Project Overview

As their cute and sexy lingerie became increasingly more popular, ilovesexy.com was ready to expand sales of their merchandise by allowing customers to search and shop on their own turf. With products already available through eBay, Amazon, and buy.com, the home site desired a system that could easily allow ilovesexy fans to browse and buy directly from the source. Plus, every holiday and season new unique items are added to the bunch. What’s the most efficient way to manage more than one million merchandise that updates frequently?

The Video Beat sells classic Rock and Roll cult films on DVD. Word of mouth and repeat customers drove up the sales on its online store, and Video Beat needed a technology partner to take them to the next level. Silk Software intelligently integrated Magento with Video Beat’s existing systems. By doing this, we have helped Video Beat focus its search engine efforts, increase its customer care, and streamline its order fulfillment process.

 
CHALLENGE: a simple and efficient checkout solution for edible gift orders
SOLUTION: Magento Professional Edition with integration of the One Step Checkout module

Knob Depot (www.cabinet-knobs-pulls.com) is a leading online retailer. Unfortunately, Storefront.net, their Shopping Cart solution went bankrupt. As they struggle to get back on their feet, they leave their users without support and sales outages.

They quickly needed a technology partner to convert over 10K of products, preserve their SEO, and integrate a stable shopping cart solution. Silk Software worked with their team to convert from Storefront into Magento without downtime.

There are a lot of web hosting out there that doesn't work straight out of the box with Magento. For long time, I am looking for a fast and affordable hosting to be my play ground. I know Linux really well, but still hate to set it up. Here are my two finalist. 
 
Nexcess SIP plan
 
SimpleHelix's shared plan
 
And here is a more comprehensive list:
 

This document describes how to import database into Magento.  There are two majors database needing to import:"Customers" and "Products". However, in Products, there are two sub-databese needing to import as well.

a: import complete products with image gallry.

b: improt complete productc with categories

PaymentBridge is coming!
It will be made available prior to the July 1, 2010 mandate to utilize PA-DSS payment applications to maintain PCI compliance, avoiding the costly requirement to have the full payment application assessed as a custom application.

Southern California MAGENTO Meetup

We are holding the kickoff meeting for the SoCal Magento Users Group!
 
Attend this event for an opportunity to help us create the agenda, let us know what topics you would like to explore.
Preliminary agenda:
5:30 - Pizza/refreshments
6:00 - Welcome
6:15 to 7:00 - Featured Speaker (Mystery Guest from Varien)
7:00 to 7:30 - Networking