A recent query from a client arose when customers were being presented with the right cart totals all the way through the checkout process, but on returning to the site from Paypal, on the review page they were presented with a grand total which was double what they were expecting.…
Developments at HummingbirdUK HQ
Busy busy busy Wow, what a crazy few months we’ve had, so little time so much to do! We just got an e-mail from our WordPress server asking whether we had fallen out with it, as it hadn’t heard from us for so long. After giving its logs a good…
Migrating from Magento 1 to Magento 2 – advice for store owners
The launch of Magento 2 late last year was a big step in the Magento community. Migrating, not upgrading Historically Magento released updates every year or so, and one would upgrade from Magento 1.7 to 1.8, or to 1.9, and it wasn’t a huge jump each time. Magento 2, however,…
What are DMARC records and how can they help get your emails delivered?
This post looks at DMARC records, what they are, and how they can help in ensuring that emails to your customers don’t end up in their spam bins.
Improve search results in Magento – three quick and easy tips
Magento’s Achilles heel has always been its search functionality. Whether it’s returning too many of the wrong results, or not enough of the right results, or – as we experienced in one interesting instance – the same results no matter what search term was inputted, it’s always been a weak…
The importance of a good robots.txt file for a Magento store
Having covered why sitemaps are important, we now turn our attention to the importance of a good robots.txt file for a Magento store. (if you haven’t read it already, both of these arose from our post containing a ten-point health check for your online store). What is a robots.txt file?…
The importance of a sitemap for a Magento store
In amongst the recommendations for a health check of your Magento site contained in our recent post on the subject, checking your sitemap snuck in at number 4. This post expands on the questions of “what is a sitemap” and “why is it important to have a sitemap for a…