Are you an SMB retailer trying to navigate the world of e-commerce shopping cart technology? You need a proper vendor selection tool that helps you separate the Wheat from the Chaff (in the context of your business of course) – Right? Choosing the right e-commerce platform vendor is crucial for success in the digital rat …
If you have been using Magento for a while and you have a large number of orders coming in you will be well aware of the limitations that the platform has as regards order and inventory management. You have probably asked some or all of the following questions: How can I accurately account for stock …
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Gamification is a hot topic right now (and has been for a few years), especially as retailers look at ways to increase engagement with their customers and chase ever increasing sales targets. In this article we look at what gamification can do for ecommerce, and some simple steps to start implementing gamification principles. What is …
What are the problems With Magento Search? As you will know if you have used Magento for more than a couple of weeks, Magento search is not great! It always seems to either return thousands of results (of mostly limited relevance) or none at all. It does not do many of the things that customers regards as …
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There has been a lot of talk about Magento 2 and the opportunities it represents, but what there has been precious little of is what the precise differences are between Magento 1.x and the new Magento 2 platform. We thought we might fill that gap – so that retailers and agencies can weigh up whether …
2015 was, without doubt, a great year for ecommerce with sales expected to top £60 billion, and with the UK expected to lead the way to 19.3% of sales by 2019. Retailers such as John Lewis reported a fantastic 40% of sales coming from online over the 6 weeks to Christmas. DELIVERY Having a great delivery proposition …
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Over the last few weeks we have spent a huge amount of time assessing a huge variety of cloud based SAAS platforms – and it has been a hugely enlightening process. We have looked at order and inventory management systems (BrightPearl, Linnworks, Netsuite, Unleashed), Booking systems (Timely, Book4Time, ISalon) Point of sale systems (Vend, BrightPearl, …
The new Magento Community Edition 1.9 and the Enterprise Edition 1.14 have been released with a new theme called RWD (Responsive Web Design). The great point of this is that we won’t need to have a different theme for mobile and tablet devices, because the responsive theme adapts the layout to the viewing environment.
Are you evaluating Magento? If so you are likely to be drowning in a sea of conflicting information – some of which says that Magento is the best thing since low sugar salt free bread, and some of which makes you wonder why anyone in their right mind ever uses Magento at all. First of …
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Here are a few golden rules for Magento development. They may not be news to serious techies, but they may help retailers assess potential developers to ensure that they are working with a proper best practice agency. Don’t Hack The Core. It may provide a quick (and lazy!) way to deliver what you need but …
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