In an effort to focus on enhancing its Enterprise, Community, and Go editions, Magento announced this week that it is phasing out Magento Professional.

Different Magento Editions

If you are currently using the Magento Professional Edition, you will have a few available options when your license comes up for renewal.

1. Maintain your existing license for another year, after which you will need to switch to Magento Go or Enterprise editions ($2,995)

2. Remain on Magento Professional in perpetuity ($5,995)
Note: You will not be provided with any support and maintenance by the Magento team.

3. Upgrade to Magento Enterprise at an introductory price of $5,995

Magento also announced that as of March 1, the price for the Enterprise Edition will increase 11%. If you are currently using Magento Community or Professional editions and you’re considering moving to Enterprise, there’s never been a better time to upgrade! Contact Eyemagine, a Magento web development agency, today to learn how we can help you take advantage of all the features offered by Enterprise and secure your license before the price increase.

Likewise, if you currently use the Magento Professional Edition and have any questions about how Magento’s announcement could impact your business, contact us and we’ll gladly go over all your options in detail.

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At the X.commerce Innovate conference last week (October 12-14), eBay announced ground-breaking integration across multiple platforms that will ultimately benefit Magento store owners by tighter integration with PayPal and eBay, increased sales channels, additional tools for payment processing and online marketing, and much more.

We are excited about the announcement because merchants on the Magento platform will be fully integrated with eBay, PayPal, and other sales channels without making a single investment in integration software; it will all be included.

We took the X.commerce Pledge

We are so excited about X.commerce, we took the pledge to optimize customer experience across the entire commerce ecosystem.

Along with powerful new developments in commerce, The Shins played an amazing set to bring the first night of the conference to a close.

Stay tuned for more developments regarding Magento, x.commerce, eBay, and PayPal.

The tunnel into the evening's festivities

Developers and Merchants Mingling at Innovate

The Shins were the Headliners at this year's x.commerce Innovate Conference

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Other e-tailers are seeing similar success with a powerful e-commerce presence supported by a physical storefront.  Although not a guaranteed formula, the combination does boost sales and raise brand awareness.

As Google optimizes search results for local results, a physical store can boost consumer confidence, especially when it comes to purchasing apparel.

As you can imagine, this level of control over customer lists can be incredibly powerful for targeted email campaigns.

In addition to being able to separate lists of customers with Magento Enterprise Edition, customers can be provided with targeted content based on their customer attributes and/or past purchase behavior.  If you want to promote a certain product to a customer that has not yet purchased it, Magento Enterprise Edition makes it easy as a few mouse-clicks.

Contact us to find out how Magento Enterprise can help your business target customers accurately and effectively.

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• No development required
• See new store orders as they are placed in your store
• Invoice orders from your iPhone
• Ship orders from your iPhone
• Cancel orders from your iPhone
• Magento Magnate can give you access to an unlimited number of stores

Why would I want it?

• Check on store activity while you’re out of the office
• Continue operations during network outages or power outages
• Allow your support staff to help customers while they’re in or out of the office
• Send shipment updates while you’re waiting for your table at the restaurant or while waiting in line at the movies
• Process invoices… from the beach
• Reduce or ELIMINATE losses caused by computer hardware failures

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EyeMagine is an authorized OneStepCheckout partner and we highly recommend the OSC to all our clients. The OSC is the new must-have Magento extension that is taking the market by storm.

OSC is a total revamp of the standard checkout process in Magento. The core feature is that it reduces the six standard Magento checkout steps down to one. Totals and prices are dynamically updated via AJAX when shipping/payment method is selected. The user simply fills in their address and chooses delivery/payment methods on the same page, rather than having to do a separate step for each.

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