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Our helpful eCommerce insights cover breaking news, major releases and evolving best practices across Shopify, Magento and Hyvä, alongside commentary on performance, scalability and digital growth trends in online retail.

  • Shopify

Performance Optimisation for Shopify

Performance Optimisation for Shopify - What? Why?

  • Magento

  • General

  • Support

Magento 2.4 Page Builder

Magento store owners have been crying out for a method to add content to their sites in a more accessible and intuitive fashion for some time. 

  • Magento

  • Support

Supporting your online performance in 2022

How we can help you support your Magento website.

  • General

9 eCommerce improvements for your site in 2022

2022 promises to have enormous potential for eCommerce merchants. Here are some thoughts about what key improvements you may want to consider ...

  • General

User Journey Planning – What is an Empathy Map?

​The importance of the user journey. Here we investigate empathy maps - a simple activity that should form part of the process of your user jo...

  • Magento

  • Support

Magento 1 merchants need to stay PCI compliant

There are now just 30 days remaining until support for Magento 1 stops at the end of June 2020. From this date, because security patches will ...

  • Magento

  • Support

Turbo charge your site with a Magento Performance Audit

Magento Performance Audit

  • Awards

  • General

We won BIG AGAIN at the National Ecommerce Awards 2020

Absolute are thrilled to announce we scooped the award for “Best Mobile eCommerce” at the National Ecommerce Awards 2020.

  • Creative

The importance of brand evolution

Is your brand fit for today's digital era?

  • Creative

  • General

The importance of attending a press pass

As a designer you should never overlook the importance of overseeing the actual printing and finishing process.

  • Magento

Migrating from M1 to Shopify

As a Magento Partner we understand that not all customers running Magento 1 sites will want to migrate to M2.

  • General

Brompton Bike Hire - Partner API & App Updates

Integrating with the Brompton Bike Hire network - Partner API

  • Magento

  • Support

Does your M2 site need support?

Whether you’re migrating from another platform or you’ve had your Magento 2 store built from scratch, the length of an M2 project from concept...

  • Awards

  • General

We’re finalists at the 2020 eCommerce Awards

Absolute are delighted to announce we are finalists at the 2020 eCommerce Awards.

  • Magento

  • Support

It’s not too late to move to M2 and stay PCI compliant

As you are no doubt aware Support for Magento 1 stops on 30th June 2020. There is still time to migrate to M2 and remain PCI compliant.

Latest Magento 1 update from Visa - ACTION REQUIRED

To help you plan for the successful future of your Magento site, we thought we’d share the latest communication from Visa stating the actions...

  • General

What is a PWA (Progressive Web Application)?

What is a PWA (Progressive Web Application)?

  • Magento

  • Support

Confirmation - M1 support stops 30 June ‘20

This is a reminder that support for Magento 1 will end on June 30, 2020. In light of rapidly evolving world events, we know how critical this ...

  • Magento

  • Support

Magento 1 End of Life - Security and Performance

The 30th June ‘20 was Magento 1 ‘End of Life’ but what does this mean for retailers who choose to stay on M1? 

  • Magento

  • Support

Only 99 days to go until Magento will cease supporting its Magento 1 platform.

Reasons why you should act now

  • Magento

  • General

  • Support

Downgrading Magento Commerce

Sometimes the use of an 'off the shelf' CMS or eCommerce platform doesn’t support the business strategy of our clients. Or, such platform may ...

  • Magento

  • Awards

Absolute have been recognised as a Magento Business Solution Partner

We are are delighted to announce that we have been appointed as a Magento Business Solution Partner, making us one of only 43 approved partner...

  • Magento

  • Creative

Absolute deliver a global marketing plan in China

Over the last six months we’ve been developing the global marketing plan for WinTech Racing, a leader in the manufacturing of rowing racing bo...

  • Magento

  • General

  • Support

Improving M2 Content Pages with Widget Extensions

The Situation If you’re using Magento 2 Open Source, you’ll be relying on developers to setup a way for you to edit your content. You can oft...

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