Expert's selection of Magento Connect Extensions For Online Store

To setup online stores many online store owners prefer  Magento platform because Magento is user friendly and has a great support system in the form of themes, plugins and extensions to make the online store highly impressive and powerful. 

But  its basic setup might not fulfill all your needs. You have to take the extra effort of searching the web and selecting your own automation tools, email management system, currency / shipping conversion system, caching system, social networking tools etc.

This sounds like a really difficult task right?

Our experts makes these things easy for you by providing with a quick list of Magento connect extensions that will help you to reduce the setup time of your store and also help you to fulfill all your needs for your online store.

1. Olark 

If you are looking for live conversations along with ticket based support, then Olark is the right platform, Olark integrates with ticket support applications like Zendesk. You can consider using Olark because it enables customization and provides with reporting capabilities.

2. MatrixRate – By WebShopApps

It is not an easy task to manage shipping process, especially if you have launched your first online store.The worst part is that there is going to be a price difference in the products that you are offering. MatrixRate helps you to tackle with the problem of variation in the shipping costs in terms of location, weight, quantity and other variables. Through MatrixRate, you can create different tables for applying a shipping cost to the customer’s order and thereby different product prices can be easily managed.

3. XML Map Creator – By Magestore

As the name suggests, this extension enables you to create an XML sitemap for your website for free! Generating an XML sitemap can be a big advantage for your online store. Big search engines like Google and Bing provide the webmasters with sitemap submission options, all you have to do is take the created sitemap and submit it. As a result of this, the search engines will be able to detect your entire site and crawl it. This potentially number of pages of your website that get indexed.

4. Blog – By aheadWorks

We all know the importance of having a blog on the website. The blog extension provides with an easy setup for establishing a blog on your Magento store. It is easy to use and free! aheadWorks constantly works on improvising on this extension and provides updates for it on a regular basis.

5. Yotpo

It is extremely important to have a review system on your website. As a result of s review system, it becomes easier to manage things like SEO content, email based review requests and similar marketing aspects. Yotpo takes all the necessary things into consideration for designing a review system and provides you with the perfect framework. Yotpo makes sure that your company reviews are doing the best for your SEO. The best thing about Yotpo is that you can filter out the reviews.

6. Zendesk

If you plan on getting your customer support completely organized, Zendesk is a great way to do it. For a single agent, the cost that you will have to incur will be $12 a year or $2 per month. In case you own a big online store with many customer service executives, then through Zendesk, you can help them to get more organized. You can also monitor the service reputation of your company and make improvisations in it if required.

7. eShop Connect 

If you are in lookout of a good backend application for managing the stock of your online store, then eShop Connect is what you need. Through eShop Connect, you can easily control the processes like controlling stock, order processing, drop shipping, managing stock etc. eShop Connect is combined with Interprise Suite ERP that helps in effective stock management at affordable prices.eShop Connect also enables you to set your own preferences and rules for selling through multi-channel internaltional marketplaces that comprise of Amazon and eBay.

8. Vertical Navigation With CSS Classes

With the help of this extension, you can design your own vertical cvategory navigation along with product count and sub cvategories. Every element comprises of fine CSS through whixh you can address every element or group through the ‘first’ and ‘last’ element of the group and also include the ‘previous’, ‘active’ and ‘next’ elements. As a standard protocol, this application removes top.navigation through XML-update and places the vertical navigation in the left structural block.

9. PAYONE Payment Extension

Payone is a popular payment extnaions with over 50,000 downloads and it is one of the most successful payment extensions of Magento. What makes this payment extension beneficial is that all the payment methods and services are clubbed from one sourece and offered by one partner. Complete automation is offered for all the payment processes. Payone is a safe extension as it ptovides with smart risk management features along with fraud prevention and payment method control.

10. ShipWorks

Last but not the least! ShipWorks is a multi-carrier, multi-channel extension that brings together your complete eCommerce world. Through ShipWorks, you can easily print shipping labels and batches, track customer emails through numbers, update the online order status, generate reports and much more. Along with Magento, ShipWorks is also integrated with 50 other shopping cart applications like eBay, ChannelAdvisor, Etsy and Amazon.

I would love to know which Magento extensions you have been using for powering your online store, share your experiences!

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