Ecommerce

Some businesses must satisfy their customer need to touch and feel or to consult with an expert before buying a product. Other businesses might need to provide catalogues of images, custom orders, a myriad of colors, international shipping options, weekly or monthly discounts or coupons to ensure customer interest - the possibilities are endless. It is therefore critical that the business design and build an eCommerce presence that provides consistent branding and image and satisfies the demands, desires and needs of their particular customer demographics and geographies.

The Magento platform which delivers ecommerce solutions is a great choice for many reasons. One of them is a great bunch of functions and settings one can adjust its online store to. If you are new to Magento, you might come up with a number of questions. One of the most frequent ones is how to use product attribute sets properly.

In this article we will provide a detailed definition of what attribute sets are and how to use them with the maximum efficiency.

Magento Attributes. Definition.

As one can guess from its name, Magento Product Attribute is designed to specify certain features of a Product. Among the most popular attributes are:

Moxie Software recently unveiled a new mobile chat solution and their press relations folks have been in full gear briefing tech blogs on the benefits of the new software. That's alright because besides the marketing aspects they're also throwing some interesting information our way. A new study commissioned by the Moxie reveals 62% of survey participants expect live chat to be available on mobile devices, and 82% would use it. There are a lot of interesting stats in the study that impact the role live chat may have in the customer experience and surprisingly the numbers reveal chat may have more influence on sales than social media does.

Oslo, Norway - 28 April 2014 – Webnodes AS, a company developing a .NET based semantic content management system and e-commerce platform, today announced the release of version 4.8, with an improved search engine, the first parts of their Visitor Engagement Platform and a new improved editor.

Create an efficient hotel booking website using Hotel Booking Software. This Hotel booking module is designed with advantageous features for setting up a well proficient reservation system, featuring multiple payment methods, multiple languages, support and compatibility over multiple browsers. And also, this extension is accompanied by an appealing hotel booking theme which is designed especially for online hotel booking service with banner (with slideshow effect), customized blocks and options to place advanced search and display products.

Whenever a content management system first appears on my screen, I always look at whether the developers' initial claims are true. In this case, I'm looking at Microweber and its claim that their software offers a "new generation" CMS with "cool features and innovative concepts".  Given that most of the software development in Microweber CMS is recent, from 2012 to present, the goals and claims are ambitious. Impressively, the CMS has already been translated into seven languages so far by its contributors. As word about this CMS beings to spread globally, it's time to dig a little deeper into Microweber.

Combined solution will integrate world-class experience management and operational commerce technologies to deliver personalized on-line shopping experiences

As many of you know, I recently sold my shares in Agility – the web CMS company that I co-founded. Over the last three months, I have been experimenting with new technologies as I formulate the next step in my career.

As a first project, I decided to build a new website for a product that my wife’s company developed – the ClearBlue Ionizer. ClearBlue is a new technology for purifying water in pools and spas that drastically reduces the amount of chemicals required.

Acquisition brings fully integrated e-commerce capabilities to Sitecore’s experience platform

Sitecore, a global leader in customer experience management software, announced this week that it has acquired commerceserver.net. Sitecore acquired commerceserver.net from SMITH (formerly Ascentium), a global digital experience agency that builds, sells and supports the Commerce Server e-commerce engine.