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Having a good supporting system is quintessential to the success of eCommerce business. Having an ERP system is very important. For Startups and companies just venturing into eCommerce, having an enterprise level ERP system does not make economic sense (unless you are strapped on with VC money rocket). There are many open source ERPs (like Open ERP) which can be integrated to your Magento system. Once you decide to have an ERP system in place, the next challenge is its Integration with your eCommerce system. Here you will find various ways, models and effort quotes from vendors ranging from $10K to $1 Ml+ (O yeah!) and timelines from months to years… now what would you do? At Connecting Dots we have devised a simple model of integration with any ERP system with your Magento eCom system where you can be up and running in just a few weeks time! We have broken down the essential integration points to have a smooth system for your fledgling eCom operations. Conceptually, there are two kind of information that need to be managed, one coming into the ERP system from Magento (or your eCom system), and other into Magento from the ERP system. The system basically works on he following model:

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Coming to Performance, this was a major drawback when user has huge number of products. Now the version 1.8 has taken several advanced steps to overcome this. It has a new way of limiting how magento performs large database lookups, also it gives protection against database deadlocks. Now the checkout process will not take more time. Version 1.8 has removed several unnecessary calls, each steps load only the information about current step. This ensures customers get through the checkout a lot faster. Version 1.8 also changes in how magento handles large amount of tax codes. We can have over 35,000 individual tax codes without affecting the performance of the website. Payments: Several issues were incorrect regarding the paypal and the customer was unable to complete the transaction. This has been resolved now. Customer will no longer get "customer already exists" while checking out, if the customer who already has an account. In certain circumstances, customers paying via PayPal Express would not benefit from any Shopping Cart Price Rules that had been setup in the admin area. This problem no more exists in version 8.0. Watchout for our next blog post on enhancements in Magento 1.8