7 reasons why should you upgrade to Magento 2
With Magento 2’s release back in 2005, it has been a point of debate and confusion whether the support for Magento 1.x versions will continue beyond 2018. If you’re an e-commerce website owner based on Magento 1.x versions, chances are you have been wondering whether you should upgrade to Magento 2?
Without getting into speculation on longevity of Magento 1; we want to share a definitive guide on why upgrading to Magento 2 is a right choice to make.
In addition to the previously available benefits, Magento 2 offers better visibility into business performance through easy reports. Complete change of framework from a coding point of view has enabled Magento to offer better site performance and improved buying experience.
Key improvements that are worth mentioning comparing Magento 2 to its previous versions are:
1) Streamlined Checkout Experience — Now guests don’t have to fill in their details during the checkout process. Instead, the form shows up at the end of the checkout process. This makes them focus more on the buying and reduces errors like a product being added to card twice or missing adding one to the cart.
2) Payment Gateways — Integration of a wide range of payment gateways, most notably Paypal and Braintree. Using third-party payment services reduces the risk of loss of information to hackers. Paypal spends millions of dollars on making it the most secure payment gateway service. You can be assured of safe transactions every time.
3) Reordering products — Magento provides provision to enable buyers to reorder products they have bought before. Reordering removes redundancy of action from the consumer point of view. This guide shows how easy it is to set up reordering in Magento 2.
4) Elastic Search — You want your buyers to be shown relevant search results each and every time. Elastic Search manages large catalogs and provides support for 33 languages. It allows you to improve buyer search experience and supports attribute weighting and misspelling suggestions.
5) Simplified Admin Area — Administrator user interface has been simplified so that you can make changes to the store without any technical knowledge or developer support. Easy product creation, sorting, and filtering allows administrators to be more in control of the store backend.
6) Product Videos — Now you can add Youtube or Vimeo videos to your product videos. As your products show up more on different channels and video integration feature like this promotes brand recall.
7) Technology integration — Popular technologies like MySQL database, Varnish caching and AJAX javascript has been integrated with the main framework. It is now possible to create carts which can be modified without having to reload the whole web page.
Putting it all together:
Magento has done exhaustive research on all the shortcomings of the previous versions. They have taken on board feedbacks from its developer community to create Magento 2. Magento 2 tries to solve most of the challenges (if not all) for e-commerce business owners so that they can focus on what’s more important — growing their business and achieving a fat bottom line.
We would like to know what you think of this world class e-commerce platform? What concerns do you have when you think of migrating to Magento 2?
