Are you looking for the best ways to launch your own eCommerce site or a web project for your client? Well, the present-day web offers a wide choice of platforms and software to create and promote your eCommerce venture. In order to help you make the right choice and deliver an outstanding web presence for your business, let’s take a look at how you can build a Magento-based website. Continue Reading
According to the official Magento website, 93% of B2B buyers prefer online purchases. And it doesn’t seem unreal because digital buying offers so many benefits over the traditional one. As a customer, you ger self-serve information right from vendors, dramatically simplifying the everyday experience. However, modern B2B customers require intuitive online buying and account management – something that incorporates all the best things from the B2C model and enhances them with the missing B2B components. All these components are seamlessly combined within Magento 2. Let’s see what B2B features are under your disposal when you use Magento 2 Commerce. Continue Reading
Online merchants might face particular situations when they need to modify the standard number format on order-related documents. It may be related to protecting business information, meeting local legal requirements, or making documents look more customer-friendly. In case of default Magento 2, setting custom numbers for orders, invoices, credit memos, and shipments is not possible. So, you will need to install a third-party module if you want to leverage this functionality.
Today, we present a solution that brings improvements to the native Magento numbering scheme – the MageWorx Custom Order Number Magento 2 extension. The module overcomes the limitations of the default platform’s version by providing store owners with flexible templates that can be applied to customize all types of sales docs. This way, you can significantly improve orders management, keep confidential business data safe, and increase the user-friendliness of your store documentation.
Below, we provide a more detailed description of the Magento 2 custom order number module and look at its backend configuration.
The following article sheds light on how to get default billing and shipping address by a customer in Magento 2. This action is required if it is necessary to create a new customer or update an existing one programmatically. To find more tips about Magento 2, follow this link: Magento 2 Developer’s Cookbook. Continue Reading
If you want to attract more customers to your storefront, even detailed product descriptions and reviews might be not enough to show your products in the best way. In modern ecommerce business, the importance of visual elements on a website has significantly increased. Besides, you should pay attention to the quality of images, as well as options that will let store visitors examine your products in detail.
Magic Toolbox brings its experience and state-of-the-art technology to the Magic Zoom Plus extension, a powerful image zoom tool for Magento 2 websites. The module extends the default platform possibilities by introducing the product zoom functionality. With Magic Zoom Plus for Magento 2, merchants can add high-resolution images with multiple zooming features to any product from their catalog. Besides, the Magento 2 module allows customers to view enlarged product pictures in full screen and have seamless user experience on both desktop and mobile devices.
Below, we are looking closer at the functionality of the Magento 2 product image zoom module. Continue Reading
In Magento 2, you can effortlessly display both success and error messages, providing users with feedback or additional information regarding what they do. In the following article, we describe where this feature is usually applied. Besides, you will find out how to display success and error messages as well as customize them. Continue Reading
For those merchants who find basic Magento reporting tools not sufficient for their goals, Google provides some services that expand possibilities of the default platform. If you are looking for a full-featured reporting solution, pay attention to Google Analytics. However, the implementation of additional analytics tools on your Magento 2 website might become a complicated process. For this reason, we recommend you to consider installing a third-party module that significantly simplifies integration with Google services – Actionable Google Analytics for Magento 2, developed by Tatvic Analytics. The extension allows online store owners to fully leverage Enhanced Ecommerce, Custom Dimensions & Metrics, Google AdWords, and other features of Google Analytics. Thus, you get all the necessary tools to start tracking your website traffic right after installing the module.
Below, we look closer at the benefits of the Magento 2 Actionable Google Analytics extension, as well as its backend configuration.
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Default Magento 2 has limitations when it comes to updating product prices. If you want to change the pricing of some products in one go, the only option you have is to specify a new price for each item one by one. This process is time-consuming and not the most convenient. Luckily, there is a solution for automating prices update – the Magento 2 Bulk Prices Updater by Magenest. The extension improves the out-of-the-box Magento 2 possibilities by equipping online store owners with the tools that let them apply all necessary changes to the catalog prices in a few clicks. Below, we describe the functionality of the Magento 2 bulk price updates module, as well as its configuration in the backend.
A frequent search task among Magento developers is to get an option label from a dropdown. However, it is quite confusing for beginners since the actual value of a drop-down product attribute is a number. Many newcomers expect that it is a text. But there is nothing to worry about. Below, we explain how to get an option label from a dropdown in Magento 2 as well as shed light on everything you need to know to begin working with dropdown product attributes. More coding tips are available here: Magento 2 Developer’s Cookbook.
If you want to get a product by ID in Magento 2, the platform offers several different methods to do that. And since it is one of the most frequently used operations in a programmer’s routine, we describe every approach below. Each method is unique and suitable for different use cases. You can utilize them to get products in third-party modules, scripts, or phtml files. Therefore, let’s see how to get products by ID in Magento 2. More coding tips are available here: Magento 2 Developer’s Cookbook. Continue Reading
