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We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.3.1 of the Fontis Australia extension for Magento 2. This is a minor version release of the extension which includes the following change:

• Allow package weights to be decimals

The Fontis Australia extension for Magento 2 is now available for immediate download on GitHub and is available to install through Composer from our site. If you have any feedback or would like to contribute, please submit an issue on GitHub.

It's time for another Magento extension round-up, reviewing some free extensions that were released in November. This time we're looking at extensions for EAN generation, email logging, customer order comments and responsive sliders.

Ean Generator by Hevelop

The Ean Generator automatically generates EAN-13 compatible codes based on the product's ID. These codes are stored in a product attribute, which allows for easy retrieval and manipulation using the normal product attribute approach. The codes are automatically generated either when the product is saved or periodically through the Magento cron system.

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We are pleased to announce the release of version 3.1.7 of the Fontis Australia extension for Magento 1. This is a minor version release of the extension which includes the following change:

• Fix an issue with decimal weights being rounded off

Thanks to Ben Corlett for contributing this fix.

This is a follow up to our 2009 post, How to set up a Magento store for Australia. There are a few important things that need to be configured for compliance with ATO requirements and to ensure that Magento calculates taxes correctly. The following is an outline of the necessary configuration and settings you may need to consider when setting up Magento 2 for an Australian store.

Locale Settings

The first step is setting all necessary system configuration settings for Australia:

We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.3.0 of the Fontis Australia extension for Magento 2. This is a substantial update that brings support for Australia Post shipping methods to Magento 2.

Changes in this version are:

• Add Australia Post as a shipping method
• Add Australia Post eParcel as a shipping method
• Add import and export of the eParcel price table
• Add the ability to export eParcel orders

It's time for another Magento extension round-up, reviewing some free extensions that were released in October. This time we're looking at extensions for targeted product recommendations, SEO pagination, and Magento core bug fixes.

Seasonal Product Recommendations by Net Solutions

The Seasonal Product Recommendations extension adds an extra 'seasons' attribute to products, which enables products to optionally be assigned to one or many seasons based on their suitability. Seasons to choose from are: Winter, Summer, Autumn, Spring, Wet (Winter), and Dry (Summer).

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Welcome once again to the Magento extension monthly round-up, where we review some of the free extensions that were released in September. This time we're looking at extensions for switching the owner of an order, free shipping option assignment to customers, cleaning up backups, and more.

Switch Order Owner by InfoBeans

The Switch Order Owner extension provides the ability to change ownership of an order in the admin panel. This could be useful in certain situations, such as when orders are created by company agents, and require an ownership change to the actual customer that will be receiving the goods. Another example is guest orders which were accidentally placed by a registered customer, and need to be assigned to their account after the fact.

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It's time for another Magento extension round-up, reviewing some free extensions that were released in August. This time we're looking at extensions for general product attachments, embedding an icon font, and a super-fast mass customer import process.

Catalog Attachments by Virtina

Magento has a built-in way of uploading images for a particular product, but it doesn't have any way of uploading arbitrary files. The Catalog Attachments extension adds this functionality and could be used for things such as manuals, warranties, or other information about a product that the customer may require.

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It's time for another Magento extension round-up, reviewing some free extensions that were released in July. This time we're looking at extensions for address validation, extra category descriptions and easier access to Magento logs.

Contact Us Grid by BuzzzAky

While Magento has a built-in contact form, it simply sends the enquiry to the merchant directly via email. The Contact Us Grid extension adds some additional functionality to this process. All enquiries that are placed will be logged to the database, and can then be viewed and replied to from within the admin panel.

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The Product Attributes index is an important part of Magento's category filtering system. This post provides an overview of what it is and how it works.

Layered navigation and the Product Attributes index

Magento's layered navigation allows customers to filter categories by whatever attributes you've set up. Customers can filter down to red t-shirts that come in size L, or only phones with more than 16GB of storage that fit into their budget. The issue with allowing this flexibility is that the product attribute data that's being filtered on is stored in Magento's EAV (entity-attribute-value) database tables. The EAV data model allows Magento to efficiently store a wide range attribute data for different types of products, but a downside is that it's harder to query than traditional flat database tables. To solve this problem, Magento uses the Product Attributes index.