Starting a Store on Magento: Time-Saving Tips

or businesses looking to establish an e-commerce store, Magento is an indispensable tool. As an open-source platform, Magento can be adapted to meet the needs of individual businesses. Big brands and small businesses alike can use Magento to create a profitable and user-friendly online storefront. But while anyone can go to Magento’s website and set … Read more

Increase the Speed of your Administrative Backend with Improved Indexing

hen saving products, categories, and other entities to your Magento store, the Magento platform must update its various indexes, which can cause a huge delay that reduces your productivity. Having a Slow Magento Administrative Backend can be a real waste of your time Not only for you, but also your employees if you have them. … Read more

Imagine 2016 Magento Conference

Imagine 2016 Extendware is excited to say that we got to attend the Imagine 2016 Magento Conference. Now in its 6th year, Imagine 2016 brought together 2,500+ merchants, partners, developers and commerce experts from 45+ countries to network, exchange ideas and build relationships. Speakers such as Earvin “Magic” Johnson of Magic Johnson Enterprises, Mark Lavelle of … Read more

Recapture Lost Sales By Using The Abandoned Cart Email Extension

It can seem defeating when customers add products to their carts and then suddenly abandon them without completing the purchase. Perhaps they decided to comparison shop, or maybe they became confused by the check-out process, or they could have become distracted and figured they would push the task off until another time. Instead of losing customers, … Read more

Offer Your Customers the Best Promotions and Products with Bulk Product Updating

Its a Sunny Day and you are stuck inside. Why? You are too busy  updating your prices, assigning categories and managing your catalog to enjoy the beautiful weather. Its tasks like these that allow us to lose valuable time that we could be spending doing fun things! Extendware’s Bulk Product Updating can update a series … Read more

Reduce bandwidth, CPU, and crawling time with Cache Crawler/Warmer

The web contains trillions and trillions of pages, which can make it hard for your customers to find your store at times. We rely heavily on Google to find things for us and Google is able to do this with something called a Web Crawler. Stores with a high number of unique pages compared to … Read more

Reduce The Size Of Your Images And Help Your Sites Load Faster With Image Optimization

“What’s the hold up?” You might ask yourself while waiting for your page to load. After trying every solution to fix this issue, you might be surprised to realize its something as simple as a photo! Images, although very important in communicating your products, can sometimes be too large and slow up your customer browser … Read more

Create Discounts and Promotions with Shopping Cart Price Rules

      I think many can agree that default Magento promotions are pretty boring and outdated, and what’s worse is…you can’t create new ones! They are very standard and don’t offer much in the way of creativity, which really cancels out the look and feel of a unique website. Extendware has the solution with … Read more

Reduce Page Size, Bandwidth, Server Load and More with the Minify Js/Css Extension for Magento

One of the worst feelings one can have is jumping on a website to make a purchase and the process is slower than molasses dripping out of a jar! Faster load times are ideal for online businesses and ensures your customers will stay and make purchases rather than give up and throw their laptop out … Read more

Extendware Now Accepts Stripe (and BitCoin) Payments

ot that everyone doesn’t just absolutely love Paypal, but we also wanted to give our customers another option for when Paypal just isn’t the right answer. Therefore, we are now accepting Stripe as an authorized payment processor for all Extendware orders! Stripe is one of our favorite payment processors and is much more modern and … Read more