Magento Affiliate Program Extension Released!

xtendware’s Affiliate Program for Magento has been released! Do you want to take your sales to a new level? Then you need to start an affiliate program. No matter how many sales people you hire it will never compare to 100s of motivated, commission-based, individual affiliates that concentrate on selling your products to their existing contact … Read more

Magento Full Page Cache Improvements

xtendware’s Magento Full Page Cache for Magento has made many, many improvements recently. We have made small changes such as increased form key support and secure cookie support and large changes such as multi-level cache backends and faster secondary cache. Here is a run down of the two most important changes: Multi-Level Cache Backends – Do … Read more

Magento Store / Currency Switcher Released

xtendware’s Magento Store / Currency Switcher gives your customers a more localized and personalized shopping experience by automatically redirecting customers to the proper store and currency based on their geographic location. If you sell to markets that use different currencies or different languages, then it is important that customers view the correct currency / store view. … Read more

Magento Improved Indexing – Faster Magento Admin Backend

xtendware’s Magento Improved Indexing helps make the backend more responsive. Many stores will discover that in time the saving of products, categories, and other items becomes slow. The more products / stores that you have the slower it can become. This is a big issue because time is money. Employees will do less work in the … Read more

Magento Lucene Search Released

our Magento store product search allows customers to find the products they want quicker. Customers will leave your store if they cannot find the products they want. Around 43% to 50% of e-commerce customers use site search to find the products . Your store is losing a lot of potential sales if your search is … Read more

Magento Abandonded Cart Reminder Blacklist

xtendware’s Magento Abandoned Cart Reminder is a powerful extension that enables you to capture lost sales by e-mailing customers automatic followups after abandoning their cart. Based on feedback from customers, we have added two new features recently to make this extension even more powerful: Unsubscribe / E-mail Blacklist – nothing is worse than when a customer … Read more

Magento Product Feeds Updated

xtendware’s Magento Product Feed allows store owners to create feeds for various shopping sites (google, shopping.com, yahoo, etc) with ease. Over the last month we have been making a lot of under the hood changes to the extension to bring even more ease of use and capabilities to our valued customers. Here are some recent changes … Read more

Slow Magento Checkout / Product Editing? It’s the cache!

How many times have you you experienced a slow down from your Magento store when : Checking out (specifically the last step) Saving products in the administrative area If so, you are likely suffering from a bloated, inefficient cache. You need Performant Cache Backends for Magento to resolve this issue. Why do these areas of store … Read more

Performance of Merging Javascript / CSS in Magento

ummary: Built-in merging of Javascript / CSS will slow down your store. You need Magento Minify Javascript / Css to properly merge files Many store owners are enabling Javascript / CSS merging in Magento in order to “increase performance”. You can go to System -> Developer and look under Javascript and CSS Settings to see … Read more

Magento Full Page Cache Auto-flushing / Tagging

xtendware’s Magento Full Page Cache has an exciting new addon feature – Auto-flushing / tagging. The problem with many full page cache systems is that you must flush the entire cache after changing a product / category. This reduces the usefulness of the cache for quickly changing stores. Our Magento cache warmer / crawler extension alleviates … Read more