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iphone app analytics

Hi, We plan to advertise our iphone app on other sites. Is there a way to track from which website my iphone app hyperlink was clicked when a purchase is made? Can this be programmed, or is there any analytics app which does this. We will want to track the exact number of sales made from each site.. Appreciate any help.. mb ...

Magento sales report number inconsistent with actual orders

When I view the Sales report (Reports->Sales), it tells me I have 22 orders and made over $1000. When I view the orders (Sales->Orders), there are only 15 orders and I made a lot less. Also, the dashboard only shows $737. Where are all these numbers coming from? I'm using Magento 1.4.0.1. ...

MYOB Import "amount paid"

I seem to have found an anomaly with MYOB (I've actually found many anomalies, this is just another one that is doing my head in...) I am generating a file with all invoices from the web system - no problems. If an invoice has 3 lines and the account is paid COD, I am having an problem e.g. "INV", "DATE" ... "AMOUNT", "INC TAX AMOUNT...

Niche vS Mass Markets For Software Distribution

Hi Everyone, I recently started a little company with a couple of guys. Ours is the typical startup, a lot of ideas, dreams, talent and work hours :P. Our initial business plan was to develop a DM (Document Manager) with several features found on DropBox and other tools but with a big differentiator. Then we got in the team this Busine...

SQL Magento Sales Report

I’m trying to add new columns in report/sales/shipping. Columns are now ok but I can’t display values coming from another table. in app/code/local/Mage/Sales/Model/Mysql4/Report/Shipping.php After protected function _aggregateByOrderCreatedAt($from, $to) { try { $tableName = $this->getTable('sales/shipping_aggregated_order...

Magento custom order attribute/fields? Shooting myself in the foot?

I'm building a Magento store using a single catalog over 4 domains: 1 for the US and 3 for Europe (UK, French, and German). There's 1 fulfillment warehouse in Europe, 1 in the US and a sort of unofficial/internal "warehouse" in the US where giveaways and such are fulfilled, and we are not tracking inventory levels in Magento. We need to ...

What kind of jobs are there for a small web dev shop?

Sales guy here (duck) has a 3 programmers strong team at hand and asks what kind of clients he could provide them with. They love RoR but are not shy of other technologies. They want to do web development as a team. Now the question is what kind of projects can they realistically tackle? I researched the market and it seems there are...

Activate Upon Scanning?

I'm not sure if this is where I need to be asking this question, but here it is. My company is preparing to release a software program in the format of PIN cards (similar to phone cards). Each card will have a PIN on it under a scratch panel. The PIN can then be used to download the software program from our website. I need to figure o...

Open source software vs. proprietary

Oh boy, this sounds like a magnet for religious warfare, but honestly - that is not what I intend from this question. Today, in a sales presentation, I got my butt kicked because I was trying to sell some software that our company wrote, and one of the audience members said, "Oh the govt should never buy anything from a small company, s...