How To Prepare For Magento Development – (Part 2) The User Interface Functionalities

With the standard architecture of the Magento ecommerce platform there is much functionality that can account for many business’s needs. Have a look at this web page to see what is accounted for in the standard features of a Magento website. http://www.zesttechsolutions.com/magento-packages

Many companies offer a standard Magento development package that includes the customizations of your product categories and sub categories and the integration of standard secure checkouts, such as PayPal and world Pay. Magento developers will also set up your shopping cart which includes unit price, quantity, weight, tax and more. Another important feature that Magento experts would customizes is the standard promotional functions; these are, up sell, cross promotions, coupon code validations, news letter wish list and more. The best way to get the most out of your Magento developer is to do a detail analysis of your business’s front end functional needs and this way it will make it easier for the Magento development company you choose.

When trying to establish your business’s ecommerce needs for your business analysis you should take into considerations the following aspects to help for your Magento development.

1)      What products are you looking to sell and what units are you looking to sell them in, i.e. quantity, weight and length? Also are there going to be variations in your products, such as size and color?

2)      Defining your categories and sub categories is another important aspect

3)      You need to have a basic idea of the navigation of your website, like what you would want in your navigation bar and what would you like in the left and right panel?

4)      What promotional functions you would need in your website, would you need to have coupon code discounts functions and how would you like to up sell and cross sell?

5)      Would you like integrate your website with third parties websites like price comparisons website, deal websites, social websites as well as market places such as eBay and Amazon?

6)      In regards to Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) You need to know what are the keywords people are typing in to search for your products

7)      How do your logistics work? Do you use drop shippers or do you send your own stock? How many shipping locations do you have? What shipping companies would you like to use?

The above are just some of the basic aspects you need to consider when choosing a Magento expert. Magento has an extremely large developer community and you would be sure to find the right extension/add-ons if your requirements cannot be fulfilled in the standard architecture of Magento with in Magento Connect.

Within Magento connect you can find more personalized shopping cart functional add-ons that enhance the user experience. Things like one step check out make it easier and less time consuming for your customer -  http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/quick-one-page-checkout.html. You could also integrate social functions, i.e have a Facebook store page with beetailer http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/beetailer-facebook-integration.html

You can even boost your product display with powerful and easy to use zoom function http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/customer-experience/category-product-page-enhancements/magic-zoom.html

The above are just some of the thousands of exciting functions that you could find on Magento Connect, even for free, that help your website become a superb user interface.

Be sure to check out Magento Connect while doing your analysis for your customer interface. Your detailed analysis would make you look professional and well organized to a Magento developer (which is very important) and with it along with your design analysis (read part 1 in the previous blog) your Magento development would certainly run a lot smoother.

So we have talked about the customer interface and functional needs of a Magento website and we have stressed the importance of doing an analysis of your particular requirements. In the previous article we mentioned the importance of preparing your design requirements. Both parts of Magento development, Magento front end interface design as well as front end user interface functionality are equally important. It is also important to note that the back end of your user interface and functionality is equally as important as the front end.

Next week is the final part of the blog. In the final part we will talk about the importance of organizing your back end requirements. In this we will talk about content management systems (CMS) as well as customer relationship management systems (CRM). We will also mention about web analytic tools and accounting systems. So after reading all three blogs we hope you could put together a detailed document that breaks down your needs and requirements which helps Magento developer and Magento designers to serve you in the most efficient way.

Magento Development – the effective eCommerce solution for Business People

Among the best ecommerce solutions available in the market, Magento development is one of the ecommerce solutions which make the online store management easy. It has brought good fortune for businesspeople, as with magento they can easily get customers via good SEO efforts and products can be sold easily without too much marketing. The features of Magento such as multilingual support, user friendly interface play a vital role in increasing the ROI which is the main concern of the people involved in business.


As compared to other ecommerce solutions, Magento is the robust and cost effective ecommerce solution. It helps the businesspeople to stay ahead among the competitors in the ecommerce world. With the help of magento, you can build an enchanting ecommerce website. Certain unique characteristics of Magento such as flexibility to customize the online store, while easily identifying the products by price, name, category and more make it the complete powerful ecommerce development solution.


Magento, being adaptable with all the browsers is more popular. Sometimes, businessmen wish to develop an online store as per its needs, this is very easy with the custom magento development which includes custom magento templates, custom magento themes, magento ecommerce design and more. Magento development is possible by two ways either by hiring an expert Magento developer or by delegating the task to a well known Magento development company.


Hiring a Magento developer can be a good decision for the people who have just entered into the online business while those who are already successfully running their online stores and want to stay ahead among the competitors can delegate the task to a renowned Magento development company. Online traders can also integrate their ecommerce stores with Magento.  If an online seller already has its ecommerce store on eBay or any shopping website, then that store can be integrated with the Magento making it more attractive and customizable.


However, even a small business enterprise can venture into the ecommerce world by using Magento Go, a perfect ecommerce solution for small and medium enterprises. Magento Go consists of attractive magento templates, customizable magento themes, magento templates and more available at a moderate cost. Be it Magento Go or entire Magento Development, you can get the best magento services from any of the reputed Magento Development companies.


Before choosing a Magento Development company to delegate the task to; analysis should be done regarding its policy, time fulfillment, consistency, quality of work, relationship with the former clients, trustworthiness, goodwill are a few. Apart from this, ensure that the company provides entire Magento development services including Magento connect, custom Magento Design, Magento ecommerce design, magento ecommerce development, magento module development and all those services updated on daily basis in the market. Fix your objective, your designs, your budget and your needs; then finally start searching for the Magento Development Company that matches your criteria and provides you with the better magento ecommerce solutions ensuring you success and excellence in the long run in the growing ecommerce world.


ZestTech Solutions, London, UK aims at providing industry best magento development solutions to all the online traders making their online business successful and progressive. The success of ZestTech lies in the success of its clients. Give us a chance to serve you and you will be among the successful online sellers.

Magento Shopping Cart is the most flexible eCommerce Solution for your business

ZestTech Solutions, the expert Magento developers based in London, UK say that Magento shopping cart is the best eCommerce development Solution for your business as it makes it easier for your customers to shop and allows you to serve your customers better by tailoring your products to their needs.

How it works is that when a customer logs on, a long-term cookie preserves information about the customer so that firstly, the customer does not have to waste time signing in again, secondly they can browse your site for a longer period of time from multiple devices and thirdly, as a business you can provide promotion and encourage customers to view other products based on their shopping cart entries.

The ZestTech Magento development team say that this feature of the Magento shopping cart is the most beneficial to your business.  Your customer leaves happy and not frustrated at his shopping experience.  The ultimate aim is to make each customers shopping experience as easy and flexible as possible.  Customers want to see offers and promotions and if they added a product in their shopping cart at work they want to be able to come home and change it from their phone without logging in again.

Flexibility is the key and Magento shopping cart does that. The ZestTech Magento development team and ZestTech’s Magento shopping cart experts explain that Magento allows multi-tier pricing for quantity discounts and generates a set of coupon codes that are unique for each type of promotion which allows you to export this list of codes for offline distribution, sending via email, texts, newsletters and many more social avenues. With Magento‘s eCommerce report generating features as a business you can easily manage and monitor coupon usage and generate detailed reports with analysis.

Magento experts, ZestTech Solutions love the fact that Magento shopping cart features don’t just end here, additional features include wish lists that can be sent via email with the ability to add comments, view and compare product options, reorder options, recently viewed and ordered lists that you can also send to friends, persistent shopping cart, free shipping options, polls, product reviews, and customer group membership.

At the end of the day everything has to look good and Magento provides excellent templates so that you can design your store with a number of Magento themes.  The ZestTech a Magento development company of London, UK, Magento web design and design team can design your store by giving you a number of exciting Magento theme options, all of them as flexible as the shopping experience your customers will go through when browsing your store.

Call ZestTech now to adopt the Magento shopping cart and design experience.  ZestTech Solutions will integrate Magento into your business so you will go strength to strength.

ZestTech Solutions, an expert IT solutions company, are Magento development experts and have offices in London, UK. Visit www.zesttechsolutions.com for further information or contact info@zesttechsolutions.com.