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If you are planning to start selling online, there are many ways you can get started. Like so many 'scary' starts in life, success online depends heavily on how you choose to start. Pick your products and services wisely, choose the right platform, conserve your capital and you can make it. 

Here are seven no-so-common rules that will guide you towards ecommerce success and survival in the first few years of your online venture.

Online merchants: check your T&Cs before they bite

Terms and conditions DO apply – tales of an online store builder

Many online merchants think T&C’s are a chore, believe me, they are important. If you want to limit some potential unexpected costs, I suggest you read on.

Redis - Stands for ‘Remote Dictionary Server’ it is an in-memory data structure project it implements a distributed, in-memory key-value database with optional durability. Redis’s developer is Salvatore Sanfilippo who was trying to improve the scalability of the startup. 

Since ver 2.2.4,  Magento Commerce and Open Source ship with Advanced Reporting, which   provides access to dynamic reports based on:

• Products
• Orders
• Customers

Reports are graphic and are designed to be easy to consume. They are surfaced on the Advanced Reporting Dash (see below), which has tabs for the three sections mentioned above.

Firstly, What is a Forward Proxy? Before we dive into the meaning of reverse in the proxy sense, lets first make sure that we understand what a proxy means. To start, what does ‘proxy mean in English? The Cambridge English Dictionary defines proxy as:  ‘authority given to a person to act for someone else, such as by voting for them…’  This means that a proxy is a method of hand ...

Take-over As Customer - in Magento 2 At last, Magento’s new ‘Seller-Assisted Shopping’ feature allows store owners to login as a customer to assist shoppers. Sellers can now enhance customer engagement by allowing sales or customer service reps to log in as a customer for those who have registered for an account with your store. A sales rep can assist in various ways now that t ...

Included with the 2.4 release of Magento Commerce is an enhanced purchase order (PO) approval process. This allows for the implementation of PO workflow processes that can be designed around speeding up B2B purchases.

PO workflows can be readily setup by editing a simple form in admin the backend of Magento.

Salable quantity solves the short-term problem that occurs with stock levels when a product is sold on the web (therefore no longer in stock) but not yet shipped (therefore actually still in stock).

It represents a virtual stock level seemingly is still in stock but has actually already been sold, It has simply not yet been shipped.

PWA's or Progressive Web Apps will change the way consumers use their mobile devices for online shopping.

They use tried and tested web technologies to deliver users a powerful, app-like browsing experience. PWA's cost much less to develop than native web apps but deliver similar user experiences. 

Why Do I Need 301 Redirects When Launching My New Website? If you already have a website and then build and launch a new one, there is a hidden problem that you need to be aware of. It work like this... Say you have selling pulse oximeters on your online store since the COVID disaster made them a popular online purchase. Then at some stage you upgrade your online store, causing ...