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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

Script to migrate an SVN repository to Git including commit history

We started using source control years ago and have a load of projects still on SVN. As great as SVN was at the time, we've moved over to Git (if you've not already done so, you really should) but needed an easy way of migrating repositories

The ultimate urlReplacing character list for Umbraco

If you're not already familiar with the built in character replacing functionality for urls in Umbraco then I highly recommend you check out the umbracoSettings.config file's urlReplacing node section: urlReplacing: List of characters which will be replaced in generated urls. This ensures that urls does

Do you know where your company's skills are lacking?

We're recruiting again and to work out what type of recruit we would benefit from the most, we decided to try and assess our strengths and weaknesses. It was a really useful exercise and meant that we were quickly able to identify which areas we should increase capacity

Track Google Analytics and Google AdWords conversions on click with jQuery

Today we needed to track conversions in Google Analytic and Google AdWords when a user clicked a button. There are a fair few posts around with different ways to do this but as it's something we've needed to do before so I thought I'd