The Best CDN Services And Extensions For Magento

- 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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Outsourcing, Magento Developers and The Best Freelance Platforms

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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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The Best Magento Point of Sale (POS) extensions

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Magento 2 POS Extensions, Magento 2 Point of Sale Modules

Point of sale (POS) is a place of retail transaction completion. At this point, a customer makes a payment for goods or services. In its turn, the retailer provides customers with different options to make a payment. Modern e-commerce POS systems bridge the gap between online and offline retail. They deliver synchronization between brick-and-mortar and online stores. You also get an out-of-the-box credit card processing and a detailed reporting. Thus, top Magento POS systems let you manage all aspects of your business with ease from a single dashboard. There are a lot of different Magento POS extensions designed to bring full featured POS functionality to e-commerce businesses. The best tools are described below.  Also check Magento 2 Point of Sale (POS) extensions.

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The Best Full Page Cache Warmers/Crawlers For Magento

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If you use one of Full Page Cache Extensions, then it’s extremely necessary to add a Magento Cache Warmer / Crawler to your e-commerce store. Such extension will crawl your site to ensure that all the pages provide the fastest load time. Warmers and Crawlers also refresh old cached pages. As a result, your visitors get the most relevant content and the fastest speed. This type of Magento extensions often relies on special techniques designed to reduce bandwidth and CPU usage.

Cache Warmers / Crawlers are also used to improve cache hit rate of a website – the ratio of cached and uncached requests. Sites with the higher hit rate are always faster (combined with a fast cache solution, of course). The Full Page Cache Crawlers / Warmers solve this by pre-caching uncached site pages. As a result you get more cached and less uncached requests, which increases the cache hit rate.

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Apple Pay – mobile payment service from Apple

- 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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How to Increase E-Commerce Conversion Rate

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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.

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Top E-Commerce Platforms (cloud E-Commerce services, not self-hosted solutions)

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In this post you will find all the necessary information about the most popular e-commerce platforms. BigCommerce, Shopify, Squarespace, Corecommerce, Volusion, AmeriCommerce, 3dcart, Bigcartel and Lemonstand are among described solutions. Remember, that all of them have their unique features and options. Some platforms offer much wider possibilities, but in a case with small businesses they are unnecessary.

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Visa Checkout – The New Way to Pay Online

- E-Commerce

It seems, that the time of personal information re-entering in online payment is rapidly passing away. Last month, Visa introduced the more convenient algorithm. Say hello to Visa Checkout, formerly known as V.me by Visa. Now, there is no need for entering 16 digits from your card number during the checkout process. because a username and a password are used instead.Visa Checkout - The New Way to Pay Online.png

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The Best Drop Shipping Extensions for Magento

- Magento 2 Drop Shipping, Magento tips & tricks

Drop shipping is a special retail fulfillment method in which the retailer doesn’t keep goods in stock. Instead he transfers customer orders to the wholesaler (in some cases, manufacturer), who ships goods directly to customers. As a result, the retailer merchant never handles the product. Drop shipping is easy to get started and requires much less capital than other retail methods. The other benefits are quite low overhead expenses, wide selection of products, reduced risks, location independence and high scalability.

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