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Online merchants: check your T&Cs before they bite

Terms and conditions DO apply – tales of an online store builder

Many online merchants think T&C’s are a chore, believe me, they are important. If you want to limit some potential unexpected costs, I suggest you read on.

Many online merchants think  T&C’s are a chore. They palm the job off to some sucker in their team, which leads to a last minute find & replace of some pinched T&Cs or else a kick down the road to a legal person somebody knows.

When developing Magento websites, performance begins to lag, with the slower page loading as more resources and more content is added to the site. The use of cache technology can mitigate speed losses and in certain instances, can even speed up page loads.

Redis - Stands for ‘Remote Dictionary Server’ it is an in-memory data structure project it implements a distributed, in-memory key-value database with optional durability. Redis’s developer is Salvatore Sanfilippo who was trying to improve the scalability of the startup. 

Since ver 2.2.4,  Magento Commerce and Open Source ship with Advanced Reporting, which   provides access to dynamic reports based on:

• Products
• Orders
• Customers

Reports are graphic and are designed to be easy to consume. They are surfaced on the Advanced Reporting Dash (see below), which has tabs for the three sections mentioned above.

Firstly, What is a Forward Proxy? Before we dive into the meaning of reverse in the proxy sense, lets first make sure that we understand what a proxy means. To start, what does ‘proxy mean in English? The Cambridge English Dictionary defines proxy as:  ‘authority given to a person to act for someone else, such as by voting for them…’  This means that a proxy is a method of hand ...

Take-over As Customer - in Magento 2 At last, Magento’s new ‘Seller-Assisted Shopping’ feature allows store owners to login as a customer to assist shoppers. Sellers can now enhance customer engagement by allowing sales or customer service reps to log in as a customer for those who have registered for an account with your store. A sales rep can assist in various ways now that t ...

Are you still running your store using Magento 1.x? With the advent of Magento 2, the end is in sight for version 1. Although you can still run your store under version 1.x for the next few years, support from 3rd party vendors is starting to wrap up.

Included with the 2.4 release of Magento Commerce is an enhanced purchase order (PO) approval process. This allows for the implementation of PO workflow processes that can be designed around speeding up B2B purchases.

PO workflows can be readily setup by editing a simple form in admin the backend of Magento.