Migrating passwords from your old store to Shopify/BigCommerce/any SaaS …

It is not possible – isn’t it? Shopify is stating on their webite, that they can’t import passwords and the recommended way to migrate customers is to send them an invite/activation link. I’m sure you can imagine that you’ll lose a lot of customer accounts by doing this. That means as well you might lose“Migrating passwords from your old store to Shopify/BigCommerce/any SaaS …” weiterlesen

Shopware 6: Showing gross prices, net price, taxes and calculations

Our solution for the problem TIL: You can configure the price display on the customer group! This looks like this: What is this all about? If you change this settings at least two important things happen: The prices shown to the customer (group) is changed between with and without tax The price base changes For“Shopware 6: Showing gross prices, net price, taxes and calculations” weiterlesen

Shopware 6: Notice: iconv(): Wrong charset, conversion from `utf-32le’ to `utf-8′ is not allowed

We are launching another shopware 6 soon, but the server we are running on for some reason is throwing the above error: There is a thread on the shopware forum which helped a lot to identify the problem, but unfortunately my impression is, that the discussion is between non-techies, at least I don’t see an“Shopware 6: Notice: iconv(): Wrong charset, conversion from `utf-32le’ to `utf-8′ is not allowed” weiterlesen

Magento 1: Multiselect filter don’t show up/have no items

I just stumbled over an interesting problem. A customer of mine told me, that they are trying for weeks to get filters working and for some reason it just didn’t work. It sounded like an easy to fix problem to me, but the fact, that the (good) developers of the customer didn’t fix it themselves“Magento 1: Multiselect filter don’t show up/have no items” weiterlesen

Fixing DNS problems while migrating ecommerce sites (e.g. Shopware or Magento)

Back in the days, when we migrated websites from one machine to another it was easy, get HTML and CSS, move it to another machine, change the DNS record and bam. Done. Today it is not that easy, because we have a lot of services involved: CDN, DNS, ERP and many other three-letter acronyms. One“Fixing DNS problems while migrating ecommerce sites (e.g. Shopware or Magento)” weiterlesen

Shopware 6 – How to mysqldump

mysqldump –quick -C –hex-blob –single-transaction –quick, -q This option is useful for dumping large tables. It forces mysqldump to retrieve rows for a table fromthe server a row at a time rather than retrieving the entire row set and buffering it in memorybefore writing it out.–compress, -C Compress all information sent between the client and“Shopware 6 – How to mysqldump” weiterlesen

Why I think you can’t overwrite translations in SW6

I’m building a Shopware 6 shop and we implement a custom theme for our customer. To change the HTML structure we change templates, which is fine, but from time to time we only want to replace a translation, so I tried it. Use your own translation and “just do it” Shopware 6 has a good“Why I think you can’t overwrite translations in SW6” weiterlesen

SW6: Overwrite outer block but not inner

Shopware 6 is running on Symfony. Symfony is running on twig. Therefore the Shopware 6 default template is implemented in twig, which is pretty cool and provides a lot of syntactic sugar. I want to overwrite <div class=”col-auto”> and add a second css class. Two weeks ago I would have copied the complete block, changed“SW6: Overwrite outer block but not inner” weiterlesen