Monthly Archives: February 2020

Magento 2 ScandiPWA Review: Another View On Headless E-Commerce

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Magento 2 Scandi PWA theme

For almost a decade, we explore the global e-commerce market with all its sophisticated trends. It steadily evolves, providing players with lots of new conditions and opportunities. Every year, new and new software solutions increase its potential capacity, accelerating growth, and improving the environments customers, merchants, marketers, and developers interact with. Thus, we see a broad diversity of experiences, such as Magento 2 introduces today. The leading e-commerce solution not only provides a limited set of default features but enables numerous customizations. Both these advantages became a part of the platform’s nature from the very beginning. However, both dramatically evolved within the past years. While initially serious Magento 2 customizations were possible only via third-party extensions and themes, the e-commerce system now supports the headless approach. It means that you can take the power of the platform’s backend and create any frontend on top of it. Magento 2 even offers a set of native tools and a related theme – PWA Studio – to achieve this goal. At the same time, you can leverage such third-party alternatives as Vue Storefront and DEITY Falcon. If nither of these tools looks suitable for the realization of your business goals, pay attention to ScandiPWA – another Magento 2 PWA that provides a comprehensive set of features and top-notch productivity. Below, you will find this platform-agnostic progressive web app described. Besides, explore the Scandi Magento 2 PWA frontend. Continue Reading

Argento Responsive Template for Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

In this post, we are exploring one of the most powerful Magento templates available in the market. Meet Argento Responsive Template – a fully-fledged solution for Magento 2 stores with advanced functionality and flexible customization options. Argento was developed in line with the best ecommerce practices and following the latest Magento developer guidelines. Argento Template offers a selection of beautiful theme designs, 20 extensions included in the pack, SEO optimization tools, and much more. Below, we describe the core features of the Argento template for Magento 2 and show how it looks on the frontend.   Continue Reading

Paradox Labs Adaptive Subscriptions Magento 2 Extension

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

If you want to provide your customers with the possibility to buy products on a recurring basis on your Magento 2 store, you need to look for a reliable third-party solution with the appropriate functionality. Unfortunately, the out-of-the-box Magento 2 platform doesn’t allow using subscriptions and accepting recurring payments. One of these tools is Adaptive Subscriptions for Magento 2 by Paradox Labs.

With the extension, you can seamlessly integrate and manage subscription products on your store and accept recurring payments automatically. By implementing the module’s functions, you improve customers’ shopping experience providing them with a more convenient way of purchasing items they regularly need. Besides, the Adaptive Subscriptions extension offers the necessary functionality for selling subscription products to B2B clients. Thus, Adaptive Subscriptions for Magento 2 by Paradox Labs helps merchants increase the number of repetitive purchases and have stable profit.

Below, we describe the features of this powerful recurring payments solution and explain how it works from the admin and customer perspective.
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Paradox Labs Authorize.Net CIM for Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Today, we are describing an integration with a reliable and secure payment method – Authorize.net CIM – built by Paradox Labs for Magento 2 ecommerce sites. Authorize.Net is one of the largest payment gateways worldwide, enabling online stores to accept credit cards and eCheck from their clients. The Paradox Labs Authorize.Net CIM extension for Magento 2 extends the default platform functionality by allowing to transmit financial data via the secure network. Since Authorize.Net is a PCI compliant solution, merchants can prove the highest security of the saved credit card data to their customers and protect themselves from fraudulent actions.

Below, we describe the benefits you will get after installation of the Magento 2 Authorize.Net CIM extension and look closer at the module’s backend and frontend functionality.

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Paradox Labs First Data: Payeezy Magento 2 Extension

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

First Data is one of the world’s largest payment processors that proved its reliability and safety for about 50% of ecommerce merchants in the US. First Data provides online store owners with the Payeezy payment gateway, allowing them to offer extended payment options to customers and ensure secure payment transactions. The Paradox Labs First Data: Payeezy extension brings Magento 2 merchants a full integration with the Payeezy solution on their stores. The module allows online shoppers to save their credit cards for future payments and stores all cardholder data entered on your website on the First Data servers. Thus, your clients enjoy fast and secure checkout, while you collect payment data in the most convenient and safe way.

Below, you will find an overview of the Magento 2 First Data: Payeezy module’s features, as well as the description of its backend and frontend functionality.

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Paradox Labs Stripe Payments for Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

In ecommerce business, website security and protection of sensitive data are the top issues. Today, we want to talk about the Stripe payment gateway and how you can integrate it in your store with the help of the Paradox Labs solution.

Stripe is a powerful payment gateway providing merchants and customers with the set of features that optimize payment procedures and guarantee safe processing of confidential cardholder data. The Paradox Labs Stripe Payments module for Magento 2 provides online stores with Stripe integration. With the extension, store owners improve the user experience by allowing customers to save their credit cards and do the checkout in one click. All sensitive data is stored on the Stripe server, which brings the security of ecommerce sites to a new level and builds customers’ trust.

Below, we look closer at the benefits that the Magento 2 Stripe payment module brings to merchants and customers, and describe how it functions in the backend and frontend.

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The Improved Import / Export Magento 2 Extension by Firebear

- Magento 2, Our extensions

The Improved Import Export Magento 2 Extension by Firebear

Below, you will see a brief description of our project aimed at improving the default Magento 2 import/export functionality. Although the basic processes are significantly refined now, they still lack some important features; therefore, we work on this Magento 2 extension with the aim to build a multi-purpose solution.

Improved Import extension for Magento 2 provides a possibility to transfer your CSV, XML, JSON, XLSX, ODS files with products data and product images to Magento 2 from a remote FTP server, Dropbox, Google Sheets, a direct URL of a source file, supports dedicated categories import, REST and SOAP APIs, on the fly import of product attribute values, import/export cron jobs, and many more features!

In the article below, you will find the extension’s shortened roadmap and brief description. We separately discuss the light version of the module and its entire stack as well as share use cases. Also, this blog post contains information on how to import data from Google Sheets, transfer categories to Magento 2, import product attributes, creating new attributes on the fly, etc. Other useful materials include Magento CLI import commands, import file samples, import fields mapping reference, etc. Continue Reading

Magento 2 Roadmap (2020)

- Magento 2

Magento 2 Roadmap 2017

Since there is no official Magento 2 roadmap, we’ve decided to create our own. Below, you will find Magento release roadmap that contains plans and features that have been already mentioned by the Magento team or other trusted sources. We will try to gather all the latest information about Magento 2 updates here, so get ready to see how the popular ecommerce platform will change in the nearest future.

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Exploring Magento 2 Backend: Page Hierarchy

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Magento 2 page hierarchy

Today, we shed light on how to organize your store’s page hierarchy. By default, the Magento 2 admin gives you the ability to manage your content pages: you can add pagination, navigation, menus, etc. If you regularly publish a large amount of content, this article will help you organize your materials to make it easy for store visitors to find articles they need. We describe other admin sections here: Magento 2 Backend Exploration. Continue Reading

DEITY Magento 2 PWA Review: Empowering E-Commerce Excellence

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

deity falcon magento 2 pwa

The global e-commerce market evolves steadily. It introduces new features and trends, expanding the existing borders more and more. The latest software solutions accelerate its growth, improving the lives of customers, merchants, marketers, and developers. As a result, today’s e-commerce systems offer a broad diversity of features, opportunities, and experiences. And Magento 2 is not an exception. The platform has become a leading solution that provides robust default possibilities and at the same time, supports numerous customizations. Both these advantages can be combined and multiplied due to the headless approach: you can take the powerful Magento 2 backend and create any frontend on top of it. Use the native Magento 2 PWA Studio or third-party alternatives, such as Vue Storefront, to do that. If nither of these tools seem to be suitable, pay attention to DEITY Falcon – another Magento 2 PWA that offers comprehensive features and top-notch productivity. Below, we describe the key characteristics of this platform-agnostic progressive web app and shed light on the Deity Magento 2 PWA. Continue Reading