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As the Magento ecosystem is still on cloud nine from all the fun at Imagine 2012 in Las Vegas, the community in Europe is gearing up for some major Magento excitement with three upcoming events! Our excellent EMEA team will be attending each event, so be sure to meet them and ask any of your pressing Magento questions.

	Meet Magento Germany 2012 will mark the 6th Meet Magento Germany and every year this two day conference gets better. The event is sold out to over 500 Magento developers, enthusiasts, partners and professionals but you can still get a ticket to the legendary After Party at Moritzbaste. Be sure to watch all the Magento passion LIVE from Germany at http://live.meet-magento.de
	Bargento France Now on its 7th event, Bargento is the event to attend in France for anyone in the Magento community and will draw over 1,000 attendees. New this year, Bargento will feature free reviews from “Website Doctors,” the meeting of CUMEF, the Magento Enterprise France Users Group, and an After Party! http://www.bargento.fr
	Meet Magento Netherlands The Netherlands will mark the conclusion of the European Magento Tour. The fourth Meet Magento conference in The Netherlands is taking place on May 29-30, 2012, organized by the Dutch Magento community and has become the most important event for all Dutch users of the Magento platform. http://www.meet-magento.nl

Be sure to follow them on Twitter for all the updates and photos!

Meet Magento Germany: @meetmagento and #mm12de

Bargento France: @bargento and #bargento

Meet Magento Netherlands: @mm12nl and #mm12nl

Merchants have been asking for a fast and secure way to integrate more business applications within Magento. We’ve met this request by introducing the Magento REST API as part of the Magento Enterprise 1.12 and Community 1.7 releases.

Noteworthy benefits of the REST API include simplicity, ease of testing and troubleshooting, and better performance. It allows you to manage customers, customer addresses, sales orders, inventories and products using HTTP verbs such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE. Data requests and responses can be in XML or JSON format.

REST Resources

REST resources are simply the entities or identities that are exposed to the developer. REST defines the identity of the resource via the URI (uniform resource identifier). Each resource has a unique URL address and any interaction with a resource takes place at its URI. The following resources are supported in CE 1.7.0.0.

• Products: Allows you to retrieve the list of products, create a simple product, and update or delete a product.
• Product Categories: Allows you to retrieve the list of categories assigned to a product and assign or unassign a category to a product.
• Product Websites: Allows you to retrieve the list of websites assigned to a product and assign or unassign a website to a product
• Customers: Allows you to retrieve the list of customers and create, update, or delete a customer.
• Customer Addresses: Allows you to retrieve the list of customer addresses, and create, update, or delete an address.
• Inventory: Allows you to retrieve the list of stock items and update a stock item.
• Sales Orders: Allows you to retrieve the list of sales orders and specific order information.
• Sales Order Items: Allows you to retrieve the items for a specific order.
• Sales Order Addresses: Allows you to retrieve billing and shipping addresses for an order.
• Sales Order Comments: Allows you to retrieve comments for a specific order.

Preparing to Use REST API with Magento

From the Magento store admin panel:

• Set up permissions to operate with resources for the three different user types: admin, customer, and guest. The admin is the backend logged-in user, the customer is the frontend logged-in user, and the guest is a non-logged-in frontend user.
• Configure which attributes will be allowed to retrieve or update for the different user types
• Register the third-party application (setting up consumer) and provide the information to the third-party application.

For a more detailed explanation with sample data, check out our wiki page. As always, we welcome your feedback and are eager to help with any issues you may encounter. Please use our bug tracker and choose the Webservices API from the Category selection.

This year Magento will pay another visit to The Netherlands for the conclusion of the European Magento Tour. The fourth Meet Magento conference in The Netherlands is taking place on May 29-30, 2012 and is organized by the Dutch Magento community. The event has become the most important yearly event for all Dutch users of the Magento platform, developers and partners.

On May 29th attendees will receive the “Magento Introduction” session aimed at organizations that have recently decided to create their online store with Magento. This session will help new Magento users kick start their project and serves as an excellent preparation for day two of the event.

On May 30th attendees will benefit from the Meet Magento conference day and expo from 9 am to 6 pm. The day will feature over 25 presentations on various Magento topics including marketing, business, performance and development. There will also be several English sessions for non-Dutch visitors.

If you’re in The Netherlands or doing business with Dutch Magento companies, you can’t afford to miss out on this event! More info can be found on www.meet-magento.nl .

Event Details

• What: Meet Magento, The Netherlands
• When: May 29 - 30, 2012
• Where: Ede, The Netherlands (check for Hotel Reservations)

May 24, 2012 I 10:00AM PDT

Webinar: Sell More, Sell Better - Introducing Your Ultimate Back Office

You've picked the world’s leading eCommerce platform, now choose the leading small business management system to help you sell more and sell better. As a retailer you’ll have orders, inventory, customers and accounts to manage. It’s complicated, but with the right tools in place, you’ll be able to handle it all with ease. In our next webinar with partner, Brightpearl, you'll learn how to create efficiencies within your business. Here are the details of this presentation:

Date: May 24, 2012 10:00AM PDT

Presenters: Chris Tanner, Co-Founder and Head of Product, Brightpearl, Ciaran Cushley, Sales Engineer, North America, Brightpearl and Alyssa Gothelf, Online Marketing Manager, Magento

In this webinar, attendees will learn:

• Compelling reasons for adopting a fully integrated approach to software
• The benefits of a 360 degree view on inventory, customers, orders and shipments
• How to avoid selling more than you can handle
• How to identify the products where you make the most money
• How to manage multiple online and offline sales channels to maximize revenue & profit
• Tour of Brightpearl’s business management software

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Warby Parker, a company that sells prescription eyewear for $95 and donates a pair of glasses to someone in need for each pair sold, is one of the hottest start-ups around.

What began as a side project for a couple of full-time students quickly exploded after the company was featured in GQ and Vogue within a week of their launch.

In this newly-released 3-minute video, Warby Parker’s leaders describe their eCommerce journey and how Magento Enterprise is enabling and accelerating their success.

Thousands of companies – including many of the world’s biggest brands – are using Magento Enterprise to grow their online businesses. Wondering how Magento Enterprise can help your business?

The Magento ecosystem is still buzzing after the success of Imagine 2012 last week in Las Vegas and to keep the momentum going, join the Magento French community at Bargento!

Now on its 7th event, Bargento is the premier French eCommerce conference, taking place May 29th at CNIT in Paris and will draw over 1,000 attendees. Bargento has become an important event for those wishing to meet customers, partners, and some of the best and brightest minds in European eCommerce.

Bargento Will Feature:

• Magento Inc. keynote announcing new features for the coming year.

• Ten workshops where you can learn about the latest products and best practices for eCommerce success.

• An exhibit area that focuses on the interaction and relationships between merchants and developers.

• Free website reviews from “Website Doctors” François Ziserman, Olivier Sauvage, Oliver Levy and Vincent Gross.

• The first meeting of the Magento Enterprise France Users Group, known as CUMEF.

• After show party for attendees to relax and network while playing arcade games, billiards and bowling!

Bargento is the event to attend in France for anyone in the Magento community and you won’t want to miss it! Also be sure to check out the Bargento 2012 video below.

Event Details

• What: Bargento France
• When: May 29, 2012
• Where: CNIT, Paris



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