i.      Find your way to this page: Developer Network – Account Authorisations. You can navigate there by following these steps: MY ACCOUNT >  DEVELOPER NETWORK > ACCOUNT AUTHORISATIONS

ii.      Here you will find your Account ID. Make sure its enabled

1. Now you should have your Developer Key, Password and your Account ID – this allows you access to your ChannelAdvisor account thru their custom API system.

Click here for Video – Step 01 – CA API Details

If you have been following Magento‘s progress you might know they have released their latest stable community version. This is a very refined and improved version of their 1.4 stable build. We here at Devgento get requests daily for a one-price package. While its hard to give one price because so many of you want different things, we have responded.

Starting today January 5th 2010 we are now offering a complete Magento package:

1. We install Magento 1.5.0.1 stable
2. We skin it with one of our custom skins
3. We blend your your logo as best we can to match the style
4. We install demo product
5. We configure PayPal
6. We host any domain you like FREE for one year (on our basic package – higher packages not included)
7. We install a COMODO 256BIT AES SSL for one year (EV Upgrade is possible)
8. We ensure your site is secure and complete one transaction.
9. You have a fully operational site ready for you to add your content and start selling!

We offer a 1 week turn around time, limited technical support (no training), additional services, progressive attitude towards online commerce and over 9 years of experience in over 540 custom solutions.

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• Added Payflow Link using HSS (Hosted Sole Solution)
• Balance Response, Partial Authorization Transactions, Authorization Reversals Support for MasterCard and Discover with Authorize.net
• 3D Secure Authentication for Authorize.net payment method
• Authorize.Net SIM payment method
• Improved Import/Export functionality
• Ability to order composite products from backend including:
  - reconfigure already added products on front end
  - adding preconfigured products in wish-list
• Alternative media storage options
  - Database. Note: Due to a design flaw we are removing alternative image storage feature from this release. It will be redesigned and released in our upcoming releases.
  - CDN
• Order status management
  - ability to add new status and assign to some state
  - statuses now stored in DB table instead of configuration file
• Ability to edit order addresses for an existing order
  - this functionality admin has link to edit address for order view page
• Magento Mobile included in base packaging
• Included new Magento Connect Manager 2

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Keep relations with your designers and programmers close at hand.

This is more like the enterprise version that ever before (without the developer goodies)

Major code change – simpler and more efficient.

We are noticing a much fast product import on catalog larger than 40,000 skus

We see faster API connections – not sure why but seems faster from what we have seen previously

Mainly the move to built-in CDN functionality is getting better – we like this for larger companies

While the billing systems are getting more complicated – the customers we server are not using this feature much at all. the services suppliers we work for don’t use Magento for their billing systems – not enough auditing and filtering ability to pinpoint things for customer support. This looks to be getter better.

Overall – still the best cart you can get for a 1-100,000 sku shop!

Yes! Our Christmas present to you is a huge reduction in hosting costs across the board! While many services are increasing FEES, we are lowering them. Devgento has traditionally held higher than average prices for hosting, however we have just upgraded our networks and by doing so we have been able to cut fees!

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Feed Manager

Each shopping comparison engine has a unique specification that merchants have to strictly follow in order to submit their products. FeedManager will help you to create a feed which covers all the requirements, optimize your feed and improve quality of your listing for each shopping engine. The service is very flexible and easy to setup.

Read our FeedManager Overview PDF

Marketplaces Supported:

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2nd QUARTER 2010

source: data from the US Census Bureau

The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced today that the estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the second quarter of 2010, adjusted for seasonal variation, but not for price changes, was $39.7 billion, an increase of 2.6 percent (±1.2%) from the first quarter of 2010. Total retail sales for the second quarter of 2010 were estimated at $971.4 billion, an increase of 1.1 percent (±0.5%) from the first quarter of 2010. The second quarter 2010 e commerce estimate increased 14.0 percent (±3.0%) from the second quarter of 2009 while total retail sales increased 7.5 percent (±0.5%) in the same period. E-commerce sales in the second quarter of 2010 accounted for 4.1 percent of total sales.

On a not adjusted basis, the estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the second quarter of 2010 totaled $37.2 billion, an increase of 1.5 percent (±1.2%) from the first quarter of 2010. The second quarter 2010 e-commerce estimate increased 13.7 percent (±3.0%) from the second quarter of 2009 while total retail sales increased 7.5 percent (±0.5%) in the same period. E-commerce sales in the second quarter of 2010 accounted for 3.8 percent of total sales.

Estimated Quarterly U.S. Retail E-commerce Sales as a Percent of Total Quarterly Retail Sales:
1st Quarter 2001–2nd Quarter 2010

Percent of Total

The Quarterly Retail E-Commerce sales estimate for the third quarter of 2010 is scheduled for release on November 17, 2010 at 10:00 A.M. EST.

For information, including estimates from 4th quarter 1999 forward, visit the Census Bureau’s Web site at <http://www.census.gov/retail>. For additional information about Census Bureau e-business measurement programs and plans visit <http://www.census.gov/estats>.

* The 90% confidence interval includes zero. The Census Bureau does not have sufficient statistical evidence to conclude that the actual change is different from zero.

Table 1.     Estimated Quarterly U.S. Retail Sales: Total and E-commerce¹

(Estimates are based on data from the Monthly Retail Trade Survey and administrative records.)

(p) Preliminary estimate. (r) Revised estimate.

¹E-commerce sales are sales of goods and services where an order is placed by the buyer or price and terms of sale are negotiated over an Internet, extranet, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) network, electronic mail, or other online system. Payment may or may not be made online.

²Estimates are adjusted for seasonal variation, but not for price changes. Total sales esimates are also adjusted for trading-day differences and moving holidays.

Note: Table 2 provides estimated measures of sampling variability. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, sample design, and definitions, see www.census.gov/retail/mrts/how_surveys_are_collected.html.

Table 2.     Estimated Measures of Sampling Variability for Quarterly U.S. Retail Sales Estimates: Total and E-commerce

(Estimates are shown as percents and are based on data from the Monthly Retail Trade Survey.)

(p) Preliminary estimate. (r) Revised estimate. (Z) Estimate is less than 0.05%.

Note: Estimated measures of sampling variability are based on data not adjusted for seasonal variation, trading-day differences, or moving holidays, and are used to make confidence statements about both adjusted and not adjusted estimates. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, sample design, and definitions, see www.census.gov/retail/mrts/how_surveys_are_collected.html.

Survey Description

Retail e-commerce sales are estimated from the same sample used for the Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MRTS) to estimate preliminary and final U.S. retail sales. Advance U.S. retail sales are estimated from a subsample of the MRTS sample that is not of adequate size to measure changes in retail e-commerce sales.

A stratified simple random sampling method is used to select approximately 12,500 retail firms whose sales are then weighted and benchmarked to represent the complete universe of over two million retail firms. The MRTS sample is probability based and represents all employer firms engaged in retail activities as defined by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Coverage includes all retailers whether or not they are engaged in e-commerce. Online travel services, financial brokers and dealers, and ticket sales agencies are not classified as retail and are not included in either the total retail or retail e-commerce sales estimates. Nonemployers are represented in the estimates through benchmarking to prior annual survey estimates that include nonemployer sales based on administrative records. E-commerce sales are included in the total monthly sales estimates.

The MRTS sample is updated on an ongoing basis to account for new retail employer businesses (including those selling via the Internet), business deaths, and other changes to the retail business universe. Firms are asked each month to report e-commerce sales separately. For each month of the quarter, data for nonresponding sampling units are imputed from responding sampling units falling within the same kind of business and sales size category. Responding firms account for approximately 81 percent of the e-commerce sales estimate and about 75 percent of the estimate of U.S. retail sales for any quarter.

For each month of the quarter, estimates are obtained by summing weighted sales (either reported or imputed). The monthly estimates are benchmarked to prior annual survey estimates. Estimates for the quarter are obtained by summing the monthly benchmarked estimates. The estimate for the most recent quarter is a preliminary estimate. Therefore, the estimate is subject to revision. Data users who create their own estimates using data from this report should should cite the Census Bureau as the source of the input data only.

Adjusted Estimates

This report publishes estimates that have been adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes. We used quarterly e-commerce sales estimates for 4th quarter 1999 to the current quarter as input to the X-12 ARIMA program to derive the adjusted estimates. For sales, we derived quarterly adjusted estimates by summing adjusted monthly sales estimates for each respective quarter. Seasonal adjustment of estimates is an approximation based on current and past experiences. Additional information on the X-12 ARIMA program may be found at www.census.gov/srd/www/x12a/.

Reliability of Estimates

Because the estimates in this report are based on a sample survey, they may contain sampling error and nonsampling error.

Sampling error is the difference between the estimate and the result that would be obtained from a complete enumeration of the population conducted under the same survey conditions. This error occurs because only a subset of the entire population is measured in a sample survey. Standard errors and coefficients of variation, as given in Table 2 of this report, are estimated measures of sampling variation.

The margin of error, as used on page 1, gives a range about the estimate which is a 90 percent confidence interval. If, for example, the estimated percent change is -11.4% and its estimated standard error is 1.2%, then the margin of error is 1.753 x 1.2% or 2.1%, and the 90 percent confidence interval is -13.5% to -9.3%. Confidence intervals are computed based on the particular sample selected and canvassed. If one repeats the process of drawing all possible samples and forming all corresponding confidence intervals, approximately 90 percent of these individual confidence intervals would contain the estimate computed from a complete enumeration of all units on the sampling frame. If the confidence interval contains 0%, then one does not have sufficient evidence to conclude that at the 90 percent confidence level that the estimated change is different from zero.

Nonsampling error encompasses all other factors that contribute to the total error of a sample survey estimate. This type of error can occur because of nonresponse, insufficient coverage of the universe of retail businesses with e-commerce sales, mistakes in the recording and coding of data, and other errors of collection, response, coverage, or processing. Although not directly measured, precautionary steps are taken to minimize the effects of nonsampling error.

Ok again major code overhaul – checkout problems are fixed – Paypal is working 100% now.

Many extensions wont work still (expected)

The major Inventory issue seems fixed – missing inventory levels at random

UK users of Maestro can now checkout with date validation – whoops!

google checkout still working randomly – 1.3.2.4 was better here.

Getting there!

Keeping our image current with the times

Ecommerce changes almost every week. Our customer constantly have to merchandise their sites and appeal to their demographics. We are no different. We have decided to use WordPress for our company website. We came to this conclusion after building stores based on Magento but with a WordPress element. WordPress makes it easy to update content and keep the format clean.

We hope navigating our site is easy. We hope that you do leave your comments on what in particular you find good and if you have some comments for us to improve, leave them as well. Thanks for reading!

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