Even the most favourable prices on the market won’t win you as much customers as a simple human attention. Your customers want you to tell them in great detail about the product and why should they purchase it. They also want to feel welcome at your store, feel like you’ve waited for them and made some preparations. That is why customization and content management are essential for the success of your business.
For this article we chose 18 best Magento 2 Content and Customizations extensions from 6 categories:
Mobile
Personalization and Experience Management
Product Content
Rich Media
Site Search and Navigation
Translations and Localization
Percentage of mobile traffic is growing from year to year. But simple optimization of your webstore is not enough. Mobile apps are the future.
SimiCart Mobile App Builder. SimiCart is a sophisticated solution allowing to build your own iOS or Android app within 24 hours. All you need to to is to integrate SimiSmart with your website, configure your future app’s layout and features – and you’re ready to upload to the marketplace. The extension offers a wide range of default functionalities for design, customer engagement, checkout management, analytics and payment.
Cost: $699/year
Compatibility: Magento 2.0, 2.1, 2.2
T-appz. This more affordable extension has nearly the same comprehensive functionality as the previous one and allows you to promptly power up a mobile app without coding. T-appz is integrated with such useful instruments as Google analytics and Tag Manager. Moreover, you can monitor your app store activity in real time and get a statistics reports of any frequency.
Cost: $199/month
Compatibility: Magento 2.0
Progressive Web Apps. This free app provides an app-like experience without actually building a wholesome app. As your customers click to your website on mobiles, they will access an app-looking and -feeling exterior with an offline mode for product pages. This extension will be perfect for those who want to test an app experience for they shop without putting much money and effort into app development.
Cost: Free
Compatibility: Magento 2.1
It is always a pleasure when someone calls you by name and act like you are friends. How online store owners could achieve this? Personalization is the answer. Moreover, in this short list of useful extensions we include not only plugins for improving customers shopping experience, but the one that will be very helpful for webstore managers.
Facebook All in One. This extension integrates useful for promotion of your webstore Facebook functionalities. With Facebook All in One your clients will be able to like, share, comment or send to a friend the goods they like via Facebook by clicking on the special buttons on the page, without leaving your shop. You can’t but agree that integration with the largest social network is the thing worth having.
Cost: $149
Compatibility: Magento 2.0
Admin Bookmarks. As an admin of a webstore, you probably navigate a lot around the back-end admin panel; some pages you need to visit often, some you don’t need at all. With this extension you can customize your admin panel by bookmarking the most popular pages and pin them to the main admin page in order to save time searching for them.
Cost: $119
Compatibility: Magento 2.0, 2.1
Admin Email Notification. Want to be aware of everything happening in your store but don’t want to monitor it day and night? Admin Email Notification extension will send you automatic letters alerting about important events. Moreover, the alerts are highly configurable, so it’s you who decides what to be informed of: new orders, wish lists, accounts, subscription-unsubscription, etc.
Cost: $99
Compatibility: Magento 2.0, 2.1, 2.2
Product description is extremely important in online shopping. Provide your webstore visitors with correct and up-to-date information about products.
Configurable Group Products. When a customer buys a large bulk of products of, for example, different prices or sizes, in most cases he or she will need to add each of the product separately into their shopping cart. This extension will allow them to make purchases simultaneously, without extra movements and effort. The aspect of comfort while shopping is, if you think about it, is the key reason why clients choose this or that store, so don’t bail on it.
Cost: $139
Compatibility: Magento 2.0, 2.1
Bulk Prices Updater. If you’re tired of updating prices from the admin panel manually, this extension is for you. With Bulk Prices Updater you can change prices of the whole categories or product groups, add/ extract a certain percentage or a sum from prices and even update prices via importing a CSV file.
Cost: $119
Compatibility: Magento 2.1, 2.2
URL Rewrite Regeneration. Proper URLs is a great part of search engine optimization, yet due to the amount of categories in a web store product links might look messy or too long. This extension will rewrite your URLs without erasing the valuable product data and make them short and neat.
Cost: $49.95
Compatibility: Magento 2.0, 2.1, 2.2
Today ecommerce with its high competition is a real battlefield, where the prize is customers attention. Following extensions will help you win.
Rich Banner Slider. A great way to immediately catch webstore visitor’s attention without being obtrusive is a banner. With this extension you can create a highly adaptive banner containing of several slides. Rich Banner Slider is also a good analytical tool, for an admin gets the Click Through Rate (CTR) statistics, allowing to estimate your promotional campaign efforts.
Cost: $149
Compatibility: Magento 2.1, 2.2
File Downloads & Product Attachments. Diversify your product page with any type of rich media and catch the eye of customers using this affordable extension. File Downloads & Product Attachments allows to add any number of attachments in all popular media formats – image, video, audio or text file and display or hide them for specific groups of users.
Cost: $99
Compatibility: 2.0, 2.1, 2.2
Free Banners Slideshow, Flash Banners & Image Slider. This free extension offers functionality very similar to the solution described higher. Free Banners Slideshow allows to add and configure banners and set the order of them showing to the visitor. Banners make the webstore look more professional and classy without overloading it with media, so if you want to experiment with them, this free extension is a great choice.
Cost: Free
Compatibility: Magento 2.1
Everything at the webstore should be clear and simple. Think carefully about page navigation and site search. If customer won’t find needed product in a few steps he will probably do it at your competitor’s webstore.
Products Sorting. So that your customer could not lose himself among the goods in your webstore, offer him a sorting feature. This extension is a great choice, providing the features like sorting by numerous criterias like Most Recent, Rating, Reviews, etc., as well as sorting by discount amount or percentage.
Cost: $139
Compatibility: Magento 2.0, 2.1
Algolia Instant Search. Unfortunately, there’s no default autocomplete in Magento search, but that’s no problem – just install this free extension to make shopping experience for your clients even more comfortable. Algolia uses ranking algorithm, which prioritizes search result and offers the most popular options first.
Cost: Free
Compatibility: Magento 2.0, 2.1, 2.2
Layered Navigation Filters. This extension will greatly upgrade customer search experience, offering multiple filters to apply to home, category or product page. Apart from facilitating the search, the extension makes your web store more SEO friendly, giving the search engine bots more information to index.
Cost: Free
Compatibility: Magento 2.0
Wide range of online stores all over the world. Isn’t it a dream of every e-merchant? In case you have already achieve this goal, the following modules are for you.
GeoIP Redirect. Planning to enter international market? Then you can’t do without this extension. GeoIP Redirect detects the location of website visitor’s IP and automatically changes language and currency according to it. And if you by chance are running a number of stores, different for each county, it will automatically redirect the customer to the suitable one.
Cost: $179
Compatibility: Magento 2.1, 2.2
Auto Store & Currency Switcher. Personalize shopping experience for your international clients with this extension. Analyzing visitor’s geographic position, it automatically localizes the store, updating currency and language.
Cost: $129
Compatibility: Magento 2.1
Lingotek Translation Inside. This is a free cloud-based solution that offers automatic translation to your webstore to any world language. It’s functionality is not limited to product description – it can be used for landing pages, SEO tags and whole stores. First 10000 characters of translation is free, and whether to purchase a paid account will be up to you.
Cost: Free
Compatibility: Magento 2.1, 2.2
So, this is the end of our list. I hope you found a suitable solution for your store here. If not, stay tuned for a new Magento 2 extensions review. Meanwhile, feel free to ask us questions or leave comments.
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