Monday 14 April 2014

Some Best Practices While Selecting An Online Payment Processing Solution



Payment transaction plays an important role in purchase particularly in Magento commerce. Selecting an appropriate payment option helps in conducting successful payment transactions that eventually lead towards accomplishment of success.


The Logical Categorization Of Payment Processing: 

Numerous methodologies are there to perform online processing of transactions. American Express & Visa/MasterCard are the most general kinds of payment options, which purchasers use in non-currency transactions on Ecommerce platform. 

One more way of payment is PayPal, Authorize.net etc; such type of payment gateway is widely used all over the world.  In country like Netherlands, electronic bank transfer is used to transfer payments, which is another type of payment solution. Other various kinds of payment options are E-wallet & Cash-Ticket / UKash, which are an online cash vouchers.



Fraudulency And Its Remedies:

Like other walk of life, fraudulency is a prevalent issue, when online shopping is discussed such topic also gains great importance. Online sellers must pay attention to this menace that is not only ruining their business along with consumers. Psychologically a buyer always want a secure shopping experience whether he use Online Magento Shop or by means of conventional means of shopping that he does not get looted when purchasing from unreliable medium of shopping. The moment of occurrence of fraud in online payments is authorization to settlement, during this particular time slot a insecure payment system may be in vulnerable state that should to be catered. In order to protect card payments, Visa and MasterCard are made secure with 3D Secure Protocol and Visa Europe implements CodeSure card with un-breachable security. In the same way such kind of protocols are also implemented on Mobile framework eCommerce.

Layaway Payments:

Layaway payments are installment based payment method. A person who cannot pay whole amount at once is allowed to pay amount in episodes. This way of payment got attention after the strike of great slump, later on it depleted by the arrival of credit/debit cards. After the strike of another wave of depression in twenty first century, Layaway again gained importance with the technological advancement; this type of payment methodology was later on implemented on Ecommerce platforms. Magento Payment Options by FME add-on works in same manner like that of conventional Layaway payments.



Factors involved In The Selection of Payments Option:

Here are some factors, which should be cared when a payment solution is adopted: 

·         Make sure that payment module can process current volumes and contains built-in scalability that is done in normal scenarios without losing performance.

·         Verify that all type of card transactions, networks, devices, acquirers and host systems suits to payment option.

·         Validate that payment unit is capable to adjust new currencies, devices, languages and payment methods.

·         Ensure that payment gateway retains nominal costs while sustaining security, speed and convenience.

·         Investigate that payment solution is capable to manage concurrent processes for a single user and integration of schemes emerging from many organizations so that benefits & loyalty plans are successful.

·         Along with this, verify that payment module is proficient to assimilate real-time information from multiple internal resources.

Wednesday 19 March 2014

Features of Magento CSV Pricing Extension


CSV file is used for many different purposes. It plays a very important role in each business perspective. From simple reports sorting, data mining to E-commerce, it eases the life of professionals. One such example is its usage in online pricing strategies, where it plays a vital role. Magento CSV Based Pricing is a perfect example, where price of variable sized products is calculated from the spreadsheet. Yes, not all products are similar e.g. mobile phones and curtains cannot have same price because the later is a variable sized product and its price depends upon the size that user selects before purchase. 

Now it is not difficult to calculate the price of two dimensional products, you do not need to create lots of configurable products in Magento, which is very time consuming and complicated task. For the solution of this problem, CSV Pricing Magento module is introduced by FME. Admin can add price for different sizes in this CSV file, upload it against the required product and then Magento will automatically pick the price for that specific product from this CSV file. This file can be imported and exported from number of programs. This Extension provides webstore owners quick way of price calculation for different variable sized products. 

This Matrix Based Pricing Magento extension provides an easy way to calculate the sum of table based prices. It can be used for variable sized products just like blinds, flooring, liquids, shoes, cloths etc. One of the best features of Magento CSV Pricing Extension is that it enables online customers to just enter the required product size on product page and then it will give you calculated price automatically in respective units like millimeter, centimeter, inches or feet.  By using Magento Product Price module you can set CSV file for each product based on category and it has Global CSV features in default. 


Here are some key features of Table Pricing Magento Plug-in: 

This Magento Module supports input/output units just like millimeters; centimeters, inches and feet, customers can easily manage to purchase the product of their desire size.

  •  This extension provides you Global CSV options for all products which can automatically calculate prices.
  •  It enables you to make separate CSV spreadsheet for each product by making products groups.
  •  It supports all the digital and decimal values.  
  • CSV pricing extension enables web store owners to create simple products instead of making lot of configurable products which ultimately saves their time.
  • There excellent validation of rows and columns that is performed by smart JavaScript.
  • Custom validation of rows and columns labels is supported.
  • This module provides the facility of filtering values i.e. minimize and maximize the products price range.
  •  Its supports all the new browser versions.