An additional justification for upgrading to Magento CE 1.8 Within this series, we have published a blog article here (click here) in which we discussed the upgrades to the security features that are included in Magento 1.8. Continue reading to see further compelling arguments in favor of upgrading to Magento 1.8. performance: when it comes to performance, this was a significant disadvantage for users who had a large variety of items to choose from. In order to circumvent this issue, version 1.8 has included a number of innovative solutions. In addition to providing protection against database deadlocks, it has a novel approach to restricting the manner in which Magento’s big database lookups are carried out. At this point, the process of checking out will not take any longer. In version 1.8, some calls that were not essential have been deleted, and each step now loads just the information that pertains to the current step. This means that clients are able to complete the checkout process much more quickly. Modifications have also been made to the manner in which Magento manages a substantial number of tax codes. It is possible for us to have more than 35,000 different tax codes without the website’s performance being negatively impacted. payments: the consumer was unable to complete the transaction since there were various problems that were improper with relation to the PayPal. Now that this issue has been rectified. The message “customer already exists” will no longer be shown to the client during the checkout process if the customer already has an account there. Customers who paid with PayPal Express would not be able to take advantage of any shopping cart pricing regulations that had been established in the administrative side of the website under specific conditions. A solution to this issue has been implemented in version 8.0. Be on the lookout for our next blog article, which will discuss the improvements made in Magento 1.8.