"Magento tips & tricks"

Extendware Product Labels Magento Extension Review

September 7, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

Product labels are extremely popular among ecommerce merchants. With their help, you can easily highlight new products or attract the attention of your store visitors to special deals. As for the Product Labels Magento extension by Extendware, it offers a lot of advanced features. For instance, you can use multiple images per each product or create flexible rules and conditions for labels to be applied. Below, you will find a more detailed description of the module, as well as the Magento extension tutorial dedicated to the backend. Frontend appearance of Product Labels is also illustrated further in this post. Continue Reading

Extendware Quick View Magento Extension Review

September 6, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

Make your ecommerce storefront easier and faster to navigate with the Quick View Magento extension by Extendware. It lets your customers check product details in a handy popup window without any need to leave a catalog page. Such a great improvement makes store visitors more satisfied and as a result encourages sales. In addition to various product details, there is an opportunity to place an item to a shopping cart. Sounds intriguing, so let’s figure out other nuances. Continue Reading

Extendware SMTP Email Magento Extension Review

September 5, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

You might have seen our review on SMTP Email Settings by Amasty and today we’d like to shed light on the extension’s competitors – SMTP Email by Extendware. The module allows you to fully leverage your own custom SMTP server. It provides 4 authentication modes, 3 secure connection modes, and support for custom ports. Besides, it is possible to log mail for performing audit as well as send email messages right through the Magento admin. Below, you will find the overview of the module’s functionality and a small Magento extension tutorial related to the backend functionality. Continue Reading

Amasty Order Status for Magento 2 and 1

September 2, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

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Although Magento 2 is in many ways better than Magento 1, there is still a room for improvement especially when it comes to the backend interface. Today we shed light on one essential feature that is not available in our favorite ecommerce platform by default – custom order statuses. The Magento 2 order status extension significantly simplifies the way you manage orders in the backend section. The Amasty Order Status Magento 2 module not only lets you create eloquent order statuses but also provides the ability to inform customers about every change related to the order status. As a result, you get an additional communication channel with customers, new sorting and filtering options, order status change notifications, as well as the ability to automate your daily routine.

Extendware Product Feeds Magento Extension Review

September 2, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

We’ve already reviewed a lot of extensions developed for creating data feeds. Advanced Product Feeds by Mirasvit, Product Feed Export by Xtento, and Data Feed Manager by Wyomind impressed us with their usefulness and user-friendliness. But what about Product Feeds by Extendware? How reliable is the module? These questions became a reason to create the following Magento extension tutorial and review. Continue Reading

Extendware Cache Backends / Faster Checkout Magento Extension

August 31, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

If you are tired of slow checkout, product saving, and tags flushing, then you’ve come to the right place. Although some specialists insist that it is necessary to perform a lot of customizations in order to solve this performance problems, we know a better way – install the Extendware Cache Backends / Faster Checkout Magento extension and you will forever forget about them. Below, we describe core features of the extension and shed light on how to configure it. Performance improvements have never been so easy. Continue Reading

Extendware Image Optimization Magento Extension

August 29, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

Every ecommerce store has tons of images, since visual content is extremely important for online businesses, as it provides the greatest impression on customers. Furthermore, the lack of photos makes a website look suspicious and unprofessional, so use only high quality content in a reasonable quantity. Unfortunately, you can face a problem when large images slow down the user experience reducing search engine rankings and consequently sales. To avoid this situation, we recommend you install the Image Optimization Magento extension by Extendware. This tool will help you optimize your images reducing their size without sacrificing quality. As a result, the site speed and user experience will be improved but the content quality will remain the same. Continue Reading

Extendware Bulk Product Updating Magento Extension

August 29, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

Recently, we reviewed the Tier / Customer Group Price Percentages extension that essentially simplifies the way admins work with both tier and customer group prices. The module becomes even more effective in a combination with the Bulk Product Updating addon by Extendware. Therefore, let’s see how the tool works and feels. Continue Reading

Extendware Tier / Customer Group Price Percentages for Magento

August 26, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

Today, we review a handy backend timesaver aimed at a daily routine related to tier prices. After installing the Extendware Tier / Customer Group Price Percentages Magento extension, you will no longer have to spend time constantly updating tier and group prices when a price of a product changes. The process becomes fully automated, since the module applies a percentage of the normal product price. Below, we describe the functionality of the tool in more details. Continue Reading

Extendware Product Sorting Magento Extension Review

August 25, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

In the following post, we shed light on how to improve the effectiveness of your product catalog with the help of the Extendware Product Sorting Magento extension. The module helps to increase your current conversion rate by providing customers with the ability to sort products by Most Viewed, Best Sellers, Top Performers, Number of Reviews, etc. Note that in stock items as well as items with images can be shown first. More features are described below. Continue Reading