New features of Magento Enterprise version 1.13 include optimized catalogue indexing, improved content caching and streamlined checkout flow
Ecommerce platform Magento announced on Wednesday at its Magento Imagine eCommerce 2013 conference that it has released the latest edition of Magento Enterprise for merchants to scale more effectively.
New features of Magento Enterprise version 1.13 include optimized catalogue indexing, improved content caching, streamlined checkout flow, and improved tax recommendations.
Magento says in order to increase value to both merchants and developers it is implementing new quality control requirements for extensions and delisting those extensions that do not meet the requirements. After evaluating extensions based on compatibility and popularity it removed around 20 percent of extensions that didn’t meet Magento Connect product standards.
Quality control is a big focus for Magento as its ecosystem is huge, and includes more than 150,000 merchants, plus partners including web hosting providers. Last year, Magento launched a web hosting partner program with a select group of providers including Nexcess, Peer 1 and Simple Helix to enforce quality and ensure retailers get the best possible experience with their Magento hosting provider.
“Over the past year Magento and our diverse ecosystem have continued to innovate on the Magento platform to support ever-larger brands, more robust product catalogues and more complex implementations,” Roy Rubin, co-founder and chief operating officer at Magento said in a statement. “We’re committed to building upon the Magento platform enabling greater flexibility, performance and scalability to empower merchant growth. The latest product updates improve critical functions for the systems integrators that work with Magento code directly and further ease platform management for merchants as they continue to expand their business – often featuring more than 1 million product SKUs.”
Magento Enterprise version 1.13 adds new developer extensions with PayPal, including order ahead and in-aisle selling for merchants.
“We’re excited to see the innovative solutions that Magento and PayPal developers create as they integrate our order ahead and in-aisle selling technologies with the Magento platform,” James Barrese, chief technology officer at PayPal said in a statement. “By solving real customer pain points like waiting in line, merchants can improve service, attract more customers, and drive more repeat purchases.”
Recently, Endurance International Group acquired Mojoness Inc., a developer of Magento tutorials, to help bolster Magento capabilities of its hosting brands.
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