In an attempt to shorten the mobile checkout process and encourage shoppers to complete their transactions, a number of retailers conducted an experiment by prominently featuring a more convenient payment option on their sites.

Online shoppers expect to have smooth, easy checkout experiences—especially when they’re using a mobile device. If a mobile checkout process takes too long to complete, customers are likely to abandon their cart mid-purchase. In an attempt to shorten the checkout process and encourage shoppers to complete their transactions, a number of retailers conducted an experiment by prominently featuring a more convenient payment option on their sites.

Wagento recognized that Sticker Mule offers much more than just high-quality laptop stickers; the creative brand might have exactly what your company needs for its next campaign.

When you’re trying to grow your brand or launch a new marketing campaign, it can be difficult to come up with new ideas to delight your customers and attract new buyers. There are countless articles online about utilizing modern marketing solutions, from mixing up your content strategy to optimizing your social selling techniques, so it can be easy to forget about the highly effective (and inexpensive!) impacts that customized stickers can have on your business.

How do you strike the right balance between a clean, distraction-free layout and useful features? Magento retailers decided to find out by launching the following experiments

Magento sellers who are taking part in the Mobile eCommerce Optimization Initiative are currently on the forefront of the latest mobile optimization strategies and techniques. The collaborative platform makes it easy for merchants to run experiments, share data, and continue to find the best practices to meet changing consumer demands.

mobile conversion rates are much lower than other digital shopping platforms. Retailers need to start acting now to accommodate consumers’ changing behaviors, and Magento is here to help.

Mobile shopping has become increasingly common in the past few years, and according to researchers from Statista, the trend will continue to gain traction. Mobile shopping accounted for 23% of total eCommerce sales in 2017, and this number is estimated to rise to nearly 54% in the United States by 2021. However, despite the fact that 82% of Americans have used their mobile device to browse stores online, mobile conversion rates are much lower than other digital shopping platforms. Retailers need to start acting now to accommodate consumers’ changing behaviors, and Magento is here to help.

Read for our tips on how to make sure your site is accessible and your customers can access your site any time and every time they visit this holiday season.

With all the work that goes into marketing and promoting your site, the biggest waste of an opportunity is when a customer tries to visit and finds that your site is inaccessible. Read on for our tips on how to make sure customers can access your site any time and every time they visit this holiday season.

Keep Your Deployment Tools Up-to-date
Slow or stuck deployments getting in your way? Did you know that Magento's deployment tooling, ece-tools, had two new updates in just the last quarter? Staying up to date with the latest versions will ensure you can deploy with confidence. The latest updates resolved issues that cause stuck deployments, sped up the deployment of static content by up to 4x, and added new automated testing to ensure performance after a deployment and detect potential incompatibilities. See the ece-tools release notes for these and many more recent improvements.

Utilize Zero Downtime Deployments
Is your customer experience interrupted when your team pushes deployments to your live site? Did you know that it is possible to configure your project so that the customer doesn’t experience load errors or other problems during these deployments? Zero Downtime Deployments are a recommended best practice to ensure that your customers engage with a live site, regardless of your deployment routine. ( Zero Downtime Deployment for Magento Commerce 2.2.x; Zero Downtime Deployment for Magento Commerce 2.3.x)

Make a Holiday Capacity Plan
Don’t let poor planning result in a site that becomes inaccessible due to unexpectedly heavy traffic. Magento Commerce customers who utilize the Cloud infrastructure should be sure to check out Magento's Holiday Readiness Knowledge Base article, which includes information on how Magento can help you with your capacity planning before you need it.

Looking for more tips and tricks? Check Magento's blog post on Optimizing You Magento Commerce Site for the Holidays.

An outdated website can often lead to an increased likelihood of security issues, reduced consumer trust, slower site speeds.

Wagento has launched a comprehensive plan to keep your site at the most current version. You may be asking "Why do I always need to keep it updated?"

Wagento has launched a comprehensive plan to always keep your site at the most current version. You may be asking "Why do I always need to keep it updated?"