The release of Magento 2.4 has created immense excitement among the users, developers and also the ecommerce store owners. The Corona virus pandemic has no doubt shaken the economy of many countries and many shop owners have shifted their shops online. Amidst this situation the launch of Magento 2.4 on 28th July 2020 opened doors to many new features that can be integrated in the ecommerce stores making those more user friendly and secure.
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This new version has a lot for both the developers and the online merchants who are using Magento as their platform.
New features in Magento 2.4
Security
Security side of Magneto 2.4 is many times robust than its older versions. Magento 2.4 version offers 30+ security improvements. It addresses remote code execution and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a lot more:
- The Magento admin area now enables two-factor authentication by default. It means the admin has to configure 2FA to login otherwise he/she cannot. Although, it is optional for the users but it is recommended for all
- For RCE elimination, The system enables the template filter strict mode for Magento components
- Magento 2.4 has disabled data rendering for UI data providers
- Content Security Policy improvements include the whitelisting of inline style and script tags in .phtml templates
- There is multi factor authentication for Cloud SSH
PWA development
Magneto 2.4 has inbuilt studio for Progressive web apps. The PWA updates in this version have improved development opportunities. It supports PWA Studio 6.0.0 and 6.0.1. which introduce new Venia storefront experiences built using Page Builder content types. This has a complete cart and checkout workflow to accelerate implementations. There is also an extensibility framework to make it easier to enhance the capabilities of PWA Studio, both through custom development and apps in the Magento Marketplace.
Asset management
The completely rebuilt media gallery helps a lot in asset management. It is necessary because the use of online stores have increased users and the merchants. They need quick ways to cater to their customers.
The rebuilt media gallery:
- Easily manages images, new image details that include how often and where an image is used across pages, categories, or products.
• Searches and filters images more quickly with new image attributes,
• Saves time with an updated Adobe Stock integration that moves the image licensing and management workflow into the Media Gallery.
In Store Pickup management
According to Adobe DEI since March, there has been a spike in buy online, pick-up in store (BOPIS) orders, maintaining YoY growth of 130% in June. Also, Business Insider found that 85% of shoppers say they’ve made an additional in-store purchase while picking up an online order.
The In-Store Pick Up feature in Inventory Management has helped the merchants to easily select which physical inventory locations are near to customer pickup location. During checkout, customers can quickly find a location near them and view store hours. Once orders have been placed, store can notify them when their orders are ready for pickup with a single click and promote contactless delivery.
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Seller assistance
Magento 2.4.0 is totally meant to enhance customer experience. It enables store administrators to help the customers in their shopping path giving them access to customers’ accounts. This new feature leads to time-saving for customers and avoids confusion if they are new to the store, as it allows admins to resolve any issues that customers might face during online shopping. Besides this, admins can now walk the customer through all stages of the shopping journey creating a perfect onboarding experience.
The customer data is secure in the entire journey as store admins never get access to customers’ passwords and all assistance sessions are never saved.
Conclusion These major updates in the Magento 2.4.0 version are genuinely effective and focused on customer experience. Online ecommerce platforms are growing daily as businesses are understanding the importance of contactless shopping during this pandemic. Online shopping has become the new norm and it is necessary that the store merchants make it as easy as offline shopping. Magento 2.4 features have made this possible.
