 185
Extending the Technique. 185
Magento Connect: Simple Configurable Products Extension. 186
A/B Split & Multivariable Testing with Google Website Optimizer. 186
50+ Payment Gateways Now Supported in Magento. 188
Blank Theme available through MagentoConnect. 190
OpenERP Integration Available Via Magento Connect. 191
Magento in 60 languages!. 192
We have 23 locales that are 85% – 100% complete. 192
13 locales that are actively translated (20% – 85%). 192
And 24 more locales that are in the process: 193
Magento Connect: Quickbooks Integration via T-HUB. 194
Video: Magento via iPhone. 195
Wordpress Integration Extension Available Via Magento Connect. 195
Video: Custom Product Options in Magento 1.1. 196
Magento PHPDocs Now Available. 196
osCommerce Migration Tool – Now Available. 197
Building Configurable Products Fast. 197
Magento / Drupal Integration Project. 198
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Magento Mobile: World’s First Integrated, Native Mobile Commerce Platform get it
Filed under: Featured, Magento Cart, Shopping Carts, Technology News, eCommerce
The Magento team is pleased to announce the launch of Magento mobile, a new product that will allow Magento merchants to easily create branded, native mobile storefront applications that are deeply integrated with Magento’s market-leading eCommerce platform. The product includes a new administrative manager, a native iPhone app that is fully customizable, and a service where Magento manages the submission and maintenance process for the iTunes App Store.
Learn more by visiting the Magento mobile product page and sign-up to be the first to launch a native mobile app, fully integrated with Magento.
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This PDF includes 67 Pages and around 1MB size, Below are the Table of Contents of the PDF.
Table of Contents
System Admin’s Guide to Magento. 6
Installing Magento Enterprise stand-alone on OS X. 6
Changing and Customizing Magento Code. 8
Subversion. 8
Upgrading to a newer version. 9
Custom Modules. 11
Blocks. 12
Pre-Production System Configuration Checklist. 14
1: System -> Configure -> General 14
2: System > Configuration > Sales. 15
3: System -> Advanced. 16
4: System -> Transactional Emails. 17
Multi-site Domain Name Setup. 19
1: Categories. 19
2: Store Configuration in the Magento Admin. 19
3: Store Configuration in the Server. 22
4: We’re Ready to Go!. 23
Varien’s Popular Open Source Magento eCommerce Software to Ship with Zend Server Community Edition PHP Stack 24
Availability. 25
Magento Database Repair Tool 26
Magento Database Repair Tool More. 27
Usage Instructions. 27
Crash-course for the impatient. 27
Test it before running on a Production Environment!. 27
Step-by step. 28
How to Set Up a Cron Job. 30
Magento and crontab. 30
Windows. 32
Other solutions. 33
Inner workings. 33
Error logging. 34
Configuration. 34
Magento’s Cronjobs. 36
How to restore a broken admin access. 37
Log in with the new account. 38
Further information. 38
Using Magento on Amazon EC2. 39
Optimizing Performance with Apache. 39
1. MySQL Configuration. 40
2. Apache KeepAlives. 40
3. PHP Opcode Cache. 41
4. Memory-based Filesystem.. 41
Public and Free Magento AMIs. 41
Launching an EC2 Magento Demo Store. 42
Benchmarking with ApacheBench. 42
Benchmarking with Pingdom.. 42
Optimizing Performance with Nginx. 43
Data Persistance with EBS (Elastic Block Storage). 43
EC2 Pricing and FAQs. 46
Performance Improvements in Next Magento Release. 46
Todos. 46
Understanding Magento Scalability and Performance. 47
Easy Wins. 47
Measure your Magento. 49
Three Steps to Improve Scalability and Performance. 51
Going Further. 52
Conclusion. 53
Magento & Zend Server Benchmarks. 54
Methods & Tools Used. 54
Magento Version Benchmarks. 55
Apache + mod-php VS Apache + Zend Server. 56
Zend Server Configuration for Magento. 57
Response time. 59
Additional technical details about the tests. 61
Things to test in the next benchmark campaign. 61
Conclusion. 62
Speed up your store by combining, compressing and caching JS and CSS– Fooman Speedster. 63
Upgrades Made Easy. 65
CSRF Vulnerability in Web Applications (and how to avoid it in the Magento Admin). 66
How To Setup Multiple Magento Stores. 67
Video: Google Website Optimizer Integration in Magento 1.1.7. 67
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This PDF includes 40Pages and around 1MB size, Below are the Table of Contents of the PDF.
Table of Contents
Designer’s Guide to Magento. 3
Magento Design Terminologies. 3
Website and Store. 4
Interface. 5
Themes. 6
Blocks. 7
Working with Magento Themes. 8
How Magento Does Themes Different from Others. 9
How to Create a Theme. 10
Say Hello to Multiple Themes. 13
Hierarchy of Themes. 14
Building Your Theme. 16
Introducing Blocks and Layout. 16
Step by Step Guide to Building a Theme. 20
Intro to Layouts. 23
How Layout Works. 23
The system is built this way in order to allow seamless addition and removal of modules without effecting other modules in the system. Anatomy of Layout. 24
Rules of XML. 26
Quick Exercises to Get You Started. 26
CSS Resources. 28
Creating CSS buttons vs Image buttons. 30
The CSS. 31
Add Home Link with functional active state to Menu Bar (Alternative Method). 34
Embedding HTML in the Footer. 39
Blank Theme available through MagentoConnect. 40
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Magento: Announcing the Launch of Magento Mobile
The Magento team is pleased to announce the launch of Magento mobile, a new product that will allow Magento merchants to easily create branded, native storefront applications that are deeply integrated with Magento’s market-leading eCommerce platform. The product includes a new administrative manager (which we wrote about earlier this week), a native iPhone app that is fully customizable (colors, images, buttons, etc), and a service where Magento manages the submission and maintenance process for the iTunes App Store.
The Mobile Opportunity
We’re witnessing a large shift online, where consumers are becoming more comfortable with using mobile devices to access the internet and purchase products. What we’re also seeing is that native apps are becoming the preferred way that consumers engage with brands and mobile storefronts. This makes sense since mobile-browser apps (WAPs) are often very slow and don’t offer the rich, compelling experiences that native apps do. What is also interesting is that Amazon and eBay have the largest share of total mobile-commerce revenues, and their native apps are just mobile versions of their web stores, with perhaps a couple native features sprinkled in. How effective is this approach? In 2009, eBay drove $500M in mobile revenues. In 2010, they project $1.5B. The era of mobile commerce has begun!
The Mobile Challenge for Merchants
As big an opportunity as mobile is, merchant have difficulty moving forward for several reasons. First, creating tightly-integrated mobile + website experiences requires a tremendous amount of development, especially when you bring multiple mobile devices into the equation. Second, there is the cost to develop the native applications (and even find the resources), as well as the time and money to submit and support this application in the iTunes marketplace (and/or other marketplaces). If we estimate the costs of each of these items, the prices become so high that it is no wonder why so many brands are not yet taking advantage of this opportunity. We’re glad to announce that there is now another way.
Introducing Magento Mobile
Magento mobile includes:
1. A new admin manager, which will be distributed as an extension that is available for Community edition 1.3+, Enterprise 1.6+, and Professional 1.8+.
2. A fully-customizable iPhone application, which includes several best of breed features that users will love
3. A submission process that Magento manages for a store owner so that they can focus on their core business while we manage the complexity in the background for a low annual fee.
Launch Partner: The North Face (Europe)
The North Face, will be launching the very first iPhone app “shop” powered by Magento mobile. The app will be available in early June in Sweden & the UK only. Here is a quick demo of the app while we were in Paris for the annualBargento event.
Launch Partner: PayPal Mobile
PayPal is investing heavily in mobile-payments technology, and we’re pleased to announce that we’ve worked closely with PayPal to integrate their new product into Magento mobile. Merchants who already use PayPal will benefit by offering a native payment experience that drives higher conversations.
Product Features & Benefits
Seamless Storefront Integration
With the new Magento-mobile admin, you’ll bring the functional powerhouse of Magento eCommerce to your mobile commerce channel, including full integration with your store’s catalog, checkout, inventory, reporting, and much more!
Manage Multiple Devices
Easily manage multiple devices with a single installation. Coming later this year, easily extend your mobile presence to the iPad and Android devices.
Hassle Free Submissions
Supporting a native app can be time consuming and tedious, so we manage the submission & support lifecycle for one low monthly fee. We manage the complexity of mobile apps so you can focus on running your business!
Fully Customizable
Deploy new device-specific features and branded themes with just a few clicks. Quickly update the colors and appearance of your app with the new Magento mobile admin, even after customers have downloaded your app.
Engage Your Customers
If you want to build deeper relationships with your most profitable customers, smartphones are the way to do it. From geo-targeted push notifications to immersive native experiences, mobile apps unlock new opportunities that will take your business to the next level!
Low Cost of Ownership
Magento’s cost-efficient approach allows you to bring best-in-class mobile experience to your customers without the high price tag. Pay only for the features and devices you want while Magento handles the ongoing maintenance of your app in the iTunes marketplace.
Sign up and Pricing
There are limited number of spots available for the first release of this product, and anyone interested in joining the priority list can now sign up on the official Magento-mobile product page. Pricing at this time will only be shared with those who are selected for the limited release, and we will announce the full price list to the community shortly.
What’s Next?
Moving forward, we plan to build a marketplace of extensions for each mobile device (e.g. digital coupons, augmented reality, etc.) using our successful eCommerce extension marketplace, Magneto Connect, which essentially makes this product the world’s first ever mobile-commerce platform! We also plan to launch new apps for the iPad and Android devices later this year.
Magento Introduces A New Magento Mobile Admin
“Mobile is the next frontier for commerce. We expect our new mCommerce product to bring the same level of scale and innovation to mobile as our eCommerce platform did for the web.” – Roy Rubin, CEO of Magento
“Mobile is the next frontier for commerce. We expect our new mCommerce product to bring the same level of scale and innovation to mobile as our eCommerce platform did for the web.” – Roy Rubin, CEO of Magento
Hello from Amsterdam! As I write this post, I’ve just returned from the Meet Magento event here in the Netherlands, and getting ready for our next two community events in Paris and Leipzig. There have been quite a few questions about the new mobile product that we’ll be announcing this Friday, and perhaps the best way to explain it would be to give you a quick tour of what we’ve been working on these last few months. But first, some background…
The Rise of Native-Mobile Applications
To set the stage for what you’re about to see, it is important to share our observations on the two ways that users interact with storefronts on mobile devices: mobile web (browser) apps and native mobile apps. The first is nothing new to Magento. When we launched our first iPhone-optimized theme back in 2008, we learned that while optimizing your online store for mobile browsers is important, consumers are engaging even more deeply with native mobile applications. Retailers are responding to this fast-growing trend by building custom, native applications for the iPhone, the iPad, Android, etc. Even more interesting are native apps that offer an integrated commerce experience with the web channel, the most notable being eBay, which drove $500M in mobile-channel sales last year and is projecting $1.5B this year.
But as we looked into this trend, and saw the rising demand for native applications, we found that they are becoming very costly to build, and increasingly complicated to manage and scale. This difficultly only grows when we take into account the next logical step, which is to build fully-integrated experiences that allow consumers, for example, to begin a purchase on the web and later complete it on a mobile device. There had to be a better way.
Introducing the Magento mobile admin
To help our merchants respond to these opportunities & challenges, we built a product that you’ll soon be able to use for Enterprise Edition 1.6+, Professional Edition 1.8+, and Community Edition 1.3+. It includes the ability to bring your store catalog into fully-featured commerce apps, beginning with the iPhone. The theme of the app, including background images and button colors, can be customized to match your brand. The apps will also be fully integrated with your existing eCommerce and merchandizing tools, allowing you to deploy cross-channel shopping experiences across multiple devices quickly and easily.
Here is an early wireframe of our product from a few months ago…
…and here is what the finished version looks like. Notice the ability to add/edit templates, features, and themes.
Even after customers download your app, you’ll be able to continually update the visual appearance of buttons, text, etc.
Transforming Apps into Mobile-Commerce Platforms
In addition to managing the visual appearance, you’ll also be able to decide which features to make available to your users. And coming soon, merchants will be able to extend their mobile-commerce feature sets in the way they do with their eCommerce offerings. Through Magento Connect, store owners will be able to easily install and deploy new features for mobile device such as private sales, digital coupons, line-skipping programs for mobile + in-store purchases, augmented reality. The possibilities will only continue to evolve as the amount of eligible devices increases. This approach essentially turns each mobile app that is managed through this tool into its own open platform, which we hope will lead to a tremendous amount of new innovation at the intersection of commerce and mobile.
Of course, deploying new functionality to native apps such as the iPhone requires a resubmission of the code to the app store and ongoing management to ensure the application is stable and in compliance. To make this process easier, Magento will manage this process for merchants at a low fee. All you need to do is configure your mobile app and we take care of the rest, including security patches, stability upgrades, bug fixes, etc. How great is that!
Magento Save Admin Session for long time- Magento Tips
Many its a big issue, the Magento takes us to login screen after 20minutes. so when customers are working on any CMS pages or Email templates, it will not save the data, and simply go to login page when we click on save.
Here is the best solution for you Comment the following line and replace with the below line files, this way the session exists for a longer time.
Goto /app/etc/local.xml and replace the below line.
<!– <session_save><![CDATA[db]]></session_save> –>
<session_save><![CDATA[files]]></session_save>
Magento Common problems and solutions for images disappear from website
If images disappear from the Magento site check the below
- Cache refresh
- image path being CASE SENSITIVE
- incorrect image path in catalog_product_entity_media_gallery while porting
- Make sure you have GD installed fine on your server.,.. if not re-install it ..and also disable open_basedir function for this account.
- php_value memory_limit : supports only values in M and not in G you can’t give 1G instead give it as 1024M.
Hope this save lot of time for other Magento users.
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