How has 2020 changed the retail market? There is one thing we cannot deny is that 2020 has defined new business structures and new roadmaps to success, this goes for both off-line and online retails businesses. The first part of this year we noted that our ecommerce development business simply stopped, as clients backed down …
We have created 30 top tips for your eCommerce business, even though the figures are UK centric, the tips are equally important to any business wanting to improve or open an eCommerce store. eCommerce is booming in the UK, and is set to near the £175 billion barrier this year. Due to increasingly busy lifestyles, …
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As the coronavirus takes hold across the world, there has been a considerable change in consumer purchasing behaviours. The fact that the general public has been asked to self-quarantine themselves has meant that these potential consumers are no longer venturing out to shopping centres in preference to shopping from the comfort of their home. Now, …
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Choosing an e-commerce platform is a big decision, you’re going to invest your hard-earned cash and build your business on this platform, and it’s going to define your business online for quite a few years; that’s a lot of pressure for any business to take on board. If you know me, you know that I’ve …
Reaching new customers by offering an alternative to regular payment providers, the benefits of choosing the likes of Klarna. We are getting more and more clients requesting for Klarna payment to be added to their eCommerce stores. Klarna allows you to buy now pay later, which many Millennials are enjoying the benefits of this; also, …
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With the conclusion of London fashion week and now Paris fashion week 2020 is in full swing. All Fashionesta’s are on the lookout to see what are the latest trends happening within the luxury goods will be. I was particularly delighted to see Victoria Beckham’s ready to wear spring summer 2020 collection, she has used …
Magento has a built-in API that has many features, but there are scenarios where the present features are simply not enough. If you need to build an external app that communicates with Magento via the aforementioned API, you will certainly discover its limitations. Luckily, the API can be extended by writing a custom module that …
A spam attack started in the middle of Q4, just two weeks before Christmas sales. The attack was detected through our New Relic account. Soon everybody was aware that we had a heavy server load with no more than the usual number of visitors to the store. It was time for panic. 🙂 This Magento …
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The busiest time of the year – the forth quarter. It’s the best time to close a decent amount of sales by pushing high quality traffic to your Magento based e-commerce store and your servers. No matter where you plan to host make sure that your environment autoscales so you can prevent outages and breaks if …
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Turpentine – Varnish When it comes to performance improvement, no PHP-based Magento caching module can compare with Varnish, period! In short Varnish is a reverse proxy and HTTP accelerator. Varnish stores and accesses cached content directly from system memory. That’s much different then storing and accessing cached content into/from files on a local disk/storage (Magento …
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