New year, new trends? Most Corona-related developments in e-commerce continue. The impact on the market is becoming increasingly clear. Here's what 2022 could bring us in e-commerce.
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 developer forge and available now in the Blackbit Shop.
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.
As a Pimcore Gold Partner, our participation in the digital conference is assured. Preparations are in full swing and we are looking forward to an exciting event and inspiring input. Let's go to Pimcore Inspire!
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 stationary retail. But how do you find the right e-commerce platform or the best store system for your business?
As of 1 July, the One-Stop-Shop, EU regulation (OSS) obliges you to report an electronic report of your sales to the 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 regulations. Those who have already worked with the Mini-One-Stop-Shop procedure (MOSS) will now find the extension of this in the OSS procedure. We are reacting directly to the implementation of the German government's VAT digital package and the OSS procedure that applies with it: With our new, practical tax tool, your shop will continue to be price-transparent and, thanks to uncomplicated application, enable your customers to enjoy an optimal shopping service.
Pimcore X was released on May 11: The new version offers increased performance and new features for efficient collaboration on product data, digital assets and other content. The long-awaited release of Pimcore X is finally here! The most important news right away: Technologically, the framework has been put on a new, faster footing with the help of the Pimcore community. Pimcore X is more powerful and leaner than all previous versions. The developers realized this with Symfony 5, PHP 8 and ExtJS 7. As the world's leading PHP framework, Symfony offers the best prerequisites for efficient developments based on Pimcore. This pleases the developers in house!
This year's current BVDW ranking of German Internet agencies once again draws a topography that tells of the highs and lows of the market, and provides orientation in the industry.
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 initiated years ago: More and more well-known manufacturers are skipping retail and marketing their products directly to fans and friends of their goods.
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, achievements of special creativity and innovation in the digital economy were honored with the award.
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 sustainability and lives up to its social and ecological obligations: production from renewable raw materials, manufacturing in small, regional companies or family workshops, short supply chains and climate-neutral as well as plastic-free shipping - truly lived, strong values that Hofmeister can be proud of! Hofmeister therefore wanted to communicate its convincing philosophy more clearly to the outside world. Blackbit tackled this task and implemented technical and visual optimizations of the Hofmeister online store in three successive steps.
After last updating the product name of our bundle for data import and export, we now present the powerful Data Director in the Pimcore blog.
