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Problems with Order Reporting in Magento

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

We've identified a possible bug in Magento Enterprise 1.8 which is causing the order report to become inaccurate under certain conditions after performing the last day refresh. The issue is causing orders not to be included in the report.
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Generating EDI 850 Purchase Order Documents in Magento

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

Quite often we need to generate EDI purchase order files (850) and accept EDI ASN files (856) to exchange data between a web store and an external system when processing orders. Working with EDI files may be quite involving especially if support for all possible scenarios and data elements is required.
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Improving Magento Checkout Performance with Large Number of Cart Rules

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

This is the fourth of a series on the Open Source e-commerce software, Magento. In this post, we show how to solve a problem we experienced with a client of ours - the cart and checkout process would get extremely slow if there are a large number of cart rules.
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Identifying Magento Performance Problems with the Magento Profiler

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

This is the third of a series on the Open Source e-commerce software, Magento. Neptune recently launched 2 major web sites using highly customized versions of Magento. The Magento Profiler is used to identify performance problems on the server side. The Profiler can help you find PHP functions which use up too much CPU or functions with slow database queries.
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Solving Magento Unirgy Drop Ship USPS Flat Rate Shipping Problem

Friday, December 10th, 2010

This is the second of a series on the Open Source e-commerce software, Magento. Neptune recently launched 2 major web sites using highly customized versions of Magento. This article explains how to fix a specific problem with the Drop Ship module and USPS Priority Mail Flat Rates.
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How PCI Compliance and MA Data Standards are Affecting Web Developers in Massachusetts

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

There are two important standards which web developers and their clients in Massachusetts need to know about. They are: Massachusetts 201 CMR 17.00 and PCI Compliance.
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