r/magento2

Hi everyone — I built Magecube (magecube.in), a marketplace focused exclusively on Magento talent and services. We connect store owners with vetted Magento 2 developers, extension authors, and agencies for tasks ranging from quick fixes and performance tuning to full migrations and custom module development.

On the site you’ll find verified portfolios, transparent pricing options, project-based and hourly engagements, and a simple hiring flow that includes milestone payments and basic QA checks. I’d love feedback from this community on the marketplace model, what features you’d want to see, and any concerns about hiring Magento talent through a marketplace. If you’re interested I can share a few case studies or offer a limited number of discounted trial jobs for r/magento2 members.

Looking at the best option between Braintree and Stripe. I have been using Braintree and never used Stripe. Which is better for Magento when it comes to being dependable, Fraud, Security, Less chances of Chargebacks, etc? Looking for Pros and Cons.

I had to disable Credit Card Payments and only accept Paypal because of so many frudulate orders from card testing. Everytime I enable Credit Cards they just start pouring in. I am trying to figure a way to help control it. I am afraid not acepting Credit Cards could be hurting my sales. Not sure if Stripe would benifit me in this area or not.

We do use reCAPTCHA and have our payments set to Authorize and not Intent Sale to prevent all the charges and Voids.

Nothing I am doing is helping with so many fraud orders.

Thanks

Adding new products to my site along with new images. I noticed the images are not showing on my Product pages and only showing the default "magento logo" as the images. In the backend I see the following message has been showing there for the past few days with no change. Any one else have this issue. I have uploaded to images for this product and neither one of them is showing

Task "Image resize: /a/c/xxx.jpg": 1 item(s) have been scheduled for update.

Description of Operation Image resize: /a/c/ace_41022_1.jpg

 Summary Pending, in queue...

Hi, I am Marcin, a senior Adobe Commerce / Magento specialist and freelancer based in the UK. I have been working with Magento since version 1.3, so about a decade now, across agency and client side work. Some of you may know me from Meet Magento talks in the UK, Poland and Barcelona. My LinkedIn is here if you want to check my background: https://www.linkedin.com/in/magento2-tech-lead/

I want to share a small milestone on something I have been building on evenings and weekends for a while now.

It is a Magento monitoring platform. Not another uptime checker, not another generic APM wrapped in a nicer UI. I wanted something that actually understands Magento internals, and is privacy focused from the ground up rather than as an afterthought. A dashboard that shows the real vitals of your shop, plus an alerting system that flags when something is genuinely wrong, based on learned baselines rather than arbitrary thresholds.

I also want to be upfront about something. This is not a vibe coded weekend project thrown together by prompting an AI and shipping whatever came out. The store side is a lightweight Magento 2 connector, built with a privacy first approach so no sensitive data ever leaves your shop. It only sends what is needed to monitor health and performance, nothing more, backed by a decade of hands on Magento experience of what actually breaks in production and what a merchant or agency needs to know about first.

We are all busy chasing improvements to our stores. Monitoring should not need constant babysitting. It should run quietly in the background and only speak up when it matters.

It is getting close now, just some more testing and polishing before it is ready.

If you want to hear more, or if you would be interested in being a beta tester, the waitlist is here: https://watchtower-commerce.com/waitlist

Happy to answer any questions about the technical side too.

underestimating the customisation work, expecting it to feel like shopify out of the box, something else entirely. curious what you see most from the technical side

I’ve been working in my spare time on a new monitoring platform for Magento.

No, it’s not another uptime monitoring SaaS. 🙂

More details coming soon.

One question I’m curious about: would you expect it to support both Magento 2 and Magento 1?

We hear a lot of "Magento's too complicated" from merchants who've never actually used it.... usually secondhand from a Shopify-focused agency or forum thread. Curious what people who actually run Magento stores think the biggest misconception is, versus the reality.

trying to understand the gap between reputation and experience