A well-designed extension can completely change your store for the best. Let’s have a look at 10 great and mostly free extensions for Magento that can help you make the most of your online business.
Facebook Login by Magestore
As customers, one of the biggest turn-offs for us is to fill long and tedious register forms in any website. Our goal is simply to buy the product with as fewer clicks as possible.
As a web store owner, it is important not to lose potential customers that are interested in your products due to this discouraging process. A great solution for this is to have your customers login via Facebook, which you can do via this module. Visitors will be able to login with a single click and no complications.
Kiyoh reviews module for Magento 1.4+ (Up to 1.9) by Interactivated Ecommerce BV
With this free module, you can integrate the KiyOh platform into your web store. KiyOh specializes in customer ratings and reviews for eCommerce. As a web store owner, you know that a good review system will improve the customer experience and add to the credibility of what you’re selling. That is exactly what you get with this extension.
This module is available for the Community Edition of Magento 1, but there is also a version available for Magento 2. Remember that you’ll have to register with KiyOh (Netherlands or International) in order to start using their service.
Magento WordPress Integration by FishPig
Available for Magento 1 and 2, this module lets you integrate a WordPress blog into Magento. Imagine that your business started out as a small WordPress blog, but as it grew, you decided to switch to Magento due to its eCommerce capabilities.
You can now bring together the two platforms, and, for example, associate a blog page to each Magento product in your store. This may give your customers additional, precious information. You can even use WordPress plugins with it. The integration is so well made that the customers will never leave Magento while navigating through your blog.
This extension works with both Community and Enterprise Magento editions.
Instant Search + by Fast Simon, Inc.
After entering your web store, visitors should be able to quickly find what they are looking for. If this is not the case, they may lose interest and look in other stores. After all, people don’t have much patience nowadays and there are a lot of offerings online.
With this in mind, Fast Simon, Inc. developed the Instant Search + extension for Magento 2. It works by showing product suggestions directly in the search bar as soon as you begin typing. Visitors may instantly find what they were looking for, or even become interested in another product that catches their eye. This increases the customer conversion rate, as put by the company itself.
As a final note, you should know that this module is free for stores with up to 250 products/searches, and offers paid subscriptions for larger stores.
InfiniteScroll by Strategery
For visitors that are browsing through your list with no specific product in mind, it is important to keep them engaged. Reaching the end of a page is always a potential moment when they might lose interest and go look somewhere else.
This free extension for Magento 1 Community Edition makes the next page of your web store load automatically, making new products pop into view. This creates that almost addictive Infinite Scroll experience, meaning your visitors might just stick around long enough to find something they want to buy.
4OnePOS Connector by Interactivated Ecommerce BV
The only paid extension on this list, you’ll find that the 4OnePOS Connector is well worth it, for it allows you to integrate your Magento web store to your 4onePOS Point of Sale. Doing this can have numerous benefits, not only for your business but the customer experience itself.
By unifying your digital and physical stores, you’ll prevent things like inaccurate inventories or duplicated database entries. Stock information will always be up-to-date, meaning your web store visitors won’t be able to order a product that just ran out of stock, for example.
It will improve customer experience by allowing them to buy online and physically collect the package, or see which of your stores still have the product in stock.
Checkout Suite (One Page Checkout) Community Edition by IWD Agency
Once again, nothing is more discouraging than having to fill numerous pages of information during your checkout process. Customers may be so annoyed that they’ll even change their minds while doing this. That is why there are "one-page checkout" modules.
This one, developed by IWD Agency for Magento 2, is free for the Community Edition. It is well designed and adds simplicity by showing all necessary details to complete the checkout on the same page. It automatically checks for a customer account and even lets you navigate between fields with your keyboard.
MultiSafepay by MultiSafepay B.V.
During an online purchase, the payment step can get very complicated and drive customers away. As each user may have a preferred payment method, it is important that you support many different ones in order to please everyone.
MultiSafepay, designed for Magento 2 Community Edition, allows users to make payments easily, not only online but also on mobile platforms. It supports tons of different methods, including DotPay, Visa, Mastercard, Bank transfer, Maestro, and PayPal.
When checking out, the customer will simply be redirected to the extension’s own platform to complete the payment.
Store Locator by Limesharp
When browsing through your web store, there are certain products that customers may prefer to see with their own eyes and try before buying.
For this reason, it is important that they quickly know where they can find your physical store or stores. That is exactly what is achieved with the Store Locator extension.
As the owner, you can introduce the location of your store via coordinates and add lots of relevant information, including the phone number, email and some images. Customers may search your stores using postcode, city or geolocation.
If you own a web store, you know that every customer matters.
Best Customers Report by Interactivated Ecommerce BV
The final entry on our list is related to customer purchasing statistics. It is important that you analyze the buying habits of your customers in order to improve your business. One strategy may be to pay more attention to your regulars, rather than the one-time customers. These are the ones you’ll want to keep and make sure they keep trusting you.
And the Best Customers Report extension allows you to do just that. It shows you more detailed statistics than most report modules, including the customers who buy most, not limited to the top 5. You can even organize the reports by store view and filter by time period to give you exactly the information you want.
