Magento 1 EOL update

Magento commerce, in September 2016, had officially announced that all versions of Magento 1 would reach end-of-life (EOL) by June 2020. This had left about a thousand retailers in India, who were operating on the system, in confusion and worry as they couldn’t grasp what this meant for their business. The e-commerce platform urged its clients to move to the updated Magento 2, a process that might involve major financial and logistical exercise in terms of proper migration planning and also determining the necessary extensions. A migration process like that may take upto 6 months or sometimes even a year.

Reasons for migrating to other platforms

• Increased risk of data breach:
  While your website will continue to run, it will be exposed to security breaches. This may cause data breaches and ultimately disrupt a smooth user experience as well as be the cause of users losing their trust in the website’s security. The damage could mean the loss of customers.

• Failing to comply with PCI DSS global standards:
  Apart from that, according to Adyen, a Dutch payment company, you may not be compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). With respect to the same, they emphasize that failing to migrate off a Magento 1 ecommerce website by June 2020 will cause merchants to fall out of PCI DSS compliance. This is because you will no longer be able to comply with ‘Requirement 6’, stating that you “develop and maintain secure systems and applications by installing applicable vendor-supplied security patches”. This means that in an event of a breach, the merchant will no longer meet the criteria for payment forensic investigation. Instead, they will be expected to hire an external PCI investigator which will be time-consuming and very expensive to carry out the full investigation.

These reasons in themselves are enough to make any retailer fear for the damage that their website and reputation could sustain.

Why would migrating to Magento 2 be a hassle?

• Since the previous version has been declared EOL, the majority of developers who contribute to the ever-growing Magento Marketplace will eventually stop releasing Magento 1 extensions and themes. This leaves the merchant/retailer in a position where they’d have to audit, maintain and fix any third-party extensions and themes – which isn’t a viable option for most.
• Needless to say, the entire process is not only expensive and time-consuming but also requires a client to go out of their way in order to ensure all technical gears are running in the right way. The hassles are quite cumbersome.
• Although Magento has encouraged the users of the previous version to migrate to their newest update (Magento 2), users have encountered many difficulties with the data migration as well as finding relevant modules that covered their previously existing modules. They also claimed that they needed to do most of the custom development from scratch, a tiresome and time consuming process.
• One of the pitfalls users ran across when making a move to Magento 2 is the ‘bad data’ issues. This refers to the custom data added manually that is not validated (in both M1 & M2); or M1 data that is not valid in accordance with M2 rules.
• Another aspect of this migration is that users generally encounter double the quoted expenses plus the additional expenses of redevelopment and extension upgrades.

Are there any options more suited for your needs instead of Magento 2?

If you don’t want to go through the long cumbersome process of migrating to Magento 2, you can also consider other e-commerce platforms such as Kartify from ANS Commerce for a better experience where your time and efforts will be invested in such a way that you, as a consumer, wouldn’t have to worry about updates that might impact the security of your website. This time could be used in rethinking the needs of your consumers in terms of their expectations from your website as well as the overall user experience you would want them to experience.

Introducing Kartify

ANS Commerce offers you a fully customizable, integration-ready proprietary platform – Kartify. This e-commerce platform allows store design and management across six domains; storefront designs, integration, funnel improvement, add catalogue/products, store management and reporting and analytics. The main aim of this platform is to streamline not only the consumer experience but also the retailer’s experience in crafting their store for the ultimate one-stop shopping experience.

With features such as review module, blog module, static pages for FAQs and a store locator, Kartify is a unique e-commerce platform that meets the needs and standards of your brand. It offers the client a completely customizable and managed e-commerce solution for brands to scale brandstore and leverage marketplaces. The platform is compatible with mobile response and offers design support to the client.

ANS Commerce also ensures complete audit of the website before migration which enables a smooth transition from Magento to Kartify without any hassle of data loss or customization problems. ANS Commerce, with its exceptional performance, has already successfully migrated multiple websites including a leading fashion brand in India, from Magento to Kartify within a short span of time.

What makes Kartify exceptional?

With hand-held onboarding support, Kartify is an integration-ready platform built to suit the needs of the brand and also the expectations of the end consumer. It is an omni-friendly ecommerce experience integrated with leading omni-channel partners, enabling fulfilment from offline shop to online orders.

Following are various features offered under different domains across the platform:

• Add catalogue/products:

With unlimited SKUs support and no restrictions on variants, Kartify offers high resolution images and smart zoom for your products. Adding to that, the platform offers multi-level product categorisation, bulk upload and update logs, richer product attributes and infinity scroll.

• Store Management:

Online stores need seamless payment processes to ensure that customers do not have to worry about their transaction. Kartify has provisions for payment gateway and payment method setup which allows for COD, wallets and UPI as well. The platform also offers payment with coupons, for customer engagement and sales. In order to resolve conflicts that may be encountered by the customers, the brand can also create customer support topics and resolve CRM tickets.

• Reporting and Analytics: (standard & custom)

In order to track the progress of a particular brand and/or product, Kartify also enables the marketers to view and analyse orders, returns, products and customers. Furthermore, it also provides tools to view and analyse marketing funnels, trends and promotions. The reports from the analytics can be delivered right in your inbox or phone.

• Funnel Improvement:

Additional tools to create, customize and manage coupons as well as discount settings and gift cards customizations are one of the many features that the brand can use to increase traffic on their website. For promotional offers, they can also manage affiliates and create URLs for tracking campaigns. Apart from that, Google Base Mapping and easy on-page SEO management tool will enable the brand to engage with potential customers over the internet.

The above mentioned features and many more make Kartify a world-class proprietary tech built with love. The design and fundamental goal behind Kartify is to provide a hands-on experience to the brand as well as their end consumers. The platform ensures paramount security of data and systems with its commitment to provide a hassle-free and tailored solution to the brand.

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