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Reviewing Magento 2 Customer Group Catalog by Amasty

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

reviewing Magento 2 Customer Group Catalog by Amasty

Although Magento 2 provides basic customer group functionality, it cannot control catalog visibility and pricing for specific groups. That’s where the Magento 2 Customer Group Catalog by Amasty joins the game.

The platform’s default limitation can hinder a store’s ability to create personalized experiences for various customer types, such as wholesalers, VIPs, or guest users. Amasty’s Customer Group Catalog for Magento 2, however, solves this problem.

The extension offers advanced catalog and pricing management tools. As a store owner, you can use these instruments to tailor your offerings to different customer groups, hide or display products, and customize prices for specific segments.

Below, we review the Magento Customer Group Catalog extension and its core features to unveil how it can help you build more targeted, personalized experiences. You will learn what the Magento 2 Customer Group Catalog by Amasty is, discover its core features, and see how it works from the perspective of both store administrators and customers. Continue Reading

Reviewing Magento 2 Surcharge & Extra Fee Extension by Mirasvit

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Reviewing Magento 2 extra fee extension by Mirasvit

Running a Magento 2 store often comes with the challenge of balancing competitive pricing and managing additional costs for non-standard orders. Customers often pay for expensive shipping or payment options they don’t use, which can drive up abandonment rates at checkout. The Magento 2 Surcharge & Extra Fee Extension by Mirasvit offers a powerful solution to this problem, allowing merchants to maintain lower base prices while applying surcharges only to customers who opt for premium services. This Magento surcharge extension guarantees that extra fees are applied based on flexible rules, ensuring that customers who choose costly options like expedited shipping or non-standard payment methods pay their share. Targeting specific customer groups and store views allows merchants to make their pricing more attractive while covering additional processing costs.

Today, we’ll be exploring Mirasvit’s Surcharge & Extra Fee. This Magento 2 extra fee extension provides the flexibility to add extra fees either per order or per product, with customizable surcharge rules based on cart or product data. It also supports various types of surcharges, giving you full control over how additional fees are applied. Let’s see what this Magento 2 payment fee module is and then dive into the key features of this extension.
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Magento 2 Backend Exploration: CMS Pages

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

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Below, we dive deep under the hood of Magento 2 backend, exploring its Content section. In this article, we describe Pages – a screen where all CMS pages, such as “About Us” or “Meet the Team“, are stored. Below, you can discover how the appropriate grid looks. Besides, we explain how to manage its content. The article also touches upon such aspects as the creation of new CMS pages. If you are wondering how to transfer them to your e-commerce store, you can also find the answer below. Continue Reading

Magento 2 Shopping Cart Guide: Management Essentials

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

Magento Shopping Cart

The Magento shopping cart functionality has been updated multiple times. Every new version introduced vital improvements for both customers and store administrators. In the following post, we shed light on new Magento 2 shopping cart features, discuss the updated functionality, and provide hints on how to import and export Magento 2 shopping carts and all the related data within just a few clicks.

As a store administrator, you get the ability to manage the shopping carts of customers who are now online – a new feature that is explained below. Besides, it is possible to access the Magento 2 persistent shopping cart – a new term used to call abandoned carts – of a shopper who is not currently logged in.

In both cases, you can add and remove products, transfer items from customer activities, and create orders. As for the respective import and export processes, they are available via third-party software. In this article, we use the Improved Import & Export Magento 2 extension to show how to import Magento 2 shopping carts. Continue Reading

How to Get Attribute Values & Map Them During Import in Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

magento 2 get product attribute value and map them

This Magento 2 tutorial explains how to get a product attribute value and map it to the one used in your website’s admin. You might have already faced numerous problems caused by attributes and attribute values that don’t follow the Magento requirements. By default, it is impossible to import them to Magento 2. It often happens when you migrate from Magento 1 to Magento 2 or import data from external systems.

Different systems have unique requirements regarding how information is stored in their databases. Therefore, you cannot transfer data between them directly. It is always necessary to apply changes to the output created beyond Magento 2 to run a successful import to your e-commerce website. This process is usually time-consuming: The more unsupported values your data file contains the more work has to be done. 

However, there is a user-friendly way of editing third-party data. Meet the Improved Import & Export Magento 2 extension. The module lets you get attribute values in Magento 2 and automate the attribute editing processes, freely importing data from external platforms to Magento 2. Below, we shed light on how to match third-party attributes and attribute values to the corresponding Magento 2 values during import. You will find a guide for the default Magento 2 import tool. After that, we provide a description of our approach that saves tons of time and lets you automate further data updates.
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How To Import Configurable Products To Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

improved import and export - Magento 2 extension

It is not a problem to import a single product to Magento 2, since you have all the necessary tools under System -> Export. But if you need to move Magento 2 configurable product data from the old site, it may take a lot of time and effort, since in this situation the import procedure is much more sophisticated. However, it is still possible to import a configurable product with its simple products to Magento 2, and below we shed light on what is necessary for a successful import. Note that the following article only briefly describes the process. For further information on how to import configurable products to Magento 2, read this guide: The Complete Guide to Magento 2 Configurable Products.
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How to Import & Export Newsletter Subscribers in Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

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Today, we’d like to introduce you to the Magento 2 import export of newsletter subscribers. Suppose you run an online business with multiple newsletter subscribers but want to move to a brand new Magento 2 website (read about data migration from Magento 2 to 1). Of course, you would like to migrate all the existing newsletter subscribers to the new storefront. Magento 2, however, doesn’t let you do that with the help of its default import and export tools. Luckily, there is a solution that enables the desired functionality. Meet the Improved Import & Export extension. With its help, you will freely import and export newsletter subscribers in Magento 2.

In the following article, we focus on transferring newsletter subscribers to and from Magento 2. You will discover the conditions for importing subscriber data to your e-commerce website. Besides, we provide attributes associated with newsletter subscribers in Magento 2. And of course, there is a guide on how to import newsletter subscribers from Magento 1 to Magento 2. If you are going to migrate from your old e-commerce website to a brand-new one, you’ve come to the right place. The general details about Magento 2 newsletter subscribers’ import and export are also gathered below.
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How to Import & Export Data Between Magento 2 & Google Drive

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

Magento 2 Google Drive Import Export

Today, we are going to introduce you to the Magento 2 Google Drive integration. The following article sheds light on how to import and export entities between Magento 2 and Google Drive with the help of the Improved Import & Export extension. It explains how to synchronize Magento 2 and Google Drive. After that, we shed light on the general facts related to transferring data between our favorite e-commerce platform and the popular file storage.  Next, the material proceeds to the core steps of the integration preparation. You will discover how to install Google API libraries and get Google Drive API credentials.

After that, the article focuses on establishing the connection between Magento 2 and Google Drive. You will learn to configure a Service Account and share a Google Drive folder. The last chapters are dedicated to configuring import and export jobs for Magento 2 and Google Sheets integration and exploring use cases. Since the integration incorporates Improved Import & Export, you will also find its features described below.

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How to Run Magento 2 Import if Required Columns Are Missing

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

Magento 2 Import without Required Columns

Welcome to our guide on how to import data to Magento 2 if something is missing in a table. Below, we shed light on a very important aspect of every import process – columns (attributes) of an import file. What if your data table doesn’t contain one? By default, you face the inability to transfer the update to your Magento 2 website. Many different entities can be transferred into Magento 2, so you have to deal with various data depending on your particular business case. However, the absence of the smallest detail can ruin all your data transfer efforts. Especially if you use the default data transfer solutions. 

Luckily, we know how to prevent such issues. Meet the Improved Import & Export Magento 2 extension. With the help of this plugin, you can import data to Magento 2 if some required columns are missed. The following article describes this process. You can either manually add the necessary columns or automate the missed data addition using the module’s functionality. Besides, you will discover the required CSV file structure as well as core features of the Improved Import & Export Magento 2 extension
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