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Ensuring Smooth Functionality: Pages to Test on Adobe Commerce Sites

Adobe Commerce is a powerful e-commerce platform that empowers businesses to create robust online stores. However, to deliver a seamless shopping experience, thorough testing is essential. In this blog post, we'll explore the key pages that require testing on Adobe Commerce sites. 

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Caching 101: Adobe Commerce Answer to Lightning-Fast E-commerce

In the digital world where time is of the essence, speed and efficiency are imperative to deliver a good online user experience. Many digital platforms like Magento 2, a leading e-commerce solution, incorporate a technique known as caching to enhance performance and improve user satisfaction.

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Demystifying Adobe Commerce Indexers

Adobe Commerce, the popular e-commerce platform, is truly a marvel with its rich features and adaptability. But, like a stage production, some of its most essential elements work behind the scenes, out of the spotlight. One of those key players is indexers, the unsung heroes of Adobe Commerce!

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Who done it? Finding and Using Adobe Commerce admin Action Logs (Admin reports)

Your images disappeared from your website's home page. A customer placed an order for an item they shouldn't have access to and upon investigation, you learn that their customer group mysteriously changed. An order was canceled and no one on the customer service team seems to know why. All of a sudden hundreds of orders with free shipping are coming in and there is no current promotion running. You have probably encountered one of these scenarios or a similar one, in your career in eCommerce. It can be a…

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Managing Scope Change Throughout Your Project

Making changes in the middle of an e-commerce project can be stressful and daunting.  Where should you start if you want or need to adjust the scope or add a new feature? What are some methods that might help navigate introducing change during a bustling e-commerce project? In this article, we'll briefly discuss some ways to stay on top of changing scope throughout a project the right way. 

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She's an admin, he's an admin, everyone's an admin! - How to control admin access in Adobe Commerce

The Adobe Commerce admin panel gives the user near total control of your website(s); from customer data, marketing campaigns, and advertising content to the ability to process customer orders. Throughout a website's lifecycle, a surprising amount of people will need access to the admin panel for a variety of reasons. Some of them will need it for a short-term basis like a 3rd developer troubleshooting an issue, and some of them only need it for specific cases like your in-house product or customer service…

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Fixed-Cost E-Commerce Projects: The Clear Choice for Project Control

The e-commerce industry is a rapidly evolving landscape, where staying ahead of the competition requires efficient project management and strategic decision-making. In this dynamic environment, successful execution of projects can make all the difference between triumph and failure. In this article, we’ll compare the fixed-cost waterfall and time and materials approaches to project management within the e-commerce sector, while highlighting the unique advantages of fixed-cost projects in e-commerce ventur…

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Navigating E-Commerce Success Through Discovery: Your Blueprint for Effective Website Development

In the dynamic world of e-commerce, success depends on more than just a functional, visually appealing website. Understanding your business, target audience, competition, and unique requirements is critical. That's where our exclusive process called 'Discovery' comes into play. 

At our agency, we believe in setting the foundation right before initiating any e-commerce project. We take the time to dig deep into understanding your business, ensuring that we're not just building a website; we're craf…

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Binary Anvil’s Data Model Process

Have bad data?  Bad data management? Looking to build a new website?  There is no better time for a data overhaul than when you are preparing to build or upgrade to a new website.  Overhauling your data, whether it be product data, customer data, or any other entity for that matter, is no small undertaking and without a comprehensive and proven method for effective data modeling, things could go from bad to worse.

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How to keep your E-commerce project from becoming a nightmare

Building an Ecommerce site has a lot of similarities to building a brick-and-mortar store. There is a lot that goes into building a store. You have to choose a good location, lay a foundation, get all of the infrastructure, utilities and all other things that work in the background constructed, and then finish with the curb-appeal to attract customers. An Ecommerce store is much the same. The choice of the Ecommerce platform is an important one (same as building location), all of the planning and details…

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Binary Anvil Upgrade Process

Adobe Commerce upgrades are a necessary measure to maintaining a good working e-commerce site and staying current with security updates. This article will discuss why Adobe Commerce upgrades matter, the benefits they bring, and explain Binary Anvil’s approach to upgrades.

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