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Field notes from building and running Magento and Shopify stores: upgrades, performance, migrations, our own extensions and the decisions that sit behind them.
Magento extensions
Ask a sales question, keep the report, schedule the next review and draft the campaign. A practical tour of what AI Assistant can do inside the Magento admin.
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Magento
The old Magento user guide links now land on Adobe's documentation site. Where the manual is, how to keep a copy, and how to spot the pages that describe features your Open Source store does not have.
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Magento extensions
With a hosted payment page, the order and the payment live in two systems. Most days they agree. This is about the days they do not, and how to make Magento catch up with iyzico on its own.
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Magento extensions
Magento was not built around Turkish addresses, volumetric weight or cash on delivery. What goes wrong when you connect it to Aras Kargo or Yurtiçi Kargo, and how to set it up so labels come out right.
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Magento extensions
Magento shows you abandoned carts in a report, but it never emails the shopper. Here is what a sensible reminder series looks like, and where most set-ups go wrong.
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Magento extensions
Magento can send through an SMTP server since 2.4.6, but it cannot tell you which emails failed or sign in to Microsoft 365 with OAuth. Here is how to set up SMTP properly and keep an eye on it.
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Magento extensions
A customer refreshes the order success page and lands on an empty basket. Here is why Magento does that, what a thank you page should say instead, and how to change it without upsetting your purchase tracking.
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Magento extensions
Magento has a cookie notice built in, but it only offers an Allow button and only holds back Magento's own Google tags. Here is what it does, where it stops, and what a consent banner needs to handle.
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Magento extensions
You enter your measurement ID in Magento, purchases appear in GA4, and every funnel report stays empty. Here is what Magento's own GA4 setting sends, what it does not, and how to fill the gaps.
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