Monthly Archives: July 2019

Magic Zoom Plus Magento 2 Extension

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

If you want to attract more customers to your storefront, even detailed product descriptions and reviews might be not enough to show your products in the best way. In modern ecommerce business, the importance of visual elements on a website has significantly increased. Besides, you should pay attention to the quality of images, as well as options that will let store visitors examine your products in detail.

Magic Toolbox brings its experience and state-of-the-art technology to the Magic Zoom Plus extension, a powerful image zoom tool for Magento 2 websites. The module extends the default platform possibilities by introducing the product zoom functionality. With Magic Zoom Plus for Magento 2, merchants can add high-resolution images with multiple zooming features to any product from their catalog. Besides, the Magento 2 module allows customers to view enlarged product pictures in full screen and have seamless user experience on both desktop and mobile devices.  

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Actionable Google Analytics Extension for Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

For those merchants who find basic Magento reporting tools not sufficient for their goals, Google provides some services that expand possibilities of the default platform. If you are looking for a full-featured reporting solution, pay attention to Google Analytics. However, the implementation of additional analytics tools on your Magento 2 website might become a complicated process. For this reason, we recommend you to consider installing a third-party module that significantly simplifies integration with Google services – Actionable Google Analytics for Magento 2, developed by Tatvic Analytics. The extension allows online store owners to fully leverage Enhanced Ecommerce, Custom Dimensions & Metrics, Google AdWords, and other features of Google Analytics. Thus, you get all the necessary tools to start tracking your website traffic right after installing the module. 

Below, we look closer at the benefits of the Magento 2 Actionable Google Analytics extension, as well as its backend configuration.
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Bulk Prices Updater Magento 2 Extension by Mageside

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Default Magento 2 has limitations when it comes to updating product prices. If you want to change the pricing of some products in one go, the only option you have is to specify a new price for each item one by one. This process is time-consuming and not the most convenient. Luckily, there is a solution for automating prices update – the Magento 2 Bulk Prices Updater by Magenest. The extension improves the out-of-the-box Magento 2 possibilities by equipping online store owners with the tools that let them apply all necessary changes to the catalog prices in a few clicks. Below, we describe the functionality of the Magento 2 bulk price updates module, as well as its configuration in the backend. 

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How to get option label from dropdown in Magento 2

- Fire development, Magento 2

get option label from dropdown in Magento 2

A frequent search task among Magento developers is to get an option label from a dropdown. However, it is quite confusing for beginners since the actual value of a drop-down product attribute is a number. Many newcomers expect that it is a text. But there is nothing to worry about. Below, we explain how to get an option label from a dropdown in Magento 2 as well as shed light on everything you need to know to begin working with dropdown product attributes.  More coding tips are available here: Magento 2 Developer’s Cookbook.

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How to get a product by ID in Magento 2

- Fire development, Magento 2

Magento 2 get product by ID

If you want to get a product by ID in Magento 2, the platform offers several different methods to do that. And since it is one of the most frequently used operations in a programmer’s routine, we describe every approach below. Each method is unique and suitable for different use cases. You can utilize them to get products in third-party modules, scripts, or phtml files. Therefore, let’s see how to get products by ID in Magento 2. More coding tips are available here: Magento 2 Developer’s Cookbook. Continue Reading

How to get all attributes of a product in Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Magento, Our extensions

 

Magento 2 get attributes of a product

Below, we shed light on how to get all attributes of a product in Magento 2. Why does someone need this functionality? In some situations, you have to get a list of all available attributes for a specific product. Of course, you can spend time copying them manually, but who needs this waste of resources? Imagine that you have several thousands of attributes and you need to copy them from simple to configurable products. Let’s find out how to do that. Continue Reading

SAP CRM Overview & Magento 2 Integration

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

Magento 2 SAP CRM integration

We’ve already overviewed several SAP products (SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC), SAP Business One, SAP S/4HANA, SAP ASE, etc.) and today it’s time to say a few words about SAP CRM. This platform sets standards for customer relationship management software for years, and you can easily connect it to your e-commerce website. Let’s take a look at core features and components provided by the software solution and then proceed to the Magento 2 SAP CRM integration.  Continue Reading

Magenest Stripe Payment & Subscription Magento 2 Extension

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Today, we are going to talk about the possibilities and advantages of integrating an ecommerce site with the Stripe payment gateway. Stripe provides a seamless user experience for online shoppers and ensures the highest level of customer data safety when processing payments. If you want to implement Stripe payments on your Magento 2 store, pay attention to Stripe Payment and Subscription for Magento 2 by Magenest. Magenest developed a robust module that allows merchants to leverage all the benefits of secure payment transactions and extended checkout options available with Stripe. The extension equips online store owners with a set of tools that enable them to offer a wider variety of payment options at the checkout and safely manage cardholder data. Besides optimizing payment procedures, the Magento 2 Stripe integration module allows creating subscription products and configure subscription plans according to a specific business model.

Further, we are providing a detailed description of the Magento 2 Stripe Payment Gateway and Subscription extension’s functions and explore its configuration settings.

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