Monthly Archives: August 2018

Mageplaza Magento 2 Report Extension

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Doing online business is more and more complicated and risky these days. Therefore, to be the leader in your market, stores must keep an eye carefully on how to operate your business fluently and efficiently. Among the basket of concerned things, trading statistics management is vital since it helps the store owners make the right decision in operating their businesses. Sometimes, you need to calculate the sales number of your season campaign such as Tet Holiday, Valentine, Christmas, etc., and compare it to the others time in a year. Furthermore, you own three stores at different places, and you want to see how sales generated in these three ones. So how to report all of these figures within your website?

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Magento 2 Better Coupon Extension by Mageplaza

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

As a store owner, you probably don’t want to miss a single chance to boost sales. However, you must wonder how you can attract customers, and make them buy something in your e-store. PROMOTION is one of the critical answers to this question! If you offer buyers a bargain, they will spend their money without any hesitation, for sure. Believe it or not, the coupon is one of the most appealing methods for sales preparation that help turn potential customers into actual buyers, but some problems are arising when using it. For example, it is time-consuming to create and generate coupon codes manually. Admins have to make tremendous efforts, but the result still lacks precision. Besides, codes look complicated, so sometimes customers feel annoying and unwilling to enter long discount codes at checkout. That’s why an easy-to-generate and auto-apply coupon provider is desirably in need.

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MageDelight Ajax Infinite Scroll Magento 2 Extension

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Providing online store visitors with seamless customer experience is crucial for increasing sales and conversion rates in any ecommerce business. The convenience of browsing category pages on a website has a significant role in the impression that potential clients get from surfing on your online shop. Standard catalog pagination on the stores with lots of products may result in slowing down the shopping process and demotivating customers to make purchases, which will result in decreased conversions.

Luckily, there are tools built to solve the issues mentioned above. Today, we present you the Magento 2 AJAX Infinite Scroll Extension by MageDelight that is designed to optimize customer experience on an online shop. With the module, the process of loading products on a category page is interrupted due to the AJAX Loader and happens automatically with a mouse scroll. Thus, store owners provide their clients with more user-friendly catalog browsing and reduce their time spent on looking for the required products.

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Mageworx Store Credits and Refunds for Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Adding store credit functionality is an excellent way to extend payment options on your ecommerce site. Possibility to pay for online purchases using in-store currency gives additional motivation to customers to shop on your store. At the same time, store owners save their time handling product refunds. Unfortunately, the default Magento 2 platform doesn’t provide store credit opportunities, but you can get them with the help of third-party solutions.

Mageworx presents its new tool with a full set of features for convenient store credits management. Meet the Store Credits and Refunds Magento 2 extension! With the module, merchants can significantly increase sales by providing customers with store credits that can be used for future purchases, create advanced pricing schemes based on credits, and refund orders using in-store currency. Thus, you will gain customers loyalty to your brand and improve engagement rate.

Below, we look closer at the features the Magento 2 store credit and refund module offers to its users.

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How to Import & Export Wishlist Items in Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

Magento 2 Wishlist Items Import & Export

Do you want to import wishlist items from your old Magento 1 store or an external e-commerce system to Magento 2 but don’t know how to achieve this goal? Or are you going to expand your business and need to export wishlist items from Magento 2? Below, you will find how to circumvent the default limitations of the platform moving all the necessary data in bulk within just a few clicks. Continue Reading

How to Import & Export Search Terms in Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

Magento 2 Search Terms Import & Export

It’s not a secret that Magento 2 has lots of limitations. The community and its developers are trying to make the platform better with each new release, but there is still a room for improvement. As passionate Magento developers, we not only know about key bottlenecks and lacking opportunities, we try to fix them. The following article explains how to import and export search terms in Magento 2. This functionality is not available by default, but soon you will find out how to get the missing feature working on your e-commerce store. Continue Reading

Magento 2 Multi Source Inventory (MSI)

- Fire development, Magento 2

Magento 2 multi Store Inventory

The following article sheds light on a new important enhancement to our favorite e-commerce platform – Magento 2 Multi Source Inventory. The project will be available for the Open Source (Community) edition by the end of 2018, so it’s time to say a few words about its nature, goals, benefits, and usability.

What is the meaning of the multi source inventory functionality of Magento 2? Behind this term, you will discover a huge improvement to the Magento core that introduces the ability to connect multiple inventory sources to your e-commerce store. Note that you not only link them together but also leverage an algorithm of selection that chooses a warehouse or a physical store depending on various conditions to make the delivery as much efficient as possible.

Of course, such functionality also enables some advanced drop shipping opportunities, so does it mean that a huge part of multi source and drop shipping modules will become useless with the release of Magento 2.3 that tends to be the first version with the built-in multi source capabilities? We will try to provide the answer below. Continue Reading

How to Import Data from Teradata to Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

Magento 2 Teradata Data Import

In the following article, we discuss the improved approach to data import from Teradata to Magento 2. Although there is a community-accepted approach (described below as well), we propose a more user-friendly way of integration. Being based on a third-party extension, it not only moves all routine processes to a single environment but also allows automating them. Consequently, you no longer need to spend time on importing data from Teradata to Magento 2 daily. But let’s describe the common approach before discussing the enhanced one. Continue Reading

How to Import Data from SQLite to Magento 2

- Fire development, Magento 2, Our extensions

Magento 2 SQLite Data Import

If you have data stored in an SQLite database but want to move it to your Magento 2 website, you’ve come to the right place. Below, we compare a traditional approach to the transfer with a more efficient and user-friendly way to achieve the same goal. Magento 2 data import from SQLite has never been more accessible, but let’s take a look at a more complicated procedure used by the majority of merchants. Continue Reading

How to Import Data from Cassandra to Magento 2

- Fire development, Magento 2, Our extensions

Magento 2 Cassandra data import

The following article discusses two utterly different approaches to Magento 2 data import from Cassandra. Unfortunately, it is not possible to connect the database to you store directly if you don’t use any third-party tools. Although there is an alternative solution, many people still run the integration manually spending hours of time on the synchronization. Indeed, the alternative approach offers a much more efficient way to achieve the same goal. Below, we describe both ways to import data from Cassandra to Magento 2. Continue Reading