10 Great Magento Extensions For Your E-Commerce Store

Magento Commerce is a great open source platform. Here are some extensions that will help your store stick out from the crowd and add vital functionality to your business.

1 – Shop By Brand

This extension creates landing pages for each of your brands, which include information such as Brand Name, Logo, Description etc… The landing page will have an SEO link like this www.example.com/brands/sony.

Extension Page | Demo | Price: $99.99

2 – MouseOver Image Zoom

This extension replaces the default Magento image zooming feature. When you mouseover the image it will open a box to right where it will zoom into the image (sort of like Endless.com).

MouseOver-Image-Zoom

Extension Page | Price: $0.00

3 – Blog

A blog built from scratch for Magento. It’s not as extensive as WordPress or Movable Type, but it has all the basics. Should get you from point A to point B.

Magento-Blog

Extention Page | Price: $0.00

4 – Drop Shipping Management

If you do a lot of drop shipping you will definitely need help managing your orders. Magento is a great system, but it has no Drop Ship management features. This extension is pretty robust with a price tag to match.

Drop-Shipping-Module

Extension Page | Demo | Price $500.00

5 – Minimum Advertised Price

If you sell products that are protected by a manufacturer’s minimum advertised price policy (MAP), then this is for you. As always, rules are meanato to be broken. You can use this extension to work around the MAP policy withour ruining you vendor relationships.

Minimum-Advertised-Price-Policy

Extension Page$149.00

6 – QuickBooks Integration

This is vital for survival. Accounting is key to the success of your business. This extension will synchronize your orders with QuickBooks. Definitely worth the price.

QuickBooks Integration THUB

Extension Page | Demo | $250.00

7 – Ticketing System

This extension will help you keep track of your customer service inquiries. It will help you save time by managing your workflow and will ensure that no emails fall through the cracks.

Ticketing-System

Extension Page$0.00

8 – Color Swatches

Selling something in multiple colors? T-Shirts, Faucets, iPods? This is for you. It will add the ability to put color swatches and change the image based on the color selected.

Color-Swatches

Extension Page | Demo$69.00

9 – Exploded Menu

Replaces the standard drop down menu with an exploded menu featuring multiple columns. Comes in handy when you have many categories.

Exploded Menu

Extension Page$0.00

10 – Useful Product Downloads

This is great if you want to give your customers the ability to download PDF specification files for products. Just upload any file type and you’re done. Easy. Easy.

Useful-Product-Downloads

Extension Page | Demo | $49.00

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Comments (88)

  1. skully:

    Nice list, and have installed a few of them already.

    What I am looking for is a ext for the product page image gallery. Where it removes the popup for each thumbnail and refreshes the base image with ajax. Any links?

    1. Michael J. Kaye:

      Hi Urmas,

      When I originally published the post, the price was $64.99. I have updated the post to reflect the newer price.

      –M

  2. Stephen:

    The Minimum Advertised Price module ONLY works with simple or virtual products. This is a major limitation which should be stated on the product but isn’t. Do not waste your time if you need this product for anything but simple or virtual products.

  3. Hydrophylic:

    I’m very interested in the ebay integration module, but wary as it’s only just been released and I’ve been stung a couple of times paying for what was effectively beta software. I would be interested from others who have used this and their experiences with both 1.3 and 1.4 releases.

  4. Tom:

    Nr. 8 – Color Swatches, looks nice but it uses Ioncube encription which makes it useless.

    1. Erik Hansen:

      #8 – I would stay away from this module. The fact that it’s encrypted with Ion Cube makes it very difficult to work with.

      1. Peter:

        I wouldn’t say it is useless because of ionCube, maybe support is not so good. But recently we used better plugin with same function that worked great and they had excellent support, magentocolorswatch(dot)com I would for sure recomend that.

    2. Ray:

      Bad experience with this module/supplier. It is encrypted and supplier is not willing to do any (paid) mods, so if you buy it and it does not work or integrate as anticipated, you are in trouble. Do not count on a refund…

  5. web design experts:

    over all nice modules, can some one refer a module through which we can define different quantity for each product attribute

    1. Michael J. Kaye:

      If you use Grouped products or Configurable products you can define different inventory on a sub-item basis.

  6. Tihanna:

    I have another suggestion for your list which somebody else also mentioned earlier. I haven’t had any experience with the color swatch listed here, but I know one which is great and it seems that everyone is saying that they have an excellent technical support. You can find it on the website http://www.magentocolorswatch.com, as well as the color swatch with ZOOM tool and the so called product List Swatches, which integrate the color swatch directly into your product list page.

  7. one page checkout ecommerce:

    Nice work getting these together……these extension helps me a lot to make my own online store.

  8. Kannan:

    Hey… nice collection of extensions… 🙂

    is there any extension (paid/free), that can be used for bulk import/export products in complex/configurable products

    thanks

  9. Moogento:

    I’d like to nominate my new extension, shipEasy, coded over more than a year in real live market environments:
    http://www.moogento.com/magento-order-shipping-processing.html

    I actually had to use a Magento install without it yesterday and I felt completely restricted. You’re going to save hours from your order processing flow, guaranteed! It has things like: change status of any order from the orders page, to anything; ship/invoice any order(s); send customer messages with pre-filled info; customise the orders page (add/remove columns); see SKUs and product names for each order (in the orders page) & loads more…

  10. Brand Agency:

    Above given Extension are helpful to have more development over the E-Commerce website store. It builds up the stores and gives the integration of Shopping carts.

  11. Jeremy:

    Another great add-on that recently came out is an extension from http://www.nchannel.com that helps connect Magento with POS and Accounting systems. They are developing several different types but this company has some promise in terms of Magento connections.

  12. JUAN CARLOS AYALA:

    Hola una molestia alguna extension para Magento ver 1.7.0.0 para poner archivos PDF de los productos, tambien poner 2 precios mayoreo y menudeo o rollo y mts, alguna solucion espero su ayuda gracias

  13. Jeremy:

    Nice list of extensions, but i wanna add one more great extension to the list – Improved navigation by Amasty. The trick is you kill two birds with one stone for a very reasonable price. You get such functionality as shop by brands, layered navigation, improved filters, variety of SEO features. i’m really happy with it and recommend to everybody! http://amasty.com/improved-navigation.html – it’s here.

  14. Roberto:

    can you update this post and add some new extensions like this one, events management, imp for holiday seasons, magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/events-manager-2.html

  15. Mary Johnson:

    You had made a good combination of Magento Extensions.But i did not see Any Plug-in which is related to calculation of mass amount of Product Pricing . So addition of some these type of Extensions will be beneficial for Magento users. As a developer i am also sharing a Module http://bit.ly/1wE5IJv which deals in Percenatge Pricing and its a good option for those Magento Store owenrs who have mass amount of Products.

  16. Alice Bryony:

    You have collected an effective list of magento extension for web stores.
    Good to see the interest level of related users on your blog.As a Magento developer The product which i supposed to be in this list is Magento Auction Extension http://bit.ly/1j78yez which allows you to sell products on auction which is financially effective for both customers and retailers

  17. Isabella:

    All above extensions are great. Specially the exploded menu extension replaces the traditional menu bar.
    Thank you!

  18. Marina:

    We use a few of the extensions from http://www.best4mage.com. They focus on Configurable Products. Especially their Simple Price Extension and the Matrix Order Extension work great for us. We bought this at a bundle from them together with the Backend Matrix to create configurable products.

  19. Jessica Dayton:

    Great list! I wanted to let everyone know that they can test some of these extensions at https://xtensiongalaxy.com before buying them. I think this is a great option. Not sure if other extension sites offer this but I found it helpful.

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