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Oysters XO are innovative oyster chefs providing a unique culinary experience.

The company began its journey in Amsterdam before heading to New York City in 2012. Today, it offers catering services as well as a product line including premium oyster kits. Roaming oyster shuckers – known as Oyster Girls and Oyster Guys – are popular additions at events from bar mitzvahs to weddings, shucking oysters with impressive skill and delicious results.

Oysters XO approached WooExperts CartKnitter to optimize its website’s speed in order to improve online sales. Removing an extensive backlog of cached files and integrating with Cloudflare (among other procedures) proved decisive. The load speed…rocketed from a mere sub 60 to a whopping 85% and beyond.

The Kind Pen is an award-winning vape pen company based in Ocean, New Jersey.

These personal vaporizer pens are an alternative to crude resin-filled pipes from years gone by and are a popular choice for CBD and other vapeable products, such as e-liquids, oils, and concentrates. With a lifetime warranty and more than 1,000,000 satisfied customers, the brand has quickly become a trusted name in its industry.

The Kind Pen approached WooExperts CartKnitter to refresh and streamline their WooCommerce vape store to improve user experience. “Some of [their] troubles included an unresponsive navigation menu when accessed through iPhones, issues in loading slider images, and loading speed optimization.”

CartKnitter’s team immediately set to work. Images were analyzed and converted to formats that load quickly without compromising on quality, CSS and JavaScript files were compressed and merged, with WordPress, plugins, and WooCommerce extensions also updated. “We also edited the options table in the database and reverted to default .htaccess and wp-config.php files as part of the troubleshooting process.”

The result is a superior WooCommerce vape pen store that’s lightning-fast – site load speed increased by over 35%.

Éclat Chocolate is a small, intimate chocolate making company in West Chester, PA, using the world’s finest techniques in chocolate making.

Founder and master chocolatier, Christopher Curtin, is proud to share his art and experience with you through Éclat Chocolate.
It was at the House of Les Compagnons du Devoir – the premier guild for pastry chefs in France – that he worked alongside the best journeyman pastry chefs in Europe, becoming the first American to be awarded the honor of German Master Pastry Chef and Chocolatier in Cologne, Germany.

Counted amongst the world’s top chocolate makers, Christopher has learned his trade from the masters and honed his skills in the finest chocolate houses of Belgium, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Japan.
Customers are able to browse a wide selection of chocolates and confections on the site. If you’re not sure where to start – your choices include chocolates, truffles, caramels, mendiants, and mondiants – why not start with Éclat’s helpful tasting guide?

Always trying to think outside of the box, Éclat Chocolate continues to search for inspiring chefs, artisans, artists, and interesting personalities to collaborate with in order to create new flavors and experiences.

It all comes together in artistic fashion at Éclat Chocolate, a unique experience you won’t forget.

Business: Ultimate Mats manufactures high-quality, anti-fatigue mats, entry mats, and bespoke logo mats. By partnering with the best mat manufacturers and suppliers in the United States, Ultimate Mats have set the benchmark for having superior quality mats in the lowest possible pricing.

Client Requirement:
1. Maintenance, housekeeping and upgrade of Ultimate Mats’ existing website
2. A website audit from an expert
3. Optimize website's performance on both PCs and handheld devices

Cartknitter Solution: Cartknitter’s WooCommerce experts reviewed and updated plugins, which helped the website perform effortlessly and improve page loading speed by 40%. The delayed loading pages would have led to a negative user experience. In addition, Cartknitter provided the client with required plugin changes for their WooCommerce store.

They also assisted in preventing any store outages or crashes and closed any security flaws they may have been identified with since the last release.

Cartknitter also incorporated a WPC Grouped Products plugin that allows users to group things purchased together for better efficiency and ease of customers’ shopping experience. Customers benefited with this particular plugin since there is no quantity limit, (min/max is not applicable) and no manual pricing/discounting system. The sum of the prices of selected grouped items is used to calculate the total of a grouped product. Moreover customers can easily change the quantity or delete any item to suit their needs. Ultimate Mats’ eCommerce platform went through considerable improvement with Cartknitter’s expert solutions.

Business: The Wish® is the transformational 'energy’ game created by Louise Laffey, having over 25 years of experience in energy and metaphysical work.The Game has been helping thousands of people around the world to manifest their greatest wishes for financial freedom, true love, their dream job, life purpose, health and wellbeing, peace and happiness

Client Requirement: The Wish team contacted CartKnitter for PayPal Pay 4 integration, allowing customers to pay for their purchase in 4 interest-free installments. The best thing about PayPal Pay 4 is that customers won't have to wait long to see if the payment is approved, and their credit score won't be affected. Customers can easily and securely pay and manage all their transactions - all in one place.

CartKnitter Solution: CartKnitter successfully completed the PayPal Pay4 integration as per client's requirement with all security measures in place. Since PayPal accepts all major credit and debit cards and international currencies, customers at the Wish can now enjoy payment the way they want it. The website has the flexibility to quickly raise sales, attract new customers with promotions and a competitive budget, and decrease cart abandonment.

Business: Mykul's Microbakes, as the name suggests, is a “micro-bakery” that makes items to order, based in New York. The Bakery specializes in Artisan Bread, Colossal Cookies and Bodacious Brownies.

Client Requirement: Mykul's Microbakes’ website (WordPress) faced some issues with the platform and wanted to modify their website to help customers schedule their order pickup. For example: if a customer orders cookies to be delivered on Wednesday and bread on Thursday and closed for pickups on Sundays, customers should be able to make the order and pick it up on the next working day.

CartKnitter Solution: CartKnitter’s WooCommerce developers carried out a custom coding process. The best part about WordPress with WooCommerce is that one can adjust the code and content to suit one’s needs – allowing complete website customization.

One of the most appealing aspects of selling online using WooCommerce is its flexibility. Plugins, extensions, and themes can be utilized to meet needs, then tweaked and coded to customize the look and functionality of a website. CartKnitter’s developers utilized this feature for Mykul’s website and now their customers can schedule a delivery and pickup date, time at the order checkout page completely hassle-free . Also, the store admin can now create the pickup location if required. Also, any special instructions can be made. CartKnitter's Woo developers also made the plugins compatible with the theme and design of the website.

Business: NAISMA is an American Invasive Species Management Association supporting, promoting, and empowering invasive species prevention and management in North America.

Client Requirement: NAISMA’s website was well structured, but there were hidden issues which affected overall site performance. Hence, they wanted a thorough website audit report based on SEO, design issues, security, plugin etc and make necessary design/ UX improvements on their site.

CartKnitter Solution: CartKnitter immediately got on the task and carried out an extensive audit to understand the issues with the site. To boost their website performance and leverage search engine visibility, Cartknitter identified the following:
1.Security loopholes
2.Vulnerabilities
3.Configuration issues

Post identification of above issues, Cartknitter experts went ahead & solved them for NAISMA.

Cartknitter’s WooCommerce experts also conducted an SEO audit to analyze the technical infrastructure and on-page and off-page elements that are crucial in search engine visibility. They helped the client to identify algorithm changes, thereby making necessary alterations to the website, aligning with Webmaster's guidelines, fixing error messages or broken links, redirecting them, and recovering lost traffic.

Finally, Cartknitter experts carried out a thorough design/UX improvement for the site. The new design was attractive, simple to navigate, focused, with a contemporary appeal. They removed distracting elements from the homepage and ensured the design is simple, clean, and minimalist along with a content suggestion for an overall enhanced website experience.

Business: Deem is a perfume store in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Deem has constantly been researching and developing to offer a touch of distinct fragrances exclusively available from Deem, with attention to detail and perfection in quality and refinement.

Client Requirement: Apple Pay integration and mobile optimization for their website. The client wanted to provide a fast, secure and simple checkout process for their customers along with mobile optimization that will display two products per row on mobile devices.

CartKnitter Solution: CartKnitter experts assisted the client by facilitating their website’s checkout page with Apple Pay and WooCommerce. This helped the client to reduce cart abandonment and increase purchase frequency by enabling. This integration ensured a higher conversion rate by making the checkout process faster and more reliable. Moreover, customers were saved from filling out lengthy contact forms. The checkout provides shoppers with a high level of privacy and security with the introduction of Face ID, Touch ID, or passcode mandatory for all transactions.

A strong user experience was achieved through mobile optimization. CartKnitter made the content scrollable rather than forcing consumers to browse through numerous pages. They made sure only good quality; hi-res images were uploaded on the site. By using AMP Mobile Pages (AMP). CartKnitter created lightweight web pages for a better mobile experience.