Magento Tips and Tricks

In this short Magento Training video we look at how you can implement a flexible pricing policy for individual products which is dependent on the customer. We also look at tier pricing and ways that you could implement both of these methods.

Magento 1.8 has updated the icons for widgets. No more generic icon for all widgets!

Being able to deep link from a blog or external website and put a product directly into your Magento stores shopping cart could come in useful. This is a brief tutorial on how to do this for simple products.

Magento Live is coming to London, this is the must attend event in the UK for merchants and vendors who use Magento. Find out what Meet Magento 2011 was like.

The London 2012 Olympics are over. What a great event it was and Team GB put in a fantastic performance which made a nation very proud. There are a lot of comparisons with training for an Olympic games and running a Magento store. We look at 7 Things we can learn to make your Magento store a gold medal contender!

If you run a shop and an ecommerce store Penelope Edwards of Multi Channel retails software specialists Brightpearl has some tips for you.

Dramatically reduce the number of spam and bogus signups you get on your Magento store. This video will show you how to use Magento's new captcha facility which was released with 1.7 of community and 1.12 of enterprise.

The latest release of Magento (1.7 community edition) came with a new facility to auto generate coupon codes. This video shows you, as a merchant, how easy it is to set up these coupons on your Magento store.

As you manage and run your Magento store you will come across problems that may baffle you. You update a product and the change is not reflected on the front end. You move a widget but nothing appears to happen.

Many Magento 'problems' can be solved simply by refreshing the cache on your Magento store

Before you call web support or your developer try refreshing the Magento cache.

Watch this two minute video which will explain how to refresh the Magento cache on your Magento store.

Back in April Magento announced the release of new versions of Magento Community Edition (1.7) and Magento Enterprise Edition (1.12). Tom Robertshaw of Magento Partner Meanbee gives a brief overview of what's new in these versions and why you should consider upgrading your store.