Magento times are off and none seem to agree with each other.
For example
Order and email placed at 6:06AM EST
Magento dashboard shows order placed at around 1:06AM
Go to System → Config → Sales → Sale → Dashboard And mark
Use Aggregated Data (beta)="No"
If you navigate to “System->Configuration->General->Locale Options->Timezone” in Admin area of Magento, you’ll see that you can change Timezone for each Website you have. This way you get a way to have stores for each part of the world set with correct timezone. I assuming that you do not have set it properly.
I hope this helps some more people.
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I want to use magento's multi store system like ebay.
I want to use stores on one domain and using the same root category but every store can have different price on every single product and I want every store to be multilingual.
Before I start I appreciate some direction, which way would be best practise to achieve this?
This cannot (reasonably) be done in Magento, mainly because pricing cannot be set at the store level AND each scope (website/store) comes with a not-insignificant performance hit. MANY have tried what you are proposing. None have succeeded. Sorry.
Actually there has many Magento extension can extend one Magento site into one Marketplace, which can let customer apply to be as one seller to sell their products as vendor on this common market.
Like:
https://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/marketplace.html
https://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/medma-marketplace.html
...
I want to create a small order processing website, but in time I want the application to be able to extend to an e-commerce solution as well. So I decided to go with magento.
But I am not sure, if magento can be stripped down to only an order processing system. By order processing I want:
Guests should be able select products
Should be able to add products to cart
But at last, instead of processing the order by payment system, the order should be forwarded to email of administrators, who will contact them individually.
How to configure Magento this way??
Here is a full tutorial with all the files you will need, ready to download:
http://www.excellencemagentoblog.com/magento-onestep-checkout-remove-payment-method-step
This does mark orders with the code 'free', however, you words are our servants and not our masters and you could change the word free to 'telesale' (or whatever):
...the basic idea of removing any step from checkout is to see a set a
default value for that step, so that magento order processing runs
smoothly. So when removing the payment method step, i have set the
payment method “Zero Subtotal Checkout” with code “free” as the
default payment method.
If I got you well, you just want to avoid the CC processing,
In this case you can disable in Magento all payment systems except the 'Money/Check' one.
Guests should be able select products
Should be able to add products to cart
But at last, instead of processing the order by payment system, the order should be forwarded to email of administrators, who will
contact them individually.
Magento offers you catalog/cart system by default ( mail is mandatory during order )
Magento offers you cart system by default
You can disable all payment system except 'Money/Check' one. (this will let user confirm their order without any check on the payment).
Then you can contact all user checking the new orders in the backend ( user/guest email will be displayed along with the order display ) ...
Settings
Add email notification for any new orders:
Log in into admin area
Go to System->Configuration
In Sales section, click on Sales Emails
Select the first section Orders.
Enter your admin e-mail in the field “Send Order Email Copy To”.
Now You will receive a new mail every new order.
Manage Payment Methods:
Log in into admin area
Go to System->Configuration
In Sales section, click on Payment Methods
Disable all except Check / Money Orders
Now your customer could order without any payment detail.
I think Magento should suit you, in case the 'Money/Check' payment system is not good for you, you will need to create a new module and add a new payment system.
I hope this helps you answer your doubt
So, as I can understand, you want to finish customers work on the cart step. For example, by clicking Create an Order except Checkout.
Yes, you can use cart2quote or something like this.
The main idea is to save quote with quote items (from the session) after clicking Create an Order button. For example, you can get Quote and serialize it, get Quote items and also serealize them. When it is needed to show them to admin (in email or in admin section) - deserialize all info and display it. This will not be very easy, but is possible. May be it is better to customize some ready solution.
We are trying to do something interesting but challenging:
We have a couple thousand products listed on our B2C site (non-Magento), & are considering moving the site to Magento for a variety of reasons. The product pages provide detailed information about these products. Our user base would now like us to provide local information about retail stores where they can buy these products; the information required would be Retail outlet name, address, zip, phone, & a Google-map display (this last is optional).
In the front-end, each product detail page will display relevant retailers depending on the product AS WELL AS depending on the user's zip. Each user will see upto 5 nearby retailers.
My question is: how best can we set up this in Magento so that we can:
map products to retail_outlets, the way magento allows for mapping of products to categories. Products & outlets will have a many-to-many relationship, & we are looking for something that will be easy to maintain.
Map user's zips to the retailer info.
We are open to using magento 1.7, if that is a better fit.
Thanks in advance.
-TM
This is not the right place for this question as it is not related to programming and does not have code samples and is too general :( read the FAQ please
but in general you need:
add a product attribute (multiselect) with all your retail_outlets and add a possible retailers to a product
ask user to input a zip if he has not jet . you can get this from quote->getShippingAddress()->getPostcode(); if your user is
registered or something
on detail page query out your retailers by zip. This will need you to implement Geo/Spatial Search with MySQL.
So, the site we are working on right now is going to be Multisite and we are going to have different pricing for each website. The issue comes when one of those sites needs to have two different price lists.
There is going to be the price list for one site, and another price list for the other and then there will be a price list based on the customer group for the second site. I am not sure the best way to set this up since the pricing will be per website. The only other option that I see out of the box is to use the tiered pricing functionality and set if customer group A qty 1 and above use this price. (Thank you Joseph Mastey from one of your other answers!)
I'm concerned about this since I am doing a nightly price update as well and I assume programmatically saving this per product could be a pain. If anyone has any tips on setting the tiered pricing programmatically that would be huge or if you have another suggestion I would appreciate all that come my way!
Thanks for the mention :)
Having looked at this before, you're exactly correct. The tiered prices seem to be the only easy way to accomplish this. I have thought about trying to use multiple store views to the same effect, but I haven't had success yet.
Also, yes, updating tier prices can be a pain, I'm not sure the APIs even support it.
The API does support updating tier pricing.
http://prattski.com/2010/03/04/magento-import-tier-pricing-using-api/
If there is a simple percentage reduction for one customer group then you can use a Catalog Price Rule.
ok... so I feel really stupid asking this question.. but just wondering about the Allow Countries drop down in the admin panel..
What exactly does this mean?
Does it mean that only certain countries are allowed to purchase from your site? if it does mean that how does it determine where you are shopping from? is it done using a IP Geo locator or is it determined when the user inputs their address on the checkout page?
or does it mean that only customers from certain countries have access to the site?
Regards,
Fiona
I believe it's a list of countries you are willing to ship to. Here's a reference that says this. The available list seems to be limited by locale, so no geolocating involved. No idea why this is done though.
The reason for this feature is so that you can use one Magento website to serve multiple countries with different prices or products. Say you have a German and an English store. You may have different prices and you don't want someone from Germany going to the English store and ordering a product which is not available for Germany or is at a reduced price.