Most Useful Magento Extensions For Improving Your Online Business

As an eCommerce store, you will have discovered that Magento extensions help improve their lives in one way or the other. These extensions help you make your store more productive or connect with others. With more than 6,000 extensions on Magento Connect, they are built to help extend the capabilities of what Magento can do for retailers and help retailers be more agile on the Magento platform. Also, with the coming holiday season, you will want to encourage shoppers to share their reviews over social media, which can drive incremental traffic to your store. What ever maybe your reason, you might what to include the following extensions as part of your Magento store.

• Yotpo
  This is a free extension, that enables retailers to ask shoppers for product reviews. Customers receive an email and they can write a review directly within the email. In addition, Yotpo also encourages shoppers to share their reviews over social media, which can drive incremental traffic because their reviews are seen by friends, family, as well as colleagues.

• SimpleRelevance
  Simple Relevance is an email customizing extension, which means that this extension can be used for cllecting data on a shoper by shopper basis and build an algorithm that helps merchants customize emails so that they are very targeted and unique. Simple relevance is able to do this on a mass scale, Retailers can connect Simple relevance with their Email Service Provider (ESP).

• Price Per Customer
  
  In case you want to boost your sales then you can explore the way of converting your regular customers or guest customers into loyal customers. Hence, you can utilize the Price Per Customer Extension from MageDelight, which is very easy to install and use. The Price Per Customer is an effective yet affordable sales tool which can be used as part of your winning conversion strategy.

• WebtexGiftCards
  With Webtex, you can offer customers gift cards, which is a must have functionality this holiday season. With gift cards, you can increase the average order values (AOV) and conversions as well, while reducing returns post holiday. As the gift card giver simply chooses the type of gift art and select how they or their recipient will receive it (by email, print, by post), and even pick the amount to gift.

• AvalaraTax Calc Connector
  It has been well said that you cant live with taxes and neither can you sell without them. Avalara's AvaTax helps reduced some of the friction that taxes can cause Internet retailers. This extension calculates the sales tax, manages exemption certificates, files returns as well as remits payments across multiple tax regions. With its tax decision engine, it can determine rates on 100,000 plus taxability rules in more than 11,000 taxing jurisdictions. It then instantly applies them to each transaction within a company's Magento shopping cart.

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