Yearly Archives: 2020

Amasty Gift Wrap Magento 2 Extension

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

If you want to engage more customers and improve their shopping experience on your store, adding gift wrapping service is an excellent idea. The Amasty Gift Wrap Magento 2 extension allows adding the proper functionality to your ecommerce site so that you can impress website visitors with eye-catching gift wrap designs. The ability to choose a wrapping paper or box when purchasing gifts is especially beneficial during holiday periods. Besides, the Magento 2 gifting module allows customers to include a card and add a personal message to a gifted product. Below, we look closer at the features offered by the Amasty Gift Wrap module for Magento 2. 

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Impact of Coronavirus on Consumer Behavior

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

At the beginning of this year, the world has faced an unprecedented threat to people’s health and the global economy – the outbreak of the coronavirus. The first signs of the novel virus have been observed in China, where it emerged and started spreading with rapid paces to the rest of the world. The COVID-19 outbreak led to the global pandemic state, affecting every aspect of one’s life and bringing irreversible losses to business accross many industries. In such circumstances, it is crucial for companies and enterprises, especially those involved in the retail and e-commerce business, to show flexibility and quickly adapt to the changing situation.

In this article, we provide an overview of the main patterns related to consumer behavior in the changing circumstances and look at the possibilities for businesses to survive crisis times. To get more information on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on e-commerce and retail, check this post.

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Amasty PDF Customizer Magento 2 Extension

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

The daily routine of every ecommerce merchant includes preparation of invoices and other documents in PDF. Quite often, default templates need to be customized to include essential info about products and companies and make them more easy-to-read. If you try to modify your PDF docs with the default Magento functionality, you will face difficulties without having some technical skills.

Today, we present a tool that provides online store owners with necessary functions for customizing PDF documents – Amasty PDF Customizer for Magento 2. The module allows users to modify pre-configured PDF templates and create custom documents for invoices, credit memos, orders, and shipments. The Amasty solution is easy-to-use and doesn’t require any specific programming skills to set up beautiful PDFs. Design customization options available with the extension allow merchants to tweak their documents’ look and content to present their brand better.

Below, we describe the core features of the Magento 2 PDF invoice module in more detail.

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Firebear Improved Import & Export App for BigCommerce

- E-Commerce, Our extensions

improved import & export for bigcommerce

Here at Firebear, we’ve developed one of the most potent data transfer extensions in the entire Magento ecosystem. Our Improved Import & Export module not only powers connections between Magento websites but also goes far beyond the platform. The plugin provides the ability to integrate e-commerce websites with various external platforms, tools, and service providers, such as ERP, CRM, accounting, and other systems. Furthermore, the Improved Import & Export module enables seamless data import from other e-commerce platforms, including Shopify and BigCommerce. Below, we’d like to draw your attention to the extended capabilities related to the latter. As a team, we’ve decided to exceed the existing boundaries of Firebear, creating reliable data transfer solutions for our e-commerce platforms. Meet the Firebear Improved Import & Export app for BigCommerce. In the following article, we explain the project and provide a detailed description of its core features and advantages. You can access its early beta version right here.   Continue Reading

Offline2On – A Lifebelt For Entrepreneurs All Over The Globe (Get Your First Magento Website)

- E-Commerce

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The number of small businesses in the US alone exceeds the 30 million milestone. So, you can imagine how many entrepreneurs all over the world are in trouble now. The long-lasting impact of the crisis will never let many of them recover within the next few years. Some of them won’t be able to reappear after the pandemic. However, there is a community initiative aimed to mitigate the influence of city-wide lockdowns and states of emergencies. Meet Offline2On – a non for profit community-led project created to support businesses amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Continue Reading

Magento 2 SEO Suites Comparison (Mirasvit vs Mageworx)

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

In the following post, we try to find out how Mirasvit Advanced SEO Suite differs from Mageworx Magento 2 SEO Suite Ultimate and vice versa. Both Magento 2 SEO extensions provide a massive list of SEO enhancements that radically improve ranking and turn default search engine optimization into fun. Time-consuming processes will no longer take much effort after you install one of the Magento 2 SEO modules, and below we help you choose the solution that suits your ecommerce needs the most.
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How to Downgrade Magento 2 Commerce to Open Source

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

downgrade magento 2 EE to magento 2 CE

Although Commerce and Open Source are the two versions of the same system, they are quite different. The former offers lots of enterprise-grade enhancements and B2B features but costs a lot. Enterprise power, unlimited scalability, and open-source flexibility come to a pretty penny. The annual license fee depends on the turnover and starts at $22k for less than $1 million in sales. As for Magento 2 Open Source, it is free to use. You only need a budget to create a new e-commerce website. Let’s take a look at other differences between the two platforms and then describe several ways to downgrade Magento 2 Commerce to Open Source (Magento Enterprise (EE) to Magento Community (CE)). Continue Reading

MageWorx Magento 2 SEO Suite Extension

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Implementation of efficient SEO strategies is a must-have for Magento ecommerce merchants who want to grow their business at a faster pace and have increased profits in the long term. Merchants have to pay attention to all details related to their website SEO if they want potential customers to find their online store in the search engine results quickly.

Mageworx introduces the first all-in-one SEO extension for Magento 2 that eliminates duplicate content issues, improves the indexation, СTR, and search visibility of your ecommerce Magento store, and makes it more user and search engine friendly.

The Magento 2 SEO Suite Ultimate helps to optimize all SEO elements, organize website architecture with smart cross linking, optimize large chunks of meta data, equip a website with extended rich snippets, add breadcrumbs, generate XML and HTML sitemaps and dozens more. Thus, you can reduce your search optimization workload, get higher rankings in search results, and considerably improve the online visibility of your web store.  

We will describe the MageWorx Magento 2 SEO Suite extension with all its features in detail after a short introduction into its main benefits. MageWorx and Mirasvit SEO solutions are compared here: Magento 2 SEO Suites Comparison.

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