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.
SUPEE-8788, Enterprise Edition 1.14.3 and Community Edition 1.9.3 address Zend framework and payment vulnerabilities, ensure sessions are invalidated after a user logs out, and make several other security enhancements that are detailed below. Patches and upgrades are available for the following Magento versions: Enterprise Edition 1.9.0.0-1.14.2.4: SUPEE-8788 or upgrade to Enterprise Edition 1.14.3 ...
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.
How to create the best shopping experience and allow customers to find the most suitable products on the go? That’s the eternal question of ecommerce and a daydream of all shoppers. Trying to find it daily we have recently moved towards that advantageous solution with our Layered Navigation for Magento 2. And now, when the holiday sales season is just around the corner it seems to be even more timely.
