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!
What is order fulfillment and how can marketplaces help you there? In this post, we examine pros and cons of marketplaces and ways to simplify your work on them. You will get to know about marketplace fulfillment and mistakes made by newbies in eCommerce.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
SEO will work effectively if you focus on optimizing the user experience during search engine optimization. The results won’t be visible right away, but eventually your site will rank better in search and you’ll get organic traffic.
In this post we’ll share some myths and concerns about SEO that you should know about to better implement and optimize your site.
This time let’s talk about promotions in online stores and marketplaces.
Our customers, digital entrepreneurs, often ask our advice about increasing sales.
They’ve already tried all marketing techniques to increase the Average Order Value:
Applied all up-, cross-, and downselling techniques to promote products and services to the existing customers
Loyalty program is on…
Product Bundles have been introduced…
It seems like marketing does not help in driving more sales. So, you come to us to obtain a solution capable of reignite sales.
Is there an approach that is fast and easy to implement? In our new article we unveil some secret, not obvious methods to make your special offer work for you and your budget.
All is fair in love and war. But eCommerce is not that case. When promoting an item or service, you need to be careful with aggressive methods of advertising. Here, we’ve gathered the worst examples of promoting your business online.
Have you ever visited a large department store a week after Christmas? This is absolute chaos. There are piles of clothes everywhere; tags are missing; mess of sizes; departments are mixed with each other. There is zero sense of organization in general. This is what your site would look like without a website architecture. But what is site architecture and why is it so important?
The conversion rate of websites averages around 2-3 percent. It means that for every 100 visitors, you can expect to get only 2 clients. And honestly, that’s a pretty good conversion rate.
Many sites have conversion rates between 0.1 and 0.2%. To get 1 customer, you will need 1,000 visitors.
How to improve conversion, attract more customers with existing traffic? We share 10 effective tools for boosting conversions.
Core Web Vitals are Google’s latest addition to UX-related ranking signals. Understand what they mean for e-commerce sites and optimize for them.
You decided to launch an EdTech project. Well, it’s at a peak now and distance learning is still growing. But the niche is wide. You should have a step-by-step guide with competitor analysis and target audience study in hand. Interested? This post is your ace in the hole. It gives all the answers to those who are launching an EdTech project.
In this article, we’ll tell you how to choose your brand archetype to effectively communicate with your customers. After reading this post, you’ll be able to interact with users to make them feel as your read their thoughts. That’s not magic. Only a well-thought-out approach.
Is a loyalty program worth implementing in your online store? Well, there are some 4 conditions when you should launch one. In this post, we share insights about how, when and who is the best at implementing a loyalty program. We’ll tell how to combine loyalty program types and what to replace with if the loyalty program is not your case.
Answering the question ‘What do you like about this site?’, an average user says:
It is easy to navigate
I can easily find the stuff
This site is well organized. It has clear categorization. I can choose for what I am looking for
Well, you can easily improve your design and help customers to find any product they look for simply by placing all the UX/UI elements right!
With the CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor you can do this even without the help of the developer.
In our new post, we share 7 simple but actionable ways to improve your online store navigation and increase the customer satisfaction when they manage to find the desired item in your multi-level and multi-product catalog.
Request for Quote is a powerful feature for online stores capable of ensuring 100% chance a customer will complete a purchase on your site. However, it is not easy to present this feature in such a way that removes any friction before placing a request. In this post we will examine how to use this powerful tool in driving sales to your online store and attach some examples of doing it right.
