Install Magento Security Patch – UK Service

It is important to protect your website from possible hacker attacks and make the Magento system much more secure, so new patches are regularly released by the magento team. And it’s extremely important to timely install Magento security patches to keep your website and data safe. We offer a patch installation […]

Magento Payments in Paypal but no order in Customers Account

If u have setup paypal on magento and a customer or you have made a transactions using paypal. You might have noticed that the paypal orders are not shown on the “My Orders” section on the customers “My Account” section. We faced this issue with one of our clients recently and […]

How to Turn on PayPal IPN When Using Magento & PayPal

Turning on the PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN for short) really should be a must for any size magento website using paypal as it simply means that when a customer pays for an item or order using PayPal then the payment information will be updated on the Magento order details your admin. It […]

Magento Wholesale Qty – Add by Case Size

We service a lot of wholesale companies in the UK. Although Magento is a very capable e-commerce system it still requires modification in most instances to make it function exactly how you want it to. For our wholesale customers we needed a way to change how the “add to cart” […]

Magento Go Shutting Down, Migrate Magento With Us Now!

Magento Go Shutting Down, Migrate Magento With Us Now!

Magento Go store owners were served up a surprise today when they logged into their stores. All Magento Go accounts will be closed definitively as of 1 February 2015. eBay, Inc, the parent company of both platforms is recommending merchants either move their stores to Magento Community Edition or Magento Enterprise […]

Magento Community Edition Release, version 1.9 is now available!

Magento have just released a new update for Magento Community Edition, version 1.9 is now available!> There are multiple changes & updates included and you can read all about the 1.9 release here: http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/ce19-later-release-notes We would recommend… not jumping in and upgrading this week, hold off until for at least […]

Do Mega Menus Negatively Effect SEO and Conversions

Do Mega Menus Negatively Effect SEO and Conversions

There has always been a butting of heads between User Experience Gurus, SEO Masters, & Frontend Developers on the subject of navigation and more so in recent years with the popularity of the ‘Mega Menu’. The reason for this being a ‘touchy subject’ generally is because navigation needs to achieve […]

Magento Checkout Error

Magento Checkout Error

We recently had an issue on a Magento 1.8 client site after installing a theme that had been designed for an older version. The issue was with step 3 : Shipping Method. The Checkout process seemed to be stuck on this step and would not allow the customer to proceed. […]

Hiding admin menu items in Opencart

Hiding admin menu items in Opencart

How to hide the admin menu items in OpenCart There are several reasons you may want to do this that we have found Hide items from users that do not have viewing access privileges. Hide unwanted items such as Openbay which now ships with opencart. Hide the Help menu from […]

Magento SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1194 Table ‘catalogsearch_fulltext’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired

Magento SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1194 Table ‘catalogsearch_fulltext’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired

We had a slight error on a customer website today. Here’s the error SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1194 Table ‘catalogsearch_fulltext’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired Luckily this sort of error is a simple fix it’s a minor corruption of a database table and normally can be sorted very […]