Petr Vozak Kentico

A new integration solution connecting Kentico and product information management (PIM) platform inRiver has been developed by Ntara, a Kentico Gold Solution Partner.

CRM Connect for Kentico is a solution developed by EMAKINA CEE to connect  Kentico CMS/EMS with popular CRM platforms. Version 2.0 offers the full integration of the Salesforce CRM amongst other things.

On top of all the new great built-in features of the upcoming Kentico 11, there are some more capabilities coming as a result of the cooperation with our technology partners. You can look forward to integrations with Ucommerce, Salesforce, and Marketo.

You may or may not have heard, but Kentico is joining forces with Ucommerce to provide you with stronger, enterprise-level e-commerce capabilities. But let’s not jump to conclusions just yet—what exactly does this partnership mean for you?

Last year in November, Kentico & Emakina CEE introduced a trial version of CRM Connect, a MS Dynamics 365 connector for Kentico. Today we are announcing the final product with proper pricing and licensing that you can use for your live projects.

What does "SKU fields mapping" mean? Why are we removing this feature from our product? Will it have any impact on your upgrade path? Read further for answers to all of these questions.

When it comes to shipping calculations, each country, business and order is different. Let's have a look at how Kentico 8.2 can help you to satisfy all these crazy needs.

There are new cross-selling options in Kentico 8.1. Read further to learn how they can help you increase customer spending.

In Kentico 8 you can look forward to a brand new customization model of the checkout process that greatly simplifies its customization, e.g. creating a one-step checkout process. Furthermore, you will obtain sophisticated marketing tools for its optimization.

Kentico 8 comes with a brand new rule-based discounting system that gives you a lot of flexibility for discount configuration. 

In Kentico 8 the store manager will be able to manage product variants (e.g. red T-shirt in medium size, green T-shirt in large size) as separate products with their own price, SKU number and inventory fields.

In Kentico 8 we revised our support for product options to make it easier for store manager to create configurable products. 

Have you integrated the Kentico E-commerce Solution with an external system like an ERP, CRM, or other? And did you face any obstacles or reach any limits in the process? ... Tell us about it! We want to improve our integration tools to fit your actual needs, making you more productive.

Check out the list of your e-commerce ideas and suggestions from Kentico UserVoice that are to be included in Kentico 8.

I am happy to announce that we have just launched our demo store. I believe it will help all newcomers familiarize themselves with the possibilities of the Kentico E-commerce Solution.

As we would like to offer a more flexible discounting system for version 8, it would really help us to learn about your needs so we can try to prepare it for your specific scenarios. So, tell us about them!

As we receive numerous questions on PCI compliance I would like to explain some basic terms and requirements. We would also welcome your ideas related to Kentico CMS compliance.

As we would like to deliver a more flexible checkout process for version 8, it would really help us to learn about your typical customizations of the process so we can prepare it for your custom scenarios. So, tell us about them!

Kentico UserVoice is one of the ways you can give us your suggestions for what you think should be improved in our product or services. We are currently working on a UserVoice update and would welcome your feedback to ensure that you (our customers) will really benefit from the planned changes.

Which small e-commerce features would make your life with our E-commerce Solution easier? If you want to see them pushed to version 8, let us know!

Would you like to have your favorite e-commerce reports, latest orders, products which need to be reordered and other important info about your store at one easy-to-access place?New e-commerce dashboard and widgets give you this possibility

Have you been looking for an advanced ready-to-use on-line store web template with simplified interface for mobile devices to start your on-line business? Stop searching and check out our new E-commerce Starter Site in Kentico CMS 7.

One of the most significant improvements of our E-commerce solution in version 7 is a brand new products management UI which brings you better user experience. You can also look forward to native support for multilingual and versioned products.

In version 6 we started enhancing our e-commerce solution for more advanced scenarios (new product types, support for shared and global data, easier customization model) and we continue doing it in version 7. The first things I would like to introduce you are the brand new e-commerce reports.

Petr Vozak (a Technical Leader responsible for the E-commerce module) is talking about E-commerce customization in Kentico CMS:

• description of the customization model,
• customization examples (most of them are focused on the shopping cart calculations

Version 6 comes with brand new customization model which brings you more flexibility and easier customization. If you are one of those who did some customization to E-commerce in previous versions, you should definitely read this post. Also, you will be given instructions on how to upgrade all your e-commerce customizations to make them work in version 6.

E-commerce module will come with many improvements in version 6.0. The first but not last is a new design of the E-commerce administration user interface. Let's have a look at it.

If you are a Kentico CMS developer and not sure about your Kentico CMS API knowledge, there will be something new in version 6.0 you might be interested in - Kentico CMS API examples.

The Image editor is another feature we have decided to improve in version 6.0. Our goal was not to compete with the specialized image editing software but to focus on better usability of our Image editor.

A small but useful feature, which will be included in Kentico CMS 6.0, is support for creating custom settings and improved settings configuration. Read my post for more details.

Have you ever dreamt of sending SMS messages directly from Kentico CMS? If your answer is YES, you should definitely read this post.

Since version 5.0 all these menus are populated dynamically from UI elements. It means you can easily define your custom UI element and display it in the menu, however you are not able to display the tree menu. I'll show you how you can easily achieve this.

Thom has already demonstrated the basic functionality and showed you how the personalized UI can look like, see his blog posts here and here. As for UI personalization, I will focus on differences between the version 4.1 and 5.0. I also feel responsibility to tell you what happen with some of the UI-related module permissions after you import your site package from older version to version 5.0 or after you upgrade your version 4.1 to 5.0.

One of the new things in version 4.1 is the improved usability of the WYSIWYG editor for easier insertion of images, video, flash and links into the page. Let's have a look a little bit closer...I'm sure you will like it.

First I will describe you the process of creating custom notification gateway, then I will follow this process to create ICQ notification gateway. Finally, I will mention workaround for sending timed notifications.

Do you miss ICQ, SMS or Windows Live Writer integration in our CMS? Are you looking for Silverlight document viewer? If so, you can look forward to them. My team did that for you...

I'm sure that most of you are interested in the way of retrieving documents from Kentico CMS database in your Silverlight applications. Why didn't I show you that in the example?  The answer is bellow...

I have prepared an overview how the Silverlight application can exchange data with your web application. Each of the ways is completed with the step-by-step example using the data from Kentico CMS database.

Let's make a summary of all described communication methods.

HTTP-based services do not require to create a proxy class. You can access them directly using HTTP requests. Silverlight provides two methods for sending HTTP requests: WebClient and HttpWebRequest.

ADO.NET Data Services allows applications to expose data over the internet via standard HTTP protocol.

WCF "web services" are part of a much broader spectrum of remote communication enabled through WCF. You will get a much higher degree of flexibility doing things in WCF. ASMX is older than WCF, and anything ASMX can do so can WCF (and more).

It is one of the easy ways. All you need to do is to implement a simple web method which will return requested data.

For the purpose of the tutorial I have created simple Silverlight application called "SilverlightDemo" which brings you the possibility to find specified users.

You will be disappointed if you think about the direct access to the database - you can't communicate with database directly from Silverlight. Moreover, objects like DataSet, DataTable and others are unknown for it. The only way is to use specialized services and requests which enable you to get the data from database. No matter which one of the method you choose, be aware of two important facts - synchronization and cross-domain access.

Since version 4.0 BETA Kentico comes with native support for Silverlight 2.0. If you want to know how you can integrate Silverlight applications into your Kentico CMS based web sites read further.

Hi! This time, I will tell you something about my work in Kentico and for those of you who are curious about our new version of the Kentico CMS I will describe some features which will be included in it.