Well, we finally got round to it. We've wanted to do it for ages (yes - since 2008 when XTENTO was established!) but somehow never managed to put fingers-to-keyboard until now.... So, drum-roll please... welcome to the XTENTO blog.
Our intention is simple - to blog about pretty much anything related to Magento we find interesting, be it our extensions or anything related to it.
We hope you enjoy our blog and we'd love to hear your comments on it.
Wondering why your Royal Mail tracking links in Magento are not working anymore? Royal Mail has changed the location of their tracking URL in June 2013.
The old URL used to track a shipment was:
http://track2.royalmail.com/portal/rm/track?trackNumber=#TRACKINGNUMBER#
The new URL used since June 2013 to track a shipment is:
http://www.royalmail.com/track-trace?trackNumber=#TRACKINGNUMBER#
(#TRACKINGNUMBER# is a variable that gets replaced with the actual tracking number)
It is highly recommended to update the URL in your tracking emails if you're using our Custom Carrier Trackers extension, as otherwise your clients could be confused if a 404 not found page shows up when trying to track their shipment.
Not using our Custom Carrier Trackers extension yet? You can easily set up custom tracking links in Magento using it. Tracking numbers will automatically be replaced in the URL so your customers don't have to enter the tracking number manually. If you are using custom carriers which are not supported by Magento out of the box, you can use it to easily add custom tracking URLs to Magento.
Did you hook up your Magento store with shopping sites, marketplaces and price comparison websites yet? If not, you should do so - soon! More and more shoppers are using price comparison websites to find the best price for a product or even to discover new products. If your products are not listed on these sites, your products can't be found and you're potentially losing sales.
There are hundreds of websites where your products can be listed, however, often getting your products out of Magento into a format that can be imported by shopping engines like Google Shopping or TheFind is almost impossible, as the built-in product export of Magento is so inflexible.
That's why we at XTENTO decided to develop a new Magento extension which makes it possible to set up feed exports out of Magento in any text-based (CSV/TXT/Tabbed/XML/...) format. Using our Magento Product Export Module, setting up product exports is a breeze.
The module comes with 15+ free connectors for popular shopping sites like Google Product Search or Nextag. If the website or system you want to send your products to is not listed here yet, please feel free to drop us a line and we will be able to set up your export format at no extra cost usually.
Start generating more sales today and connect your Magento store to shopping engines - easier than ever before, and with a promised return on investment within days.
Click here to see all features. Be sure to check out the demo and the screenshots as well.
To everyone using our Magento Order Export Module (70+ 5 star reviews) already: Our new product export module offers the same level of flexibility and ease of use - you'll feel familiar quickly.
Press Release
NetDespatch, the leading provider of web-based integration solutions for customers of postal and parcel carriers, has worked with XTENTO to create a fully supported Magento Commerce extension that allows easy automation of parcel despatch operations for UK retailers.
The NetDespatch solution within the XTENTO Magento Integration Suite(TM) facilitates instant and accurate electronic transfer of order details from Magento Commerce to a wide range of postal and parcel carriers, including APC Overnight, Nightline and Royal Mail.
“With this Magento integration, the time consuming manual entry of shipping data into different carriers’ systems becomes a thing of the past. This data entry work can be a limiting factor to business expansion and by slashing the time it takes to fulfil orders many more packets and parcels can be shipped for next day delivery,” says Steve Sneath, Retail Solutions Specialist at NetDespatch.
Once a user has selected orders to ship in Magento, the new XTENTO integration provides a specially crafted file for NetDespatch containing all data for the orders to be despatched. This data is then picked up automatically for the printing of the shipping labels on any label printer, anywhere in the world. Once the label has been printed, the tracking numbers are automatically returned into Magento via XTENTO, once again saving manual data entry.
NetDespatch, recently recognised as one of the top 20 Cloud companies in the UK, connects retailers, mail order companies and manufacturers to their postal and parcel carriers using advanced web-based software and services, and has a reputation for providing a high level of service which is ‘always there’.
XTENTO, a Magento Bronze Industry Partner, has been providing high-quality Magento extensions and integrations to thousands of customers, from small businesses to large companies, located all across the world since being established in 2008.
“Using the Magento Integration Suite by XTENTO and NetDespatch eliminates manual processes and saves businesses hours of unnecessary administration. We are very pleased to have this extension up and running and look forward to sharing the benefits with our customers”, added Sebastian Enzinger, Managing Director of XTENTO.
We're delighted to announce that the latest versions of all our extensions are compatible with Magento Community Edition version 1.8 as well as Magento Enterprise Edition version 1.13.
To view all XTENTO extensions and find the latest versions available, please click here.
