2018 has been a great year for Magento, for its merchants, and for the community. To help you continue that success in 2019, Magento has announced its latest version. Yes, you read correctly. Magento 2.3.0 is here with new tools to help merchants fuel their growth while empowering developers to deliver on client expectations faster and more easily.

MULTI-SOURCE INVENTORY

Merchants grow and evolve and so do their ways of sell, store and deliver their products. Multi-Source Inventory (MSI) provides merchants with better operational efficiency by managing inventory across multiple physical locations from within the Magento admin,

Along with this, merchants can also do the following:

• The merchant can assign products and quantities to each fulfillment source like warehouses, stores, distribution centers or third-party drop shippers.
• Track inventory at each source for easier management of inventory.
• Streamline operations with rules to prioritize and automatically control the inventory sources that are used to fulfill orders for each website in real- time.
• Integrate with third-party inventory systems

What about the merchant with a single inventory?

The merchant with a single inventory source will also get benefited from MSI with an inventory reservation system that tracks deductions from the saleable product stock when customers add products to carts. This results in accurate quantity counts and high performing checkouts that improve conversion rates.

Multi-Source Inventory will improve your operations.

PWA Studio

In 2019, Smartphones penetration is expected to reach 90% with nearly three-quarters of consumers engaging in mobile shopping. Progressive Web Apps will allow merchants to deliver a superior mobile experience which will boost conversion rates and also increase engagement. With PWA Studio it will be faster and cheaper to build Magento-powered PWA experiences.

PWA Studio will allow merchants to deliver app-like mobile commerce that is fast, integrated, and reliable. These experiences are proven to advance SEO and to drive 50% higher conversion rates and also 50% better page performance on average. PWA Studio also speeds time to market and lowers the total cost of ownership as it is designed with the developer in mind using reference themes, guided development, and open web standards

As an open source initiative, PWA Studio will have regular updates that are independent of Magento releases and it will rapidly add new features, reference theme enhancements, and quality improvements. With developers and partners already building PWAs we are looking forward to the future of front-end development on Magento.

Deliver app-like shopping experiences in the mobile browser

PAGE BUILDER

Creating pages and managing site content using HTML and CSS has become a history now. Available for all our Magento Commerce, Page Builder introduces an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface; a powerful set of content types like images, videos, and banners; and instant preview capabilities that enable non-technical users to take control of their content. So now you can create new pages, enrich products and categories, and launch content updates quickly and easily. All of them can be done without the help of a front-end web developer.

It has a flexible grid system which lets you to position page elements in a highly customizable way and in-context text editing streamlines the whole process. Even the appearance and behavior of content types can be quickly tuned to accommodate any design.

Page Builder is completing integrated with existing Magento functionality like media gallery and widgets so now you can incorporate these assets into your pages. You can also use Page Builder to create dynamic content blocks used throughout your site, and also schedule content to go live in the future with content staging and preview.

Currently, Page Builder has limited availability for our Early Adopter Program. If Magento Commerce customers are interested in being an Early Adopter then they can contact PageBuilderEAP@adobe.com to request access. Page Builder will be Generally Available for all Magento Commerce customers as part of the upcoming Magento 2.3.1 release.

Now create and manage site content with an intuitive, powerful drag-and-drop.

Additional Updates

In addition to these new features included with the latest release, Magento 2.3.0 also delivers updates and enhancements across the entire platform:

• Magento Shipping: It has an added support for new fulfillment options and expanded global availability.
• GraphQL: It includes flexible and performant storefront API with rich developer tooling which is integrated into the Magento API ecosystem. Hence, developers can easily query specific data elements from APIs in a single request. GraphQL’s focused responses allow faster and more predictable presentation results that too even on slow networks.
• Asynchronous & Bulk Web APIs: A New scalable APIs provides better control over the timing and execution visibility of API calls, at a greater volume so now you don’t have to wait for all previous operations to complete thus providing a faster performance.
• Declarative Schema: Effortless upgrade and installation process by allowing developers to declare the final desired state of the database and have the system adjust to it automatically, without performing redundant operations.
• Improved indexing performance: Sharding and parallel processing of indexers reduces indexation times by over 60% to support larger sites and quicker product updates.
• New security tools: A better security for your stores and also prevents fake logins with Google ReCAPTCHA and Two Factor Authentication.

We are happy to end 2018 with a new set of powerful tools and we are excited to continue growing with your business into the New Year!