Top Security Strategies to Safeguard Your Magento Store

(This is a guest post from our friends over at JetRails, a Magento hosting provider offering customer configurations on dedicated servers in the AWS Cloud.)

Your Magento storefront is a high-value target for hackers and requires stringent security measures to minimize its vulnerabilities. As a dedicated Magento hosting provider, JetRails is often called in as emergency responders to combat malicious attacks. We have first-hand experience with the catastrophic impact a security breach can have on your business.

Following security best practices and protocols is the best defense in safeguarding your Magento storefront. Use this checklist as a guide for safety measures from the most common threats including malicious code injection, malware, brute force attacks and the dreaded DDoS. (more…)

eCommerce Migration: How to Know When You Should Replatform

Most eCommerce sellers fear migrating their webstores to a new platform. It seems too risky. It takes time, costs money, and requires you to move all your data. There’s so much that can seemly go wrong. They think migrating eCommerce platforms is a fast-track way to ruin sales!

So, merchants often avoid it for as long as they can. But, you really shouldn’t. Migration isn’t going to ruin your sales. Not upgrading to a new platform though could. Your current platform could be holding you back from growth, improving your business processes, and providing a better customer experience.

Let’s take an honest look at your business and see if you’re showing any of these signs that you need to replatform your eCommerce store. (more…)

Avoiding Common eCommerce Inventory Management Mistakes

Running an eCommerce business is tough. A common pain point for eCommerce sellers is tracking and managing their inventory. If you sell across multiple online channels, it gets even harder. During your busy selling season, tracking inventory is just downright frustrating.

How you manage your inventory can determine the success of your business. You want to avoid overselling and upsetting customers, but keeping too much stock ties up your cash.

To help you build a more profitable business, this post considers some key inventory challenges that eCommerce sellers face and how to avoid them. (more…)

Need an eCommerce Shopping Cart Solution? Consider These Options

(This post was originally published on June 8th, 2012. We’ve updated it for accuracy and completeness.)

When running an online retail business, you need a reliable eCommerce shopping cart solution. Luckily, there are plenty of eCommerce platforms out there to choose from.

So how do you choose the best option for your business?

There are a wide variety of eCommerce shopping carts on the market. Each one comes with a whole host of features built to make your customers have an easy and stress-free experience on your site. The key is determining which online shopping cart best suites your needs based on the technical resources you have available, how much web selling experience you have, and your web development skills.

Here are some of the top eCommerce shopping cart solutions. (more…)

How Healthy is Your Magento Store? [Infographic]

Magento is the leading open source eCommerce platform. There’s over $50B in gross merchandise volume transacted on the platform annually. As a Magento user, your platform is an integral part of your business.

That’s why you always want to make sure that your store is performing the best it can. MoFluid provides an infographic that helps you easily identify problems area with your Magento store, and how to fix them.

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