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Arastta 1.5 Today, it's update time for Arasttians! Arastta 1.5 [Nairobi] is released with tons of new features and bug fixes. Aratta is more powerful now. This release is named Nairobi which is the capital and largest city of Kenya. We would like to thank everyone who contrubitued to Arastta 1.5 with bug reports, development, suggestions and tests. You can download the latest stable version and start to create your free eCommerce store today: Download Arastta 1.5 You...
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Arastta Official Mobile App Arastta is pleased to announce its official mobile app for iOS and Android. It's now more easier to manage and update your Arastta store from anywhere, at anytime. After months of work, last month we have released Arastta official iOS app on AppStore and the last week Arastta Android app took its place on Google Play Store. We would like to thank to our community for their tests and feedbacks. Thus, currently, Arastta mobile app for...
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Arastta 1.2

Today we are thrilled to announce availability of Arastta 1.2 "Shkoder" stable. Arastta 1.2 is available for download and update from dashboards.

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File Manager Feature - Arastta Tips / Tricks

Arastta is a feature-rich eCommerce software, so it provides lots of advanced features to manage your online store easily and effectively. I'm sure you all have "aahaa" moments that you discover something new within your software or a tool you use for a long time.

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Arastta Cares Open Source Arastta is developed by people who contributed, work with and support most popular Open Source and free to use projects like Joomla and Wordpress. Co-founders of this project organised and sponsored Joomla days and meetings in Istanbul, Melbourne, New England cities. They joined Joomla Days, J&Beyond - international Joomla organisations and WordCamp Europe (international WordPress conference). So people who founded Arastta have a deep Open Source, contribution and copyright culture. And we are going to share...

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In our recent blog post we talked about why Arastta is an ideal choice for designers" and now I am going to share some of the main reasons "why Arastta is the ideal choice for eCommerce developers". One-click Update For security or bug fix, updates are one of the most important factors of a secure and stable system (CMS, eCommerce, blogs etc). But updating a system via FTP clients by overriding the current files and upload...

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Arastta is an ideal choice for end-users, designers, developers and storeowners. Today I would like to write about "why designers choose Arastta"? Of course I am not able to provide every detail here, since Arastta is an ideal choice as a whole project for every need but here is the best parts from designer's point of view:

10 reasons to use Arastta for your store [Infographic] Available since the 18th May of 2015, Arastta allows the creation of online stores of high quality, from personal to more complex stores with various functionalities. Let's see the top 10 superior features of Arastta. Click here to see the infographic 1. Free Software I hear you: "Come on, they're both FREE!". Yes they are but if you want to have Arastta's features into your OpenCart store then you have to pay $500 in total. I'm...
Introducing Arastta - Community Driven eCommerce Finally, the wait is over.. Today we are very proud to announce Arastta to the public! It's been 3 months since we started the development of Arastta in February 2015 and we are thrilled to share the first stable version of Arastta with everyone. In fact, we worked over 3 years on Arastta, since our first eCommerce component for Joomla. Arastta itself included 950 commits, 3 redesigns, lots of code refactors and a good many of...

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Getting Started: App Store App Store : A simple way to get everything about Arastta at one place. As you definitely know from other (Apple, Google) stores, an App Store (or Marketplace) is a digital distribution platform for purchasing and installing software applications. When we decided fork OpenCart, our purpose was not make "just another OpenCart" but to create a platform that ease the life of web site builders. We got inspired by the motto: Convenience is King! Getting extensions,...

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Getting Started: One-click Update Keeping your online store up-to-date is extremely important for your store security. Updating is pretty easy with popular CMS softwares like Joomla and WordPress as they offer one-click updates for years (WP since 2008). Even more, since 2013, WordPress offers automatic updates which means the system updates by itself in the background. However, the update process for others like Drupal and OpenCart is a pain in the neck. You have to carefully follow a bunch of...
Getting Started: Multi-language Enhanced The eCommerce market is growing exponentially, with cross-border online shopping estimated at $105 billion in 2013. This growth is expected to continue with the advancement and affordability of technology throughout the world. However tempting, it is important to prepare your online store before the world comes knocking at your door. Arastta comes with a lot of enhancements in the multi-language area. Multilingual SEO URLs, login panel, manufacturers and language override are just some of them. Login...

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Getting Started: SEO Boosted The significance of SEO within a business strategy is evident, as companies that have adopted the use of SEO are outperforming their competition. For online retailers, eCommerce SEO creates an enormous boost in viewer traffic, which naturally results in increased sales and the ability to reach an exponentially larger group of potential customers. Even with advertising campaigns, SEO should be a main feature in building them, since they play a huge part in bringing new customers...

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Getting Started: Checkout Simplified Checkout; the most crucial part of eCommerce, the page you get paid. A constant struggle in eCommerce conversion rate optimization is reducing shopping cart abandonment. Your visitors have shown a great deal of interest in your product, they've even put it in their shopping cart, so why are you still losing two thirds of them? Analysis identifies that checkout process is one of the most important factor for your conversion rate. A fast and smart checkout...

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Getting Started: Installation Eased Installation is the most important part of a software. It's also the less part studied on by developers as they mostly think the user have to install it in any way, with ease or hard. With Arastta, we did the best to see this step from the user prespective and make it as much easy as it could be. We've made tons of meetings and compared a lot of popular web and desktop based softwares already...

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Getting Started: Layout Manager During our journey with CMS softwares such as Joomla and WordPress, we realized that the success of a software is not based on its loads of features but the easier way it offers you to use them. From this aspect, we recognized that the module/layout management of Arastta's precursor was a real headache. Therefore, we decided to write a layout manager that allows you to arrange modules in your storefront by simple drag & drop. Layout...

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Getting Started: Theme Customizer Change the look and feel of your store with real-time preview. As said in another post, the success of a software is based on the way it ease your processes. With the built-in Theme Customizer of Arastta, you can change your storefront look, color scheme, fonts, and more live on site. No HTML or CSS knowledge required! Let's say you want to change the background or button's color, with Arastta, there is no need to edit...

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Getting Started: Menu Manager Menus are very important for a website no matter what platform you are using. All big boys like Joomla, WordPress, Drupal etc. has a menu manager in order let you customize it. However, system like OpenCart are lacking in such areas. I believe you already wanted to modify your top header menu bar and add some links or some kind of advertising links for your buyers. In such a case, the only solution is to get...

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Getting Started: Performance Improved Page Speed Matters! Fast and optimized pages lead to higher customer engagement, retention, and sale conversions. Even incredibly patient people can't stand waiting in lines – whether that's at the bank, airport, or pizzeria. Built with advanced web-technologies, Arastta offers blazing fast page loading and navigation. With Arastta, you don't have to worry that your customers will wait for a page to load as we've designed it to deliver smooth and seamless shopping to every customer....

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Getting Started: Security Increased Customer information, business data and payment details are all highly sensitive, confidential commodities that are traded or shared as part of an e-commerce transaction. The press often reports on businesses that have fallen victim to hacking and data breaches, due to insufficient security measures, leading to legal and financial liability, as well as a negative impact on the company's reputation. For this reason, Arastta aims to offer the best protection practices around the web including encryption...