A nice user interface and good usability can mean the difference between your store being used as a showroom and your store making a sale. You can enhance overall presentation and your customers’ experience by using these Magento extensions to improve your product pages, your storefront, and your relationship with customers, loyal and newcomers alike.
1. CloudSponge
It’s tagline is meet everyone you know in five minutes, from existing connections to potential customers and potential friends. Contacts and connections remain a vitally important resource to expand your business and customers often trust the word of their friends. Reach them with CloudSponge and forget the pain of manually adding in address book after address book for every new contact you meet. CloudSponge integrates all your e-mail contacts from every e-mail server around.
2. Bring your store into the social network and connect with every Facebook user out there. With this Magento Extension, you can transform the social media experience into the shopping experience. A step up from the popular and powerful “like” button, this extension allows shoppers to like, browse, and buy your products all on Facebook. Marketing your store rarely gets any easier when you give your customers the option to like a purchase and post it on their wall for all their friends to see.
3. Anyone who has ever done online shopping knows how cumbersome the checkout process can be. Page after page of entering redundant information is not the simple swipe and go you’ll find at your regular brick and mortar store. But with a one step checkout extension, reducing the number of pages to go through before arriving at the “place your order” button saves customers time and convenience. Magento gives customers a single page to conveniently enter shipping and payment information and they’re ready to go. With a one page checkout, buyers will appreciate and remember this simple,quick and easy experience.
4. Product Page Discussion Extension
A useful tool to personally connect with your audience and spread valuable product information and updates, the Magento discussion extension can play a valuable role in elevating your store above others. Engage in Q and A sessions right with your buyers or encourage users to discuss products with other customers. Allow them to get to know your store a little better, all right from the product page.
5. Newsletters are a powerful tool in marketing strategies and almost a necessity to attract customers to your store. With the Advanced Newsletter Magento extension, distribution and segmentation of your newsletters has never been easier. You can use newsletters to keep up presence and awareness in your customer base and with the Magento extension, target your subscribers with the content they will find most relevant and helpful for their needs.
6. Search Autocomplete and Suggestion
Quicken your customer’s search queries quickly and efficiently. Suggesting products only after the third character has been entered, search autocomplete allows your visitors to bypass the procust results page and head over to exactly what they want. Suggestion also enhances your overall inventory and shows visitors the depth of how much your store can offer on the desired topic your customer is looking for.
7. You don’t have to worry about refreshing your feed generator every 30 days with this Magento Google Based Feed Generator. Operate your Google feeds with a peace of mind and let this extension follow Google’s policies and refresh your feed manually.
8. ShipWorks
Ship in less time with this integrated service connected to your Magento Store. With Shipworks, you can easily download your orders, create shipping labels, update order statuses, and manager customer emails. The bonus of this extensions comes with the integration of all major shipping carriers (FedEx, UPS, DHL, USPS and others) into one platform. Make shipping easy for every customer, no matter what shipping process you choose.
9. Magic Zoom
Images are an important part of your product page presentation. Not only do they create a visual impression of a product, t. With Magic Zoom, you can enhance this impression. When customers browse over your images, Magic Zoom creates a box that . When the mouse hovers over the image, a box appears and offers a detailed close up at the image. With just a hovering of the mouse, customers get a more thorough look at your product and their confidence in buying increases.
10. Follow Up Email
The Follow Up Email extension serves as a powerful auto-responder and shows your caring for the customer. An excellent relationship tool, the follow up email gives them the peace of mind that their order has gone through and is quickly being taken care of through your expert service. You can also use this Magento extension to never lose track of your customers who have abandoned their shopping carts, but are still considering a purchase.
