After the feature pack release of Magento 2.2.3, today Magento release Magento 2.2.4 having the core focus on improvement to checkout process to lessen up the cart abandonment.
I’ll discuss the key points of the latest Magento 2.2.4 version in the blog post here. It is advisable for Magento 2 store owners to download the latest version and upgrade their store to Magento 2.2.4 as soon as possible.
The Magento 2.2.4 version addresses installation, setup, and deployment fixes; includes payment methods such as Amazon Pay, Vertex, and Klarna Payments to automate the shipping calculations and simplify the checkout process, and other enhancements for the core features which will be discussed here.
What’s New in Magento 2.2.4!
- E-commerce store owners are facing difficulty in converting visitors to customers. It mainly happens due to the complex checkout process or enforcing visitors to create an account. The Magento 2.2.4 enables to include Amazon Pay as a payment method. The payment and address information can be fetched from the user’s Amazon account. The customer can skip this boring process while checkout and use this easy and familiar checkout process.
- Your customers would always want to know the details about their payments including the tax they pay and the discounts they get. Calculating accurate sales tax is now possible with the integration of Vertex with Magento Ecommerce. Vertex allows calculating real-time accurate taxes, manage discounts calculation and generate signature-ready pdf returns. It reduces cart abandonment rate with transparent tax calculation system.
- Offer flexible payment options with Klarna Payments. This integration allows merchants to offer options like pay now, pay later or pay in installments, to their customers. Customers can decide how they want to pay which enhances the user experience. The Slice it option allows customers to pay in installments at lower interest rates.
- With the Magento 2.2.4 release comes the dotmailer improvements such as:
- New Abandoned Cart report table
- Allow merchants to draft the transactional email templates
- Advanced method of syncing subscriber’s sales data
- Allows to set transactional email at the Store level
- Advanced validation for the deletion of cron job CSV files
- The Magento 2.2.4 release offers other enhancements such as Emogrifier dependency upgraded to 2.0.0 or later, admin global search is now translatable, extensible, and considers the ACL settings for the current user. And much more!
- Certain fixes like backup command working properly, correction in links to Magento Installation documentation, ability to enable or disable the Magento Profiler from the command line, and many other bug fixes are addressed in the Magento Open Source 2.2.4
There is much more to Magento 2.2.4 release! Get the detailed idea here. Also, you can download Magento 2.2.4 to upgrade your Magento to take benefit of these awesome features it has introduced!
Enjoy the new features and enhancements that Magento has to offer in the latest Magento 2.2.4 and take your business to the new heights!
