How Platform Extensibility Benefits a Business

Redecorate on a solid foundation

The Extensible Platform House

An extensible platform is like a house. A house can be redecorated, renovated, added onto, and repaired without the foundation of the house being changed.

For instance, if you’re putting up a shelf in the bedroom, you don’t need to change the kitchen too; and if you want to knock out a wall to make a room bigger, you don’t need to demolish and rebuild the entire house to make that one change.

Extensible software works the same way. It gives you a stable coding arena so you can make changes without fearing a collapse. You can make changes to one part of the website while leaving other parts alone, and you can choose which parts of the website you want to affect.

This is extremely useful because web content, consumer trends, and technology are constantly evolving, and you need to keep up with these trends and adjust your website accordingly to continue operating a successful business.

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set industry trends

Be Creative with Your Extensible Platform

The eCommerce industry is one where innovations are consistently taking place. Whether you run a B2B, B2C, D2C, or another type of business, customers expect their shopping experiences to align with current trends.

Platform extensibility allows you to keep up with the times and maybe even set a few trends yourself. Extensible software ensures that you can continuously implement new ideas and technologies at the drop of a hat without having to do an entire overhaul.

New pages can be built using existing templates, and existing templates can be updated on the fly and applied to all relevant pages, so you don’t have to update them one at a time for site-wide changes. Though of course, individual pages can also be changed without affecting the others. Extensibility lets you be creative with your eCommerce platform and business with no hassle.

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Always make your website secure

Extensible Software Improves Security Functionality

As your business grows, new challenges will arise. These challenges will be easier to overcome if you have an extensible platform in place.

Best practices for security are that you should stay up to date with your security software, monitor for errors that might appear on your website, and be aware of new innovations in the security world (both by hackers and website protectors).

Platform extensibility makes it much easier to implement these security updates and you don’t have to put your website (and your customers’ data) at immediate risk. The parts of your website that are secure and working properly can stay as such while any holes in security are mended and updates are made.

Security is a continuous process. Software extensibility saves you from a major headache each time changes need to be implemented.

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Streamline processes and boost revenue

Platform Extensibility Creates Efficiency

As they say, time is money. With an extensible platform, you can make changes to your eCommerce website without having to shut it down and lose business. Since the base code is already set, subsequent changes don’t require as much coding, so changes can be made quickly and efficiently.

Without platform extensibility, it’s easy for your time and finances to be sucked into large overhauls of your website that ultimately ruin your profit margins. But with extensible software for your eCommerce platform, changing your website can be easily integrated into your everyday business costs and routine.

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Get a Customized Extensible Platform

At Clarity, we specialize in developing extensible platforms for eCommerce businesses like yours. We customize the platform to fit your needs, and the extensible software can adapt to your business as it scales.

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