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Update! Please see my new blog post about setting up the Magento cron system to get the most out of Magento and bypass major headaches in understanding how Magento works with cron schedules.

Wow! What a day I had yesterday. Upgrading Magento from 1.3.2.4 to 1.4.0.1 was an absolute nightmare! I managed to get a clients installation up and running in around 5 hours but it wasn't easy. So to help out my fellow Magento developers here is how I upgraded the software and consequently fixed a lot of MySQL bugs at the same time.

Have you received the error notice "This invoice has already been paid. For more information, please contact the merchant" when trying to process payments using PayPal?

Here is the fix:

Update! Handling multiple base currencies with Magento PDF document now available from designerbydesign.com.

Magento has the ability to handle distinct base currencies for multiple shops running off one code base. This offers great flexibility in pricing your products for different territories.

Using a well known online ecommerce store as an example (Apple.com) this article will demonstrate the benefits of choosing Magento commerce as your online shopping platform.

The Handling Multiple Base Currencies with Magento PDF has arrived. You can purchase it from designerbydesign.com for just $10.99. The tutorial will provide you with everything you need to know about configuring Magento Commerce to use multiple base currencies for your clients who trade internationally using fixed pricing fort different locales i.e. North American base prices that are different from European base prices.

Due to growing interest in my Magento work, this is a quick blog post outlining some my key Magento skills and live Magento websites:

Languages-Direct.com

Languages Direct is a mail order business set up with a niche list of customers. The main goal of the web site was to support the physical printed catalogue and provide an alternative payment option to customers. There are many customizations to underlying Modern theme such as enhancements to the shopping cart, product view and product listing pages.

UPATE 2: New Version posted today! The new module is updated to allow custom pages to be used across your entire site meaning your custom templates are no longer limited to CMS pages. You can now use your custom templates for Blogs, Checkout Pages, Shopping Cart, etc.

UPATE 1: New Version posted today! The new module is radically different from the old module and works perfectly with the latest version of Magento, so please delete all previous files before uploading the new version.

After a busy weekend putting the final touches to the The Relay Rips album cover artwork and attending the album launch party, I am back in work producing two new Magento Ecommerce websites that will be pure digital download stores. These sites are top secret at the moment but will be live in the next couple of weeks! Subscribe to my RSS feed to get the latest info on the projects I am working on and the businesses I am helping.

After spending some time experimenting with the Magento cron system I now have some good results and some helpful hints from a well placed source. During my tests I setup a cron command to launch the Magento cron.php file at intervals of 5, 10, 15, 30 and 60 minutes.

Here is what I have found out:

After months of transatlantic development I am pleased to announce that Audiomates.com is live to the world! This new language learning software application was developed by Bibliotek, LLC and I designed the interface, website and packaging for the product. I used Magento for the CMS backend; this will soon be extended to features on-line shopping and (hopefully) more digital products. The current website has been designed to facilitate version updates and for promotional purposes. Enjoy!