"Magento extensions"

What Is Magento Credit Card Skimming & How To Prevent It

October 13, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

What do we know about credit card skimming? It is one of the existing credit card frauds. Along with phishing, BIN attacks, and other violations, credit card skimming is aimed at getting credit card information for further usage. This type of fraud usually occurs at restaurants, ATMs, or gas stations. Malefactors use special devices to get the desired data, so often it is hard to detect skimming. That’s why you might have seen large sample pictures illustrating different ATM parts right on the ATM’s screen. Despite government all over the world tries to overcome the problem, malefactors constantly develop new technologies, so skimming spreads from offline to online. And below we shed light on Magento credit card skimming. The following posts covers essentials of the problem, provides some stats and useful links, describes what to do in case your store is hacked, and sheds light on how to prevent your Magento installation from skimming. Continue Reading

Extendware Maintenance Mode Magento Extension Review

October 12, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

With the help of the Extendware Maintenance Mode Magento extension, you get an advance opportunity to hide the maintenance mode from store visitors. The module allows you to put the fronted into the mode making it inaccessible for customers. At the same time you and your admins can easily check how improvements are implemented on the storefront. Below, you will find our review of this handy tool. Continue Reading

How To Prepare Magento For Sale Events (Halloween, Black Friday, Christmas, etc)

October 10, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

Prepare Magento For Sale Events

Various sale events occur during the year. As a Magento owner, you should be always ready to prepare your ecommerce website for major holidays, but how to achieve this goal in the most efficient manner? Below, you will find an answer to this question. The following post describes how to prepare a Magento website to a sale event with the help of extensions and themes.

Responsive Design
Performance
User Experience
Promotions & Gifts
Integration
Various Visual Aspects

Extendware Product Attachments Magento Extension Review

October 5, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

There are a lot of Magento extensions that provide the ability to attach various files to product pages. Here at Firebear, we’ve already reviewed Product Attachments by Amasty and File Downloads & Product Attachments by Mageworx. As for today, our attention has been captured by the appropriate Extendware’s module. Below, you will find a description of Extendware Product Attachments as well as a detailed Magento extension tutorial related to its backend. We shed light on the extension’s features and teach how to attach files to products as fast as possible. Continue Reading

Amasty Advanced Permissions for Magento 2 and 1

October 4, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

With the help of Amasty Advanced Permissions for Magento 2 and 1, you will be able to organize the work of your admins in the most efficient way. The extension provides the ability to restrict specified areas for certain administrators so that they will see and edit only particular products, categories, store views, and pages. As a result, you can effortlessly create and spread admin roles with a custom set of permissions. It is especially useful if you manage a multi-vendor store, a storefront with several store views, or a website with a complicated structure. Continue Reading

Extendware Extension Conflict Magento Extension Review

October 4, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

Installing third-party Magento extensions may be a reason of various problems within your ecommerce store. Conflicts occur and disable vital functionality making your storefront partly unusable. Therefore, it is extremely important to avoid conflicts or find and resolve them. And the best tool for achieving this goal is the Extension Conflict Magento extension by Extendware. Continue Reading

Extendware Affiliate Program Magento Extension Review

September 29, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

To increase the effectiveness of how your ecommerce store is promoted on the Internet, we recommend you to pay attention to the Extendware Affiliate Program Magento extension. This highly configurable affiliate module is designed to simplify your daily routine related to the creation of various campaigns, commission rates/tiers, and banners. It provides all tools necessary to start and run a highly productive affiliate network. Below, you can find a Magento extension tutorial related to the backend section of Affiliate Program and an overview of its frontend, but let’s start with a brief features review first. Continue Reading

Amasty Shipping Rules for Magento 2 and 1

September 24, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

It’s a common practice when shipping rates provided by carriers do not suit a particular business module, so they need to be adjusted. To fully leverage this process, we recommend you to utilize a reliable third-party solution by Amasty – the Magento 2 Shipping Rules extension. The module is a simple merchant-oriented tool that provides the ability to fully leverage shipping rules creation and modification. As a result, shipping rates can be increased or decreased according to your unique needs. Continue Reading

Amasty Admin Bookmarks for Magento 2 and 1

September 24, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

The Amasty Admin Bookmarks extension is another handy time-saver for the Magento backend. With its help, you can add customizable quick-links to the admin panel that essentially simplify navigation through backend pages. Below, we review the module’s core features and describe its backend functionality. Continue Reading

Amasty Custom Stock Status for Magento 2 and 1

September 24, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

Amasty Custom Stock Status for Magento 2 and 1 is an extension with an easy-to-use and intuitive interface. The tool is designed to expand the default Magento stock status functionality by providing the ability to create an unlimited number of custom stock statuses that can be assigned to products automatically (alternatively, you can do everything manually). It also offers an opportunity to subscribe to stock alerts, so customers may be immediately informed when a product comes back to stock. Below, you will find a full description of this Magento 2 stock status extension. Continue Reading