Exciting and Effective Magento Extensions

If you are one of those ecommerce merchants who never tire of adding features and exciting functionality to your ecommerce website, this piece is for you. Now you must be knowing what modules are. They are a bunch of XML and PHP files that allow the system to extend its functionality apart from its defined core functions.

Over the past few years, Magento has emerged as one of the leading ecommerce solutions that is constantly pushing the boundaries of innovation by coming up with new tricks and extensions every now and then. This article looks at some of the exciting Magento extensions from the Magento Community Edition and Enterprise edition.

6 Great Magento Extensions That You Should Know 

Better Store Search : It is found that about 70 percent of shoppers say that store search plays an important role in shopping cart development. When that is the case, a good site search is extremely important and this extension provides you precisely that with plenty of search control.

Udropship : Drop shipping is an ecommerce store’s inventory expansion key. In other words, include items that might otherwise be too expensive when shipped to a warehouse only to be shipped again to a customer.

GoMage Light Checkout : This is one of the fastest and most efficient extensions you can find for your checkout. While it brings all the web pages to one single page, all it requires is that customers can simply click “add to Cart” and instantly move on to the checkout page. So you can tell yourself, No more repeated clicks and wasting time”

Sweet Tooth : One of the best extension appreciated by online merchants as it supports loyalty points and rewards for customers who buy products consistently. This ecommerce solution thoroughly integrates and has been shown boost sales.

FishPig’s WordPress Integration : WordPress is among the best open source blogging and content management systems on the market and this extension seamlessly integrates into Magento.

AvaTax : across the U.S new tax laws in jurisdictions can greatly complicate your sales tax collection. Using AvaTax extension will help you easily integrate with the core Magento functionality. Despite the fact that this extension is free, it does require software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution.

5 Exciting Extensions in Magento

There are plenty of ecommerce platforms available in the market today that give you security, ease of use and responsiveness. The why does one platform seem to tower over the rest? The reason why Magento is the platform of choice for so many budding entrepreneurs and big businesses alike, is that it is easily customizable and extendable to suit your business objectives. 

 

This article looks at some of the extensions in Magento that greatly enhance your website’s functionality and usability.

Smart Menu

Every customer who visits an ecommerce website wants a simple and quick way to filter products. Magento enables this in its normal functionality itself through its default filter and categories menu. The smart menu extension simply extends that by integrating the category buttons in the sidebar of your page. With a collapse or expand feature and drop down support, it’s got all you asked for. 

 

Product Image View

Impressing your visitor or knocking him off often starts with simple things. Say your visitors want to zoom the image of a product they want to view. In many websites you can do this but when you’ve clicked it you realise that you have come out of the list or catalog list in your e-store. This extension allows you to directly view the magnified image of the product without having to leave your current page or catalog.

Enhanced Product Review

No customer today buys a product without going through its reviews and analysing threadbare its advantages and shortcomings. This is why you find certified buyer reviews becoming more and more popular across ecommerce sites. To this end, Magento has the Enhanced product review extension to help the customer read all reviews of the product they’re searching for, in a single page. Magento does this using its pagination support feature.

Easy Banner

Getting outstanding banners for your website is no more an issue thanks to the Easy banner extension of Magento. Slide any banner on your home page and attract visitors with exciting features for banners and content management. With a variety of gallery modes to choose from, Easy banner makes Banners and templates truly easy!

Gallery Pro

Ever wanted to create your own albums replete with categories and comments? Well, this extension allows you to do precisely that. It lets you create your own albums and sub-albums and organise them based on the topic or any criteria that you choose. You also have many options to view the photo in that particular category. Time-saving and easy to use, this extension has truly caught on amongst the users!