There it is, OroCommerce 4.2: the annual feature release of OroCommerce! Glad to discover also in this release that Oro once again responds to requested improvements or features within the community and its partners. In this release, OroCommerce further focuses on improving the user experience and performance.
In this way they prove once again that OroCommerce is the B2B e-commerce platform of the future. This is one of the reasons why we founded sister company 25Carat. They focus on OroCommerce to achieve operational efficiency for your B2B e-commerce.
Want to know what the most important new features are? Be sure to read on!
A word about OroCommerce: OroCommerce is B2B e-commerce software that allows you to easily build a B2B webshop. Since Oro was developed for the B2B market, by default the platform already has some very desirable features such as multiple shopping baskets, company accounts, quotes and specific B2B workflows. Want to know more about OroCommerce? Then read the blog about OroCommerce's functionalities and find out why you should consider Oro as a B2B platform.
The new release also includes a number of features that will improve your customer's user experience. The main ones are:
Search and you shall find
- A new version of Elastic-search with faster, optimized and more relevant search results
- Standard with autocomplete on the existing search bar
Order even faster
- A completely new 'quick order' form to even faster & easier manage over 100 order lines within 1 page
- Loading of a CSV file for filling orders, shopping lists and for completing the checkout
- Managers can now also see the shopping lists of all their representatives
Drag & drop
- Well, drag and drop that was already possible the previous version of OroCommerce via the built-in pagebuilder
- With the new version, Oro continues to focus on additional widgets to make filling in content even more fun and easy!
- In addition, there is now also extra focus on content preview, so you can first validate whether everything is correct before putting your creations online.
Improvements to the web shop
- Prefer to display filters on the left rather than at the top? This can now be done quickly and easily via configuration in the default template
- With the customizable cookie consent notification banner you are completely up-to-date with the applicable GDPR rules
Speed speed speed!
- One of the most important, but often underestimated, features is the performance of the platform itself! How does the platform react when faced with an extremely large catalog? And does the checkout still load smoothly with an exponentially increasing number of order lines?
- With Oro you can convert thousands of article lines into one order in no time, without compromising on complex price calculations.
- Did you know that Oro's guideline is that each checkout step should load under 0.7s for 200+ order lines?
- In addition, with each release, Oro also pushes further on front-end optimization, loading JavaScript and media, and search performance.
- So going to make a cup of coffee while loading the order is no longer going to work. Get your serving of caffeine ready before you start ordering!
Maybe you'd like to watch Oro's full webinar for yourself?
Questions about OroCommerce or the new release?
Let our colleagues at 25Carat help! They are our B2B e-commerce experts with a lot of technical expertise in OroCommerce. Be sure to request a no-obligation consultation.