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The main principles of omnichannel eCommerce and how it differs from multichannel

The main principles of omnichannel eCommerce and how it differs from multichannel

Despite initially appearing to be the same, omnichannel and multichannel marketing have important distinctions. While multichannel marketing can be useful for businesses wanting to simply expand the volume of prospective clients, omnichannel marketing helps businesses to integrate and fine-tune their eCommerce reach.

The benefits of going omnichannel transcend all the resources required, even if it will need your team to work more intently to achieve your objective. Read the article to find details on how to build an effective omnichannel eCommerce strategy and what instruments to use.

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Valuable Open-Source Projects on ASP.NET and .NET

Valuable Open-Source Projects on ASP.NET and .NET

Open-source projects can help web developers not only increase their practical expertise but also create products and services for themselves and their customers. These programs offer practical opportunities to use current methods, patterns, and software engineering techniques that can be used in future projects.

We will take into consideration projects that are built on ASP.NET technology because it is crucial to develop solutions that may be readily scaled securely. It is a cross-platform, open-source framework for creating cutting-edge, cloud-based online applications.

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Don’t Disable Your Website, Increase Its Web Accessibility

Increase web accessibility with accessiBe

Imagine you’ve just opened a store on a popular shopping street and notice to your horror that about 1 in every 5 prospective customers struggles to mount a high step at the entrance. Getting frustrated, they just turn away. This is essentially what your eCommerce business experiences every day that it’s inaccessible to people with disabilities.

Web accessibility opens up your eCommerce business to an additional over 1 billion people worldwide. Besides increasing web traffic, it also boosts market size, SEO ranking, and many other website metrics.

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12 Best Beauty eCommerce Websites: Inspiring Examples & Tips

Best beauty ecommerce sites

Of course, walking into a favorite cosmetic store and trying different lipsticks or perfume is a thrill but online shopping allows to do it from the comfort of one’s home. Now beauty websites provide digital shade-matching tools, unbiased product descriptions and reviews, and the possibility to simply return or refund.

There are only a few seconds to catch a visitor's attention, and if you're in the process of developing or updating your website, it’s better to start by peeping at those of the leading beauty companies.

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Brief of eCommerce platform architecture and MVC pattern of nopCommerce

Brief of eCommerce platform architecture and MVC pattern of nopCommerce

nopCommerce is an open-source project based on .NET technologies with understandable architecture. It is easily customizable and pluggable that enables the development and integration of any features, extensions and themes.

Here we consider an architecture and source code overview, as well as an MVC pattern. You will also learn more about where the front-end, back-end and data layer are located and how they are linked to each other.

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Top 6 things merchants should consider in checkout payment options

Top 6 things merchants should consider in checkout payment options

In the last decade, there has been a huge shift in the way that consumers pay for goods and services online. More recently – and fast-tracked during the pandemic – an explosion of interest-free buy now, pay later (BNPL) finance providers and other alternative payment options may be witnessed.

While this can offer consumers increased choice, and more choice is generally seen as a ‘good thing’, it can be tricky for merchants to find the right platform for both their business and customers. To help you navigate this changing landscape, our payment partner, humm, has prepared Top 6 checklist identifying the key questions to consider when choosing payment options for your business. Read on to find out more.

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Introducing the Sales Forecasting API

Introducing the Sales Forecasting API

Estimation of product quantities to buy from a supplier is a major task for any vendor, especially when selling perishable or seasonal goods. The accuracy of these predictions can have a large financial impact on business. Even when surplus stock can be expected to be eventually sold, factors such as shipping costs and time, minimum orderable quantities, and inventory space all need to be taken into account while guaranteeing timely order fulfillment to customers.

Although exact forecasting may be out of reach, there is a better way than the very common method of simply replenishing stock by the same amount whenever it runs below a set quantity. Read the full article to utilise the best practices of sales forecasting for your eCommerce business.

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Main Components of an Enterprise eCommerce Platform

Main Components of an Enterprise eCommerce Platform

Finding the right eCommerce platform for a large enterprise business can be a challenge. An eCommerce platform needs to be able to support the complex requirements of your business as it exists today, as well as designed to scale along with your business as you grow into the future.

From this article, you will understand how to choose the eCommerce platform that is right for your business by determining the needs and integrations that are specific to your operations.

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Preventing Fraudulent Orders From Bots and Stolen Payment Details

Preventing Fraudulent Orders From Bots and Stolen Payment Details

It’s the one thing that eCommerce companies can’t escape … chargebacks! Fraudulent orders are the leading nuisance for any online brand, but there are measures that can be taken to mitigate payment fraud and automatically identify risky orders.

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Running nopCommerce on Linux VPS. Part 2

Running nopCommerce on Linux VPS. Part 2

nopCommerce installation on Linux has been undercovered until now! Our MVP, Woon Cherk Lam, has prepared a guide for optimized eCommerce project installation on Linux.

It consists of two parts, the first is published on the author’s source. There you can learn basics of installing nopCommerce on Linux in detail. The second part touches details of main concerns and cost management of nopCommerce installation on Linux.

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