Tweet Here at LexiConn, we help migrate a number of Magento stores over to us from other hosting providers. We’ve noticed an alarming trend that many of these stores are not fully updated with the latest security patches released by Magento. More alarmingly is that a good portion of these stores often have hacked files, […]

Tweet The built-in import feature in Magento can often be frustrating due to its complexity and less than forgiving nature. In Magento 1, many extensions were created to aid in importing products quickly and easily. With the recent release of Magento 2, there are not many extensions to help with importing products. Documentation is also […]

Tweet Magento 2 was officially released on November 17, 2015 for general availability. It had a short merchant beta period that helped get the product ready for the masses. Magento 2 is a new ecommerce application, not just an update of Magento 1. Re-written from the ground up, it incorporates modern architecture and developer friendly […]

Tweet We recently had one of our hosted Magento clients appear on The Today Show in the “Jill’s Steals and Deals” segment. This promotion results in thousands of orders in a short period of time, with tens of thousands of visitors. Needless to say, it’s a big deal for a small merchant. Although there are […]

Tweet In the past few days, there has been a lot of talk and activity around a large number of Magento stores (greater than 7,000) being infected by malicious code that is causing Google to blacklist the sites. Sucuri’s blog post summarizes the issue. Magento also addresses this on their security website. What is the […]

Tweet Back in July, Magento announced the availability of the Magento 2 Merchant Beta release. This release is the last major milestone before the official Magento 2 version is released in the 4th quarter of 2015. A few links for more information about the Magento 2 Merchant Beta version: Magento 2 Blog Post on Magento.com […]

Tweet To borrow from Mark Twain’s famous quote “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”… Sucuri, the security company, recently published a blog post, Magento Platform Targeted By Credit Card Scrapers. In this post, the author seemed to indicate that hacks were happening in the wild, and it was unknown how the hackers were […]

Tweet On Sunday, May 31, 2015, the US Postal Service (USPS) released an update to their rates and services. One of the changes they made was: Origin ZIP Code required for Priority Mail International to Canada Sounds like a harmless change, but it has caused a few headaches with many ecommerce applications that offer USPS […]

Tweet If you missed the news, Google published a blog post recently stating: Starting April 21, we will be expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. This change will affect mobile searches in all languages worldwide and will have a significant impact in our search results. Consequently, users will find it easier to […]

Tweet Magento has several built-in options to facilitate free shipping promotions.  In this post, we’ll review each type of setup, as well as their pros and cons. Step 1: Enable a free shipping option Free Shipping as a standalone shipping method (Option 1) Stores configured to use Flat Rate or Table Rates as shipping methods […]