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You can find the tool here: ImportYeti.com

For those who missed the earlier posts, ImportYeti searches 70,000,000 public shipping records to help you find a quality supplier 1000x times easier than Alibaba alone. You answer questions like:

• Who makes Fire Mountain’s metal beads? Answer: Guangzhou Tat Metal Works
• I thinking of buying barbells from Nantong Leeton Fitness Co., the #1 ranking company on Alibaba for the term “barbell”. Is Nantong Leeton Fitness Co. the right supplier for barbells? Answer: No. They are a big company but primarily sell resistance bands. Thus, they likely outsource their heavy metal work creating a more costly and potentially worse product.
• Who are the top companies & suppliers who import/export under HS Code 42.02.92 — trunks & suitcases?

I want to thank a dozen redditors from r/Magento who gave feedback on ImportYeti so far. It made a crazy difference. It really helped me understand how people actually use the tool and what needs to change. Over the past 90 days, I’ve completely re-done our HS-Code explorer, the hs-code sections on the company/supplier pages, added more search filtering options, fixed around 30 usability issues, fixed some janky technology choices I made in the beginning, fixed around 50 bugs and added a basic user management system to cut down on the expensive site scraping and lay the groundwork for csv export and “save a company” features that should be live for beta V4.0.

I’d love any and all feedback (love or hate)… no matter how brutal, small or crazy : ) I only want to create things that people really love. If you enjoyed this tool, have feelings on the monetization strategy, have any ideas for how to improve it, or found a bug/usability issue, I want to hear from you. Please PM me or comment below anytime

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Sorry if this seems like a shameless advertisement from my end, but I genuinely believe these videos are a great educational starting point for a-lot of fledgling Magento Devs out there.

A little context: I’ve been lucky enough to be his apprentice for about two years now, so the fact he’s condensing what he’s taught me into some well edited youtube videos is a great opportunity for anyone out there wishing to start and learn!

Hello, non-techie here. Lots of detail – questions at the end.

I recently (September 2020) migrated from Magento 1.9 to 2.3. Within about 6 weeks, I started getting Redis error messages when editing products. I get the following error message when I go to save after editing a product: Notice: Redis::exec(): send of 8192 bytes failed with errno=32 Broken pipe in /chroot/home/afd62225/SITE.com/vendor/colinmollenhour/credis/Client.php on line 1119

Note: I have BSS Commerce Magento 2 Product Grid Inline Editor installed which I use to edit inventory qty, enable/disable, SKUs, etc. However, it cannot be used to add new products or change in-stock status.

Once I get the error message, I cannot do anything with products EXCEPT within the Product Grid Inline Editor until my hosting company clears it out. I can still update items in the Grid Inline Editor but cannot change in stock status, change categories, edit the description, add new products, etc. This tends to go on for days, even as much as a week.

I host my site on Nexcess. My tech people who migrated me say it is a hosting issue. There have been multiple explanations from Nexcess for the error:

a. I am getting the error incorrectly: Reviewing the memory usage, peak memory used was 2.3G out of 3.0G. The max memory usage was 80%. $ redis-cli -s /var/run/redis-multi-afd62225.redis/redis.sock info memory| egrep “peak_|human” | grep -v system used_memory_human:1.88G used_memory_rss_human:2.12G used_memory_peak_human:2.36G used_memory_peak_perc:79.98% used_memory_lua_human:37.00K maxmemory_human:3.00G So we are not sure what is causing this error, as there is available memory.

b. That it was a set up issue: When the domain was changed to SITE.com the path in the cron had not been changed.

c. That there was another set up issue: The task to clear out invalidated indexes has not been running. This allows the page cache index keys to grow indefinitely until eventually consuming all of the Reds memory.

d. That I need to change the page cache to Varnish, which I may have to do for an additional $20+ per month: Given that the issues with Redis are being caused by your page cache, I would also recommend transitioning the page cache to Varnish. Varnish has many advantages over Redis when used for page cache. Additionally, this will reduce usage of redis to only backend cache and sessions, which would further alleviate issues regarding Redis memory usage.

They are now saying this is a known issue in 2.3.4 that is fixed in 2.3.5. My tech team wants to charge $600 to upgrade my brand new Magento 2 store.

Questions:

1. Anyone have this issue and know what causes/fixes this?
2. Will Varnish or upgrading to Magento 2.3.5 REALLY fix it or am I throwing money away?
3. If so, upgrading, is $600 a decent price?

Thanks!

Hello,

Back in 2012 I setup a Magento Store for client with 40K products — has been working great ever since — I have not worked with this client in many years — recently they reached out to me because their site “broke” aka PHP was upgraded to v7 and 1.7 not compatible. I got site back up by switching PHP back down. But I know I need to help them get store upgraded.

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Does anyone have advice on best way to migrate site from v1.7 to latest stable ? Store is pretty basic using theme with minimal customizations. Just houses a lot of products that I imported via CSV years ago.

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Thanks,

I was researching this in Google and it sounded like it was possible but I’m not sure. Is there a way when creating a user role that you can limit access to a particular store view? I mainly have somebody who comes online to edit content on CMS pages and product pages but I would like to limit their capability to just a particular store view so they don’t go changing other products on other stores. Is this possible to achieve? If not through regular admin settings, are there third-party extensions that make this possible?

Has anyone got any experience in this?

We sell through several channels, so we can’t *just* make people create an account to get their warranty details. I was hoping for a plugin or method for asking customers to enter their product details or serial number and contact details in order to extend their warranty.

Would appreciate some opinions from the community about the logistics involved!

Hey everyone – if you own a Shopify/WooCommerce/Magento site, how do you find a buyer when the time is right? (brokers? forums? Shopify exchange marketplace?) Looking to sell mine and not sure where to start.

Hi guys! I’m trying to build an agreggation site which summarises products from other Magento webshops and when clicked, deep-links and skips the checkout in the actual shop to the ‘Payment’ page. What are the ways to achieve this, such that size, colour, etc can all be passed over from initial aggregation page? I know Lyst.com does something like this but without the pre-filling of size, colour ,etc.

Any examples of sites that already does this, or plugins that can help with this?

As a junior developer, I have to make a custom payment method that gets credit card information from user and sends to api (also custom credit card form with its own html/css). This is my first time working with magento 2. Im using 2.4.1 version. I have been struggling for a month.

Magento docs really dont help and it is difficult to find any useful source. Do you have any recommendation?

Do you need elastic search or is it a soft dependancy?

Hi, I am using magento 2, free version and am trying to export a list of all my skus and their barcodes. the selections I choose are product > no exclusions but the barcode is listed in the attributes and difficult to find when i download the CSV, can someone please help me? Thank you

I’m trying to work out what are reasonable expectations and how my timeframes match up.

So how long do common development tasks take you and what would you timeframe would you expect someone whose taught themselves and been working on Magento 2 for about 2 years to take doing them?

Examples I can think of (based on things I’ve had to do at least once):

• 2 admin ui components for a custom module, a grid leading to a form with the data providers, collections and admin controllers
• Checkout customisations – adding legal notices, new fields, a new step
• jQuery frontend widget
• a minor version update (2.3.4 to 2.3.5 etc.)
• The 2.4 update

I’m hoping this may give me an idea if I’m slow or are expectations and work load rather high at the moment.

This sounds like a great opportunity!

https://www.krishtechnolabs.com/job/senior-magento-developer-usa/