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With the UK VAT rate going up to 20% from 17.5%, many Magento users might be wanting to know how to change the tax rates in the backend of Magento. If you cater to many countries and wish to mass edit the tax rates, using the Import/Export feature is the best option. The following image [...]

The standard rate of VAT in the UK increases from 17.5% to 20% for all invoices raised on or after the 4th of January 2011. Unlike previous VAT changes this does not happen on the first of the month. Note: For companies outside the UK, this VAT change program does not need to be run. [...]

Today, Google released a new version of their Google Chrome web browser. Chrome is probably the fastest and most secure web browser and it supports all the latest HTML and web standards. With the new version, Google Chrome 9, Google have added PDF support to the browser. This means, you can double click a PDF [...]

Google recently launched a new feature called Google Instant to its search results. This feature offers searchers, using Google, a preview of the websites before they click the link. The snapshot of the webpage can help the Google user make a better judgement before visiting any website. The Ever Changing Google Businesses spend hundreds and [...]

When moving a Magento development site to live or cleaning up dummy orders and customers, you might want to wipe out all test customers and orders from the Magento database / backend. The following SQL queries can be run on the database. Be careful: make a backup of the database before doing this. I’ve run [...]

With Analytics, GetClicky and other tracking tools, you can setup campaigns and the revenue associated with it. To track the revenue of all orders in Magento, you will have to include a bit of Javascript code on the checkout success page. Edit the checkout/success.phtml file inside your template folder. In case of GetClicky, the campaign [...]

To use GetClicky analytics / tracking codes with Magento’s SSL (HTTPS) protected pages, you have two options. One is to use GetClicky’s HTTPS code throughout the website or use it within an IF clause. The following demonstrates an inbuilt Magento funtion to check if the visitor is on a HTTPS or HTTP page. The above [...]

The Scam There have been calls from companies that claim to be connected with Google and promising that they will get you to Google page one within the same day. The scam is that they ask you for £100 – £1000 deposit then a monthly payment of £30 – £300. How do they do it? [...]

Here’s how to replace the text links with images in the top level of your Magento menu (tested on Magento 1.4.1.1)… First, make a copy the following file… app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Navigation.php Place the file in folder… app/code/local/Mage/Catalog/Block/ – if this folder doesn’t exist, create it (This process creates a version of the Navigation.php which will over-ride the [...]

Recently we encountered a problem with Magento, where all our product catalogue images vanished from the page when we refreshed the Images cache in the Magento backend (System -> Cache Management). After hours of scouring the internet we discovered that, because PHP Safe Mode was enabled on our server configuration, the images were not auto-resizing. [...]