Cluttered screen?

Make your workspace more fluid with our customizable panels that can quickly and smoothly come and go at the touch of a button. Each of the panels can be tailored to your needs - simply drag them to your preferred size and you’ve got a workspace that works best for your needs.

Edit Your Catalog with Ease

We’ve made editing your catalog easier as well. You can re-sort your categories simply by dragging and dropping them into the order you want. You can even create sub-categories by dragging one category into another. It’s that simple.

Keeping Track of Your Product Data

Don’t like the default data grid columns and the way that your products are organized? No problem. Just click on a column title to choose which ones you’d like to see and remove. and drag them into the order that makes life easiest for you, whether you put product ID or price first. Use the same click method to sort your products by the data column you want, and move through the catalog at a lightning fast pace.
This is just the beginning. Keep your eyes open for more Magento first-looks and features in the coming weeks.

Has anyone come up w/a solution for this?

Why is the core going to be zend encoded and NOT open to the public? If so, this is not a truly open source application.

Please feel free to correct me.

I do like all the new features and the approach to resolve some long unanswered questions and solutions on the consumer level. The only thing I am concerned about is the core or anything that will be zend encoded to shy away form true opne source.

We do look forward to this release and I am hoping to develop on this platform for my clients if it delivers the promises.

Thanks and good work magento staff!

I started investigating the alternatives and finally settled on CubeCart. It’s quite nice, but it still doesn’t give me the desired freedom.

I’m excited to see if Magento will be the holy grail in open source ecommerce development.

It will be relatively simple to change the look and theme of Magento (given its template-driven architecture). The real power and flexibility of Magento allows you to apply a different layout, theme, design on a per page, per category and even per product basis.

is is available for us to change the looks/theme of your product as easy as wordpress theme ?

Anyway, if Magento turns out to be as flexible as hyped, it shouldn’t be too much work to modify an existing payment system or even create it from scratch.

Oh, also, I hope the IRC channel gets more lively

Thanks

Product ‘7’ was supposed to be product ‘y’

URL rewriting will be supported in Magento ?

For example a quantity of 1-10 the price is 20.00, for 11-20 the price is 17.00, for 21 + the price is 15.00

Thanks, this cart looks awesome! Cant wait!

A roadmap will be published in the next few weeks with a detailed list of functionality and milestones.

- checkout without an account (guest checkout)
- export to QuickBooks
- different pricing depending on customer level (so distributors can order with wholesale pricing directly on the site)
- guided navigation within a product (options for size, color, etc) that allow each option to determine the next (different sizes come in different colors, etc)

Also, you never commented on whether or not this will be available for free...though I’ll probably be switching to it regardless

Roy

I feel that a front end filtering system is greatly needed.

No platform currently has this, and i feel it would be greatly valued. Have a look at http://demo.elasticpath.com/ and see their filtering system. I really like it and i think it would be a great asset to have.

Other than that, im greatly anticipation a release of this.

Thanks

Really can’t wait to see the final product.

Kudos Magento!

We know first hand the problems with osCommerce and it definitely feels from a different time period. Shopify, although visually appealing, does not allow the flexibility and control most merchants require (in fact, any hosted “software as a service” solution falls within that realm).

Magento is a product that is developed out of the frustration with the current solutions in the marketplace. Given our experience and with the help of the community, I am certain we can develop the next generation product that will allow the flexibility merchants need and expect.

Thanks for your comment!

Roy

In regards to your question about adding pages - no problem. You can add as many content pages as you wish and share common headers/footers/columns/*blocks* (as we call it), or not.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

Do you have a screencast of what the shopping cart looks like from the front end?

Also will there be ways of using this for creating pages that are not a store front. So lets say we use this to create a complete site AND the store front in one set of code, that way I don’t need to create two code bases or use two code bases to accomplish this.

Thanks,
Tony

I just wanted to follow up.  I’m a small business merchant, not a developer, so I hope my feedback will be taken in context.  IMHO the back office functionality, including inventory management and fulfillment, should all be handled by an independent middleware app.  Developing too much of that functionality into the cart would limit multi-channel operations.

However, having a well thought out integration plan with various 3rd party apps would make it easier for merchants to get up and running with your system.

Just my 2 cents.

Fulfillment is a huge issue to online retailers and we are fully aware of the lack of a comprehensive solution in the market that properly addresses it.

In regards to your suggestion on A/B testing for promotions, I don’t expect this will be something available out of the box (unless the demand is there). I like the idea, and I believe it will be easy to achieve such functionality with a few simple lines of code.

Thanks for the suggestions and keep ‘em coming.

Also.. what about fulfillment?  Seems like most cart never get into that.  Do you plan to integrate with an order management tool like Stone Edge, Mailware, Fishbowl inventory?  Or do you plan to have fulfillment functionality to print shipping labels, etc?

We’ll also present the control of variants(options/attributes) once its ready. Stay tuned and thanks for your interest.

I noticed you didn’t click on any themes or actually show how flexible the variant management is (which is really what makes or breaks a shopping cart system. Whats the products data model look like. I notices rows and rows of what looked like the same product repeated. Not very handy when trying to sort though hundreds of products.

Come on guys. This is a widgets demo, not a shopping cart demo.

pinxi - we are currently testing Magento internally. Thanks!

Wonderfull !
Does the cart will get a drad and drop system too ? (like http://formationvideo.emob.fr/vod/famille/d/0/2-graphisme.html ). =)

Examples of blocks:
* mini shopping cart that may be on most of the catalog pages
* mini login form in page’s header
* left column navigation
* newsletter form

(really anything on the site …)

Blocks can render HTML on their own or from templates (there is no restriction on the template engine used – you can use Smarty, Zend_View, or anything else) and you can even mix them if you wish.

This may be a bit confusing at this stage of the project but we’ll have detailed documentation as we get closer to launch.

As far as community based development, we will certainly provide a platform for the community to share and contribute modules - this is all in the works.

The code is not yet available because it’s not ready We expect the beta to launch in the next few months by early August or so at the latest.

Thank you for your interest and let us know if you have any additional questions

Will there be a community-based development system, kind of like what WordPress has, where users can submit tickets and modifications themselves?

Everything sounds great so far, and I’m excited to see how it’s going to turn out.  But I’m curious why you don’t release the code for it, given that it is, afterall, open-source.

Very cool work!