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Common CS-Cart Theme Issues And How To Fix Them

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.

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Automating Supply Chain: Benefits and Solutions

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.

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Setting Up Taxes in an Online Store: Tips and Clues

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.

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Development Automation that Makes Your Business Project Safe & Reliable

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.

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Mastering Global eCommerce With Advanced Localization

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.

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Deprecating TLS 1.1

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.

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Achieving Business Goals With Cloud Hosting

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.

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

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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3 Reasons Why Your eCommerce Store Needs a Blog

Just offering great products paired with equally great prices is no longer enough to attract potential customers. As an entrepreneur, you need to become more resourceful to get your brand noticed by your target audience and bring the traffic to your website.
Running a blog is the next thing to consider as a potential marketing strategy for your online store development. But don’t be too quick to think of it as hours of unnecessary work and effort that won’t markedly impact your business.
In this post, you’ll learn that a blog is not just a bunch of articles attached to your business but a powerful tool you can utilize to bring customers to your store.

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Starting a Marketplace in 2025: Trending Niches and Affordable Tools

Marketplace model wins a battle for customers nowadays as compared to conventional businesses like classical service or product providers. This fact has been already proven by eCommerce giants like Airbnb, Uber, Caviar and many others. But everybody started with something and didn’t grow overnight. While your marketplace conception is only in your mind, what would be your first steps? Here we’ve collected some tips for marketplace beginners with some ideas that promise to be the trends of 2023 based on statistics.

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Performance Testing: You Need to Think Critically

Critical thinking is an indispensable pillar of doing business in today’s world. We know that you apply it well in business, but as long as we are technical experts, let me show you that the same should be done for technical things as well. And today I want to show you once again that not everything on the Internet needs to be trusted!

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Factors That Affect Your Website Performance

Starting this month, our head of Cloud Hosting and SRE/DevOps departments, Roman Ananev, is giving a series of lectures on how to maximize the website performance for your eCommerce business.
Read the introductory article on the way the Internet works and the factors that affect your website performance.

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Choose the Right Storefront Theme and Create Your Success Story!

Choosing the right storefront theme for your online store will naturally be largely subjective. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” as they say. But beauty is only skin deep.
Instead of buying something that just looks good, it’s worth being strategic when you choose your theme.
Read our new post on the most popular ready-made storefront themes that were designed to help you build your brand identity.

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Why you emails sometimes go to spam?
Why Emails Sometimes Go To Spam?

From this article you will get to know what the spam is, how to craft your letters to avoid looking like spam, technical reasons for going to spam, and the best practices to reach the customer inboxes.

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