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Does your website scare or excite customers?

Ask yourself: When last did you put your website to the ultimate test?

Why should you test your website? Read more 

 

How do you achieve high online sales early in the year?

2023 is now in full swing, and it’s business as usual for the in-store and online sales markets. Although it’s still early in the year, you may have already noticed… Read more

Tips to prepare for eCommerce success in 2023

What’s awaiting your business in 2023? It could be greater business opportunities, improved processes, and even higher profits. Read more

Tips to increase online sales during festive season

Oh no, December is here, and everyone still has some last-minute shopping to do before we gather with family and friends over the holidays. Read more

Tips to increase online sales during festive season

The festive season is here or, as I like to call it, the spending season. As always, the streets are filled with festive décor and cheerful people ready to spend on gifts, groceries,.. Read more

Increases customer value with online personalisation

The shift of power in the buying process has drastically changed over the years. What was once solely decided upon by big business is now being dictated by consumers.  Read more

Digitrade – the international eCommerce genius

We’ve shown you how to go from local to global sales with eCommerce, and we’ve even walked you through mastering international payments and deliveries. Read more 

Mastering international payments and deliveries

How do you go from selling products in your local area to becoming a global brand, without moving your headquarters or opening more branches? Read more

From local to global sales with eCommerce

The rainbow nation, the Motherland, or as we know it, Mzansi. Whatever you call it, South Africa is a country unlike any other. Read more

Building stronger online brands through optimised payments

Out of every retailer who has an eCommerce store, less than 40% put online payment optimization at the top of their online strategic needs list. Read more

 Less loading time, more online engagement

What’s more frustrating than going on a website and entering its page, only for it to keep loading and loading? Read more

Offline to online: Sales in the modern world

Unless you were born during a lockdown period in recent times, chances are your first introduction to the act of buying and selling was in a traditional brick-and-mortar store. Read more 

How to Boost your online sales

To boost eCommerce sales, you should know who your shoppers are to be able to target them efficiently. Read more

Back to eCommerce Basics

When you are looking to travel somewhere and need to arrange transport like a plane ticket, where do you go? Do you start by heading straight to your nearest airport to book a ticket, or do you just go online? Read more 

Chatbots in the eCommerce world

Chatbots are a new trend that can help your business grow. Whether you use it for customer support, process automation, or scalability, a chatbot in the eCommerce world is big. Read more 

Expanding your business via eCommerce

The world is such a large, beautiful place, with over 200 countries worldwide and about 8 billion people coming from all over. With so many human beings throughout the globe who are consumers, the market opportunities are endless.  Read more 

Becoming a leading brand through eCommerce

et me tell you a story about how one of the biggest brands in the world built their success around marketing, selling, and pushing traffic on an eCommerce platform. There once was a business that sold pens.  Read more

Prevent yourself from making eCommerce mistakes

Mistakes happen. It’s a natural part of life that we need to learn to deal with. For instance, when you are busy with something at home and accidently knock over a glass. Read more 

How not to handle Online Returns

Meet Sarah, a young accountant in training with a taste for fashion and a large following on social media platforms. Her favourite things to buy online are takkies and sneakers, especially from her favourite brand, Cool Shoes. Read more

Successful Order Fulfilment starts here

When someone buys a product on an online store, when do we consider the order fulfilled? Is it after the customer completes their payment, or is it once the business sends out the order for delivery? Read more

Convert website visitors to happy customers

A brand with a smooth functioning and engaging website automatically increases its online presence, but can also achieve so much more.

To list some of the advantages, good websites assist businesses with, Read more 

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The growing need for online authentication

What a time to be alive. You can buy a new pair of shoes, order lunch, and book an appointment without uttering a single word. That’s the beauty of living in an online world where you can communicate, purchase, and find things at a click of a button.  Read more

Distinguish your online store from competitors

What makes an online store great?

This is a great question, and it seems like one with objective answers, at first glance. We can debate that we all value different things when shopping and searching online. Read more

eCommerce Payment Methods: The more, the merrier

Customers have their own way of doing things, as well as unique preferences when it comes to online shopping. Read more

Smart business decisions begin with analytics and reports

Many factors contribute towards an eCommerce store’s success, one of which being the levels of traffic flowing onto your e-store. Read more 

Why is excellent Order Management necessary?

You know those rare moments when you find a certain brand’s email in your inbox? The one’s with a Subject Line that intrigues you, and content that speaks to you. Read more 

Order Management

Digitrade, the eCommerce Marketing genius

You know those rare moments when you find a certain brand’s email in your inbox? The one’s with a Subject Line that intrigues you, and content that speaks to you.
Read more 

eCommerce Marketing

Online Security is achievable with Digitrade

Criminals are lurking at every digital corner, waiting for an opportunity to steal all your sensitive information. These types of criminals attack people and platforms online with weak security measures, which is why you need to ensure your online security is exceptional. Read more

Handling online returns and refunds

Imagine finding the perfect winter coat after searching forever online, purchasing it, and having it delivered, only for it to be two sizes too small. Read more 

Ways to avoid Google suspension

Google makes it a point to create safe and positive experiences for everyone who uses their platforms. Read more

 

Google suspension

Choosing the right POS Solution for your business
If money makes the world go round, then businesses are what keep the world spinning. Businesses are built on the premise of making a profit, and usually continue their entire life span doing exactly that. Read more 

Catalogue Management 3: Mass Product Actions

Product information is a vital factor in the success of online sales. Customers want to know certain product details when they are shopping …  Read more 

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Catalogue Management 2: Virtual Catalogues

Catalogues are collections of product information that we use to organise our products for accurate online product promotion and sales. Read more

Catalogue Management

There was a time when managing catalogues meant curating four-to-five-page print magazines filled with everything a business has to offer that month. Read more 

Reduce cart abandonment with Magento

According to a study by the Baymard Institute, 69.75% of online shoppers abandon their carts on desktops, 85.65% on their phones and 80.74% on their tablets. These are staggering statistics that directly impact your site’s revenue. Read more

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Product Attributes – All you need to know about

We’ve all been there: behind a lit screen, typing descriptions into search engines with hopes that they will bring up the exact product you are looking for, at the price range you desire. Read more 

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Google Merchant Center – How to upload feeds

Google knows how to push your business growth by creating successful ads and listings for your business’s products. Read more

Enable Google Shopping Ads with Google Merchant Center

When was the last time you did not search Google to find products or information you are looking for? Chances are, you are still trying to remember when that was, and with reason. Read more 

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Impressive Data Management= Effective Data Analytics

Data is the best unkept secret company uses to achieve goals victoriously. So much can be extracted and learnt from it. Read more

How to eCommerce: a guide to succeeding online

 

What makes a successful eCommerce site? 

eCommerce can provide businesses with limitless growth potential and game-changing profitability. Read more

The future of business is still eCommerce!

To have a successful business, it is particularly important to understand the needs of your consumers. 

Knowing what consumers want alone, however, is not enough. Read more

Benefits of eCommerce

The greatest advantage eCommerce has over traditional retail is that it’s conducted online instead of in a physical store. This opens up a new world of benefits that retailers of all sizes are using today to improve their business and stay competitive. Read more 

What is eCommerce

Commerce (also known as electronic commerce) is the buying and selling of goods and services over the internet. eCommerce includes a multitude of data, systems and tools. Read more