Warning mania – Finally concrete steps against the warning system

After we have repeatedly reported on legal adjustments in eCommerce and the associated warning risks in recent years, there is finally something positive: The legislature has now after long periods of announcement (last printed matter 19/12084) concrete steps taken against the warning industry and so did the Bundestag “Law to Strengthen Fair Competition” am…

Magento – More than 2000 Shops worldwide hacked in a weekend

Not only the corona virus is currently making a name for itself. The news about 2000 hacked Magento shops has been circulating since last weekend and is causing a lot of unrest in the Magento community. At first, no details were known how and what happened, but more became known every hour. So the purpose of the hack was to intercept customer payment data. The script…

Magento – Implement VAT reduction

After the last post was about our new extension, which automatically makes the required VAT adjustment by 19% on 16% and from 7% on 5% makes (Link to the post / Link to extension M1 or M2), now also a little turtorial how to get the gross prices in the frontend rel. can comfortably adjust, without all prices manually or by…

Lower VAT 01.07.20 – a consideration

At first glance, it seems to be from 01.07.2020 bus 31.12.2020 announced reduction in VAT rate of 19 on 16% (16%... there was something ) or. of the reduced set of 7 on 5% to lead to lower prices in retail for consumers - yuhu! So the plan, to boost the economy. On…

Magento 1.9 – Thumbnails / Store icons for categories and display them in the main category

We have a shop that offers different brands with their own logo. Now we wanted the respective logo as an icon for each brand category / Can deposit thumbnail, in order to then display all logos with the names of the respective brands in the top category “brands”. In Magento 1.9 In addition to an image, there is also the option of a thumbnail per category…