[iSenseLabs Weekly 93] New OpenCart Features & Fixes, Video Tutorials and Latest E-Commerce News

Another Friday, another iSenseLabs Weekly roundup of all latest OpenCart 3.x module updates and news from around the E-Commerce world.

We’re happy to announce the long awaited release of AnyPort 3.0. You now have a secure solution for backing up your store data and restoring it at any point.

For next week, we’re doing our best to release a new version of SEO Backpack. We’re planning some serious improvements for simplifying your OpenCart 3.x store search engine optimization efforts and packing even more power in the extension.

OpenCart Extension Updates

AbandonedCarts 6.5.3 (OC 3.x)

Improvement: Guest details are properly detected in quick checkout systems.

AnyPort 3.0 (OC 3.x)

Initial release for OpenCart 3.x.

Improvement: AnyPort now uses .TAR archive format for better performance.

GiftTeaser 3.0.0 (OC 3.x)

Initial release for OpenCart 3.x.

LastViewed 3.1.9 (OC 3.x)

Initial release for OpenCart 3.x.

AdminMonitor 1.1.2 (OC 2.x) & AdminMonitor 3.1.2 (OC 3.x)

Improvement: Track logouts

Improvement: Track Customer and Customer Group changes

Improvement: Added compatibility with ProductManager

Improvement: UI fixes

Bug fix: Track store setting changes for the default store (this was only working for additional stores).

Best E-Commerce Knowledge Resources of the Week

Harry’s Marketing Revealed: What We Learned from Reverse Engineering a $400 Million Startup (Case Study)

By Sleeknote

One of the most genius digital marketing strategies was investigated and reverse engineered by Sam from Sleeknote. There are tons of awesome ideas you will not resist to steal and get inspired by all the thought, vision and coherent execution of each brilliant marketing move made by Harry’s. By far the best case study we’ve seen. Not just motivational, it’s actionable.

Facebook and Instagram Ads Guide

By Julian Shapiro

One of the most complex, but at the same time simple to understand guides for Facebook and Instagram advertising. We are actually starting to use the guide for our Facebook Advertising campaigns and urge you to take a look because there are a lot of important questions answered that you can put into action and make your ads explode right now.

3 Ways You Could be Unknowingly Wasting Ad Budget

By Unbounce

Your intended traffic was the one that you planned on acquiring based on data, analytics and keywords. The actual traffic is the one you get from your ad platforms, whatever your strategy. Sometimes you can get an inflow of traffic that was not intended due to inaccurate campaign settings, mistakes or platform changes.

Simplify Full Data Export and Import in OpenCart 3.x with ExcelPort

By iSenseLabs

Recently a new version of ExcelPort got rolled out so we thought it would be a neat idea to elaborate on some of the new features and improvements we did to it. For instance, you can now export products that aren’t assigned to any store, or auto-update all your order statistics once you import new data in your store. Neat stuff, be sure not to miss them.

iSenseLabs Videos

How to Manage Geo Zones in OpenCart 3.x

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