Magento 1 End of Life: How to Meet PCI Compliance
As of now, many Magento merchants are choosing to stay on their Magento 1 stores despite their June 2020 official end of life date. Now that June has arrived, what can Magento 1 users expect to happen to their webstores in the coming months?
(more…)What We’re Reading: Facebook Shops, Walmart, and eCommerce
This week we’re reading a variety of topics that include the release of Facebook Shops, how Walmart is handling their eCommerce volume, and the latest research on COVID-19’s effect on eCommerce. Read the articles below.
(more…)B2B eCommerce: Native B2B Platform Vs Repurposing B2C
(This is a guest post from our friends over at OroCommerce, the first purposefully built from the ground up open source B2B eCommerce platform.)
The eCommerce software market is full of excellent solutions which can make it difficult to decide on the right tool for your business. If you’re selling to manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and resellers, you may start your search with a purpose-built B2B eCommerce solution. However, there are many resources suggesting that, with enough B2B plugins and integrations, you can quickly make a typical eCommerce system B2B-capable.
In this post we will analyze if there is a grain of truth in these suggestions.
(more…)What We’re Reading: Headless, Improving during COVID-19, & Shipping
This week we’re reading a variety of articles that include headless commerce success stories, how to improve your webstore during COVID-19, and why retailers need shipping software.
(more…)Common Challenges of eCommerce Catalog Management and How to Improve
(This article was last published on March 30, 2016. It has been updated for accuracy and completeness.)
A difficult part of selling online is managing your product catalog. You could have hundreds or thousands of SKUs to publish across different sales channels like your webstore and marketplaces.
It’s easy then for your product data to become messy and inconsistent. It can be tedious and time-consuming to normalize for all your use cases. This is why many merchants end up settling for subpar product information because it’s simply too much to handle. However, poor product information can lead to other issues like incomplete product listings online.
Here are some common challenges that merchants face with eCommerce product catalog management and what you can do to improve it.
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