Magento is one of the world’s most flexible ecommerce platforms. It provides over 250 000 of merchants with exciting functionality of their stores, and thousands of extensions to boost the performance.
On June 2016 the new version of the shopping cart was released and it was a turning point for platform. Magento 2.1. new features and capabilities impress a lot and allow businesses to drive sales and performance. Moreover, it has more than 90 bug fixes and several impressive enhancements.
When giving a glance at Magento 2.1 Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) we can’t but notice that both versions offer amazing functionality improvements. Taking into consideration that EE has some extra features, the CE, in its turn, is not left behind and softly accumulates the best modifications.
Magento Community Edition has also gained some impressive and useful improvements adjacently with Magento Enterprise Edition. Thanks to the latest upgrade, now both versions include numerous new features, functional fixes and security advances, like Braintree hosted fields, improved management interfaces and PayPal In-context check-out, and some other handy updates.
Braintree has improved the integration with Magento 2.1 and added the support, called ‘Hosted Fields’. This technology helps to collect securely all sensitive payment information in checkout and provides you with full control of layout and check out styles. By the way, these ‘hosted fields’ are invisible to customer and exist insensibly within your HTML.
Both Magento EE and Magento CE got this important new feature which streamlines the the search for information in Admin panel. Now you can easily:
PayPal functionality includes in-context checkout that rises your conversion rates. This Magento 2.1. new feature:
Due to In-Context Checkout feature your customers will have no need to enter a PayPal ID and password when making future purchases.
As I’ve mentioned before, both versions of Magento 2.1 offer you astonishing improvements, but there are some that only EE can boast of. Check out what interesting enhancement it can propose to you.
This improvement enables you to stage, schedule, preview and approve different content easily. It also facilitates greatly the task of content management for non tech-savvy user.
Magento 2.1. EE is available in the cloud, now it provides entrepreneurs with simplified integration with existing systems, it gives the ability to concentrate on sales and marketing only. Comparing to SaaS commerce, the Cloud Edition reduces a lot expenditure on the deployment and management.
If you decide on Cloud edition, you won't have to deal with infrastructure issues and have more time for developing your brand, successful marketing strategies, etc.
This was the short review of new features, because Magento 2.1. has much more to offer. Countless extensions development, better performance and stability are, definitely worth upgrading to.
Let’s take a look at the last alternant of upgrading your Magento store to Magento 2.1. using automated tool, e.g Cart2Cart. With this service you can forget about troublesome manual data input, plugins installation and script writing, because all the data you need will be transferred automatically.
Cart2Cart will move your orders, products, customers, attributes, categories and other entities you want from your current Magento to a new Magento 2.1 store automatically. What you need for that? Nothing troublesome, just follow couple of simple steps and enjoy your new store in Magento 2.1. :
Start your Free Demo migration right away! Magento 2.1 is, surely, worthful.