Need to know all about Magento Commerce 2

  

From time to time, Magento tries to serve the best possibilities to merchants with unbeatable flexibility & power. But when they launched Magento Commerce 2, they promised a design with a powerful advanced platform. It combines simple site management & robust performance to grow and succeed like never.     

 

The next generation of the world’s leading digital commerce platform Magento combines with Adobe Experience Cloud and offers:

 

●        Unparalleled flexibility & control over the online store’s look, content, and functionality 

●        Intuitive Commerce Admin features powerful marketing, search engine optimization, and product management tools for creating sites that are tailored to your unique business needs.

●        Enhancements to performance and security

●        Support for the samesite attribute for all cookies

●        Focus on support for online payments for purchase order

Elasticsearch 7.9.x and Redis 6.x are now supported.

Other than this, it includes over 280 new fixes to core code with other 35 security enhancements.

 

Short insights of features you love to explore- The Magento creators added many features in this next generation eCommerce solution, from which, here are the most crucial ones:

 

●     Incentive Drag and drop website design

●     Schedule site updates and promotional campaigns

●     Make your site look great to any device (desktop, mobile, tab)

●     Deliver an amazing shopping experience that is easier than ever

●     Extensions and customization that once needed truly optimized Magento are all present in Magento Commerce 2

 

With the platform, you can perform an Instant purchase confirmation, Shipping choices. It saves selling and advertising with big channels like Amazon and Google.

 

In addition, they redesigned the admin dashboard, as it makes it simpler and more introductive to manage. So basically, the rebuilt coder & advanced cloud structure serve your customer an unbeatable experience. 

 

Magento Commerce 2 Highlights (collected from the code)-

 

1.      Substantial security enhancements- Already mentioned 35 security enhancements help close XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerabilities and RCE (remote code execution). You can now identify potentially malicious content, category description & messages with users save values in these fields. 

 

2.      Infrastructure improvements- The core quality enhancement improves frameworks and their functional areas, including CMS, OMS, customer account, catalog, promotions, cart, checkout, B2B, staging, preview and more.     

 

3.      Performance enhancements- From boosting admin response and API performance, the platform has included the code enhancements. It improves the response time for deployment for large catalog and multiple capabilities; it includes:

●        GraphQL

●     B2B

●     PWA Studio

●     Page Builder

 

4.      Interactive In-Product Guidance- It provides merchants usage tips & information from the walk-through guide, on-boarding information, tooltips and new feature announcements.   

 

5.      Media Gallery- It provides merchants with the ability to limit administrator access to only the Media gallery. Also, they can control these perform actions:

●        Insert media assets into content

●        Upload assets

●        Edit assets details

●        Delete assets from the Media Gallery

●        Manage folder structure.

Apart from this, they have fixed previous issues, here they are:

 

Fixed issues-

 

●     Installation, upgrade, deployment-Merchants can now upgrade an open-source development. Also, they deprecated the ability to configure a Magento installation to use a split database.   

●     AdminGWS- As previously, the admin can display the data from all websites in the deployment, but now it can only be possible from websites that the logged-in admin has permissions to. Also, the buttons (delete, reset, save, add new rating) are no longer available on the rating page (Stores>Attribute). 

●     Catalog & catalog rules- Magento Commerce 2  displays all re-enable products in a storefront, and the catalog price rules work with custom options on the product detail page.

●     Cart and checkout- Custom address attributes are present on the shipping step of the checkout workflow for the shipping method estimator’s works. Moreover, when incorporating tax, the order subtotals are calculated, cart price rules applied.   

●     Bundle products- Magento does not set the price for fixed-price bundles product child item in quotes. It now works when bundle products are out of stock.  

●     Analytics- In the same domain, now you can do advanced reporting in multiple environments.

Apart from these, Magento Commerce 2 has excluded multiple other issues that no longer trouble the users.  

Sum it up!

We must say, they have added immeasurably more features this time, and it needs a full-length blog to sum it up, or you can experience them while using the platform. For more such Magento updates, stay tuned with us, and if you have any queries or suggestions write to us in the comment section.