Best Magento Extensions for Increasing Conversions

Over 500,000 businesses use Magento to run their e-commerce businesses, and with good reason. Even the basic webstore features allow you to create simple and effective shopping experiences for your customers. But what happens when your customer needs help, and they don’t have a salesperson nearby to assist?

They cancel the purchase.

These roadblocks can come from anywhere. They can’t find the product they want. They can’t figure out the shipping cost. It’s not a good enough deal. They all result in the customer leaving and taking their money with them.

Fortunately, Magento provides e-store owners with a host of extensions, plugins and add-ons to make life easier for the customer and increase your conversions. We’ve collected the best ones below and categorized them by function for easier reading.

 

Clunky and painful store browsing means fewer paying customers. Make it easy for customers to find the deals they want with these helpful extensions.

Instant Search+
By Fast Simon
Quote required

The native Magento search tool isn’t always up to the task if you have a large catalog. Instant Search+ eliminates your slow and inaccurate results by supporting Natural Language inquiries. It’s 100% cloud-based and employs a self-learning AI to speed up search speed and improve reliability.

Product Stickers
By Elsner Technologies
$20.00 (on sale)

Showcase new or special products with the Product Stickers extension. The extension makes it easy to set up and apply custom labels. One of the beauties of the Product Stickers extension is that it applies labels as HTML/CSS, not images, so your site performance does not suffer even with multiple labels active.

Quick View for Magento 2
By MageAnts
$49.00

Interested customers can easily see more detail on a product when you install the Quick View plugin. With a click, customers can see product price and description, available colors or options, and more. Quick View lets you streamline the shopping process by also including Add to Cart and Review Product buttons in the popup as well.

Page Speed
By Templates Master
$79.00

Long load times are a web store’s worst enemy. Page Speed fights that by using a host of invisible speed improvement functions like HTML, JS and CSS compression, lazy image loading, and image optimization. The end result is a Magento e-commerce site that loads like a dream every single time.

The store itself is only a small part of your e-commerce business’ success. You’ll need to support your site with ads, deals and promotional communications in order to draw customers deeper into the store and keep them there. Fortunately, there are extensions for that, too.

Bouncezap
By Bouncezap Ltd
Free Trial then from $9.00 per month

Entice your customers with new promotions by displaying custom popups and messages. Design is simple thanks to hundreds of pre-built templates, but you can also create your own designs. Countdown timers and promo codes increase urgency, and welcome mats and light boxes enhance the browsing experience. You can target users based on behavior and source link, or display ads when specific conditions/actions are met.

Bouncezap also has advanced features for Magento such as:

  1. Abandoned Cart – send automated emails including the content of carts to users who didn’t checkout.
  2. Email Cart For Later – allow your customers to email their cart to themselves so they can checkout later.
  3. Stock Level Notifications – notify browsers using live stock data to create urgency and increase conversions.

There are many more features packed into this solution, try it for free.

Daily Deals
By drcsystems-design
$43.00

Draw your customer in with daily deals. Deals can be set by fixed dollar amount or by percentage, and can be scheduled in advance for your convenience. You can also apply a countdown timer on any daily deal products (displayed on the product listing or product page) to increase buyer urgency.

A/B Testing
By Amasty
$179.00

Not sure which version of a page works better? A/B Testing by Amasty lets you run split and multivariate tests for either specific products or entire product groups. You’ll be able to optimize your store’s design and test out new content before committing to the final version. A/B Testing provides a sturdy reporting tool so you can make informed decisions.

Blog
By AheadWorks
$349.00

Content marketing is critical to today’s marketplace, as customers seek alternative ways of getting information that is not salesy or aggressive. With the Blog extension, you can put your blog right on your webstore so that you can attract audiences with your content and have them go directly to the shopping area. The Blog extension comes full-featured with a content editor, Disqus comments integration, and more.

Magento Email Templates
By jopin
$35.00

The standard Magento email templates are, to put it mildly, bland. Sure, they’re functional, but they don’t do anything for your store’s image. The Magento Email Templates plugin blends form and function by giving you design templates for all the transactional emails you use. Stand out from the rest of the pack.

Magenta Instagram Connect
By MageComp
$35.00

Monetize your Instagram followers with this easy-to-use Magenta extension. With Magenta Instagram Connect, you can display Instagram photos and videos within your webstore in whatever layout you wish. Add tracking codes, keyword tags and and more to get key buyer insights.

Advanced SEO Suite
By Mirasvit
$149.00

Increase your visibility on search engines with the Advanced SEO Suite from Mirasvit. This powerful extension organizes your categories and product groups for easier search engine crawling, optimizes the URLs of your site’s products, and improves your sitemap to be searc-friendly. This extension even comes packaged with another extension called Automatic Internal Links, which links keywords and phrases in your site with the appropriate store pages.

Rich Pinterest for Magento
By cherifherrawi
$30.00

The Rich Pinterest extension lets you pin any item in your webstore to your Pinterest account for that social media boost. Rich pins allow you to share important product details such as price, description and availability so that Pinterest audiences will know exactly what they’re looking at. You can even select multiple products at once for fast bulk pinning.

The customer has already made their selection and is ready to buy, but this is where many customers drop off the map. Simplify their shopping cart experience with these plugins and reduce cart abandonment.

Checkout Suite (One Page Checkout)
By IWD Agency
$49.00

Don’t subject your customer to a long and clunky checkout process. This plugin detects if the customer has an account on your store, then automatically logs them in without interrupting the checkout process. The checkout process itself is condensed into a single page that is responsive to both mobile and desktop browsers.

Who Bought This Also Bought
By Mageants
$39.00

Boost your webstore sales by recommending similar products to an interested customer. The extension lets you either specify which product to suggest, or pull from a randomized list. You can customize the layout and position of the recommendation block on the page.

Call for Price
By MageAnts
$39.00

Does your product’s price fluctuate? Instead of constantly updating your price sheet, try installing Call for Price instead. This handy plugin switches out your Price button for a Call for Price button for either specific products or entire product groups. It also prevents variable pricing products from being added to the shopping cart, so that it doesn’t confuse customers.

Configurable Pre-Select
By MageAnts
$99.00

Are your customers constantly confused by the number of options/configurations your product offers? Simplify their life by pre-selecting popular options for any product or package. You can also define Tiers with varying combinations and price points to further simplify the shopping process. Upon checkout your customer will get a fully itemized list of options and how they affect the price for full transparency.

Shipping is another common roadblock to completing a sale. The customer is either shocked at the shipping cost or can’t figure it out. Help them through the process with these handy Magento shipping extensions.

Mass Order Actions
By xmage2
$39

Magento performs well enough for single transactions, but doesn’t handle bulk orders very well. That’s when the Mass Order Actions plugin becomes valuable. With it, customers can order large quantities and/or multiple items and easily manage shipment and invoicing. The extension even lets you apply tracking numbers to individual orders and select a default carrier based on your profile.

MatrixRate Table Rate Shipping
By WebShopApps
Free

Many customers abort their transaction at the shipping phase. In Magento, the Standard Shipping Table Rates only allow for Ground Shipping. MatrixRate solves that by allowing multiple shipping options and rates based on a customer’s relative location. These rates are easily managed thanks to a simple .CSV upload system. No wonder it’s been the most downloaded shipping extension on Magento!

Payment & Shipping by Customer Group
By ExtensionHut
$79.00

Simplify the payment and shipping process for customers by creating specific shipping settings per customer group. Define those configurations yourself or have registered customers do it themselves. This extension works well with other extensions, so you can have multiple shipping plugins active in your store at once.

E-commerce sites don’t have in-store sales reps to help shoppers. But with the extensions below you’ll be able to help customers with their decisions and increase conversions.

Olark Live Chat
By Habla, Inc
Paid subscription required

Help customers make an informed buying decision! The Olark Live Chat extension increases your conversions by making it easy for them to ask questions in real-time. Olark account holders will be able to see into the customer’s Cart as they chat for better context. A subscription also lets Olar integrate with CRMs and other marketing automation software.

Easy Contact Form
By vivacityinfotech
$18.00

Need to answer customer inquiries but don’t have the time or manpower to do it live? Easy Contact Form is simple to set up and operate. It is CAPTCHA enabled to protect you from spammers and bots. The form itself is widget-based so you can easily add it to any CMS-enabled Magento page.

Today’s customers don’t want to hear you talk about how awesome your product is: they want to hear it from other buyers. The review extensions below give them a much better alternative to Googling you or looking for Amazon reviews (which might not even exist).

Yotpo Reviews
By Yotpo
Free (basic version)

Yotpo Reviews makes it easy for customers to submit reviews, ask questions, and upload photos. You are then free to display them on your site or even convert individual reviews into Facebook Ads. Yotpo offers a free version with basic functionality, with paid subscription rates as you add more features.

Customer Testimonial Pro
By MageBees
$35.00

Like Yotpo Reviews, this plugin lets you easily collect and display customer reviews. But Customer Testimonial Pro gives you greater control over how you display these ads. You can put them on a front-page slider or in a block that can be placed anywhere on your store, and choose how much information the testimonial displays (e.g. email, ratings, profile photo).

Keep customers coming back by rewarding them for their business! Delight them with rewards points or surprise gifts courtesy of the extensions on this list.

Reward Points for Magento 1 / 2
By AheadWorks
$349.00

Turn your customer base into a dedicated following by creating a points-based loyalty program. Reward customers for purchasing, sharing, and posting reviews and display in-store reminders of how customers can get even more points. Reward Points also offers an admin dashboard to monitor usage statistics.

Free GIft for Magento 2
By Mageants
$89.00

The Free Gift extension helps you delight customers by giving them a free gift with their purchase. Set the price catalogue and number of free gifts per user, and the plugin will automatically add it to their cart upon checkout. You can even allow customers to choose from multiple gift options.

 

All of these extensions are currently available (we verified the links!). For those of you who aren’t comfortable installing your Magento extensions yourself, you can have Magento/the extension creator install it for you for an additional fee.

We’ll update this list every so often with new / updated extensions, so stay tuned. Please do submit any extensions you find valuable, and we’ll consider it for inclusion in the next version.