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
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.
These are great Magento extensions for sure. Check out our other Magento extensions which you might like
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/MagentoMagik
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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.