With X-POS, merchants are able to:

• Reduce investment by deploying only one system for both online and offline sale
• Improve the efficiency with an intuitive user interface, barcode scan option and fast search function
• Provide a quick checkout while integrated to credit card swiper
• Ensure 100% uptime on store operations – using offline mode
• Customize their own custom attribute for search

We are working hard on improving the POS solution for Magento by making our X-POS effective, fast and easy to use day by day.

Curious about the solution? Shop with us now or contact us for more details.

Annually, in connection with the Magento Conference the Imagine Challenge is held with the purpose of sharing innovation and creativity among the community of Magento users and lovers. The Magento Imagine Challenge this year received a total of 172 entries in 3 different categories: Site Design, Site Promotions and Customizations.

Aiming to repeat the success of last years entry in the Imagine Challenge, we have entered the competition this year with a showcase for a client using our point-of-sale extension. Check out the entry and support by voting for us!

Point-of-Sale for Magento – “The premier point of sale solution for your brick-and-mortar store. Remove the hassle of syncing with external systems, and handle everything within your Magento shop. The X-POS runs directly in a browser, providing ultra-fast product searches, and takes care of the sale process in a simple one-screen user-interface.”

The POS solution is created on top of Magento to avoid having to sync products to an external system, and thereby make sure that stock and products are always 100% up-to-date.

The solution gives Alambika the ability to make their sales at a single page interface that supports searching by barcodes, credit card swiper features, and also handling sales when internet connectivity disappears.

This setup makes www.alambika.ca able to save time on the daily work of stock counting, sales report, and it also made their brick-and-mortar shop able to improve their POS activities without investing in new hardware.

Click here to vote our entry: http://goo.gl/az6hh

HardCasa offers a wide selection of the most sought after fashion wear, pop & rock fashion, jewelry and accessories, designed for fashion-conscious men.
The products are collected from all over the world, which helps HARDCASA to live up to its name. The site has recently launched a new look together with an upgrade to the latest version of Magento and is optimized for high performance speed. A number of new features include:

- New languages for Norway, Sweden, Finland
- Brands Filter
- Trust Pilot Integration
- Look book

The next release will include a responsive design and rewards point.

SHOP NOW at www.hardcasa.dk

Using the Dropship integration Magento web store owners will be able to sell products through multiple drop shippers, vendors, and suppliers. The check out process will be simplified as customers can choose from various shipping options on checkout and therefore, save time and cut the cost of the shipping fees.

Each of the suppliers/vendors will have different accounts, with address, email, and contact number and whenever an order is placed, an email will automatically be sent to the vendors. Each supplier will then package the products and sent them to the customer, based on the method selected by the customer.

With Dropship you can reduce your work load by making shipping procedure automatic. And it also works well with our other shipping extension to create a complete shipping solution for ecommerce web store owner.

PRODUCT FEATURES

- Supports multi-shipping methods – each supplier can set up and configure the shipping carriers as well as the shipping rates.

- Calculate shipping price and estimate time of arrival to the destination.

- Configurable locations and contact for each supplier.

- Supports multiple shipping carriers login per supplier

- Option to allow customer to select shipping methods for each supplier

- Fulfillment emails are sent to each vendor when orders are created

QUICK WORKFLOW OVERVIEW

1/ Store set up and creating vendor.

Before creating vendors, a store must be set up. Go to System -> Manage Store -> Create store

After creating the store, go to Catalog -> Manage Vendors -> Add new vendor to create vendor

2/ Configurable location and contact for each suppliers

Go to Admin -> System -> Configuration -> Sale tab -> Shipping setting tab and choose Vendor (store) that you want configure Origin address for.

3/ Set up and configure the shipping carriers as well as shipping rate

Go to Admin -> Setting -> Configuration -> Sale tab -> Shipping method tab under shipping setting to configure shipping method for each vendor

4/ Configure different shipping carriers

Each supplier will have different shipping methods to choose:

Here is one example of the outcome frontend:

Magento Imagine Conference in Las Vegas ended a couple of weeks ago, however, the positive effect created among the 1200+ participants seems to still remain (@MagentoImagine). More than 100 solution partners all over the world attended the conference. SmartOSC, being the only Vietnamese partner present this year, had the opportunity to experience this fun, inspiring and productive event.

Magento registered a high development during the past year. Acquired by Ebay in 2011, the Magento community now has over 800,000 members, 5600+ extensions made by 2,500 developers, and nearly 400 solution partners. Over 100,000 merchants rely on the platform.

During the three days, many topics of interest have been covered, from technology-focused sessions such as security, caching, deployment of Magento Enterprise, to business presentations such as “Web Merchandising”, “How to sell globally with Magento”.

It’s not so hard to notice that Asia is one of the growing markets for Magento, and while Australia has registered a high demand during the recent years, countries like China or Vietnam are showing up as very potential markets.

This year’s theme “What’s your Story” seems to be perfect, connecting merchants, developers, and agencies from all over the world.

So what’s our Story?

Since it’s inception in 2004, SmartOSC has positioned itself to become one of the leaders in the e-commerce service providers market. In late 2008, after implementing +100 ecommerce projects, we figured out we needed to focus on a serious platform. Magento was a perfect fit. Today, Magento is one of the most recommended and implemented platforms for our customers.

As of April 2012, with over 80 people, SmartOSC are proud to be one of the leading players within the Vietnamese markets, with more than 300 customers served, 400 projects completed and 200 extension licenses sold.

Finally, we would like to say “Thank you!” to all our old and new friends we met at the Conference. This is an amazing community, and the new business partnerships made during the conference is perhaps the most valuable thing we gained.

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Tripletex is a 100% web-based accounting system which is developed and provided by the Norwegian company Tripletex AS. Tripletex is the perfect financial system for small shops running Magento. The Tripletex module provides full payrolls records, expense reports, employee disbursements, direct tax-filing, KID-payment, etc., beside basic Magento orders management functions.

Our Tripletex extension lets you easily synchronize all the invoices from your Magento online store directly into Tripletex, where they are being recorded properly. Accountants can get full access to Tripletex, and will thus be able to manage the accounts for you without either them or you having to install a single application on your local PC’s.

Features:

1. Add Payment methods:

You can add more payment methods by using Add store button

Features:

For each payment type you are using with Magento (PayPal, credit card), you must have a similar type of payment in Tripletex so Tripletex can record the payment. Payment types in Tripletex are administered via Accounting → Settings → Payment Types, see the section Payment.

2. Export invoice to Tripletex:

Invoice will be transferred from Magento admin shop to Tripletex accounting system.
Go to Sales → Invoices. In the Invoices table, choose the “Not exported” invoices that you want to export to Tripletex system. Then choose Export to Tripletex action and Submit.

If the export invoice is successfully, the invoice will be displayed in the Tripletex invoice overview:

You can also configure the module, so that the transfer will automatically be processed within a specified time interval:

Export Active: Set to Yes to automatically transfer invoices taken into use.

Interval: Select the frequency with which invoices are to be transferred to Tripletex, choose between Daily, every hour or every 5 minutes.

Import Active: set to Yes to automatically check open invoices against Tripletex.

3. Tripletex Customer Number

When invoices are exported to Tripletex system, new customers will be created on Tripletex system. To check the customer number on Tripletex from Magento, go to Customer →Manage Customers → Account Information → Tripletex customer number

If you have a growing business and want to expand your revenue stream in Canada, there’s a pretty good chance that you are or will be a partner of Ingram Micro (IM), the largest global wholesale provider of technology products & supply chain management services. For that, you can’t miss this extension, a comprehensive tool which organizes the orders and products from IM to right inside your Magento admin panel.

Features:

1. Order management:

- On one side, convenient grid view with search and sort functions gives you an overview of your sales activities. On the other side, order view give you a clearly view of the detailed information of orders, along with the order line items.

- Automatically grab items from Magento orders to create new order on IM so that at the end of day you don’t have to manually scan all orders, extract items and add them to the list before making order request to IM.

- Order release option allows you to decide whether to release order automatically or not, or to remain on hold for extended period. You could set the Backorder processing option if you want to order even when product is out of stock and ship when it is available at the warehouse.

- Easy save and load shipping profile with Drop Ship Id management. Let’s skip the boring task of filling lengthy address lines each time an order is created, as every new shipping address is automatically stored for later use.

- Check order status is a very simple way to know the current conditions of your order.

2. Product Management:

- You could check price and the availability of any stocks at any time. Stock can even be tracked to warehouse for estimated time of arrival.

- In addition, you could even add the product to your Magento store having most of the input fields automatically filled with data returned from this request.

The Imagine conference 2012 for Magento is right around the corner, it starts on the 23rd April. As a Magento Development company we are participating to show our presence in the Magento community, and we are looking forward to getting some of the latest buzzes and trends for what is going to happen for the Magento platform.

We also enjoyed participating in the competition leading up to the conference with our short video. And we were pleasantly surprised that our video was chosen as showcasing. That is definitely a term that we do our best to live up to.

You can still see the short video here: http://challenge2012.imagineecommerce.com/entry/250841

For more detail please visit The Imagine Challenge Winners

A must-have extension for shop owners which help to streamline the order process and improve workflow for better product management between two systems. This integration with Supercom, one of the most preferred distributors of computer products and consumer electronic products will surely save you a lot of time and money.

Features:

1. Order management:

- Convenient grid view with search and sort functions is always the simplest way to have an overview of your sales activities. Moreover, data could be synchronized back from Supercome with just one click.

- Create new order with many configurable options: Requests sent to Supercom can be an action of Check, Quote or Order. Shipping status and note can also be added. Order can be created even when the product is out of stock with backorder option selected.

- Easy save and load shipping profile with Drop Ship Id management. Let’s skip the boring task of filling lengthy address lines each time an order is created, as every new shipping address is automatically stored for later use.

- Get tracking information for an order from Supercome, including tracking number, carrier code, serial number and part number. Up to 200 tracking codes are returned.

2.  Product Management:

- You could check price and availability of any stocks at any time. Stock can also be tracked to warehouse for estimated time of arrival.

– If the product’s price and availability haven’t satisfied you yet, detailed product attributes like image, product dimension, universal product code, category, etc. can also be obtained through product specification request. In additions, you can even add the product to your Magento store having most of the input fields automatically filled with data returned from this request.

We will be attending the Magento Imagine Ecommerce conference in April this year! In that occasion we have submitted a video for the Imagine Challenge. Check out the story, and give it your vote, if you like it:

Smart Passion: We follow Trung taking his first steps into the world of ecommerce development. A company that works with, thinks in and are inspired by Magento. Our company has since joining the Magento band-wagon thrived with the possibilities of the platform and the community surrounding it. In Vietnamese there is a saying, “Work hard, and Love will come! (Lao động hăng say, tình yêu sẽ đến)” – and in our company we have found the love in Magento

Watch the full story: http://challenge2012.imagineecommerce.com/entry/250841