There are times when your Magento 2 store is out for the service or under maintenance. If the store owner wishes to shut down the store even for temporary period of time, it affects adversely to SEO of the store.

Therefore, what you can simply do is to disable checkout in Magento 2 store.

Check the step-wise method to disable checkout in Magento 2.

Use the programmatic method to change default icon for menu items in Magento 2 backend
for the sake of easy administration task?

Differentiate the custom modules from the default ones, reflect the functionality of a module and represent the custom icon of the company.

Have you ever tried to get static block content in block file in Magento 2?

CMS block facilitates to reuse of the content in a convenient, modular and manageable way. Static blocks provide simple text or HTML, CSS, Javascript to display content. One can get the content of the static block in the block file

Magento 2 QuickBooks Online Integration by Meetanshi integrates the QuickBooks Online with Magento 2 store for automatic syncing the store data to QuickBooks such as orders, customers, payment methods, invoices, & credit memos.
 

QuickBooks by Intuit is a popular accounting and finance management software that eases the tasks of the admin such as income and expense management, recurring bills, order tracking, and much more. Leverage this feature-rich software in Magento 2 store with Meetanshi’s Magento 2 QuickBooks Online Integration extension.

The extension automates synchronization of Magento 2 store data to QuickBooks Online. Also, the admin can manually sync the store data like customer, products, invoice, sales, credit memos, and payment methods.
 

Once the data is mapped to QuickBooks, leverage the features of QuickBooks like automated recurring bill payments, integrating bank and credit card accounts for better expense management, keep an eye of the business performance, and insightful dashboard. Everything with Magento 2 QuickBooks Online Integration extension.
 

Benefits of Meetanshi’s Magento 2 QuickBooks Online Integration Extension:

• Integrate QuickBooks Online Integration with Magento 2 for easy accounts management.
• Facilitates sandbox mode
• Use Client ID and Client Secret for integrating QuickBooks with Magento 2
• Click “Connect to QuickBooks” button to authorize and connect the QuickBooks API with Magento 2
• Check for connection success message and connection status update in the admin page once you sign in the Intuit QuickBooks.
• Click the "Fetch All Accounts" button to fetch and set 3 account types i.e asset account, expense account, and income account.
• The admin can configure the customer synchronization settings by selecting the sync mode as immediate or cron job, and select the start time and frequency for sync in case of cron job.
• He can also configure the product synchronization settings by selecting the sync mode as immediate or cron job, and select the start time and frequency for sync in case of cron job.
• Option to select a product name option to as the product name in QuickBooks
• Option to select the product description option to set as product description in QuickBooks
• Enable/disable option to track product inventory from the backend
• Enable/disable option to strip HTML from the description
• The admin can configure the product synchronization settings by selecting the sync mode as immediate or cron job, and select the start time and frequency for sync in case of cron job.
• Configure the order prefix for order reference in QuickBooks
• The admin can configure the invoices synchronization settings by selecting the sync mode as immediate or cron job, and select the start time and frequency for sync in case of cron job.
• The admin can configure the credit memos synchronization settings by selecting the sync mode as immediate or cron job, and select the start time and frequency for sync in case of cron job.
• Set credit memo prefix for credit memo reference in QuickBooks
• The admin can select the country from the dropdown for tax
• Enable debug log option if required
• The “Payment Methods Mapping” grid in the admin panel maps Magento 2 payment methods with QuickBooks.
• The “Tax Mapping” backend grid maps Magento 2 taxes with QuickBooks. Click the “Add all Tax Code” button to add all the taxes in the grid and sync them using the "Synchronize" button.
• Use the Sync Queue to add the customer, product, order, invoice, and credit memo data in it for syncing it over a period of time.
• The “History Logs” backend grid shows the status of each entity and its data sync status.
• The admin has the option to select multiple entities and delete or re-sync them from this grid.
• The History Log grid lists:
  • Sync ID
  • Type of data
  • Entity ID/Increment ID
  • QuickBooks ID
  • Sync creation time
  • Message
  • Status
• The QBO customer ID is listed in the Customers grid after customers data is synced. Option for the admin to select multiple customers to sync them in QuickBooks. Once synced, the customers are mapped in QuickBooks.
• The QBO order ID is listed in the Orders grid after order data is synced. Option for the admin to select multiple orders to sync them in QuickBooks. Once synced, the orders are mapped in QuickBooks.
• The QBO Invoice ID is listed in the Invoices grid after invoice data is synced. Option for the admin to select multiple invoices to sync them in QuickBooks. Once synced, the invoices are mapped in QuickBooks.
• The QBO Credit Memo ID is listed in the Credit Memo grid after credit memo data is synced. Option for the admin to select multiple credit memos to sync them in QuickBooks. Once synced, the credit memos are mapped in QuickBooks.
• Supports all the payment method types in your store.
• Sync data like shipping fees and discounts

For more information, visit https://meetanshi.com/magento-2-quickbooks-online-integration.html

Is not it a bad shopping experience if the customer adds one of the options from a configurable product in the cart and it shows out of stock status in the cart instead of the product page? Are you looking for a solution to this? The method to show Magento 2 out of stock associated products in configurable products dropdown is the best solution for you.

It will display associated products of the configurable products in the separate dropdown along with their stock status and it will be easy for a customer to decide. Plus, they can subscribe for the notification message when the product gets back in stock.

• Integrates Google Customer Reviews with Magento 2
• Display the Google Customer Reviews badge at the desired position on store frontend in the desired language.
• Add the Survey Opt-in in the checkout page in the store. Set the estimated delivery days for the survey Email
• Offers GTIN integration and option to map GTIN attribute.
• Earn potential customers' trust with the help of the customers' reviews displayed on the frontend.
• Drives traffic.
• Increases the click-through rate and conversions.
• Improve store performances by analyzing the collected customer reviews for free!
• Improve the online presence and SEO of the store by displaying the reviews in the search results and shopping ads.

One can establish a relation between two tables with the foreign key. Add foreign key in a column and establish the relation of that table with another table.

Check the solution to add foreign key in database table in Magento 2 at https://meetanshi.co...e-in-magento-2/

The store information in Magento 2 is displayed in various sales documents such as invoice, shipment, and credit memo. Magento 2 allows the admin to configure, edit, or update the store information easily.

• Use the extension to notify customers about store activities like order placed or canceled, invoice generated, etc. via Whatsapp.
• Option for admin to get Whatsapp notifications for customers' store activities. 
• Integrate the extension using Twilio API provider to send WhatsApp Notifications.
• Facility to send custom Whatsapp message for each notification to the customers. 
• The custom notification text can be configured using the system variables like order_id, first_name, etc. 
• Send custom WhatsApp Notifications for:
  • Order Placement
  • Order Invoice
  • Order Cancellation
  • Order Shipment
  • Credit Memo Generation
  • Contact Inquiry
  • Website Registrations
• Collect mobile numbers from default Magento sign up or guest checkout form to send the WhatsApp Notifications. 
• As soon as the mobile number is registered with the store, start sending the Whatsapp notifications for each activity.
• Quick notifications on Whatsapp helps enhance customer experience and win their trust!

• Hide the price, or display minimum or the maximum price for the bundled products from the backend.
• Set product image fallback from the backend to share the images for the products if not set for each product individually.
• Set individual titles, images for products and categories, descriptions to optimize the look on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Google+.
• Display product related info while sharing by enabling product type for open graph tags.
• Option to select the Twitter card types for CMS pages, categories, and products to share information distinctly.
• Option to compel the extension to show thumbnail image first for product and category pages sharing.

Magento 2 supports the functionality for creating and assigning the custom options to the products.

Visit https://meetanshi.com/blog/get-product-options-in-magento-2/ to enable Product Options in your Magento 2 Store.