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New Features in Magento Enterprise Edition 1.14 (EE) Magento Community Edition 1.9 (CE)
1. New Features in Magento
Enterprise Edition 1.14 (EE)
Magento Community Edition
1.9 (CE)
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2. Magento Enterprise Edition (EE) 1.14.0.0 has the following new features:
Technology Updates
Responsive Web Design
Cross-Border Trade
Checkout Improvements
Solr Search Engine Changes
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3. Technology Updates
EE 1.14 and CE 1.9 include the following technology updates:
PHP 5.4, which provides better performance and more efficient memory usage
The Zend Framework has been upgraded to version 1.12.3
Magento EE only. Magento EE 1.14 supports Apache Solr versions up to 3.6.2
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4. Responsive Web Design
The default theme in Magento EE 1.14 and CE 1.9 uses Responsive Web Design
principles. Your new products are built on modern technologies and incorporate
best practices for mobile sites and experiences. Benefits include:
You can get a tablet and smart phone friendly responsive site in about half the
time as before, speeding time to market and freeing up resources for other
projects.
Your responsive site makes you better able to participate in the fast growing
mobile commerce space, and gives you the ability to more easily adapted to new
opportunities and less expensive to maintain. A responsive site also offers
potential search engine optimization (SEO) benefits from using Google's preferred
approach to mobile-optimizing sites.
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5. The new responsive theme uses the following modern
technologies:
Sass/Compass: a CSS pre-compiler that provides organizable, reusable CSS.
jQuery: jQuery is used for all custom JavaScript in the responsive theme. jQuery
operates in noConflict() mode so it doesn't conflict with Magento's existing
JavaScript library.
Additional JavaScript libraries discussed in more detail in the CE 1.9 and EE 1.14
Responsive Theme Developer's Guide.
The new responsive theme code is contained in the following
directories (relative to your Magento installation directory):
app/design/frontend/rwd
skin/frontend/rwd
With a cleaner, more modern code base, and supporting documentation, it has
never been easier for developers to extend a default Magento theme with their own
customizations.
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6. For more information about developing custom themes based on
the new responsive theme, see the CE 1.9 and EE 1.14
Responsive Theme Developer's Guide.
Multiple address checkout
Popular search terms page
Popular search terms cloud
Site map
My Account—Billing Agreements
My Account—Recurring Profiles
The gift registry
Multiple wishlists
Place order by SKU
E-mail templates
Tags
Gift registry
Polls
Captcha
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7. Following is how the responsive theme looks
on a tablet & smartphone device:
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8. Cross-border trade (also referred to as price consistency) was added to support
European Union (EU) merchants who want to maintain consistent prices for
customers whose tax rates are different than the store tax rate.
Merchants operating across regions and geographies can show their customers a
single price. Pricing is clean and uncluttered regardless of tax structures and rates
that vary from country to country.
Note: To use this feature, you should be an EU merchant and you must
configure prices to display including tax. (Configure this in the Admin Panel at
System > Configuration > SALES > Tax > Calculation Settings, Catalog Prices
set to Including Tax.)
Cross-Border Trade
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9. To enable cross-border trade:
1 Log in to the Magento Admin Panel as an administrator.
2 Click System > Configuration > SALES > Tax.
3 In the right pane, expand Calculation Settings.
4 From the list, click Yes to use consistent pricing or click No to vary the
price by tax rate (the default behavior of earlier Magento CE and EE
versions).
Important: Clicking Yes means your profit margin changes by tax rate. In
other words, your profit is determined by the formula (Revenue -
CustomerVAT – CostOfGoodsSold).
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11. Checkout Improvements
Magento EE 1.14 and CE 1.9 add the following improvements to the checkout process:
You can change the quantity of items in your mini shopping cart or remove items without
refreshing the page because we use Ajax to make those updates.
Bill Me Later is now a payment option in checkout. Customers get six months to pay—you
get paid up front. You are not charged when customers choose Bill Me Later, and only pay
your normal PayPal transaction fee.
We estimate having Bill Me Later results in 18% more sales, about one-third of which
results from the six months same-as-cash payment option. (Bill Me Later is a PayPal
service.)
Retry with alternative financial instrument in PayPal upon credit card processor failure.
Improve the PayPal Express checkout experience by eliminating the following steps in the
checkout process:
The order review page can be enabled or disabled. (The order review page displays after
the customer logs in to PayPal.)
Eliminate the necessity of clicking Update Order before Place Order.
You can use a widget in the mini shopping cart.
See one of the following sections for more information:
Using the Order Review Page Improvement
Using Bill Me Later in Checkout
Using a Widget in the Mini Shopping Cart
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12. Using the Order Review Page Improvement
The order review page displays after the customer logs in to PayPal. A
Continue button displays to redirect the customer to the Magento store to
complete their order.
See the following sections:
What the Order Review Improvement Looks Like
Enabling or Disabling the Order Review Page
What the Order Review Improvement Looks Like
If you disable the order review page, the customer can pay for the order on
the PayPal site.
The following figure shows the default behavior with the order review page
enabled. Notice the Continue button at the top and bottom of the page.
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14. The following figure shows the same page if the order review page is disabled.
Notice that instead of a Continue button, there is a Pay Now button.
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15. To enable or disable the order review page:
1 Log in to the Admin Panel as an administrator.
2 Click System > Configuration > SALES > Payment Methods.
3 In the right pane, click Configure for any PayPal payment method that
includes Express Checkout.
4 In the right pane, click Advanced Settings. (You might need to scroll down
the page to locate it.)
5 Locate the following setting.
6 From the list, click Yes to skip the order review step or click No to require
order review before checkout.
Enabling or Disabling the Order Review Page
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18. You can enable customers to pay with Bill Me Later—a PayPal
service, which helps improve conversion rates.
See the following sections:
Seeing What Bill Me Later Looks Like
Enabling Bill Me Later
Seeing What Bill Me Later Looks Like
Following are some examples of what the Bill Me Later option looks like.
Using Bill Me Later in Checkout
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20. Enabling Bill Me Later
1 Log in to the Admin Panel as an administrator.
2 Click System > Configuration > SALES > Payment Methods.
3 In the right pane, click Configure for any PayPal payment method that
includes Express Checkout.
4 In the right pane, scroll to locate the Express Checkout section. The
option to display Bill Me Later displays similar to the following.
5 In the right pane, from the Enable this solution? list, click Yes.
6 From the Enable Bill Me Later list, click Yes to display a Bill Me Later
payment option or click No to disallow Bill Me Later.
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22. Using a Widget in the Mini Shopping Cart
You can now add widgets to the mini shopping cart as follows:
1 Log in to the Magento Admin Panel as an administrator.
2 Click CMS > Widgets.
3 Click Add a New Widget Instance.
4 From the Type list, click CMS Static Block.
5 From the Design Package/Theme list, click any Responsive Web Design
(RWD) theme.
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23. 6 Click Continue.
7 In the Widget Instance Title field, enter a unique name for the widget.
8 Optionally enter a value in the Sort Order field.
9 Click Add Layout Update.
10 From the Display On list, click All Pages.
11 From the Block Reference list, click Mini-cart promotion block.
12 Make other selections as needed.
13 Click Save to save your changes.
Note: The Mini-cart promotion block option is available only for RWD themes. If
you don't see it in the list, make sure you selected an RWD theme.
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Using a Widget in the Mini Shopping Cart
25. Magento EE 1.14 now supports Solr versions up to 3.6.2 natively (that is,
without a patch). For more information about using Solr with Magento EE,
see How to Use the Solr Search Engine With Magento Enterprise Edition.
Important: If you're upgrading to EE 1.14 from an earlier version, you
must perform additional tasks discussed in the section on upgrading Solr
in the Upgrading to and Verifying Magento Community Edition 1.8 and
Enterprise Edition 1.13 - Part 2. Failure to perform these tasks might mean
products don't display on your web store.
Solr Search Engine Changes Magento EE only
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