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If you have multi-stores configured in your Magento and you want to have single cart for all multi-stores this article is what you need.

All your multi-stores will be not separate websites, they all will have single cart (share cart content between multi-stores).
Also your customers will have single account for all multi-stores.
 

Using our methodology and our Magento import scripts you will be able to successfully transfer customers data, categories data, products data from X-Cart to Magento platform.

Besides data migration process description we published here special Magento extension. Our extension will allow you and your customers to see X-Cart orders in your Magento admin and storefront. You can download the Magento extension and import scripts here.

Very often our clients ask us for recommendations on which hosting company to choose for their Magento stores.

If you plan to use full power of Magento, e.g. multi-stores feature, build-in performance optimization modules, it is highly recommended to choose right hosting from the very beginning.

We will not advertise any hosting providers in this blog post, instead we gather here the most important and serious questions that you should discuss with any hosting provider.
 

The following article may be useful for front-end developers, it describes how to add breadcrumbs on the page (where it is not supposed to be by default) using layout XML and minimal PHP programming. It describes adding of 2-levels breadcrumbs (i.e. "Home / Some page") which is needed in most cases.

If you use configurable products in your Magento store and your super attribute have a lot of options (thousands of options), you can experience the following performance issues:

• Loading time of a configurable product page is more than other pages (especially when Magento cache is disabled)
• When you add a configurable product to store cart, cart page become slow
• When configurable product is added to store cart, all store pages become slow

In this article I will show how to debug such issues and how to fix the speed issue I described above.

Magento is SEO friendly shop engine that allows you to get more traffic from search engines. However it is very important to configure Magento SEO features correctly from very beginning.

In this article we gathered all default Magento SEO features. Use this article as SEO guide or SEO checklist for every new store you launch, and your Magento will be search engine optimized.

Periodically our clients ask us, what to choose for on-line business, Magento Go or Magento Community platform?

There are even some clients who already chosen Magento platform and even created design for it. However after several weeks or months of design development, it appears that they choose wrong solution, because of platform limitations or some other reasons.

Don't do the same mistake.

Everybody knows that there are many successful stores running Magento. However, there are many others which are not successful or who cannot open the store after years of development. There are different reasons for that, but I tried to collect most common mistakes of the store owners. Most of them are obvious though.