Magento

Products are the core of any Ecommerce and promoting any specific products during any special event or occasion is an inevitable activity in the ecommerce store management.

Magento provides lot of flexibility in terms of applying designs that you can switch design of part of the site as and when you need.

Seasonal offers and promotions are one the key events that happen in any ecommerce store every year and Magento provides options for this so that the admin can just configure and forget leaving Magento to take care of the rest.

Password is a unique string that each customers uses to login to the websites and access their accounts. As humans, it is quite normal that we have the tendency to forget the passwords and hence every website offers options in order to reset the passwords.

Favicon – the tiny image on the browser tab denotes our website identity among the list of other tabs that the user has opened in his browser. Depending on the browser, the location at which the favicon would display varies. Typically a favicon would be at the size of 16x16 pixels or 32x32 pixels and ICO is the file format for favicon. Whereas Magento accepts favicons in other formats also like PNG, JPG, ICO and SVG.

Categories are a great way to organize your products for displaying in the frontend of the website to your customers. Magento offers category feature by default along with numerous options and flexibility. There may be instance at which you would need to disable or hide the categories for the mean time or permanently due to various reasons like the category products are temporarily unavailable or discontinued.

Shipping with multiple address is a nice to have feature in Magento and would be good to offer to the customers. But there may be some cases that this might not be needed or confusing for the customers.

Magento is such a complex system that it is built to handle multiple websites within one Magento instance. It provides such flexibility to the store owners that they can manage multiple ecommerce websites under one umbrella. But this may be too much for some users as their need would just be to have a single shopping site for their business.

Redirecting customers to Dashboard page is one of the simplest methods to retain customers and making them spend more time in the website. Magento 2 by default comes with options to enable or disable this feature. Yes, you can configure Magento and have your customers redirected to their Account Dashboard page as soon as they login to the website and this is what we will be looking at today.

Reordering enables customer to purchase the same products again that they have placed orders earlier. Magento by default provides the reorder option that customers can perform reorder with just a click of a button. This saves time for the customers as they need not have to enter the product and shipping information again. With just a click of a button, the customers can perform reorder from their customer dashboard after they have logged into the site.

Payment failed email is the mail notification that is automatically triggered to customers whenever they are trying to place the order and the payment process didn’t go through successfully. It informs the customer about the payment failure that they have experienced in the checkout. You will need to enable the SMTP though to ensure that the mail is reached to the inbox of the customer.

It is necessary to specify your Store information like phone number, address, VAT Number, etc in your Magento ecommerce store so that it can be used in Sales documents and other communications like emails, print PDF, etc. Store information includes adding phone number, country, region/state, zip code, VAT number, etc. You can easily update this information from the Magento 2 Admin Panel.

Emails are one of the best ways to connect with customers and logos are the identity of Brands. Magento offers options to update logo for both the website as well as the email so you can choose to put in a different logo (maybe be grayscaled or different color of the logo) in order to match the design and look and feel of the email templates.

Greeting your customers with a good welcome text is a basic ecommerce feature and Magento allows you to update the welcome message easily from the backend. It is to be noted that once the customer logs in to the site, the welcome message will be displayed along with the name of the customer and when the customer is not logged in, a default welcome message will be displayed.

Security has become a top concern for all the websites nowadays especially when it comes to e-commerce websites. Unauthorized access to your sites can result in havoc and worst experience to your end customers which would directly have an impact on the reputation of your business.

One main advantage of Magento 2 over Magento 1 is the classic and beautiful admin panel interface. Developers who are into creating extensions for Magento 2 would invariably need to create admin panel menu items for store owners to access the lists and pages. We are going to look into the step by step process involved in creating custom menu item for the Magento 2 admin panel.

It is the requirement of every store owner to have an interface with which they can easily manage their store without any hassle. Web design and development has evolved from static pages to more simple but sophisticated applications and one main that is common and people would opt to use is the search function. Search functions come in handy and they help us reduce the number of click that users make and thereby saving user time. Today we are going to use a simple but useful Magento extension for searching and accessing pages in admin panel. You can easily search for the page that you want to access and this module would load up the respective page for you.

Christmas is coming up and its high time to design your webpages to include christmas, new year effects, etc in your website. You will have to make those changes by modifying the style of the page and that is what Less is useful. So today we are going to look into how to use Less in our custom module there by you can create custom design changes by this way. What are you waiting for? Just go ahead and get your site ready for festival season.

Blogging is one the most effective ways to keep your users engaged and drive more traffic to your website. While ecommerce stores primary purpose is to sell their products online, it is very vital to always keep fresh content coming up so that search engine keep crawlinging your site for new data and would also rank your websites high.

Magento 2 Business Intelligence is just another product of Magento and has been launched along with B2B Commerce Cloud, Magento Social and Magento Shipping.

As a developer, our work would mostly involve create and customizing Magento components. The Magento components that form the entire Magento application are Modules, Themes, and Language Packages.

MailChimp is a marketing automation platform and has been used by large number of users worldwide.

Another major change brought about in Magento 2 is the introduction of modes which would assist with the Magento development process.

Promoting your eCommerce store is as important as creating your eCommerce store itself as only promotions can make your site reach various audiences and get the sales happening. Everyone is busy today that nowadays users dont go to websites that they like to check for any updates or new content.

Magento is the best ecommerce platform and powers some of the most popular and top brands around the world in order to leverage the most out of their online ecommerce site.

If you have been into the Magento 2 development for a while you would have definitely executed the magento 2 command in order to deploy the static content.

Magento, an e-commerce platform that offers incredible customer experience to millions of entrepreneurs who wish to sell and track orders of their products and services online.

Launching of a new e-commerce platform in order to boost sales and productivity is never as easy as it may be made to sound.

Product page is the most important page in any ecommerce website and this is where the customer could be convinced to purchase the product by highlighting the positive aspects of the product.

The e-commerce industry has transformed the way business is transacted today. The various business models involved have shrunk and brought together the ends of the Earth.

The footer section of any webpage is as important as the content section itself. Store owners must pay attention to what we fill up the footer section of the website as it is one of the most sought place to access the other parts of the website.

Having multiple admin users would be very much helpful in managing the site and its data. Many of the ecommerce site owners use to have different admins, each with different roles and access controls so that each can handle the processing orders, responding to customer queries, and other data management.

Magento store owners find this simple and efficient Easy Contact form Plus to manage customers and visitors to their online stores. This application is preferred to email communications (spam robots hog them!) as they tend to overload the database queries. The store owners are happy to extend a pleasant customer experience (to their buyers and visitors) with this simple, custom-built contact form.

Newsletters are a great way to increase the user engagement activities and keep them posted about the latest offers and whereabouts of the new updates that you are offering in your site. Many successful stores use Newsletter to share information of the upcoming offers and new products in their eCommerce site. Newsletters should be sent out at regular intervals so that your customer is kept more engaged to your site.

Every e-commerce store needs a magento contact form extension to allow consumers to approach store owners with ease. A good contact form although, is easier said than done. You may think a little piece of code from the internet would do the trick, but allow us to forewarn you of the security implications that an inefficient Contact Form could have on your store! An ill-built contact form is a very first doorway for hackers to take control of your store. So what’s the solution?

If you’re still on the fence regarding incorporating Social Login for your Magento eCommerce Store, we’re going to give you some very useful insights in this post. You absolutely need social log-in/sign-up enabled on your Magento Store regardless of your consumer demographics! We’ll also tell you how to accomplish social sign-up/log-in on your store – in a jiffy!

Did you know that adding Google reCaptcha in Magento 2 is just a matter of including an external PHP library? Today we worked on aclient requirement to include Google reCaptcha in the contact forms of his Magento online store. Captcha is an essential feature for any and every contact form in your website since it keeps the spammers and bots away from our inbox. Do you have a similar requirement? Read on to know the DIY way of achieving this. Alternatively, keep your hands off the code and hire a developer from VelanApps.

Magento, one of the most stable ecommerce systems has released its most awaited version – Magento 2. The fascination for Magento 2 has already begun and developers have started digging into the Magento 2 folders to learn various things. Most commonly, novice developers use WAMP server for learning as well as development. This post is about setting up the server configurations and installing Magento 2 in WAMP server.

Do you have a Magento store with a set of functionalities that you wish were a little different? Most Magento store owners who’re on the DIY juggernaut, do not meddle with the Magento models unless they’re programming whizzes. But here’s good news for you –follow our blog written by programming whizzes, try a few of our tutorials in here and you’ll soon be rocking programming on your Magento online store!

Hello folks! It’s been quite a busy time for us techies at Velan. Recently we helped a client add some customizations and extend the core functionalities of Magento 2. I thought I’d share a tip or two on how to Override Core JS files of Magento 2.

Hi folks. Our previous post was about configuring the WAMP server and installing Magento 2. That’s all what is needed for a basic user. For a developer who is striving to get their hands dirty on Magento coding, the rudimentary step would be to develop a 'Hello World' module. Yes, today we are going to dive into the coding part and say hello to the world in Magento 2 style.

Magento2 has one Command-Line Interface (CLI) that performs both installation and configuration tasks : < your Magento install dir>php/bin magento. The new interface performs multiple tasks, including:

Magento provides various options to import data into the system. We can use the magento import feature to create products and customers in bulk. There might be situations where you might need to import bulk product images for existing products. This article explains how to import product images using the Magento's Dataflow.