Magento being the most popular eCommerce platform holds a large community of developers that keep on delivering high-end tools that are imperative to extend the scope of any Magento-based online store. Managing an eCommerce store is quite challenging especially when you have/need to watch for your advertising campaigns and meanwhile updating your products stock and tracking your sales.  

Making use of extra efficient Magento 2 extensions helps to streamline your tasks and keep you focused on enhancing the user experience, increasing the conversion rates and other most important things. We have compiled a list of most effective Magento extensions in the market that will help you increase the productivity of your online business.

Custom Registration Fields

As with ever-changing security concerns often merchants require collecting extra information from their customers. This extension allows collecting user personal data in the shape of image upload, date, text, radio options. You can also validate user input for authenticity and can manifest user registration fields in the account section and in the sign up area of your store. The extension offers 13 types of flexible field options in order to boost credibility of your business.

SIZE CHART

Customers often complain about wrong sizing of the items purchased through online stores. This not only harms the reputation of the store but hugely affects your sales. To facilitate the customers in choosing the right sizing of the purchased goods, consider integrating the size chart extension. This extension allows showcasing the size guidelines all along the products on your online store. It also allows restricting the size chart to limited products and displays it on specific store views. Display it either in a separate tab or show it through a pop up, the choice is yours.

MEDIA GALLERY

An online store without visuals looks odd and outdated. Customers get mesmerized with amazing content whether it is in the shape of images or videos. For providing an excellent user experience, this extension allows integrating amazing media galleries into your store.

According to disruptive advertising “38% of people will leave a website if they find the layout unattractive”.

Now you can acquire maximum user engagements, when they see attractive layouts of product and category pages. The merchants can also embed videos from their favorite video sharing service like YouTube and Vimeo.

LAYAWAY - PARTIAL PAYMENTS

When your online business is dedicated to selling heavy duty products that are relatively extravagant, most of your customers who are willing to make a purchase may leave right away. This is because they can’t afford to pay for the exact costs straight away.

Seeknote says “60% of Online Shoppers Abandon Their Carts Because of Unexpected Extra Costs”

Layaway extension came with a more flexible solution of allowing customer to pay the money in partial payments. Specify the duration, number of installments and down payment associated with each product. Merchants can choose whether to setup a layaway payment for integral products on their store or bound it to specific products.

GIFT WRAP

People tend to scramble towards online stores when their favorite holidays like Christmas, Good Friday and New Year is approaching. Most of the purchased items are gifts for loved ones that get swaddled with beautifully textured gift wraps. Merchants can now entertain their customers by providing gift wrapping facility on their online stores through this high end extension. They can integrate variety of fabulously styled gift wrap designs against multiple products and classify them into categories based on the type of product listed on the store and can restrict them to the store views of their choice. Moreover, they can showcase gift wrap option on the check out or add to basket sections of their online stores.

SHOP BY BRANDS & MANUFACTURER

An eCommerce store with enlisted products muddled all across the site is irritating and customers will find it hard to search for products from their favorite brands. This extension offers managing the products from multiple brands in a more organized way by allowing easy navigation to items specified under their brand names. Illuminate your exemplary brands in a featured slider on your Home page or product listings page. The merchants can also allocate a separate page for each brand and for easy exploration of the products they can integrate filters on listing pages as well.

PRE-ORDER & BACK-ORDER

Many customers get disappointed when they see unavailability of their desired item and leave online stores right away. Mostly customers are willing to pre-order a product if it is going to launch soon. In order to get them engaged with the business domain, it is ideal to display the availability date and allow pre-orders for the product that can be carried through highly effective pre-order and back-order extension. Merchants have the leverage to display the time period for the product availability and can showcase any related message ultimately.They can also control the quantity of items to be requested.

PRODUCT QUESTIONS

These days’ customers have to face difficulties regarding the services of an online store. Often these issues are related to the quality of the product being purchased or the issues concerned with shipping. A perfect way to handle their queries is an FAQ section, where they can find answers to the most asked questions. This extension allows integrating FAQ section to the online store where registered customers and the customers that have landed as a guest can resolve their concerns. Merchants can also allow commenting, liking, and disliking and can assign ratings to each query.

Final Words

Magento is most popular eCommerce platform for its extensive features and seamless functionalities that make it stand out from others. The platform has a huge potential to increase customer engagements and nurturing leads. Integrating high end extensions to your online store makes it easy to maximize sales. Customers are prone towards personalization and feature rich channels. Magento extensions have become a peculiar solution to the ever growing eCommerce needs.