Magento Extensions – Magento Blog https://blog.extendware.com by ExtendWare Fri, 13 Dec 2024 08:39:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://blog.extendware.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/cropped-android-chrome-384x384-1-32x32.png Magento Extensions – Magento Blog https://blog.extendware.com 32 32 Magento High Speed Import Scheduler For Magento 2 https://blog.extendware.com/magento-high-speed-import-scheduler-for-magento-2/ Fri, 13 Dec 2024 08:39:48 +0000 https://blog.extendware.com/?p=2312 Read more]]> Managing product data efficiently is crucial for running a successful Magento 2 store, especially if you have a large inventory or need to update products regularly. That’s where the Magento High Speed Import Scheduler for Magento 2 comes in! It combines all the powerful features of MHSI Pro to make product imports faster, simpler, and more efficient. This tool is perfect for store owners looking to save time and streamline their data import process.

Why Choose Magento High Speed Import Scheduler ?

Magento’s built-in import feature can be slow, especially when dealing with complex data like configurable products or category assignments. With Magento High Speed Import Scheduler For Magento 2, you can manage imports directly from your Magento admin panel, speeding up the process and making it easier to handle large data volumes.

Key Features

  • Easy-to-Use Interface: Manage all your import tasks from a simple, user-friendly interface in the Magento admin panel. You can quickly create, edit, and run import profiles without needing complex setups.
  • Visual Field Mapping: Upload your CSV or XML files and visually map fields to Magento system fields. This makes sure your data is imported correctly without any guesswork or errors.
  • Automated Scheduled Imports: Set up automatic imports using CronJob, so you don’t have to manually update your inventory. You can schedule imports to run at specific times, keeping your product data up to date effortlessly.
  • Import All Product Types: Easily import both simple and configurable products, along with related items like upsells and cross-sells. You can also import customer group-specific pricing, giving you full control over your catalog.
  • Advanced Image Handling: Import images directly from URLs, including those that require login credentials. The tool supports WebP images, assigns images based on product SKUs, and can reuse existing images, saving you time and storage space.
  • Category Management: Assign products to categories by their IDs or names. It even supports nested categories (subcategories) and can automatically create new categories if they don’t exist in your store.
  • Detailed Error Reporting: If something goes wrong during the import process, you’ll receive clear error messages to help you fix the issues quickly. This saves time and helps keep your imports running smoothly.
  • Support for Multiple File Formats: The tool handles both CSV and XML files, allowing you to import data from different sources without extra conversions.
  • Customizable Import Profiles: Create different profiles for various data formats, making it easy to import data from multiple suppliers or sources.
  • Real-Time Import Logs: Keep track of all your import activities in one place. The tool provides real-time logs, so you can see what’s happening during each import and quickly identify any issues.

Enhanced Control and Automation

  • Admin Role Management: Control who can access and manage import tasks, ensuring secure and organized handling.
  • Email Alerts: Receive notifications if an import job gets stuck, so you can quickly take action.
  • Auto-Clean Import History: Automatically delete old import logs to keep your system running smoothly.
  • Set Maximum Run Time: Limit how long each import can take, preventing server slowdowns.

The Ultimate Solution for Fast Magento Imports

The Magento High Speed Import Scheduler with MHSI Pro is designed for Magento 2 store owners who want to streamline their data imports. It combines ease of use with powerful features, allowing you to update your product catalog quickly and efficiently. Whether you manage a large store with frequent updates or need to handle complex product data, this tool will save you time and help keep your store up to date.

Ready to Upgrade Your Magento Import Process?

Don’t let slow and complicated imports hold you back. Enhance your Magento 2 store with Magento High Speed Import Scheduler and unlock the full potential of MHSI Pro features.

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Optimizing Magento 2 Performance with Back Forward Cache & Page Preload https://blog.extendware.com/optimizing-magento-2-performance-with-back-forward-cache-page-preload/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:52:09 +0000 https://blog.extendware.com/?p=2124 Read more]]> In the ever-evolving world of e-commerce, the performance of your online store is not just a nice-to-have; it’s a critical factor that can make or break your business. Slow loading times, laggy navigation, and poor user experiences can lead to high bounce rates, low conversion rates, and ultimately, lost revenue. That’s where the right tools and optimizations come into play, transforming your Magento 2 store into a high-performing, customer-friendly platform.

Boost Your Core Web Vitals with Back/Forward Cache

Google’s Core Web Vitals (CWV) are a set of specific factors that Google considers when evaluating the user experience of web pages. Improving these vitals can significantly enhance your store’s visibility in search engine results and provide a better experience for your visitors. One powerful way to boost your CWV Field Data is by enabling the Back/Forward Cache (bfcache) for your Magento 2 store.

The Back/Forward Cache is a feature that allows pages to be cached in the browser when a user navigates away. This means that when the user returns to the page via the browser’s back or forward buttons, the page can be displayed almost instantly, without needing to be reloaded from the server. This not only improves the user experience but also significantly enhances your store’s Core Web Vitals.

Page Preload for Instant Page Loads

Taking performance optimization a step further, our Page Preload feature ensures that pages are loaded into the cache before the user even requests them. This can lead to “zero-TTFB” (Time to First Byte) page loads for subsequent visits, providing a more seamless user experience and potentially boosting your conversion rate.

Our single extension combines the benefits of Back/Forward Cache and Page Preload, offering a robust performance enhancement toolkit for your Magento 2 store. It’s a comprehensive solution designed to improve both the performance and usability of your online store.

Conclusion

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the performance of your Magento 2 store is more important than ever. By leveraging powerful tools like Back/Forward Cache and Page Preload, you can significantly enhance your store’s performance, improve user experience, and boost your conversion rates. Our comprehensive solution is designed to be easy to implement, highly effective, and fully aligned with best practices endorsed by industry leaders like Google. Don’t let slow loading times hold your store back—equip your Magento 2 store with the tools it needs to succeed in today’s competitive e-commerce environment.

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DeepL Translator Extension Introduces Customizable Options! https://blog.extendware.com/deepl-translator-extension-introduces-customizable-options/ Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:40:40 +0000 https://blog.extendware.com/?p=2105 Read more]]> We’re thrilled to announce a groundbreaking enhancement to the DeepL Translator extension: the introduction of customizable options for translation! Picture this: you can now seamlessly translate the customizable options of your products, breaking down language barriers and unlocking boundless personalization possibilities. 🌍✨

DeepL translator for Magento

In today’s global marketplace, catering to diverse audiences is paramount. We understand the importance of offering products that resonate with customers regardless of their language or location. That’s why we’ve integrated customizable option translation into our Deepl Translator extension, enabling merchants to provide a localized shopping experience that speaks directly to their target audience.

So, what are you waiting for? Experience the power of our enhanced translation support for customizable options today! Whether you’re a seasoned e-commerce veteran or just starting your online journey, our Deepl Translator extension for Magento 2 has everything you need to succeed in the global marketplace. Join us as we revolutionize how you connect with customers worldwide and let your creativity soar like never before!

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Competitor Product and Price Monitoring for Magento 2 https://blog.extendware.com/competitor-product-and-price-monitoring-for-magento-2/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 13:27:57 +0000 https://blog.extendware.com/?p=2099 Read more]]> In today’s fast-paced e-commerce environment, staying ahead of the competition is crucial for the success of any online business. With countless options available to consumers, it’s essential to monitor and adapt to dynamic market conditions effectively. That’s where our cutting-edge extension for Magento 2 comes in – the Competitor Product and Price Monitoring solution.

Our meticulously crafted extension is designed to provide you with real-time insights into your competitors’ pricing strategies and product availability. By harnessing the power of data, you can make informed decisions and ensure that your business remains well-positioned in the market at all times.

Here’s how our Competitor Product and Price Monitoring extension can benefit your Magento 2 store:

  1. Comprehensive Price Monitoring: Keep a close eye on your competitors’ pricing strategies so you can adjust your prices to stay competitive. Our extension allows you to monitor prices across a wide range of products, giving you valuable insights into market trends and consumer behavior.
  2. Stock Availability Tracking: In addition to monitoring prices, our solution also tracks stock availability, ensuring that you never miss out on sales opportunities due to product shortages. By staying informed about your competitors’ inventory levels, you can proactively manage your own stock and meet customer demand more effectively.
  3. Real-time Insights: With our extension, you can access real-time data on competitor prices and product availability directly from your Magento 2 dashboard. Say goodbye to manual data collection and analysis – our solution automates the process, saving you time and resources.
  4. Strategic Decision-making: Armed with comprehensive data, you can make strategic decisions to optimize your pricing strategies, streamline inventory management, and enhance overall competitiveness. Whether it’s adjusting prices in response to market fluctuations or identifying new growth opportunities, our extension empowers you to take proactive action.
  5. Seamless Integration: Our Competitor Product and Price Monitoring extension seamlessly integrates with your Magento 2 store, providing a hassle-free experience for both setup and usage. With intuitive controls and customizable settings, you can tailor the extension to suit your specific business needs and preferences.
  6. Comprehensive Reporting: Access detailed reports on competitor products retrieved from various websites. Our extension provides both standard and advanced reports, allowing you to analyze competitor pricing trends over time and make informed decisions based on actionable insights.

Conclusion

Our Competitor Product and Price Monitoring extension is a must-have tool for any Magento 2 store looking to gain a competitive edge in today’s dynamic e-commerce landscape. By leveraging real-time insights and data-driven decision-making, you can stay ahead of the curve and drive success for your online business.

Empower your Magento 2 store with the Competitor Price Monitoring extension and take the lead in monitoring and adapting to dynamic market conditions.

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Introducing our new “Product URL Shortener and Share Link Service”-extension! https://blog.extendware.com/introducing-our-new-product-url-shortener-and-share-link-service-extension/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 13:03:11 +0000 https://blog.extendware.com/?p=2300 Read more]]> Product links are a crucial factor for your success in e-commerce. Therefore, we are pleased to introduce our innovative “Product URL Shortener and Share Link Service” extension, which not only makes your links concise and user-friendly, but also improves your overall online shopping experience.
Offer your customers a seamless shopping experience.

Developed from a joint project

Introducing the Magento 2 Product URL Shortener and Share Link-extension – a product designed not only for seamless integration with the latest Magento versions, but also carefully tailored for compatibility with the Hyvä theme up to version 1.3.

In this joint venture, the extension goes beyond its origins and offers a comprehensive solution to optimize your online commerce.
It not only simplifies the process of generating short-links for Magento 2 product URLs, but also introduces email sharing.

This improvement aims to provide users with a versatile tool that ensures that short-links can also be sent effortlessly via email. In this joint venture, the extension goes beyond its origins and offers a comprehensive solution to optimize your online commerce.

Technical details and availability

Our “Magento 2 Product URL Shortener and Share Link” extension is designed to integrate seamlessly with Magento versions from 2.0.x to 2.4.x, ensuring compatibility across different Magento environments.The extension also comes with a lifetime license, giving you perpetual access to its powerful features. Our “Magento 2 Product URL Shortener and Share Link”-extension is designed to integrate seamlessly with Magento versions from 2.0.x to 2.4.x, ensuring compatibility across different Magento environments.

The extension also comes with a lifetime license, giving you perpetual access to its powerful features. For the first six months, you are entitled to dedicated support to ensure a smooth implementation and take care of any questions or issues that may arise during implementation.

To streamline the installation process, the extension can be conveniently installed via Composer, a popular dependency manager for PHP. This ensures an uncomplicated and efficient integration into your Magento environment.For the first six months, you are entitled to dedicated support to ensure a smooth implementation and take care of any questions or issues that may arise during implementation.

Conclusion

Improve your online shopping experience with our “Magento 2 Product URL Shortener and Share Link” -extension that makes your links concise, user-friendly and effortlessly shareable.
Expect more engagement, improved conversions and a seamless sharing process.

Our collaborative Magento 2 extension, tailored for Magento versions 2.0.x to 2.4.x and the Hyvä theme up to version 1.3, also features effortless email sharing.
With a lifetime license, six months of support and easy Composer installation, this extension is perfect for e-commerce optimization.Improve your online shopping experience with our “Magento 2 Product URL Shortener and Share Link”-extension that makes your links concise, user-friendly and effortlessly shareable.
Expect more engagement, improved conversions and a seamless sharing process.

Find out for yourself now!

Related posts:

  1. Competitor Product and Price Monitoring for Magento 2
  2. DeepL Translator Extension Introduces Customizable Options!
  3. Optimizing Magento 2 Performance with Back Forward Cache & Page Preload
  4. Sample Product Order for Magento 2
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The Benefits of Cross Selling https://blog.extendware.com/the-benefits-of-cross-selling/ Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:00:18 +0000 https://blog.extendware.com/?p=1530 Read more]]>

The Benefits of Cross Selling

by Sheryl Davis, Glew

What is Cross Selling?

Cross Selling is a sales tactic that encourages a shopper to buy complementary products.

Think about shopping for tomatoes at a grocery store. It’s common for stores to display items, such as cheese, among an aisle devoted to vegetables. Despite the store having a section specifically for cheese, growthstore managers strategically position cheese among the tomatoes knowing that the combination may tempt hungry customers. The product placement makes it easy for customers to find related items and impulsively pick up goods while shopping. In doing so, stores drive increases to the order value while reminding shoppers that certain products go well together.

Just like cross-selling products in brick and mortar stores, online tactics should bring convenience and ideas to the shopper while also proving to be lucrative for the retailer.

According to research by software provider Monetate, product suggestions can:

Increase revenue up to 300%

Boost conversions by up to 150%

Increase Average Order Value by as much as 50%

Benefits of Cross Selling

Cross selling benefits both stores and customers. For stores, it increases Average Order Value (AOV) and Benefitstherefore benefits revenue. Larger orders also often allow stores to cut down on packaging and shipping costs by consolidating items in a box that may have otherwise been partially full. And keep in mind that driving your AOV higher will increase the Lifetime Value of customers, often providing incremental capital that can be used to market to those customers.

But the good news is that cross selling doesn’t just benefit your store, it also benefits your customers! Shoppers can find items faster when they are recommended on individual product pages. Plus, a well-paired product recommendation can bring a customer’s attention to a complimentary product that they might not have known existed. Adding value to your customer’s experience while making more money? It’s a no brainer.

How to Get Started

1) Use a tool that analyzes purchasing behavior. With a breakdown of products that are most commonly purchased together you can set your cross sale recommendations without any guesswork.

Frequantly-Bought-Together-(for-web)2) Install a Magento extension that will display product recommendations. Extendware’s “Frequently Bought Together” and “Who Viewed This Also Viewed” extensions are built for Magento stores to cross sell on every product page.

3) Monitor items that are selling effectively and consider adding those items to your store as a bundle. You could offer a small discount when purchasing the items Who-Viewed-This-Also-Viewed-(for-web)together, or pull together kits for items to quickly be purchased at once.

Sheryl Davis is a digital marketer at Glew, an ecommerce analytics software provider, where she focuses on helping online stores understand and act on their data. Each week she publishes practical strategies for ways to rock ecommerce success.
Blog | Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook

 

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Offer Your Customers the Best Promotions and Products with Bulk Product Updating https://blog.extendware.com/offer-your-customers-the-best-promotions-and-products-with-bulk-product-updating/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 22:39:21 +0000 https://blog.extendware.com/?p=828 Read more]]>

Its a Sunny Day and you are stuck inside. Why? You are too busy  updating your prices, assigning categories and managing your catalog to enjoy the beautiful weather. Its tasks like these that allow us to lose valuable time that we could be spending doing fun things! Extendware’s Bulk Product Updating can update a series of prices, upsells, and manage products all with  a quick press of a few buttons. There are over 45 actions you can use, so you can have more time to enjoy the exciting things in life!

Here Are Some Other Great Features of The Bulk Product Updating Extension

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Bulk Product Updating

Edit Prices / Special Prices / MSRP Prices / Cost Price
Set prices / special prices to a specific value or apply increases / decreases in the form of +10.5, -10.5, +20%, -20%. Flexible rounding rules (none, floor, ceiling, rounding) and the ability to add a value after the price modification (0.99, 0.50, etc) allow you to guarantee pricing such as $45.99 or $54.50. For example, you can increase all prices by 5%, round down (floor), and add 0.99 so prices are of the form $XX.99. This greatly reduces management time.

Edit Prices Relative to Other Prices or Cost
You can set the price relative to the cost and you can set the special price relative to cost or price. For example, set the price to be +20% of the cost and then set the special price to be -10% of the price. The possibilitie are endless!

Edit Prices Relative to Other Prices or Cost
Edit Prices Relative to Other Prices or Cost

Support for Custom Price Attributes 
If you have custom attributes with the decimal type you can enable it to be used for the bulk editing by simply selecting it in the graphical configuration.
Copy / Delete Tier / Group Prices 
Tier /group prices are very time consuming to create for every single product. Many times products have the same tier / group prices. Now you just need to define the tier prices you want for one product and then you can copy that tier / group price to any other products. This can save you hours and it is even fully compatible with Magento Tier Price Percentages.
Assign / Unassign / Copy Categories 
Simply select the products you wish to apply the action to and either select the category or input the list of category IDs you wish you assign / unassign / copy. Nothing could be easier.

Manage Related / Cross-Sell / Upsell Product Links
Create related, cross-sell, and upsell product links with ease. You may select between 3 different algorithms to create the links:
One-way – selected products are (un)linked to inputted product
Two-way – selected products are (un)linked to inputted product and vice-versa
Multi-way – all products are (un)linked to each other
Copy Custom Options
Creating the same custom options for every product is a very time consuming task. With Bulk Product Actions you can copy the custom options from one product to another. You can even choose whether you will replace any existing custom options or simply add to whatever custom options already exist.
Duplicate Products 
Easily duplicate multiple products so you can go in and edit their details later as you want.

Over 45 actions!
Over 45 actions!

Delete Products Directly From the Database
If you need to delete a lot of products and you know what you are doing, you can delete them directly from the database. This will not run the before / after delete code, which will save a LOT of time.
Change the Attribute Aet of Products
Change the attribute set of a product with ease. This means you no longer have to delete / re-create a product to change the attribute set
Have More Free Time to Spend on Income Generating Activities
This extension, especially when combined with Tier / Group Price Percentages, will save you countless hours of performing mundane and repetitive tasks. This extra time can be spent on income generating activities such as marketing.

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Reduce bandwidth, CPU, and crawling time with Cache Crawler/Warmer https://blog.extendware.com/reduce-bandwidth-cpu-and-crawling-time-with-cache-crawlerwarmer/ Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:56:56 +0000 https://blog.extendware.com/?p=803 Read more]]>

The web contains trillions and trillions of pages, which can make it hard for your customers to find your store at times. We rely heavily on Google to find things for us and Google is able to do this with something called a Web Crawler.

Stores with a high number of unique pages compared to their traffic will tend to have a low hit rate and as a result caching solutions are not effective. The Magento Cache Crawler solves this by crawling and pre-caching the pages on your site, which will increase the cache hit rate

Here are some more great features of the Cache Warmer/Crawler Extension

Efficiently Crawl Your Magento Store to Warm Your Caches
The crawler will only access each page one time during a crawl session to ensure there is no duplicate effort. In addition, pages your users cannot access (disabled products, children of configurable products) will not be crawled.

Crawl All Your Important Pages
Crawl CMS pages, catalog pages, and product pages. When used with the Full Page Cache, all your layered navigation filter options, deep catalog pages, searches, and 3rd party extensions will be crawled without any further configuration.

Ensure That Server Load on the Server Does Not Become High
A crawler increases server load in exchange for faster page speed. If there are lots of things happening on the server, then it can create high server load. The crawler can detect this and automatically pause itself and automatically restart when the server load reduces. This ensures that the crawler does not compete with user traffic for server resources!

Cache Warmer/Crawler
Cache Warmer/Crawler

Crawl as Quickly as Possible Using Multiple Crawler Threads
Multiple threads will be used which can reduce the total crawl time by 10 times or more.

Crawl as Logged in Users
Do you show different content to logged in users? If so, it might make sense to crawl as a logged in user so their cache can be warmed. You can now easily select which customer group you want to crawl.

Crawl Out-of-Schedule Jobs By Manually Adding It
Did you flush the cache and need to run a job real quick even though it is not scheduled yet? No problem, you can easily add a manual job that will run immediately.

Don’t Crawl Disabled / Hidden / Out-of-Stock Products
Ensure you don’t waste resources crawling products that would be infrequently viewed or not viewable at all!

Filter Out Generated URLs by URL Type
Easily filter out certain pages such as category pages or cms pages or product pages from being added to the queue. This is useful if you only want to crawl category pages or certain page types.

Always View the Status of Crawls and Manage Crawls Using an Easy Interface
Easily view past crawls, currently running crawls, and queued crawls. Pause or disable crawls. Change the number of threads used. View the number of crawled URLs, the source of the URLs, and view performance metrics such as the number of crawled URLs per minute.

View current and past crawler jobs
View current and past crawler jobs

Filter Out any URL by Regular Expression
Easily ensure that URLs that match a regular expression will not be crawled. This is useful if you do not want certain pages to be crawled.

Fully Support Crawling of HTTPS Secure URLs
Is your site running in secure mode on the frontend? The crawler will crawl your secure pages too.

Reduces Bandwidth and CPU Usage During Crawls
When combined with our Full Page Cache there will be reduced bandwidth and processing done when loading uncached pages loaded by the crawler process.

Flush Caches Prior to Crawling
Flushing Magento caches prior to crawling is important to ensure that the crawler crawled pages are the most up-to-date.

 

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Create Discounts and Promotions with Shopping Cart Price Rules https://blog.extendware.com/create-discounts-and-promotions-with-shopping-cart-price-rules/ Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:10:32 +0000 https://blog.extendware.com/?p=687 Read more]]>  

 

 

I think many can agree that default Magento promotions are pretty boring and outdated, and what’s worse is…you can’t create new ones! They are very standard and don’t offer much in the way of creativity, which really cancels out the look and feel of a unique website. Extendware has the solution with Shopping Cart Price Rules, allowing you to offer 24 completely new discount actions. This way you can keep your customers engaged during the most important part of the transaction…the sale!

 

Here are some of the great promotions you can add with this software. We shall use a clothing store as an example.

  • “Buy one product and get another product with X discount”
  • “Buy two shirts and receive the 3rd for 50% off”
  • “Buy 5 products for the normal price and get 20% off each additional product
  • “Get $15 off for every $150 spent”
  • “Buy 2 pairs of pants and get the 3rd for $10”
  • “Buy a shirt and pants for $75 total”
  • “All hats for $5.99”

Discounting merchandise this way can be extremely effective. Consumers love a deal and with the options and templates provided here, you can change your promotions as often as you want and see what works and what doesn’t.  You can specify exact products or be more general and specify the categories. (i.e. Black Nike Sneakers vs. Tennis Shoes)

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24-new-awesome-discount-actions!

More Great Features of Shopping Cart Price Rules

More Easily Manage Your Promotions
Shopping Cart Price Rules can be deleted or inactivated in bulk, have it’s priority changed, or have it’s date start / expiration changed. This can all be done by the enhanced shopping cart price rules grid that is included.

Create “Buy One Product and Get Another Product with X Discount”.
Easily create discounts such as “Buy 2 pants and get a tie for 20% off” or “Buy 3 pants and get a tie for $15.00” etc. You can create a variety of discounts that are conditioned on purchasing another product. You can discount by either percent or fixed discount or make it a fixed price.

Create Promotions Like “Buy 2 Shirts and Receive the 3rd for 50% Off”
Creating promotions in a series (every 2nd, every 3rd, etc) which allows promotions such as “buy 3 products and the 3rd receive 20% discount”. You can select whole categories or select individual products to determine which are eligible. You can also discount by a percentage, a fixed amount, or set the discounted product to a certain price.

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Perform-a-variety-of-bulk-actions

Don’t Apply Promotions to Products with a Special Price
Products with a special price are usually already deeply discounted, so discounting them further would mean the product would be sold for a loss. Easily ensure that products with a special price do not receive any further discounts.

Create Discounts for the Cheapest / Most Expensive Product in the Cart
It is very popular to create general discounts based on most / least expensive product in the cart. For example, buy any 3 shoes and the cheapest (or most expensive) shoe will receive a 10% discount. You can use any combination you want to create powerful and motivating discounts based on cheapest / most expensive products.

Create Promotions like “Buy 5 Products at Normal Price and Get 20% / $20 Off Each Additional Product”
Encourage large orders by giving a discount after a certain quantity has been purchased using our After-N discount actions. For example, “all shirts purchased after 5 cost $20.00 / receive 10% off / etc” or even “buy 3 belts and every belt after will cost $10.00”. As you can imagine, this is a powerful way to increase sales.

Create Fixed Price Promotions Like “Buy Two Pants and the 3rd Costs $10.00 (or is Free)”
Fixed price discounts are especially powerful. Using our Each-Nth discounts (each 2nd product, 3rd product, etc) it is very easy to create common promotions such as buy 1 shirt and get the 2nd for $10.00. Or even something like buy 5 ties and receive the 6th for free.

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Create-Fixed-Price-Promotions-Like-‘Buy-Two-Pants-and-the-3rd-Costs-$10.00

Give Discounts Based on Money Spent Such as Get $10.00 Off for Every $100.00 Spent
Encourage large orders by giving a discount after a certain quantity has been purchased. For example, “buy any 5 shirts at full price and each additional shirt will receive a 20% discount” or even “buy 3 pants and every pants after that will cost $30.00”. As you can imagine, this is a powerful way to increase sales.

Create a Fixed Price Promotion for a Set of Products Like “Buy a Keyboard and a Mouse for $100.00”
A great way to generate sales is to offer a fixed price for a certain set of products. You can easily do this with our Set Discount Accounts. You can specify the exact products or you can specify the categories.

Create Fixed Discounts for a Group Such as “Buy Any 5 Shirts for $100.00”
Discounts can also be applied to a group of products. You can specify the products that are valid for the group by category or individually.

Offer Fixed Discount Amount for Each 2nd / 3rd / etc Product Such as “Buy 3 Shirts and Get $20.00 of the 3rd Shirt”
In addition to using our Each-Nth discount account this will work with our After-Nth discount action so you can create a promotion like “Buy 3 shirts and every shirt purchased after 3 will receive $10.00 off”.

Create a Promotion For a Set of Products Such as “Buy the Pants and Shoes Together and Get 20% off Each”
Another way to discount when using our Set discount action is to give a percent off when the full set of products is in the cart. A product set can be two products from two different categories or the specific products can be defined.

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Apply Discounts Only to Products with Specific Custom Options
Discount can be set to only apply to products with a specific custom option or if the custom option value is set to a specific value. For example, if you sell electronics and a warranty is a custom option, then you can have a discount only if the warranty is selected.

Support for Multiple Stores
If you have 1 store or 100 stores within your Magento installation it will work for each store.

Support for Multiple Currency and Tax Rules
Multiple currencies and tax rules are supported for promotions created with Shopping Cart Price Rules.

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Support-for-Multiple-Currency-and-Tax-Rules

The Shopping Cart Price Rules extension from Extendware also has an enhanced promotions grid to help you organize and manage the promotions you are running or plan to run. Also it will support multiple currencies and tax rules which makes it easy for any region.

If you can believe it, the above list is not a complete list of features. Please try the online demo or install as a free trial and take advantage of our risk-free 30 day refund guarantee to fully see the power and elegance of the Magento Shopping Cart Price Rules extension.

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Reduce Page Size, Bandwidth, Server Load and More with the Minify Js/Css Extension for Magento https://blog.extendware.com/reduce-page-size-bandwidth-server-load-and-more-with-the-minify-jscss-extension-for-magento/ Wed, 13 Jan 2016 18:09:06 +0000 https://blog.extendware.com/?p=735 Read more]]> One of the worst feelings one can have is jumping on a website to make a purchase and the process is slower than molasses dripping out of a jar! Faster load times are ideal for online businesses and ensures your customers will stay and make purchases rather than give up and throw their laptop out the window in frustration…or worse, go to your competitor!

A process called Minification will help to alleviate all of these issues. It simply means that all of the unnecessary characters in your page’s source code will be extracted and your store pages will be as compact as possible when sent over the internet.

Minify Technologies
Minify Technologies

With Minify Js/CSS HTML you can :

Minify Your Javascript, CSS, and HTML

The Minify Js / CSS extension reduces the size of your Javascript, CSS, and HTML using 1 of 4 minify technologies (JSMin, JSMin Plus, YUI Compressor, and Closure Compiler). These technologies work by removing comments, rewriting CSS statements in a more efficient manner, removing white space, and rewriting Javascript variables. This extension will even minify your inline JS / CSS. On a default Magento Commerce install, you can expect the following (as shown in the graph found in the product image gallery):

Ability to Defer Loading of Javascript Loading for Even Faster Loading

Easily enable javascript deferment to eliminate render-blocking javaScript so that your page loads will not block while waiting for javascript to load. This can greatly improve google page speed score for javascript compatible with deferred loading.

Minify Inline Javascript                                                                               

Javascript is only half the story. The HTML and Javascript / CSS that are inside of each of your pages are equally important. Importantly, this data cannot be cached by the browser, so it must be downloaded on every page request. Other solutions completely ignore inline data.

Versioning of JS / CSS Files                                                                            

Ensure your content is always up-to-date. No need to flush caches or wait for files to be updated on the frontend. Your files will show any changes you have made immediately.

Intelligently Combine Javascript

On a default Magento Commerce install, the number of Web server requests will be reduced by 16 (this number is usually even higher on a non-default install). This significantly reduces request latency and bandwidth and marginally reduces the HTML size of page. Also, it means your Web server will not have to work as hard which will allow you to server more requests per second.
Do not compare the Extendware Minify JS / CSS extension’s ability to combine files with other modules.

Compress your Javascript and CSS                                                                        

Your Javascript and CSS will be compressed using 3 different compression algorithms (gzip, gzdefalt, and gzcompress). All files are pre-compressed, so they are not compressed on a per-request basis. This reduces latency and CPU load and speeds up high traffic Web sites.

Ability to Change Hostnames
Ability to Change Hostnames

Minify Non-Standard JS / CSS Files                                                                      

Some themes directly output javascript / css files to the theme instead of following Magento standards. Usually these cannot be minified, but with our technology they can be minified!

Improve the Browser Cache Management of Javascript / CSS files 

Javascript and CSS files have forever expiries added to them. This means that once downloaded the user will never have to make another request for your Javascript and CSS. This reduces latency, bandwidth, and your server load. When making changes to files the changes will still appear immediately on the site as the filenames will change.

Ability to Change Hostnames of URLs

Browsers generally have a 2-5 connection limit per hostname. For this reason it makes sense to use mutliple hostnames, so the browser will make more connections which can reduce download time. We support selecting custom hostnames for certain urls to maximize the number of browser connections.

Choose the Minification Algorithms that is Best for Your Needs

Different algorithmns have different characteristics and requirements. We don’t limit your choice. We include them all so that your site can be optimized as much as possible.

Compatible With Almost All CDNs                                                                          

Minifying javascript / css is compatible even if you use a content delivery network.

3 Different Compression Algorithms
3 Different Compression Algorithms

So simply install the Minify Js / CSS extension and reduce page size, bandwidth, request count, and server load and your customers will thank you!

If you can believe it, the above list is not a complete list of features. Please try the online demo or install as a install as a risk free trial and take advantage of our risk-free 30 day refund guarantee to fully see the power and elegance of the Minify JSS/CSS extension.

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