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AMASTY PLANS FOR 2018: A LETTER FROM CEO Posted by Ksenia Dobreva | Feb 10, 2018 | Amasty Life, Amasty Team | 0 Hello to Amasty customers! It’s been a while we talked about our plans. Now, since it’s the beginning of 2018, I think it’s the right moment to share what we have prepared for this year! But first, a bit of stats and facts of 2017. A QUICK 2017 RECAP

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AMASTY PLANS FOR 2018: A LETTER FROM CEOPosted by Ksenia Dobreva | Feb 10, 2018 | Amasty Life, Amasty Team | 0

Hello to Amasty customers!

It’s been a while we talked about our plans. Now, since it’s the beginning of 2018, Ithink it’s the right moment to share what we have prepared for this year!

But first, a bit of stats and facts of 2017.

A QUICK 2017 RECAP

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ANDREI VASHKEVICH

CEO and Co-Founder, Amasty

We’ve grown to the team of 60. It consists of support managers, developers, QAspecialists, product managers, BA and content specialists. They answer yourquestions, develop and update extensions, test them, plan their growth, write userguides and manuals and create useful content for each and every one of you –every day! I’m putting this point first because the main driving force of Amasty isthe team.

Amasty became the first Premier Magento Extensions Builder Partner. It’s agreat honor and privilege to be an official partner of Magento, but it’s not all – withthe title we received unofficial responsibilities of supporting the community andkeeping up with the high standards more than ever.

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Our store now offers more than 200 Magento 1 and Magento 2 extensions. Weworked hard in 2017 so you can choose from a wide range of products and pickthe one that’s working for your business.

We spoke at a number of conferences, hosted a Magento Contribution Day, andsponsored MageTestFest and Magento Live UK. Those were exciting days whenwe shared our experience and met a lot of Magento community members!

Apart from creating and updating the extensions, we delivered new excitingoptions for our customers. We opened an Amasty Composer repository andadded new currencies to amasty.com for our customers’ convenience, made allupdates for all extensions free forever, and extended our moneyback period to 60days. I do hope that these changes improved your experience with Amasty and itsproducts and services.

We are proud to have more than 60 partners in 24 countries around the globe.

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Cannot express the importance of relationships with companies on the samebusiness path in the world of e-commerce.

We browsed through our main last year accomplishments – now, to the plans!

AMASTY PLANS FOR 2018We do appreciate that you guys choose Amasty as your extensions provider. It’san incredible honor to see more than 25 thousand stores globally using Amastyextensions! We’re sharing our plans so you can align them with your own businessneeds and know what to expect from Amasty products and services in the future.

MAGENTO 2 FOCUS

We’re gradually switching our focus to Magento 2 extensions development andupdates. We’re doing this because of the growing demand we have been seeingduring 2017. In a nutshell, it means that we will be making more Magento 2products and updates.

Read more about why we removed our Magento 2 extensions roadmap.

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MAGENTO 1 FLOW

However, we have no plans of cancelling our M1 extensions support: over 2018,we will be definitely updating and maintaining them – as long as our clients need it.

AMASTY.COM IMPROVEMENTS

We have already been working on making amasty.com better for you, so you canshop for extensions with ease and comfort. Visual improvements and enhanceduser experience are already in development and will be released throughout2018.

MAGENTO EVENTS

Our team plans to come to even more Magento events as visitors, sponsors, andspeakers. Stay tuned and feel free to come up and talk to us whenever you see anAmasty team member in the venue! Also, we are planning to host some homebased events to support the local community as an official Magento Partner.

PRODUCT DELIVERY

And, of course, we will be making Magento extensions. Our goal is to provide you

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with the top solutions in each e-commerce functionality segment, and by topwe’re meaning feature-rich and useful products that’ll work perfectly for yourMagento stores and for your business.

TEAM EXPERTISE

We build our team of people that strive for expertise – that’s why even morecolleagues will become Magento Certified Developers and Magento CertifiedSolution Specialists in 2018. I’m not saying that they will try or attempt to take thetests – because I’m sure that they will qualify for certifications.

BUY FEATURES YOU REALLY NEED

And last but not least. In 2018, a new exciting feature will be released onAmasty.com. I’m afraid I cannot disclose all the details yet, but we have huge plansfor delivering options that will let you buy exactly the features you need. Weexpect this tool to be a gamechanger when it comes to meeting the merchants’needs.

Of course, there will be a number of smaller but no less exciting changes that didn’thit this list. We’re continuing our journey of supporting businesses all over theworld and contributing to the growth and rise of e-commerce. And we’re happy wehave you on board of this journey.

Stay tuned!

Andrei Vashkevich

Amasty CEO and Co-Founder