How to Automatically Generate Invoice Numbers in OpenCart 2.x

July 11, 2016
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OpenCart enables you, as a store admin, to generate order invoices with just a few clicks. However, order invoice numbers are not automatically added to the invoice, but they have to be pre-generated, which is rather cumbersome. In this tutorial we will demonstrate how you can automate this process. Keep on reading if you would like to know how you can save time by adding a simple modification, which will automatically generate invoice number at the moment of order placing.
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How to Add Sorting by Date to the Product List in OpenCart 2.x

February 22, 2016
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In this blogpost, we will demonstrate how you can easily add a new field to your products list - date of creation and a date sorting. This will enable you to order your products starting from the most recent ones to the oldest ones or vice versa.
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Tips for eCommerce Email Marketing Success

October 6, 2015
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More than 90% of all e-commerce businesses rely on e-mail marketing as a sales and marketing channel On the other hand, around 90% of the customers chose e-mail newsletter as the preferred communication for receiving updates, marketing campaigns and useful information for the subscribed services. Do these numbers motivate you to ethink your e-mail marketing strategy and grasp its vital effect on your eCommerce business? Keep on reading and you will find strategies and tips for email marketing success, useful e-commerce marketing statistics, as well as a few examples to take into account before your next big e-mail campaign.
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The Art of Mastering Product Returns

August 27, 2015
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Having a refund policy of any type is vital for the success and growth of your business, especially in the field of e-commerce. Ensuring your customers that they will be able to return their products , if they are not satisfied with them, for either an exchange, store credit or a complete refund, will help you build loyalty, security and reliability towards your online business. In this blogpost we will concentrate on the most common reasons for product returns, give you some ideas on how to reduce and avoid them. Towards the end of the article you will find some bizarre and absurd reasons for returned products which were actually used (and some of them even worked!)
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How to Manage OpenCart Stock Statuses

July 28, 2015
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The stock status shows your customers the current stock of each product in your online store. OpenCart uses the current quantity of a product to determine the stock status displayed in your store’s product page. If the quantity of a product is above 0, the availability of a product in the front store will be always set to In Stock. When the quantity is 0, OpenCart gives you the option to choose the Out-of-Stock status for the specific product from the admin panel. There are a couple of pre-set OpenCart Out-Of-Stock statuses you can choose from and in this blogpost we will show you how you can edit them, add more of them and change their color.
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How to add a new currency and new language in OpenCart 2.x

July 2, 2015
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In this blog post we will show you a step-by-step tutorial how you can add a currency and a language different than the default OpenCart ones (USD/EUR/GBP and English respectively) from your OpenCart admin panel.
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How to edit the OpenCart footer links

June 1, 2015
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There are a few basic things regarding the OpenCart shopping cart system which every OC store owner is good to be aware of. In this blogpost we will cover the topic on the default footer in OpenCart 2.x and how you can easily edit the links in it.
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How to hide your Add-to-Cart Button and your Product Price in OpenCart 2.0.x

April 29, 2015
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As an OpenCart store owner you are well aware of the Add-to-Cart button and the product price that are displayed next to each product in your store. There are a few good reasons why you might want to remove these two, but unfortunately OpenCart doesn’t give you the possibility to disable them from the admin panel. This is why we have prepared this short tutorial for you that will show you how you can do this on your own. We will create two OCmod files that will make the needed modifications without the need of changing the core files.
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Maintenance Mode Tutorial

March 23, 2015
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The maintenance mode allows you to ‘turn off’ your website for your customers while it’s being worked on. In this blog post we will show you how to enable and create a maintenance mode that catches your customers' attention and makes them want to come back.
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3 Ways to Modify Your Product Options in Opencart 2.0.x

March 6, 2015
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In this blogpost we will show you three ways in which you can easily and quickly modify your Product Options. The suggested implementations will give your product page a clearer, neater and more informative outlook, which will surely make a positive impression on your customers.
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