Sorted by Topic: Market Expansion
The best Magento Go alternatives for your eCommerce transition
Magento Go is shutting down, and everyone on it has until February 1st, 2015 to choose a new eCommerce platform. In order to ease this transition, listed below are nChannel’s top four Magento Go alternatives. While you may be looking for the “best” eCommerce platform, each platform has it’s strengths and weaknesses, and ultimately, the best eCommerce solution is determined by your needs.
A Comparison of the 4 Top eCommerce Platforms: Magento, Shopify, Volusion, Bigcommerce
Not all eCommerce shopping carts are created equal. Many look similar on the surface, but deep down have way more to compare than just price and features. Most merchants will only ever use a fraction of the features offered, so don’t let things like unlimited bandwidth and unlimited product listings be your main criteria. And unless you need complete customization and you have IT staff to help, full-fledged open source solutions are probably not the choice either. In our experience, small and mid-size companies have the best experience with mid-priced eCommerce platforms with a solid feature set and expandable design.
This chart compares four leading eCommerce shopping cart providers: Magento, Shopify, Volusion and Bigcommerce. (more…)
Integrate Multiple Magento Stores to Simplify Brand Expansion
I do a lot of research. And because we work with so many Magento users, I pay attention to what they’re talking about. Lately, I’ve been running into a lot of conversation about the challenges of running multiple Magento stores. We have a unique perspective on that at nChannel, so I thought I’d join the conversation. (more…)
nChannel Announces the Release of its Sage Connector
nChannel Simplifies the Management of Multiple Sales Channels for Sage 100 ERP Users
COLUMBUS, OH – March 5, 2014 – nChannel, creator of the cloud-based Multi-Channel Operations Management platform, announced the release of its Sage Connector to help retailers, manufacturers and distributors more easily manage their data between Sage 100 and eCommerce, online marketplaces, point-of-sale, and other business systems.
As commerce continues to shift to the web, the Sage connector will enable companies to manage and streamline data processing, improve productivity, and reduce the cost of operating multiple sales channels while still providing a consistent customer shopping experience. nChannel’s Sage connector provides the Sage 100 ecosystem (formerly known as MAS90/200) with a conduit to the nChannel Any Channel Operations Management (nCOM) platform, where users can merchandise items, process orders, manage inventory, collect customer data, execute accounting and purchasing activity, and analyze real-time sales data all from a single point of access.
nChannel’s nCOM with Sage Connector capabilities include:
- Merging item data from Sage, spreadsheets, and image files to publish complete, searchable item information on the web
- Support for standard, kit, and serialized item types
- Mapping to eBay and Amazon-specific categories
- Web order integration via work order or sales transaction
- Order fulfillment
- Creating new customers, updating existing customer records, or consolidating customer ship-to’s under a single Sage customer
- Inventory synchronization in real-time
- Integration to drop ship suppliers
Other nCOM connectors in the nChannel library include Magento; Shopify; AspDotNetStorefront; Amazon; eBay; Microsoft Dynamics RMS, GP, NAV and SL; and QuickBooks. nChannel continually develops Connectors based on customer demand.
About nChannel:
nChannel, creator of the leading cloud-based multi-channel operations management software solution, provides retailers with the tools to manage multiple sales channels with unprecedented ease and flexibility. Through its Any Channel Operations Management (nCOM) AppSuite, nChannel helps retailers become the most convenient shopping choice for both B2C and B2B customers. The suite includes applications that create efficiencies in merchandising, order management, inventory, customer interaction, supply chain integration and analytics between brick and mortar stores, web stores, online marketplaces and back-end systems. In 2013, nChannel subscribers sold more than 1.8M products to 660,000 buyers through the nChannel platform representing more than $225M in revenue, including more than $12M in eBay and Amazon transactions. To learn more, visit www.nchannel.com.
Create an eCommerce Revenue Engine with Sage ERP 100 & Magento Integration
Internet Retailer recently reported: Wal-Mart grows global web sales 30% in 2013 and projects similar growth this year. It is no secret that the world’s largest retailers like Wal-Mart rely on a tightly woven web of automation to process every business transaction. Their value-chain network includes manufacturers, suppliers, logisticians, warehouses, distributors, physical stores and websites. This intricate web is made up of thousands of system integrations linking customer-facing kiosks, websites and mobile shopping apps with company-facing POS, ERP, SCM, CRM, HRM, financial systems and custom business applications. Multinational enterprises like Wal-Mart would be disabled, lose marketshare and eventually disappear if their tight-knit system failed to process the business data that enables them to quickly bring product to market and meet customer demand. (more…)