FAQ: Most Asked Magento-Related Questions

How to show CAPTCHA in Magento contact form: advice from Amasty?

One of the easiest ways to protect your contact form email and website from spamming and bots is to enable a CAPTCHA

By default, CCS (Cascading Style Sheets) files are located in the Magento 2 application file system and are recommended not to be included in template files. Let’s take a closer look at Magento 2 stylesheets organization and the layout customization ...
What is the Magento 2 static content deploy command and when do you need it? When working in Magento production mode static files can be written to the file system with the static view files deployment command. After your content is deployed...
What is CyberSource? CyberSource is an on-demand payment management platform that enables merchants to receive and supervise payments, prevent fraud and secure private information. The platform was one of the pathfinders of the sphere, which later acquired...
Instead of customizing default Magento 2 email template you are recommended to create your own templates and set Magento 2 to use them instead of the default ones. In this case, you can add unique email templates in Magento 2 as physical files in your...
What is e-commerce ERP?ERP is an Enterprise resource planning business platform, which integrates product planning, development, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and stores the information in a single database. Simply put, the system presents an optimal...
Magento 2 Module File or Magento extension folder structure / Folder structure is too complicated. We are not going to cover all files and folders within Magento 2, but the high-level ones only.  ¡How to tell the difference between a folder and...

Due to Magento full page cache settings availability in the second version, a site will display category, product, CMS pages quicker. A response time is improved a lot through reducing the page load on the server or Magento full page cache auto generation.

How to set up Google Analytics in Magento 2Google Analytics is a must-have for all websites, therefore the sooner you set it up the more thoroughly you will be enlightened on intending and regular purchasers. Do you have little skills in SEO but want...
To simply create and import configurable products without time loss follow the three clear steps.Magento 2 import configurable products in CSV:Step 1: Find a CSV file¡In case you have already downloaded the sample file, skip the step! Log in to your...
Helpful hint: if you use Amasty extensions, to avoid any conflicts with 3rd-party themes, subscribe to our Custom Theme release. Based on the feedback we've received from our customers, we're now developing a custom theme with the view to offer: ...
Building a brand awareness is one of the main tasks merchants face at a business launch. If you’ve chosen an e-commerce sphere and decided to base your website on Magento 2 platform, you will definitely need to learn how to change the default logo...

In Magento 2 you can manage your stock using two approaches: you can control magento stock products via the default inventory settings or using each product individual settings.

Helpful hint: say, you start planning the migration to M1. Then, the list of extensions will help you find the analogs for M2 much faster. However, unfortunately, not all Magento 2 extensions provide the same set of features as the M1 predecessors had...
One of the functionality provided in Magento 2 is setting up multiple stores and managing them from the same backend for the sake of convenience. However, the thing is whether you want to use Magento 2 multi stores, multy domains or need to...
MySQL is one of the most in-demand databases for e-commerce websites due to the secure financial transactions that have data integrity, a possibility of the management of deeply embedded applications, and its consistent availability. However, by no means...
Magento 2 PayPal Integration Required PayPal Settings Magento 2 PayPal Payments Pro: Basic Settings - PayPal Payments Pro Magento 2 PayPal Express Checkout: Basic Settings - PayPal Express Checkout To integrate PayPal into Magento 2 you need to choose...
What is RMA and what is it used for? RMA (Return merchandise authorization) - the process of returning defective products to the seller, distributor, or directly to the manufacturer for a replacement, repair, or refund. RMA is usually carried out in...
What is Magento 2 index Due to the sophisticated architecture, Magento gathers a lot of merchant’s data, e.g.: catalog info, prices, users, stores, in many database tables. To optimize the Magento 2 frontend performance the most important information...
Magento 2 search functionality has been changed a lot if compare it with Magento 1. Thus, the latest version doesn’t allow Magento 2 owners to configure search methods anymore. They were optimized and included into the default functionality. Besides...
Having installed Magento 2, you should complete the general settings for your e-commerce website. To hunt down a question of the backend navigation and find a full list of settings you can make there, see Magento 2 Admin Panel Tutorial. When configuring...
Due to such beneficial changes as more user-friendly interface, better operation performance, enhanced security many merchants have already transferred to the new version. Doing so, you need to remember that Magento system requirements differ from...
Let's assume that you need to redirect customers from the old product/catalog pages to newly-created ones. In this case, you may lose your clients and traffic if the old addresses are not redirected to the new ones. Thus, when you need any links that...
What is Varnish cache? The Varnish cache is an HTTP accelerator (sometimes it’s called a reverse HTTP proxy) enabling which you are able to handle much more traffic without website’s speed or performance come-down due to the reduction of...
One of the most common issues that meet any person who wants to start an e-commerce business is what platform to choose. There are many options, and all of them look similar. In this article, we’ll compare Magento 2 and OpenCart to see the difference...
When you start your e-commerce business, one of the most important steps is choosing the right platform to run your website. In this article, we’ll compare Magento vs. Shopware by the following parameters: Price; Ease of use; Customization...
What is Magento 2 WYSIWYG Editor? WYSIWYG (‘what you see is what you get’) Editor is an add-in used in the backend for content editing. It allows people who don’t work with HTML to edit content. Besides, it speeds up content publishing as there is no...
What is breadcrumb? In terms of SEO, Magento breadcrumbs are links that help a user trace back their way from the place they are currently, e.g.: from a product page to the category page with the list of all products. The breadcrumbs indicate the structure...

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