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E-Commerce Delivery Trends to Zero in on, in 2021

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  The last year wasn’t just like any other year. It was full of panic, hustle, and uncertainty. The pandemic afflicted people across the globe. Now that vaccination drives have started in several countries, and people have got more cautious than ever, things are slowly back on track. Amid several industries that witnessed plummeting profitability, one industry has succeeded beyond expectations. That’s the e-commerce industry! This industry has seen a dramatic rise in terms of revenue and demand since Covid-19. One of the important aspects that you can’t afford to ignore in e-commerce is the delivery part. If you have a strong delivery strategy in place for your e-store, you are sure to stay ahead of the curve. To handle the surge in online shopping, e-retailers have tweaked their delivery handling in different ways. These tweaks aim to make the delivery process easier and faster. If you are also an e-store owner looking to strengthen your delivery strateg

6 Must Have Odoo Products for 2019

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  A website is an amalgamation of various web components. But an impactful website is the reflection of a well-thought user interface and experience. It represents a deep understanding of your customer base and your intention of providing a smooth experience to users. In order to give your customers exactly what they want, it is important to form a proper and deliberate sitemap to navigate your prospects to your money page. A website is like the front door to your business. The impression it creates on your visitors stays on their minds throughout their involvement with you. It impacts your brand credibility. And a website theme plays a vital role to create a rich visual experience for your visitors. At present, Odoo is the buzzing concept in the market. Whether you want to build an ecommerce website, ERP software or a CRM system, Odoo is a go-to platform. And if you have chosen Odoo to develop your website, there are a number of free/paid Odoo theme options available on the we

5 Must Have Features of a Magento Shipping Extension

It is good practice to have a shipping extension integrated into your web-store. It makes managing orders easier for you. And consequently, it ensures timely delivery to the customer. A good Australia Post e-Parcel Shipping extension will help in different ways. Such as, automating the labels, tracking inventory, helping your customers to track their shipments etc. Such an extension will work seamlessly with your Magento e-commerce store. There are numerous options available online for Magento Australia Post Shipping. Any merchant would find this overwhelming when trying to decide which one he should choose. To ease this pain, we have created a list of features that your shipping extension must provide. Without much ado, let’s dig into it. Live Shipping Rates The delivery charges that a reseller posts will be based on the shipping rates. This rate depends on the weight and dimensions of the package and may vary from carrier to carrier. This makes it inconvenient for the seller as it

How to Easily Customize Default Reports in Odoo

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One of the problems of using a ready made software for ecommerce like Odoo ecommerce is that you are often stuck with default reports that come prepackaged with the software. So be it sales order or purchase order or invoice, you can’t do much with these unless you are an expert in Odoo programming. Keeping this pain point of Odoo ecommerce merchants in mind, we at Biztech, have come up with a ready made app that will allow you to customize any of your default store reports and get a more professional look for all your store reports. Called Clever All In One Report Templates , this app gives you 6 different custom template options to choose from for each of your six report types. And you can customize any aspect of these custom templates, like logo, color, font, formatting, etc. In this blog we will discuss these store reports individually and how they can be customized with our app. 1. Generating Sales Orders The sales order report template contains all the information rel

Odoo Version 12: What Does It Have in Store for You?

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It’s been over a year since the release of Odoo version 11. The last month (October 2018) witnessed release of the much-awaited Odoo Version 12. The latest version of Odoo not only has some new usability updates and features but also has some new modules. Being Odoo Ready Partners and Odoo development services providers, Biztech Consultancy is aware of the latest updates and would want to share them with you. Version 12 of Odoo has some major changes in the Account module. The new Odoo accounting module is easy to configure and use and comes with different features and functionalities for accountants including the facility to use OCR and import vendor bills. It also entails the new Document Management and IoT module that helps you manage your IoT devices. Through Odoo V 12, you can manage multiple websites with respected themes. Which means, it is possible for you to have more than 2 websites having their own theme ordering capabilities integrated with your ERP backend. This f

How Can Smooth Delivery Experience Help You Earn Customer Loyalty?

It was a shiny summer day of December in Melbourne. Judy had been sick for the past few days. She had no idea that there was a party in her high school, the upcoming Saturday. Nobody told her about it. Scoundrel friends! She had gone to the school on Tuesday and her friends were discussing the dresses they were going to wear at the party. Nichole was planning to come with a teal color dress and a glittery hair band that she bought yesterday. Samantha was planning to don a retro look with Copper Plaid Shirt with big hoops. Travis Barbara was fantasizing about how she would look in her green colored Cinderella gown, although there was some skepticism as to whether she would look like one. Their discussion about the attires was tormenting Judy and causing woes. Because all she had in her wardrobe were some rock band t-shirts, ‘winter is coming’ hoodies and ripped jeans. And she too, wanted to be the center of attention at the party. Though she would be the center of attention with these

How Magento Deals with Different Level of Your Inventory Management Tasks?

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Just imagine, on a hectic day, you are processing a big order. All of a sudden you get a call from your customer who wishes to place an order to you. One of your employees picks up the call and respond to the customer. Due to a bit of load on the Magento based system, he fumbles and even make your customer wait for span while the system software works. After all the hassles, he confirms the order and promise to meet the customer need by a certain delivery time. But when you check the inventory, an important piece of the product is out of stock and your Magento Inventory Manager software did not tell you about that. So, you are unable to deliver the product and meet the promise that you made with the client. Frustrating! Right? Now think about your customers. They would be disappointed and moreover it makes them lose their trust on your services. But it is a noisy market and they hear many sales pitches from countless businesses. Most of them are from your competitors itself. So,

Major Driving Forces of The Next Generation Product Delivery Experience

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The market reputations and revenue streams depend more on satisfying customer needs. A stand-out delivery proposition is proving pivotal for both winning and keeping customers. Today, trends revolve around demanding faster and more efficient shipping options with effortless interactions. It is because harder-to-satisfy consumers want to fine-tune how their deliveries happen. They also want to know who gets to deliver their goods. To take the customer experience to a new level, they want to reserve the right to amend their delivery details in just a few clicks, even when deliveries are already in flight. Whenever it comes about the delivery of the products that customers buy from your Magento 2 eCommerce site, you do take it as a serious concern. But how seriously you take it? Well, actually it is as important as the product quality of your eCommerce website. Any deliver mishap will cause a bad image of your Magento 2 Store. However, making your delivery process efficient with a

How to Make your Magento Inventory Management System Ready for Your Upcoming Sales?

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Distributors in any industry have to carry an extensive amount of inventory and stock that meet the demand of entire customer base. It often happens that Magento store owners wish to take maximum advantage of their upcoming sale or discount campaigns and add more stocks in their warehouses. This process often ends up with excessive load in warehouses and at distributors’ docks. And this is the stage where most of the inventory nightmares take place. Thus, it becomes important for enterprises to manage the inventory while streamlining the delivery process. You cannot afford to have a scenario of misplaced and damaged products or wrongly delivered orders. In this blog, we will discuss about some practices that can make your Magento Inventory management intact for upcoming sale. Let us start with the four pillars on which you must pay more attention to get the best out of your upcoming sale. These pillars where your process should lay upon are as follows: Timeliness: All your ope

How to Add Value to Your Magento Ecommerce Store?

Ecommerce has matured rapidly in recent years. A report by Forbes has predicted that the e-commerce industry will exceed a $2 trillion haul in the year 2017. Additionally, according to the insights by Business Insider, 50% of online shoppers have made more than one purchase last year. These stats only lead to one fact: “Repeat buy-in and volume business are the benchmarks mid-size ecommerce owners must aim for.” A quote by Steve Jobs says “You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back towards the technology.” And as ruthless it may seem, but even the Amazon had to come up with innovations such as Alexa and Amazon offline store. Wonder why? Consumers get bored with the mundane. And, in the space of online merchandising, you must innovate. The question here is - Does your ecommerce store have extended functionalities that can turn your visitors into loyal customers? If not, you really need to start thinking about the ways to do it. Magento extensions, which have been un

How Can Ecommerce Store Owners Create an App Like Amazon and Flipkart?

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Every other person we see around us seems to be in a profound relationship with one’s device – especially mobile. Right from connecting with people and playing games to shopping, we have witnessed a paradigm shift in the ways in which technology is used. Talking about ecommerce, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that “Mcommerce is the new commerce.” It is quite common for the customers to order things from their mobiles rather than visiting a brick and mortar store to buy what they want. And it is absolutely convenient to do so looking at the time and money you can save. Fortunately or unfortunately, it comes as a huge awakening call for the ecommerce store owners who need to switch their focus to mobile application development. Amazon and Flipkart are some of the best examples of mobile apps becoming extremely popular amongst customers due to their user-friendly interface and multifaceted functionalities. If you own a Magento Store, it is important to have a mobile app for M