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Have you ever thought on how many clients you can find on the Internet? Have you ever tried to open a shopping website or sell throught the social nets?

2020 started with a serious virus attack. Many countries ordered a quarantine, closed the borders and locked people at home to prevent virus spread. Offline small businesses had to go online to survive. In these conditions the fast opening online store is a necessity.

We know that building an online store can be a terrifying thought especially when you are not a techy and not a millionaire. Well, the Alt-team knows the solution. We started our online business in 2010 and for ten years we have been helping hundreds of users start their online store on CS-Cart platform.

There is the most fearful word at the beginning of 2020 - CoronaVirus (or COVID-19). Because of the coronavirus threat the authorities of some countries have already introduced extraordinary measures and blocked some megapolises by the army. 

Just imagine how people do shopping in lockdown cities? 

• * Where can they get food?
• * How do they earn money?
• * Can they learn via Internet?
• * How they spend their money?

Have you ever thought on how to sell doors or windows on Internet? Sure that if you produced this type of products, you have an idea to search clients online. But there are few samples of really great online stores of this specific goods. 

So, we took part into exhibitions "Ideal home" and "Clean water" in the famous Kazan Fair area. 

Talking about the exhibition "Ideal home", we met lots of people who have or plan to lauch online shops for their products.

We consulted people on how to promote commercial websites on Internet and how to open online shop from scratch. We offered the feature-rich and cheap variant for stylish, adaptive, user and admin friendly commercial website based on CS-Cart platform. 

Working with CS-Cart since 2010, we have an anomous number of projects based on this amazing shopping cart in the portfolio. So, we shared with our exhibition's neighbours with the most succesful and famous projects.

Dear Friends,

There is a tradition of sharing the experiences in our office. There was a really interesting report about CS-Cart speed problem from one of our leading developer Evgeny Shakhin in the August 2019.

First of all, we won't tell about the results in Google Page Speed Insights service. This recource shown the layout problems. We will talk only about code and server issues. 

Dear CS-Cart Fans,

CS-Cart has released the new CS-Cart 4.10 version with a long list of changes! Let's make a review what has been changed and why the new features will help you in online trade!

There are 3 major changes in CS-Cart 4.10 version:

1. New checkout page
2. Variation module is a live release, not beta!
3. New add-on for customer pickup service!

Alt-team is an authorized CS-Cart Reseller.

From the very beginning of our work we offer the lowest price for CS-Cart Professional. It's our company policy to provide only quality products and services at affordable prices.

We were keeping the lowest possible price for CS-Cart Professional 2.2.4 – USD 236. Soon, it will be a great release of new CS-Cart Professional 3.0. Absolutely new storefront design and additional features make this version even more competitive against other available shopping cart solutions. Again, Alt-team offers the best discount price for CS-Cart 3.0 – USD 305. You pay once and have all rights to use the software for unlimited period of time on a single domain name.

As omnichannel marketing is in high demand for mid-size businesses in 2019, recently CS-Cart company has released a brand new product - CS-Cart Enterprise that is integrated with Salesforce CRM.

Why is omnichannel strategy is in priority in 2019?

This strategy is becoming a key to business success as customers deal with companies in different ways: physical store, social nets, mobile apps, virtual catalogs and etc.

Opening an auto parts store online and turning it into a successful business is a challenge but can be accomplished once you build a world-class e-commerce site. This niche is not so overloaded with online stores as fashion clothing stores or stores with kids toys, but auto parts selling has its own issues and details. For example, there is a great range of assortment and fast and convenient filters should be placed on the website to search the right auto part easily.

Take a look at one example of the store where car wheels, tires, and rims are on sale. We have been creating this website for some months for one of our loyal customers.

This is a Russian store build on CS-Cart platform.

Small print shops typically provide one or more services including photocopying, offset printing, screen printing or digital printing, offering diverse product lines such as personal and commercial paper printing, T-shirts and other wearables, signage, posters, and promotional goods.

Many people say that printing business is one of the most simple and fast payback projects. There is a reasonable point of view. It's not a secret that to start the printing business you shouldn't pay a fortune for the printing equipment. There are a lot of cheap and good in quality machines. Also, you may launch the online shop to gather clients quotes for printing all over the world and send the printed products by delivery services.

You might have already heard about different online Product Designer modules that make business life easier.

Examined the design of all existing solutions for online stores that offer to print custom design on their products, you may notice that all features are complicated and clients should spend lots of time to puzzle out how to make design and purchase the product. Moreover, most of them are loaded in a special pop-up block that connected with the main product page but not fully integrated on it. In this case, the website visitor waits for the page loading than they wait for the pop-up-block loading. If the clients are short in time for purchasing (this is a common situation), they close the website and move to another online store that is more user-friendly and fast in loading.

Dear Friends,

Keeping pace with the latest eCommerce trends, CS-Cart has decided to make some changes in features and pricing of the popular MarketPlace Script. Two new editions are about to launch: Multi-Vendor Plus and Multi-Vendor Enterprise. 

New features that are included in Multi-Vendor Plus are: