How-to Articles

How to Allow Users to Delete Their Account Data in Magento 2 A client came to us to implement a General Data Protection Regulation – or GDPR on their e-commerce webstore. One of her problems was that there is no way for a user to delete their account from the Magento profile page. This was one of the GDPR requirements. I was tasked by my team leader to find a way to solve this ...

I have gone through the process of creating configurable products manually for quite a few sites and its very time consuming. So, I decided to work out how to do it using a spreadsheet. Here’s how to make uploading of products in your catalog easier and to avoid the tedious process of creating configurables manually. In Magento 2, the easiest way to make mass changes to your ca ...

Downloadable products are as the name suggest pieces of electronic data that are sold on your site and are then downloaded. These can range anywhere from music and videos to programs and technical manuals.

Magento 2 is amazingly robust and customizable shopping platform. One of those customizations is the ability to have multiple languages, meaning customers can shop in their preferred language boosting the stores sales. To do this Magento 2 uses store views and language packs and this article will look at setting up a new store view.

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Did you know that Google can’t read images? At least for now it’s true. And it can affect your online sales! The alt tag provides a text based alternative to understanding an image by viewing it. This alt-text is useful to humans when images fail to load and also describe and provide context to search bots trying to interpret the web pages they visit. Which means that publishin ...

A simple product is the most basic type of product in Magento and the most widely used. It is also the basis of Bundle, Configurable, Downloadable, Grouped and Virtual products.

Setting up Magento 2 Shipping Rates Manually It is possible to setup your Magento 2 Shipping Rates without having a direct plugin from your courier company or postal service. This is sometimes necessary because certain courier companies do not have plugins for Magento version 2.x yet. Standard Magento Shipping Methods Out of the box Magento 2 offers you the Shipping Table Rates ...

Three Ways to Handle Bursts of Server Overload So what is this about? E-commerce site going down to user overload. Why and when it happens and how to avoid it. I’m a gamer through and through. The day my family bought our first pc, I was six years old and the first thing I did was to install all the demo games. Since then I have never looked back. Fast forward 20-years and I fo ...

Debugging MAGMI Product Imports Before Running an Import Always take a quick check of the total products shown on the Manage Products landing screen before running an import. This is shown as: ‘Total xxx records found’ MAGMI Error Trouble Shooting If your import should be working but is giving errors, check the items below. Check and check again and you will often find that you ...