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Tomorrow’s Webinar: Managing Sales Tax in Magento eCommerce Applications

Koby Oz — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:48:01 +0000

Managing Sales Tax in Magento eCommerce Applications

Magento™ now offers AvaTax™, a fully integrated on-demand sales tax management solution for your online business. Join us for a free webinar on the advantages and benefits of this industry-leading solution, including the easiest setup, the fastest and most accurate calculations available, and complete automated back-end reporting.

Topics include:

The challenges of sales tax calculation and compliance.
Changes in state sales tax legislation that could affect your e-commerce business
How your company can achieve full compliance with the AvaTax solution.
Demo of the AvaTax Dashboard for centralized, secure management.

Do you spend your valuable time dealing with sales tax when you could be growing your business? Are you constantly updating rules and trying to make sure you're in compliance with your local tax codes? If you're looking for a better solution, please join us on Tuesday, March 9th at 9am Pacific Time for an inside look at the Magento and AvaTax solution.

Date: Tuesday, March 9th, 9:00 AM PST(GMT -08:00, Los Angeles)
Registration: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/190005171

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Expanding Our Partnership with PayPal To Further Drive eCommerce Innovation

RoyRubin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:41:00 +0000

I’m excited today to announce an expansion of our strategic partnership with PayPal. As the leader in the global eCommerce payments market with over 81 million active accounts, PayPal is committed to the success of open platforms and a natural partner for Magento. Over the next few months, current Magento merchants will find an expanded and deeper integration with PayPal’s products and services, including a seamless and automated merchant on boarding process. Additionally, Magento will collaborate with PayPal on a number of new product initiatives to further drive e-commerce innovation and expand the global reach of our product. More details will be released throughout the year. In the meantime, read the full press release to learn more.

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Magento Connect reaches 1,999 Extensions, and we’re giving away prizes to find number 2,000!

Tim Schulz — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:25:00 +0000

Magento Connect is growing up. It seems like only yesterday that our extension marketplace went live after a 36-hour coding marathon that left at least one of our developers completely exhausted. Magento Connect has since skyrocketed to nearly 2,000 extensions, and because the community has been an essential part of this growth, we thought it would be fitting to celebrate by launching a contest to find & announce our 2,000th extension. The three winners will be declared in the news section of our official iPhone app (we’ll also post the names here on our blog).

Ever since we first launched Magento Connect just under two years ago we’ve seen developers from around the world bring hundreds of innovative solutions to our over 40,000 merchants. Merchants have responded favorably, especially as they’ve needed to reach customers through new channels such as mobile and social media (Twitter, Facebook, MySpace), upgrade the designs of their storefronts, and integrate third-party solutions with the Magento platform to stay ahead of the curve.

Our 2,000th extension is just around the corner, and we’re launching a contest where three lucky winners will receive each the following prizes:

Official Magento Use Guide

All three winners will receive their very own copy of the Official Magento User Guide, which has received excellent reviews and comprises 200+ pages of detailed instructions addressing the platform’s innumerable functions.

Official Magento T-Shirt

When Magento Connect first launched, our exhausted developer was wearing more on his shoulders than just the pride of developing an excellent marketplace. Each of the three winners will receive an Official Magento t-shirt, and if you’d like, you can have it signed by our CEO, Roy Rubin.

Sneak Peek: New Magento Connect Design

We’ve been secretly working away on a new redesign for Magento Connect, and the three lucky winners will have the chance to see it before anyone else (and even provide us with some feedback).

Instructions
First, watch the counter at the bottom of our View All Extensions page, and check the first-listed extension when the counter reaches 2,000. Note that some extensions might be updated around the same time, so you’ll need to make sure that the extension you submit is indeed a brand-new extension (hint: it won’t have any reviews or downloads).

Second, tweet the name and link of the 2,000th extension to our official Magento Connect twitter account (@magentoconnect). The first three people who tweet the correct 2,000th extension will win all three of the above prizes.

Finally, we’ll announce the names of the three winners on the news section of our official Magento iPhone app (available <a href=”here). If you don’t have an iPhone, then don’t worry. Shortly after the announcement on our iPhone app we’ll also post the names of the three winners here on the Magento Blog. Be sure to check for your name and respond within 48 hours or we’ll need to award the prizes to the next person in line.

If you’d like to collaborate on this project or share updates with the community, be sure to use the #Connect2000 hashtag on twitter.

Good luck!

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KangaROOS: Hopping to Success on Magento

Koby Oz — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:56:00 +0000

A European fashion e-commerce platform for KangaROOS and Flip*Flop
Magento Partner Strawberries has developed a multilingual webshop to support sales across several European markets on behalf of southern German company Bernd Hummel Holding, licence holder for the KangaROOS brand in 16 European countries. The webshop sells KangaROOS shoes, clothing and accessories.

It was not only the qualities of the KangaROOS brand that were taken into account when developing the concept for the webshops, but also the translation of this concept into other brand formulas. Besides KangaROOS, the shop concept has also been applied to the summer shoe and accessories brand Flip*Flop.

Fully integrated e-commerce platform
Bernd Hummel Holding and Strawberries bore joint responsibility for the concept while the KangaROOS and Flip*Flop shops were under development. Strawberries took care of the design, implementation and management, and the Magento platform was used as an e-commerce solution.

The webshops are fully integrated with the Austrian logistics service provider Dohmen. In addition, the e-commerce platform is integrated with a credit-check module and various social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Studivz.

About Strawberries
Strawberries is a full-service internet company based in the heart of Amsterdam. Based on a clear vision, we have been developing and translating web strategies into functional, measurable internet solutions for 12 years. Thirty employees work together with our regular partners to ensure high-quality internet applications that are in keeping with our clients’ goals and the wishes of their users.

Strawberries works for clients including V&D, adidas, SEAT, Philips, Dolcis, Manfield, ProSport, Invito, VGZ, Vereniging Eigen Huis and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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