Here are some Shopify tips that can help improve ecommerce conversions: Optimize Your Product Pages: Your product pages are the most important pages on your Shopify store. Make sure they include high-quality product images, detailed descriptions, and customer reviews to help shoppers make informed purchase decisions. Too often we see product pages with barely any...
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Shopify Online Store 2.0 – Upgrade Assistance
This summer Shopify announced that it was releasing its largest update to date: Online Store 2.0. It changes the way that its templating language (Liquid) functions as well as introduces a JSON-based approached to managing template assets that is akin to how WordPress does it with its popular Guttenberg editor. In addition, it introduces a new feature set called...
How to use Sendgrid API Keys with CS-Cart
Setting up your SMTP Relay using Sendgrid API Keys This particular issue comes up frequently now as most modern email services providers are clamping down on standard password-authenticated SMTP relays. For example, Sendgrid used to allow you to use a userID to authenticate and send emails through your Sendgrid account. That is all but disabled now, but luckily...
Magento to Shopify Migration Options
With Magento 1.9x reaching end of life in June of 2020, many site owners are in an understandable panic. The ability to safely and securely run Magento beyond June is in question. While Magento has its strengths and weaknesses, you really have to rely on having developers on hand to keep your store running and secure. That costs money. Many store owners are...
How to import or migrate CS-Cart products into Volusion.
In this article we will cover the quick and east way to import or migrate your CS-Cart products into Volusion eCommerce system. Importing CS-Cart products into Volusion First, you will need to export all of your CS Cart products with all of the fields your product requires. This includes: features options extra images detail and thumbnail image paths Map those...
CS-Cart Author and Bookseller Addons
Another case study we'd like to feature is one where we added multiple authors and artists to CS-Cart Product searches and product detail pages. This allows users to click on any one of the authors or artists and see all products that the author or artist is associated with. This appears at the CSCart product details page as well as the search results and filters....
CS-Cart upgrade settings for your server.
One of the problems that you may have while upgrading CS-Cart is that the upgrade inexplicably fails during the upgrade process. If you are lucky, you will get a error trace umped to a file or the screen. If not, it may just silently fail in the background or freeze up. This is certainly no fun. There's a number of different carts that experience this, so it is not...
Searchandise creates high CPU in CS-Cart (4.2, 4.3)
What causes high CPU in Searchandise and CS-Cart? We've noticed an issue where Searchandise eats up a large amount of CPU. In some instances, when you turn on Searchandise from the add-ons it spins the CPU up to a point where it can even crash. This is heavily dependent on how many products you have in your catalog. It can be barely noticeable on CS Cart catalogs...
CSCart – Gift Certificate and Credit Card Payment Failed Status Issues
We've seen this issue crop up a few times with operations in CS-Cart and the cause of it is usually a low-frequency - human-related event. Summary: You have an order that seems to fail its credit card processing, yet a gift certificate was applied to the order. Failed notices have gone out according to your CS-Cart rules for alerts. Solution: (usually) Check...
How to display multi-column subcategories in CS-Cart
Often we want to display multiple categories in CS-cart at a category and sub-category (or, sub-sub-sub-category) level. We're not sure why CS Cart doesn't offer this out of the box, but for future reference, you should bookmark this so you now how to implement this in new cs-cart builds http://kb.cs-cart.com/display-subcategories-multicolumns#3 If you have a...