"Magento extensions"

Aheadworks Store Locator for Magento 2 and 1

June 10, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

If you have a brick and mortar store, this extension is a must-have addition to your ecommerce website. Aheadworks Store Locator for Magento 2 and 1 allows your customers to find nearby offline locations related to your online business. As a website owner, you only have to specify basic details about each brick and mortar store as well as show their location on a map. In their turn, your visitors get a full list of your store locations. Besides, they have an opportunity to search for a store within a certain radius as well as by a specific address. Let’s have a look at the extension’s features.
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Aheadworks Custom Static Blocks Magento 2 Extension and Z-Blocks Magento Module

June 9, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

If you are looking for a convenient way to place and manage static content blocks within your ecommerce store, we recommend you to pay attention to the Aheadworks Custom Static Blocks Magento 2 extension and the Z-Blocks module – its Magento 1 predecessor. Both tools turn working with static blocks into fun, providing benefits of timing and segmentation. As a result, you can display blocks according to a specific schedule to a particular group of customers. Alternatively, content may be shown on a custom selection of pages. In case you are wondering what content types are supported by the Aheadworks Custom Static Blocks Magento 2 extension and the Z-Blocks Magento module, they are HTML, widgets, images, video, plain text, table, and more. Continue Reading

Aheadworks Coupon Code Generator for Magento 2 and 1

June 8, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

Coupon codes are widely used as an effective marketing tool and purchase incentive. Coupons can be used in a flexible way, whether for mass products sales, seasonal promotions, bundled products, or offering discounts to selected customers. You can always increase your customer loyalty, generate more traffic, and boost sales with the help of coupon codes. It is only necessary to choose a reliable Magento extension, and below we describe such tool from the portfolio of Aheadworks. Coupon Code Generator for Magento 2 and 1 is a flexible tool responsible for generating, delivering, and tracking individual coupon codes. Thus, having installed the module, you get a robust system that covers all aspects of coupon management. Coupon Code Generator brings high-quality code along with continuous functionality development to its users. Looks quite intriguing, so let’s look at the extension’s core features and backend interface.
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Aheadworks Product Questions for Magento 2 and 1

June 6, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

With the help of Aheadworks Product Questions for Magento 2 and 1, you can substantially improve the default user experience of Magento by adding a new communication area. The improvement enables your store visitors to leave inquiries or share additional information about goods and services you sell. Although potential buyers can use a default contact form, it is much more convenient when product pages are tied to appropriate questions, and answers are provided not only by administrators but also by other customers. Furthermore, the extension has a reliable notification system that always keeps customers updated on their questions and answers. Moreover, due to the rating system, all information is sorted according to its relevance. It is also necessary to mention that questions can be available on all relevant pages, so your Magento website will be quickly filled with useful data. Below, we describe core features of the Product Questions extension and show how it is arranged on both backend and frontend.
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Magento 2 Popup Pro Extension by Aheadworks

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

Aheadworks offers an excellent opportunity to draw your customers’ attention with the help of customizable popups: you only need the Magento 2 Popup Pro extension to be installed. The module supports targeting options, so you can easily narrow down the audience and increase the effectiveness of pop-up windows. Furthermore, Aheadworks offers a set of customization options for the effortless adjustment of how your messages are displayed to customers. Thus, the Magento 2 popup module lets you create highly customizable newsletter subscriptions, guides, promos, policy explainers, and other popup windows without any headaches. It is also worth mentioning that the Magento 2 popup extension by Aheadworks provides performance stats related to each popup for tracking its efficiency right in the grid and on a page of each popup. As a result, the Aheadworks Popup Pro extension helps ecommerce store owners increase conversion rates and customer engagement by using efficient customization and targeting options for online popups.
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Aheadworks Who Bought This Also Bought for Magento 2 and 1

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

Recently, we have reviewed Aheadworks Automatic Related Products – a reliable solution for simplifying your daily routine with related products. You can streamline this process even more with the Who Bought This Also Bought Magento module. The Magento 2 related products extension tracks items commonly bought together and places them to a block with related products. Thus, you get automated selection of related products, so there is no need to choose them manually. You only have to specify the position of the block within product, catalog, or cart pages. It is also necessary to mention that the extension begins functioning right after installation using old orders statistics. Also, don’t forget that Who Bought This Also Bought has a responsive layout, so it does not matter what devices your customers use. The extension rapidly adjusts the number of displayed products to each screen width. Sounds interesting, so let’s have a look at the extension’s features available on backend and frontend.
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Aheadworks POS Integration Magento Extension

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

Aheadworks promotes a very interesting partner product through its website. Although it is not a company’s extension, we’d like to draw your attention to the tool. As you might have guessed from the name, POS Integration is designed to connect your online and offline businesses. The tool supports 11 popular POS systems and works on a subscription basis. Below, we shed light on its core features, but note that the product was developed by Aheadworks’ partner, so it has its unique features and interface that are not common to company’s products. Continue Reading

Magento Store Manager Application

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

Below, we’d like to draw your attention to an advanced application aimed at making your admin routine more simple and less time-consuming. Magento Store Manager is a desktop-based tool that dramatically enhances the standard functionality of the default Magento admin. Besides, it adds POS functionality and tons of other lacking features. For example, the app lets you manage big amounts of product, inventory, customer, and order data simultaneously, applying various filters and search options and using advanced import/export functionality. Continue Reading

Subscriptions and Recurring Payments Magento Extensions

May 24, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

Subscriptions and Recurring Payments for Magento

The Magento platform provides the ability to use subscriptions and recurring payments without any third parties, but you need a reliable extension in order to get maximum from this approach to payments. By using subscriptions and recurring payments, you enable your customers to purchase goods on your Magento website automatically on the basis of subscriptions. It makes sense to offer subscriptions and recurring payments for 2 categories of goods:

products that constantly run out (for example, toiletries or pet food);
products that come in new editions (for instance, newspapers and magazines or collectibles).

As a result, you significantly improve your user experience by eliminating the necessity to go through the buying process each time a customer wants to purchase something from the aforementioned categories.

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Magento Marketplace Merchant Guide

April 11, 2016 - E-Commerce, Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

Magento Marketplace User Guide

We are happy to introduce you to the next-generation marketplace of digital solutions aimed at the Magento platform. Magento Marketplace is a place where you can get a curated selection of the most reliable solutions, designed to improve your ecommerce business. As for developers, it also offers a lot of new benefits and opportunities, but they are described in another guide – Magento Marketplace Developer Guide. In this article, we will explore Magento Marketplace from the perspective of ecommerce merchants.