What do WebShopApps Do? This is a question we ask all prospective staff members. If they can’t answer with a few key words (one of them involving shipping), then usually the interview is over within 5 minutes and we just pad it out for 20 minutes more to be nice! But a lot of people […]
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Magento 2 – Time to get Behind It
What’s to get Behind? The standard joke in Magento has been around when will Magento 2 appear. Since it was first announced in 2010 there have been several false starts, partly to blame for this has been the eBay buyout of Magento, the change of CTO’s, Product Manager’s, X.commerce, and so on. But, in my […]
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Magento Imagine 2014 Wrap-up
Once again companies and individuals from around the world headed to Vegas for 4 days of Magento, networking, keynotes, casino’s and partying. The conference moved from it’s remote M Resort location to the slightly less remote Hard Rock Hotel. Here we mingled in with tourists, listened to crazy music blaring whilst trying to have breakfast […]
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Roy Rubin Moves on from Magento
Well, it’s been coming a while, and finally less than 2 weeks before Imagine Roy Rubin announces he is stepping down from Magento. Roy, along with Yoav Kutner, first brought us the Magento platform back in 2007/2008, initially under the Varien company. Since then it’s been a fast ride for many of us as we, […]
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Magento – Now and The Future
Been meaning to write this for a while. It’s interesting to think about Magento, where it’s come from and where it’s going. The recent Meet Magento in Spain raised the question about the future of the Magento eCoSystem, and raised questions around Magento/eBay itself, and the future of the community. So here is my perspective, […]
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WebShopApps opens in the US
As normal, life is busy at WebShopApps. I’ve sat back tonight under orders from our new Partnership & Marketing Director Daniel to give you an update on where we are right now. Now, I could give you a pumped-up blog about how great we are, and god bless america, etc. But I’m not, I’m going […]
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WebShopApps goes Platinum
It seems barely yesterday that I was trawling the internet in search of a good eCommerce platform to use for my husband’s site. I remember looking at osCommerce and thinking there has to be something better out there. I was fed up with hosted solutions, I wanted control, I wanted flexibility. This was 2008, just […]
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Using Video to market your Software & Brand
I thought I’d take a moment today to acknowledge the work of video production company The Buzz Lab and describe their impact on WebShopApps. If you’ve seen any of the promotional or explainer videos on WebShopApps or our YouTube channel over the past couple years, you were watching the handiwork of these esteemed production wizards […]
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Magento Imagine – The Greatest eCommerce Show on Earth
Its Friday and I’ve just touched down in Vegas for the Magento Imagine Conference. So why do many of us traipse from all four corners of the world to meetup here, whats the big deal? Let me try enlighten you from my perspective. Well, firstly if you work in Magento this conference allows you to […]
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USPS API Update Jan 13
USPS sent out an email at end of Dec 2012 indicating there would be a number of updates to their API from 27th Jan 2013. WebShopApps have assessed these changes and are providing the community with a patch to ensure you are able to move to the new API. The update to the rate calculation […]
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