Ricard Pons, owner of Garlana Restaurants and proud customer of iSenseLabs is sharing his story with going into e-commerce. Garlana is an example of successful expansion from brick-and-mortar to online business.
As an e-commerce store owner in the ever-growing mobile market, it is time to choose the right mobile strategy for your budget. Which type of mobile presence is best for your store - mobile website or mobile application?
In this blog post we hope that we will help you to decide which type of mobile presence to use for your business.
From payment gateways to analytics tools, shipping modules to language modifiers, the OpenCart Extension Directory is packed with integrations that empower your online business, or maybe just make day-to-day business functions run a little smoother. At the time of this article, the OpenCart Extension Directory has over 16,000 extensions to choose from, not only making the search tedious, but intimidating.
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.
You need real data and information to make major business decisions. To obtain this data, you need tools to analyze metrics and make accurate forecasts. Predicting sales is a fundamental part of running and growing any type of E-Commerce business. SalesForecast lets you project expected sales and revenue for a period you select.
Thanksgiving is almost here, and so is Black Friday, which is why big and small businesses are preparing to seize the busiest shopping day of the year.
Social media became a fundamental part of our lives long ago, and it affects each aspect of our daily routine - we check Facebook right after waking up, we’re on Twitter when things go viral, and we’re taking photos with Instagram when having fun.
Tailoring your OpenCart store can be very exciting with all the diverse modules and unlimited customization you can do. We decided to gather up some data and show you the most favored and trending modules we had in 2015.
Email marketing and UX design are two sensitive topics for the E-Commerce industry. Being an online store without email outreach or user-friendly design is never a successful strategy. However, even those who are already doing it face challenges when it comes to engagement and conversion. To make your email campaigns work, you have to understand that it’s just a part of the entire user experience you want to create for reaching your customers.
Social media platforms enable a more personal and open level of communication. Our feed shows that many businesses prefer to interact with customers by liking, tweeting, commenting and sharing content. This type of communication expands their reach and opens up new marketing possibilities.
Popups are a controversial topic that give some people the chills, while others the thrills. In this blog post, we will view exit popups as a customer retention method. They can help you keep incoming traffic in your store while generating more leads.
Being an entrepreneur with an online business is a tempting challenge. The good thing is that a strong community helps itself in overcoming that challenge by sharing know-how, experience and making real progress.
You have just opened the virtual doors to your brand new OpenCart online store. You are feeling proud and excited to start doing business with customers. But where are the customers?
We’re very excited for the release of SmartBar. SmartBar is an extension that lets you create and add a banner at the top and/or bottom of your website.
If there is one place for beautiful images and visuals in OpenCart, it’s the Slideshow. This is where you can place marketing materials such as promotions, product announcements, discounts, as well as Call-to-Action buttons that invite users to a product page.
After weeks of hard work, our team is happy to introduce FacebookStore for OpenCart! With a few clicks, FacebookStore connects your OpenCart store to Facebook and allows you to sell products on your Facebook Page.
Is your OpenCart store struggling with generating enough orders? Are you interested in increasing the desire of customers to make a purchase, instead of leaving with an empty cart?
Facebook has been a part of setting new standards for online businesses. Thanks to their advancements in advertising and mobile use, thousands of new and seasoned brands have grown their business, audience and potential.
In this blog post, we want to show you some of the modules that are compatible with OpenCart 2.3 and why they are among the essential tools for getting your online business to the next level.
There’s nothing more inspiring than a beautiful story of how one business experienced the dream of every entrepreneur - rapid growth. We will show you the story behind the immense success behind CarCoverUniverse.
iSenseLabs Weekly just turned 40! We’ve made some changes how we present our weekly progress and have enriched the bonus section with one of our latest projects - iSenseLabs videos.
It was a busy week at the labs and we are ready to present our newest OpenCart extension upgrades. We’ve added some new module features and did a lot of improvements.
What’s the quickest and most attractive way to promote your products to your store visitors the second they open your E-Commerce website? You guessed it - the slider on your home page. You can showcase your greatest products without making the customer scroll or click anywhere else.
OpenCart has one of the biggest marketplaces for free and premium extensions when compared to other E-Commerce platforms. Given that the shopping cart is open-source and fully customizable, it might be difficult to choose all the right modules for your exact store requirements.
2016 was a year that can hardly be described with a few words. Even a few sentences wouldn’t be enough. Surely, it was an awesome year for us at iSenseLabs and hopefully it was for you as well.
The holidays are almost here and the Christmas spirit is strong in the labs. This is the last iSenseLabs weekly post for 2016 and we are excited to bring you the updates.
In this comparison, we will try to explain how OpenCart and Magento differ in terms of architecture, functionality, performance and cost. This is written for entrepreneurs who want to build an E-Commerce store and are choosing between the two open-source platforms.
Trying to make your OpenCart store appealing to foodies and wine enthusiasts? Here's a collection of 10 OpenCart themes designed to turn your store into an irresistible showcase of quality food and drinks.
Today we will do a Q & A for one of our newer modules Promotions. Promotions comes with of hundreds of different options to make your store promotion unique and allows you to set up pretty much any type of promotions.
E-Commerce just keeps growing and more entrepreneurs are trying to leave their mark on the digital landscape. Naturally, this means that the competition across all industries is growing as well, which creates the necessity to offer more value, create better experiences and build user-friendly websites that make shopping online simpler and intuitive.
Your OpenCart theme is what sets your store apart from the competitors. Choosing the right template for OpenCart is not easy, which is why we found 15 of the best responsive E-Commerce themes and decided to share them with you.
The big news this week is that we officially launched Square for OpenCart! We’ve been working with the payment provider for a while now and the new integration is now ready and available for OpenCart store owners to install.
Time to wrap up what we did during the past week. There are a lot of modules with OpenCart 3.0 compatibility, but we’re still working on increasing their number.
Enabling OpenCart store owners to sell more is what iSenseLabs is all about, so our updates started coming out very soon after OpenCart 3 was released.
This story comes from Gramno, a gaming site that started with WordPress and WooCommerce, but eventually made the decisive move to OpenCart and that’s what started a rapid change.
Thankfully, retailers can easily automate much of those time-consuming tasks and free up time in your day that you can dedicate to more productive tasks – whether they be improving your business or your golf swing.
A roundup of the most purchased OpenCart modules during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. What type of functionality do OpenCart store owners want the most?
OpenCart themes need to be responsive, fast and adaptable to your online store. Take a look at these Premium OpenCart themes that improve shopping experience.
Let’s see the most popular content released by iSenseLabs about OpenCart in the past year. It now comes in different forms spanning over blog posts, infographics, step-by-step tutorials and videos.
The last module update we summarized here was back in May 2020. From that point forward we have released multiple updates, improvements and bug fixes for a big amount of our extensions. Here is the full list of updates we are finishing the year with:
What sounds better than a Black Friday weekend?... That's right, a Black Friday month! The biggest sale event of the year is just around the corner, and we know how excited you are for the upcoming month. However, we think that your customers are not the only ones who deserve a good deal for the holiday season. That is why we gathered some exclusive Shopify app deals
Our special Black Friday deals for OpenCart are already live! We have an exclusive offer for some of the most popular extensions as well as our usual sitewide discount. Let's check them out:
It is that time of the year again! Time for celebrations and spreading holiday cheer. As usual, we have our special Christmas deals on some of the most popular Opencart extensions. Let's jump right into the good stuff:
