MailChimp.Net.Core.MailChimpException: akamai_503

We hit an interesting error the other day that doesn't appear to be covered much on Google, so hopefully, this helps someone else.After sustained attacks on one of our busier sites, we started getting…

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Export all products, properties and categories from uCommerce

A while ago I posted about how to Export products from Ucommerce into a CSV type format. The database schema has changed slightly since so today I'm posting an updated version of the code for v9. I've…

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How to store a basket against a user in Ucommerce efficiently

The IssueWe recently had an issue where a client informed us that their E-commerce website was timing out during the checkout flow, causing issues where payment was taken and the basket was not…

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High database CPU usage while checking out on Ucommerce

Performance issues with Ucommerce checking out? It's worth checking the indexes on the queries that are being run. Here are some helpful pointers.…

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UCommerce Vague scratch indexer errors, not quite what it seems

I hit a problem recently where I was working with Ucommerce and linking it up to Sitefinity as an eCommerce solution. As part of this task, I decided that I would set up uCommerce as it needed to be…

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1p rounding issue on Ucommerce products/discounts

We've been hitting an issue over the past few years where the product's price is `1p` out in certain circumstances e.g. £2 off 2 £30 items -it should equal £56.00 but often results in £55.99.The fix…

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Sitefinity/Ucommerce admin area - The content is blocked. Contact the site owner to fix the issue.

Loading the Ucommerce admin area in Sitefinity we were hitting ​a rather unfriendly error message "The content is blocked. Contact the site owner to fix the issue.​"The fix is relatively simple -edit…

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Delete all orders from Ucommerce

A while ago I blogged about how to delete test orders and baskets from Ucommerce and Delete all products and orders from Ucommerce which I frequently use.As I often want to only clear out the orders…

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Power Ucommerce facet display names from the CMS

The index changes released in v9 have been great and API is blazingly fast -however it's come with a couple of costs when it comes to configuring the Facet settings via the UI.Setting the DisplayName…

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Error running scratch indexer in Ucommerce v9+

Watch out for this subtle issue when creating indexes in Ucommerce…

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