Magento welcomes WebShopApps as the newest Platinum Industry Partner. Established in 2008 and a Gold Industry Partner since 2011, WebShopApps has been a consistent, innovative leader in the development of eCommerce shipping solutions, with their products in use on a large number of sites worldwide. Because of their success in the Magento community, they have been hand selected to join as a Platinum Industry Partner.

“We’re truly honored to be a Platinum partner of Magento’s and feel this speaks to our years of dedicated work within the Magento community,” says WebShopApps owner Karen Baker. “But it’s also a direct reflection of the support and loyalty we’ve received from the many thousands of merchants who have utilized our products over the years. Our sincere thanks and appreciation goes out to each and every one of them.”

WebShopApps has marketed over 40 advanced shipping extensions to date, and they show no signs of slowing down in 2013. At this year's Magento Imagine eCommerce Conference, WebShopApps announced a partnership with the logistics company Cerasis on a new freight shipping extension, and also demonstrated an all-in-one, cloud-based shipping interface called ShipperHQ.

Visit WebShopApps at www.WebShopApps.com

Or learn more about ShipperHQ at http://www.ShipperHQ.com

From May 29-30, the Magento team will travel to the Netherlands to celebrate the fifth-annual Meet Magento event with the Dutch community and kick-off a small European tour of industry events! After visiting Netherlands, the Magento team will travel to Meet Magento Germany and Bargento in Paris before coming back to the U.S. for IRCE in Chicago.

This Meet Magento event brings together a variety of online retailers, Magento Solution and Industry partners, eCommerce executives, agencies and Magento developers. It has become the most important yearly event for all companies involved with Magento solutions in the Netherlands to share their eCommerce experiences and expertise.

After the opening keynote by Magento Co-founder and COO Roy Rubin, the event will have over twenty-five highly-qualified speakers that will offer topics ranging from marketing and business to development and optimization, and there will be an introductory workshop for Magento solution beginners. The event also features a complete English track and several breakout sessions for International visitors.

A limited number of last-minute tickets are still available for €140. For more information on the event and ticket sales in English, visit meet-magento.nl/en. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to Meet Magento in the Netherlands at the end of May!

Meet Magento Netherlands is brought to you by Dutchento.

We are delighted to announce that Delicious Karma is the winner of Magento’s Most Innovative Enterprise Site of 2012 Award. As a new daily-deals startup, Delicious Karma wanted a fully scalable eCommerce site that could support the company’s rapid growth and cutting-edge business model. To make this happen, Silver Solution Partner Rocket Web leveraged the Private Sales, Rewards and Social Media features built into Magento Enterprise Edition, and launched a public beta that engaged over 5,000 active users, and generated an average order size of $70 within the first six months. Since then, Delicious Karma has acquired thousands of new users, and they have a 40% repeat-purchase rate.

Michelle Ritchie, chief marketing officer and founder of Delicious Karma, couldn’t be happier. “Magento Enterprise has enabled us to build something not previously possible: a network of deeply engaged food lovers that want to discover, learn and share their passions for delicious, real food.”

“We continue to be impressed by the innovation from our solution partners as they push the boundaries of the Magento platform,” noted Roy Rubin, co-founder and chief operating officer at Magento. “The advances that Rocket Web brought to life for Delicious Karma capture the essence of the art and technical expertise of successful commerce. We look forward to seeing our merchants and partners continue to push the bleeding edge of commerce innovation in 2013.”

Congratulations to Delicious Karma and Rocket Web, and thank you again to all of the partners and merchants who submitted entries for the 2012 award!

Kate Starmer-Smith created Atterley Road to get all of her favorite brands and high-street boutiques into one place: the home of beautiful clothes. It would be a place that would remind you of your most stylish friend, someone in-the-know, but approachable. To be the first to make this happen, Starmer-Smith turned to Magento Solutions Partner Screen Pages for a site that could combine compelling photography and lifestyle content with her unique shopping experience.

Screen Pages tapped Magento’s flexible, customizable eCommerce platform, Magento Enterprise Edition, for an elegant online store with a clean design, attractive navigation, sophisticated merchandizing tools, strong social marketing features, and the ability to integrate with JDA’s Red Prairie ERP system for fulfillment.

Atterley Road launched in mere months—on time and on budget. Immediate results included over ten-thousand daily visitors, a 400% projected increase in yearly sales, and the number five spot on Vogue’s list of Top 100 Online Stores.

View Full Customer Success Story

Thousands of companies – including many of the world’s biggest brands – are using Magento Enterprise to grow their online businesses. Wondering how Magento Enterprise can help your business?

Have a Magento success story you’d like to share? Contact success@magento.com.

Roy Rubin, Co-Founder and COO of Magento, will launch the 2013 Bargento event in Paris, on June 4th. This event is a great opportunity for the European Magento ecosystem to meet other developers, partners and merchants and learn more about Magento.

Along with an opening keynote speech from Roy Rubin, this year’s exciting workshops and learning sessions include, a live analysis of several innovative Magento based websites by Magento Developer NBS System and Magento Solution Partner DND Agency, an online persuasion analysis that can help eCommerce sites increase conversion rates by psychologist and Magento expert Guido Jansen, and presentations of new projects by Yoav Kutner (Oro CRM) and Fredéric de Gombert (Akeneo).

Magento is also sponsoring the free Bargento after party in one of the most prestigious venues in the heart of Paris, Palais Maillot, so don’t miss this event!

For more information on Bargento and to register, visit bargento.fr and be sure to follow them on Twitter.

Bargento 2013 is brought to you by NBS System.

The February 2013 edition of Tom Robertshaw’s quarterly eCommerce survey reports that Magento is the leading eCommerce platform among Alexa’s top one million sites for the third year in a row.

The survey analyzed the platform signatures of the Alexa top one-million websites and found that 26% of them are using Magento. Not only is this a 30% increase in market share since the February 2012 report, it is almost triple the number of sites using the second and third place platforms. This year, the survey also looked at the top 100,000 busiest sites and found that Magento powers 28% of the store sites on that list, which is more than double the number of stores using our closest competition.

“Our business keeps growing for one simple reason,” says Magento founder, Roy Rubin. “Our customers are succeeding.”

Thanks again to Tom Robertshaw for this survey, and to all of the merchants, developers, partners and community members who have found success on Magento platforms.

About Tom Robertshaw’s Survey:

The survey takes the list of the top 1 million sites as provided by Alexa (an Amazon-owned company). It then fetches the HTML document for the home page and analyses against a library of over 225 platform signatures that have been written. The accuracy of the survey is being improved with each edition as signature rules are added and reviewed.

Want to know more about how leading companies are succeeding with Magento? Read our Customer Success Stories.

Our Online Instructor-Led, Managing Your Magento Store course will show you how to set up and configure your Magento Enterprise Edition site and store to meet the needs of your customers, and to grow your business. Tailored to store owners, merchandisers, and operations staff, this course covers all aspects of the Magento Admin Panel, including Catalog, Product Marketing and Operations.

We’re also offering this class at two different times, so there is sure to be a schedule to fit your needs:

Managing Your Magento Store

May 20 – 24, 2013

9am – 12:30pm PDT

July 22 – 26, 2013

5am – 8:30am PDT

No travel is required for this instructor-led, online course so register today!

From June 3-4, 2013, Netresearch is hosting its fifth-annual Meet Magento Germany and the Magento team will be traveling to Leipzig to celebrate this milestone with the passionate German community! The event brings online retailers, eCommerce executives, industry partners, agencies and Magento developers together to share their Magento eCommerce experiences and expertise.

The two day program will include an opening keynote address by Roy Rubin, special sessions from the Magento team, and over forty highly-qualified speakers. The conference offers topics for every interest, from process-optimization strategies for Magento beginners, to creating responsive design, to internationalization.

"We are pleased that we were able to establish Meet Magento in [such a] short time as a must-attend event for online retailers, Magento partners and software developers. We will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the event in a special way at our traditional after-show party in the Moritzbastei." said Thomas Fleck, director of Netresearch App Factory AG.

A limited number of last-minute tickets are still available for 215€. For more information on the event and ticket sales, visit meet-magento.de. Don’t let this opportunity pass you by. Be in Leipzig in June!

Join Magento at the Intersection of Commerce and Couture

Fashion Digital Los Angeles (FDLA) is the first and only conference exclusively dedicated to the world of fashion and eCommerce, and Magento is honored to be the lead sponsor of the upcoming FDLA event, on May 16th, at the Director’s Guild of America Theater.

This is an exciting opportunity to network and connect with hundreds of digital executives from leading fashion brands including HauteLook, Guess, Refinery29, Pacific Sunwear and more. Hear keynotes from the co-founders of Modcloth, Eric and Susan Koger, Chief Creative Officer of BCBGMAXAZRIAGROUP, Lubov Azria and our very own, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Magento, Roy Rubin!

We wanted to extend a special invitation for you to join us at the conference, and as a Magento guest, you can save 25% with Promo Code: 25MGTO

For more information on all the speakers and to register for the event, please visit lafashiondigital.com.

We hope to see you there!

Hosted by Magento Partner Netresearch, the Developers Paradise conference heads off to Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 16th-19th, 2013.

At this annual summer event, attendees from all over the world will join in a lively exchange of knowledge, exciting sessions and workshops, fun free-time activities and lots of networking, all in a gorgeous island setting. As always, the focus of this conference is for attendees to share their knowledge of and experience with Magento.

This year, Netresearch is also encouraging attendees to help lower ticket prices by registering more than seventy attendees before May 31st, and by finding more sponsors for the event. A clever ticker on the event website informs conference guests of the current sponsor count and funds raised.

Tickets are already on sale for the event, and you can purchase them at the early-bird price until the end of May. After May 31st, tickets will be available at a late-registration price, so don’t wait!

If you want to be part of the event and contribute topics for discussion, feel free to fill out the Call 4 Papers form on the “Schedule” page. Find more information about the event at: http://www.developers-paradise.com.