"Magento 2"

Building advanced Magento 2 navigation menus: fast and easy way with the Navigation Pro module

April 11, 2020 - E-Commerce, Magento 2

How can you improve the top Magento 2 navigation menu? By installing the Navigation Pro extension from Swissuplabs, you will be able to extend the default functionality. Further away, we explain to you the main features of the extension. You will see that it’s possible to easily add 10 different menus with custom items and dropdown content. We’ll also show you how to create a new menu and add it quickly around your store pages. Continue Reading

Amasty Gift Wrap Magento 2 Extension

April 9, 2020 - 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.

Impact of Coronavirus on Consumer Behavior

April 9, 2020 - 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.

Amasty PDF Customizer Magento 2 Extension

April 9, 2020 - 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.

Magento 2 Integrity Constraint Violation Issues & Solutions

April 8, 2020 - Fire development, Magento 2

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In the following article, you will find the most common Magento 2 integrity constraint violation issues described. Below, we combine answers from different platforms to cover as many examples as necessary for keeping this material epistemic and clear. You can find more tips in this article: Magento 2 Cookbook. Continue Reading

Magento Association – A New Step In The Community Development

April 1, 2020 - E-Commerce, Magento 2

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Back in 2018, Adobe announced that it would create a brand new organization called Magento Association. Today, it is finally available to all community members and far beyond the Magento ecosystem. The organization aims to empower the Magento community all over the globe. Let’s see what the Magento Association is and how it can change the ecosystem. Continue Reading

Magento 2 SEO Suites Comparison (Mirasvit vs Mageworx)

March 31, 2020 - 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

March 31, 2020 - E-Commerce, Magento 2

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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

March 31, 2020 - 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.

The Impact of Coronavirus on Retail, E-Commerce, & Magento

March 29, 2020 - E-Commerce, Magento 2

Coronavirus, magento 2, e-commerce, retail

Have you already received messages from local online retailers informing you about the possibility of ordering online despite the quarantine? More and more businesses are trying to leverage the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak to avoid (or at least mitigate) the inevitable recession caused by the virus. Will they succeed? We try to find the answer below. The following article describes the coronavirus impact on e-commerce and retail. Let’s figure out what’s going on around and why people are so obsessed with the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue Reading