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Some customers know exactly what they are looking for. Other shoppers may browse through categories in your online store and jump from one product to another. However, they all have one thing in common: they want the checkout process to be quick and easy once they have found what they are looking for. The term usability refers to a store's user-friendliness and to how efficiently, effectively and intuitively customers can use the store. We'll tell you what makes a store user-friendly and how you can put these qualities into practice.

It takes visitors of your online store mere seconds to judge the desirability of your products. Often, they decide based on their very first, usually visual, impressions. That is why you should not leave your online store's design to chance. Instead, a few basic principles will help you hit the ground running when you start out on your e-commerce journey. Here, we will introduce the three most important principles to get you started.

Since plentymarkets 6.13 it is possible to employ multi-line code blocks in the plentymarkets CMS syntax. This expansion influences the definition of Comments, Variables, if and for constructions in our design templates.

Is your store already compatible with mobile devices? If you've been thinking about when to make your store mobile-friendly, then now is a great time to get started.

plentymarkets 5.1 offers two new functions that will help you to avoid 404 errors. 404 errors (page not found) can be caused easily during your daily business, e.g. by changing your product range or reorganizing your category structure.