MongoDB Full-Text Search on steroids

As you may know there are plenty ways to host your database. You can do it locally, you can create a MongoDB server on your VPS or you can use one of the MongoDB clouds like MongoDB. Today we will talk about the last one mentioned, because in a beta environment, they published a fantastic feature – full text search.

Hacktoberfest - how to contribute to open source

Hacktoberfest has started. October is fantastic month becauase of Octoberfest, but if you can only associate it with with it, it's time to change your point of view. As you are reading blog about open source e-commerce platform, you have to know, that October is also the month when milions of users participate in Hacktoberfest. It's the best time to start contributing to it and get reward by Hacktoberfest founders.

How to choose the best e-commerce platform

The variety of e-commerce platforms can be a pain in the neck for store owners. The e-commerce platform is behind every online store success. For typical business owner, the e-commerce platform choice is a tough nut to crack. Is there a way how can you choose the best e-commerce platform for you? Sure. Let's jump into list of the must have points of each store owner checklist.

Open source or SaaS - which is better

Everyone who wants to create an online store, expects only the best solutions. Parallel to the online store number, increases the number of online stores softwares. Check the differences between the most popular types of e-commerce softwares - SaaS and open source.

What's new in GrandNode 4.50?

We are happy to announce that the newest version of our free, open source e-commerce solution has been released. GrandNode 4.50 is out and we are very excited about that fact. In each version of it, we want to create breath taking changes, that’s why we can compare our solution with the biggest e-commerce softwares in the industry. And yes, if you haven’t heard, GrandNode has the widest range of features available out of the box and we are very proud about that.

Top-notch ecommerce, must have features of effective online stores

Ecommerce is a very competitve industry. Thousands of stores, products. Many of stores have similar offer. How to stand out from the crowd? What does the "effective" mean? It means that you store will guarantee you sale and incomes.

Increase sales with eBay and Amazon

As statistics show in 2017 eBay has 168m of active buyers, for comparison, Amazon has 300m. Typically, these platforms, or popular marketplace in Poland - Allegro are places when store owners start their journey in the e-commerce. But this is not the best approach for them.

ecommerce trends for 2019

End of the year is a time for predictions, new goals, provisions. As authors of the first cross-platform e-commerce based on ASP.NET Core and MongoDB we would like to share with you a bunch of predictions.