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Amasty Cash on Delivery Extension for Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

The convenient payment process is a vital part of a successful sales strategy for any online store. If online shoppers can’t find suitable shipping and payment methods on a website, they are more likely to abandon their carts and not return to the seller. Though most of the payment transactions on ecommerce websites are processed online, some customers still prefer using cash to pay for purchased products.

Today, we want to present you a new solution by Amasty – the Magento 2 Cash on Delivery extension. The module enhances the default Magento functionality by adding cash on delivery to available payment options at the checkout. After installing the module, you will be able to provide those customers who don’t want to use electronic payment gateways with the possibility to pay in cash on the order delivery. This way, you can offer your clients extended options for making payments and improve user experience on your website.

Below, we look closer at the core features of the Magento 2 Cash on Delivery module by Amasty and describe how it works in the backend and frontend.

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Amasty Subscriptions & Recurring Payments for Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

One of the ways for an ecommerce merchant to run a cost-effective business is using techniques for retaining existing clients. Following this strategy requires building long-term relations with customers, which can be achieved by various methods. One of the solutions for gaining customer loyalty is implementing subscriptions and recurring payments on an online store. With this approach, a store owner provides online shoppers with an option to buy goods and services repeatedly with periodical payments charged automatically. The recurring payment functionality is especially beneficial for businesses that sell products that often run out, like water, pet food, and others, or goods sold on a subscription basis, like newspapers and magazines.

Default Magento 2 doesn’t provide the possibility to utilize the subscription and recurring payments functionality. If you run your store on the default platform and want to accept payments on a recurring basis, you should consider installing an appropriate third-party module. One of such robust solutions is offered by Amasty the Subscriptions & Recurring Payments extension for Magento 2. With the module, you can allow customers to buy all or particular products on subscription and receive regular recurring payments. This way, you improve the customer shopping experience on your web store by simplifying the ordering process for repetitive purchases. As a store owner, you get a convenient way for accepting recurring payments and save costs on acquiring new customers.

Below, we describe the main features of the Magento 2 subscriptions and recurring payments module.
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Related Products Magento 2 Extensions

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Related Products Magento 2 Modules, Extensions, and Plugins

With the help of related products, you can motivate online shoppers to explore your storefront and check the goods you sell there. If an occasional visitor is dissatisfied with a specific product, you can introduce them to substitutes with a lower price, another color, or better functionality. You only need a proper Magento 2 extension that automatically generates related products for the entire catalog of your store. In this post, we provide an overview of the most reliable Magento 2 related products extensions.

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Amasty Magento 2 PWA Solutions

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Amasty Magento 2 PWA solutions review

The rise of mobile shopping is one of the biggest trends in the e-commerce industry. The opportunity to make purchases on the go and the convenience of shopping on a smartphone or tablet from any location has led to significant growth of mobile commerce. At the same time, retailers increase customer engagement and boost mobile traffic by leveraging new sales channels and reaching out to target audiences.

Following this trend, it is crucial for e-commerce merchants to optimize their websites for mobile devices. Building a mobile app is an excellent way to deliver a smooth user experience across various touchpoints. However, developing a native mobile application is a time-consuming and costly approach. Luckily, an ever-evolving technology offers another solution for improving UX on mobile – Progressive Web Applications, or PWAs. If you are new to this term, check out the article on PWA and Headless Magento 2, explaining what PWA is and how to implement the headless approach on Magento. 

Magento has developed a project called PWA Studio that provides a set of native tools for developing, deploying, and maintaining a Magento 2 PWA storefront. Besides, Magento 2 ecosystem offers third-party PWA solutions that allow building a PWA storefront on top of the Magento backend. The Amasty Magento 2 PWA modules are among those tools. This post explores the benefits and features of the Amasty complete PWA solutions for Magento 2. If you are interested in alternatives for developing a PWA-based website, pay attention to frontend-as-a-service tools, such as Vue Storefront and DEITY Falcon. Besides, you can utilize Magento 2 PWA themes, like, e.g., ScandiPWA and Tigren.

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Amasty Product Labels Magento 2 Extension

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Amasty Product Label Creation in Magento 2

In this post, we shed light on one of the robust solutions developed by Amasty – the Magento 2 Product Labels extension. If you want to explore other third-party modules for creating product labels on your online store, check out our review of the Product Labels extension by Mirasvit. The Amasty tool serves the same purpose as the Mirasvit product label module – it lets you add bright labels to store items displayed on product and category pages. Besides, the Magento 2 product labels extension calculates a percent discount or flat amount based on the difference between special and regular prices. There are three rounding algorithms to simplify rounding off discount amounts. Below, we describe why it is necessary to use ‘on sale’, ‘new’, and other Magento product badges.
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Amasty Automatic Related Products for Magento 2 and 1

Amasty Magento 2 Automatic Related Products module

Creating related products manually is a very time-consuming procedure. Luckily, there are lots of third-party tools aimed at improving the default functionality of Magento. Today, we will describe one of the reliable tools that allows showing smart product recommendations to website visitors – the Magento 2 Automatic Related Products extension by Amasty. If you want to explore more extensions for automating the generation of related products blocks, check out the Automatic Related Products extension offered by aheadWorks and two less complicated modules from the company – Who Viewed This Also Viewed and Who Bought This Also Bought. Continue Reading

Magento 2 AMP Extensions

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Magento 2 AMP Integration

As a Magento merchant, you might have already faced the following problem: the slower your pages are, the more customers abandon your store. We’ve created several guides related to the most vital performance improvements for both platform versions (Magento Performance Guide, Magento 2 Performance Guide), and today we’d like to draw your attention to Google AMP, which stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. More and more people start using smartphones to purchase online, so mobile support for ecommerce websites is a must. But your store should not only have a responsive layout or a separate mobile version but also be fast and agile. To achieve this goal, we propose installing one of the Magento 2 AMP extensions mentioned in this post. Continue Reading

Amasty AMP Magento 2 Extension

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Amasty Accelerated Mobile Pages Magento 2 Extension

Slow loading pages is one of the most significant factors of high cart abandonment rates on an ecommerce website. According to recent research, 40% of shoppers would leave an online store without making a purchase if a web page loads longer than 3 seconds. Besides, page loading time is an essential aspect for higher rankings of website pages in the Google search results. Also, you should keep in mind that lately, m-commerce is rapidly developing, so more customers are coming to your store from their mobile devices. That’s why it is also crucial to provide smartphone and tablet users with a flawless shopping experience and agile browsing through your webstore pages.

In 2015, Google introduced its new initiative called Accelerated Mobile Pages that was developed to improve user experience on the mobile version of websites and increase engagement. To streamline the integration process of the Google AMP functionality on your Magento 2 site, we recommend installing one of the reliable third-party extensions, like Magento 2 AMP by Amasty. Below, we explore the Google AMP technology in more detail and shed light on the core features of the Amasty AMP pages module.

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The Best Magento 2 Blog Extensions

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Magento 2 Blog

Running a blog on a Magento 2 site is always a good idea. By adding compelling articles to your website, you help customers find out something new, interesting, or entertaining on your store, besides buying goods. Consequently, they return to your Magento 2 storefront more often. Besides, you improve your current rankings by making your store more reliable from the perspective of search engines. As a result, Magento 2 blog extensions improve SEO, conversion rates, and loyalty. Below, you will find the best free and paid Magento 2 extensions that allow adding a blog to every ecommerce store. Appropriate 1.x solutions are gathered here: The Best Blog Extensions for Magento 1.

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Magento 2 Blogs Comparison (Amasty vs Aheadworks)

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Magento 2 Blogs Comparison aheadworks vs amasty

Today, we will explore the Magento 2 blog possibilities. Default Magento 2 doesn’t provide sufficient functionality for creating an ecommerce blog, but you can deal with this issue using an appropriate third-party module. In this post, we compare the most popular solutions in the area – Amasty Blog Pro and Aheadworks Blog. Each Magento 2 blog extension has its pros and cons, so let’s figure out which one is the most suitable for your business, depending on the specific ecommerce conditions.
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