Making a purchase online is often a challenging experience for most of your customers, unless they are your regular shoppers, of course. Product conditions, shipping terms, policy of returns, etc. – all these things are new for them each time they enter a new store. This overwhelming number of questions hold them back from prompt and peaceful shopping while most of the concerning issues are almost the same. According to the Amdocs Survey of the importance of efficient self-service customer systems, amazing 91% of customers would prefer to use a single online knowledge base if it was reliable and tailored to their needs.
We create our extensions for customers and their businesses, that’s our inner aspiration and thought behind any product idea. The Advanced Reports extension for Magento 2 follows the above principle and puts store owners’ needs to the forefront.
As you’ve probably heard, Magento 2 has a lot of amazing new features – from a completely redesigned admin panel, to technical updates and everything in between. Magento 1 was primarily built by developers and most knowingly worked on by developers, making it harder for less technical users to navigate. Merchants with little technical knowledge and no coding background usually found Magento difficult to use.
Aheadworks is opening the November discount season with the introduction of our super flexible Magento 2 Pack Builder. Before the year runs out our customers may expect a bunch of pleasant surprises. We are planning major product updates, Black Friday level discounts, and new buying options. And to kick the season off we are introducing our new purchasing tool – Pack Builder for Magento 2.
As far as we take the safety of our products just serious Aheadworks releases one more security patch for our Follow Up Email extension for Magento 1 stores. Further tests showed that it contains some more potential vulnerabilities able to provide cyber criminals with an opportunity to get access to the Magento file system. In the affected versions of the extension (3.5.8 and above) attackers were likely able to create and read files through the discovered controller vulnerability.
The choice of hosting is probably among the first encountered problems when you start launching a new Magento 2 store. The quality of provided hosting services determines further success of the entire online business. And if you want the store to be available 24/7 for customers, reliable in the eyes of search engines, fast and convertible, you need to closely and carefully consider all available hosting options.
Complicated navigation is among the most often reasons why visitors leave online stores. According to Statista, it stands just behind the price related drivers and total purchase refusals. In order to reduce that frustrating number of exits online retailers make considerable efforts to optimize in-store search and product filter options. But the obtained value is not always clear and some stop on the halfway without going into finer details.
Coupons are a well-known marketing tool and perfect sales incentive… But, why are they so cool? The main advantage of coupons is their universality and flexibility. Using coupons you can arrange and carry out both mass sales and selective promotions. You can either issue coupons for...
Magento Enterprise Cloud Edition was first announced during Magento Imagine in April 2016 and since than it was heavily discussed and reviewed. The technology stack and capabilities were unveiled by Magento itself and multiple community members. Besides, Magento provided us with the detailed technical documentation on deployment and usage just immediately after the release.
Due to the found security issue we strongly recommend our Magento 1 customers to update the Follow Up Email extension till the latest secure version. Recently, Aheadworks discovered a potential security vulnerability in its Follow Up Email extension for Magento 1 stores. The vulnerability is related to a potential opportunity of SQL injections and unauthorized access to Magento databases.
