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So, Magento is a really great piece of software, but like any relatively new product, it’s missing some things that people think are important. One thing in particular that’s missing is a major aspect of tier pricing pertaining to configurable products. For example, if someone were to buy 4 red shirts and 6 blue shirts all from the same product, then they should still receive the discount for 10 shirts of that product.  Currently Magento only applies the tier pricing if they bought say 10 red shirts (all the same color, instead of a mix of colors).  This is a big problem when involving colors and sizes - if your customer orders 5 smalls and 5 mediums, and they expect a discount at 10 items, they will be upset that they do not receive the tier pricing discount. (more…)

Hey Everyone -

So, Tridian has been doing quite a bit of Magento development work lately, and in keeping with the spirit of “open source” software, we thought we’d share a module that we recently developed that addresses a very common need when creating an e-store with Magento. The requirements are to get the X most recently products added to the store (108 in this case) and display them in their own “New Arrivals” category, but make it so that the cart will automatically display the newest products based on the product’s creation date, without the site admin having to manually assigned them into and out of a “New Arrivals” category.

In order to create “New Arrivals” functionality on my client’s Magento store (which is 1.1.6, but this code also works for all versions of Magento through the current 1.2.0.1), I created the following module. My approach was to override the normal category behavior for my “New Arrivals” category and display a custom product collection instead.

Here’s how it went down… (more…)