MagneticOne Store Manager -- anyone got it?
 

A while ago I was asking for a program that seems to be exactly what this seems to be.

http://www.xcart-manager.com/

But I havent heard of MagneticOne before. I am playing about with the trial and it seems awesome. But before I get too excited I thought I'd ask here if anyone use this? is it worth buying or does it have limitations?

Thanks

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strange. I expected more answers. No one used it?

It looks as if the oscom***** version is popular.

the demo seems a bit buggy to me and I cant get images workin right but if I could it looks real nice.

Re: MagneticOne Store Manager -- anyone got it?
 

This software is used by many people, it requires some time to learn since it is not simple, however people who manage larger stores (1000+ products) really appreciate it.

Please use reporting tool to report problem reports - this greatly helps to fund them out and make it working even better.
Customers receive free updates for 1 year.

You also can use support forums to get questions answered etc.
xcart-manager.com/forum/
Supported to registered customers is performed via email due to data security reasons.

Please ask more questions and we will answer them here or at product support forums.

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Thanks for the reply.

Why has no one replied to this thread, hasn't anyone tried it? This program has great potential but TBH the demo is too restrictive and buggy for me to buy it at this time.

Why put the short-ass time limit on the demo. It doesn't give me enough time to test the product properly. Just a suggestion.

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sho ryu ken

We can create trial license for you and then discount on purchase if you willing to test and give your opinion here.

We will review limitations of the demo according to your comments.

Please report problems you've found here http://www.oscommerce-manager.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=9 and using internal bug reporting tool.

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Hello,

If you are willing to create me a trial account I would gladly give it an honest go and post my opinion here. As I have already implied, I am already fond of the program but was asking to see if anyone else has used it.

Re: MagneticOne Store Manager -- anyone got it?
 

I just sent you pruvate message with license instruction.

I welcome other people to request trial licenses and provide their reports also.

Re: MagneticOne Store Manager -- anyone got it?
 

I would be happy to trial this and report back, I have sent you a PM.

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Savajr,

For store manager I am not really interested, as X-Cart now does good CSV imports & exports).
However some of your modules are very interesting.... SEO ones for example...
But would be great if had some screen shots or could see something working?

I clicked on the testimonials for Google Payment module and was little shocked - first one went to not allowed access page and second to your own sub domain (makes me wonder if these testimonials are anywhere near real).

I must admit, I am also unsure how many of your mods work with multiple languages, including Asian ones (Chinese, Korean, Japanese products etc. - what happens to foreign language text for URLs - searched or ignored.. can handle or crashes?) E.g. SEO & Google Map ones are both interesting (just wondering how they compare to other modules available out there).

Just an idea that if people could see more they might be excited to buy.

Hope comments are useful - cheers, Asiaplay

Re: MagneticOne Store Manager -- anyone got it?
 

I can't get the new version working. I can connect to the database fine and I can see the orders but no products / categories.

It worked in the old version.

Does this support 4.0.x or have you changed it to 4.1 only?

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Same for me, no products/categories. I thought it was just me !

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I tried Store Manager last year, but it was so full of bugs I gave up after a short while.

Another bad experience with MagneticOne has been Google Checkout, I misread the requirements. Buying in a rush I saw "PHP 4.2.2+", but missed the bit in brackets with "(PHP 5 is not supported yet)".

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This to me is a brilliant Idea, unfortunately I do not trust any third party program to access my SSH or SQL server when vital information is available to people I do not know. This to me posses a security risk.


Now if X-cart came out with a product like this I would be all over it.

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sho ryu ken

I appologize for late answer
new message notifications aren't coming to my domain for some reason

That problem with disappeared products was solved on later release
please see details here
http://www.oscommerce-manager.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1811


Store Manager support both versions - 4.0 and 4.1

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You don't disclose any information by using Store Manager.
You are the only person who is accessing your store information.
No information is sent to MagneticOne or discplosed in any other manner.

Technically that simply connecting to remote database(your store) from your local computer - (direct mysql connection or connection to phpbridge that connects to database), nothing else.

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Sent you registration information, please confirm.

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Hi,
I may be very naive, Store-Manager seems like a great mod, but what exactly does it do, that regular .csv import/exports don't? and especially how does it specifically benefit stores with 1,000+ sku's? If anything it seems from the demo that there are more manual indiviual steps to do.

I really want to buy this mod, just need some detailed explanations if anyone is willing!

Thanks so much.
Best,
Chris

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It has very powerfull and flexible importing tool.
You can import simple lists via standard impot, but when it comes to large lists, I mean REAL LARGE (100 000+ records) lists - windows apps will always have advantages.

Simple examples, you can automatically set field value based on expression during import (like convert currency, increase/decrease price etc).

Even more - for complicated data lists - there is "Automated Import" plugin, i.e. you will configure import rules once and next time when you import - you will just use the configuration you created.

It can run based on schedule, importing data from your supplier every X days etc.

Even more

Product Management
We have Mass Changer plugin - you can change ALL/MASS prices in your store by multiple criteria, say increase by 15% before Christmass adn then decrease by 10% 3 weeks after or for products costing more then $100 decrease price by $5.

You can move 1 000 products from 1 category to other with mouse in seconds (using drag-and-drop)

you can assign 10 000 products to more then 1 category in seconds

you can select multiple custom products and delete them with few seconds

you can assign 10 attributes (for ex. colors, sizes etc) to 10 000 products in seconds

Export
You can export into Excel all products starting with letter "A", from oen of 3 particular categories, priced between $10 and $30, which are in stock and....

I hope you understood :)

Very flexible reporting

You can design custom reports inside the tool and store it for future usage.
You can do this yourself or hire developer who will do this in minutes using visual report/query builder

you can....

well - there are whole bunch of things you can do with this tool and we are working on even more advanced tools

Plan to have basic Busines Intelligence tools added soon.
Such tools are available for shopping carts starting at $10k - $50k +
such services cost like few thousands for single session...


We don't have detailed documentation for it, but we are working on it.


As conclusion

I belive it is better to spend 1 hour once learning the tool and then save 1 hour every day then spend 30 minutes every day doing tedious tasks again and again.

Re: MagneticOne Store Manager -- anyone got it?
 

Store Manager for X-Cart recently got even better!

Version 1.5.18.495 includes several improvements and new features in product import/export as well as some minor changes

1. Export improvements - select fields you want to export specify custom captions and order of appearance
2. Import improvements - ability to specify more than one category for a product to be imported into, subcategories supported
3. Several minor improvements and bugfixes

http://www.xcart-manager.com/

Re: MagneticOne Store Manager -- anyone got it?
 

Has anyone been able to install and use this with success? I downloaded the demo which seems to work OK with the demo database, but I can't get it to work with our production database. Tech support has not answered my questions in a couple of days.

Thanks,
Ken

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We have gotten it to work & just tried it yesterday after 6 months idle since purchased as we noticed that they had released several updates.

Not sure how useful it can be at the moment since the app is a bit sluggish very intuitive. The idea is very good and we look forward to a day when it doesn't freeze up our desktops:)

Best,
Harris

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Harris,
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I am impressed with what it can do and with the interface. It looks like it makes adding products MUCH easier. But it hangs on me when I switch the database profile over to our production environment. I really want it to work but don't want to waste the money if it won't.

Any hints for getting it to work?

Ken

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I am not very technical! but I have noticed that it doesn't always 'save' new information in the preferences file.

It took 3 or 4 times for it to finally take, also the settings need to be exactly as they are in the database, SSH etc...

It should connect, that it does.

Hope this helps. It's pretty much where my knowledge ends:)

-Harris

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You can see quick manual on initial configuration here
http://support.magneticone.com/3/how-to-configure-direct-mysql-connection.html

Right here you can see answers to typical initial questions on Store Manager
http://support.magneticone.com/3/3/store-manager-for-xcart.html

Store Manager for X-Cart new version released - ver. 1.8.30.550 - 11 Feb 2008
 

This version has a lot of improvements and new veatures such as customer and order import/export, improved product import, export products to Sage Line 50 and others. See update details for more information

1. Import/Export orders, batch updates, basic order management, invoice printing
2. Import/Export customers, customer management add/edit/delete
3. Improved product import/export - image uploading, taxes, visual improvements
4. Export products to Sage Line 50 (.csv format)
5. Improved product management - product taxes, multiple detailed images, product availability status, "Clone Product" feature
6. Improved category import/export - images, category delimiter can contain more than one character, interface improvements
7. Improved product options import/export - easy populate products with options, classes and variants
8. Mass Changer addon - modify any additional and extra product fields in a batch
9. Preferences - custom FTP port can be specified, FTP path hint
10. Reports - SQL queries stored in files (can be modified), custom reports directory for every connection - keep seperate reports(designs) for every store
11. Increased database connection stability
12. Other improvements and bugfixes

We hear many people complaining about different problems and working on improving Store Manager every day.
After this update most technical problems are solved.

There are multiple features we plan to add soon, existing customers will receive updates free of charge for 6 months.
Additionally we provide 30 days refund guarantee - so you are completely safe.

Please let us know if you see any other problems or have imprivement suggestions.

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I followed all of the instructions and am able to connect to our production database, but once I flip the switch and it tries to bring down the data it hangs. I've sent in a ticket and have gotten no response.

I saw the knowledge base but there is nothing in there that describes the problem I am having. There is no phone # on your web site so I contacted support.

Ken

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I just responded to your PM on this matter.
Need to know technical details on how you are connecting to provide suggestion, lets do this via support email.

I will improve online help after solving your problem - so everybody will have instant solution/help.

Re: MagneticOne Store Manager -- anyone got it?
 

I have been trying unsuccessfully to get this working.

I checked the knowledge base of my hosting company (WESH) and found this,


I take it this means I can never use this software, unless I move to a different hosting company?

Colin

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Hi there , just noticed this thread and thought I would throw in my two penny worth.

Your hosting company is quite correct in not allowing external access to you SQL Databases this is a security feature. Howerver the Xcart manager is able to tunnel through SSH in order to access the SQL server. This is very reliable and combined with proper firewall rules in place very secure.

If you are running this in a shared environment, I would suggest that you get this moved to a dedicated server or at the very least a server specifically setup for xcart stores. Sorry but in my experience most shared hosting restrict you too much to be able to build a successfull store based on xcart.

We have built many stores all based on xcart with some pretty amazing results and stores turning over between ё200k - ё300k with a couple of stores now turning over more than ё1Million a year.

to be frank we could not do this in a shared environment and could not have done it without the Magnetic One Store manager. This is one MUST HAVE product if your serious about building an online store.

dedicated hosting these days is very cheap, if your serious about bulding an ecommerce store then take the plunge - you wont regret it.

Marc

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Colin

As one more alternative is working via PHP MySQL Bridge, which is little different then with direct MySQL connection, however works well for many merchants. Mark made good suggestion - one more connectivity method.

Marc

Thank you for your words.
I encourage you to make suggestions in you have any.

Re: MagneticOne Store Manager -- anyone got it?
 

I was able to get XCart-Manager working with my hosting company, and I have to say it's a great product.

My work rate is much higher than using xcart admin.

However, it does seem to crash 3 or 4 times a day on me.

I bought two licenses and it is even worse on my laptop.

Having said that, it isn't much of an inconvenience as I just restart it and carry on from where I left off.

Would like to see stability improved though.

Colin

Re: MagneticOne Store Manager -- anyone got it?
 

Colin

I encourage you to report any problems you have.
You can use internal reporting tool or simple screenshots by email will work very good.

Your reports will GREATLY help us.

As I mentioned we work every day to improve the features and stability.

Thanks,
Ruslan

Re: MagneticOne Store Manager -- anyone got it?
 

I must say that Store Manager for x-cart has been extremely productive for us, I have over 15000 products to work with and this application is a must if you are monitoring and updating thousands of products daily. I also manage and maintain database structures, customer orders, import and export products via Store Manager; you can even change the customers order details with this program. Store Manager is basically an all in one product that makes life easy for you!

MagneticOne Store Manager is very solid and stable now, I must admit that there were a few bugs in the early stages but than again every program has bugs in them. But Serge and the team from MagneticOne have always provided us with fast support and I really mean fast! But most of all, they do provide a genuine service.

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I have the x-cart store manager and everything was working great until i setup deticated ssl on my website now the manager quit working and there support is very slow in responding. So far i have not herd back from them and its been about 1 1/2 weeks.

I use it with the php bridge and i get an error message saying http/1.1 302 found have no clue why or wut that is :) lol then again im new to ssl so i could have setup somthing wrong.


Problem Fixed

I handed over my ftp login info and they fixed it for me.

Re: MagneticOne Store Manager -- anyone got it?
 

that would be, 302 found. that suggests there is a redirect setup on your server that could be interfering

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I just purchased this todate with some add-ons and I cannot connect to their server to validate and register the add-ons. Anyone else having this problem? Looks like a nice piece of software If I can get the Add-ons registered.

Re: MagneticOne Store Manager -- anyone got it?
 

I just tried to reinstall my second lincense today on my laptop and i cannot get it to validate my registration aswell not sure if its the same problem your having but mine kicks me out and make me set my name and key everytime.

must be a server issue with them maybe becouse i turned off all my firewall settings and set myself as dmz host and still cannot conect to them.

Problem Solved !!!

Ok i got the problem fixed i had to login to the lincense server and release it from my old install to my newly re-formatted system i guess it was looking for my old host name or somthing, Strange!!!! but anyways problems are solved and im back online fixing my store again :)

And they did respond to my mail messages but they sent to my old address not my new e-mail address and i failed to check that :( ..... My bad !!!

Re: MagneticOne Store Manager -- anyone got it?
 

Jeff

Ruslan, MagneticOne here.

Have you received any responce from our support team already? Usually we respond in less then 24 hours.
I welcome you and everybody to contact us again if you don't have any response in 48 hours.
We have problems with large amounts of spam(thousands each day) and blocking it, almost solved by migrating to Google Apps.

Nobody and never wasted money with MagneticOne, people make much more money than they invest in software by MagneticOne

I welcome you to contact us again and never loose hope.

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When I copy product options, the client side javascript for product option validation does not get copied to the target product, is this a bug? also I cannot find how to copy product options to multiple products at a time, please help.

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Store Manager works directly with database when copying product options.
Now you need to find out how your client side js works - ie. this is related to js not store manager.

Juset select few products at once and the paste to them
There is small video itro on xcart-manager.com showing this in short