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Hara Patners

If you’re on our website, you already know about Hara Partners. We’re an e-commerce solutions company focused mainly on building websites in Magento for online retailers.

We provide full-service web builders custom tailored to your business needs, from front-end functionality to complex backend logic. We’ve worked with over 250 Magento-based stores, and are able to service our clients with design, photography, IT services, and hosting.

To read more about us, you can visit our About page. All of the posts that you see here below deal directly with news about our company, such as who we’ve partnered with in the past, our meetups, and who our current clients are.

As a qualified NetSuite-Magento integrator, we are also happy to post the wonders of both systems in these posts. Some companies can say that they’re Magento experts, but we’re the real deal. That’s why most ecommerce companies know that we’re the #1 professionals when it comes to this stuff.

More About Hara Partners:

Hara Partners cultivates a collaborative atmosphere of analytical, business-minded individuals. We’re a smart, young, entrepreneurial company poised for growth and new opportunities. We operate entirely in-house, bolstering one another with complementary specializations. We hold weekly meetings to keep our entire team up-to-date with the latest technologies and performance-enhancing tweaks for online retailers.

Our Project Managers, Tech Leads, Sales Leads, and Design Leads are trained experts in their respective disciplines, each functioning as a single cog in Hara Partners’ team dynamic. This unique four-perspective approach permits a comprehensive understanding of your business and advanced strategizing from the get-go. In other words, we bring e-commerce development expertise to the table in order to position you as the expert in your industry.

Our relationship with you is a two-way street. Foremost in our values are honesty and humility, the cornerstones of our partnership-building efforts. We employ a consultative approach, always addressing your requirements with your best interests in mind. We’re with you every step of the way—planning, execution, finalization, and post-process—and we’ve developed a suite of scalable services to assist you in the process. We speak your language and consider you our Partner.

E-commerce Decision Support Analyst

What does it take to be an E-commerce Decision Support Analyst at Hara Partners? E-commerce decision support analysts are support staff users of E-commerce Decision Support Analystsystems/business intelligent systems who prepare special studies for middle-level and senior managers. These analysts often use a data-driven DSS to conduct an ad hoc query that is then analyzed with a statistical package, Excel or a desktop OLAP tool. They may build small model-driven DSS and write-up the results of the analysis prepared with the DSS.

What kind of personality traits do we expect from an E-commerce Decision Support Analyst at Hara Partners? Someone who is smart, determined, and able to make quick decisions when need be. If you have trouble taking charge and carrying out specific functions, this job might not be for you. If you don’t have the technical knowledge to analyze complex software processes, or the willingness to learn, once again you might want to reassess your career choices.
We need someone who is quick on their feet and able to carry out tasks on a day-to-day basis. An e-commerce decision support analyst combines the traits of someone who is both intelligent and ready to take charge. In this context, there are few roles as vital as an E-commerce Decision Support Analyst (though we’re not trying to discount our many other career options here at Hara Partners). If you’re determined and up for the job, then we welcome you at our company.

Responsibilities:

  1. E-commerce Decision Support Analyst formulate and apply statistical modeling and other optimizing methods to develop and interpret information that assists management with decision making, policy formulation, or other managerial functions; collaborate with high-level managers to identify and solve a variety of problems; collect and analyze data and develop decision support products.

Requirements/Qualifications:

  1. Master’s Degree in Business Administration
  2. E-commerce Decision Support Analysts should have flawless written and spoken communication
  3. A penchant for analysis and teamwork
  4. Proficient in quantiative as well as qualitative data gathering methods

Location:

  1. Hara Partners at 1441 Broadway, Floor 3, New York, NY 10018

– See more at: http://www.harapartners.com/careers/decision-analyst#sthash.oUUXOq8u.dpuf

 

Magento Imagine Conference 2014 – Registration Open

Magento Imagine 2014 at the Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas
Magento Imagine 2014 at the Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas

Magento just announced that the registration for the Magento Imagine Conference 2014 Imagine eCommerce Conference is now open.

You can start registering today for the Magento Imagine Conference taking place on May 12-14 at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.

It’s great to see that Magento decided to move closer to the Strip. Our recommendation, stay at your favorite hotel on or off the Strip, rent a car for about $20/day. Parking in Las Vegas is free or very inexpensive.

The Magento Imagine Conference 2014 is mostly for solution providers how want to showcase their e-commerce or industry solutions to technology strategists, Magento designers and developers, and of course Magento systems integrators.

This three-day event features a mix of thought leading keynotes from world-renowned speakers as well as a full lineup of practical business, marketing and technical breakout sessions, along with unique networking opportunities.

Let us know if you’re planing on going. Join Hara Partners in Las Vegas. We will keep you posted on parties and events around the conference.

Go Mobile with Magento

Go Mobile with Magento
Go Mobile with Magento

We don`t conceive daily life without a smartphone or a tablet next to us at work or while having fun, as consequence it`s essential to update ecommerce solutions to this reality and go mobile with Magento. Nowadays, customers expect to use friendly, fast and interactive apps for shopping or a simple browsing.

So how do you go mobile with Magento?

As you are aware, the market of apps is a crowded one for both the Android and iOS platforms. Some ecommerce apps are more affordable, while others will surpass $100. Before choosing a certain app, as a developer you should decide what you expect from your mobile ecommerce app: Is it an improved accessibility? Is it a fast search? Is it a flexible shopping cart? Is it the quick checkout? Is it social media interactivity?

Globally, a Magento ecommerce app is able to deliver a suite of minimal, yet essential features for online marketing, such as a fast selection of categories, newsletter subscription, instant search for the product your customer has just typed, large buttons to facilitate common commands on mobile gadgets or an improved tactile interface allowing better navigation of products selected for zoom or modification of quantity selected or other product options. Probably, the favorite feature promoted by the Magento on every mobile platform is the quick interchangeable view optimized for portrait or landscape screen orientation. Magento once optimized for mobile viewing can quickly serve up either the mobile or desktop view according to the user`s will.

Merchants who go mobile with Magneto are also interested in expanding its compatibility and optimized functionality for any platform (not only Android and iOS, but also Blackberry OS or Windows Phone), performing an easy change of design or an impressive visual resolution. The visual usability is a major criterion for a successful Magento mobile site. Apple`s gadgets based on retina display for example are able to render more vivid images than the majority of Android-based models.

Magento can be used to create any type of mobile ecommerce solutions for Android or iOS. The open-source solution is designed to fit the unique need of your business through reliable control, speedy content upload, completely scalable interface, which transform Magento into a powerful marketing tool.

For instance, your business can benefit from a mobile optimized platform, featuring a structured catalog, so that visitors could easily navigate through subcategories and find the product they are looking for. Once a customer is ready to checkout, a mobile optimized experience for a faster process in order to lower cart abandonment can be implemented. If customer feel the need to share your discovery with friends, you can fully support this functionality on your mobile platform and even use the devices native sharing functions. There is no better way to tie your online store into social networks of your choice, including: Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest. Similarly, payment and checkout related process can be sped up, and using mobile payments may optimize your experience depending on your product offering.

When you go mobile with Magento with Android and iOS, your business will enter a new phase, marked by unmatched flexibility and functionality. Intuitive, search engine optimized and with rich animations, Magento can provide the ultimate mobile solution for your e-commerce goals.

Getting Started with E-Commerce for Your Business

 

Getting Started with E-commerce
Getting Started with E-commerce

Thinking about getting started with E-commerce for your business? E-Commerce has been growing and growing for many years now, and there is no reason to believe it will slow down any time soon.  Businesses who take advantage of the e-commerce boom are the ones who make it to the top and stay there.  Whether your business is strictly online based or you have a storefront shop, getting started with e-commerce will help drive expand your reach and profits.

Primarily, you need two things to getting started with e-commerce.  The first is a user friendly website and the second is good SEO (Search Engine Optimization).  SEO allows you to be found through search engines when consumers are not looking for your business specifically.  You control your own SEO settings with things like keywords and the names you give pictures on your website.  When consumers do find your website, they need to be able to navigate it easily and find what they are looking for quickly.  If your site is not well set up, users are likely to hit the “back” button out of frustration.

While you are improving the functionality of your website, make sure it is mobile friendly.  If you think people are not going to view it on their phones and tablets, you better think again.  Blogs such as this Hara Partners Blog are also a great way to drive traffic.

Let us know if you’re thinking about getting started with e-commerce.

Group Deals – Integrate Your Magento Store

Group Deals

Group Deals – Integrate Your Magento Store

Group Deals integrates your Magento Store with all the features of a Group Buying website.

Our Group Deals extension is the most ADVANCED and FLEXIBLE extension of its kind as you can see from our Demos and Features list, and we are constantly adding new and exciting features to maintain its status as the best extension of its kind.

Display and sell both normal products and deals under the same store, each with it’s unique design.

Display Current, Recent and Upcoming Deals

Fully customizable Flash/Javascript Countdowns (compatible with Mobile Devices as well)

Target/Orders Bar
Sharing (Facebook, Twitter, Google +, etc.)
Merchant system with Merchant Login
Deal Subscriptions
Generate and Email Coupons to your customers and merchants

With the Group Deals Magento extension you can offer products and services at significantly lower prices. The deal takes place when a minimum required number of people buy the product.

Moreover, Group Deals is integrated with the Sociable Magento extension allowing your customers to spread the word about a knock-down price and make the most of your store with collective buying power!

Features:

  • Unlimited number of deals

  • Separate blocks for category and product pages

  • Four deal types

  • upcoming

  • featured

  • active

  • close

    Email notifications sent to customers and admin about:

  • deal succeed

  • deal failed

  • deal expiration

  • Coupons auto-generation

  • Ability to set up a coupon expiration period

    • Ability to set up coupons quantity generated for each deal

  • Ability to bind coupon to a certain product

    • Personalize your deals by configuring

  • name

  • picture

  • short description

  • description

  • store view

  • Ability to schedule deals to be run automatically

  • Ability to specify maximum allowed purchases

  • Optional deal auto-closure on succeed

  • Auto-count of the discount and “you save” price

  • Ability to insert any deal via CMS

  • Ability to configure each deal type

  • Ability to change coupon code status manually

  • Deal overview

  • Sort order for deal types tabs

  • Linked-to-deal product visibility

  • Ability for customers to print coupons

  • Ability for customers to view deals

  • Main product types support (except bundled products, grouped, and gift cards)

  • Complete multistore support

  • Integration with the Sociable extension from aheadWorks

  • Integration with the Order Tags aheadWorks extension

    • SalesTax.com Magento Module Updates and FAQ

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    With many new clients signing up for the Sales Tax automation provided by the SalesTax.com Magento Module by Hara Partners, we wanted to share some of the sales tax best practices and tricks on how to get up and running fastest.

    New SalesTax.com Magento Module Release on Magento Connect

    A new version of the SalesTax.com Magento Module has been released on Magento Connect and can be downloaded at:

    http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/sales-tax-saas-connector-by-wolters-kluwer.html

    As of the writing of this article the current version is 3.1.4.

    New Features of the SalesTax.com Magento Module

    New features recently released for the SalesTax.com Magento module include subsidiary support and the ability to send any information from the SKU over the UPC to tax classes or other identifiers. The products can be mapped or dynamically queried against the sales tax data on the SalesTax.com SaaS.

    Installation and Configuration Guide for the SalesTax.com Magento Module

    Please find the latest information on how to install and configure the SalesTax.com Magento module  at:

    http://www.harapartners.com/sales-tax-magento-module-installation-guide

     

    Advanced features provided are a test account and dynamic validation of your Sales Tax SaaS credentials.

    For further assistance do not hesitate to contact us any time.

     

    SEO for Magento – Hara Partners Well Below Alexa 80,000

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    SEO for Magento website www.harapartners.com has been working very well, and resulted in the Hara Partners website to reach the ranks of the top 80,000 websites in the world as measured by Alexa.com.

     SEO for Magento website Hara Partners working as shown on Alexa

    SEO for Magento website Hara Partners working as shown on Alexa

    Alexa, owned by Amazon.com, is a service measuring the popularity of the world’s top websites. Alexa provides a world rank as well as a rank by country.

    Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Magento – How was it done?

    There was a considerable effort to do search engine optimization (SEO) for the Magento site. Hara Partners as a premier Magento System Integrator, uses Magento for its own website. While some people say that SEO for Magento is hard; but it boils down to providing valuable content. Hara Partners has focused on providing expert knowledge and sprinkled in some fun. As more valuable content was added to the website, this also coincided with multiple Google updates. You may have heard of the Panda and Penguin updates. These are in fact a series of updates, some of which were more drastic than others.

    The conservative and slow approach taken has paid off in the long-run as Google and other search engines made a big shift towards quality content. The SEO for Magento approached used was one of “building a house slowly, by putting one brick stone on top of another”, rather than using some scheme to create link farms or pump out fluff content.

    The approach our SEO team uses for Magento SEO is based on research and content creation. And the only shortcut we use is to work hard and to work smart, i.e. work result oriented and guided by data.

    Please let us know what SEO challenges you have encountered with Magento and what has worked for you. Leave a comment or learn more about our Magento SEO Audit.

    Git Software Version Control Promotes Collaboration

    We wanted to share this video by Clay Shirky who uses the software version control system git. Shirky talks about how tools promote arguments between humans, which leads to more chaos as well as constructive collaboration. What started with the printing pres and the scientific journal has now become real-time reporting and discourse on Twitter.

    No matter what structure you prefer; weather it’s the decentralized collaboration through git, or a more centralized revision control with SVN, Mercurial or the software of your choice, if you’re not programming by yourself, and even then, you may want to setup a version control system for your e-commerce store.

    If you have more than one person working on your code base, you should install a software version control system. We’re happy to answer any questions if you leave a comment below, or feel free to contact us in any other way.

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