Monthly Archives: July 2014

Best Related Products Magento Extensions

- Magento tips & tricks

Make your customers more interested in your e-commerce store and goods by showing them all the related products. Often, it is very convenient. Imagine the situation, when occasional visitor is dissatisfied with the specific product from your store: the price is too high, the color is not desired, or its functionality is not like your visitor imagined. But you have the substitute with lower price, desired color, or necessary functionality. Chances are you occasional visitor will leave you e-commerce store without any attempts to find this substitute. By using correct related products Magento extension, you can change the situation. You will automatically generate related products for the entire catalog of you web-store, so all the substitutes will be displayed on appropriate product pages. Below, we’ve gathered the most popular related products Magento extensions.

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Magento Shopping Cart Abandonment Extensions

Shopping Cart Abandonment Magento Extensions

Abandonment of virtual shopping carts happens quite common. The abandonment rate for e-commerce retailers varies between 60% and 80%, and an average index is 67.91%. To find out shopping cart abandonment rate, you have to compare the number of abandoned shopping carts with the total shopping carts number. For example, there were 50,000 attempts to buy something from online store during the month, but only 10,000 transactions have been made, so 40,000 carts have been abandoned. It means that abandonment rate is 80% ((40,000/50,000)*100%=80%). But it is possible to decrease this index with the help of shopping cart abandonment Magento extensions. The best tools are described below.

Magento 2 Shopping Cart Abandonment (Extensions and Modules)

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Magento Connect Stuff Picks extensions (summer 2014)

- Magento tips & tricks

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Magento Connect Stuff Picks includes 3 pages of both free and paid extensions. WordPress integration, one page checkout, social marketing apps, taxes, shopping, different reports and a bunch of new features are among them. Magento Connect Stuff Picks extensions were carefully selected by Magento team, so they are the most useful, interesting or unusual solutions for your e-commerce webstore.

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Mobile e-commerce in 2015

- E-Commerce

mobile e-commerceMobile branch of e-commerce is constantly growing. It plays very important role not only in infrastructure of online stores but it gradually becomes one of the major sales tool for multichannel stores. In November 2013 Google posted through Think Insights that in USA average consumer spends about 15 hours a week looking for products on smartphone or tablet. About 93 percent of such consumer make a purchase, if the desired item is found, of course. As you can see, it is very important to provide the ability to reach the store from mobile device. There are three major strategies for Mobile e-commerce in 2014: native apps, HTML5, CSS or JavaScript, and mobile web.

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Magento Go is dead

- E-Commerce

Unfortunately we have to inform you, that Magento Go is almost dead. Yes, Magento decided to close the project. Cloud-based eCommerce solution with all the web hosting features was launched in the beginning of 2011. The project was created in order to support different small businesses, and it has no need to install software. However, it has the ability to install extensions for extra functionality. Unlike Community and Enterprise editions, Magento Go was hosted by Magento itself. And now we can witness the end of Magento Go and the same is true to ProStores.

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