Monthly Archives: September 2025

Why upselling on Magento 2 matters

Let’s be real: most stores can squeeze another 10–30% from the customers already on the site. Upselling and smart cross-selling aren’t magic — they’re about the right offer, shown at the right time, with the right context. On Magento 2, you already have powerful building blocks (related/upsell/cross-sell products, layered navigation, full product page control). What you need is the design and logic to turn those blocks into conversions.

What this post covers (quick roadmap)

• Core principles of high-converting product pages
• How to display dynamic stock status and create urgency (using Force Product Stock Status pattern)
• Cross-selling strategies that respect real availability
• Optimizing product pages for out-of-stock products with alternatives
• Using stock data to personalize recommendations and increase Average Order Value (AOV)
• Concrete Magento 2 code examples and step-by-step

Let’s build a clean, responsible, and reusable “product sampling” program in Magento 2 — the kind of module you can drop into stores to let shoppers request free or discounted samples, with fine-grained eligibility rules, cart and order integration, and admin reporting. I’ll walk you through the architecture, the core code pieces, and practical examples for beauty, food, and high-tech brands. No fluff — just explanations you can follow along with, copy-paste, and adapt.

Why build a custom sampling module?

Many merchants want to offer samples as a marketing lever. But built-in product types don’t capture the business rules: how many samples per customer, whether samples are free or discounted, per-category eligibility, or reporting on sample-to-purchase conversion. A custom module gives you a specialized product type and workflows, so sampling behaves predictably and is easy to manage.

High-level architecture

Here’s the mental model before we code.

Introduction

Managing inventory across multiple warehouses can feel like juggling while riding a unicycle—especially when each site is running its own Magento instance or when you rely on extensions to tune stock behavior. If you want a single place to see stock levels, automate status updates, trigger alerts for critical shortages, and optimize transfers between warehouses in (near) real time, building a custom inventory management dashboard is a pragmatic solution.

This post walks you through building a practical, extensible inventory dashboard for multi-warehouse operations, with concrete code examples and integration tips for Magento 2. I’ll include how to integrate the Force Product Stock Status extension into the dashboard, automate stock-status updates across sites, create custom critical-stock alerts, and optimize inventory transfers with real-time synchronization.

What this dashboard solves

• Centralized visibility across multiple warehouses

Introduction

If your Magento 2 store handles B2B customers who buy regularly — think office supplies, chemicals, or food distribution — building a custom "Scheduled Order" module can save time, lower churn, and improve retention. In this post I’ll walk you through a practical approach to implement a recurring scheduled-order system in Magento 2: architecture, cron jobs, payment automation, admin UI, and customer experience. I’ll keep it relaxed and practical, with step-by-step code examples you can adapt.

What this module does (brief)

• Create and store subscription-like scheduled orders (not a subscription for content, but scheduled B2B purchases).
• Run cron jobs to generate actual orders at the right time.
• Charge customers automatically using saved payment tokens / vault.
• Provide admin UI to manage schedules and a merchant-friendly order log.
• Provide customer-facing controls to change frequency, pause or cancel

If you’re building B2B flows in Magento 2, chances are you’ll need a proper Request for Quote (RFQ) system at some point. In this post I’ll walk you through how to build a custom RFQ module for complex B2B products in Magento 2 — architecture, DB entities, multi-level approval workflows, advanced product configuration handling, automated email notifications, and an admin dashboard to manage and analyze RFQs. Think of this as a practical, code-first walkthrough you can adapt to your store or extension.

Why a custom RFQ module?

Built-in Magento pricing and cart flows are great for standard retail. But B2B RFQs often need:

• Structured RFQ entities (requests, items, created quotes)
• Multi-level approval (procurement, finance, management)
• Support for configurable and highly-customized products
• Conditional pricing and custom price calculators
• Automated notifications and reporting

A custom

Hey — if you want to add a trade-in or upgrade program to your Magento 2 store, this post walks you through the architecture, the data model, the key code pieces and a pragmatic workflow so you can ship a working module. I’ll talk like I’d explain it to a colleague who’s comfortable with Magento basics but hasn’t built a full-featured custom module like this yet.

What this post covers

- High-level architecture to integrate a trade-in system into Magento 2’s ecosystem.
- How to store trade-in offers and compute automatic credit values.
- Workflow for approval and processing of traded items.
- How to integrate trade-in credit with the existing checkout and order flow.
- Best practices to maximize customer adoption and conversions.
- Step-by-step code examples for the most important parts.

Why build a trade-in/upgrade module?

Trade-in programs help increase average order value, reduce return friction, and keep customers in your ecosystem. A

Slow stores are the e-commerce equivalent of a closed sign on your door. You won’t always notice it immediately, but your customers do—and so does your bottom line. If you run a Magento 2 store, a regular performance audit isn’t optional: it’s insurance. This post walks you through 5 clear signs your Magento 2 store needs an audit, a practical step-by-step audit methodology (free tools vs professional audit), specific technical fixes (including Varnish tuning, indexers, and how modules like Force Stock Status can help backend performance), a short anonymized case study with real metrics, and a natural call-to-action at the end.

Why a performance audit matters (quick primer)

Performance audits uncover bottlenecks that reduce conversions, increase bounce rates, and raise hosting costs. For Magento 2 stores, those bottlenecks can live in the frontend (slow assets, render-blocking JS), backend (heavy queries, slow indexers), caching layer (misconfigured Varnish or FPC),

Hey — if you've ever had to build a product configurator in Magento 2 for complex items (think made-to-measure furniture, modular high‑tech devices, or custom clothing), you know it's a mix of data modelling, frontend UX, price/quote integration and performance work. In this post I’ll walk you through how to build a custom "Product Configurator" module in Magento 2 step by step. The tone is relaxed — like I’m explaining to a colleague — and I’ll include concrete code snippets you can copy, adapt and run.

What we’re building

A small but solid Magento 2 module that:

• Stores configurable options and attributes for complex products
• Provides a clean AJAX/JS frontend to choose options, preview choices and calculate price
• Integrates with the cart so configured products are added with correct price and options
• Is mindful of performance (caching, lazy loading options, indexes)

High-level architecture