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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
Packing from the Magento order grid means opening one order after another to see what is in it. Here is what the grid can show on its own, what it cannot, and a free way to add the missing columns.
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A shopper picks Black in your colour filter and the whole filter vanishes, so Blue is out of reach. Here is why Magento's layered navigation works that way and what it takes to let people choose several options.
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When you delete a product, Magento removes its URLs and the page becomes a 404. That is sometimes right and often a waste. Here is how to decide, and how to stop it happening by accident.
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A shopper picks brake pads for the wrong car, and the parcel comes back. Here is why Magento's own filters struggle with fitment, and what a proper Year, Make, Model search needs.
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Magento's custom options all show at once and cannot depend on each other. Here is what that costs you, what Magento's option prices can and cannot do, and how dependent options fix it.
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In a Magento 2 bundle, the gallery and the cart show the same picture whatever the customer picks. Here is why, and how to show the item they actually chose.
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A business customer pays by card but their accounts team will only pay invoices that carry a PO number. Where that number belongs in Magento, and how to get it from the checkout onto the invoice.
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Agreeing a price with a trade buyer is the easy part. Getting that exact price, for that exact quantity, onto an order without coupon codes or retyping is where quotes usually go wrong.
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When the parcel shop is typed into an order comment, someone has to read it before printing the label. How to make the customer's choice of DPD Pickup shop travel with the order onto the label.
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