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About Harshal Shah

Harshal Shah is CEO & Founder of Xhtmljunkies, Located in Gujarat, India, XHTML Junkies is one of the best companies that offer unique eCommerce solutions by the virtue of its dedicated professionals. Our professionals are extremely proficient in offering development services pertaining to eCommerce. You can find Harshal on and Twitter.

Boost your sales with CRM Integration with Magento

Now you have a great opportunity to optimize your business processes through Magento and CRM synchronization, and enhance your web presence and boost your online store revenue.

If you owns both offline and online shops and looking for a solution that helps to combine these two business areas for better sales analysis and conversion rate, then opt Magento CRM extension which helps online merchants to integrate and synchronize Magento sales data with the CRM records.

Since it’s an efficient and time-saving tool, CRM integration with Magento provides a good business process optimization, and as a result, a good online sales growth edging out your web competitors as well.

Let’s have a look on how to boost your sales with CRM Integration with Magento:

Export online buyers and orders to CRM:
CRM integration with Magento provides export of Magento clients to CRM as Leads, Contacts, Accounts as well as integration of online store orders with Cases or Opportunities. Lastly, you get the list of online customers and their orders on CRM grid.

Store the data of your online and offline sales at one place:
The CRM integration with Magento enables you to collect and keep the information of both online and offline sales in your CRM, and helps you to manage your business even when you’re offline.

Easily map Magento and CRM fields:
This Magento CRM extension ensures mapping any Magento and CRM fields. Also the Plug-in PHP code processor allows the handling of Magento information and associate fields before transferring the data into CRM.

Configure Magento CRM integration for User operations:
Being an online business owner, you can specify which user operations need to be processed in the extension settings. In this way, you can enable or disable insert, update and delete operations for Accounts, Contacts and Leads.

Re-synchronization in case of connection failures:
If you come across troubles with CRM server connection, the data which haven’t been passed out to CRM will be saved and once server reconnects your data will be transferred to the CRM.

How to Migrate From WordPress Woo-Commerce to Magento

Both Magento and woo-commerce best open source frameworks for e-commence websites.

Woo-commerce is open source wordpress plugin which allow you to build e-commerce functionally and magento on other hand is open source store especially for e-commerce.

When you want to migrate woo-commerce to magento please first make sure take all backup and then start your process.

For migration some data are very important so you should take care.

Before migrate, make sure to check your hosting details as well as payment gateways, CRM etc.

Before migration please create one demo magento store for testing purpose. We will put all these data here first.

For proper migration, you have to migrate product, product images and other products information, category information, customer details with shipping address and billing address, order details with status, manufactures etc.

First take all data in csv or xml from woo commerce store and put these all data proper in magento store. You can products, customer, order details from database. WordPress is also giving functionality by which you can export some data which are necessary for migration.

Make sure that all data are properly inserted into magento store. In magento import/export functionlay are available by which you can easily import data to magento store.

This migration process is difficult procedure. Some tools are available so you can easily migrate woo-commerce to Magento.

For migration some tool are available which will help you migrate your products, customers passwords, orders, categories, reviews etc. from woo commerce to magento.

One of the recommend tool is LitExtension Migration Tool. You can easily migrate woo commerce to magento but in this tools some technical knowledge required. If you are not aware about technical skill, you might end up losing some important data.

Cart2Cart automated shopping cart migration is also available which can migrate in less than few hours.

How to increase your sales via Amazon Integration with Magento E-commerce platform

Planning to expand your online store to millions of new online shoppers across the globe?

Being an online business owner, now you can too take the benefit of seamless integration with Amazon, which allows businesses to list and sell their products on the world’s most popular online marketplace.

This new integration is designed to help grow your business while streamlining your operations.

Let’s learn more about this powerful tool, recently available for use.

Expand your online presence: Online shoppers are well aware of Amazon when it comes to online shopping. Everyday millions of shoppers access this marketplace, listing your products here will be a smart thing to boost your web exposure as well as to overdrive your online revenue.

Avoid setup headaches: This integration is built directly by the Elsner admin, meaning that it’s ready to use when you are. And no downloads or plug-ins required, you simply get started with this quick and easy integration.

Save time and effort: Now you don’t have to log in to multiple sites to manage your orders across channels, instead you can do it all directly in your Elsner admin.

Moreover, you can quickly search Amazon’s product catalog, match your store products with Amazon’s, and quickly add new products on Amazon’s existing product information.

Enjoy seamless inventory management: Undoubtedly you must be facing difficulty in having to keep tabs on inventory across two different channels, but with our Amazon integration, you’ll have fully centralized control of all inventory listed between your Elsner store and the Amazon Marketplace.

Undoubtedly selling on Amazon always remains an exciting opportunity, so make the most of this new tool by following these best practices:

It is advisable to use only one Elsner store per Amazon seller account.

Also ensure that the currency used in your Amazon account is the same currency used in your Elsner store.

It is also important to keep an eagle’s eye on your inventory to ensure you have enough products to fulfill Amazon orders within the amount of shipping time specified on the listing.

Whenever processing Amazon orders, don’t forget to add the shipping method and tracking number to the order before clicking complete order. This ensures that this important tracking information is sent back to Amazon.

Have a deep study on the best practices from Amazon and also know their selling policies.
Also go through knowledge base article on Amazon to check out how everything works.

There is no doubt that this integration offers everything web owners need to seamlessly and successfully expand their online presence on one of the most important channels in the ecommerce market.

How to speed up your Magento

Magento is popular open-source ecommerce solution and is accepted by professional developers as well as ecommerce Owners.

Almost Magento Developers and owners said magento is too slow but we should try to improve magento site speed because site speed is not important only for search engine but mainly for users also. Magento is slow because of heavy cms as well as some incomplete configuration and settings.

Below you will find top tips and tricks to speed up your magento store.

1) Magento caching : Magento is giving best caching functionality so we should enable it after complete your developer work. (system -> cache Management)

2) Compressing Javascript & CSS : You should compress css and Javascript after your development work because reduces downloading and parsing so ultimately affects to execution time.

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3) Enable Flat Categories and Products : Each product or category information are stored in multiple tables so at each time large join query is required to collection information in category or products pages.
System->Configuration->Catelog Panel -> Catalogue -> Frontend. You will see 2 options here so make both options to Yes.

4) Merge CSS and JS files : In magento website, lots of CSS and Javascript files are available and increase number of http request. So we should merge these css and js files so it will reduce server request and speed up site.

System > Configuration > Advanced > Developer, JavaScript Settings, CSS Settings. Set “Merge Javascript” Files and “Merge CSS” Files to “Yes”

5) Expires Headers : By using the expire headers or cache control headers, you can reduce number of http requests and its size which will improve page speed.

6) Clean the Database : Magento site’s database can quickly become overgrown because of unmaintained log tables. So at every 1 or 2 month you should monitor these tables and clean up. You can set clean up facility in magento admin section.

System -> Configuration -> Advanced -> System -> Log Cleaning, Change “Enable Log Cleaning” to YES and configure the timing and then click to save.

7) Optimize Images : Select a proper file format and try to compress these images. So It will reduce bandwidth between browser and web server. Lots of tools are available like imageoptimizer.net, JPEGMini.com etc

8) Enable GZIP Compression : By GZIP compression you can cut down size of HTML, CSS, and Javascript files sent over the network and reduces download time.

9) Use Sprite images : with help of sprite images, you can combine images and so It will help to reduce server requests.

10) CSS and JS files placing : Always put your css files at top of the page and javascript files at the bottom of the page so it assist to boost the progressive rendering in several browsers, thus increase page load speed.

Happy speeding 🙂

If you need any help, we can do a Technical Magento Audit for your site.

Furniture e-Commerce Business in Australia – Our Custom Online Furniture Solution

From the days of the earliest civilization, humans have designed furniture for their comfort and use. Evidences adorn cave walls from the Neolithic period in the form of murals and paintings. As time progressed, various schools of furniture evolved such as the Medieval, the Renaissance, Art Noveau, the Colonial, the Contemporary and Modern.

Furniture is what makes a room ‘habitable’, tells you more about the aesthetic sensibilities and economic status of the dweller … almost every time. It is time that you started selling furniture online and we will tell you why?

  • You can manage your product performance and modify as per market demands
  • You can track your conversion rates
  • You can compare between stores if you have multiple presence, online or as physical stores anywhere in the world
  • 24/7 sales and customer interaction
  • Display your latest and the best inventory to the customer to maximize sales.

 

Let us look at some statistics to understand the online furniture business in Australia.

furniture ecommerce solution

Benefits of an online furniture store

  • You can reach out to a large market of potential customers all over the world
  • Quality product images with 360 degree views help faster decision making for the potential buyer
  • You can introduce voucher discounts, gift coupons, free delivery codes and other discounted plans
  • Positive user reviews online enhance your business reputation
  • You may have a blog on your website about online furniture industry and share tips about decorating home and office. This also enhances your website ranking and allows online visitors to post about their shopping experiences.
  • You can showcase 100% of firm’s stock online to the prospective buyer
  • Social media sharing will promote your business seamlessly
  • Safe payment gateway and easy shipping methods builds trust and increases footfall on your website
  • You can add multiple languages if you are promoting your web store across geographies

Testimonial Maria and Brian

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Maria and Brian share their experience about working with us. It all started with an idea to build a custom CRM for their business.They have appreciated our service delivery methodology and customer relationship management which we consider to be our USP. Thank you for recommending us. We value your association with us.

Top 10 Reasons For Selecting Magento 2.0 For Website Development

Magento is a leading e-Commerce technology with over 255,000 online stores built on either Community or Enterprise platforms. Developed in PHP 5.3 and Zend Framework, it offers supreme flexibility to manage design and content for e-Commerce stores. It is also known for its scalability and huge support network, and generate better ROI than other technology platforms in e-Commerce.

Highly valued by developers, solution providers, industry partners and web store operators, Magento 2.0 version is expected to release by March 2015.

Interesting features that may be highlighted in Magento 2.0 are:

1. Customized product flow and web store organization, including improvements in tax structures and rates in this version are the best in e-Commerce development.

2. A logical structure with different layout sections with introduction of the concept of ‘containers’ with separate section for blocks, sub-containers and containers for children classes improves .

3. Responsive design will now be a default feature in Magento 2.0.

4. It has replaced ‘skin’ with ‘theme’, so that the developers can manage and deploy easily. Developers will be able to manage themes and design packages directly from database. It will facilitate editing block and page design through ‘drag and drop’ functionality.

5. It is developed on Representational State Transfer (REST) API and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) with Wireless Service Integration (WSI) Web Service Description Language (WSDL) for better web application performance

6. It includes jQuery to build creative web applications. Database access layers, translation and cache engine are optimized in this version of Magento

7. It provides advanced UI / Ux for shop owners to manage their products and tax rates. Developers can customize navigation and menus as per business requirements.

8. Integration testing (framework), unit testing, static testing, performance testing, javascript testing, legacy and migration testing are a part of Magento 2.0

9. It will support a variety of databases such as MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle SQL and PostgreSQL. Online stores will benefit from cataloging products so that indexing and import time is reduced

10. Speed and performance has been enhanced in Magento 2.0 compared to Magento 1.x. With component oriented architecture it includes customer, catalog, sales, checkout, CMS, etc that improve flexibility and site performance.

Ethicalbox

Case Study
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Ethicalbox
cs-icon-1 Requirement
cs-bullet Import the products with custom options.
cs-bullet Additional fields in the seller account for policies and other details.
cs-bullet Provide the Seller to apply the tax rates for their Products.
cs-bullet Provide the Admin to moderate the tax rates requested by the Sellers.
cs-bullet Provide specialized email templates for Sellers.
cs-bullet Login option for individuals as seller for a particular brand.
cs-bullet Responsive website designing for multiple browser compatability.
cs-icon-2 Solutions
cs-bullet Responsive web designing compatible for browsers.
cs-bullet Search option for products differentiated with category and type.
cs-bullet Login facility for visitors for site.
cs-bullet Online payment option with paypal gateway integration.
cs-bullet Register for news letter for updates about events.
Technology: Magento
Tools: GitHub Basecamp Eclipse
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