SmartOSC – A Company That Creates Data-Driven Magento Websites

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

SmartOSC is an international e-commerce agency that creates Magento websites of every complexity. Established in 2006, the company rapidly became an innovation-driven, full-service enterprise that strives to build top-notch e-commerce projects for merchants all over the world. Now, it is a strategic partner to Magento, Shopify Plus, Sitecore, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, AEM, BigCommerce, Ucommerce, Kentico, and numerous other platforms. And we are proud to announce that SmartOSC and Firebear are now partners! Continue Reading

How to get a store in Magento 2 programmatically?

- Fire development, Magento 2

Magento 2 Development

In the article below we shed light on how to get a current store in Magento 2 programmatically. The following information is useful when you create a PHP script or Magento 2 module. Sometimes, it is necessary to check, which store is currently active or for which store you need to get or change values. The procedure is quite straightforward: you need only a few lines of code to do that. More tips from Magento 2 cookbook. Continue Reading

Magento 2 Checkout Success Page by MageAnts

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Enrich order success page of your store using Magento 2 Order Confirmation Page also called “Checkout Success page” extension and add details such as coupon or promo codes, order summary, easy sign up option for new customers, product carousel and advertising banner. Using this extension merchants can have a full control on the order success page which allows them to customize success page as required. Continue Reading

Zoho CRM Overview & Magento 2 Integration

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

magento 2 zoho crm integration

We’ve already described how to connect Magento 2 to Zoho Sheets. This time, we’d like to draw your attention to a more complicated process – the Magento 2 Zoho CRM integration. In the following article, we describe the main tools provided by the platform, shed light on its core features, and explore the integration routine. If you need to connect Zoho CRM to your e-commerce website, you’ve come to the right place.  Continue Reading

SEO Friendly Images Magento 2 Extension by Zymion

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

In this post, we are describing a small tool that brings a great advantage to ecommerce merchants when it comes to attracting high-quality traffic to a website. Optimization of a website in terms of SEO includes various aspects, one of which is building an SEO friendly image URL structure. SEO Friendly Images for Magento 2 by Zymion provides online business owners with relevant functions for setting descriptive names of product images on their stores. This way, the extension makes image names look more user-friendly, as well as better discoverable by Google. 

Below, we explain how the Magento 2 image optimization module works.
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Subcategories Grid/List for Magento 2 by Apptrian

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

In this post, we are describing a third-party module that improves default navigation on Magento 2 websites – the Subcategories Grid/List extension by Apptrian. The module enhances user experience on a storefront by adding a block with product subcategories on the home page, category pages, and CMS pages. This way, the Apptrian solution simplifies browsing through a catalog with a significant number of items and helps online shoppers find the desired products in less time. Below, we have a closer look at the main features of the Magento 2 subcategories module and explore its configuration from the admin perspective.
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Best Magento SEO Extensions 2016

- Magento tips & tricks

magento seo extensions

Search engine optimization is the process of affecting the visibility of e-commerce store in search engine’s unpaid search results. Higher ranking and more frequent appearance in the search results list affects more traffic to the web site. For better SEO optimization of your Magento store you can use SEO Magento extensions. In this post, we gathered the best existing SEO toolkits and modules that improve other ecommerce aspects of your Magento website and at the same time positively affects SEO.

Magento SEO Guide

Magento 2 SEO Guide

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OneStepCheckout Magento Extension Review

- E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

OneStepCheckout Magento Extension Review; OneStepCheckout Magento Module Overview

Today, we are going to shed light on the most popular one page checkout solution for Magento. Although there are tons of reliable extension designed to simplify the default checkout procedure (you can see all of them here: The Best One Step / Page Checkout Extensions For Magento), the most successful one is OneStepCheckout. Below, you will find our review on this vital for every ecommerce merchant tool. Continue Reading

OneStepCheckout Magento 2 Extension Review

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

OneStepCheckout Magento 2 Extension Review; OneStepCheckout Magento 2 Module Overview

We’ve already reviewed the best one step checkout solution for Magento and you can check it here – OneStepCheckout Magento Extension Review. As for the following post, it is dedicated to the successor of the aforementioned module – OneStepCheckout for Magento 2. Below, you can see its core features reviewed. Besides, there is a complete overview of the frontend functionality. As for already available Magento 2 one page checkout modules, they are gathered here: Magento 2 One Step / Page Checkout Extensions. Continue Reading