Is Upgrading your store an ardous process? No.
Migrating to an entirely new platform would demand serious commitment, on the part of e-commerce owners as well as developers, to the planning and implementation of the procedure. If you get proper assistance from professionals then the process gets easier and smoother.
Let’s take a look at the notable improvements and new features of Magento 2 that can help you to deliver faster and seamless shopping experience to your online customers.
1 Mobile and SEO-friendly
If your webshop is not responsive, here’s what you are missing out! Responsive themes not only enhance user experience but also impacts the ranking of your website in search engine result pages (SERPs).
2 Varnish
The best thing about Magento 2 Enterprise Edition is that caching system like Varnish, a widely used HTTP accelerator, comes built-in with native support.
3 Modern admin Dashboard and simpler navigation
In Magento 2, the admin Dashboard enables you to find crucial business information about your e-store in one single place.
4 Installation of modules easier and cheaper
Magento enables you to make a robust and profitable online presence; thanks to its amazing out-of-the-box features.
Moreover, it also provides you with the flexibility to enhance your e-store’s overall performance with the myriads of Magento extensions available. However, installing new modules and extensions in Magento 2 is easier as well as cheaper compared to Magento 1.x versions.
5 Easy integration
Magento 2 Enterprise Edition with a framework called RabbitMQ (Message Queue) monitors communication between Magento and enterprise software. This framework stores unsent messages and forwards them to the relevant system as early as possible.
6 Streamlined checkout
Magento 2, with its new and streamlined checkout, ensures faster and easier checkout process for customers.
7 Elasticsearch technology
Magento 2 Enterprise Edition comes with Elasticsearch which improves quality of searches and thus user experience.
It can easily handle large catalogs and scale search capacity as the number of queries rise. It already handles 33 languages out-of-the-box which translates into simpler global deployments. Misspellings in customer searches would no longer be an issue. In short, this improved search powers you by increasing relevancy and conversions of your Magento 2 store.
8 Multiple master databases
Magento 2 Enterprise Edition offers three separate databases for product data, order management, and checkout respectively. This scalability ensures that your customers’ shopping experience is never affected by the merchandising activities or order management.
9 Simplified products upload
Magento 2 makes creating new product easier by facilitating product upload through a simplified step-by-step process. Moreover, it offers a great opportunity to merchandise your products by allowing you to easily add videos from YouTube or Vimeo besides product photos.
10 Improved customization
Personalized payment methods, up-sell and cross-sell offers, providing customers with discounts comes easily to web shop owners using Magento 2’s advanced promotion rule builder. You can determine what content you want your customers to see and what specific discounts and gift coupons you want to offer them by monitoring their on-site behavior.
11 Lower hardware requirements and Strong data encryption
Magento 2 is more cost-effective than Magento 1 even if you are using a hosting service.
Magento 2 effectively addresses the concern with its security features including strong data encryption. This security feature protects passwords and other sensitive information like credit card information, payment and shipping module passwords, etc by enciphering with the AES-256 algorithm. This confidential information is further decrypted and the remaining information is hashed with a robust SHA-256.
12 Improved performance and scalability
Enhanced performance of your e-commerce website translates into more user interaction with your e-store and fewer abandoned carts. It has been observed that page loads in Magento 2 are twice as faster than Magento 1. Research data from trusted sources reveals that Magento 2 stores can handle up to 37 percent more orders per hour compared to Magento 1 stores. This also means that a Magento 2 store can handle more traffic and manage million page views per hour efficiently without breaking down during peak hours.
13 Built-in testing framework
Regression testing, unfortunately, wasn’t easy with Magento 1 to screen it for bugs. Magento 2 with its built-in testing framework makes it much testing much easier. You can run automated tests on any Magento website irrespective of its size and complexity.
Many of our clients have leveraged our services to move their business forward by delivering great e-commerce shopping experiences to drive revenue.
You too can make your eCommerce store scale and evolve with this industry-leading technology and leave your mark in the web space.
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