Overview In 2022.R1 (4.1), we released a new input to search features on particular settings pages. This allows users to find a feature more quickly, with links to directly forward them to that section. What does it search? Feature Toggles Feature Settings Feature Site Option Variables (used internally) Which pages…
Overview CIMcloud uses HTTP Cookies for partial data-storage to access information more quickly, which decreases hits to the database and increases the performance of your site. What is contained in CIMcloud Cookies? CIMcloud creates a cookie on the user’s computer to store information about the user across the website. Our…
Overview CIMcloud offers a method to sync your product data to Google Merchant Center with a generated XML feed based off your product data. This feature is available as part of the Public Facing Product Catalog [F] bundle. You can turn this feature on or off in the Worker Portal,…
Overview We now allow customers to inject any CSS and JS/jQuery into their site via Custom Code. We continuously build tools to enable our customers; however, there are some guidelines and standards we’d like you to keep in mind related to this feature. Guidelines Core checkout functionality cannot be altered…
Overview We introduced a new section within Customer Site Settings to allow webmasters to add their own CSS/JS/jQuery globally in the “Advanced” section. There are two sections that inject header and footer code into your website. You can find this option by following the steps below: Search for “Customer Sites”…
Overview We frequently receive requests to switch credit card gateways on customer’s sites. A majority of the time, this will be a minimal change; however, there are instances when making a switch to a different gateway can be more involved. This article provides you information to help us switch your…
Deprecated – 8/30/2022 Future phase potentially, too difficult for DM2 to go this route and make the changes we’d like to implement. Overview Customers on our new CIMcloud platform (cimstaging/mycimstaging URLs) will need to notify DM2/PDI of a new method to send Notification payloads to their CIMcloud websites. This method…
Overview Effective July 1st, 2022, the state of Colorado will impose a $0.27 Retail Delivery Fee (RDF) on all deliveries by motor vehicle to a location in Colorado with at least one item of tangible personal property subject to state sales or use tax (source). CIMcloud now has a task…
Objective The purpose of this document is to share some of the best practices that companies use, when launching a new (replacement) ecommerce platform, to help reduce the risk of losing earned search engine rankings during the switch. One key to maintaining rankings is making sure that all of your…
This article provides information on Google’s newest analytic tracking, Google Analytics 4 (GA4), and how you can migrate to this new version from their previous version, Google Universal Analytics (GA3). As of release 2022.R1.4 (v4.4.0), Google Analytics 4 is now supported in core product. See steps here to integrate this…
Overview Released in version 3.4.0, this option within Customer Site Settings allows the Site Operator to display a Maintenance Page on your production site front. Once on, any user on your production site front will be forwarded to the Maintenance Page on the next page load. Any active carts/sessions will…
Overview This article provides technical details on how to filter the data records returned when making a GET call to the CIMcloud API. The API has a very powerful search mechanism that allows you to perform simple or complex SQL-where-style searches when pulling data from the API. This provides tremendous…
This article provides an overview of the CIMcloud API Framework with examples. This article is intended to be a technical introduction to the API. It is written for people with software development / programming skills. Topics Covered The following outlines the topics covered: Terminology Configuration and Rate Limits Creating App…
Overview Our most significant update in this release (internally known as version 4.0) focuses on increased performance and result relevancy for catalog searches. We achieved this by creating a new search engine, as well as adding further cache optimization techniques for product and pricing data. We discussed this update in…
Overview This article will cover the limits that are supported and what we recommend setting within your site’s configuration. Exceeding these limits beyond the recommended limit can have a negative impact on site performance and user experience, which may require professional services/billable time to adjust. Limits Results Per Page Supported…
Below are some SEO-related best practices and reference material. Refer to Moz’s hierarchy of SEO Needs for a visual into what matters in order of importance when it comes to SEO page rankings: Source The bottom-most items are essential for page rankings, such as allowing your sites to be crawlable. …
Overview This document provides reference materials and recommended steps you can take, related to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and other digital marketing efforts, before and after going live with your new eCommerce site. It includes the following: Get Educated – Some SEO-related best practices and reference material Implementation Checklist –…
Note: Universal Analytics will no longer track events starting July 1st, 2023. See our Google Analytics 4 – What to Know article for more information. Enable Ecommerce Tracking Google’s Ecommerce tracking has some built in tools that can be used to track sales per item/user. You can reference the Google’s…
To track user activity efficiently for different conversions, you should setup a new goal to track that conversion rate. Click the Admin “Gear” icon in the lower left, then the “Goals” link in the last column Screenshot below: Ga_find_goals_section.png Click the Red “Add Goal” button and fill in the information…
Verify filters are set up to exclude traffic from the IP(s) of your office within Google Analytics. This is so that your internal team/sales reps/etc are not impacting the page views from your users. If you do not have filters in place for your office IP Address, follow the steps…
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