Ensure Your Digital Commerce Growth With Magento Commerce. 2.4.2
Despite the challenges of 2020, e-commerce sales are growing rapidly, nearly 30% over the year. If we learn something from 2020, we will learn that all companies need to be digital. With eMarketer's prediction for 2021, the company is aiming to regain physical sales. A study by B2B Commerce 360 through 2021 shows that more than 80% of B2B respondents say they are very or more likely to buy more online in the US next year. As customers become more dependent on digital commerce, it is increasingly important to keep your ecommerce platform up to date. With improvements in features, security and performance, you'll definitely want to update to the latest version of Magento (2.4.2).
Today Adobe introduced Magento Commerce 2.4.2 along with security-specific fixes 2.3.6-p1 and 2.4.1-p1, which focus on improving security, increasing productivity, and providing merchants with better tools to maintain and expand their business focus. With the growth of e-commerce today. Magento Commerce 2.4.2 helps retailers maximize their functionality through improved B2B purchase approvals, improved PWA and GraphQL support, and improved performance on Builder pages and Media Galleries, as well as on developer pages.
Better B2B opportunities for headless purchase and trade deals:
Magento Commerce 2.4.2 adds support for online payments to improve purchase approval. Previously only offline payments were supported. Merchants now have the flexibility to set purchase policies regardless of payment method, and buyers can use the same convenient approval process for all orders.
Magento Commerce 2.4.2 also includes new GraphQL APIs such as company credit lists and queries which support a prime example of using B2B to implement headless trading.
Storefront Performance Improvement And Content Management:
The new media gallery, first introduced in Magento 2.4, now offers image optimization. This means that when enabled, the storefront uses a version of the image optimized for the web, not the full high-resolution version stored in the media gallery. This will result in smaller image files without altering the originals, so your storefront won't lose any display performance for buyers.
The Media Gallery also provides support for Access Control Lists in Administrator so that merchants can define user permissions for control actions and Media Gallery access. With this extension, digital designers and agencies can access Magento instances and manage assets directly on the system without retailers having to display their data.
The builder provides the ability to view content for both mobile and desktop views. Fixes to reduce the effort of migrating content to the Page Builder and customizing the Page Builder CSS will greatly reduce developer efforts to perform these tasks.
Faster Marketing Times And Lower Real Estate Costs With PWA Studio:
PWA Studio continues to accelerate marketing time and lower total cost of ownership for ongoing web application development. Merchants now have multilingual and multi-currency support with PWA Studio, making it faster and easier to launch international websites such as high-performance PWAs.
The latest PWA Studio update also includes a new Venia component for My Account to help you get started faster, as well as performance enhancements and improvements that greatly enhance the developer and buyer experience. You can find all updates on the PWA Studio Notes.
Realize Faster Evaluation Times With Product Targeting:
Magento Commerce 2.4.2 introduces the concept of targeting into the product. In-Product Guides provide proactive, customizable, scalable product experiences that help users grapple with important product features and value paths. This experience speeds up review times and helps customers become faster self-service users. Proprietary products can be used, for example, to raise awareness of new features, to help new customers join quickly, or to teach existing users how to use underused, high-quality features.
Product policies are only available to Magento Commerce merchants with version 2.4.2 or higher and require users to be involved in tracking administrator usage. Many customers may have this option enabled. If it is not enabled or the customer is unsure, they can change the setting in the administrator user interface under Shop> Configuration> Advanced> Administrator> Administrator Usage.
Platform Quality And Performance:
Magento Commerce 2.4.2 includes several improvements in platform quality and performance which help the developer and commercial experiences. Highlights include:
• VBE enhancements include: Braintree now offers "Buy Now, Pay Later", dotdigital sends transactional SMS messages, and Vertex supports product codes for delivery within and outside of the global region.
• Organizations with large, complex catalogs and deployments across multiple branches will benefit from increased scalability due to improved API performance and administrator response times that branches with a significantly larger catalog can support.
• Cloud support for remote storage solutions with AWS S3 support, which offers cost-effective options and ready-to-use infrastructure optimization.
• More than 280 functional quality issues have been resolved, including all known issues from 2.4.1.
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