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 information are stored in GrandNode

GrandNode as regular e-commerce software has to collect data from users. Normally when we think about data, we have the personal data of customers in a mind. But it’s wrong apporach, because we have to look wider.

Multi tenancy in GrandNode

In the GrandNode 4.50 version we’ve added feature called „Staff”. In general, it allows you to create users who will be able to manage particular stores. Learn how to open your first multi store, multi tenant GrandNode.

How to configure Progressive Web App

PWA – Progressive Web Apps is a term, which is appearing more often since 2015, especially during Google Events. According to Google Web Talks – users are more likely to use the websites, instead of native apps. But what’s interesting, they spent twice more time in native apps than on the websites. As you may now, we've implemented Progressive Web Apps out of the box in GrandNode 4.50 and you are able to enable them easily even if you are not a developer.

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.

GrandNode 4.50 Beta Released

The new version of GrandNode is coming. But before we announce it officially, we want you to beta test the upcoming 4.50 version and share your thoughts with us.