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How to connect your store to CS-Cart
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.

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How to edit categories in CS-Cart
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.

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How to Go Online with an eCommerce Business?
Moving an Offline Business to Online During COVID-19: a Simple Guide

Year 2020 is challenging for offline business. But it’s never too late to expand going online. In this post, we gathered useful statistics on the COVID-19 impact on the eCommerce industries and other key figures to help you with launching your first online business informatively. You will get all the steps needed to start and grow online. All the content is organized as a simple guide consisting of 7 steps.

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How to structure you product catalog
How To Build Your Digital Product Catalog To Sell More

If you run a massive inventory store consisting of more than 1,000 items, you probably know how difficult it can be to manage the catalog. But before expanding to a larger inventory store, it is very important to think of how to properly organize the catalog structure to make it searchable, driving, handy in use, and scalable. In this post, we share the best practices, tips and examples on creating a high-performing catalog!

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Setting Up Images in CS-Cart: a Quick Guide

You need to optimize images to attract more customers. Sometimes, setting a good-looking picture of your product is not enough. You need to know what size to use and on what pages. This post deals with the guidelines on how optimize image size and format to reflect your online brand in the best possible light!

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

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.

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

This post is one more chapter of our fortnight report with the latest FAQs we get from our customers about CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor add-ons available on Simtech Development Marketplace. Some know-how you can find on the Support page or, if a specific issue takes place, subscribe for Support. Following this series, you can get your concern resolved without spending your valuable time or money.

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

This article is one more post of a series devoted to CS-Cart extensions built by Simtech Development. The Simtech Development Marketplace offers a range of ready-made solutions for CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor platforms’ owners: website management, marketing, SEO, shipping and payment and other tools to enhance your website capabilities. We attach documentation to each add-on to describe how to finetune and use it. Nevertheless, specific issues still arise. So, we gathered the most frequently asked questions about our add-ons to set the record straight.

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CS-Cart Plugins: You Ask – We Answer

The Simtech Development Marketplace provides a pool of ready-made extensions for CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor platforms’ owners. This range includes solutions helping to enhance website management, marketing, SEO, shipping and payment capabilities. Each plugin is accompanied with a detailed description to get a general idea of what the add-on is and how to use it. However, despite the availability of documents and descriptions, sometimes we get specific issues from our customers. In this series of posts, we are going to unveil some frequently asked questions about our add-ons to clear up the last misunderstandings.

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How to Safely Upgrade a Website

CS-Cart has officially announced that it stops supporting PHP versions lower than 5.6 starting from CS-Cart/Multi-Vendor 4.9.1. For CS-Cart owners it means that the CS-Cart upgrade process will not start if the PHP on the server is lower than required.

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