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Step by-step guide to start selling on mano mano with cedcommerce

Isaac Norman — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:28:15 +0000

Are you a DIY product seller? Amongst the hub of the marketplaces in the continually growing e-commerce world, do you want to reach out to your customers who’re DIY enthusiasts and make their lives easier? We are here to help you! For the DIY dealers, CedCommerce is here to tell you today the steps for selling on ManoMano – one of the most wanted online DIY marketplaces.

In this step by step guide to start selling on ManoMano – with CedCommerce, you can discover the complete process to start selling on ManoMano and feature your products on this online DIY marketplace easily. But, before you start selling on ManoMano, let’s have a closer look at this pioneer online DIY marketplace.

What is ManoMano Marketplace? A Brief Introduction

Manomano discovers the most affordable DIY, gardening tools, experts in home improvement and negotiates the prices for their goods.
The selected sellers then go through a strict monitoring process to find the most deserving sellers.
Mano mano guarantees real-time storage of goods/items Enforces the delivery standard in accordance with the shipping requirements of sellers.

How to start selling on Manomano?

As already mentioned, Manomano follows a thorough screening process to select the best businesses, and it has different setup addresses to contact them for customers across different countries. To get started with selling on Mano Mano:

Go to the following website links as per the country you wish to sell in:
In case of UK, its – seller.services@manomano.co.uk

For Germany – haendlerservice@manomano.de
Sell in France: service.marchand@manomano.fr
For Spain: quieroservendedor@manomano.es
Italy: serviziocommercianti@manomano.it

Click on Selling on ManoMano, and you will move to the following page:

Click On Start.
Now enter the necessary details of your company.
Enter your VAT number
Enter your Complete business name.
Choose the category(es) you wish to sell in.
Enter your annual turnover.
Fill in your contact information.
Enter your name.
Provide a complete address.
Enter the email address which you wish to associate with - - your Manomano seller account
The same goes for the phone number.
Enter your website.
Submit. After introducing yourself, ManoMano will work on screening Once you are approved, you will receive a confirmation mail on your registered number. Now you can proceed ahead to integrate your stores with ManoMano.

CEDCommerce Officially Partners with OnBuy

Isaac Norman — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 07:14:19 +0000

Portland, Oregon[7th July 2020]- CEDcommerce has taken a giant leap towards perfecting its European portfolio by partnering with the fastest-growing marketplace in the world: OnBuy.

The list of CEDcommerce Partners just went up a notch this Tuesday when CEDcommerce announced an official channel integration partnership with OnBuy.
This partnership is expected to be a short-cut for European online sellers to excel with a perfect blend of advanced solutions from CEDcommerce and the world-class reach of a platform like OnBuy. OnBuy is the fastest-growing marketplace in the world and through this partnership, CEDCommerce gets another opportunity to solidify their position in the European region and enable online sellers (who are already selling on platforms like Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, Opencart, and PrestaShop) to scale their businesses on global marketplaces.

In recognition of this important partnership, CEDcommerce CEO Mr Abhishek Jaiswal commented, “Over the past few years, we’ve studied the European retail and eCommerce very closely. We observed that European merchants are interested in selling across borders and overcoming eCommerce challenges by implementing innovative ways to reach out to local as well as global customers.”

“The partnership between CEDcommerce and OnBuy is expected to be key for sellers and retailers in Europe who are planning to pursue multichannel selling, through creating a frictionless onboarding process and allowing sellers to reach out to customers in diverse channels with enterprise-level support. Together we are planning to assist local businesses and community members by setting up the perfect platform to list, sell and revive their businesses amidst the ongoing pandemic.”

How will this partnership benefit sellers?

CEDcommerce has been continuously working with OnBuy to leverage the sellers and sell smoothly on OnBuy. This partnership is going to be a stroke of luck for the sellers with the following benefits:

Reach a global audience of millions
A chance to grow independently and become a brand in the online world
Free Onboarding and store setup for new sellers
Free OnBuy Integration (for Magento, WooCommerce, Opencart, PrestaShop & Shopify**) with 3 months’ support
Experience automated, effective and seamless selling.
Round-the-clock enterprise-level support to sellers

Why Is OnBuy Exceptional for sellers?

By the end of the year 2023, OnBuy plans to launch its full marketplace in 140 additional countries. Along with its fair, transparent approach, the best thing about OnBuy is that there are no fees for creating a seller account or for listing products. You’ll only be charged the sales fees and monthly subscription fees (based on the package chosen by the seller). Selling on OnBuy provides numerous benefits to
sellers, including:

Easy and Fast Onboarding
Low commission fees compared to other marketplaces in the region
OnBuy doesn’t compete with sellers
UK based Support team
Risk-free selling
PayPal Seller Protection
Get paid immediately

Cas Paton, OnBuy’s founder and CEO, said, “I’m delighted to announce this latest partnership as it means we can offer retailers a new route to selling with OnBuy. OnBuy is proud to support sellers of all sizes, and opening our doors to these solutions means we can seamlessly cater to more sellers than ever before, adding to our 20m+ product range and ultimately offering our buyers an even wider range of products at fantastic prices.”

About OnBuy:

OnBuy was launched in November 2016 and is now the fastest-growing eCommerce marketplace in the world. With its sights set on global expansion, OnBuy has a transparent and seller-friendly approach with millions of products, millions of customers and thousands of sellers. OnBuy has 17 departments covering all types of products such as electricals, baby and toddler, home and garden, and cars and automotive.

About CEDcommerce:

CEDcommerce, established in 2010 is an eCommerce solution provider (Native as well as Saas based), helping merchants to sell on 40+ marketplaces including Amazon, OnBuy, eBay, Etsy, Shopee, etc. CED is constantly contributing to enhancing the eCommerce industry with end to end solutions for sellers to start an online business from scratch and attain effortless selling with marketplace integrations, importers, dropshipping tools, digital marketing services and much more. CEDcommerce is proud partners with various renowned marketplaces like Google Shopping Actions, Facebook Marketplace, Fruugo, Walmart, CDiscount, etc.

Navigating Through Magento 1 End Of Life Together | CedCommerce

Isaac Norman — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 12:18:23 +0000

Magento being the leading open-source eCommerce platform that is used by most of the merchants is soon going to end its Magento 1 version. In the eCommerce system, Magento is the preferred choice of the merchants.

So many merchants like you are still working on Magento 1 but its the time you should know that Magento 1 is coming to an end by June 2020.

With the Magento 1 End of Life what questions come to your intellect?

Will the websites halt working? Will the trade come to end?

Relax! it won’t.

There will be no modern highlights or indeed quality fixes discharged for Magento 1 after June 2020. Therefore to help those merchants who are planning to stay on M1, CedCommerce, the official Magento Community Insider Partner is extending its support by providing the customer and development support for M1 extensions.

What does Magento 1 End Of Life Means for merchants?

As you all know that after 30th June Magento 1 will come to an end and there will be no new updates for it. But there is no need to worry as your store website won’t be shut down. It will also be very difficult for merchants to compete with others in the market. Hence it becomes the need of the hour to have support for your Magento 1 extension.

This “Magento 1 End of Life” subject rotates around these three things:

security patches
code fixes
feature improvements

Challenges for Merchants Staying on Magento 1:

As already stated above that Magento will not discharge any more security patches or overhauls once Magento 1 EOL happens and, basically, there will no support left for the merchants. When it comes to the end of Magento 1 retailers will be facing a number of challenges if they have not yet taken any decision for their store:

Loss of PCI Compliance: Most payment gateways requires that you conduct a quarterly PCI compliance scan on your store. Your store couldn’t pass those PCI scans without proper security patches and security monitoring.

Insufficient Support: Security is a costly and tedious undertaking to manage on your own. So maintaining security for your store and earning revenue simultaneously will become very difficult for you. Hence you would be needing expert Magento 1 developers.

No Security Updates: Since there would be no security update for Magento 1 extensions, so you need to keep your fully-fledged store on M1 secure. For any of the updates or new features, only custom work can be done through the experts.

Hang in There – CEDcommerce is here!

At CedCommerce, we know its the most confusing time for you to make a decision. So if you have thought of staying on Magento 1 for the time being then here’s a piece of good news for you. We are with you at this time and providing the Magento 1 extensions service and customer support.

Although the M1 extensions will be removed from the Magento marketplace after Magento 1 EOL, we will still be supporting the merchants who wish to stay on M1. After the end of M1, you need to secure your website so we have come up with this service.

We will also be giving support for your website enhancement for the following services:

Marketplace Solutions:
If you are thinking that solutions for all the marketplaces will be removed from the Magento marketplace and you can not sell on any new marketplace then no we are selling the extensions on our marketplace. There are multi-channel extensions for 40+ marketplaces available on CedCommerce of Magento 1. You can easily sell on your preferred marketplace.

Website Development:
We are also helping you to build your website on Magento 1. Our expert developers will keep the website secured so that you can earn higher revenue.

Custom Extension Development:
As per your needs, we are also facilitating with the service of Custom Extensions Development. We will deliver you what and as you need in your Magento 1 store.

Speed Optimisation:
If thoughts are running in your mind that you will be continuing to Magento 1 and your store might work slow, then we also have Speed optimisation services. Our experts will be analysing your website and after that optimising it. So your Magento 1 store won’t be running slow.

Theme Customisation:
To make your Magento 1 site attractive, our experts are here who will be suggesting you select the best theme for your store.

Consultation Service:
We are also available round the clock to assist you in consultation for your store and to clear all the doubts are arising related to the Magento 1 EOL.

MultiVendor Solution:
We also help you in building your very own marketplaces where you can allow multiple sellers to sell.

Mr Abhishek Jaiswal, Director of CedCommerce shares his views, “Seeing the choice of most of the merchants who wish to stay back on Magento 1 for now, so, we are continuing our services for Magento 1. As we aim in making the Internet a better place to sell, so we did not want any obstacles should come due to this Magento 1 end in June. Therefore our services will help the merchants to continue selling smoothly.”
Until you are ready to move on the next version of Magento, we extend our help to you with the customisable services for Magento 1 extensions. For the time being you wish to continue on M1, you can leverage with our full-fledged Magento 1 services. We are helping out so that you can take your time and stay protected on M1 until you switch to M2.

What Others have for Magento 1 Merchants?

To help the merchants with the end of Magento 1, we along with the organisations in the community have stepped forward by partnering to provide the PCI compliance service, Shipment service, Hosting services, etc. This has been done to ensure you get all the full-fledged services at a single place. And also you can continue to sell on Magento 1 without affecting your business.

Conclusion:

To ensure you stay in your business, CedCommerce Magento 1 EOL support is the best solution for now. Till the time being you wish to continue on M1 after June 2020, you can continue by using our services and grow your business.
But we would still say that moving to Magento 2 would be a better option for you when you think of switching.
You can leave us a comment below if you have any queries related to Magento 1 EOL.

Multi-channel Selling: Experience eCommerce At It’s Full Potential

Isaac Norman — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:27:40 +0000

The mantra to remain successful in online retail businesses, one should follow in the footsteps of their customers. Looking at the current user behaviors and patterns, the current mantra for successful online shopping is multi-channel selling (aka multichannel eCommerce).

Your customers love to consider a range of options (in case of online shopping, it is various marketplaces) before deciding to buy a product. So as a seller, it becomes your responsibility to be present on all the possible channels (marketplaces) where your customers buy.

Why Multichannel Selling Is Important For Online Retailers?

Multichannel is the Future: Since your customers are evolving and so must you!!! Its now time to redefine the traditional single-channel selling and switch to multi-channel selling – the future of eCommerce!

More channels mean More Revenue: On average, multi-channel selling and marketing increase revenue by 38%, 120%, and 190% with each additional channel. (Source: Shopify). This means that adding more channels to your selling list will prove useful for your overall revenue.

Change in Customer Interest & Shopping Behaviours: Consumers like to shop across a range of channels before deciding to buy a product. So to meet your customers on all these channels, you must need to be present here.

To understand multi-channel selling, we must first learn the definition.

What is Multi-Channel Selling? The Definition.

Some define multi-channel selling as the selling or being present at every possible online channel (website or marketplaces) customers prefer to shop. Others define multi-channel selling as a combination of brick-and-mortar, catalog, and Internet activity.

But

To understand the real definition even better, let’s put it this way.

The term ‘Channel‘ in Multichannel can range from a small individual website to online marketplaces (such as Amazon, Walmart, eBay, etc.) to different mobile marketplaces (such as Etsy, Wish) and even on social media channels (like Facebook shops).

These modes can be various online channels, single websites, public marketplaces, and even shopping-comparison sites.

“The multi-channel environment offers companies an ability to reach customers who would have had a challenging time finding a specific website.”

It found that multichannel eCommerce shoppers are more valuable than customers who shop via a single sales channel. These statistics will help you understand this statement even better.

Statistics About Multi-Channel Selling?

Here are some statistics that unveils the significance of multi-channel retailing:

According to Wharton, 66% of online shoppers rely on more than one channel for purchases.
Multi-channel shoppers have a 12% greater buying frequency compared to the traditional shoppers who rely on a single channel
Multi-channel eCommerce customers have a 32% higher annual spending history than customers who shop at brick-and-mortar only.
A research found that tri-channel (retail, catalog, Internet) shoppers are more loyal customers compared to those who purchase from just one or two channels.
73 percent of retailers find selling across multiple channels to be significant; only 38 percent consider selling on a single platform.

What Are The Advantages Of multi-channel selling or multi-channel eCommerce?

Selling products from your store to multiple channels entitles you with these benefits:

Expand the range of selling – global coverage
Create A Unified Experience
Increase Customer Base
Focus on Select Target Markets
Reduce/Diversify risk
Enhance Product Visibility
Improve Customer Perception

Features of Multi-channel selling integration:

Real-Time Sync: The two-way data flow and automated crons keep the stats and figures updated on all ends in real-time.
Centralized dashboard: An automated and centralized dashboard to monitor and manage the sales on multiple channels.
Inventory Management – Create any number of product catalogs and list them on multiple channels (marketplaces)
Order Management: Manage Orders received from all the channels and accept/reject/ship from the store’s backend.
Onc-click product upload and delete: Upload & Remove products from your store to marketplaces in bulk.
Expand business cross borders: Get a chance to expand your business overseas by listing products cross borders.

Which is the Best Multi-Channel Selling Integration For Magento?

The best multi-channel eCommerce platform that covers every small and minute requirement of an online seller is the Magento multi-channel integration by Cedcommerce.

This efficient tool establishes perfect real-time sync between your store and any number of marketplaces you wish to sell.

Cedcommerce Magento multi-channel selling integration can connect your Magento store with more than 50+ online selling channels across the world, including Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Etsy, Facebook, etc.

Why is starting an online business so hard?

Isaac Norman — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 05:38:04 +0000

Starting a small business is not so hard as it seems but to reach its growth of success is hard and sustainability is a very tougher side of online business. Nowadays every merchant wants to sell online but they don't know the exact plan that they can use in online Commerce. That makes it more difficult so here are some points that you should keep in your mind before going to your business online.

1.Not having plan action
You don't need to have a proper strategy - yet you despite everything need a plan.
mostly people view the business plan as a homework, they would prefer not to do but planning to play a major role in the success of any business. you must only know who are your clients, what are you selling and what people are willing to pay for your product and service.

2. Concentrating a lot on the little stuff

In online business, various things running simultaneously so you should know whats things important and what are not, focus know main factor of business like your product, service, you clients, etc. instead, by getting derailed by things like how your business card look and logo, originators are burning through significant time.

3. Ignoring customer service

This is a key factor of any business, if you are not providing good service to your customers. It makes your business not worthy. In online business, so many transactions happening in every night, it's easy to forget that customers people who are way more likely to return your website if they have a good experience.

“Make sure you have some way of interacting with the people visiting your site,” Tobak says. “Whatever domain -- through live chat, survey, email or phone.”

4. Not stressing over cash

Be idealistic- just not about cash "There's an excellent possibility that your organization will come up short on cash before it makes any," alerts Tobak. "Ability a lot of money you must maintain your business, what your consume rate is and ensure that you have an arrangement to attempt to get more before you run out."

Time after time entrepreneurs scrambles to raise finances when it's past the point of no return. Rather, founders as it so happens ought to make a financial plan, detailing milestones and how a lot of cash it will take to reach these goals.

if you require any assistance in setting up an online business especially in Magento & best ecommerce platform is magento for small business. as we know Magento is one of the best eCommerce platforms so you can connect with CedCommerce it is a company they have an excellent team of business experts that drives your business to success. they can easily assist you to make a business plan, even they will make a business plan for you. Get to know the pricing for small businesses set up on Magento e-commerce.

An Ultimate Guide on Magento Multi-Channel Selling Solution

Isaac Norman — Sat, 30 May 2020 06:22:19 +0000

Do you know multi-channel selling with an eCommerce platform makes it easier to sell your products? Moreover, Multi-channel selling has become a common concept in the world of eCommerce.

Since the growth of digital purchases, it has opened several more avenues of distribution like mentioned below.

Social media networks
Marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, Walmart, etc
Unhosted eCommerce sites such as Magento and WooCommerce, allowing businesses to create, host and support their own website.
Hosted eCommerce sites such as Shopify, where the website of the company is assisted by the web server of the platform. To start with multi-channel selling; above all you must first know about the best eCommerce platform for your business.

What is the Best Multi-Channel Selling Platform?

Magento is one of the best multi-channel selling platforms available to perform multi-channel selling on different marketplaces.

But what makes it the best?

It is the Magento Multi-Channel Integration to make your selling on multiple channels easier.

The Magento multi-channel integrations provide the sellers with a single centralized dashboard to manage all the marketplaces.

This not only will help in multi-channel management but also automates the selling processes and manages the orders and inventor

Features Of Magento Multi-Channel Integration:

Multi-Account Support:
Manage multiple seller accounts from a single Magento panel using this Magento multi-channel Integration. Sellers can easily manage all the activities involved while selling on marketplaces by connecting multiple accounts to their Magento store. Products and orders from both the accounts are managed simultaneously saving time and effort

Bulk Product Upload:
Magento multi-channel integration enables sellers to upload the products in bulk saving time and making it effortless. They do not need to manually list the product one by one on the marketplace.

Order Auto-Acknowledgement & Management:
Orders from the Seller Panel will get automatically imported into the Magento store in real-time. Orders received on your seller panel once acknowledged are created as new orders in their Magento panel. They do not need to log in to their seller panel every now and then as orders are managed on both ends with.

Supports Automated Shipment:
Sellers can enable Auto-shipment of the orders created. Nonetheless, They need not to worry about order shipment; as all is taken care of by Magento multi-channel integration for giving sellers time to focus on more important issues of selling.

All-round real-time synchronizer:
Sellers do not have to keep updating figures every now and then as this Magento multi-channel marketplace Integration establishes a perfect synchronization of products, orders, listings, inventory between Magento store and seller panel. Figures get updated in real-time on both ends eliminating all the possibilities of errors to occur while selling.

Low Stock Notifications:
Whenever Stock will diminish lower than the set threshold value, a notification is sent informing the status to the seller. Sellers will never run out of stock as this multi-channel integration keeps an eye on the current status of their inventory and it will notify them as soon as stocks are low.

To sell on multiple marketplaces on Magento, you must have a strong selling strategy.
Refer the blog to know more:Magento Multi-Channel Selling Solution

How to Build a powerful multi-channel eCommerce business on Magento

Isaac Norman — Thu, 28 May 2020 07:52:56 +0000

This is a complete guide on how to build a powerful multi-channel eCommerce business on Magento.

Selling on one channel is outdated. Relying on a single channel is similar to drinking water from a spoon. Customers have become accustomed to exploring various platforms for shopping. So as a Magento seller, it becomes your responsibility to strengthen your eCommerce selling game through multi-channel eCommerce. Here’s how you can start multi-channel selling:

How to build a successful multi-channel eCommerce business on Magento?

A successful multi-channel eCommerce business requires a strong foundation on which the business is sustained. Here are 6 steps to start selling on multi-channels with your Magento store:

Requirement Analysis: Check for all the Requirements and make a checklist of resources you need to start selling on multiple channels with Magento.
Risk Analysis & Challenges: Multiple risks and challenges arise while selling on multiple channels with Magento. To stay unaffected from it, you need to analyze them beforehand.
Marketplaces Analysis: Shortlist the best marketplaces where you can benefit from selling. This can be done on various criteria like target audience, demographics, region, product categories, etc.
Magento Upgrade: Since you are targeting the best marketplaces, you need to keep your Magento store to the latest version. For multi-channel eCommerce, it is advisable to prefer the Magento Commerce version rather than the basic community version.
Marketplace Integration: You need a real-time API integration to ensure a seamless flow of data between all the connected channels and the Magento panel. Since there are so many things at stake, you can’t take any chances with laggy and outdated integrations.
Proper Marketing and SEO presence: Your presence on multiple channels can only be useful if your potential customers know about it. Make a comprehensive marketing and promotion plan to improve your presence on various channels, including the Search Engines.
Now, let us go through the steps to start multi-channel selling with Magento; one at a time:

Step 1: Requirement Analysis:

Before commencing with multi-channel eCommerce you need to ensure that your Magneto store is compatible with this. Make a checklist of the necessary things to do before you start multi-channel selling.

Some of these things include:

Magento Store Speed Optimisation
Resolve urgent issues and critical bugs.
Addition of any new 3rd party extensions Update Inventory to keep your site current.

All done? Great

Once you are finished with these, you have taken the very first step towards building a successful multi-channel business on Magneto.

Next comes Risk analysis.

Step 2: Risk and Challenges Analysis:

Selling on multiple channels comes with a lot of uncalled complications and risks. And as a responsible seller, you need to be aware of these risks of multi-channel eCommerce.

Some of the risks that most Magento multi-channel eCommerce business sellers face are:

Sudden demand and supply crisis.
Maintaining a smooth cash flow.
Refunds and Return rate.
Keeping up with the seller rating.
and many more If you are aware of all these risks and challenges, you can easily plan for an alternative solution when such a scenario arises.

You need to be prepared beforehand and come out on top of all others.

Step 3: The Marketplace Analysis:

Now, this is the most crucial step in building a powerful multi-channel business on Magento – the marketplace analysis.

While choosing the channels or marketplaces, you need to be very careful. You need to consider all the pros and cons of these shortlisted marketplaces and proceed with the ones that fit your business.

The points to consider before choosing a marketplace to sell:

-The Marketplace traffic

Customer base
Key strengths of the marketplace
The Fee structure and commission rate
Terms and conditions for selling
Fulfillment services
Returns and refund policies
Customer support from marketplaces Once you have gone through all the above criteria, you can easily select the best eCommerce marketplaces for your Magento based business.

Since you have chosen the channels to sell, now, you need to make sure that your website is upgraded with the latest version of Magento.

Refer this blog to know more about building multichannel business

Best Magento Multi Channel Selling Platform for eCommerce

Isaac Norman — Wed, 06 May 2020 08:31:10 +0000

Build an authoritative & progressive business by Selling everywhere your customers want to shop
Create, List, Centralise, and Manage products on the most prominent online marketplaces using an efficient Multi-Channel Selling Platform.

Want To Know about Multichannel Selling?

Multichannel selling is the process of selling your goods on more than one sales channel e.g. marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, Etsy, etc. Multichannel selling is an efficient step to build an authoritative & progressive business! Explore the most prominent marketplaces from all around the world to expand your business.

Multichannel Selling allows you to make your products available anywhere, and at any time. Choose the marketplaces you wish to sell:

All marketplaces

-US Regions
-European Region
-Southeast Asia
-Other Region

Why should I be multichannel selling?

Multichannel is one of the best options to increase sales. selling on multiple sales channel increase your exposure to potential customers. which expands your business opportunities, Online customers are either remaining loyal to one sales channel.

How Our Multi-Channel selling solution helps you sell better?

Features that make us The Best Multi-Channel Selling Platform

-Multichannel Product listings - Allows you to create any number of product catalogs and list them on multiple marketplaces. You can either use the same catalog for multi-channels or can customize them individually.

-Inventory and Order management- Save time and effort by centralizing your orders and inventory. Centrally manage your inventory and orders received from any marketplaces using this multi-channel selling platform.

-Real-Time Synchronisation - Everything on your store is synchronized in real-time on all the ends. Experience automated multichannel selling with zero manual work in maintaining the figures and stocks.

-Customisation & Personalisation - Build your multi-channel selling store just the way it suits you best. Create any number of product catalogs and list them on multiple marketplaces.

-24x7 human assistance & support - Get attended personally by one of our customer support executives instead of a chatbot, anytime you need assistance with our multi-channel eCommerce platform.

-1-time payment Lifetime Benefits - We charge No monthly commission or selling fee. You just need to pay once for getting your multi-channel store setup and then enjoy lifetime selling with no recurring charges.

-Single Centralized Dashboard

-Assistance from eCommerce experts

-Bulk Listing

-Templating

Selling on Many marketplaces raises Many doubts. Here we have included some common queries by multi-channel eCommerce sellers:

Q. Is Multi-Channel selling really suitable for my business?
Yes. Multi-channel eCommerce is the future of online selling. To survive in today’s competitive eCommerce world, you need to sell to your customers wherever they are. Your customer reach is directly proportional to the number of channels (marketplaces) you are selling on. If you are still selling on a single platform then it simply means you are not selling up to your full potential.

Q. Can I list the same products from my store on multiple channels?
Yes!! Listing the same products on multiple marketplaces can be simply achieved by using CedCommerce Multi Channel selling solutions. This automated tool creates all the product listings from your store to any number of marketplaces in just a few clicks.

Q. Are the stocks and stats updated in real-time?
Yes. This Multi-Channel selling platform automatically updates all the stocks and stats between your inventory and marketplaces in real-time. This saves a lot of manual effort and time.

Q. How can I start using the Multi-Channel selling platform?
To begin with CedCommerce’s multi-channel selling you need to install CedCommerce multichannel solutions for the marketplace(s) of your choice into your store. From here you can list, manage & sell your products on any marketplace of your choice.

Q. What is the best way to sell online on a Multi-Channel eCommerce platform?
How can I easily distribute products on Multi-Channel selling platforms?
Are Multi-Channel selling really suitable for my business?

If you looking for assistance in multichannel selling, you can get from CedCommerce. They will provide you the best solution.

10 Things Sellers Can Do During This Covid-19 Lockdown

Isaac Norman — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 11:19:57 +0000

Sellers from across the globe are facing a really hard time trying to cope up with the damage done by this covid-19 lockdown. But as we say that every cloud has a silver lining, these difficult times can also be perceived as possibilities. Possibilities to do amends that you must have been thinking of implementing for a long time, but could not execute due to other pressing concerns.

Now is a good time for retailers to take a step back and analyze their selling campaign. Make a pros and cons list of all the activities involving their shop and closely examine the current crisis to learn how much it’s going to affect their business.

If you are a seller, you need to keep a keen eye on the market patterns and current trends to plan for the things to come and how you can turn that to your advantage. It’s also an excellent time to experiment with something new or advanced for your store which includes upgrading, troubleshooting, and much more.

10 things sellers can do during this Covid-19 lockdown:

Well, we have made a list of 10 things sellers can do during this covid-19 lockdown and get set for the coming things in eCommerce:

Website Speed Optimization
Store Development
Store Upgrade to the latest version
Look For Alternate Medium to sell
Get Consultation from eCommerce experts
Website Maintenance
A Complete Website SEO Audit
Strengthen your PPC campaign with Google Adwords, Facebook ads
Plan Content Marketing Campaign
Content optimization on marketplaces

Let’s go through them one by one:

Website Speed Optimization:

Speed is everything in today’s fast-paced eCommerce world. An average customer leaves the website if the page loading time is more than 3-4 seconds. So now is a nice time to work on optimizing the pages of your website. Since you’ve got the time, you can optimize these pages by eliminating all the issues of the website.

Store Development:

Store development is not something sellers can do all the time. So if you are thinking of including any new service or mark your presence in some new business you can easily do so now.

It’s a common thing that high street retailers and sellers keep thinking about moving the business online, but couldn’t do so due to lack of time and resources. Well, now you have everything to your advantage.

You can simply develop your store on the following platforms:

OpenSource

Magento
WooCommerce
OpenCart
PrestaShop SaaS-Based
Shopify
BigCommerce Build your business with a perfect blend of an affordable and sales-driven platform.

Store Upgrade:

A little upgrade might never hurt anyone. You can always stay on a safer side by keeping your store updated with the latest technologies and solutions. Since the sales are down and you will have no effect on the performance on the live website, it’s wise to upgrade your store to the latest version.

Store upgrades are available for:

Migration from Magento 1 to Magento 2
Upgrading your Opencart Store to the latest version
Migrating from PrestaShop 1.6 or below to PrestaShop 1.7

Look For Alternate Medium To Sell

This is an important thing to do for now. You must be aware that COVID-19 will redefine the way eCommerce is perceived across the globe. When this is all over and things start to go normal, it’ll be not the same. You need to look for alternate mediums to sell your products. You must seek for mediums that have the maximum customer exposure and match your niche.

The best places to sell includes:

Amazon
eBay
Walmart
Etsy
Facebook

Get Consultation from eCommerce experts for all your eCommerce related queries

Now is the best time for sellers and retailers to strategize. What best way to do so than to consult an eCommerce expert who can guide you through the live scenario of sales and customers. You can really get some real advice on how to strengthen and prepare your store for the things to come.

If you are a seller on some marketplace then you can get an upper hand by analyzing the upcoming trends and sales.

New sellers or wannabe sellers can also benefit from these quality discussions with eCommerce experts and can analyze the lock, stock, and barrel of online selling.

WebSite Maintenance:

If there are any errors occurring on your website OR you wish to add some new features in your selling campaign, now is a nice time to do so. If you have an existing plan then implement it and if you don’t have one, then make it.

What are the major site maintenance you can work on:

Fix urgent issues and critical bugs fast.
Update Inventory to keep your site current.
Inclusion of any new feature.
Add new 3rd party extensions
Personalized customizations

A Complete Website SEO Audit:

As we all know – an SEO audit is the process of examining the Search Engine Result Page presence (SERP) or the web presence of your store’s website. In simple words, it’s a performance metrics of your website which provides an analysis of how your website is performing in terms of your online presence and visibility on search engines. The major tools used for the Website SEO audit includes SEMrush, GTmetrix, Google PageSpeed Insights, etc.

Since now you’ve got the time you can do a thorough website SEO audit and learn all these issues pertaining to your website:

Website structure issues
On-page SEO issues
Technical SEO issues
Potential Off-site issues
SiteMap issues
User experience issues
Competitor analysis

And much more

Strengthen your PPC campaign with Google Adwords, Facebook ads

Since your sales have been affected severely, it’s the need of the hour to stay in touch with your customers and build your brand’s image in the eyes of potential customers. The best way to do so is by running ad campaigns on Google, Facebook, etc. If you have an existing campaign, now is the right time for you to track its performance and optimize it as well.

With well structured and planned ad campaigns on Google Adwords and Facebook ads you can work on:

Advertising your brand on a larger scale
Acquire more audience
Converting more customers

The reason why this is the best time for ads is that till now you have been more focused on selling rather than building a brand. So now that you have more time in your hands, you can plan the long run and work on strengthing the roots of your brand.

Plan Content Marketing Campaign:

You must have heard the phrase – Content is the King!!

Well, it’s true. Content is the reason which drives the maximum traffic towards a website. Since now you’ve got the time to work upon content marketing strategies for your business.

ou can plan for:

Blog Writing
Guest blogging
Social Promotions
Microblogging
Quora answers

And much more

Content optimization on marketplaces

You must have listed products on various sales channels but could not receive as much audience as you desire. It’s because different sales channels have different customer bases with unique expectations. You need to mold your content in a way that suits your customers the most.

Now is the time to figure out the uniqueness of all these sales channels and marketplaces and revamp your product page content as best suited.

You must remember that – Better the user experience, Better the sales, and conversion.

Conclusion:

We all know these are hard times for us. This pandemic has affected us to an extent that none of us have ever expected. These are times to stay strong and to not lose hope. There’s not much we can do to make things right. All we do have is TIME by our side, so why not utilise this time to do some small efforts that can turn into larger returns in the future.

I on behalf of team CEDcommerce wish advice to Stay Home, Stay Safe and Stay Prepared for the things to come.

CedCommerce and Adobe standing side by side with YOU

Isaac Norman — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 07:36:14 +0000

Portland, Oregon(March 31, 2020)– COVID-19 outbreak has led to a great impact on the traffic and revenue of small and medium-sized businesses.It is being observed that the demand for online stores is increasing and hence people are more likely to move towards selling online rather from physical stores.
For the sellers to survive through this crisis both Adobe and CEDcommerce have announced to offer support and resources to small and medium-sized businesses.

“Amid the coronavirus outbreak and growing containment efforts, small and mid-sized businesses are reeling from the impact of lost traffic and revenue. We have seen a drastic shift to online channels and we want to ensure you are set up to not only survive but ultimately thrive after we emerge from this crisis.” – Adobe

CedCommerce Extend Hands to Help Small and Mid Sized Businesses in Overcoming COVID-19 Crisis:
CedCommerce, the Magento Community Insider Partner has taken up steps to fight in this situation together and help the merchants in setting up their business smoothly. For Small-medium business merchants thinking to make a move to Magento Commerce, CedCommerce is facilitating with the following benefits:

=> No Onboarding fee will be charged from the merchants to built their site on Magento
=> No extra charges for setting up a server or for any resource management.
=> Also, a free consultation is being provided for 5 hours from the eCommerce experts at CedCommerce

Adobe’s Offerings For Small and Mid Size Businesses:

3 Months Free of Magento Commerce & Marketo Engage: The brands can continue to generate sales before beginning to pay for their Magento Commerce, Marketo Engage or Bizible implementations. Now Adobe is offering businesses by charging no fees on new Magento Commerce, Marketo Engage or Bizible Contract. Sellers can benefit from this either by an internal team or with any of Adobe’s Solution Partner. Switching to Magento Commerce will save you upto $6000, i.e, the 3 months charges.

Magento Commerce Launch Package: In 2 weeks Adobe Customer Solutions will introduce Magento Commerce, including their cloud platform, for merchants who are looking to onboard online. Merchants will also benefit from all of Magento Commerce’s out-of-the-box functionality stored in the cloud and can sell goods online easily and efficiently. Again to reap the profit Adobe has advised the merchants to connect with their solution partners.

Free Magento & Marketo Engage Training: The other help provided to the Magento Small and Medium-Sized Businesses is that Adobe is giving 3 months free access to all the courses that are being offered by Magento University and Marketo University to improve their digital operations.

Ancillary Benefits for Small-Medium Sized Business:

Apart from the above three benefits the other support and resource provided by Adobe are:

Acrobat PDF services: The use of online Acrobat PDF reader has been increased to 10 times a day until May 31. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and JPG files can easily be converted to PDF with just a few clicks.

Adobe Connect: To continue with the same productivity of work and be socially engaged Adobe is offering with the 90 days free access to the individuals and business for organizing their meetings, virtual conferences, and take training from homes. Now anyone with up to 25 participants can use Adobe Connect rooms free of charge for up to 90 days if they sign up for a trial license from now until July 1, 2020.

Adobe Talent: Via Adobe Talent on Behance, they are giving the creative community access to as many work opportunities as possible, so they are making service free for all businesses and recruiters by May 15th, 2020.

Adobe Portfolio: To make online presence they are making Adobe Portfolio free till May 15, 2020, for building a portfolio site and get free hosting and unlimited pages.

Takeaway:

The major takeaway from these announcements is that all the small-medium businesses have an opportunity to start selling on Magento Commerce (the world’s leading eCommerce platforms) for FREE of cost for 3 months. To cope up with this coronavirus crisis affecting the businesses, this offering by Adobe and CEDcommerce can be of great help.

Magento 1 to Magento 2 Migration Process

Isaac Norman — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 07:00:10 +0000

Why You Should Migrate From Magento 1 to Magento 2

The latest and the most prominent reason is that Magento will stop supporting Magento 1 from June 2020.
This most definitely does not mean that your Magento store will stop working, Of course not! Your Magento store will continue to work the same way without the upgrade to Magento 2. However, once the support services are lifted it simply means that Magento will stop releasing security and feature updates for this particular version. Which implies two things:

1- Website becoming prone to security threats, and
2- No new upgrades for the features and performance of your website.

Running an eCommerce site in itself is a mammoth task and on top of that if you have to constantly deal with the hassles of updating your security patches, working on its speed and performance it would eventually end up requiring too much of your efforts.

It means that if you haven’t made your shift from M1 to M2 yet any problem surfaces up regarding your frame Magento might not help you out with that.

What you should Know Before You Migrate?

-How difficult is the process to migrate from Magento 1 to Magento 2?

-What are the difficulties that I will face in the Magento 2 upgrade?

We will be answering all your queries, stating the benefits of Magento 2 over Magento 1.x, and would suggest actionable solutions in context with Magento migration through this Article one at a time.

Migrate From Magento 1 to Magento 2 Now

What are the steps that help to get done migration process?

Following steps need to be taken care of prior to an upgrade to Magento 2.

1-Extension Migration
2-Server Upgrade based on requirements
3-Theme migration
4-Selecting the functionality for the new store

1-Extension Migration :

Extension migration while your upgrade to Magento 2 could require some effort on your end. You must have deployed multiple extensions on your online store to arm it with numerous features. If you are using multiple 3rd party extensions it could be a possibility that you have come to realize that there are certain extensions that are used more frequently and need some enhancements whereas on the other hand there are extensions that are seldom used.

This extension migration could be your opportunity to pick the ones that you want to have in your new online store as well. This Magento 2 upgrade might be your time to give your store a new look and feel and enhance its features by shortlisting or adding on the already existing extensions.

It would be advisable to remove the extensions offering redundant features. Once you’re done with the shortlisting it would be important to check if the upgraded extensions are available for them. If yes, extension migration would be possible easily. If not, then these extensions would be required to be built from scratch rather than performing an extension migration activity.

2-Check your server:

Before proceeding with migration you would be required to check for your server compatibility with Magento 2. Check the server requirements for Magento 2 and then proceed to upgradation (if required).

3-Theme Migration:

Theme migration is another crucial part of this upgrade to Magento 2. Magento 2 aims at delivering enhanced shopping experiences to customers on the online store. Which again gives an additional point to it and advocates in the favour of an upgrade to Magento 2. Since Magento 2 differs from Magento 1 largely in terms of structure the themes from your old store (Magento 1) cannot be directly lifted and utilized for the new store.

Instead, the theme for your new store after you migrate from Magento 1 to Magento 2 needs to be built from scratch like the extensions which are not upgradable. Hence in order to provide your customers with a responsive and interactive website, you will need to work on the suggested methods for theme migration.

4-Decide upon the functionality:

Prior to migration from Magento 1 to Magento 2, you would also be required to decide the functionality to want to migrate from your old site to the new one. There might be sections in your online store that you might want to remove or include just like extensions discussed in the section for Extension Migration above. This is a good time to review the site for any redundant features or extensions that it might be carrying.

You can read this "Magento migration case study" to learn more about difficulties faced by a cotton-cashmere store in Netherland, and accomplished successful migration process in minimum time period.