UX Performance Changes

The use of Glyde to render the front end of the Marketplace has a lot of UX benefits for the customers.

Revised Vendor Pages

  • Storefront with featured products, Shop All Products and About us pages with separate URL paths and content.
  • Shop All Products now includes search and filtering on the Vendor page itself.
  • Very high performance load times with pre-loaded content supported.

Quick Add to Cart for Configurable Products

  • Configurable products can be quick-added to cart right from the Category page, with support for selection of configurations prior to adding.

Improved Quick Search

  • Quick Search now also supports search for sellers in a single search bar.
  • Seller search will cover any seller that sells the product category that is searched.

Ultra Fast Search

  • Search has been improved significantly with high speed results delivered in milliseconds.
  • Complex filtering support.
  • Load more support rather than pagination.
  • Search filters are cached for near real-time loads of similar search results.

Revised Mini Cart

  • Mini Cart now displays from the right hand side.
  • Mini cart supports Per Vendor grouping of items with better information presentation for customers.

One Page Checkout with Shipping Options Support

  • Guest & Logged in user support.
  • Stored Shipping or Add New Address.
  • Store Billing or Add New Billing.
  • Per Vendor Shipping Options with Free Shipping threshold support and multiple shipping methods.
  • Payment on same screen.
  • Display Per Vendor sub-totals and grouping of products.

Redesigned User Dashboard Experience

  • Redesigned customer dashboard experience with dynamic panels based on the modules installed.
  • Immediate access to customer details, recent orders, enquiries and reviews.
  • Redesigned menu for simplified access.

Better Customer Order Management

  • Order management has been redesigned to create fast access to all customer order.
  • Order search support.
  • Order progress indicators for better visibility of order status.
  • Orders now grouped by Vendor with Vendor subtotals.
  • Tabs to access Invoice, Shipments, Returns and Reviews in one view with fast-switching.