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E-Commerce | FireBear - Part 114

"E-Commerce"

Mirasvit Improved Sorting for Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Convenient catalog browsing on an online shop is an essential part of a successful sales strategy. If customers can’t quickly find the goods they want to buy, they are more likely to leave a website without making an order. That’s why every ecommerce merchant should think about improving products sorting on their stores.

In today post, we describe a tool that is built to increase the usability of the default Magento product catalog – Mirasvit Improved Sorting for Magento 2. The extension adds extended sorting options, allowing customers to organize the products listing by bestsellers, newest, top rated, most viewed items, and more, which drastically improves browsing experience on a web store. Besides, the Magento 2 smart sorting module provides the ability to create rules based on various factors for the products display on the catalog. Thus, online store owners can place their best-performing products at the top of the listing and push not popular and out of stock items or products with lower ratings to the end.

Below, we dive deep into the Mirasvit Improved Sorting extension’s functionality and show how to configure it in the Magento Admin.
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How to Migrate from Lemonstand to Magento 2 or Sync Data Between Them

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

Magento 2 Lemonstand migration

A state of being new is not a reason to use an e-commerce platform. Yes, fresh tools may have lots of benefits, but they are not proven by time and community. Furthermore, they may still lack some features. But this is not about LemonStand. While it is a great solution which has lots of merchants all over the world, they have to migrate to other e-commerce platforms since LemonStand will be shutting down on June 5th, 2019. Therefore, we’d like to introduce you to the easiest possible Magento 2 LemonStand migration procedure. Below, you will find a description of how to move data from your old e-commerce store to a brand new website in the most seamless manner. Let’s see how to migrate from Lemonstand to Magento 2. If you still want to keep your old store for some reason, this article also teaches how to synchronize data between the two platforms. Continue Reading

How to Migrate from Squarespace to Magento 2 or Sync Data Between Them

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

Magento 2 Squarespace Migration

While Big Cartel is a platform dedicated to creative businesses, Squarespace is a giant website builder used for all possible purposes. Although it belongs to the lesser-known e-commerce solutions, Squarespace offers quite decent opportunities for digital commerce. Like other minor e-commerce systems, it is great to start your business, but at a certain point of your growth, the provided functionality is not enough. If you also face this situation or just want to avoid it in the future, you’ve come to the right place. In the following article, we discuss how to migrate from Squarespace to Magento 2. Furthermore, the report sheds light on how to synchronize data flow between the two platforms. Continue Reading

How to Migrate from Big Cartel to Magento 2 or Sync Data Between Them

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Magento 2 big cartel migration

This article is dedicated to the Magento 2 Big Cartel migration and the synchronization of both platforms. Big Cartel is an e-commerce platform for creative businesses. Lots of musicians, artists, and designers create their online storefronts on the basis of it. According to the information posted on the platform’s official website, more than a million creators have sold their art, clothing, jewelry, prints, and other stuff via Big Cartel. Being fully customizable, it offers all the tools necessary to run a business online. Below, we describe Big Cartel from the perspective of its e-commerce opportunities, compare it with Magento, and provide the easiest way of the migration from one platform to another. Although Big Cartel belongs to the lesser-known ecommerce solutions, it offers a quite decent feature set, but at a certain point of your business journey, they are not enough. And since Magento 2 offers many more features, extensions, agencies, and enthusiasts willing to help you, you may run the Magento 2 Big Cartel migration. Continue Reading

Atwix – Doing Magento 2 E-Commerce With Excellence

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Today, we’d like to introduce you to Atwix – a full-service e-commerce agency that covers both B2B and B2C segments of the market and provides Magento services for years. We’ve recently helped Atwix with a literally immense project and will continue to collaborate in terms of import and export processes and integrations. The company had to perform a data transfer for one of its enterprise clients, but the default Magento 2 tools did not solve the task with expected efficiency. However, our Improved Import & Export extension made a combat debut supporting the biggest project we’ve ever worked with. Hundreds of thousands of products were successfully transferred with the help of our module. Prior to our future cooperation, let’s say a few more words about Atwix. Continue Reading

Mirasvit Extended Shopping Cart Rules for Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Special offers and promotions is a vital part of the marketing strategy of any ecommerce business. Possibility to buy products with a discount and get other bonuses for making order increases customer engagement and motivates shoppers to come back to your store. However, since almost every online shop provides promo offers, it is important to find a way to stand out from the crowd.

In today post, we describe a solution that enhances the default Magento 2 functionality related to cart price rules – Mirasvit Extended Shopping Cart Rules. The Magento 2 module will help you create more effective promotions to increase average order value and boost sales on your store. The extension provides merchants with advanced discount rules and an extended list of attributes for configuring rule conditions. Besides, after installing the Magento 2 promotions module, you will be able to place eye-catching banners informing website visitors about your promo campaigns.

Below, we describe the key features of the Extended Cart Rules module for Magento 2 by Mirasvit and explore its backend and frontend functionality.
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How to repair Magento 2 database

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

Magento 2 import export debug log

While Magento 1 offers an official tool designed to repair a database, nothing similar exists for Magento 2. You cannot find issues and fix them as quickly as most of us got used to. Indeed, there is an unofficial replacement for Magento 1 Database Repair Tool. Below, we shed light on how to repair the Magento 2 database in the most user-friendly manner. Besides, you will find out how to integrate Magento 2 with any external databases. Continue Reading

Amasty Free Shipping Bar Magento 2 Extension

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Cart abandonment is often caused by additional charges customers have to pay for delivery. For this reason, online store owners often include free shipping in their promotional campaigns. This way, they can encourage customers to make an order on their websites. If your store operates on the default Magento 2 platform, the only option to inform customers about free shipping is at the checkout when their order value reaches a pre-set threshold. That’s why it is important to install an appropriate third-party module with a feature of informing website visitors about free shipping possibility before they check out.

Amasty Free Shipping Bar for Magento 2 is a robust tool that adds necessary functionality for promoting free shipping offers to customers right on the homepage or any other page of a website. The extension adds a shipping notification bar to your website pages, improving communication with online shoppers and motivating them to make a purchase. Due to the price auto-calculation feature, it is possible to display messages in the bar informing customers about the amount they need to spend to get free delivery. Thus, you get a practical solution for increasing average order value and conversion rates and boosting your sales.

Below, we look deeper into the functionality of the Magento 2 Free Shipping Bar extension by Amasty.

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How to Migrate from 3dcart to Magento 2 or Sync Data Between Them

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

Magento 2 3dcart migration

This article is mainly dedicated to the Magento 2 3dcart migration and the synchronization of both platforms. Below, we describe 3dcart from the perspective of its e-commerce opportunities, compare its market presence with Magento, and provide the most natural way of the migration from one platform to another. While 3dcart belongs to the lesser-known ecommerce solutions, yet it offers a rich set of features as well as simplifies the life of web developers who create stores on the basis of this platform. But even the broadest functionality of 3dcart will never compete with the one introduced in Magento. Small projects may be great, but they always exist in the shadow of market giants. And since our favorite platform offers many more features, extensions, agencies, and enthusiasts willing to help you, merchants migrate from 3dcart to Magento 2. Let’s say a few more words about 3dcart and then proceed to the Magento 2 3dcart migration and synchronization. Continue Reading

How to Migrate from Wix to Magento 2 or Sync Data Between Them

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

Magento 2 Wix Migration

In the following post, we’d like to discuss the process of migration from Wix to Magento 2. The former is a free website builder that supports e-commerce features allowing its users to create online storefronts along with multiple other websites of all possible purposes. But multipurpose platforms never provide as broad functionality, as systems dedicated to a specific purpose. That’s why merchants, who started their e-commerce business with Wix, migrate from it to Magento 2. Wix lacks some advanced features, third-party extensions, scalability, and performance provided by the Magento ecosystem. Although it is an undoubtedly great platform for starting an e-commerce website, you will need to switch to something more powerful as your business grows. Below, we shed light on the Magento 2 Wix migration as well as provide a detailed guide on how to synchronize data between the two platforms. Let’s say a few more things about Wix and then compare it with Magento before going any further. Continue Reading