Tips to Convert Your Magento Online Store into a Mobile App!

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Tips to Convert Your Magento Online Store into a
Mobile App!
So, you have finally launched your business
on the world wide web on Magento platform.
Well, congratulations for that. It is the
best way to establish a global reach and
awareness about your products. However, in
todays mobile oriented world, it does not
just suffice with having an ecommerce
website. Your goal should be to reach
every pocket and every fingertip. Yes, we are
talking about Mobile Apps. Having a Magento
mobile app enables your business to interact with
your customers in the most personalized way.
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According to Statista, By the year 2020,
mobile apps will generate around 189 billion
U.S. dollars in revenues through app stores and
in-app advertising. Now, this is a huge
sum. The question here is, would you want to be
a part of this market share? Have you
thought about launching your mobile application
on Google Play or Apple Store? If not, this is
the right time to do so. However, it is not easy
to create a Magento based Mobile App. You need a
Magento App Builder which is not easily available
and you need to buy it. And after buying, you
need to take some help from a
professional Magento development company to
integrate that help you to develop it from the
scratch. Nevertheless, we thought about sharing
some tips to convert your Magento Online Store
into a Mobile App. So, here we go Mulling Over
The Ways After you have decided to build an app
based on Magento, there are two ways to go. One
is, hiring a Magento Development company and
getting it built from the scratch. As a part of
the procedure, you might have to explain your
objectives, purposes and go through the
design and development process along with the
application builders. But, there is a second
option which is more feasible and
flexible. There are some companies who have
readily built extensions. These mobile app
builders extract the data out of your
Magento Ecommerce store and convert it into
a mobile app. The best part about such
Magento App builder applications is that it
they work quite swiftly and create an ecommerce
app for you in no time. In case you feel that
some features are not in your control, you
can get the extension customized for yourself
through the framework developer.
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So, depending upon the structure and
interface of your app, you can decide
whether you want to go for bespoke
development or want a ready builder to help
you do that. Building The UI After choosing the
development model, the next step for you is to
think about the app design. Creating a mobile
application does not mean that you simply ape the
design of your website and its features. You need
to think from the perspective of
responsiveness. And with a small screen, comes
simple, clutter free and optimized design.
So, how do you go about it? The homepage of
your mobile app can flash the latest offers from
your store. If not, you can display a menu
which makes it easy for your customers to
find the major features and products available on
e-store. Remember, the number of navigational
pages on your app must be lesser than your
website. This is because, the mobile users do not
like to scroll too much to explore the
categories and subcategories of your
product. Hence, keep the navigation menu
simple and display important categories
and subcategories on the top so that your
customers can go straight to those
pages. Working On The Checkout Process Long
forms, complicated questions, and detailed
descriptions before buying the product. Yes.
Keep your mobile application away from these.
Especially, if you want to provide them with a
simple checkout process.
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• Instead, you can use a different way to
  extract information about your users. Ask them to
  log in from their social media accounts. By doing
  so, you can also get their information and help
  them complete the purchase quickly.
• Also, provide the option of signing in through
  Facebook and Gmail and help your customers to
  make their purchase quickly. Offer your
  users with the feature to save their details on
  the app. By doing so, they will be able to make
  the purchase quickly and in a couple of clicks.
  If you do not want cart abandonments on your
  store, streamline the check out process on your
  app.
• By testing and analyzing the number of
  users on your app, you get to know about
  the features and aspects of your
  application that need improvement.
• And Some More
• The above given were the most important
  aspects. However, there are several other little
  and significant things that you need to consider
  while creating your Magento mobile app. Some of
  them are given below
• As 70 to 95 people are right-handed, you must
  ensure that the design of your app is right thumb
  friendly.
• Make sure you keep your app updated in
  the latest version of Magento and invest into
  a secure and trusted mobile app builder.
  Remember, vulnerable applications are easy
  for the hackers to target.
• Images tend to make the applications run
  slowly. So, make sure that you use less of
  them. Users do not wait for very long for the

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app to load. If your app takes a lot of time to
load images, the users will leave. Last, But Not
The Least Usually, the structure of your app
depends on the type of platform you are using.
However, when you use Magento, you must
remember that less is more. If you want to
attract more users, there is nothing like a
streamlined and secure app that enables your
users to order quickly. You are sure to
find several companies that offer
Magento App Development services. But you must
strike a deal with a company which has ample
years of experience in developing and making
applications. Or else, just the way we mentioned
above, you can invest into an extension that
enables you to build an app for your
ecommerce store. We hope these tips come of
help when you think of building your mobile
app. Do you already have a mobile app for your
e-store? Or are you planning to have one? Please
share with us.