Back in November of the last year, when Magento 2 was launched, it garnered a lot of excitement. And, in the next couple of months, the popularity and awareness of it increased manifold. Many early adopters have already started experiencing the benefits by migrating to Magento 2, for example Venroy, a fashion portal that specialises in male beach resort wear.
What is the way to spectacularly present your brands (products, services, promos, etc.) in just 2 or 3 seconds to a new visitor of your store? You may say there is an ocean of ideas, but we’d like to present your a ready-to-use solution – Rich Banner Slider for Magento 2.
Using coupons in e-commerce is always a controversial topic. Some merchants consider them to be the “Holy Grail” of sales, while other are afraid of their negative sides able to break consistent cash flows. Walking through the coupons usage statistics we may say that in most cases coupons are still effective for increasing sales volumes and positively taken by the majority of customers. Just consider the following facts ...
Magento 2.1 was announced back in April by Paul Boisvert during the keynote at Imagine 2016. According to Paul, the update was planned for this June, and the Magento team kept its promise. This is the first 2.X update of Magento and the community lays great hopes on it as far as it seems to become the most stable version containing the smallest ever number of errors and issues. Due to the dramatic quality increase Magento 2.1 is expected to be much more comfortable for both final users and development companies and able to start the mushroom growth of new Magento 2 stores.
All over the sales process merchants overcome the distrust typical of all customers as far as they unconsciously expect some pitfalls and disappointments regarding their purchases. The smartest decision on this way is to provide them with some respected opinions expressed by similar shoppers.
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.
Coupons are widely used in Magento and common for e-commerce in general. But, this widespread popularity poses a great challenge demanding efficient use of coupons to overcome the existing tough competition. We can list a lot of time approved coupon best practices known and employed by multiple sellers e.g. coupons rewarding new customers, coupons for regular loyal shoppers, the ones convincing hesitant store visitors, coupons promoting newly launched products, holiday season coupons and many others. But, how can we stand out of the crowd with the offers we have?
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.
