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Move Magento Private Files Outside the Docroot

This week saw the inaugural Click Frenzy sale generate a huge amount of interest in Australian eCommerce, and we are proud to have been the developer responsible for delivering the website for the event based on a Magento platform. The site stood up well after a challenging start on Tuesday evening, but there was a configuration issue with the webserver environment at one point which left a number of private application files exposed for some time. Read more →

Fontis Westpac 2.1.5: Important Update

We have just released an important update to the Fontis Westpac extension, which should be installed by all merchants using the PayWay service. The update includes a new Verisign certificate for the PayWay gateway which will be required in order to continue connecting to the gateway. Merchants who will be affected by this update should have already been contacted by Westpac. In addition, we have added another small but often requested feature, and added in a credit card type selection box to the PayWay and QuickGateway settings pages in the Magento configuration. Read more →

RMA Feature Overview

Since version 1.11, Magento Enterprise Edition releases have included a RMA feature to help manage this process. The system supports tracking requests from when they are first created by a customer, all the way through to resolution. This post will look at how to set up and administer RMA requests from the admin panel, and will also detail a few shortcomings that will hopefully be improved in future releases. Read more →

MageAudit: The Magento Health Check

A successful Magento implementation requires not only development expertise and an understanding of its internals and various settings, but also systems administration knowledge to ensure that the hosting environment is configured correctly and for optimal performance. As a store owner or developer who may not be familiar with all of these areas themselves, it can therefore be difficult to check on the overall quality of a particular installation. How can the relative “health” of a Magento store be quickly and easily assessed? Read more →

M2M Sync Now Supports Magento Go

With its most recent update (version 1.2.10.1), our Magento-MYOB synchronisation application M2M Sync now supports Magento Go. This hosted Magento solution allows businesses to set up online stores without needing to manage their own server and implementation, and offers an enhanced set of features compared to Magento Community Edition. M2M Sync has been updated to handle these additional features, such as gift card accounts and store credit, and is an ideal solution for MYOB users who are tired of error-prone manual data entry. Read more →