"magento 2 extensions"

MessageBird SMS Magento 2 Extension

April 23, 2019 - E-Commerce, Magento 2

One of the ways to build effective communication with your clients and show your personal approach is using SMS text messages. By sending follow-up messages, abandoned cart notifications, and other alerts via SMS, you can quickly inform customers about various important events during their purchasing experience. If you install an appropriate third-party module on your Magento 2 store, you can fully leverage SMS integration possibilities without spending much time and effort.

Today, we present you a tool that enables ecommerce merchants to send order status change messages directly to a customer’s phone – MessageBird SMS by Magextensions.io. The Magento 2 module utilizes the MessageBird API and provides online store owners with necessary functions for implementing SMS updates into their business workflow. By timely informing clients about changes in their order status and package delivery, you will improve customer service and build trust to your store.

Below, we provide an overview of the MessageBird platform and describe its Magento 2 integration using the SMS order updates extension.

Amasty Countdown Timer Magento 2 Extension

April 22, 2019 - E-Commerce, Magento 2

Discount offers and special promotions are a vital part of a marketing strategy of any ecommerce store. However, if you don’t use such psychological tricks like scarcity and urgency in your promo campaigns, online shoppers still might tend to abandon their carts. If you are running your store on Magento 2, we recommend you to consider third-party discount tools that add awareness and sense of urgency to product promotions.

Today, we present you a new module by Amasty – Countdown Timer for Magento 2. The extension allows merchants to create limited deals with a defined expiration date and display them on a storefront, stimulating shoppers to quickly decide on making a purchase. Besides, with the tool, store owners get the ability to run sales campaigns according to the specified schedule.

Below, we highlight the Magento 2 Countdown Timer extension’s features and describe its main advantages.

Fulfillment for NAV Magento 2 Extension

April 18, 2019 - E-Commerce, Magento 2

One of the ways to improve the management of various business processes on an ecommerce site is connecting it to an ERP system. A robust enterprise resource planning solution enables merchants to integrate multiple data flows related to the order and customer relationship management, accounting, supply chain, inventory, warehousing, and manufacturing and get a comprehensive view of their business performance. One of such solutions is offered by Microsoft – Dynamics 365 Business Central. Business Central is a modern and updated version of MS Dynamics NAV that equips ecommerce store owners with an extensive set of tools allowing them to combine various business aspects that cover products, operations, and clients in one integrated system.

If you are running your store on Magento 2, you can integrate it with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central using the default tools of the platform. However, to extend the standard synchronization functionality and automate data flows, we recommend you to use one of the connectors available on the market. In today post, we are describing a highly effective solution for connecting your Magento 2 website with Business Central – Fulfillment for NAV by VLC Solutions. The Magento 2 module automates the synchronization of data between your store and the platform in real time, streamlines customers and orders processing, and simplifies management of various routine tasks.

Below, we describe the opportunities provided by MS 365 Business Central as well as the advantages of its Magento 2 integration using the Fulfillment for NAV extension.

Amasty Cron Scheduler Magento 2 Extension

April 18, 2019 - E-Commerce, Magento 2

Website performance is one of the main factors for fast and stable work of an online store, which has a direct impact on the customer shopping experience. Proper cron job configuration is an essential part of high website performance. By using an appropriate cron management tool, online merchants can quickly react to identified issues with the cron tasks running in the background and prevent problems that can have the adverse effect on a visitor’s impression from their web stores.

Today, we present you a new extension built to streamline cron jobs monitoring and management – Amasty Cron Scheduler for Magento 2. The module equips Magento admins with the tools allowing them to visualize and track all cron tasks and handle cron jobs individually or in bulk. Besides, Cron Scheduler by Amasty provides the notification system so that store owners can get timely alerts on cron errors.

Below, we shed light on the Magento 2 cron management module’s functionality.

Amasty Store Credit & Refund Magento 2 Extension

April 18, 2019 - E-Commerce, Magento 2

Possibility to use store credits to pay for purchases is a great way to improve the customer shopping experience and extend payment options on an online store. Default Magento 2 doesn’t have store credit functionality, but you can implement it on your website with the help of appropriate third-party modules.

Today, we present you one of these tools – Amasty Store Credit & Refund extension for Magento 2. The module provides merchants with flexible store credits management and helps them build customer loyalty to their brand. With the Amasty solution, you get an ability to add any amount of your in-store currency to the customers’ personal accounts, showing your individual approach and motivating customers to make purchases on your website. Besides, the extension enables store owners to process refund requests using credit points automatically, which accelerates return and refund procedures.

Below, we have a closer look at the features of the Magento 2 store credits and refunds module and explore its backend configuration. Continue Reading

Magedelight GST Magento 2 Extension

April 16, 2019 - E-Commerce, Magento 2

In July 2017 the law on collecting the Goods and Service Tax (GST) came into force in India. GST is levied on goods and services on each stage of the supply chain from the manufacturer to the direct consumer. If you run your ecommerce business for the Indian market, it is compulsory for Magento 2 stores to comply with the GST regulations. GST tax rules are very complex, so it takes much time and effort to implement the GST system on an online store.

Luckily, there is an appropriate third-party tool designed to simplify the management of taxes related to GST – the Magedelight GST extension for Magento 2. The module automates the calculation of GST taxes and applies them to the products and services you offer on your website based on the configured rules. This way, the Magedelight extension helps merchants to quickly set applicable GST tax rates and other options and improves the customer checkout experience on their stores.

In this post, we explore the functionality of the Magento 2 Indian Goods & Services Tax module and look at how it works in the backend and frontend.
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Magedelight SEO Pro Magento 2 Extension

April 16, 2019 - E-Commerce, Magento 2

Optimization of a website with the purpose to make it more SEO friendly is one of the main concerns for every merchant. To make an ecommerce site more easily discoverable by both search engines and potential customers, store owners should consider every detail to build an effective SEO strategy.

Today, we are describing a tool that covers various aspects of SEO and helps online store owners to control how their website appears in the Google search results – the Magedelight SEO Pro for Magento 2. Magedelight offers an all-in-one SEO solution thoroughly designed to optimize a webstore for SERP in the most efficient way. The SEO toolkit provides settings allowing to create meta tag templates and cross-linking rules, configure rich snippets, generate HTML and XML sitemaps, track SEO analytics on the storefront, and more. Thus, by installing the extension, you will streamline search optimization tasks, increase traffic, build brand identity and trust to your store, and get higher ranking in the search results without spending much time and effort.

Below, we shed light on the core features of the Magento 2 SEO suite module and show how to configure it in the backend.

Magento 2 Punchout Catalog & Supplier Procurement

April 15, 2019 - E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

Do you know that it is possible to implement the B2B2C business model based on your Magento 2 website? And we are not talking about drop shipping now. Every e-commerce merchant can streamline the Magento 2 punchout catalog and supplier procurement functionality to increase the efficiency of the enterprise. In the following article, we shed light on what Magento 2 punchout catalog is and how to implement it on your e-commerce website. Continue Reading

Magedelight Product Labels Magento 2 Extension

April 10, 2019 - E-Commerce, Magento 2

All ecommerce merchants run promotional campaigns and offer discounts for their products to add incentives for making purchases on their stores. However, to increase the effectiveness of these marketing efforts, it is important to highlight special offers and inform online shoppers about them instantly when they enter a web store. One of the options to increase conversions and drive more sales from promo campaigns is to display product labels on the category and product pages. Since the default Magento 2 platform doesn’t provide appropriate functionality, you should consider installing one of the third-party modules with necessary features.

Today, we describe one of such tools – Magedelight Product Labels for Magento 2. Magedelight provides a robust solution with an intuitive interface that enables merchants to create beautiful labels for any product without spending much time and effort. By adding custom labels and slogans to the product images in the catalog and product description, it becomes easier to draw customers’ attention to particular products you want to promote.

Below, we explore the functionality of the Magedelight Product Labels extension and look at how it works in the backend and frontend.
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QuickBooks Overview & Magento 2 Integration

April 10, 2019 - E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

Magento 2 QuickBooks Integration

Today, we’ve prepared an overview of a set of smart business tools for the world’s hardest workers – small businesses and freelancers. The following article sheds light on QuickBooks – accounting software designed to track expenses, create custom invoices, run reports, etc. Below, we explore the key features of the platform and its pricing plans. Besides, there is a section dedicated to the Magento 2 QuickBooks integration based on Improved Import & Export. Let’s see what perks the system provides. Continue Reading