With 15 years in the market, and more than 150,000 online stores running, Magento is a powerhouse in the ecommerce industry. It’s flexible and feature-rich – hence, the top choice among mid-sized and large businesses – all thanks to the thriving community built around it. 

But as it often happens, there’s no rose without a thorn. And in the case of Magento, for many merchants, the thorn is the level of ‌technical expertise required to unlock Magento’s power. Most often, this requires a skilled Magento development team – internal or external. And If you don’t possess the needed development skills within your company,  how then do you choose a professional Magento development team from the vast pool of available talent, and without becoming overwhelmed?

As a certified Magento / Adobe Partner, and a Magento development firm with 15 years of expertise, Atwix is here to shed some light on the issue. Read on to learn what truly matters when choosing a Magento ecommerce agency.

Magento 2 extensions provide additional flexibility to your eCommerce store with the looks and hooks to grow your sales.

These modules built by expert developers (Atwix included) add new capabilities to your online store that might not be available in the default Magento installation. They’re also pre-built and can be rapidly deployed, which will save you from overhead costs and overdue timelines.

Read on to find the list of the best Magento 2 extensions that will power up any part of your business.

Starting from Magento 2.3, the Registry class that is (or was) used by a lot of developers and extension vendors is declared to be deprecated. 

Class comments often suggest using service classes or data providers, but no examples are provided. In this article, we’ll show you how to get needed data using best practices and service classes.

As a business owner, choosing the right payment gateway is vital so your Magento shop can run seamlessly. A top-notch Magento payment gateway can help you leverage your profit.

Many entrepreneurs make the mistake of selecting the first payment gateway they find. However, there are many factors to consider when choosing the one tailored for your business. 

In this blog post, we will highlight some important points you need to look for in a payment gateway for your Magento site.

In our “Close Magento store for maintenance” blog post, we described how to close a store for maintenance and what restrictions we have for the maintenance mode in Magento 1. Fortunately or vice versa, time goes fast, and things change. Magento application also changes and gets more agile to business needs. 

Today we already have Magento 2 and would like to discuss the opportunities that Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce offer for website owners (merchants) regarding maintenance mode features. Also, we will overview their advantages and disadvantages and applicable cases of each solution. So, let’s get started.

Fastly content delivery network (CDN) offers a comprehensive suite of features from cutting-edge caching technology to GEO IP detection, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and additional CDN features (such as images optimization). But that’s not all – Fastly Edge Modules are also at your disposal with preconfigured solutions which can be activated on purpose.

In the U.S. alone, there are over ~1,300 companies involved in the manufacture of parts for all kinds of automobiles.

As with most other industries, auto parts manufacturing slowed at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and customer behavior changed drastically. As lockdowns were ordered and the automotive supply chain was affected, clients turned to eCommerce stores for their auto parts.

Automotive eCommerce, which includes auto parts eCommerce, is here to stay and is only expected to grow in the future.

So, how do you build a competitive auto parts eCommerce platform?

Since the very beginning of Atwix we’ve been focusing on quality. Because the quality approach is an evolutionary process, we’re constantly improving our expertise through actual practice. As a brilliant example, Atwix has been a TOP contributor to  Magento 2 Open Source for four years (!) since 2018.

Over the years, we were observing the patterns in the development community that could slow down the development process, increase the code price or even reduce the code quality.

As a long time community contributor, we at Atwix, wanted to solve this issue.

Please, welcome and cherish the Atwix Magento 2 PhpStorm plugin, a tool that reduces the time for solution delivery and the price of a line of code. 

If you haven’t heard about MACH, let us elaborate on what it stands for. By searching the internet, you may find that “MACH number (M or Ma) is a dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamics representing the ratio of flow velocity past a boundary to the local speed of sound.” 

While that MACH is named after Moravian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach, our MACH is from the Information Technologies world :)

With more and more ERP providers releasing their Cloud versions, we wanted to make a list of both cloud, and self-hosted popular ERP’s to Integrate with Magento, briefly describing features for each one.