We are pleased to announce the release of our latest shipping manifest automation extension, Royal Mail Despatch Express for Magento.

Our shipping extensions help store owners reduce the amount of time they spend shipping their orders and automatically print hundreds of labels each day. Our first automated shipping extension for Magento was UKMail, followed by our DPD and Interlink extensions which are now the only Geopost approved UK DPD and Interlink extensions for Magento.

After requests for a Royal Mail Despatch Express Magento extension, we started to develop our latest extension. Now released for public use.

Our Royal Mail Despatch Express Magento extension allows you to automatically print shipping labels to your Royal Mail label printers, retrieve tracking information back from Despatch Express into Magento and email it out to your customers automatically, using your own branded Magento email templates.

Additionally, our Royal Mail Consignment Recovery Console (screen shot below) allows you to see messages sent back from Despatch Express direct from your Magento admin panel, such as "Label printed" or "Label printer out of paper". It is also possible to cancel labels and re-print labels all from within your Magento admin panel.

Other features include: Print labels on remote networked printers, overwrite shipment weight per shipment, fully compatible with Magento's native shipping pricing matrix aswell as the most popular third party shipping price matrices.

A full list of features can be found on the extension page here and a Live Demo can be found here.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We have a vacancy for a junior web developer to join our small team of developers based in Bristol.

Someone Like You?
Do you aspire to be an elite website ninja? Yes? Then you are probably destined to be part of the Mad Capsule Media Team. You should also be the following ....

1. Logically minded
2. An eye for detail
3. Able and ready to solve problems on your own
4. Happy to speak to customers over the phone, on email and in person in a first line support manner.
5. Your interest level in the internet rates high/unhealthy
6. A working knowledge of common web technologies such as Apache, PHP, MySQL, Ajax, XML, FTP, and so forth
7. Previous experience writing PHP. Hobby projects are enough proof for us

A Career Stepping Stone
Wow, the web development world really is competitive these days, right? Gaining access to it can be tricky, but not for a website ninja such as yourself. If you fit the profile above, give us a call - maybe we need you more than you need us.

What Does An Junior Website Ninja Do?
Code PHP, write SQL, own a problem(in both senses of the word own), search Google, learn to code better PHP, learn to write better SQL, search Google a little less, assist clients in a first line support role.

If you can do any of the following, we might employ you and pretend we know what they mean:

• Administration of Linux without a GUI. Or any LAMP experience in general. Use of common Linux editors are always handy:VI, VIM, PICO etc.
• Able to produce valid clean HTML, understanding that to make valid HTML does not require 30 different variant CSS files, or the most bizarre z-index minus percent floating inline margins known to man (although...)
• Ajax, we like the Ajax, also we've got a sneaky love for Python
• Experience of: Magento, Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress , or the next big thing (no it's not Googlewave)
• CakePHP, Zend, Symphony, any other PHP framework

Whilst we appreciate ingenuity, we don't want people claiming they can do things they can't; don't pretend, we're not as stupid as we may seem. Claiming you can turn HTML into beer will just be disappointing for all. Equally claiming you know more than you do, wont help anybody either. At the end of the day, we're after somebody full of tenacity, who's a little bit addicted to the internet, specifically web development.
If you think web development sounds cool, because you once saw a web developer driving one of those white audi A3s and a pair of cool thick rimmed glasses, then please don't bother to apply.

On the other hand, if you like the idea of getting greasy with some PHP, and perhaps bake a cake then please apply ! So....

Time To Inject Your CV into our Data Feed
Not found yourself a backdoor into our internal systems yet? It's O.K, plenty of time for that. Meanwhile, email a copy of your CV with a cover letter to jobs a~t madcapsule.co.uk (Please feel free to include commercial or hobby examples of your work and your desired salary).

Not checked your email in the last 3 minutes while you were reading this advert? This job is probably not for you.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE, WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF GARLIC & WOODEN STEAKS

AGENCIES PLEASE READ: In our previous job adverts we have requested no agencies. Clearly we are wasting our time as you seem to ignore this request. If its inevitable agencies will contact us, then fine, however please send your candidates C.V's plus their expected salaries to the email above in the same way non agency applicants would. Please do not call us or email us to arrange a chat so that we can touch base. We are have touched enough bases.

We are pleased to announce the release of our latest Magento extension, Return Discounts.

Our Return Discounts extension encourages customers to shop at your Magento store time and time again by offering them a discount coupon when they place an order for money off next time they shop.

Features

• Set the percentage discount within Magento's admin panel, easily.
• Set the coupon codes to expire at a time of your choosing.
• Have the coupons emailed automatically to the customer using your branded email templates.

This extension is available for £25 plus VAT. It's easy to install, just upload to your Magento directory. We can install this for you for an additional charge if you wish.

More information on our Return Discounts extension is available here.

We are pleased to announce the release of our free Magento extension, Session Cleaner.

Every solution starts with a problem...

The Problem

After having to transfer several Magento stores to and from different servers we found the session data being stored in the file system from Magento was sticking around for ever. This causes long delays on archiving and copy and although you can remove this session data using the command line with just a few clever commands, surely its just not good house keeping to have all these old files sat redundant?

What does Session Cleaner do?

The extension removes customer session data stored in your file system that is older than X days. Where 'X' is a setting you can configure in the admin area of Magento. Yes, you can do this with a *nix command and a cron task, but why bother now there is an free and lightweight extension that does it for you. We package all our Magento installations with this extension to save time.

The extension can be downloaded directly from Magento Connect: Session Cleaner for Magento.

We are no longer looking for an apprentice and thus the content of this post has been removed.

A big thanks to everyone that applied.