My Brand Story: Developing an eCommerce Store in Vietnam

17/06/2020

Here is one more story a brand owner from Vietnam shares with us! This sincere and bare report of what is happening in the online environment cannot leave anybody who experienced launching an eCommerce business indifferent! The storyteller describes his own path in creating an e-store from scratch and shares his thoughts about how a well-designed website should be built.

My Brand Story: Overcoming Challenges on the Mexican Market with Faly Music

17/06/2020

This post shares an inspirational example of running an eCommerce marketplace in Mexico from one of our clients. The Faly Music has evolved from a start-up company to a recognized business within a year. The brand owner tells how he and his team acheived those results.

How to Digitize Your Business from Any Niche?

10/06/2020

Digital transformation or digitalization penetrated into every aspect of social life, including government, healthcare, and businesses. The digital transformation brought more automation to companies’ internal operations and external activities. Being a global phenomenon, it trails major changes in how companies run their businesses and how they deliver value to their clients. Finally, automation in the eCommerce sphere proved to be successful in improving the customer experience and the overall lifetime value.

Top 5 Common Mistakes Newbies Make in eCommerce

05/06/2020

Who said newbies must learn from mistakes the hardest way? Learning the ropes of eCommerce business by trial and error is not the smartest way to go about it. In this article, we introduce an ultimate guide with a comprehensive list of common mistakes that can trail significant damages and even ruin your online reputation.

How to Choose a Reliable Shipping Service in the Middle East?

13/05/2020

The global eCommerce market grows independently of crisis. That growth is mostly contributed by emerging economies. At this, the Middle East and Africa (MENA) region is among the fastest-growing economies. Having the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt as leaders in online retail, the MENA eCommerce overall growth would be at a CAGR of 11% in the next years (2020-2022) according to Statista.

Women in eCommerce: Interview with the Founder of Urbankissed Marketplace

12/05/2020

This is an interview with the CEO and founder of the Urbankissed marketplace. The article shares the story of launching a business in the fashion industry of Sophie Brunner, a bank officer in the past. You will get to know about what challenges she had to overcome and how she managed to build her well-established eCommerce website.

How Does eCommerce Help to Overcome COVID-19?

29/04/2020

In this article, we collected the latest trends for B2B and B2C companies and recommendations of the real eCommerce business owners and experts to help other merchants effectively transit to a digital model of operation increasing the share of eCommerce as compared to the brick-and-mortar store activity, to adjust their teamwork, unique selling proposals, and the overall marketing strategies – everything brands need to refine to survive and grow during the health crisis.

Common CS-Cart Theme Issues And How To Fix Them

22/04/2020

Of course, we complicate things when we drag third-party elements into our online shopping platforms for the sake of improving performance or security, adding new design features, or opening up greater functionality. Some innovations are minor and don’t bring many problems, some of them like installing or upgrading a theme can be a real headache. But the payoff is generally worth it. Without integrating new plugins and themes, we’d have to do much more manual coding and that isn’t the most effective way to build an eCommerce website these days. This article will give a checklist you should refer to before or while installing a new theme to avoid common mistakes.

Automating Supply Chain: Benefits and Solutions

15/04/2020

Whether you are an eCommerce reseller or a major vendor supplying goods and services across the globe, tracking your inventory is essential for business prosperity. However, this process is incomplete or limited without supply chain automation tools helping to keep all tabs on available inventory, warning about short supplies or informing about new shipping requests in the almost hand-free mode. This post is going to tell you how you can use the power of automation in regard to supply management.

How Companies Adjust Unique Selling Proposals To Survive Coronavirus

10/04/2020

This week, we reached out to six brands with a question how they adjusted their unique selling proposals (USP) according to the new pandemic conditions. They shared their creative approaches and some positive results.

Top 5 B2B & B2C eCommerce Platforms in 2024

09/04/2020

From this post you will learn about the must-have featurs of a perfect B2B and B2C software, You will find the eCommerce platform developers ranked by their popularity and features.

Setting Up Taxes in an Online Store: Tips and Clues

08/04/2020

Taxes are an indispensable and sometimes the most tricky part to be configured in an online store. They usually touch sales, shipping, and payroll. Using an online shopping platform, you can charge taxes (VAT in Europe, sales taxes in the US, GST in Canada and so on) and then forward the collected amounts to appropriate authorities. In this article, we will focus on how to properly configure your sales taxes using a convenient shopping cart software.

Tips for Product Image Optimization: Dos and Don'ts

27/03/2020

Your site loads like horse and carriage?
Then, it is probably time to optimize your product images!
Read our new post where we give tips on how to optimize product images.

Development Automation that Makes Your Business Project Safe & Reliable

26/03/2020

Automation of manual toil is critical in web development since nobody’s perfect and the human factor may lead to overlooking some major elements that define the success and/or the vivacity of the overall project. To avoid shutting down the whole project due to a human error, you need to envisage automation right before designing the concept. How to do that and where automation is appropriate is answered in this article.

Why Should You Not Mix Email And Web Hosting Providers?

24/03/2020

In this post, we’ll tell you how to divide your website and email hosters properly. You will get to know about the threats of mixing providers and how to avoid them with experts.

eCommerce Storytelling: How to Add Narrative to Your Site to Increase Conversions

20/03/2020

Read our latest post on how you can add a narrative to your eCommerce website to boost conversions, and get inspired with a few truly amazing implementations.

Mastering Global eCommerce With Advanced Localization

19/03/2020

This article deals with localization expert recommendations. We asked a representative of the Phrase Company about some tips for the CS-Cart platform customers on how they can improve their website perception by a proper localization in place. Although the CS-Cart solution has got +40 languages available for installation, integrating an expert piece of software can improve the overall perception of your eCommerce website with a specific locale.

Deprecating TLS 1.1

18/03/2020

TLS or Transport Layer Security has a long history. It appeared in 1990s ass SSL protocol and has seen lots of updates since then. In 2020, the latest version of TLS – 1.3 – was released. In this article, we tell you about reasons to deprecate the elder versions and why it is better to check with your hosting provider if you are on the safe side with the updated security certificate.

Achieving Business Goals With Cloud Hosting

17/03/2020

Whether you are just starting your business and building an online store or you are looking to increase business and scale the number of site visitors and customers, the questions and doubts about hosting keep coming in the first place. There are many hosting providers, plans, and options for your website or application, including a shared server, a virtual private server (VPS), a dedicated server and, of course, a cloud solution.

Why eCommerce Entrepreneurs choose CS-Cart: Interview with Sales Manager

13/03/2020

How to choose an eCommerce platform when there are plenty of eCommerce platforms out there, We recommend CS-Cart as it stays in the top most popular software scripts that helps entrepreneurs build their own online stores and marketplaces, without needing any tech skills.
In this post our Senior Sales Manager shares the secrets of the CS-Cart success. Read the interview and find out yourself!

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