Magento Connect Weekly: Boost Sales with Coupons and One Step Checkout
This weeks extensions are all about sales and the checkout process. Learn how to offer better deals and optimize your coupon/ discount practices with these useful and simple extensions.
Magento Connect Weekly
Import / Export Coupons
Price: free
This extension allows you to easily import and export whole tables of coupon codes and apply them automatically to specific stores or throughout the whole Magento install. The feature is added to your Shopping Cart Price rules automatically, once you install the extension. The table will also show you the number of times a specific coupon code has been used by adding a new field - 'Times Used'.
Benefits
Save time adding the coupons
Add coupons to all of your stores at once
Track coupon usage
Export coupons with ease for marketing and other activities
This extension will be useful for any Magento business that works with coupons on massive scale, creates backlink opportunities with the coupons that they offer, manages multiple stores with the same products. Remember that coupon codes are an important tactic in retail marketing. This extension is perfect, if you're planning to step up your coupon game.
Apply Coupon Code on Checkout
Price: free
This extension allows you to add simple functionality to the checkout process, which can eventually increase your conversions. It allows you to add coupon codes straight to the checkout funnel. From the looks of it - it only works with the standard Magento checkout.
If you're just starting out and only think about implementing a coupon system on your website - this is a great and simple solution for you. It doesn't look like a game changer, but people love discounts and additional opportunities to save. Don't underestimate the marketing power of a coupon.
It's free, it's simple to use and it should probably work with any Magento store. Go ahead and check it out. Don't know where to distribute your coupons? Start with this list.
One Step Checkout
Price: $99,00
This extension allows you to incorporate all of your checkout steps into one page. This called streamlining your checkout and it can greatly affect your overall conversion rates and your bottom line. The extension allows you to pick the layout of the checkout page, disable unnecessary fields and rearrange the positions of payment info blocks. Keep in mind that this is a serious change to the way your store operates. Especially for your regular customers, who are used to the standard order form. It's not always that simple.
Additional Features
Auto suggest addresses for the customers in the cart
Display additional promotions
Suggest cross-sells
Additional checkout features: gift message, gift wrap, survey, etc.
EDIT: The direct Magento Connect link to the One Step Checkout extension has been deleted/moved. We aren't able to locate this extension on the marketplace - that's why we've linked to their website. Please be cautious when installing this product and/or request a link to their extension directly at the Magento Connect marketplace.
Did we miss a great extension that was added to Magento Connect this week? Share your info about it in the comments below. Have you tested any of the products, which we presented above? Let us know what you think about them in the comments below!