I’m still working hard (very hard – sleep? What’s that?) on my new Magento site. The new programmer is all I hoped and more. It makes a WORLD of difference having a great programmer. Just yesterday I found a significant requirement which I’d missed in my specs. I was kicking myself. Most of my products are very simple, but my content manager just spotted a few products where there are variations – choose a color. Fortunately, my programmer didn’t blink, and is sorting it out as I type. Shouldn’t be more than 1 day lost, probably less. Also, a key supplier had some major problems in their data feed. I’d asked them to look at changing their API but that stuff normally takes weeks/months at most companies. After spending hours with the programmer trying to find a way around it, I got an email a day later from the supplier saying “oh yeah, that is a bit silly, it’s fixed and live!”. Major relief. Makes it way easier to handle stock management on the backend.

Overall I’m on track to go live in a few weeks. The biggest hold up at this point might be some issues related to business/financial structure (beyond the scope of this blog). Overall the site is looking great and I’m really pleased.