Magento Cost: Monthly Managed Support Services

When choosing to purchase one of our many Magento services, one of the primary concerns that you might have is the cost—’just how much is this going to cost me exactly?’

It’s a great question, of course, since most Magento services might not exactly fit your budget. In fact, let’s be honest: most of our services are really freaking expensive.

But like most of the material that we present on this blog, it all depends on who you are and what your needs are. If you own a rocking business and you think you have the budget to support this stuff, then we definitely want your call more than the schmuck who doesn’t even have a penny to his name to pay for Magento.

Magento Cost of Hara Partners Magento Support Services

Magento is a powerful, vast and complex application, as such preventing slow-downs and disruptions requires an experienced and steady hand at the helm. With Magento Managed Services from Hara Partners a dedicated team of Magento professionals and certified developers takes control of your site ensuring it’s running in optimal condition 24/7/365.

Managed Magento Support

Managed Support Services from Hara Partners provides coverage in three important arenas: Issue management, issue prevention and strategic planning, and site set-up/optimization.

Issue Management:

Included with Hara Partners Managed Magento Support services is a 24/7/365 Help desk with phone, email and ticket support, so we are never out of reach. Additionally, we provide a daily report outlining any issues that have occurred or might occur so your always informed and part of the decision making process.

Issue Prevention and Strategic Planning:

Once your store is up and running in peak condition we can assess your risk factors and start taking measures to mitigate or prevent any issues. We’ll monitor your site’s uptime and performance so any issues are addressed promptly as well as using our proprietary site–auditing software Health Check to unearth any underlying issues with your site’s code so they can be addressed before causing any harm.

If you’re interested in our services such as Monthly Managed Magento Support Services, please go ahead and contact us.

Magento AMS Fulfillment Integration combines Magento with state-of-the-art AMS Fulfillment.

Preparation and Configuration – After you determine the shipping methods and payment methods to be used in Magento, the development team can create proper mapping between Magento and the A2000 Connector.

Incoming, Update Inventory– In addition to the default Magento SKU, each product will have an A2000 UPC. You can update the inventory any time.

Outgoing, Export Order – When the shipment/tracking file has been successfully imported, the corresponding order will be marked as ‘Tracking Received.’

Incoming, Shipment/Tracking. All items in the order are shipped after this shipment. We allow auto invoice after shipment via system config, and the order has been invoiced automatically.

Magento AMS Fulfillment Order Management

In the world of Fulfillment, orders come in many shapes and sizes, and with a seemingly endless array of unique requirements surrounding the flow of order data with our valued clients. With AMS Fulfillment’s unique expertise in large scale product fulfillment for both Business-to-Business (B-2-B) and Direct-to-Consumer (B-2-C) programs, we have come to understand Order Management and order data flow requirements of all types, including: EDI order management to major big box retailers, boutique retail orders, online ecommerce, drop ship orders from ecommerce partners, large scale Direct Response TV, fixtures and marketing materials to retail databases… and more!

From ASNs (Advanced Ship Notices) to custom messaging for ecommerce customers, AMS has seen it all with decades of experience managing orders for a wide variety of fulfillment channels and clientele.

Warehouse Management System

At AMS, our core expertise is Warehousing and Fulfillment Operations, and a vital contributor to our fulfillment expertise is our Warehouse Management System (WMS). With a robust WMS software package that has remained on the cutting edge of technology advances since 2001, and an in-house IT department that has supported the WMS over the same period of time, AMS Fulfillment has established a tremendous WMS technology backbone to support our core business of fulfillment operations.

To find more, check out our page on Magento AMS Fulfillment Integration on our website.

Magento Services

You know what we’re about… We’re a Magento company. You’ve seen some of our services. 

But we know that some of you who still aren’t convinced that Magento is the greatest thing to come out of God’s green earth are probably wanting to know… 

“What Magento services are right for me?”

Well… We’re not here to sell you anything… Not right off the bat anyhow.

I mean we love to get paid for our hard work. Everyone does.

But at the end of the day, we put this blog up to entertain and inform. That way, after you got all your laughs out of our talented Hara Partners copywriters (and potentially learned something), you can check out the rest of our website and see if the deals we have to offer really match your e-commerce needs.

But first… You wanna know more about our Magento services, don’t you?

Technical Audit

With Hara Partners’ technical audit you’ll get expert individual in-depth analysis with a comprehensive overview of the state of your store’s code quality and overall usability.

Our report includes an executive summary of findings with priorities, detailed explanation of findings and suggested solutions, and an analysis of potential Magento core system modifications.

SEO Audit

Search engine optimization best practices and methods are changing all the time so it’s crucial to conduct regular checkups regardless of your site’s technical stability.

Investing in SEO assessment is a great way to get valuable information about the state of your Magento store because you might be missing significant amount of traffic, customers and sales due to improper technical SEO setup of your store.

Our report includes an executive summary of findings with priorities, detailed explanation of findings and suggested solutions, and top priorities for your developers and copywriters.

Magento Consulting

This service is for store owners who love making data driven decisions. It is intended to bring incremental long lasting improvements, week by week, in different areas of an online store. This service helps you build a stable business and brand.

Magento Development

Being in Magento development world from its very beginning, we can say we are one of the most experienced teams you can find. We are passionate about sharing our experiences with the development community via our blog. This was recognized throughout the community and we’re happy to see over 200.000 visitors come back each month and leave their comments on the website.

Closing Thoughts

As you can see, we don’t just talk the talk… Inquire more about services on our solutions page, or give us a call, why don’t you.

Shopify Vs Magento: Which One’s the Better Pick?

Okay, those of you who have been on our blog for a while are probably in the know-how that Magento and Shopify are two of the big names as far as e-commerce platforms go. And while we’re constantly pushing Magento on you guys (we are a Magento company after all), we’re willing to step back and provide an objective analysis on each platform and let you be the judge.

The Benefits of Shopify

Shopify has over 100,000 users, and powers everything from small local boutique stores to massive online shopping malls. The platform has built-in speed and security for hosting, integrated payments that allow you to add and remove products, and great customer support.

For marketing campaigns, Shopify also allows you to quickly and easily create landing pages, which is a key differentiating factor between other all-in-one platforms (and some DIY platforms).

As for SEO, Shopify creates 100% crawlable, clean code. They allow custom title tags, and meta descriptions, even on collections, in addition to other essentials like WebMaster Tools, sitemaps, and the prevention of duplicate content.

Other perks include a customizable site set-up, CMS product management, and new order notifications sent directly to your email and to your mobile phone.

The Benefits of Magento

Like Shopify, Magento has plenty of add-ons avaiilable for it, as well as a wide array of customization. Additionally, Magento is known for being user-friendly, and low on cost (in fact, the Community version is free). Magento has a wide community of users who have developed many extensions and plugins, and can help with support at any time.

Magento’s templating architecture allows you to customize pretty much everything so you can create your site exactly as how you want it. The software is open source so you have full control over the code so you can develop the functionality you need.

The platform was built with SEO efficiency in mind, giving your products a better chance to appear on Google, Bing, and beyond. There’s also plenty of room for custom SEO implementations for those who have the knowledge and skills to do so.

Closing Thoughts

There you go, an objective overview of both platforms (we told you we can do it).

At the end of the day, readers, the choice is yours in regard to which one you want to go with… But if you make the choice to go with Magento, Hara’s always here for you.

Twitter is a great social tool for connecting with people, but many marketers miss the point as far as how useful it is to market to customers.

Promoting your Magento store via Twitter can be a useful way to promote your business. On Twitter, you can post updates for a featured product, promotion, or event that your business is having.

Twitter also provides a very straightforward API implementation, and can be very lenient in terms of bandwidth. Wit a basic account setup, you can even run 1,000 updates per day.

Since so many people are becoming members of Twitter each day, it is definitely a great platform to look for prospective clients and get linked with them. Listed below are a few features.

Tweeting: Ideas for your store’s tweets

If you look at other businesses on Twitter, you’ll see that there are a number of ways to promote your store on Twitter without losing followers by being too “spammy”.

Displaying your Twitter updates on your Magento store

Twitter can be a powerful tool for your store on its own, but you can integrate Twitter with your Magento store to drive existing customers to your Twitter account, which can help to generate repeat customers.

Magento DL Prime Integration allows you to connect your Magento webstore into the DL Prime 2000/3000 ERP. This ERP allows you to manage your reseller and consumer stores centrally. It also allows you to import product and customer data. You can also provide customers with real-time pricing and stock availability data as well as set customer specific pricing in your webstore.

Features include:

Magento and DL Prime Orders

Orders and sales are the live blood of every business, and we take all order information very seriously.

The process starts with complete audit trails capturing every last detail about every order placed to a fully customized order logic. Magento Dl Prime Integration can support every default scenario. And if you have special order requirements, our expert staff can consult with you and help ensure all information is captured and communicated correctly.

Magento DL Prime Integration also handles order comments and modifications to orders. Its main strength is streamlining orders and order flow, and providing full visibility toward the customer and you and your customer service staff.

Shipping

Shipping methods and shipping rates can be setup in Magento to reflect your business realities in DL Prime Integration. Are you using UPS WorldShip and have it seamlessly integrated with your system? No problem, we’ll just add Magento to the mix and make sure that it reflects all shipping conditions and rules that you require. Do you want to pass on your amazingly low shipping rates to your customers or do you use other ways to streamline your shipping process? All shipping information is fully transparent in both systems, and you can service your customers from DL Prime as well as they can view all information in Magento.

For more information, check out our Magento and DL Prime Integration page.

Magento RetailPro Connector combines point of sale, store operations, CRM, inventory management, merchandising, and accounting systems in a software platform that streamlines back-office processes and increases efficiencies. The system is geared towards retailers seeking a scalable, configurable and easy-to-use infrastructure to support growth.

The software provides a number of measurable tools, including stock rebalancing, SKU tracking and item performance metrics, for retailers to fine-tune their businesses and track against key performance indicators (KPIs) within the application.

Why Modern Retail?

We’ve integrated hundreds of POS and ERP systems and we know what it takes to have a successful integration. We provide a complete Integration Solution whether we develop your Magento website or not; that’s why we install our integrator and do the initial import of data, making sure the attributes are mapped correctly – as well as provide you with full ongoing support. We work closely with Retail Pro as well as Magento, so that you have the best integration possible.

Product Specialties/Features:

Inventory Management – The system updates inventory instanaeously with every purchase of return allowing for real-time view of all levels. Maintain vendors, departments, items, styles, colors, sizes, SKUs, serial numbers, costs, prices, counts, and even item images.

Where Do I Buy This?

Now that you know the deal, you can find out more about the Retail Pro Connector on our solutions page.

Bergen Logistics Integration is a leading fashion logistics provider and is on the forefront of advanced technology solutions, differentiating us from our competitors.  Our journey began by providing order fulfillment, warehousing & distribution, and pick & pack services for high-end fashion clients in RTW, outerwear, sportswear, dresses, footwear, handbags and accessories. While we began, and continue to grow in, the niche of fashion logistics, we are also expanding into other areas such as toy fulfillment, media fulfillment, home furnishing fulfillment, and more!

With our Garment On Hanger speed-rail, Bombay sorter, and auto conveyor, we are able to process orders quickly and efficiently for the traditional B to B distribution as well as for ecommerce order  fulfillment. Additionally, our clients are able to take advantage of our web-based warehouse management system, REX11, to view pick ticket status, receivings, and inventory levels. Although we lead with technology, our clients never lose that human touch with a fully staffed customer service department in each facility.

Our warehouse management system provides our clients with virtual visibility of goods with 3 points of scanning for each item and is available to view 24/7. This technology, coupled with our pick & pack services provides a quick and efficient service with a margin of error below industry standards.

Bergen Logistics Integration Features

• Automatic email notification when goods are scanned into Rex11 as inventory.

• Inventory feed and shipping files are automatically exported from Rex11 nightly.

• Live transmission of pick tickets to Rex11.

• Live status updates of all inventory movement.

• Integration with many different ERP systems.

• Integration with Magento, Shopify, Brandboom, Core Commerce, and more.

• Proprietary in-house warehouse management system, REX 11,  with our own development team. This means that we are always upgrading and improving.

• Reverse logistics to process returns and re-stock your inventory as necessary.

• Special projects and value-added services available when special care is needed.

For more information, check out our Bergen Logistics Integration page.

Magento 3PL integration is a powerful subscription-based integration-as-a-service product providing a real-time integration between NetSuite and any third-party fulfillment center or logistics provider.

Powered by our Magento Integrator, the 3PL Connector runs entirely within your NetSuite account.

Communicate efficiently with your 3PL Provider

• Exports designated sales orders and purchase orders to your 3PL provider
• Exports return authorization from NetSuite to your 3PL provider
• Imports shipment confirmation, item receipt confirmation, and inventory adjustments to NetSuite
• Handles partial fulfillments and multiple packages automatically
• Schedules email notification for error reporting

Additional Information

• More than 50 successful integrations completed with DHL, UPS, Newgistics and others
• Serves direct industries, including healthcare, power, print, toys, manufacturing and nonprofits
• Compatible with CSV, XML, JSON and numerous other data transfer formats
• Built on Celigo Integrator and includes a dashboard to monitor events
• Provides options for Custom Business Logic as needed (Fees may apply)

Powered by the Integrator

Each of our connectors is powered by our Integrator platform—a robust REST-based integration middleware built right into the NetSuite platform.

You can use this very same Integrator platform to integrate your critical business processes by building out your required custom Data Flows between NetSuite and other SaaS or on-premise software applications.

Magento 3PL Integration – Final Thoughts

Many factors go into making the right choice of shopping cart and 3PL systems. Choosing any software solution always begins with a thorough evaluation of your business requirements and clear statement of business objectives. Features and functions provided by various packages and 3PL services should be mapped to business objectives and requirements.

Integration should always be among these feature considerations. Prebuilt integration “connectors”—typically provided by the vendor—can minimize time spent integrating specific functions. This saves time and money. However, they can also limit the functionality either today or down the road as needs evolve. This dependence on the vendor should be evaluated against the time saved utilizing a pre-built solution.

To find out more about the Magento 3PL integration, check out our Magento 3PL integration page.

Magento Quiet Logistics Connector

Quiet Logistics is a total warehouse solution encouraging efficiency and speed in the world of packaging and shipping. Using a fleet of robots powered with sophisticated mathematical software, it helps retailers ship their goods to customers with minimum cost at maximum efficiency. Quiet Logistics boasts an impressive 99.99% order and inventory accuracy as well as 3 times the volume of standard fulfillment centers, making it the wave of the future in the warehoouse management industry.

 The Quiet Logistics Solution

Quiet Logistics is the only warehouse system that uses the advanced Kiva Robot Systems for industry leading accuracy for inventory management and order management. Quiet Logistics also provides an advanced client portal with real-time information on inventory, purchase orders, and shipping orders. Once an order is received the system automatically pulls inventory levels from the warehouse and shares it with the Magento store through Magento Quiet Logistics Integration streamlining the process and eliminating confusion at every level. After the order has been picked and packed the system updates the shipping information for easy product tracking. All this translates into greater profits and customer satisfaction. Hara Partners improves the global online marketplace one business at a time. Our third party logistics services include:

If this is something that interests you, we are happy to accomodate you with the set-up. Please check out or Magento Quiet Logistics Connector page, and then contact us whenever you’re good and ready. Tap into Quiet Logistics’ advanced fulfillment and tracking platform using this Connector to Magento.