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Tim Gaunt

Add every country to uCommerce

Something I learnt the other day was that uCommerce uses the culture code you specify for a country to determine the two/three digit ISO code when sending the order to the payment gateway. This is fine if you know all the various countries -but I didn't so

Starting something new - Part 2: Designing a brand

Read Part 1: Naming the business here So you have a name, what next? For us, it was all about getting the company's look and feel right (the brand). Branding a company is not just a matter of it's logo and colour scheme, it's

How to query your uCommerce database with LINQPad

I've been a massive fan of LINQPad for a few years now. I use it as a scratch pad most days; especially when I need to get my head around a snippet of code without booting up Visual Studio. For those of you not familiar with LINQPad, it&

Starting something new - Part 1: Naming the business

I've been a little quiet recently as other than running The Site Doctor, we've embarked on a new venture and as we're starting a new business from scratch. I thought it might be interesting for some if I blogged about our journey which kicked

How To: Create an Umbraco member and email the customer their password at checkout using uCommerce

One of the uCommerce questions I see getting askedaboutquitea lot is how to email the customer their password during the checkout process Out of the box uCommerce creates a new Umbraco member for you when you tick the "Create Customers As Members" checkbox on the catalog group configuration

Using ModelStateToTempData in Umbraco

For those of you who have been working with MVC for a while you may have come across the awesome attribute from Jeremy Skinner "ModelStateToTempData" in MVCContrib (http://mvccontrib.codeplex.com/). In short, it stores the ModelState (i.e. errors) in a temporary data store so when you

Quickly delete all products and orders from uCommerce

Note: An updated version of this code for the new Ucommerce schema is available here: https://thesitedoctor.co.uk/blog/delete-all-products-and-orders-from-ucommerce/ Sometimes you need to blitz your uCommerce database e.g. just before launch or to remove the testing products etc. This is a quick database clear script which will

How not to do a "How did you hear about us" selector

A frequent request we get when creating a checkout process or contact us form is to include a "How did you hear about us" select list. They generally end up looking like this one I screenshot from MoonPig: We usually recommend against adding a "How did you

How to setup passive FTP on a Windows Azure virtual machine

This is more of a reminder for me than anything else. If you're looking for a great walkthrough on how to configure Passive FTP on a Windows Azure VM, check out the walkthrough from Ronald here -it got us up and running. The thing that takes the time

Prices including tax on uCommerce

Most of our retailers price point their products to include tax i.e. a shirt that costs you £100 would include a proportion of VAT that the retailer would have to pay (at the moment about £16.67). One frustration I've had for a while with uCommerce is