The best Magento extensions for your online store

We have already shared tips on the most popular plugins for WooCommerce. This time it is about the best extensions for Magento, another widely used store platform. There are countless options that take work off your plate and upgrade your store. Below are nine extensions worth knowing.

9 extensions for your online store

1. Loyalty Reward Points by Sweet Tooth

Rewards are a powerful motivator, and happy customers are loyal, returning customers. This extension gives you more than ten ways to reward shoppers: referrals to friends and family, sign-ups, purchases, social shares and follows, birthdays, and more. Customers collect points and redeem them for free shipping, vouchers, or discounts. The basic features are plenty to start with, and premium features are there when you want more.

2. Yotpo Reviews

In a competitive market, trust matters most: trust in your store, your product, and you. Reviews from satisfied customers are essential, and they drive traffic and sales. Yotpo's trick is a post-purchase email that lets customers leave a review right inside the message, so they save time and never have to leave the page.

3. Mailchimp

Winning new customers matters, but it is easy to lose sight of the ones you already have, even though repeat purchases take far less effort. Email marketing helps, and Mailchimp supports it. Paid accounts get the automation tool, so you can remind shoppers to finish a purchase, re-engage inactive customers, and send targeted product recommendations. Live tracking shows which numbers trace back to your campaigns.

4. Chatra Live Chat and Cart Saver

Many customers prefer live chat to email or phone, because they want fast answers. Chatra combines live chat and offline messaging in one product, so you can chat in real time and stay reachable when you are away. User avatars show who is answering, group chats help your team solve questions together, and conversation history helps you spot common problems.

5. Vantage Analytics

To optimize your store, you need to find where it hurts. Vantage Analytics surfaces the data you need to fix and improve: abandoned carts, average order value, share of returning buyers, and more, in real time. With over 100 metrics you can combine, you build custom reports, spot trends, and act on them quickly.

6. OneStepCheckout

The standard Magento checkout runs to about six steps. OneStepCheckout cuts that to one. A checkout that is too long is a common reason shoppers abandon a cart even with items in it, and optimizing the checkout can lift conversion meaningfully. You can configure how the cart, shipping, and payment methods appear.

7. Sooqr Search

Shoppers who use your store's search are far more likely to buy, so it is worth getting search right. Sooqr corrects misspelled terms automatically and shows the best products within milliseconds as customers type, with no page reload. You decide which products rank at the top, and Sooqr keeps learning which results shoppers find most relevant.

8. Sendcloud

Once a customer has ordered, one thing stands between you and a happy buyer: shipping. The Sendcloud extension takes the weight off. A clear overview of every parcel and its status keeps you organized, with a simple label-created, on-the-way, delivered view. You can ship with several carriers, create labels with a single click and save them as a PDF, and send customers tracking emails automatically, each in the right language. Sendcloud is also known for its branded return portal, which adapts to your store's design in a few steps.

9. Simple Google Shopping by wyomind

More channels mean more potential customers, and Google Shopping keeps growing in importance. Selling there means sending a lot of product data, which is tedious by hand. Simple Google Shopping exports a data feed of your whole catalog to your Google Merchant account, built to Google's guidelines and tailored to your store, with error messages when something needs fixing.

These nine Magento extensions can help you save time, work, and patience. Have fun trying them out.