E-Commerce-Blog
In this blog we inform you about the latest developments around the topic of e-commerce.
The magic of UX/UI design - a Blackbit whitepaper
Welcome to the fascinating world of UX/UI design, where aesthetics meets function and the user experience takes centre stage. In this post, we'll explore the key aspects of successful UX/UI design as outlined in our whitepaper. Ready to revolutionise your design perspective?Revolutionise your e-commerce with BigCommerce & Styla Frontend
To be successful in the dynamic world of digital commerce, it is of the utmost importance to stay on top of the latest technology and offer your customers a seamless and impressive shopping experience. What we recommend to our customers, we want to exemplify ourselves by using the innovative Styla F...Noir Handmade: BigCommerce makes B2B e-commerce sexy
In today's world, where digitalisation is in full swing, B2B e-commerce has established itself as a crucial factor for business success. While the B2C market is often in the spotlight, the B2B e-commerce market also offers immense opportunities for growth and innovation. An impressive example of thi...As ordered: How to optimise your shipping management
The boom caused by the corona pandemic is over and after very successful years with extraordinary growth, the growth rates in online trade are currently stagnating. That is why it is now especially important to offer the best service - among other things in order processing.Time for an update? Relaunch on BigCommerce for Showers Market
Reduce running costs and optimise shop performance at the same time with future-proof technology such as that from Blackbit partner BigCommerce? Blackbit carried out the migration and relaunch for duschenmarkt.de.Blackbit is a Vue Storefront Partner!
The user experience is increasingly becoming a 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 interface in order to sustainably incr...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.Kubernetes: Designed for reliable operation
With the digitalisation of socially and economically relevant structures, the IT of organisations and companies of all sizes has become critical infrastructure. In day-to-day data management, it is therefore not only security that is in demand - the reliability of systems is also more important t...New security thanks to new technology: Kubernetes in hosting
As so often, Blackbit is an early adaptor and, with Kubernetes, provides a new technology that stands for security, reliability in hosting and optimised processes in web development. Just at the right time, because the energy crisis and the war in Ukraine mean that the risk of cyber attacks is gre...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.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...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...Pro consumer protection: Amendment to PAngV comes into force on 28.5.
Important changes for our e-commerce customers: The indication of basic prices and strike prices will be adapted to new guidelines in order to enforce and modernise consumer protection regulations. These will come into force on 28 May 2022.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.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...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.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...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...E-commerce goes D2C: the trend towards direct sales
Covid-19 had an impact on almost all areas 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 this year is D2C - Direct to Customer. It describes a development that some major brands initiated years ago: ...#DDA21 - The main thing is to be there!
We watched 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 recognised as one of the most important awards for outstanding digital creations. Once again this year,...xt:Commerce Case Study: The Hofmeister Success Story
Sustainability in e-commerce: Blackbit pushes the business of the traditional and high-value retailer of wooden goods by optimising the xt:Commerce shop. As a company with a history, Hofmeister is aware of its ecological and social responsibility. The wholesaler and importer stands for sustainabil...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 won the Shop Usability Award 2016 as "Most Innovative Shop" for the Viani website back in 2016, a lot has happened. Tec...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 out 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 ...Google reviews as a growth factor in e-commerce
Google's review tool influences many purchasing decisions on the internet - and Google reviews are also playing an increasingly important role for companies in offline retail: positive reviews improve the ranking on Google results pages. Your own business therefore increasingly depends on what your ...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.Plugin for individual gift vouchers in your store
Your customers will thank you for it: If you don't have the right gift just before the festive season, they'll be happy to reach for a gift voucher. With the new Blackbit plugin, you can now create customised gift vouchers. Christmas is fast approaching and the coronavirus pandemic leaves little t...Blackbit supports three players from the Magic Quadrant
2020 has seen sales in online retail increase. At the same time, the sector is confronted with new requirements, which Gartner depicts in its Magic Quadrant. With Big Commerce, Shopify and Shopware, Blackbit supports three of the current key players. Gartner regularly analyses the latest developme...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.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...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...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.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!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.Selling successfully on online marketplaces Part 2: The product
The product - online marketplace knowledge about 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 ...Selling successfully on online marketplaces Part 1: The idea
The idea - first-hand knowledge of the online marketplace Digitalised commerce has many faces. As an agency for digital commerce, we always keep an eye on market developments and change with the challenges of our customers. And because the sale of products via sales platforms such as Amazon and eB...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 tapping into new European or global markets. For 10% of SMEs, a lack of language and cultural knowledge is an obstacle to the internationalisation...The impact chain for successful e-commerce
The opposite of failure In order to be successful, goals must first of all be clearly defined, because anyone who wanders aimlessly cannot be successful. Smart goals are a promise of sustainable success: specific and clearly defined. Measurable in facts and figures. Appropriate and accepted. Reali...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 remaining fit for the future - that was the focus of eRetail Europe in Amsterdam, which our Managing Director Stefano Viani visited in September. Stephan Mader, who opened this year's eRet...The criteria for successful online stores
Shop Usability Award 2016 as "Most Innovative Shop" goes to Viani.de Originality, reliability or attractiveness - what makes a successful online shop? 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...4 beginner marketing tips for online retailers
Your shop has been finalised and gone online. In the first few months in particular, it is important to encourage potential customers to visit and, ideally, to buy. However, good online marketing does not have to be expensive. You and your employees can also take care of it yourselves if your time...Three simple steps to a successful product presentation
The way in which you present products in your online shop has a major impact on your customers' shopping experience. It's not just the product photos themselves that are important for the visual appeal. How you integrate the photos and product descriptions into the overall appearance of your websi...8 web design tips for successful online stores
An online business can be opened quickly. But how do you stand out from the numerous competitors and make your e-business successful in the long term? Shop design plays an important role here. Usability, trust, motivation - we have summarised eight web design tips for you on what you should pay at...E-Commerce: Tips & Trends
We write about latest software updates of Shopware 6, Shopify, BigCommerce and other e-commerce platforms. We also introduce new products and plugins for your online store. Find out how you can save time in online marketing with the help of additional software and open up new possibilities for digitally addressing your customers.
But e-commerce software is not the only topic. No online store can do without marketing. You'll find blog articles on search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, social media and content marketing. We give tips and show by example how to reach your target group via Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other platforms. Content is always a topic and so many online merchants ask themselves whether a corporate blog, an online magazine or an optimization of the category texts is more likely to be appreciated by Google and help potential customers to find the online store more easily. We will be happy to show you how to write SEO texts and implement SEO measures that not only improve your visibility on Google, but also optimize the user experience of your store and, first and foremost, make your customers feel well taken care of.
We help your business with information on how to get started in e-commerce and save you from common mistakes when launching your own online store. We write about events and e-commerce trends, present our biggest success projects as good examples of successful stores and share with you our know-how on e-commerce as well as useful tips on how to trade on the Internet. Whether it's for your start in online commerce, expanding to multi-channel commerce, or developing sophisticated strategies for B2B e-commerce, we welcome any tips we can give you to make your online store more successful and are happy to help you master your individual e-commerce challenges.