E-Commerce-Blog
In this blog we inform you about the latest developments around the topic of e-commerce.
e-Commerce
BigCommerce
Online Store Relaunch
Time for an update? Relaunch on BigCommerce for Showers Market
Reduce running costs and optimise shop performance at the same time with a future-proof technology such as that from Blackbit partner BigCommerce? Blackbit carried out the migration and relaunch for duschenmarkt.de.31 May 2023
e-Commerce
Headless
Vue Storefront
Blackbit is a Vue Storefront Partner!
User experience is increasingly becoming the differentiating element in e-commerce. The front end - technology and implementation - is becoming increasingly important for a successful customer journey. Today, every shop needs a mobile-optimised, user-friendly user interface to sustainably increase c...26 May 2023
e-Commerce
BigCommerce
Blackbit is BVDW SEA Quality Agency & Google Premium Partner 2023
The German Association for the Digital Economy (BVDW) e.V. has once again awarded Blackbit the title of BVDW SEA Quality Agency. This means that the interest group for companies that operate digital business models has certified us as having outstanding SEA services for the fourth year in a row.27 Feb 2023
e-Commerce
Kubernetes: Designed for reliable operation
With the digitization of socially and economically relevant structures, the IT of organizations and companies of all sizes has become critical infrastructure. In everyday data management, therefore, it is not only security that is in demand - the reliability of systems is also more important than ev...16 Dec 2022
e-Commerce
New security thanks to new technology: Kubernetes in hosting
Blackbit is an early adaptor, as it has been so many times before, and provides Kubernetes, a new technology that stands for security, reliability in hosting and optimised processes in web development. Just at the right time, because in the energy crisis and the Ukraine war, the danger of cyber atta...21 Nov 2022
e-Commerce
Digital Agency
New White Paper: The Importance of User Experience
The design of an online shop must withstand numerous requirements: In addition to the aesthetic aspects, it must fit your brand and your company, but also meet the challenges of an online shop, its technical foundations and all the criteria of modern user experience.13 Oct 2022
Shopsystems
e-Commerce
Shopware
Case Study Bense & Eicke: Website relaunch with visionary online store
The family business Bense & Eicke manufactures horse and leather care products. The products, which are mainly based on natural raw materials, are distributed from Einbeck throughout the world. We look back on almost 20 years of trustful cooperation with Bense & Eicke. Most recently, Blackbi...01 Jun 2022
e-Commerce
Automatic text generation via AI? Blackbit is watching!
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reaching and facilitating more and more areas of our lives, including e-commerce. Maintaining product information for online stores with a large range of products is time-consuming. We took a closer look at what AI can really do and which areas of application are wort...10 May 2022
e-Commerce
Pro consumer protection: Amendment to PAngV comes into force on 28.5.
Important changes for our e-commerce customers: The indication of basic prices as well as strike prices will be adapted to new guidelines for the purpose of enforcing and modernizing consumer protection regulations. These will come into force on May 28, 2022.15 Feb 2022
e-Commerce
Digital Agency
Kubernetes cluster: containers in new Blackbit hosting service
We are breaking new ground in hosting and switching our e-commerce hosting service to Kubernetes clusters. In addition to increased speed, greater security and more efficient hosting management, this will above all bring more stability for individual applications.31 Jan 2022
e-Commerce
Pimcore
PIM
Blackbits Big Plugin Release
Working with a wide variety of customers, we are constantly implementing innovative individual solutions that could also be useful for others. We would like to share these with all interested parties: We open our toolbox and present a numerous selection of plugins - directly from the Blackbit develo...08 Oct 2021
e-Commerce
Digital Agency
Partnerships
BigCommerce
Success with style: Blackbit is STYLA partner
Always up to date and on the lookout for new, forward-looking technologies and promising partners - that is our claim. Having recently become a BigCommerce agency partner, we are now building on this with the STYLA partnership.05 Oct 2021
e-Commerce
E-commerce software comparison: How do I find the right store system?
The strong growth of online retail in the German market, which was additionally driven by the Corona pandemic, is attracting more and more companies to the Internet. They need their own online store to cope with the change in consumer buying behavior and to compensate for the drop in sales in statio...20 Aug 2021
e-Commerce
xt:Commerce
New xt:Commerce Plugin: Tax By Deliverycountry
As of July 1, the One-Stop-Shop, EU regulation (OSS) requires you to submit an electronic report of your sales to the German Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt) on a quarterly basis in order to implement a forwarding of sales taxes to the respective EU states and thus the new distance selling regulati...05 Jul 2021
e-Commerce
Digitalization
E-commerce goes D2C: the trend towards direct sales
Covid-19 had an impact on just about every area of society and unexpectedly made 2020 a record year for online retail. What developments will shape e-commerce in 2021? One of the big buzzwords in the current year is D2C - Direct to Customer. It describes a development that some major brands initiate...07 May 2021
e-Commerce
Digital Agency
#DDA21 - The main thing is to be there!
We followed the live broadcast of the award ceremony for the coveted Digital Award with great excitement and congratulate all the deserving winners. For more than seven years, the DDA has been considered one of the most important awards for outstanding digital creations. This year again, achievemen...26 Apr 2021
Shopsystems
e-Commerce
xt:Commerce
xt:Commerce Case Study: The Hofmeister Success Story
Sustainability in e-commerce: Blackbit pushes the business of the traditional and high value retailer for wooden goods with optimizations of the xt:Commerce store. As a company with history, Hofmeister is aware of its ecological and social responsibility. The wholesaler and importer stands for susta...19 Apr 2021
e-Commerce
Digital Agency
Blackbit x Viani: Nomination for German Digital Award 2021
It's getting exciting! With one of our most ambitious projects, Blackbit is currently on the shortlist for the Digital Award 2021 in the Visual Design category. After Blackbit already received the Shop Usability Award 2016 as "Most Innovative Shop" for the Viani website in 2016, a lot has happened....30 Mar 2021
e-Commerce
xt:Commerce
Online Store Relaunch
More sales thanks to redesign & Pimcore: the sports mail order company Fitstore24
Fitstore24 easily coped with the huge rush for sports and fitness products during the first lockdown: Fitted with new shopping functions and a Pimcore system for processing, the sports mail order company with its fresh design was able to record unexpectedly large order volumes and easily manage the ...25 Mar 2021
e-Commerce
SEA
Google reviews as a growth factor in e-commerce
Google's rating tool influences many purchasing decisions on the Internet - and Google ratings are also playing an increasingly important role for companies in purely offline retail: positive ratings improve the ranking on Google results pages. Your own business therefore increasingly depends on wha...22 Mar 2021
e-Commerce
Digital Agency
Partnerships
Fruitful partnership: Blackbit CEO Stefano Viani in an interview with Pimcore.
Communication is our business. That's why it plays just as important a role in our relationships with our partners as it does in our day-to-day business. The long and successful partnership with Pimcore is reason enough for a few frank words.26 Feb 2021
Shopsystems
e-Commerce
xt:Commerce
Plugin for individual gift vouchers in your store
Your customers will thank you: If you don't have the right gift just before the festive season, they'll gladly reach for a voucher. With the new Blackbit plugin, they can now create individual gift vouchers. Christmas is fast approaching and the Corona daily routine leaves hardly any room to find th...21 Dec 2020
Shopsystems
e-Commerce
BigCommerce
Shopware
Shopify
Blackbit supports three players from the Magic Quadrant
2020 is driving revenue growth in online retail. At the same time, the sector is facing new requirements, which Gartner maps in its Magic Quadrant. With Big Commerce, Shopify and Shopware, Blackbit supports three of the currently most important players. Gartner regularly analyzes the latest developm...10 Dec 2020
Shopsystems
e-Commerce
xt:Commerce
Pimcore
With Pimcore and xt:Commerce to an appealing e-commerce platform
The bicycle and fitness retailer Fitstore24 operates not only a stationary trade but also an online store with an extensive range of bicycles and accessories as well as other articles related to fitness.23 Jan 2020
e-Commerce
Pimcore
Thanks to Pimcore: with internal ticketing to an attractive user experience
The largest cross-industry networker in the north, Hamburg@work | Digitalcluster.Hamburg, offers a platform where entrepreneurs, players and opinion leaders can exchange ideas on the topic of digitization. The aim is to think outside the box and address experiences, objectives and problems. To reali...18 Dec 2019
e-Commerce
Pimcore
Content commerce for innovative nutritional supplements
Establishing natural, well-tolerated and environmentally friendly packaged dietary supplements that bring pleasure and well-being together - that is the mission of Better Foods GmbH. With LactoJoy, the Göttingen-based start-up initially developed a lactase preparation that does not contain any chemi...28 Oct 2019
e-Commerce
Marketplaces
Amazon & Co: Why there is no way around marketplaces for retailers
It is impossible to imagine German online retail without Amazon. Already in 2017, 45% of Germans started their product and price research on Amazon. This means that significantly more product-related search queries are made via the Marketplace than on Google.13 Jun 2019
e-Commerce
xt:Commerce
GPLv3: Our xt:Commerce plugins are now available as Free Software
Until now, the programming code of our plugins was encrypted and we issued plugin licenses individually for the PHP version, domain or IP address of the store for which they were purchased. This is now changing - and brings many advantages for our customers!18 Feb 2019
Shopsystems
e-Commerce
xt:Commerce
xt:Commerce 6 FREE is here: What you need to know about the free store software
xt:Commerce 6 FREE was recently released and is available for free download on the manufacturer's website. The new store version was developed in close cooperation with payment service provider Klarna and offers numerous features for conversion optimization.09 Nov 2018
e-Commerce
Marketplaces
Selling successfully on online marketplaces Part 2: The product
The product - online marketplace knowledge around the right idea. In the first part of our blog series, we already revealed that the name Sinn.lichke.it stands for culinary gift sets that we sell via the online marketplaces ebay and DaWanda. In this blog article, we reveal what is special about our ...12 Apr 2018
e-Commerce
Marketplaces
Selling successfully on online marketplaces Part 1: The idea
The idea - first-hand online marketplace knowledge. Digitalized commerce has many faces. As an agency for digital commerce, we always keep an eye on market developments and change with our customers' challenges. And because the sale of products via sales platforms such as Amazon and ebay is undoubte...25 Mar 2018
e-Commerce
Internationalization
Necessity of language versions of a website
Growth with the help of multilingual websites It is not only country-specific legal and bureaucratic peculiarities that quickly become a challenge when entering new European or global markets. For 10% of SMEs, a lack of language and cultural skills is an obstacle to the internationalization of their...08 Mar 2017
Marketing
e-Commerce
The impact chain for successful e-commerce
The opposite of failure To be successful, goals must first be clearly defined, because if you wander aimlessly, you can't be successful. Smart goals are a promise of sustainable success: Specific and clearly defined. Measurable in facts and figures. Appropriate and accepted. Realistic and scheduled....21 Dec 2016
Marketing
e-Commerce
How brands stay fit for the future in e-commerce
IMPRESSIONS FROM ERETAIL EUROPE How do brands come alive with the help of multichannel touchpoints? Being and staying fit for the future - that's what eRetail Europe in Amsterdam, which our Managing Director Stefano Viani visited in September, was all about. Stephan Mader, who opened this year's eRe...01 Nov 2016
Marketing
e-Commerce
The criteria for successful online stores
Store Usability Award 2016 as "Most Innovative Shop" goes to Viani.de Originality, reliability or attractiveness - what makes a successful online store? Which criteria are important and which technology is necessary if you want to inspire customers and retain them in the long term? Last week, the Sh...28 Sep 2016
Marketing
e-Commerce
4 beginner marketing tips for online retailers
Your store is finished and has gone online. Especially in the first few months, it is important to encourage potential customers to visit and, at best, to buy. But good online marketing doesn't have to be expensive. You and your employees can also take care of it yourself, if your time budget allows...08 Feb 2016
Marketing
e-Commerce
Three simple steps to a successful product presentation
The way you display products in your online store has a big impact on your customers' shopping experience. It's not just the product photographs themselves that are important to the look. How you integrate the photos and product descriptions into the overall look of your website, or the layout of yo...15 Jan 2016
e-Commerce
8 web design tips for successful online stores
An online business can be set up quickly. But how do you stand out from the numerous competitors and make your e-business sustainably successful? The store design plays an important role in this. Usability, trust, motivation - we have summarized for you in eight web design tips what you should pay a...14 Jan 2016
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