Magento Category and Product Order

Magento offers simple category and product ordering although this may not be obvious at first. I thought I might share this simple information. Category ordering To change the order of categories, from within the Admin, go to Catalog -> Manage … Continue reading

Debugging Magento Email Issues

To check if the order confirmation email was sent, a good place to start is to check the order, specifically the information area (beside the order #) to see if the email was sent or not. If the order displays the … Continue reading

Magento Auto Invoice Orders

Sometimes the Magento order process causes more work than a client desires. Imagine you have a client who utilizes their Magento ecommerce store so their customers can make purchases online. Now they also want to process orders on their own … Continue reading

Magento Search API

What is the Magento Search API? The Magento Search extension API is a Magento extension that allows Magento Store owners to provide a SOAP Service for other websites/apps to do product search with just a few lines of code and … Continue reading

Debugging Magento Issues

Occasionally there is a need to debug some Magento problem you may be experiencing. Enable error reporting In Magento’s index.php uncomment the following: #ini_set(‘display_errors’, 1); Turn on Magento Developer logging. In Magento admin System -> Configuration -> Advanced -> Developer -> … Continue reading

Magento Order Comments

Recently we had a request from a client to add a comment to orders (ie. the checkout process). If you have ever wanted to add a field where customers can enter comments to their order, follow on below to see … Continue reading