Today, when Magento 2 is released, most of you consider it as the next ecommerce destination and explore the existing M2 environment in order to estimate the advantages of migration. The new platform grows exponentially constantly attracting new dedicated extensions and services, vendors and providers, technical approaches and price strategies. Within the Magento 2 ecosystem, we are committed to providing our customers with a reliable way for smooth and rapid switching to the new platform as soon as they are ready for this transformation.
But, sometimes even having a lot of information is not enough to make a right decision, since you always need to view the obtained data from multiple angles in order to notice certain trending patters within the huge set of seemingly unrelated indicators. For example, the rising of online spending observed during Thanksgiving and Black Friday 2015, according to Adobe Digital Index, is really great, but the AOV decrease adds some bitterness to the resulting joy and makes us search some incentives to increase average order amounts.
Recently released Magento 2 is not only the subject of discussions among multiple ecommerce experts, but also closely studied by multiple merchants considering it as the main option for their future retail and b2b ecommerce projects. As we have mentioned, we work hard to pave this yet unexplored path for aimed merchants and strive to provide more valuable Magento 2 extensions. And, today we’d like to announce and feature our next products currently being designed and developed.
Today we talk to Natallia Kukuruzina, a new aheadWorks CEO, who brings new approaches to the development of our products and company as a whole. Natallia Kukuruzina is a highly-experienced strategic manager working for 10 years in IT mainly focusing on foreign contractors and early project launches. Natallia possesses vast experience in team building, process establishing, and business administration.
Starting a new ecommerce business is an extraordinary challenge, but it becomes much simpler, when you have a wise adviser able to keep you from making mistakes and save tons of your time. Those ecommerce beginners who consider Magento to be a good option for their first e-store, would likely confirm that even this arguably simple decision took a huge amount of their efforts. Meanwhile, it’s not even a start; it’s just a preparation.
We continue to update and add new value to our Magento 1 products, and it’s the Gift Card / Certificate extension turn today. The gift card functionality is currently much in demand, and we want our customers to get into this holiday season equipped with the latest and most efficient technology. We recently announced the release of the Gift Card extension for Magento 2, and now, just a few days later, we report the next version of the solution tailored for the Magento 1.x branch.
Making great product pages is absolutely necessary for any online store owner. Great product and category pages are full of high-quality product images, smart merchandising, compelling product descriptions, well-placed call-to-actions, social media inventory, and … relevant and in-time product suggestions.
Magento 2.0 is finally out. We witness a historical day! We are very excited with this great moment touching the whole formidable Magento community and, no doubt, global eCommerce as well. Magento 2 is available in two new products: Magento Enterprise Edition 2.0 and Magento Community Edition 2.0. The new platform embodies the future of ecommerce software functionality and development.
Recently Magento notified its users and partners about another security issue concerning sensitive payment information, in particular credit card credentials forwarded to external sites by frauds. The good thing is that this security issue is covered by the February 2015 Shoplift patch, still we ask you to scan your system and check it for any unknown files.
Gift cards are greatly beneficial sales and marketing incentives increasing revenue and attracting new customers. Absolutely all global brands issue gift cards, either digital or physical: Visa, Apple, American Express, Amazon, Walmart, Victoria’s Secret, Starbucks, Nike, IKEA, Best Buy, iTunes, eBay, Burger King, Hyatt, Skype, Fridays, Adidas, GAP, Columbia, and so on.
