As summer is around the corner, we are pleased to show one of our customers in the outdoor furniture business. This is yet another Magento store using the Ultimento Magento Theme as the base for their great looking site. You can clearly see some of the core Ultimento features and functions, but with some changes to the color scheme, fonts and certain parts of the layout, the site is truly individual and works great.
You can see the entire site here: gardenfurniturecentre.co.uk
Commative, the developer of some of the leading Magento themes and extensions, is pleased to announce its latest Magento extension for Google Shopping. This powerful tool enables e-commerce companies to manage and list their products to Google’s latest product listing directory from their Magento admin panel.
Google Shopping is an increasingly dominant price comparison engine that is highly visible when searching for products on Google providing an ideal avenue for online retailers to connect with shoppers on desktop, mobile and tablet devices. When customers search for a product, Google Shopping will show a selection of provide pictures, pricing, product details and all the other information customers need to purchase the product.
With Commative’s new Magento Google Shopping Extension, you can easily manage this new sales opportunity through your Magento admin panel. The tool will automatically update information and prices when you change your main catalog. You can easily map the product to the category of your choice in Google and configure the settings down the product level.
Try this new Magento extension today and buy with confidence: Commative’s extensions and themes all come with 30 day money-back guarantee, free professional support and updates for life!
Thanks,
The Commative Team
This is a great example of what you can do with Ultimento 3 by using some CSS edits and add some promotional blocks to the home page of the template. Many of Ultimento’s core features are enabled including the Magento javascript slider extension, the Magento instant shopping cart, and the Magento optimized check-out page.
It is a sleek look and perfect for a fashion brand like 8CUB. Please take a minute to look at some of the features at 8cub.com
Magento’s 2013 Imagine Conference has officially begun! Follow Magento’s own liveblog of the event to stay up to date with all the activity from Las Vegas.
Tonight began with a brief overview and some time to network with other Magentoites, and tomorrow has lots in store. There will be presentations on SEO, a keynote speech from eBay CEO John Donahoe and Magento COO Roy Rubin, and a number of breakout sessions on a variety of Magento topics.
This by far the biggest Magento event of the year so stay tuned to hear if Magento has any surprise announcements up their sleeve!
The Commative Team
Cash is king and as much as the world continues to go digital, Google realizes that traditional methods of commerce are still important. Starting April 1st, Google is introducing Google Wallet Mobile ATM giving Android users access to cash on demand with their own personal phone-based ATM.
Using the newest encryption methods you’ll be able to access funds from your bank, credit card, and other accounts to give you paper cash on the go. Google’s mobile ATM will also allow users to issue out one dollar bills, as opposed to the traditional limitation of twenties only.This kind of small cash access will revolutionize small transaction commerce and Google’s software will keep a history of all transactions so you can easily monitor your spending and withdrawals.
Leave it to Google to debut its most innovative products each year on April 1st!
The Commative Team
This online retailer of electronics in the Baltic states is a great example of using Ultimento’s many built-in Magento extensions and customizable theme to build your store. For example, in addition to customizing the color scheme and some layout features, this Magento store has taken full advantage of the Magento exploded menu extension and the ability to showcase products and brands in the drop-down menu.
According to the team at Nordelectronics they chose Ultimento as their Magento theme because it “offers all the possibilities we need in order to create a successful e-commerce website and are extremely happy with Commative.”
The site is also good case study for how Ultimento works with other Magento extensions. This store uses Gomage’s Advanced Navigation and Php4u’s Blast Search Lucence.
Please take a moment to review the entire site at nordelectronics.ee
This week the US Senate approved, in a non-binding vote, a bill that would allow states to collect taxes from online sales. Such a bill would allow states to recover an increasingly large chunk of unpaid taxes from Internet retailers. As state and federal law currently stands it is the responsibility of the buyer to withhold and pay appropriate sales tax for each out of state purchase they make, though virtually no one does. Under the new legislation all online retailers with over $1 million in sales would be held accountable for collecting these taxes.
The passage of some kind of online tax or national tax has been seen as an eventuality by many in the industry, but the execution of how such a law would work remains up in the air. Even this most recent bill was passed in a non-binding vote, helping to show support for the idea of an Internet tax without addressing the details behind how it would actually be levied.
There is hope that smaller retailers (many on free or open source platforms like Magento) would be exempt from any kind nationwide tax plan, given that the logistics of tracking ever changing tax rates down to the county level is overly burdensome. The current bill speaks to this, but the future remains wide open.
The Commative Team
If you’re an online or multichannel retailer then you’re going to want to check out Internet Retailing Expo 2013 at the NEC in Birmingham, England. This is one of the largest shows in the world dedicated to selling online and is an excellent resource for learning about new trends, networking with like minded colleagues, meeting new vendors, understanding best practices, and getting insights to keep you competitive.
The show packs a lot into two days and includes 12 workshops, 6 conferences, and over 150 exhibitors. Magento will be there taking up residence in the Pavilion along with a number of other Magento partners and providers. There are a number of speakers who will be presenting as well, including representatives from Forrester Research, Amazon, PayPal, and more.
There will also be free one on one consultations with Tony Sales, once labeled Britain’s Greatest Fraudster. Reformed after hacking his way to £30,000,000, he’ll be holding meetings to help retailers understand how criminals can abuse and break into their systems.
It’s a great show if you can make, so make sure to check it out.
The Commative Team
The title says it all. Ecommerce is a driving force in US (and International) retail sales growth and on pace for a massive $40 billion dollar expansion over the next four years according to Forrester. While ecommerce has always outpaced traditional retail, that lead continues to expand, and in recent years has primarily been fueled by two factors; focus and mobile.
As retailers shift their focus away from brick and mortar operations over to the opportunities available in the online space, it’s no surprise that the ecommerce side of revenues has seen such an expansion. A proverbial Wild West, online shoppers continue to grow in number and rapidly developing technologies have given retailers good reason to direct their efforts towards the digital domain.
The second main boon to Ecommerce growth is attributable to the rise of mobile. Smart phones and tablets have combined to give consumers easier access to stores, product information, and ultimately buying power. Phones now help users on the go quickly search out products and are even beginning to proactively ping them when their proximity to certain locations trigger various promotions. For others tablets allow for leisurely shopping and a growing number of online retailers report spikes from tablet shoppers during prime-time hours.
So no surprises; online is where you want to be if you want to maximize your retail operation’s sales.
The Commative Team
Most people tend to pass on reading through long boring legal documents whenever they’re installing new software, filling out forms, and especially hearing about changes to their privacy policies. It may not always be the most pressing information to stay on top of, but Magento recently updated their privacy policy and it’s good to know what kinds of changes may affect you…
The changes are immediate for new users of Magento and will apply to all customers starting on April 6th, 2013.
Stay informed!
The Commative Team
