Magento is a leading eCommerce platform that has all the basic features to set up an online store. However, you may need to improve the functionality as your business expands. For any additional option, you may need to install an extension or alter the code by a developer.
Asking a developer about your requirements and getting an error-free code written is a nightmare. Using extensions from an authentic development agency is a recommended choice for anyone looking to boost the functionality of their eCommerce website.
Following, in this post, I am reviewing some of the useful extensions that may help you implement various strategies to maximize revenues and improve the user experience of your online venture.
Gift Card
Add another stream of income to your online store by creating Gift Cards. Magento 2 gift card extension helps you add gift cards for a variety of occasions and events like wedding ceremonies, anniversaries, birthdays, graduations, baby showers, etc.
The extension helps your customers avail the discounted cards for shopping or presenting them to their loved ones. You can create gift cards with multiple pricing plans, according to products you deal in or the general affordability of your customers. Let the customer send the gift cards to their families or friends via email, personal message, or take a print to send by post. The core features include:
- Separate page to display all the gift cards
- Use 3 different pricing models (i.e. Fixed, drop down, range)
- Customers to send cards via email or take a print
- Customize the card with image upload
- Auto-create coupon codes for gift cards
- Configure discounted cards with validity
Pre Order & Backorder
If you want to keep your customers place orders in advance on your store before launching or stocking-up a product, you need to add the functionality of pre and back orders. Magento 2 pre-order extension helps you acquire pre-orders for the products that are in production or transit.
To create curiosity and make the customers pay for it in advance to grab an item first, you can encourage them to pre-order. For the products that instant goes out-of-stock, you can enable back orders so that customers can get them as soon as the products are back in the store. The key features of the extension are:
- Enable pre and back orders on products
- Implement the feature on simple, varied, or grouped products
- Transpose ‘Add to Cart’ with ‘Pre-order’ button
- Configure product availability with countdown timer
- Add pre-order labels in checkout and Order email
Percentage Pricing
Adding a profit margin manually to selected products and categories is a burdensome job, which is vulnerable to massive errors as well. You can automate the entire process with percentage pricing extension.
Magento 2 Percentage Pricing adds the functionality to relieve your admin staff in modifying and managing the pricing of products that are carried from another store, vendor, or supplier partner. It works well for drop-shippers who aim to display the products of their partners with a profit percentage. Further features include:
- Configure cost plus profit pricing
- Add a fixed or percentage profit
- Manage separate percentage pricing for products
- Create pricing specific to customer groups
- Set pricing rules with priorities
- Schedule the cost plus profit pricing
- Restrict percentage pricing to store views
Flash Sales with Countdown Timer
Adding ‘Flash sales’ to your store is a magnificent strategy for increasing sales in a short span of time. It creates a hurry and fear in the mind of target users. They fear losing an enticing opportunity of buying products on time.
The extension helps you enable flash sales with a countdown timer. Skillfully create the urge to shop at your online store. You can offer deals and discounts for a variety of seasons such as summer or winter, or target different occasions such as Black Friday, Christmas, New Year, Boxing Day, Thanksgiving, Mother’s day, etc. Try using the following features.
- Create and manage several campaigns for the flash sales
- Host all the flash sales on a dedicated page
- Add a countdown timer to flash sales
- Limit flash sales to selected store views, customer groups
- Offer a Fixed or Percentage price down in Flash Sales
- Create separate offers for products
Quick View
You may fill the product page with lots of data such as description, images, bullet points, demo, or other guides. What if a user wants a Quick View on a category page rather than visiting the product page? The quick view extension can solve the product by allowing your potential customers to review the product in a soft popup.
The extension allows you to enable ‘Quick View’ option on the product images in the catalog. Save your customers time in reviewing a product by summarizing the entire details in a quick popup view. The features include:
- Add ‘Quick View’ button to products on the category page
- Customers can preview the details of the product in a popup
- Previous and Next buttons help to preview other products
- With ‘Add to Cart’ customers can go straight to checkout
- Personalize the quick view button and its popup
Conclusion
Create gift cards to encourage the customers to share a birthday present with their loved ones so that they can purchase a gift on their own. Give your customers a reason to shop around, as they might be confused about buying a present. With the pre-ordering facility, you can help them own the pride of becoming first buyers. You can try more tools in addition to those I discussed in this post and share with us how these are earning you the due rewards.
Author Bio
Hamza Riaz is a Digital Marketing Expert at FME Extensions, a leading Magento design and development agency. He tackles the digital marketing of top notch Magento 2 Extensions developed by FME. Also, he likes to share his experience and thoughts in the form of write-ups. You can find him on LinkedIn.
