5 Things You Must Know About Amasty

Did you know there are 7.1 million online shops in the world and 170K of them are run on Magento? And all sites powered by Magento (not only online stores) make 1.4% of 1.72 billion websites.

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Well, that’s a lot! It's like every Vancouver resident would have their own online store on Magento.

And this number is constantly rising. Coronavirus has led people in many countries to change their shopping habits. Brick-and-mortar stores have literally moved online increasing traffic by 1.5% compared to the pre-Covid times. Well, despite what 2020 has thrown at us, there's definitely one thing we can all be thankful for -- the e-commerce breakthrough .

You probably ask yourself what this has to do with Amasty. Point is, most of these Magento website owners are our clients. Running an online store even on a ready-to-use platform, like Magento, is more of a struggle for many retailers than if they sell products offline.

We’ve been in this business since 2009 and run our store on Magento. That has allowed us to know precisely what problems online retailers face and what they need. Today we’re going to share 5 things we understood from business challenges clients come to us with (and solutions to them).

#1. Hands-on support to e-commerce startups

Profit-making with a low budget is the way many startups get going. And if choosing the right Magento edition presents no difficulty, as to save money most of the new shops opt for the free Open Source, what comes next is a real risk. Knowing the store misses needed functionality they face unplanned investment in a costly development, which usually ends in frustration.

For their sake, we have bundled 5 basic products in a complex Starter Pack to launch an online shop on Magento 2 going smoothly from the first day. In addition to the vanilla platform’s features, startups get flexible filter options, simplified but still informative checkout, tools to increase average order value, and SEO perks that allow even new websites to rank higher on Google. To help clients deal with all these features and understand whether they do need them all, they can book a free live demo any time convenient at which our specialist will answer all questions and show each and every needed setting in work.

#2. Proven strategies to improve profit for not newcomers

Every business plateaus. Having reached the highest point of growth, they can come up with this standard business cycle where even a 1% increase in revenue is a win. For years, we’ve tested thousands of marketing strategies that can help overcome this stagnation.

For this case, we’ve bundled solutions that can help handle management limitations and provide new opportunities for revenue growth. Our Automatic Promotions Suite comes with more than 20+ marketing hacks now proven and tested by many companies and automated to save time for analyzing these campaigns’ results.

In this trailer, we’re explaining why you never have to give up classic marketing campaigns even in the toughest times.

#3. Ultimate shipping management solution by Amasty

Amasty has recently consolidated its 10+ years of experience in the development of shipping extensions and launched Calcurates, a multi-carrier shipping software that helps e-commerce businesses to calculate and display the right shipping methods and rates to the customers on

checkout. It streamlines the shipping process and makes it cost-effective, sales-stimulating, and eco-friendly by the means of its calculation algorithms.

The accuracy of shipping rates is achieved by obtaining real-time rates from major carriers in combination with dimensional shipping features like Smart Packaging that virtually "pre-packs" orders in real time and Dimensional Weight calculations.

The flexibility of shipping logic at the store's checkout becomes available with zero coding due to Shipping Zones, Shipping Rules and Restrictions, Estimated Delivery Dates as well as powerful Table Rates and in-Store Pickup configurations. All this is complemented by the support of the Multi-Origin algorithms that makes your warehouses work as a single system.

#4.Understanding B2B needs

As our business becomes more complex and increasingly global and requires more resources we still never welcome the one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, we segment our products for different niches and strive to offer solutions addressing each specific problem.

One of the latest of these solutions is our suite for B2B that comes in 3 plans Lite, Pro, and Premium. Businesses of different sizes and financial possibilities can pick the plan that covers their specific needs, let it be essential functionality to get things going with businesses or tools for proper segmentation of the thousands of companies they already partner with.

#5. Custom development

We know it's critical to maintain an online store in operation while remaining up-to-date with the latest in e-commerce trends. We understand the importance of starting a website from scratch at a low cost and ensuring all the features cover the current needs. But sometimes even a one-problem solution isn’t enough and stores look to develop a unique feature.

That's why we develop custom scripts, turn-key websites on Magento and mobile apps for iOS and Android, as well as assign a dedicated project manager to oversee the process, verification, and quick delivery of a project. Moreover, we handle quality assurance for the following two months after the release, as we want to help our clients not simply close out these projects successfully.

So, we want you to know whatever problem you have in e-commerce, we’re here to help.