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Aheadworks POS Integration Magento Extension

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AheadWorks POS Integration Magento Extension Overview

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

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Mageworx Magento Store Manager Extension Review

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

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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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DIY SEO: Mobile SEO

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DIY SEO: Mobile SEO Guide; Magento mobile SEO guide

It has been a year now since Google announced mobile friendliness to have become an important factor for determining the relevance of a website. This seems to be inevitable if we consider the fact that each year there are more and more people preferring mobile over desktop for surfing the Internet, communicating, working, and relaxing. Every fourth instance of an Internet search is performed through a mobile device, while almost 80% of all smartphones are used for local search purposes. Moreover, due to the functional differences, searching on PC and searching on mobile is performed in a completely different way. With this information in mind, E-Commerce businesses should obviously start thinking about enhancing their online presence by meeting the needs of mobile searchers and their devices.

Becoming mobile-friendly is the first requirement of a good mobile search engine optimization strategy. Like traditional SEO, mobile SEO allows you to rank higher in SERPs, but the actual ways of achieving this aim are a bit different in the latter one. The concept of mobile friendliness is linked to the mobile user himself, what he expects to see when tapping on your link, and how he is to behave on the mobile version of the site. However, mobile SEO is much more than that.  It is an opportunity to use technological growth for the sake of the growth of your own company.

So, this definitive guide is going to answer all your questions concerning mobile SEO and the ways of making your website both mobile-friendly and technically efficient.  Note that the following article can be used as a Magento mobile SEO guide. The information gathered below is aimed at various platforms and websites, so you can easily leverage it while optimizing your ecommerce business. Continue Reading

Amasty Customer Attributes Magento Extension

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Amasty Customer Attributes Extension for Magento 1 and 2

Recently, we wrote about Amasty Order Attributes – Magento extension that provides the ability to gather additional information about your customers. Another way to get precise data is introduced with the Amasty Customer Attributes module. Being a powerful tool designed to get the necessary information right from your customers, it adds new fields on the registration page. As a result, you can easily find out a customer’s age, interests, and preferences, or even receive necessary documents.

Amasty Customer Attributes provides the ability to add an unlimited number of fields, displays the collected data most efficiently, and supports multiple field types. As a result, you get all information necessary for conducting an effective customer segmentation and building a thought-out marketing strategy. The extension is available for both Magento 1 and Magento 2.

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Amasty Order Manager Toolkit for Magento

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Amasty Order Manager Toolkit Magento Extension

Unfortunately, the default order processing in Magento consists of various time-consuming operations. Thus, you should spend a lot of time and effort managing your orders. If you no longer want to waste time, give Order Manager Toolkit a try. This Amasty extension provides convenient tools for fast and efficient order processing, displays all the necessary order info, adds an extended order grid, supports bulk actions, as well as and adds the ability to attach order related files to orders.

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Magento Email Marketing Pack by AheadWorks

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AheadWorks Email Marketing Pack Magento Extension

If you are interested in improving the default email marketing functionality of Magento, but do not want to spend time on comparing all available extensions, pay attention to Magento Email Marketing Pack by AheadWorks. With this module, you will not only avoid the hell of choosing among multiple available options but also save $160. Specialists from AheadWorks have developed 3 useful tools that will revamp the way you run your email marketing campaigns and you can get them as a single suite.

The best must have Magento extensions 2016

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Advanced Measurement System For Magento (Best Extensions)

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product units Magento extensions

Unfortunately, default Magento offers a limited measurement system, so if you are going to sell products in custom units, such as square meters or predefined batches, or already sell them in your brick-and-mortar store you won’t be able to implement the same approach on an ecommerce website. But we know how to help you, because there is always a good opportunity to get an advanced measurement system for Magento with the help of extensions. In addition to new measuring units, you will get useful calculators, enhanced product options, and other features that essentially improve user experience. If that sounds quite intriguing, we’ve propose you to examine the most robust product units Magento extensions gathered in this post.

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DIY SEO: Google Analytics 360

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MAgento Google Analytics 360 DIY SEO Guide

On the 15th of March, Google announced the launch of Google Analytics 360 Suite – a full-fledged set of marketing analytics tools aimed specifically at large businesses and corporations. The major idea behind this project is to help marketers and analysts to better understand consumer’s behavior and thus allow companies to get the best from their brand. Particularly, Google Analytics 360 Suite is what previous versions of Google Analytics lacked in terms of efficient performance: specialized testing platform, multiple integration features, better data management, improved collaborative potential, and adequate marketing channels evaluation. Containing six innovative and modified analytics products, Google Analytics 360 Suite is expected to become the most powerful E-Commerce tool of the year. And you can easily streamline the power of Magento Google Analytics 360 integration. We hope to update this DIY SEO post with appropriate information in the nearest future, but now let’s describe the new platform. Continue Reading