Ecommerce chatbots are gaining popularity and considered to replace humans in the area of shopping consulting just in several years supposedly. There are two reasons for this phenomenon, economic and technological. The chance to build and implement human-like digital consultants appeared with the development of the corresponding technology and the process of users migration from applications to messengers.
According to the feedback provided by our customers, Magento gift cards remain very popular among online shoppers and they ask for more and more options required for these products. Of course, we want merchants to provide only excellent shopping experience in their stores and recently updated our Gift Card extension for Magento 2 with some new and useful features.
Even though June is the beginning of the bright summer and everyone wants to take so long-awaited vacation, we also know that shopping never stops and store development should be continued no matter where our dreams soar. So, with no regrets and modest gladness we’d like to present you our latest extension updates of Magento 1 and Magento 2 extensions.
Prescriptive and predictive analytics are among the advanced ecommerce trends of this year and turned to be widely used by online stores as well. The number of engaged users and dedicated software applications increased manyfold in recent years. So, what is the reason for this tide?
We would never be able to spread the word about our products so efficiently and make our extensions so popular among the end users without our multiple loyal partners. Despite the strong competition among the Magento extension providers most of our partners remain committed to our products and sincerely consider them the best alternatives for their custom projects. Most of them have their own prefered solutions for different goals and areas of their clients’ Magento stores.
We all know that Magento is a huge ecosystem engaging numerous merchants, developers, marketers, investors, etc. However, the more options you have the harder is the best choice when you need to hire a Magento developer, contract a dedicated agency, or find an inspiring project to work for.
The ongoing efforts we take developing our Advanced Reports extension for Magento 2 resulted in yet two new reports added to this solution. Now, the module contains 18 reports totally. The new reports of Advanced Reports 2.5 are focused on the customer related information. Traditionally, the statistics is presented in the form of a drill-down and the Customer Sales report is the first level of your business intelligence.
The first obstacle any international business faces is the language barrier, of course. The risk of misunderstanding is even higher for niche and vertical markets, where specific terms may have meanings different from the conventional understanding. So, if you want to operate on local markets successfully, you need to translate your whole webstore correctly and professionally. Obviously, machine translation services, although quite powerful, are not able to accomplish this task and often store owners resort to human interpreters, which is too slow for the fast-paced ecommerce environment.
Following the development roadmap we continue updating our Magento 2 extensions and here comes the next version of our Layered Navigation extension. We update our products regularly, so please check the latest Magento 2 product changelogs to find the features you possibly missed. And, let us remind you that our customers take advantage of free lifetime updates, so you can improve your stores without any extra charge.
Great news for the store owners that still take advantage of Magento 1. As promised, we continue updating our Magento 1 products and recently have rolled out a new update of the Advanced Reports extension. Advanced Reports 2.8 obtained a lot of functionality enhancements, including both new features and multiple performance and usability improvements. We’ll only highlight some major features related to this update, while the whole list of amendments is available in the extensions changelog.