{"id":1599,"date":"2018-05-03T18:42:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T13:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2019-05-24T18:12:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:42:53","slug":"magento-2-2-4-comes-up-with-interesting-features-and-more-enhancements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/magento-2-2-4-comes-up-with-interesting-features-and-more-enhancements","title":{"rendered":"Magento 2.2.4 Comes Up with Interesting Features and More Enhancements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_72 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/magento-2-2-4-comes-up-with-interesting-features-and-more-enhancements\/#Magento_224_New_Feature_Highlights\" title=\"Magento 2.2.4 New Feature Highlights:\">Magento 2.2.4 New Feature Highlights:<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/magento-2-2-4-comes-up-with-interesting-features-and-more-enhancements\/#Latest_Magento_Extensions\" title=\"Latest Magento Extensions:\u00a0\">Latest Magento Extensions:\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/magento-2-2-4-comes-up-with-interesting-features-and-more-enhancements\/#Other_Improvements\" title=\"Other Improvements:\">Other Improvements:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/magento-2-2-4-comes-up-with-interesting-features-and-more-enhancements\/#Should_You_Choose_to_Upgrade_Your_Site_to_Magento_224\" title=\"Should You Choose to Upgrade Your Site to Magento 2.2.4?\">Should You Choose to Upgrade Your Site to Magento 2.2.4?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>The latest version for Magento 2.2.4 has been released recently and the update has come up with power packed features and some more enhancements of the previous features and also some contributions from the Magento community.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>In this blog, I will try to cover up the upcoming changes that everyone is so excited about and why we should consider upgrading to it right now.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/How-you-can-enhance-your-online-business-with-magento.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1506 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/whitepaper-magento.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/whitepaper-magento.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/whitepaper-magento-300x33.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/whitepaper-magento-768x83.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One major problem for e-commerce businesses is cart abandonment. With this new release of Magento 2.2.4. it has come up with its own solution for the matter. It is by partnering with some strong shipping merchants and payment that Magento aims to provide its users with a more flexible, transparent and quick checkout process.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Magento_224_New_Feature_Highlights\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #333300;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Magento 2.2.4 New Feature Highlights:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here is What The New Release has to Offer:<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Latest_Magento_Extensions\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/store.idslogic.com\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Latest Magento Extensions<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Magento 2.2.4 has come up with some instant and shipping and accurate tax calculations from the cart.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Amazon Pay<\/strong>: <\/span>This is now available with the core platform and will allow the users to easily complete the checkout process by using their shipping, payment and billing information that is stored in the existing Amazon account.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/store.idslogic.com\/magento-2-amazon-connector.html\">Magento 2 Amazon Connector Extension<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This latest feature will help to reduce the number of inputs that is needed from the customers in the checkout flow. It will also provide trust and credibility to the merchants as the detailed information about the customer is processed via Amazon and not through the Magento application.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Vertex:<\/strong> <\/span>They offer Tax Automation technology solutions that are designed to make it easy to handle the tax rates and complete the tax returns for companies.<\/p>\n<p>The Magento 2.2.4 release has Vertex integrated in it and that is configurable out of the box and enables the customers to easily calculate the Tax based on the order on the cart contents and on the shipping locations.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Klarna Payments<\/strong>: <\/span>They are a Swedish Payment company popular for their innovative payment options. It allows the purchasers to offset the cost of purchase and for a specific period of time.<br \/>\nThe latest Magento version has come up with support for the Klarna Payments as a part of the core platform. With this, merchants can now offer the customers with the option to pay later in installments for their purchases.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Other_Improvements\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Other Improvements:<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>There are various other improvements and repairs in the Magento shipping and dotmailer bundled extensions. The merchants can now have the capability to use dotmailer to create customized transactional email arrangements.<br \/>\nThere are also fixes and enhancements to the core features so that it helps in improving the overall performance and allows faster shopping with improved search performance and image loading.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>Magento 2.2.4 also offers the merchants with some other enhancements for advanced product performance.<\/li>\n<li>Users can use the CyberSource payment system for multiple shipping checkout and payments.<\/li>\n<li>The admin global search is now translatable and expandable and considers the ACL setting for the user.<\/li>\n<li>Automatic checker is incorporated in Magento in order to implement the short array syntax rule. It also provides dedicated payment and shipping debug log files so that information that are very specific to the functional areas are stored.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Should_You_Choose_to_Upgrade_Your_Site_to_Magento_224\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Should You Choose to Upgrade Your Site to Magento 2.2.4?<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The latest version has come up with some impactful features and polished performance so IDS Logic recommends that it is good to upgrade your platform to the new one. In case your in-house team cannot help you with it, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/dedicated-magento-developer\/\">hire Magento development experts<\/a> to do the job and offer a strong support through future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest version for Magento 2.2.4 has been released recently and the update has come up with power packed features and some more enhancements of the previous features and also some contributions from the Magento community. 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