THE PRESENT AND FUTURE nop Commerce INTRODUCTION LAST

THE PRESENT AND FUTURE nop. Commerce

INTRODUCTION LAST YEAR RESULTS FUTURE PLANS

Cornerstone nop. Commerce principle ● we are FREE ● we are independent ● years and years of marketing made people very cautious about the word “FREE”

Goals ● free and open-source software ● a product capable of powering everything from a small shop to a corporate site

nop. Commerce vs other solutions enterprise solutions custom carts Saa. S small open-source projects

INTRO LAST FUTURE YEAR PLANS RESULTS

Official site redesign

CMS Critic Awards ● resource for business software news, reviews and editorials ● winner “Best ecommerce for SMB” ● nop. Commerce community cohesion and proactivity

Сertified developer program ● more easily find clients, become more marketable ● check if you are still current with technologies ● clients can ensure that company is advanced in nop. Commerce, how many specialists are certified BUY THE PASS THE CERTIFICATIO EXAM N VOUCHER (>80%) GET THE CERTIFICATE

Partnership programs Hosting partnership program Aim: to help nop. Commerce users more easily find a hosting provider with a good reputation and advanced features

Partnership programs Solution partnership program Aim: to help nop. Commerce users find companies for making a customization, developing apps, helping to manage a store, and adapting the look-and-feel of a website

Partnership programs Solution partners ranking system Ranking system helps our users to find a better partner to work with. Users will know in advance how many sites powered by nop. Commerce a partner developed, how many certified developers it has. Plugin Theme 1 point Website Certified developer 2 points 3 points

Partnership programs Technology partnership program Aim: provide services for the benefit of nop. Commerce users, helping them to improve their bookkeeping, solve logistics problems, secure their payments ● ● ● Payment gateways Logistics Bookkeeping CRM Mobile services Order management ● ● ● Security verification Shipping and fulfillment Reviews and recommendations Taxes E-mail marketing

Integrations & plugins 1400 plugins and themes in extensions directory 400 new plugins just for the last year if you have some integration and don’t want to give it for free, offer it as a paid plugin.

Moving from Code. Plex to Github ● Github today is the only one truly effective platform for all open-source projects ● a lot of pull requests and code contributions ● makes nop. Commerce development better

Release of version 3. 70 focus on scalability and added support for Windows Azure conditional product attributes access control list (ACL) for topics apply for vendor account in public store

Release of version 3. 80 new design of Admin Area ● absolutely new design ● responsive ● “basic” and “advanced” modes for settings 20. 10. 2016 ● menu search with autocomplete ● customizable dashboard

Release of version 3. 80 configurable product details page ● two modes for this page: "basic" and "advanced" ● “basic” mode shows the only minimum amount of settings needed for mundane work ● “advanced" mode shows all available fields 20. 10. 2016

Release of version 3. 80 other features usage of several discounts simultaneously conditional checkout attributes “image squares” product attribute advanced in-store pickup ship to the same address

Web API ● developed by Nop-Templates team ● one of the workshops will be dedicated to this Web API plugin

Marketing and content monthly writing contest articles for third-party sites our official blog screencasts success stories and case studies, testimonials community newsletter

Site & plugin of the month Plugin of the month Site of the month The main purpose is helping store Instrument for praising efforts of owners to find useful plugins individual developers, companies, and solution partners

INTRODUCTION LAST FUTURE YEAR PLANS RESULTS

Development roadmap Versions 3. 90 and 4. 00 Version 3. 90: ● we plan to concentrate on store owner and customer experience ● nop. Commerce should be as much configurable as possible Version 4. 00: ● ASP. NET Core

Marketing plans Whitepapers branded documentation on commercial cases of nop. Commerce usage showing nop. Commerce flexibility and cost-saving effectiveness

Marketing plans Meetups We want nop. Commerce community to be interconnected Steps for meetups organizing: ● special page on our site, where people can add topics for discussion suggest places for meetups ● promoting through lanyrd. com and meetup. com

Marketing plans Trainings & webinars ● in-person classroom trainings and online virtual classes ● in process of finding training partners who have training experience and want to provide such services ● webinars are great marketing and educational tool for our partners

Marketing plans nop. Commerce documentation ● big challenge ● more usable for new store owners ● examples and videos ● translate to other languages

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