Transactions and sensitive data security requires from store owners thorough and constant monitoring and upgrade. With the improvement of protection methods the ways of hacking and fraud advance in absolutely the same degree and their scale sometimes is just staggering.
The same as for any product, quality is the biggest concern of all software providers. And other than a brilliant idea, wide test coverage is the shortest way to create a first-class software product, and Magento 2 is no exception. Magento 2 has been intensively tested during the development and implementation stages asking for the same approach from the entire community. Today adopting the process of code verification and validation is the matter of survival and future success. The software development practice is abundant in this field and offers multiple test methods and approaches able to ensure the necessary quality and shorten the entire development period.
Sometimes we can’t even imagine the ways and particular use cases our extensions are used in real-life e-commerce practice. Magento-based e-commerce is not an exception as its projects are surprisingly different and embrace various products and sales models. Below we’d like to present you a use case featuring our Advanced Reports extension used for its intended purpose and in a somewhat unusual way. The story is presented by Imagination Media.
Sooner or later all Magento users will face that challenge deciding to migrate from their old Magento versions to the latest most powerful and advanced e-commerce platform Magento 2. Today this decision doesn’t seem to be too urgent since Magento is going to support its previous versions for another three years… Oh, sorry, for 2.5 years already. Time is running out and it’s better to be fully prepared for moving at the moment you will be really ready to start it on your store.
Magento performance is a common topic for discussions in different dedicated forums and among end users of the platform. Today we’ll try in to either confirm or debunk the myth that Magento is slower than other ecommerce platforms. The idea behind the investigation is to compare web site speed tests of four most popular e-commerce platforms, find out the winners and their specific features.
Included into our featured Magento 1 extensions block RMA is widely used and popular among our customers. Passing through multiple functionality improvements the module became one of our most sophisticated extensions both by the implemented logic and number of available features.
We continue updating our Magento 1 extensions and today announce the new features provided in Shop By Brand 1.5. As far as Magento stores are constantly increasing the number of customers, expand geography, and boost revenues, they often need advanced configuration scopes able to maintain versatile stores and store views for different customer segments. The current update of the Shop By Brand extension allows you to settle unique brand sets for multiple stores and store views with original brand titles, descriptions and Meta tags.
Often, the result of hard and long-term work can be expressed in just several figures. So, we continue to draw the contemporary ecommerce landscape investigating the forces able to bring changes to our everyday online shopping experience. Many things have happened since our last study and the Magento 2 release was the most significant event, of course. We found many remarkable changes within the e-platforms market reflected both in pace corrections and new statuses. But, the best ever news of our study is that we found Magento 2 stores in the Alexa 1 Million Top web sites list. So, follow us below.
Gifts are among the best pleasures in life, and to our delight it works both for presenters and recipients. And, if you want to keep that pleasant feeling and make no mistakes, the smartest choice is to present a gift card. The gift card functionality is absolutely indispensable for Magento stores, and today we announce the Magento Gift Card / Certificate 2.0 extension release.
On March 31 – April 1, 2016 in Prague there will take place the first Meet Magento CZ 2016. This will be the first time ever the leading and most influential eCommerce conference comes to the Czech Republic and the first eCommerce event of such scale ever held in Prague.
