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Opencart 4.X

Opencart is one of the most popular open source e-commerce CMS used by merchants to sell their products online. It uses PHP and follows the MVC(Model-View-Controller) structure. On 24th May 2022, opencart version 4.0.0.0 was released. It majorly seems like opencart 3.x.x.x but some major changes are introduced within this release which is listed below: Opencart-4 Requirement Changes: PHP version:  4.0.0.0 supports the PHP version 8.0+. PHP extensions: For 4.0.0.0 below PHP extensions are needed: Database, GD, cURL, OpenSSL, ZLIB, ZIP Opencart-4 Admin Changes: Toggled checkboxes & radio buttons: In opencart-4 checkboxes & radio buttons are toggled which looks more beautiful compared to earlier versions. Brighter Icons & Buttons: Icons & Buttons are more clear & bright in opencart-4 in comparison to previous versions.   “admin” directory rename option: “admin” directory rename option is available in the latest version(4) of opencart. It provides more security to y
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Challenges & Opportunities for Ecommerce Businesses

Over the past several years, electronic trading platforms have emerged in the depths of large enterprises. Starting an e-commerce business is hard work and comes with a number of opportunities. There has been an increasing number of instances where different e-commerce businesses have entered. This rise is mainly due to the ease of availability of the internet. Regardless of its benefits, leaders across the globe face a lot of e-commerce problems and challenges. Some of the challenges are given for your reference. Have a look. Lack of Privacy and Security - Privacy & security has become a major concern for consumers in electronic commerce. Due to the increasing cases of online fraud and hacking, consumers are concerned over unauthorized access to their personal data. With regard to web interactions and e-commerce, they are concerned about the risk of reuse of their data without their consent. Hacks can expose confidential customer data therefore every organization must ensure the

Magento 2 Products

Magento 2 is an open-source E-commerce platform and is the most used CMS (Content Management System) to create online stores. There are two versions of Magento 2: the Community version and the Enterprise version.  In the Magento 2 community and enterprise, there are six product kinds. Over the Community version, Magento 2 Enterprise provides a number of beneficial features. One of these extra features is Gift Card, the seventh product category, which is not included in the Community version. Each type of product with an example is explained below: 1. Simple Product Simple Product is the most popular product of a store. In Magento, it is also defined as its name, which means that this type of product is sold in every single item ( non-variation). Every single product has its own SKU (Store Keeping Unit) code. For example, a single bag that is only sold in a fixed size, weight, material, etc. 2. Configurable Product The configurable product includes many simple products. The collection o

How To Install Magento-2.4 on Windows & LocalHost

Magento is the most popular open-source e-commerce CMS which is written in PHP language and used by merchants to sell their products and grow their online stores. Initially it looks like the installation of magento is a very tough process and for it some expertise is required but by following the below steps you can install magento in your local environment within a few hours.  We can divide magento installation in below 3 steps: Implement Required Settings Before Installing Magento:   Below steps you need to follow before installing the magento: Server Setup: Before installing the magento you need to set up your server. For the local environment you can install XAMPP, WAMP etc. Configure php.ini: Enable the below php extensions which are required to install the magento. bcmath, ctype, curl, dom, gd, hash, iconv, intl, mbstring, openssl, pdo_mysql, simplexml, soap, xsl, zip, ext-sockets   To enable these extensions go to the php.ini file and remove the semicolon(;) before the extensi

Design Thinking

Design thinking is an iterative process in which you seek to understand your users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems and create innovative solutions which you can prototype. Design thinking is a strong approach for solving ill-defined or complicated difficulties by reframing the problem in human-centric ways. The approach varies according to the project's requirements, money, and timeline, but the basic idea is first to assess the problem and comprehend the difficulties of a target audience. Understanding the user's pain and gaining points by creating personas, conducting interviews and surveys, and creating customer journeys is essential for identifying issue areas since the user plays the most important role. Five Phases of Design Thinking Process The design thinking process may be summarised in five steps or phases: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. These five phases are not usually sequential in the sense that they do not have to occur in any particula

Supermax Opencart Point of Sale

Supermax helps the merchant to do the retail transaction of their physical store in a single window. Store owners can easily place orders of their physical store to their opencart online store. As this extension is built on Google Angular Platform so it’s a single page application and works smoothly without page loading in every request. Features Multi-Language and Multi-Currency with RTL Supported.  In-built Progressive web Application (PWA)  Works in offline mode and synced all the offline data automatically after online. Made On Google Angular Framework. Single Page Application. Responsive Design Work On Tablet / Mobile / Desktop / Laptop.  Fast Loading and Easy Search With Category And Product Name.  Quick Checkout With Payment Method Selection.  POS owners can select existing customers at the time of checkout.  Admin can set store details like name, address, email, Tax number, etc. to show in customer invoice.  Separate login panel for the POS terminal.  The