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.
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.
The extraordinary development of mobile devices changes people’s habits and influence all aspects of their lives, including ecommerce. It’s not a surprise that smartphones and tablets gradually replace desktops and become main conductors to the virtual world. As a result, if merchants lag customers’ expectations of excellent shopping experience on portable devices, they will likely fail.
Australia is one of the most advanced economies worldwide deeply integrated into the global market. Still, due to the sustainable financial structure, Australia weathered the global financial crisis avoiding any recession and today it is extremely attractive for most international sellers.
Magento is one of the most popular open-source eCommerce platforms on the internet with a community of over 250,000 active web stores.
In this post we’re going to focus on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), which is a core component of online business and significant player in the game of online marketing. The aim of SEO is to make your website more noticeable to search engines, so it can rank higher among search results.
The tectonic transformation of Magento we currently witness happens amid the increasing competition inside the ecommerce platforms market. Some of them rise, while the other ones fall, but what is the place of Magento in this lumpy sea?
We all want Magento to broaden its share or at least keep the status quo. So, this October we conduct our next ecommerce platforms popularity study to discover current competition circumstances.
Meet Magento Russia 2015 is the third Meet Magento conference held in Moscow indicating close attention to this emerging market demonstrated by the community and ecosystem, as a whole.
The ecommerce market in Russia is just establishing its standards and standing far from the saturation. The number of online shoppers is pretty large and mostly consists of young and middle-aged people with an average income and above. Still, the revenue generated online takes only 2% of total retail sales, which is five time lower than the ecommerce share e.g. in the total U.S. retail expenditures (Sources: Practicalecommerce.com, Statista.com). Naturally, this potential needs some efficient ecommerce solutions and no one could be better suited for this role than Magento.
Mid-autumn is usually the end of the fruitful period, while most Meet Magento conferences just grow ripe this time. Six European and one Latin-American event take place in October, which makes it the busiest month of the whole year.
Cluj-Napoca, Sao Paolo, Athens, Poznan, Zurich, Moscow and finally Madrid are seven great destinations, appointments and communities waiting us shortly.
The starting point for exploring the broad advantages and capabilities of Magento 2 is to download and install the platform. Despite the awesome functionality Magento 2 is harder to install than the previous version of software. This necessitated the emergence of multiple installation guides across the Internet. But, most of them point at the manual way of installation, or cast a lot of console spells to install different server-side software, or just loose their relevance gradually.
