eCommerce Blog

Navigating the challenges of working with plugins as a developer

Navigating the challenges of working with plugins as a developer

Modern software development relies heavily on plugins because they let programmers increase the functionality of already-built systems without having to start from scratch. For developers, however, using plugins can bring a number of difficulties. We'll examine the most typical difficulties programmers encounter when using plugins in this blog article and talk about solutions.

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Creating and supporting a unique nopCommerce theme for an eCommerce store

Creating a unique nopCommerce theme for an eCommerce store

The theme of an eCommerce website is crucial to building a compelling online presence and a distinct company identity. Your eCommerce shop may stand out from the competition and draw potential clients with the help of a distinctive theme. In this blog post, we'll go through the crucial steps to designing a distinctive theme for your online store as well as the difficulties involved in building a theme from scratch.

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Custom ASP.NET Shopping Cart Development with nopCommerce

Custom ASP.NET shopping cart development

An essential component of the online store is a shopping cart. It might also be among the hardest components to create for an eCommerce website. Customers can choose things, evaluate their choices, edit them, add more items if necessary, and then buy the items using a shopping cart. In the case of nopCommerce, a shopping cart is built-in.

To learn more about the nopCommerce shopping cart, read the article that explains what this component of the eCommerce platform consists of and where to look for customizing it.

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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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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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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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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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SEO Setup Guide: How to Optimize Your eCommerce Website

nopCommerce SEO Setup Guide: How to Optimize Your eCommerce Website

Your eCommerce website has two audiences: your customers and search engines. If you want to maximize your organic traffic and conversions, you should satisfy both.

Occupying valuable real estate on Google, Bing, Yahoo, or any other search engine results pages (SERPs) requires search engine optimization (or SEO). So before you start selling online, make sure your nopCommerce website is set up for SEO success.

While all websites can benefit from SEO, eCommerce sites have their own set of considerations. If you’re ready to start climbing up the search rankings, we’ve outlined everything you need to get started optimizing your nopCommerce website.

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Deployment with Terraform - Infrastructure as Code

Deployment with Terraform - Infrastructure as Code

Are you tired of preparing infrastructure for your open source e-commerce software product every time from scratch? Can you navigate AWS and Azure portals blindly? It’s probably because you don’t know Terraform!

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Platform's productivity improvements: Migration from .NET 5 to .NET 6

Migration from .NET5 to .NET 6: Performance benchmarks

This post continues the series of articles on upgrading the nopCommerce project – a free .NET eCommerce CMS with an open-source code for creating online stores. This article discusses why we continuously strive to upgrade our application’s platform. Here we tell you what we achieved with migration to .NET 6 in terms of performance and try to evaluate our results practically.

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