August 19, 2015

South Africa’s eCommerce ecosystem

If you weren’t paying attention then it could have snuck up around you, but these days SA has a very healthy, and fast growing, eCommerce ecosystem. […]
May 29, 2015

Nobody got fired for using IBM? An open source eCommerce perspective.

During a recent RFP process for the development and implementation of a new eCommerce platform, it was suggested that going with the “Big Boys” was better […]
May 6, 2015
Positive eCommerce Experience

In eCommerce you are selling an experience, not a product.

eCommerce businesses need to think of their overall operation and offering as a product in itself and must ensure that it is of the highest quality […]
October 17, 2014
Magento admin

Magento: Adding a Custom Form Element to an Adminhtml Form

You want to manipulate the value of a standard text field. One of the most common solutions for doing this is to add a custom form element […]
August 18, 2014
Google SSL Security eCommerce SEO

eCommerce SEO Update

Things on the internet change at a blazing pace, so it comes as no surprise that Google has updated their search algorithm criteria, again, to improve the […]
June 22, 2014
Finger Technology and Ecommerce Development

Fingerprint Technology And eCommerce Development

We see it in CSI and movies all the time, fingerprints being used for home security, gaining access to the workplace and even high-tech heists. It’s […]
December 3, 2013
Successful Ecommerce Strategy

Successful eCommerce Development Strategies

With eCommerce on the blistering rise in South Africa, a 25% increase in 2013 to around R4 Billion online, many of the local retailers are jumping […]
November 28, 2013
Magento Pinner-Post To Pinterest

Post Magento eCommerce products to Pinterest Extension

Our “Pinner” plugin is an easy way to automatically share images from your Magento products catalogue to Pinterest. It offers store administrators the option to auto-post […]
November 13, 2013
How Omni Channel Strategy is changing shopping behaviour

Omni-Channel: Mind The Gap

PSFK wrote an article titled How to Make the World More Shoppable, that explored  Omni-Channel Point-of-Purchase technologies that are creating more opportunities to buy. “The questions don’t change […]
November 8, 2013
eCommerce Picking Up

Why SA retailers should go eCommerce

Fontera’s Head of Strategy, Steve Jones, was quoted in the Cape Times newspaper recently after he gave a talk at the annual CGCSA summit in Johannesburg […]