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Magento Enterprise Edition Demonstration

Please join us for our first in a weekly webinar series providing an introductory demonstration of the Magento Enterprise Edition eCommerce platform. Learn how the powerful merchandising, marketing and content management features provided in Magento can assist in growing your online channel during this demonstration webinar.

The webinar will provide a 60 minute initial overview of the Magento Enterprise Edition, from managing products to customer segmentation, including insight into:

Product and Promotions types available
Customer Segmentation and Loyalty Programs
Content Management and Personalizing the [...] Continue Reading…

At Magento we look at everything we do against one measuring stick—“enabling the eCommerce ecosystem”.  Today’s announcement that we’ve secured our first investment will further help us all continue to make this come true.  While the terms of the deal are confidential, we’re extremely excited about this investment and the capital will give us an even stronger foundation for growth as Magento continues to be adopted Worldwide. Our tremendous growth rate can be seen in our metrics:

Magento has been downloaded over 1.5 million times.
Is in active use [...] Continue Reading…

In the very near future we’ll be releasing the design beta of our new Magento Connect marketplace.  This new design isn’t the “Magento Connect 2.0” update you’ve been hearing about, but rather a refreshed design that will prepare the way for some of the larger changes ahead.  That being said, we’ve made a couple functional upgrades that will make Magento Connect a better experience for our users, and over the next week, I’ll be blogging about these updates so that our developers can prepare for them before [...] Continue Reading…

Going Live: Total E-commerce Execution

Please join One Pica and members of the Magento team as we present Part II of our Strategic E-Commerce webinar series, Going Live: Total E-commerce Execution. One Pica is a leading Magento Enterprise partner with a total company approach to marketing and technology. Join us as we present a free webinar on how to take your e-commerce site from concept to reality using a master plan for organizing and designing the key elements of a successful online store. Learn how to think [...] Continue Reading…

It’s been quite a week for Magento Connect.  On Monday, our Official Magento marketplace reached 2,000 extensions.  It was such a milestone for our community that we decided to hold a competition around the event, where three winners were awarded within one minute of the 2,000th posting (which was the Home Supplies Store by Magentist).

Congratulations to @expert_magento, @d_n_d, and @christophedavy, with a special honorable mention for @unirgy.  These winners will receive a Magento T-Shirt autographed by Roy Rubin, a copy of the highly-acclaimed Magento User [...] Continue Reading…

We’ve really upped the ante on this one!  You’ve heard the rumors, you’ve seen the leaked pics and proposed talks, and now we are finally happy to announce the Magento Developers Paradise, a developer’s mega event, coordinated by Magento Enterprise Partner NetResearch taking place in Mallorca, Spain.  If you are a Magento developer, if you build Magento projects, if you’re a Magento Connect extensions contributor or looking to learn more about the Magento platform then this is a MUST attend event where you’ll get a chance to [...] Continue Reading…

The recording of this week’s Partner Solutions Series Webinar, Managing Sales Tax in Magento eCommerce Applications, with Avalara is now available on the Magento Webinar Archive.  Please send any follow-up questions to .  Be sure to check out recordings of our other great webinars as well, all on the Magento Webinar Archive.

Also, as a special thanks, Avalara is now offering all webinar attendees 50% off of their initial one-time activation fee for the AvaTax service.  This offer expires on March 31, 2009.  For more information or to [...] Continue Reading…

A quick reminder that the first Magento Chicago Meetup is tonight. If you haven’t already, sign up to attendto meet with and learn from Magento developers and users.  Join members of the Magento Team and Lyons Consulting Group as we team up for the first ever Magento Chicago Meetup.  The Meetup will take place at the TechNexus and is for Chicago area Magento users, partners, developers and business owners to meet and share insights, challenges, best practices and success stories. If you’re in the Chicago area and [...] Continue Reading…

The Magento team continues to rapidly grow. We’ve recently added a number of senior positions, including:

Head of Marketing
Head of Support Services Group
Business Unit GM: SAAS eCommerce SMB
Business Unit GM: Training, Certification, Education
Strategic Partner Manager, North America
Strategic Partner Manager, Europe

If you love Magento (as we do), are passionate about eCommerce, and excited about the mission of “enabling the eCommerce ecosystem” worldwide, we want to hear from you! Send an email to jobs [[at]] varien.com with your resume (make sure to mention the position you are applying for).
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Managing Sales Tax in Magento eCommerce Applications

Magento™ now offers AvaTax™, a fully integrated on-demand sales tax management solution for your online business. Join us for a free webinar on the advantages and benefits of this industry-leading solution, including the easiest setup, the fastest and most accurate calculations available, and complete automated back-end reporting.

Topics include:

The challenges of sales tax calculation and compliance.
Changes in state sales tax legislation that could affect your e-commerce business.
How your company can achieve full compliance with the AvaTax solution.
Demo of the AvaTax Dashboard for [...] Continue Reading…

I’m excited today to announce an expansion of our strategic partnership with PayPal. As the leader in the global eCommerce payments market with over 81 million active accounts, PayPal is committed to the success of open platforms and a natural partner for Magento. Over the next few months, current Magento merchants will find an expanded and deeper integration with PayPal’s products and services, including a seamless and automated merchant on boarding process. Additionally, Magento will collaborate with PayPal on a number of new product initiatives to further [...] Continue Reading…

Magento Connect is growing up.  It seems like only yesterday that our extension marketplace went live after a 36-hour coding marathon that left at least one of our developers completely exhausted.  Magento Connect has since skyrocketed to nearly 2,000 extensions, and because the community has been an essential part of this growth, we thought it would be fitting to celebrate by launching a contest to find & announce our 2,000th extension.  The three winners will be declared in the news section of our official iPhone app (we’ll [...] Continue Reading…

A European fashion e-commerce platform for KangaROOS and Flip*Flop

Magento Partner Strawberries has developed a multilingual webshop to support sales across several European markets on behalf of southern German company Bernd Hummel Holding, licence holder for the KangaROOS brand in 16 European countries. The webshop sells KangaROOS shoes, clothing and accessories.

It was not only the qualities of the KangaROOS brand that were taken into account when developing the concept for the webshops, but also the translation of this concept into other brand formulas. Besides KangaROOS, the shop concept [...] Continue Reading…

Managing Sales Tax in Magento eCommerce Applications

Magento™ now offers AvaTax™, a fully integrated on-demand sales tax management solution for your online business. Join us for a free webinar on the advantages and benefits of this industry-leading solution, including the easiest setup, the fastest and most accurate calculations available, and complete automated back-end reporting.

Topics include:

The challenges of sales tax calculation and compliance.
Changes in state sales tax legislation that could affect your e-commerce business
How your company can achieve full compliance with the AvaTax solution.
Demo of the AvaTax Dashboard for [...] Continue Reading…

Do you spend time your valuable time dealing with sales tax when you could be growing your business?  Are you constantly updating rules and trying to make sure you’re in compliance with your local tax codes?  Magento is proud to announce that we’ve teamed up with Avalara (www.avalara.com), the leading provider of web-based sales tax automation solutions for businesses of all sizes, to enable Magento merchants to easily and affordably manage sales tax calculation, compliance, and exemption certificates.  As of today, Magento will offer seamless integration with [...] Continue Reading…

Will you be attending this week’s 2010 Retail Innovation and Marketing Conference in San Francisco?  Join us as Magento, along with Enterprise Partners Optaros co-sponsor the National Retail Foundation’s 2010 Retail Innovation and Marketing Conference on March 2-4 in San Francisco, CA.  Founder Roy Rubin and other members of the Magento team will be on hand throughout the opening reception and show.  If you are interested in meeting with any members of the Magento team please contact our Vice President of Sales, to schedule a time [...] Continue Reading…

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