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CS-Cart 4.11 Latest Updates: Commented by Experts, Reviewed by Users

In November 2019 a new minor version – CS-Cart 4.11.1 – was issued. By now, it has already been followed by four patches you can get acquainted with at their blog. The updated version improved the old functionality to meet the up-to-date requirements of customers, merchants, and vendors, include updates in web development technologies, and improve user-friendliness.

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Geolocation Plugins for CS-Cart: What's New?

If you’ve ever bought anything online, you may already know what delivery information your clients would like to see. The top questions here are as follows: How will your customers be informed that their purchase is ready for pick up? What countries do you deliver and not deliver to? Do you deliver to the exact address? What kind of packaging do you use? All this information can be placed in the Product Section of the website’s Shopping guide, but you should remember to direct your customers to this page with a button near the product description.

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February 2020 Top 3: Our Most Popular Posts

Winter is almost over! Let’s see the Feb’s top 3 articles of your choice: PayPal Alternatives in Restricted Countries, Simple Remedies Against Common Cyber Attacks to Secure Your Online Business, and Starting a Marketplace in 2020: Trending Niches and Affordable Tools.

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Plugins For CS-Cart, Part III: You Ask – We Answer

We keep on answering your questions about plugins for CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor. This article continues a series devoted to CS-Cart extensions built by Simtech Development. Our Marketplace is open 24/7 and is full of ready-made solutions grouped by subject: website management, marketing, SEO, shipping and payment and others. Every plugins is accompanied by ‘How it works’ files and documents. Here we give answers to some particular issues we receive the most frequently.

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Meet PWAjet, the First Simtech Development Progressive Web App!

We have developed a unique solution combining mobile app features and desktop version of an online store or marketplace. Meet our new PWAjet. We used the latest technologies to bring you all the benefits of a lightning-fast app capable to work with no connection and a desktop version for your convenience! This post deals with the key features of the newly-developed app for CS-Carts and Multi-Vendors.

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Global Marketing Day Takeaways, Part 1

The 30th of October 2019 a special day for digital marketers of the Globe. This day, a massive online marketing conference was streamed live. The ‘Global Marketing Day’ was organized by the SEMrush company absolutely for free. A peculiarity of this event consisted of bringing together 50+ marketing gurus from the most influencing companies like Google, Microsoft, Canon, Dell, Vodafone, and other world-known names to share their huge experience and knowledge in 15-minutes talks. The show was shot in four cities at once: London, New-York, Sydney, and San-Francisco, and got +48,000 registrants. The range of topics varied from ‘Content that drives revenue’ to ‘Creating a marketing team’! The Simtech Development team couldn’t just pass by an event of such a scale.

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Generation Z Theme Released: What’s New?

This article deals with the key features of our recently-released brand-new theme. It was called Generation Z to reflect its contemporary design and cutting-edge features. The post is rich in stats to introduce more details about the targetted audience, the young generation from 6 to 19 y.o. You will get to know more about their shopping behaviour, habits, preferences, and pains.

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How We Create Storefront Themes: Interview with Front-End Developer

So what’s hot in eCommerce technology development today?
Having learned from mistakes with Millenials, online retailers are now better preparing for the next generation of shoppers – Generation Z.
In this post, we will highlight terrific features of the new storefront theme designed to target Gen Zers from the interview with Alexander Loginov, front-end developer at SimtechDev.

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3DS-2: How Does 3D Secure 2.0 Impact Your CS-Cart Business?

Technology is rapidly evolving year by year. And the payment is not an exclusive case. The updated 3D Secure 2.0 protocol is already taking online security to a whole new level. The protocol provides an opportunity to establish a secure real-time data exchange channel. Adopting this technology allows a more accurate authentication of the online shopper and increased payment speed (since not all transactions will pass authentication with a password). Let’s see how the 3DS 2.0 transition is affecting businesses.

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How We Create Add-ons: Interview with Product Manager

Every month our subscribers receive a newsletter notifying us about the release of a new add-on but have you ever wondered how we make add-ons? I’m Kate, a new content marketer in the company and today I will take you behind the scene and guide you through the process of creating an add-on.

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Affiliate Add-on: How to Build Traffic on Your CS-Cart Website

Affiliate marketing is a strategy when external websites or individuals lead traffic to your website and get a commission from sales of their referrals. You can motivate them by paying sales commissions or giving bonus points for the next purchases. According to Business Insider, affiliate marketing accounts for 15% of all digital media revenue and for over 16% of all eCommerce orders in the USA and Canada.

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Surprise Your Customers with Loyalty

Today we’re going to talk about customer loyalty and how to improve it.A close and strong relationship with customers is a fundamental part of your business. Today, the marketplace is incredibly competitive and store owners use various loyalty programs and promotional credits to keep customers coming back. Improving customer loyalty should be a priority for everyone who wants to gain trust and increase sales.

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