Tips for online shop operation

With the free image editing program GIMP, a helpful tool for editing product images is also available to shop owners without Adobe Photoshop. Crop product images with GIMP is easy and with our instructions for the graphics program you can quickly achieve your desired result: a crop product image that is indistinguishable from that of a professional graphic designer.

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If you want to survive in the online business in the long term, you have to describe your offered articles properly. Compared to sales in a regular specialty store, there is no direct sales conversation in e-commerce. The customer also has to do without other sensory perceptions such as the scent or feel of a package in the online shop, some of the senses have simply not been influenced so far. By means of article descriptions, illustrations, product pictures or other audiovisual content, the visitor gets a better picture of your articles. Article descriptions are generally decisive for the purchase in an online shop.

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Read 15 useful tips and optimizations for the start with an OXID eShop system Based on a current responsive flow template, we will shed light on some unpleasant points of the system and give you advice on how to build content and structures. In doing so, we address both frequently made mistakes that we encounter again and again in shops whose support we are supposed to take over or which have not had a partner so far.

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In this article we explain in detail how to create a full backup of an OXID eShop. With the backup it is possible to restore your OXID eShop completely in case of a crash. To perform the backup, access to the server command line is required.

The backup consists of two components, the OXID eShop file system where your image and program data is stored and the OXID eShop database where your product and customer data is stored.

Both components are required to perform a full OXID eShop backup.

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