Interview with Developer: Pains, Gains, and Reward while Customizing a Project
Today’s article is unusual. We interviewed our Team Lead, Alex, to learn more about programmers’ life. What do they think about communicating with clients? What is challenging? What are they proud of? If you want to learn more about a person who does modifications for you on the opposite side of the screen, this post is for you!
CS-Cart 4.14: What’s new?
A new version of CS-Cart, 4.14, has just been released and got useful updates: integration with Tilda, faster loading on mobiles, usage of WebP format for images and more. Check the article to learn more about updates, and how you can upgrade your platform to the latest version.
FoodTech eCommerce Trends for 2024
Foodtech is penetrating the food and beverages industry transforming the way we consume. To sustain competition, companies should apply its principles into their existing businesses. Let’s examine what are these principles and what awaits the food industry in 2023.
4 Reasons to Upgrade Your PHP Version
PHP 7.3 is no longer supported. Starting from December 2021, the latest supported version is 7.4. For CS-Cart users, it implies the need to upgrade their websites’ PHP version to the least supported version to secure their businesses from threats accumulated by older versions. What are these threats? We’ll share them in this post!
How to Establish Omnichannel Commerce in Furniture Business
The omnichannel approach is the future of furniture eCommerce. In the US, 13% of the population buy furniture online. Although it’s a mere figure, the surveys show that furniture eCommerce is the fastest growing segment surpassing fashion and electronics. But to build an omnichannel commerce, you need to interconnect all your sales channels to provide a seamless experience for users. In this post, we examine why omnichannel is what furniture eCommerce needs, what the best cases are at the moment, and how you can establish the omnichannel approach in your business.
Add-Ons Changelog for the First Half of December 2021
This time we significantly improved our YouTube Video Gallery. All the themes were made compliant with the latest CS-Cart version – 4.14.1. XML&CSVImport, Sales&Social Proof, Product labels, Follow Vendor, Facebook Pixel and other useful plugins got new features. Read the new changelog to be in the know!
How import images in CS-Cart
This post is a guide for product image import. Here, you will find the ways to import images, how to specify the path to images, what fields are mandatory, and what to pay attention to while importing.
10 Reasons to Outsource Development Team For eCommerce Projects
Executives all over the world are pondering over what part of their business to outsource and what to keep in-house. They ask themselves only one question: “Does that provide me a cost advantage?”
If only a decision was that simple.
Obviously, outsourcing provides a cost benefit. But a vast majority of businesses don’t even guess what other benefits they can receive from outsourcing other than cost saving. In this post we explore those top 10 reasons for outsourcing that are better than cost benefits.
How to Install and Configure Add-Ons in CS-Cart
Add-on installation is simple but may require some specific steps to follow. We completed a guide on add-ons installation to save your time. You will get to know how to install and configure add-on by the example of a default CS-Cart add-on and an add-on of ours.
How to Improve Product Import in CS-Cart
Product import raises the most issues with CS-Cart entrepreneurs. The platform allows lots of options out of the box to make the import more fine-tuned. We’ll examine what options you have while importing product feeds into CS-Cart, as well as how you can add more automation into it to exclude human factor errors and standardize the suppliers’ catalogues.
24 Free Marketing Tools for Website Owners
We’ve collected free marketing tools so that you could promote your brand online even without an in-house marketer in your team. The collection of tools includes services for web and mobile analytics, and content creation. We also indicated limitations of free plans. Check the post to find out how you can market your business yourself.
How to Connect Your Physical Store to CS-Cart
You may have had an online store before or just want to create one from scratch. There is a wealth of site builders to make your business visible online. But any of them have their own perks and drawbacks. Connecting your store to CS-Cart, you join an ecosystem of inter-connected services. All tailored to make your digital transition to eCommerce painless and super-fast. Here we’ll tell you about the CS-Cart advantages for online stores, how to install the platform, and how to host your project.
CS-Cart as the Best Platform for Creating a Marketplace
In this article, we share the basic features of the CS-Cart platform for marketplaces. You will get to know why the latest redactions of Multi-Vendor perfectly fit the marketplace business model. Knowing the fundamentals, you now know how you can fine-tune the platform for your needs!
How to Add and Edit Categories in CS-Cart
With the proper organized inventory, your customer can easily find the product he or she wants. Vendors can assign their items so that you could have your menu helpful in terms of product search and navigation. Knowing how to work with categories is basic for store owners. This is a concise guide with screenshots to help you organize categories in your CS-Cart and/or Multi-Vendor store.
How to Optimize Images for Your eCommerce Site Best Performance
According to HTTP Archive, images make up on average 26% of a total webpage’s weight. So, this is the second place after the video content, that consumes your disk space. But as compared to video, images are easier to optimize. The better your images are optimized, the higher the site speed is. In this article, we share some image optimization tricks and techniques so that you can make your online store or marketplace load faster and convert more buyers.
Add-Ons Changelog for the First Half of October 2021
We improved XML&CSV Import, Hamburger Menu, Show Me More, Mailchimp eCommerce, Vanilla Theme, Urban Shift Theme, Google Analytics Enhanced eCommerce, Follow Vendor, Products Labels, Points and Cash, and other useful CS-Cart plugins. Unfold changes and get the details!
TOP 5 Image File Types to Use in Your Online Store
Choosing the image file extension may influence your online store page loading speed. The right extension will save your disk space and bandwidth. But do you really know how to select the right format? In this article we will tell you what image format and types may be, and how to choose the appropriate one so that your online store and customer could benefit from it.
How to Adapt Content for Different Social Media?
Most brands save on community management by posting absolutely mirror-like content across all brand social media. More advanced marketers change the image format so that it seems visually more organic to a specific social media platform. The most far-sighted reduce the number of sites on which they work, but they treat each social community as carefully as possible, developing and adapting the content not only to the requirements of these platforms, but also taking into account the expectations of users of a particular network.
Do You Need a Subscription Service in Your eCommerce Website?
Let’s talk about subscriptions. This is a very popular business model. But be honest, is it really what your online business need. In this post we’ll share what attributes a product or service should have to be worth selling by subscription.
10 Tips to Build a Strong Community Around Your eCommerce Brand
What is a brand community, how to build it, and most importantly – why. We have studied the issue in detail, added our experience and share it with you.
