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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!

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:

Everybody has already heard about General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union.

Yes, it makes the life of web entrepreneurs more complicated but it is a demand of the modern world.

See how CS-Cart helps merchants comply with GDPR.

In 2018 CS-Cart released a special add-on that has the name "GDPR Compliance (EU)". This module helps website owners comply with the GDPR, a European Union regulation on personal data processing.

Here, we are going to describe the CS-Cart module creation and the method how to expand the standard import/export functionality on the e-commerce platform.

Though CS-Cart is quite a good system for building an e-commerce website, sometimes CS-Cart import/export feature is required to be modified to reach special business aims. 

For example, some years ago we made module “Extended import” that allows fast and easy import of supplier's file where the field titles do not match with titles applied in CS-Cart.

What is CSV file? What role does it have in CS-Cart?

CSV is a text file that is supposed for convenient presentation of table data. This is the most popular document format for import and export data in internet shops. This is a sort of table where all your records about products are in right order. The CSV file saves a pile of time while editing data in an online shop. For example, you have created an online shop on CS-Cart platform and you need to fill up it with products or you need to raise all prices in short possible time. Wouldn't you do it manually, opening each product page in the admin panel and change the product price?