{"id":1709,"date":"2012-01-10T22:29:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T22:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2012-01-10T22:31:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T22:31:31","slug":"direct-delivery-goes-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=1709","title":{"rendered":"Direct Delivery Goes Beta!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Errr …. Errr what can I say! CommerceTeam Linden must have been hitting me with psychic rays and realised I was blogging about the lack of information about Direct Delivery<\/a>! Around the time I was proof reading my blog post, the mysterious figure of CommerceTeam Linden posted in the merchants forum that Direct Delivery is going beta<\/a>! I’ve now decided that CommerceTeam Linden wears a cape, with a hood … and possibly has red eyes. I did contemplate editing my previous post, but I’ve decided that some of the points are still valid and it will stay!<\/p>\n

Anyway, on with the information, thank goodness there’s information. First of all, check out the instructions page<\/a>. Read this carefully, especially if you’re a merchant as you’ll need to download the special project viewer <\/a>if you want to test\u00a0listing items.<\/p>\n

Merchants should also be aware that there’s a special beta version of the marketplace that you’ll need to login to, which you can find here<\/a>. This was definitely closed earlier this evening, I swear!<\/p>\n

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Merchants should also read the Magic Box migration article, which you can read here<\/a>. Now remember that this is a draft article and that Direct Delivery is only in beta<\/strong><\/span>, so no getting yourself into a panic thinking that you need to do this all now, things may even change before it’s fully rolled out, but it’s definitely worth keeping your eye on the information.<\/p>\n

There are also release notes accompanying this, which you can read here<\/a>. I’d advise merchants to read this to save themselves from frustrations, such as:<\/p>\n

Listings with an updated date before Sept. 1, 2011 may behave unexpectedly–stick to updating listings with a date after that (which should be most, due to system updates).<\/em><\/p>\n

Unassociated Marketplace Items has a limit of 100: hitting this limit will not report in the Import Failure Log.<\/em><\/p>\n

Again, remember that this is currently Beta, although the arrival of full implementation may be in less than a month, so really, merchants need to test this out in both merchant and customer roles, but most important of all, do report any bugs you find.<\/p>\n

I don’t think I’ll manage any testing this evening, indeed I have a feeling if I do try and do some testing the whole thing will be shutdown!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Errr …. Errr what can I say! CommerceTeam Linden must have been hitting me with psychic rays and realised I was blogging about the lack of information about Direct Delivery! Around the time I was proof reading my blog post, the mysterious figure of CommerceTeam Linden posted in the merchants forum that Direct Delivery is … <\/p>\n

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