Magento 2 Extensions You Should Explore

The world’s biggest brands love Magento for its flexibility because today’s consumers and their buying patterns are changing by the minute. Did you know large eCommerce stores such as Nike, Olympus and Ford are using Magento for their CMS? To get on their high level, it’s a good idea to follow in their footsteps and use Magento extensions in your store. Utilizing extensions on your website enforces the best website performance for your customers. Extensions are used to make your website work for your customers. You want your site to be easy to navigate, quick to load and be easily edited and updated. The trick is the find the right ones for your website. Below is a list of our top 10 Magento Extensions for 2017. You can find even more Magento Extensions for your online store in this blog post written by Themefurnace.

Top 5 Extensions

Magento WordPress Integration

Integrate a WordPress blog with your Magento 2 eCommerce store and start creating great content that keeps your customers coming back. WordPress is the best SEO and content management platform available and this completely free extension will allow you to add this to the eCommerce power of Magento to create the ultimate website.

Rocket Shopping Feeds for Magento 2

• Supports Community and Enterprise Edition
• Google AdWords Recommended Extension
• Each Store Supports Multiple Currencies
• Google Inventory Feeds
• FREE 90 Day Support
• Multiple Feeds Available for Each Store
• Supported Magento Versions: 2.x.x

Signifyd

Signifyd solves the challenges that growing e-commerce businesses persistently face: billions of dollars lost in chargebacks, customer dissatisfaction from mistaken declines, and operational costs due to tedious, manual transaction investigation. E-Commerce Assurance, Signifyd’s financial guarantee protecting online retailers in the case of chargebacks is supported by a full-service cloud platform that automates fraud prevention allowing businesses to increase sales and open new markets while reducing risk. When a customer places an order with your Magento store, Signifyd automatically reviews the order and tells you whether to ship it or not. We back our decisions with chargeback protection (through a 100% financial guarantee) so you can focus on growing your business with zero fraud liability.

AvaTax

Agile, successful companies focus on their core business and outsource complex, administrative functions – such as payroll and sales tax management – to the experts. Avalara can address your sales tax challenges with AvaTax. It’s the fastest, easiest, most accurate and affordable way to calculate sales tax; manage exemption certificates; file returns; and remit payments across multiple tax regions. Our tax decision engine determines rates based on 100,000+ taxability rules in 11,000+ taxing jurisdictions and instantly applies them to each transaction within your Magento shopping cart.

Dotmailer

This extension enables a seamless integration between your M1 store and dotmailer account. dotmailer for Magento ensures your subscribers stay in sync, and your key customer/retail data is available in dotmailer to empower your email marketing.
Dotmailer is a leading email automation platform, our mission is to empower marketers with the tools that make it easy to get dramatic results, every time. dotmailer provides the most feature rich Magento integration for Magento 1 & 2, and is a global company with offices in New York, London, Europe and APAC with in-house Magento development, services, and support teams.

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Other Great Extensions to Try

Google Tag Manager Integration

With Google Tag Manager you can manage your Google Analytics events, Adwords conversion tracking, remarketing, and many other features in one place. This extension allows you to integrate Google Tag Manager to your site. All you need to integrate Google Tag Manager is to insert your container id into the configuration of this extension.

Instagram feed

Add an Instagram feed to your Magento Website! Show your Instagram feed images and videos easily via the Magento Admin area. CDL’s Instagram for Magento module creates a sidebar or footer mini gallery as well as a full gallery page. The size of the sidebar images can be adjusted so that you can fine tune them to match the design of your website. No coding needed.

Configurable Product in Grid View Table

Configurable grid view extension for Magento to display the simple associated products within a table view. It works for the configurable products with any number of attributes and allows for an unlimited number of options for each attribute. It allows your customer to increase/decrease the quantity of product configuration in a grid view table and can add more than one product configuration to cart at a time.

Check out Discount Code

During our time developing Magento websites, we have found one of the most common requests is adding a coupon/discount code step to the Magento checkout. It only makes sense! After all, if a user forgets to add the coupon code to the basket – it is annoying having to go back to the basket page and start the whole checkout process again! Here at Green Acorn, we have developed a Checkout Discount Code Magento Extension. This will allow customers to enter a coupon code in the checkout process.

Ultratabs

Ultratabs extension will provide you with the power to display, hide and change the order of core Magento tabs on product details page. Such as Description, Additional Information, Upsell Products List, Related Products List, Products Tags and Products Reviews List with Add Review Form. And moreover will give the ability to add unlimited amount of custom tabs, that can be connected to CMS controlled blocks or to specific Product Attributes. This extension allows you to control appearance colors of tabs, choose from two types of layouts (horizontal and vertical) and to select square or rounded style of tabs decoration. Ultratabs support responsive layout as well and turn into accordion style on a small resolution.

Easy Responsive Product Slider

Easy Product Slider Magento extension enables store admin to show new, featured, most viewed, bestseller or random products display on your Magento website in a very handy and attractive way. Displaying products block on your site on either home page, category or product page will notify your visitors about the bestsellers, sale, offers, new or most reviewed products.A popular way to highlight items on your Magento site is to place them into a slider with a products block.

Responsive One Step Checkout

One step checkout is very reliable, robust, responsive & fully tested for its functionality with the vision of providing the high quality one step checkout process to Magento Online store. All 6 standard Magento checkout steps now on 1 page. This Magento One Step Checkout extension lets your customers fill up all the necessary information in just one page.

Full Page Cache

Do you know that a fast site can place your site higher in search engines and directly increase profits? Five best eCommerce companies including Amazon, Esty, Alibaba, Asos, eBay stated that every 100ms of latency costs them nearly 2% in profit. Why don’t you make your site faster? Cmsideas has released Magento Full Page Cache that helps your site run at its fastest. Full Page Caches makes Magento super fast, reduces hardware requirements and costs, and makes your Web site more responsive to shop on. Don’t just take our word for it. We are that confident that Full Page Cache is the best solution on the market.

Buy X and Get Discount

Have you ever wondered why we resonate so well with words like ‘discount’, ‘promotions’, ‘sales’ or any other word that have a minus and a percentage on it? If yes, then you should know that this is in our nature, it gives us the satisfaction of taking the right decision and making a good, if not the best possible deal. Buy X and Get Discount generates exactly this kind of emotions and it will boost your sales by increasing the value and number of items in a cart. The best thing about it is that you don’t have to lower the price to each article. In order to get the discount, customers will buy more and they’ll get discounts for what they really want.

Actionable Google Analytics

Actionable Google Analytics is a Magento Extension which allows you to use some of the most important features of Universal Analytics including Enhanced Ecommerce & User ID Tracking. Additionally, the plugin supports I.P Anonymization, Product Refund, Content Grouping, Form Field Tracking & 15+ Custom Dimensions & Metrics.