Working closely together since 2008, Magento and PayPal have an impressive record of shared success due to their partnership. Both are unquestionably part of the Web's e-commerce fabric and account for over 150,000 web properties (Magento) and 100+ million active online buyers (PayPal). As members of eBay Inc’s family of brands, the outlook for both companies is bright. This March, Classy Llama was presented with an opportunity to both serve a client with excellence through a custom extension and enhance the larger Magento community by making that extension publicly available through our partnership with PayPal. Growing Together The PayPal Partner Program was launched in 2007 to communicate the company's commitment to the e-commerce industry by providing a trusted, flexible, and fully...

We've found out how to swap images based on a configurable option with MagicZoomPlus! And we've done it despite the inconlusive feature description from Magic Toolbox's Magento Modules FAQ section: Q   Do these tools support configurable products? A   Configurable products are not supported but configurable product attributes and product options are supported. Also, no need to edit any code or install the Better Configurable Products (BCP) Module they suggest! Here's How to Set Up MagicZoomPlus to Get Configurable Products to Swap Images The tricky part is getting all the steps below exactly right. Miss one of them, and the whole thing blows up. Install the Magic Zoom Plus for Magento Module Create a configurable product with associated simple products. CRITICAL...

Do you have clients who are reporting that their customers are unable to checkout, but you can't find any problem with your client's Magento checkout process? Are customers of your Magento site complaining that they have to re-enter their address because they can't check out? We may have an answer for you! Yesterday, we discovered the source of a particularly ugly issue that has been plaguing one of our clients. For months, customers of this client's Magento site have been complaining of problems checking out, but we've never been able to reproduce their issues. We found out yesterday that their was a gap in some of the customer data that had been imported into Magento when the site was first built. Some customers have customer accounts with saved addresses, but those addresses do not...

Magento Imagine 2012 in Las Vegas was an event to be remembered, and it was quite a while ago, and I’m still recovering from it. As Magento has continues to grow, we are impressed at their ability to keep it personal. Every detail in the events exuded quality and the focus on relationship. The expo hall was a much more open and relaxed evironment, unlike the more crowded and sterile expo feel. There was so much attention to the details, down to the matches at the hand-rolled cigar stand being branded with the Magento logo. As at Innovate, the final keynotes were dismissed to the Magento staff lined up clapping for their clients and partners, a nice final touch. Imagine and Innovate are our favorite events every year. One of the key announcements was the release of Magento Enterprise 1.12...

Classy Llama Studios is excited to announce that it just got easier to increase sharing and track social ROI on your Magento site!  We've partnered with AddShoppers to provide a hassle-free way to add the AddShoppers social sharing and analytics platform to your site quickly and easily. AddShoppers is an open sharing platform built for social commerce. They increase sharing by rewarding and incentivizing social actions. Meanwhile, their social analytics measure ROI and provide deep insights, for free. Retailers can identify their most social products and influencers (and sort by Klout!). For example, a retailer can see a Facebook “Like” drove 8 clicks and two of those people ordered for a total of $125.49. All you need to do to get started is: Get your free account at AddShoppers...

We've got some great news to share here at Classy Llama: Five of our developers took the Magento Certified Developer exam yesterday, and all five passed with flying colors. This brings our total count of Magento Certified Developers to nine, with seven having the distinction of the Plus certification.  This means that we have more Certified Developers than any company in the world.  We also have the privilege of being a member of the Developer Certification Board. What does this mean for the future at Classy Llama? It means we'll continue to be able to find and create dependable solutions to any need you have for your Magento eCommerce store and you'll be able to count on the solutions we provide to work as expected, without hiccups. We want to congratulate Chris, Dave, Jonathan,...

With Christmas fast-approaching, most of the llamas and their families are heading to online stores to find gifts. You already know the reasons for wanting to shop online: awesome prices, free shipping, wider selection, and not paying sales tax. Possibly most importantly: the only way to do all of your shopping in pajamas! Here at Classy Llama, we know eCommerce. Working with and building sites all day long gives us a pretty keen eye whenever we go to a site. We know what quality looks like. On the flip side of that, we also can tell when something isn't right. This past weekend when my wife plopped her laptop down beside me and asked me the question "Should I order from this site?" It prompted me to show her how I validate the occasional site that I go to that looks sketchy. This post...

Yesterday was all about X.commerce and the community at large, but today we focused solely on Magento. During the first session, we got to hear from Dmitry Soroka about what the Magento 2 roadmap looks like. Magento is putting a lot of effort into making Magento 2 a real upgrade from Magento 1: making it faster, more scalable, more expandable, more flexible, and more awesome in general. Here are some of the highlights: Backwards Compatibility is broken - Normally developers love backwards compatibility because it makes our lives easier: we don't have to update code every time a new version comes out. However, this time around, Magento has decided to forgo it. This is actually a very good key decision. Now, they have the chance to fix some important architecture problems that would...

[By the way, if you haven't already, you should check out our blog post about the Skype Extension we wrote for Alfred that allows to send Skype messages with Alfred.] Alfred has featured our Skype Extension on their new support site as one of their team picks. I received this sweet email from Anna Manasova, the Community and Marketing Director for Alfred: Hi Kevin, Just wanted to drop you a quick line and say thanks for creating a brilliant Alfred extension. We've now launched a new support site for Alfred and with it a section showcasing some of the best user-created extensions (including yours!). I use Skype everyday so yours is very useful. You can find our extension on the "Every Day Useful" extension page.

Good golly, what a day! So much ground was covered today. It would be really hard to talk about every single thing that happened today, but we'd like to share we you some cool...