Nochex Steal Your Money
Posted Tuesday August 25th 2009
For a client recently I had to test osCommerce was accepting Nochex payments. Having never used it before I went through the lengthy and painful process of signing up for a Nochex account.
Well now I know why no one used Nochex. It’s rubbish. It’s the only thing that would make me recommend Paypal (and I hate Paypal) to anyone but at least their service does what it is supposed to with minimum fuss.
OsCommerce was working fine and accepted my Nochex account but Nochex wouldn’t accept my address, so I was unable to put a card straight through (as a user without an existing Nochex account might). So I gave up on that as the client offers their own credit card gateway.
So I thought that was that – but when you add a credit/debit card to Nochex they debit a ‘small’ amount from your card to help with their verification process. They didn’t go out of their way to tell you this when you register and they certainly don’t make it clear enough that this is non-refundable!
So there I was waiting for my couple of quid to get refunded only to discover it has been stolen. And for what? … other one for ‘the list’
Tags: e-commerce
Magento Theme / Templating Tutorials, Guides and Resources
Posted Monday February 9th 2009
I think anyone that has worked with Magento will agree that it is a steep learning curve, this is not helped by the lack of documentation. I have put together a list of useful links when that I found helpful whilst trying to get my head around Magento themes:
(I have expanded upon these lists which I found useful)
- Php|architect’s Guide to E-Commerce Programming with Magento
- Designer’s Guide to Magento – The most solid of Magento’s documentation, though it might take a few reads before things become clear! (pdf version)
- The Magento API
- Magento Screencasts
- Designing for Magento Webinar – worth watching the wmv file as much better quality
- Magento Wiki – out dated but some handy concepts
- Ohminu forum post – the lead designer breaks things down for newbies
- Magento Folder Structure
- Changing Text – using the Locale File
- Builing Blocks – more handy hints from the lead designer
- Screencast on creating themes – a very brief introduction to creating a new theme
- Video’s and other resources from php | architect
Tags: e-commerce • Web Development