With over 12 years of experience in tech and marketing, Anastasia enjoys sharing empowering insights on web, mobile, and AR technology in retail, e-commerce UX, and self-service kiosk solutions. Her articles are featured in Digital Commerce 360, Multichannel Merchant, SD Times, and other outlets.
Hyvä has become the go-to solution for Magento merchants aiming to speed up their storefronts. With its lightweight architecture and modern tech stack, Hyvä indeed delivers a clear performance boost right out of the box. But while many see a switch to Hyvä as the sole solution to all speed and user experience issues, that’s rarely the case. This article describes Amasty’s 12 best practices for Magento optimization after migrating a store to Hyvä.
A growing number of Magento merchants who face rising development costs or crave simplicity begin to see Shopify as a “silver bullet”. But what many realize too late is that a new platform won’t fix what’s broken beneath the surface. This article is not a warning against Shopify but a call for smarter decisions. We’ll explore two paths forward: staying on Magento and optimizing it, or migrating from Magento to Shopify, but doing it with your eyes wide open.
You might be skeptical about having to update your Magento to the latest version every year or two and would rather skip a release or wait for a major release instead. However, as you'll see from the release note highlights that we’ve summarized in this post, minor releases can introduce significant improvements. You can spend the next business quarters with your current features – or get enhanced features of Magento 2.4.8!
Starting April 2025, compliance with PCI DSS 4.0.1 will require e-commerce stores to implement a Content Security Policy (CSP) on payment-related pages. To align with these requirements, the Hyvä development team is expanding CSP support across its themes and checkout solutions. Below we review the essence of CSP requirements for Magento and Amasty’s approach to supporting Hyvä’s CSP implementation in its Magento 2 extensions.
Free extensions seem like an easy way to expand functionality without extra investment. Yet, not all free modules offer the same value or reliability. While some extensions provide minor enhancements with minimal risk, others modify core Magento functions and, for that reason, require careful consideration. Below, we’ll examine the pros and cons of free Magento extensions and help you determine when they are a smart choice – and when they’re a Pandora’s Box.
Jewelry is an industry characterized by vast product catalogs and numerous attributes: sizes, prices, gemstone types, and many more. All this can translate into poor product discoverability and slow filtering performance which can frustrate jewelry shoppers and lead to lost sales. Let’s explore a real business case from one of Amasty’s clients and see how jewelry businesses can leverage Magento to not only overcome challenges but also drive growth.
Contrary to some assumptions, Magento 2 (M2) extensions are not automatically compatible with Mage-OS. To address this and ensure alignment of its catalog with Mage-OS, Amasty, the #1 company contributor to Mage-OS, has implemented thorough compatibility testing and modification processes. Let’s examine why Mage-OS compatibility cannot be assumed, explore potential issues from unaligned modules, and find out how exactly Amasty adapts its extensions to Mage-OS.
Magento 1 reached its official end of life in June 2020, but over 80,000 stores are still operating on outdated software without official support or security updates. If your store is still running on Magento 1, you're exposed to increased risks. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the entire Magento 1 to Magento 2 upgrade process, including how to move your data, what tools to use, how much it might cost, and how to avoid common pitfalls.
Starting January 2024, Stripe has mandated that all third-party plugins must utilize Stripe Apps for authentication, using either Oauth 2.0 or a restricted API key. This change is aimed at significantly enhancing security, and plugins that do not comply with this authentication method may have a fee imposed by Stripe in 2025. To assist all Magento-based businesses with these changes, we’re rolling out App for Payments with Stripe for Magento 2, now available on the Stripe App Marketplace.
B2B transactions are increasingly shifting online. Gartner predicts that by the end of 2025, 80% of all B2B sales transactions will happen digitally. This article explores the unique challenges faced by B2B e-commerce managers and demonstrates how Amasty's new Magento B2B module pack addresses these needs more effectively than its competitors.
On September 12, our CEO Sergej Derzap had an insightful conversation with Amasty partners – Hyvä, Above the Fray, and RumVision – about accessibility, speed, and the impact of both on the revenue. We share Amasty’s approach to meeting both key requirements and provide the video of the conversation in full.
Global e-commerce sales are expected to grow by 39% by 2027, reaching the insane $8 trillion mark. But does ‘global’ necessarily include your online store? With over 24 million e-commerce stores worldwide, competition is intense. Simply driving traffic is no longer enough to increase sales on e-commerce sites. This guide offers hands-on tips to optimize every aspect of your e-commerce sales strategy and drive revenue increases. And for those who want even more ideas in the form of a to-do list, we’re glad to provide a free downloadable PDF checklist!
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