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Novamed has been on the market for over 20 years and is the leader in the distribution of medical equipment. It offers the highest quality products ranging between doctor's office equipment, operating room necessities as well as smaller accessories and tools necessary for doctors in their day-to-day work. We are happy to announce that we finished the work on the store's implementation. The effects of our cooperation can be seen on www.novamed.pl.

In the first part of the "Matrix" saga, Morpheus gave the main character a choice between a red and a blue pill. Neo's decision was to influence the further course of history, so it required a deeper reflection on its consequences. And if you found yourself in the Neo place, and the offer of Morpheus would concern the topic of changing the current version of Magento for a new one? What decision would you make?
Magento 2 has become reality. We know that it causes different emotions, but what does it mean for us? Can Magento 2.0 be described as the most refined software ever released? Let's leave emotions for a moment and think.
In our deliberations, we will focus mainly on the owners of online stores, because they are the most interested in the subject. What improvements can they count on?
According to official data, there are 240,000 stores based on the first version of the Magento system. Will their owners decide to change?
To make the final decision easier, let's summarize the doubts in three points:
When to upgrade your system to Magento 2?
What to expect from this update?
Is it worth it?
Let's see.

The Company Ministerstwo Gadżetów s.c. was created after a few years of preparations in 2006. The founders of the company got to know the world of amazing products and gadgets, working for a long time for Western European leaders in this industry. Global4Net is responsible for implementing the new online store.

One of Magento's major advantages over other systems is its modularity. It manifests itself in the form of the following benefits in the case of implementations of this platform:

1. First of all, we have three layers: core, community and local, which overwrite the data in the given order, i.e. we can, for example, change the core functionality of Magento but without overwriting files, in practice it can be done by copying files for instance from core to local and there to make programming changes, thanks to which we are sure that in the case of updates we do not lose any changes. Our basic integration modules will be located in the community layer so that in the case of "temporary actions" (such as a temporary promotion that changes a certain logic) you can overwrite our module in the local layer, and afterward delete the overwrite to return to the original version without conflict.

One of the key elements taken into account when choosing an e-commerce platform is its impact on positioning. How does Magento fall out from this angle? Is it profitable to pay for the implementation of 2-3 times the price of another e-commerce platform? In response to these questions, I hope to help the following article. It is worth mentioning that 44% of transactions in global e-commerce in 2012 originated in the organic traffic.

Bittersweet Patis is a quickly developing fashion brand working internationally. Global4Net overtook the technical support of the online store. Our responsibilities include maintaining, ongoing care and implementation of new solutions.

Alongside the generally used version of Magento Community, there is also a paid version of the platform - Magento Enterprise, offering many valuable and extensive functionalities, significantly supporting sales in the online store. The annual license of the paid version of Magento starts from 14 420 $. Next, to various additional marketing and sales tools, we also have help and technical support from the Magento team, greater security and scalability of the store, a mobile version written in HTML 5 and many other functionalities.

Global4Net is a company specializing in the implementation of advanced e-commerce solutions and has recently launched a new version of the online store for Meble88. Meble88 is a brand of furniture stores located in the Lower Silesia Voivodship. Thanks to the use of modern information management systems and observations of global trends, the company is gradually expanding its sales showroom network. The implementation of the Magento platform was chosen in order to implement the project.

One of our recent implementations concerned the creation of a store for a new brand on the Polish e-commerce fashion market - Basic Spot. This extraordinary experience has enabled us to acquire another large dose of knowledge in the light of the development of the Magento platform. As a result of our work, at least in my opinion, we created quite an interesting and unusual online store design, it should be noted that the goal was to not copy for the hundredth time in the fashion industry black and white answear.com store but to create something unique in its own way. I hope you will like it too, because our team has put a lot of work into this project, and I left a piece of heart in it.

Of course there are a few key elements to focus on, such as OS software - it is highly recommended to use Linux, but it is not recommended to use Windows servers for Magento, the system will work, however, will be less efficient, it may cause problems with file permissions or some parts of the code. It is important to limit the number of services to the minimum necessary on the production server, to simultaneously reduce the number of processes. Using XFS and ReiserFS, configuring MaxClients settings - for better control the number of subprocesses.

In August, we completed the next implementation of the Magento online store, this time intended for the Brittish market. Manufactured Culture is a shop with interior decoration products designed by top designers. Global4net has implemented a comprehensive functional design, graphic design, and store implementation. The effects of our hard work can be viewed at www.manufacturedculture.com

In the event that the default order statuses are not sufficient for our store in Magento, we can configure our own order status. To do this, go to the System -> Order statuses tab.

On 23 June at the Mercure hotel in Warsaw, the meeting of MeetUp Magento took place for the first time in Poland on the initiative of Snowdog. MeetUp Magento is a series of meetings of local communities to help establish the direction of development of the platform. Among the invitees were a dozen Polish agencies that were particularly important and related to Magento implementations in Poland and around the world. The meeting was attended by, among others, Creativestyle from Krakow, Snowdog from Poznań, Global4Net from Wrocław, Bold Agency from Krakow or Emagenio from Opole. There were also international treats, a Goodahead representative from Ukraine was present at the meeting.

The Magento platform, owned by eBay, informed that it will abandon two of its products intended for small and medium-sized businesses, MagentoGo and ProStores. The company posted relevant information on the pages of both products and a guide to help migrate stores to other platforms. In total, both products are used by nearly 10,000 sellers.

2014 is a year of expectations that many new products will appear. It is a time of technological freshness, thanks to which we can be surprised by these various ways of using the existing methods of business development.

Being an online vendor, you may not always have the possibility to contact your customers directly. Hence -the support tickets, online chat, customer reviews, forums, and telephone orders, which are probably the only way to get feedback from the client. Unfortunately, most of them do not always give a sincere opinion about completed purchases, and take too much time and attention, because it is the only way to gather and organize the right amount of information.