"E-Commerce"

Magento Extensions For European Union Ecommerce

November 9, 2014 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

The importance of e-commerce in Europe constantly grows. More and more people prefer to purchase products and services online. Meanwhile, e-commerce gains its influence on the European economy. Whereas the European GDP was more than €16.4trn in 2013, the part of e-commerce is 2.2% of this number. Additionally, e-commerce becomes the important source for new jobs. All these factors turn e-commerce into a significant economic power for the European market. And there are a lot of extensions, designed to adapt your Magento store for the conditions of the European market. We gathered the most useful solutions in this post. The following article sheds light on the latest GDPR requirements and tools to make your store fully compatible with them, various tax extensions, and integrations with locak carriers, banks, and payment systems.

How To Make Every Magento Store Responsive And Mobile Ready

October 31, 2014 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

Responsive design is a special approach to web design aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience for mobile devices. Responsive web design provides easy reading and navigation, and reduces resizing, panning and scrolling to minimum.

The technology relies on proportion-based grids with page element sizing in percentages, flexible images sized in relative units, and CSS3 media queries, which allow the page to use CSS style rules, based on characteristics of every single device. But why is Responsive design so important for e-commerce?

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Custom Product Pricing Magento Extensions (tier, group, configurable, custom prices, and more)

October 14, 2014 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

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The default Magento functionality provides limited abilities when it comes to custom product pricing. But you can dramatically change the situation by using custom product pricing Magento extensions. In this post, we gathered the most popular tools and solutions aimed at improving the way you work with tier, group, configurable, and custom prices. Below, you will find both free and paid Magento extensions from top developers.

The Best Magento Extensions For Improved Catalog Search

October 1, 2014 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

Every e-commerce site needs a great searching tool. By installing the correct extension you will provide your visitors with the ability to easily navigate and find the content they are looking for. Add a fast and friendly search to your ecommerce store with one of the best improved catalog search Magento extensions. The best solutions are described below.

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The Best Project Management Tools 2015

September 22, 2014 - E-Commerce, Fire development

Every project needs a tool designed to manage it. And while it’s quite acceptable to use ordinary check-lists for small projects, growing businesses consume more and more resources, so you need a robust solution to manage them successfully. In this post we gathered the best project tools, which are going to hold leading positions on the market in 2015.

The Best CDN Services And Extensions For Magento

September 21, 2014 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

CDN (content distribution network or content delivery network) is a system of servers, which includes multiple data centers worldwide and across the Internet. Its main goal is to provide content to end-users with high performance and availability. Different CDNs play a significant role in a modern online content delivery. They work with web objects, such as text, scripts and graphics, store different downloadable content, such as media files, documents and software. CDNs also provide faster access to applications, live and on-demand streaming media, and social networks.

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Magento 2 CDN Services And Extensions

Outsourcing, Magento Developers and The Best Freelance Platforms

September 21, 2014 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

In this post, we are going to talk about the best freelance platforms, where you can hire a team for your Magento e-commerce project. The process of hiring someone who will not become a part of your company is called outsourcing. One strong reason for it is the lack of available resources locally. Another one is money. Usually, the digital workforce costs much less than hiring a local employee. And it is much more convenient, because you don’t need an office for your employees. In addition, there are a lot of candidacies with different level of skills, flexible hourly rates, portfolios and ratings to choose from.

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Apple Pay – mobile payment service from Apple

September 10, 2014 - E-Commerce

Apple Pay is a new mobile payment service for both online and offline retailers. You can use a brand new iPhone 6 or Apple Watch for in-store transactions. You should also use a phone to pay within apps. Checkout consists of 2 steps. First, you have to select Apple Pay. After that you should place a finger on a fingerprint scanner.

With Apple Pay you can store all your credit and debit cards in Passbook. You can import them from iTunes account, use iSight camera, or type a card information in manually. The first added card becomes your payment card by default, but you can change this in Settings.

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Top Magento Extensions For Custom Shipping Methods And Rules

September 5, 2014 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

Shipping is a very important part of every e-commerce business. In order to make the entire process flawless, you can use several Magento extension. In this post, we gathered all necessary tools, which will help you to avoid headaches with a delivery, rates and other aspects of Magento custom shipping methods and rules.

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Magento 2 Custom Shipping Methods And Rules

How to Increase E-Commerce Conversion Rate

September 5, 2014 - E-Commerce

Chances are, your ecommerce conversion rate is far from its possible maximum. To fix this problem, you have to find out why your visitors aren’t doing the things you want them to do. This information will help you to create effective methods for fixing the problem. The entire process of finding out and fixing is called Conversion Rate Optimization. The core principle of ecommerce conversion optimization is to generate more sales on your e-commerce store without bringing in additional traffic. This makes your online business more effective, and as a result, profitable.