Magento 2

renewed and improved

Magento 2 is the completely revamped and improved sequel to the world's most widely used e-commerce platform

Vicus has been a Magento specialist since 2007

Positive boost to your e-commerce!

Vicus is one of the very first Magento webshop builders in the Netherlands.

Having built more than 223 Magento webshops, we can rightfully call ourselves Magento experts.

At Vicus you are at the right place for a (multilingual) Magento 2 webshop.

Standard already very complete

With that, Magento has already captured over 28% of the market since 2007. Is Magento good enough for you? why not?

Vicus helps

Vicus helps in migration of your Magento 1 to Magento 2. Our Magento staff will be happy to assist you in switching to Magento 2 if you are currently working with a different platform.

New features in Magento 2

Compared to Magento 1

Buyer profiles and quotes

Starting with Magento 2.2, managing buyer profiles and requesting quotes will become easier. In addition, it will also be easier for you as a merchant to place orders via Excel files.

Bluefoot CMS

Now you can more easily give CMS pages rich content and formatting. You can also easily create templates and set up landing pages for marketing faster.

Social Shopping

Social Shopping has been launched for both the community and enterprise editions. A separate module that allows you to post your assortment on Facebook....

Commerce Order Management

The 'Magento Commerce Order Management platform' allows you as an offline store to sell your assortment with an overview from all local stores.

Core of Magento 2 has been improved

Compared to Magento 1

Responsive web design

With the fully responsive web design, your webshop will be accessible for all types of devices, from computers to tablets and cell phones. This should ensure a higher conversion of your webshop.

Visual Design Editor (VDE)

Easily make changes to your theme yourself, completely visually and using drag and drop. This makes you much less dependent on your web developer.

Safer

A number of changes to the file structure have made Magento 2 a lot more secure. Security updates are issued as system updates. This ensures that if you have the latest version installed, you also have all security updates.

Better modules available

The major module makers have now made available the most important extensions in the Marketplace for Magento 2. Consider extensions that contribute to the user experience, conversion rate and navigation capabilities.

Renewed interface

Managing your shop has been made a lot more user-friendly. For example, creating or modifying a product has become easier due to the greatly improved layout. In addition, the menu has made a natural split between system and shop management. Thus, your shop management consists of menu items such as Products, Marketing and Content. Configuration, tax rules and general terms and conditions are found in your system management.

Improved speed

Due to improvements in the core of the software, Magento 2's themes are a lot lighter. Furthermore, Magento 2 has Varnish integrated by default to bring the server load down considerably and Full Page Caching (FPC) can also be easily used. With standard support for the faster PHP7. With standard support for Varnish, which makes pages load even faster and reduces server load.

Technical Improvements

The technical improvements benefit you as a merchant. After all, if the technology runs better, and the environment is more professional, then the platform will perform better and ultimately incur the least cost.

Improved file structure

In Magento 2, the file structure has changed quite a bit. Initially, all basic views have been shifted to the module structure. This means that each module will soon have its own view directory where you can call all template, layout, js and css/less files, from all the different modules.

New techniques

Magento 2 includes nice new gadgets such as support for PHP7, default less CSS preprocessor and support for jQuery. By using HTML5, extensions and themes can be made fully responsive. And with CSS3, many new visual possibilities lie at your feet.

CSS preprocessing

To ensure that developers can easily extend and maintain their CSS, Magento 2 offers CSS preprocessing by default. Using a CSS preprocessor speeds up front-end development, especially with complex themes. In Magento 2, Less is used as a CSS preprocessor by default, but developers can also use Sass or Compass.

Automatic testing

A completely new feature in Magento 2 is the flawless testing framework focused on performance. There are about 2,600 integration, 7,700 unit, 100 JavaScript unit and 100 static tests to improve your performance. There is also the ability for developers to develop their own tests to make sure you are as confident as possible of success when going live.

Make a success of your Magento shop

No matter how big your online ambitions are, Vicus has been helping make them happen for 23 years.

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