Magento Commerce is a great open source platform. Here are some extensions that will help your store stick out from the crowd and add vital functionality to your business.
1 – Shop By Brand
This extension creates landing pages for each of your brands, which include information such as Brand Name, Logo, Description etc… The landing page will have an SEO link like this www.example.com/brands/sony.
Extension Page | Demo | Price: $99.99
2 – MouseOver Image Zoom
This extension replaces the default Magento image zooming feature. When you mouseover the image it will open a box to right where it will zoom into the image (sort of like Endless.com).
Extension Page | Price: $0.00
3 – Blog
A blog built from scratch for Magento. It’s not as extensive as WordPress or Movable Type, but it has all the basics. Should get you from point A to point B.
Extention Page | Price: $0.00
4 – Drop Shipping Management
If you do a lot of drop shipping you will definitely need help managing your orders. Magento is a great system, but it has no Drop Ship management features. This extension is pretty robust with a price tag to match.
Extension Page | Demo | Price $500.00
5 – Minimum Advertised Price
If you sell products that are protected by a manufacturer’s minimum advertised price policy (MAP), then this is for you. As always, rules are meanato to be broken. You can use this extension to work around the MAP policy withour ruining you vendor relationships.
Extension Page | $149.00
6 – QuickBooks Integration
This is vital for survival. Accounting is key to the success of your business. This extension will synchronize your orders with QuickBooks. Definitely worth the price.
Extension Page | Demo | $250.00
7 – Ticketing System
This extension will help you keep track of your customer service inquiries. It will help you save time by managing your workflow and will ensure that no emails fall through the cracks.
Extension Page | $0.00
8 – Color Swatches
Selling something in multiple colors? T-Shirts, Faucets, iPods? This is for you. It will add the ability to put color swatches and change the image based on the color selected.
Extension Page | Demo | $69.00
9 – Exploded Menu
Replaces the standard drop down menu with an exploded menu featuring multiple columns. Comes in handy when you have many categories.
Extension Page | $0.00
10 – Useful Product Downloads
This is great if you want to give your customers the ability to download PDF specification files for products. Just upload any file type and you’re done. Easy. Easy.
Extension Page | Demo | $49.00
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Some of these I see first time. Nice collection ;)
very nice selection. i especially like the brands page extension.
Great list. Wondering why you choose that particular extension for quickbooks integration. We use webgility and its working great for us. its got much better ratings too..check it out: http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/1202/ecc-quickbooks-integration-for-magento
Thanks for pointing that out. There are actually a few extensions for QuickBooks integration, these are the ones I came across:
eCC: QuickBooks Integration for Magento: http://bit.ly/15H8Tf
Magento DataLink for QuickBooks: http://bit.ly/D04PN
T-HUB for QuickBooks: http://bit.ly/ucpei
I agree with Todd. Webgility ECC should be included, as it’s received higher ratings than T-Hub.
Nice list, and have installed a few of them already.
What I am looking for is a ext for the product page image gallery. Where it removes the popup for each thumbnail and refreshes the base image with ajax. Any links?
Try this extension: IDEALIAGroup LightBox
http://j.mp/4E45uw
aheadWorks ticketing is much better than eticket – http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/reviews/module/1131/help-desk-ultimate
Great collection of Magento Extensions. Thank you for sharing with us.
Hi, “Shop-by-brand” extentsion price in http://www.ecommercecircle.com is $64.99, in extension page it is $99. Which one is right?
thank you, urmas
Hi Urmas,
When I originally published the post, the price was $64.99. I have updated the post to reflect the newer price.
–M
Urmas, as you can see on AITOC’s site, it is $99: http://www.aitoc.com/en/magentomods_shop_by_brands.html
The Minimum Advertised Price module ONLY works with simple or virtual products. This is a major limitation which should be stated on the product but isn’t. Do not waste your time if you need this product for anything but simple or virtual products.
Good colection. Will giva a try some of them.
Thank you.
M2E Pro should be added – http://m2epro.ess-ua.com
this is great extension, which allow selling magento products on eBay, synchronize stock level, import eBay orders and customers, etc
I’m very interested in the ebay integration module, but wary as it’s only just been released and I’ve been stung a couple of times paying for what was effectively beta software. I would be interested from others who have used this and their experiences with both 1.3 and 1.4 releases.
Nice collection mate.
I’ve just found a very useful extension Gallery Pro at http://www.mage-world.com/magento-extensions/
Nr. 8 – Color Swatches, looks nice but it uses Ioncube encription which makes it useless.
#8 – I would stay away from this module. The fact that it’s encrypted with Ion Cube makes it very difficult to work with.
I wouldn’t say it is useless because of ionCube, maybe support is not so good. But recently we used better plugin with same function that worked great and they had excellent support, magentocolorswatch(dot)com I would for sure recomend that.
Bad experience with this module/supplier. It is encrypted and supplier is not willing to do any (paid) mods, so if you buy it and it does not work or integrate as anticipated, you are in trouble. Do not count on a refund…
These are great Magento extensions for sure. Check out our other Magento extensions which you might like
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/MagentoMagik
you can browse Magento extensions from our profile.
Good list – drop shipping module is now $950 – almost double the price!
Thanks for the list, I included it in my meta research for the best Magento extensions: http://blog.guidojansen.nl/2010/06/25/meta-research-the-ultimate-magento-extensions-list/
Here is an other great but paid extension for image zoom – http://www.ajax-zoom.com/index.php?cid=examples
over all nice modules, can some one refer a module through which we can define different quantity for each product attribute
If you use Grouped products or Configurable products you can define different inventory on a sub-item basis.
Thanks for the nice list!
BTW: if you’re in need for a 360 product viewer in place of product images in the Magento catalog, we just released our first extension on Magento Connect that helps with that:
http://www.webrotate360.com/Blog/post/360-Product-Viewer-Extension-Live-On-Magento-Connect.aspx
Surprised that you didn’t mention performance extensions at all. I use TinyBrick’s Lightspeed (http://www.tinybrick.com/improve-magentos-slow-performance.html). They also have an in-summary-page order editor that allows you to edit orders without creating a new one (http://www.tinybrick.com/magento-true-edit-orders.html). I’d recommend both of them.
Let me chuck another one into the mix – our new quick-install/minimum maintenance Testimonials extension:
http://www.moogento.com/magento-testimonials-reviews
It should pay for itself within a day or 2!
Hello.
Check my new color swatches extension
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/realcnbs/extension/5407/colormage
Some of the extensions you’d mentioned have been dramatically upgraded. Check out new versions of Minimum Advertised Price and others at http://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/magento-extensions.html
We’ve just done some major upgrades on our Custom PDF / Picklist extension. You can now print invoices/packing sheets/warehouse pick lists with any order status. They are also completely customizable. (If you ship a few orders every day this will save you hours.)
http://www.moogento.com/magento-pickpack-picklist.html
Some of them not working,but thanks for given
Which one are you having a problem with?
Great post, i would include this group sale extension – zizio.com
I suggest Affiliate Pro, one more great extension from Mage-World http://www.mage-world.com/affiliate-pro-magento-extension
Thanks for sharing such a nice article that really help to build magento store more efficiently i use some of extension from this website http://www.fmeextensions.com/ and find perfect also support is A++!
You can find a Shop By Brands at a much lower price with alot more functionality here:
http://www.fmeextensions.com/extensions/administration/shop-by-manufacturers.html
It is the preferred Shop By Brands Magento extension by everyone.
Z
I have another suggestion for your list which somebody else also mentioned earlier. I haven’t had any experience with the color swatch listed here, but I know one which is great and it seems that everyone is saying that they have an excellent technical support. You can find it on the website http://www.magentocolorswatch.com, as well as the color swatch with ZOOM tool and the so called product List Swatches, which integrate the color swatch directly into your product list page.
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I have another suggestion as well
Blast Search Lucene
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/Php4u/extension/5999/blast_lucene_seach
Great UK support, even I was from USA!
Nice work getting these together……these extension helps me a lot to make my own online store.
I can suggest our helpdesk platform Live Agent http://www.qualityunit.com/liveagent
It supports live chat or mails processing (offline communication).
You can use it with our free Magento plugin:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/jurajsim/extension/8086/liveagent#overview
You can create your own account directly from plugin.
Brim’s Full Page Cache can dramatically increase your site’s page speed and lower your server’s load, http://ecommerce.brimllc.com/performance/full-page-cache-magento.html
Hey… nice collection of extensions… :)
is there any extension (paid/free), that can be used for bulk import/export products in complex/configurable products
thanks
I’d like to nominate my new extension, shipEasy, coded over more than a year in real live market environments:
http://www.moogento.com/magento-order-shipping-processing.html
I actually had to use a Magento install without it yesterday and I felt completely restricted. You’re going to save hours from your order processing flow, guaranteed! It has things like: change status of any order from the orders page, to anything; ship/invoice any order(s); send customer messages with pre-filled info; customise the orders page (add/remove columns); see SKUs and product names for each order (in the orders page) & loads more…
GoMage LightCheckout – One Page Checkout for Magento allows your customers to enjoy fast, easy checkout by combining all the steps into one page only. By simplifying the process, you will increase your online sales.
http://www.gomage.com/extensions/gomage-lightcheckout.html
The real power of ecommerce lies within the features it provides. Fortunately, there are numerous extensions available to enhance the store features and functionalities. One should also have Magik Extra Fee extension which lets store owners add additional fee i.e. Gift Wraps, Rush Orders, Insurance Fee etc. easily.
http://www.magikcommerce.com/magento-extensions/premium-magento-extensions/magik-extra-fees-magento-extension/