The updates add support for PHP 5.3 and address issues with upload file permissions, merging carts, and SOAP APIs experienced with the original release. They DO NOT address any new security issues. Magento highly recommends that all users either install the SUPEE-7405 v1.1 patch bundle, or upgrade to Magento Enterprise Edition 1.14.2.4 or Magento Community Edition 1.9.2.4.
Since the beginning of 2015 and even earlier content marketing takes its place among most popular and demanded marketing strategies worldwide. And, multiple observations notice that its huge influence on future marketing decisions will remain significant in 2016 ...
According to the Google Analytics Benchmarking report, an average session duration of the Apparel shopping segment for medium-sized stores was 3 minutes and 16 seconds in 2015. So, it doesn’t seem that customers have any extra seconds to waist visiting unnecessary pages and waiting for reloads.
Mutual integration of online and physical stores today is absolutely common and requires merchants to settle the shopping experience within this business concept simply perfect. Striving to provide only excellent services retailers closely integrate both channels and build a holistic model of sales allowing customers to easily move between online and offline stores and vice versa.
The market of ecommerce platforms is changing constantly since ecommerce itself develops steadily embracing new branches, areas and stores. Some platforms decline while other ones rise, and this fluctuation gradually changes the entire ecommerce environment and transforms the market structure. As far as we have already accumulated a lot of data regarding platform shares dynamics, it allows us to describe the ecommerce platforms market scene and forecast their further evolution.
Starting a new business is always difficult and we know that in this first step any help is needed. So, here at aheadWorks we have launched the Startup program for beginners in the team of Shopify store owners. This program allows you to take advantage of free extended trial periods for our apps and get some expert technical consulting or advice on best business practices from our development and support teams.
As always this year the Magento community provides its members with numerous opportunities for communication and networking. There is nothing better serving this purpose than different dedicated Magento and ecommerce events around the globe sharing our mutual views and aspirations. So, below we offer you some really noteworthy possibilities to meet friends and present your companies during some incredible local and international conferences devoted to Magento or ecommerce in general.
No doubt, Magento 2 will become the next ecommerce destination for numerous Magento users. So, if you consider migration as the next step of your improvement or just build a new M2 store, we are ready to make you two great offers.
Live event communications are always beneficial and have a great potential for new sales and cooperation. Ecommerce conferences can offer merchants and manufactures multiple advantages and accelerate their business growth. 2015 engendered possibly the greatest number of Magento events ever and even more ecommerce conferences. A bit later we’ll certainly publish the list of Magento conferences expected in 2016, while now are shedding the light on the eCommerce Expo South Florida conference.
Ecommerce is booming and we have no reason to make any doubts regarding its successful future, but we all want to unveil the details about and around it. The beginning of the year is a great time to look back and analyze the work done by most leading ecommerce platforms that will certainly determine the rules of the game for the nearest future. Magento, WooCommerce, Shopify, and PrestaShop – this is the pool of ecommerce platforms we take for our study and try to make predictions on for the whole market.
