6 Tips to Optimise your Checkout

Checkouts are the make or break of your eCommerce platform. If your checkout is cumbersome or presents errors to your users they are highly likely to leave. As a result, most checkouts have a 70% abandonment rate.  This checkout abandonment is more commonly referred to as shopping cart abandonment. But what exactly is shopping cart abandonment, I …

The Value of User Interviews is more than just hearsay

User Interviews are a great way to gain insights into your product directly from actual users. Listening to them, their pain points, and what they love; is of far greater value than what a boardroom of stakeholders believe to be the problems. User Interviews form one of several dozen methods of user research. While it …

What is digital commerce?

Digital commerce is not just one thing. It is the enabling of customers to purchase goods and services through a wholly self-service, interactive experience. It covers all aspects of this from the people, technologies, and processes involved in offering these experiences to the content and retention based touchpoints.  What is the difference between digital commerce …

What is B2C Commerce?

B2C commerce, also known as business to consumer commerce, is a term used to describe a commerce-based transaction that occurs between a business and a consumer. Traditionally this term referred to the direct selling of products to consumers in environments such as in-store shopping or restaurant dining. However, in this age of digital, we generally …

Monsoon Consulting Announces the Release of its Magento 2 PWA Module

Monsoon Consulting is delighted to announce the release of our first open-source Magento 2 module, created to demystify PWAs on Magento. If you have been paying attention to our past blog posts, you would be aware that we here at Monsoon Consulting are fans of PWA’s (Progressive web apps), and even have a post on how we …

UI Tips for using Page Builder Successfully

Adobe Commerce (previously known as Magento) is a powerful tool for eCommerce, and its Page builder tool continues this legacy. But wait, what is Page Builder? Page Builder is a powerful content creation tool that allows you, the merchant, to create best-in-class shopping experiences without the need for support from developers. This means that you …

Drupal 9 comes to the DLR ecosystem: Announcing the launch of dlrBETA

Launched in April 2021, dlrBETA represents a new approach to public engagement by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, a long-standing client of Monsoon Consulting. The project takes inspiration from Dublin City Council’s BETA project, which was a highly successful public engagement project that aimed to source ideas from the public for improvements to the area and trial them …