October 2016 Orange Report: Magento News

October 2016 Orange Report: Magento News

OCTOBER 2016 ORANGE REPORT

For this month’s Orange Report, we’ve gathered some Magento 2 news and extensions worth talking about. Like always, we encourage everyone using Magento to make the most of it’s functionalities by incorporating the very best Magento extensions and news. So we have created the monthly Orange Report to keep ourselves up to date and to recognize some of our favorite Magento news and extensions.

BluePay Connect for Magento

BluePay Connect for Magento is an iframe-based secure payment processing solution
that keeps clients’ confidential credit/debit card and ACH/eCheck information secure.

Has your Magento 1 Site Morphed Into a Frankenapp?

Starting to feel like your Magento site has turned into a monster that’s difficult to
control? Magento 2 is an opportunity to clear the slate and rebuild your site for success.

'Others Also Bought'... for Magento 2

This free extension replaces the default Related Products block with an automatically generated product list based on customers order history.

Order Management Extension for Magento 2

Increase your business efficiency with Improved Magento order management workflows and additional order management features. Manage order info, improve order accuracy and streamline B2C transactions.

Subscription Management Made Simple

The Subscribe Pro platform is the most feature rich stable subscription (autoship) profile management tool we’ve ever used and now it’s available for Magento 2.

Upgrading PHP v5.5 to v5.6

Many Magento 1.x websites will be experiencing issues when upgrading PHP to version 5.6. Learn more about a few simple fixes to help your Magento 1.x site run on PHP 5.6.

September 2016 Orange Report: Magento News

September 2016 Orange Report: Magento News

SEPTEMBER 2016 ORANGE REPORT

For this month’s Orange Report, we’re resolving your speed, accessibility and customer care concerns. Like always, we encourage everyone using Magento to make the most of it’s functionalities by incorporating the very best Magento extensions and news. So we have created the monthly Orange Report to keep ourselves up to date and to recognize some of our favorite Magento news and extensions.

Magento Speed Test

This super helpful tool will help you identify Magento performance issues.
Knowing is half the battle

Magento Google Shopping Feed

Instead of just using the default feed, gain an advantage with strategic help from InteractOne.

Relevant Search Content for Customers

Serve relevant content from the first keystroke. With Algolia’s as-you-type search, customers think less about how to search and more about what they find.

Affiliate Plus for Magento 2

This feature rich extension allows you to create sophisticated affiliate campaigns, all managed from within your Magento application.

Facebook for Magento

Your customers will be able to use all the most popular Facebook sharing tools to talk up your products.

Custom Order Number

With the custom order module store owners can easily customize invoices, shipments, orders and credit memos according to their needs.

Quickbooks Online for Magento 2

Quickbooks Online not only makes accounting, billing, and payments a breeze but also helps organize the details of your business.

August 2016 Orange Report: Magento News

August 2016 Orange Report: Magento News

AUGUST 2016 ORANGE REPORT

For this month’s Orange Report, we’ve gathered some Magento 2 news and extensions worth talking about. Like always, we encourage everyone using Magento to make the most of it’s functionalities by incorporating the very best Magento extensions and news. So we have created the monthly Orange Report to keep ourselves up to date and to recognize some of our favorite Magento news and extensions.

MatrixRate Shipping For Magento 2

With MatrixRate you have the ability to offer multiple shipping options based on location. Its powerful functionality allows you to define different shipping rates according to destination, shipping method and the weight, price or quantity of an item.

Maintenance and Support for Magento

Are you lacking in the qualified Magento support department?  With customizable packages available, we are able to meet your Magento Maintenance and Support needs.

Powerful PageBuilder for Magento

BlueFoot is a powerful set of tools to help you create and manage content on your Magento store.

RJMetrics + Magento

With RJMetrics, you can combine your Magento data with other sources to gain new insights like tracking your Marketing ROI.

One-click bulk order processing

Invoice and mark all orders as shipped with one click from the Order Overview Screen. This makes handling large order volumes a breeze.

POS Extension For Magento

The 1st Magento 2 Web POS extension tailored for your business.
Magento version updated. POS features revolutionized. Support service enhanced.

Store Credit Extension for Magento 2

No need to wait for a special occasion to give customers a small gift, you can send customers Store Credit to their account directly with a warm letter on a rainy day.

July 2016 Orange Report: Magento News

July 2016 Orange Report: Magento News

JULY 2016 ORANGE REPORT

For this month’s Orange Report, we’ve gathered some Magento 2 news and extensions worth talking about. Like always, we encourage everyone using Magento to make the most of it’s functionalities by incorporating the very best Magento extensions and news. So we have created the monthly Orange Report to keep ourselves up to date and to recognize some of our favorite Magento news and extensions.

PDF Invoice Plus

With PDF Invoice Plus for Magento 2, you can turn Magento default Invoice, Order and Credit Memo into your own custom documents.

A Magento Partner for Digital Marketing?

A certified Magento partner that offers both development and marketing services provides you with more efficient implementation, productive results and a higher ROI.

Image Optimization

Speed up your load time with this free tool for checking image optimization on your site.

Geo Redirect

Automatically define visitors’ locations by IP and redirect them to relevant information.

Dev Toolbar for Magento 2

The Mgt Developer Toolbar shows important info for performance optimization and development.

Related Products Extension

Allows you to create, manage, and customize related product blocks across your store.

Return Merchandise Authorization Extension

A one-stop solution to take care of all return merchandise authorization within an online store.
June 2016 Orange Report: Magento News

June 2016 Orange Report: Magento News

JUNE 2016 ORANGE REPORT

For this month’s Orange Report, we’ve gathered some Magento 2 news and extensions worth talking about. Like always, we encourage everyone using Magento to make the most of it’s functionalities by incorporating the very best Magento extensions and news. So we have created the monthly Orange Report to keep ourselves up to date and to recognize some of our favorite Magento news and extensions.

Part 3: Troubleshooting

Sign up for Part 3 of our Summer Webinar Series on Magento 2 Extension Development featuring internationally recognized Magento U Trainer, Ryan Street on July 13th at 2 PM EST.

Banner Extension for Magento 2

Manage and update banners on any page with left, top and bottom content options..

Best Seller Module for Magento 2

Feature bestselling products and improve customer experience with this Magento 2 module.

VIDEO: How to move products between categories

In this episode of Magento U’s Tips and Tricks, learn how to effectively move large numbers of products between categories using Magento’s Import/Export features.

Featured Product Widget for Magento 2

With an eye-catching grid layout, merchants can easily promote featured products on any page.

Nucleus Elements for Magento 2

With Nucleus Elements for Magento 2, you can utilize a drag-and-drop admin interface that will have you creating beautiful and ready-to-deploy content in minutes.

NoFraud

NoFraud sits between your shopping cart and your gateway, monitoring transactions in real-time and adapting to fraudulent activity.

May 2016 Orange Report: Magento News

May 2016 Orange Report: Magento News

For this month’s Orange Report, we’ve gathered some Magento 2 news and extensions worth talking about. Like always, we encourage everyone using Magento to make the most of it’s functionalities by incorporating the very best Magento extensions and news. So we have created the monthly Orange Report to keep ourselves up to date and to recognize some of our favorite Magento news and extensions.

Shoppimon

If there’s anything that gets in a customer’s way, from missing images to a broken add-to-cart function, Shoppimon is able to tell what went wrong and why.
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Magento Code Migration Toolkit

The Magento Code Migration Toolkit provides scripts that ease the process of converting custom Magento 1.x code to Magento 2 by handling some of the most time-consuming conversion tasks.
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Part 2: Development

Sign up for Part 2 of our Summer Webinar Series on Magento 2 Extension Development featuring internationally recognized Magento U Trainer, Ryan Street on June 8th at 2 PM EST.
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TaxJar is now a Magento Premier Partner

TaxJar and Magento are working together to provide all Magento users access to free sales tax calculations as well as simplified sales tax reporting and filing.
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Follow Up Email for Magento 2

Follow Up for Magento 2 is a smart tool that reacts to customer activity and automatically sends out pre-defined follow-up messages.
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Magento Theme for Your Admin

Clean brings a whole new style to the Magento admin. With obvious groupings of buttons, fields, minimized menus, color-coordinated statuses and auto-updated order grids, the admin becomes a breeze to use.
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Gift Cards for Magento 2

The M2 Gift cards extension simplifies and personalizes the process of gift card creating and managing. You can offer a traditional physical gift card or eCards.
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Apr 2016  Orange Report: Magento News

Apr 2016 Orange Report: Magento News

For this month’s Orange Report, we’ve gathered some Magento 2 news and extensions worth talking about. Like always, we encourage everyone using Magento to make the most of it’s functionalities by incorporating the very best Magento extensions and news. So we have created the monthly Orange Report to keep ourselves up to date and to recognize some of our favorite Magento news and extensions.

 

Meet the Magento Community

If you didn’t already know, the Magento community is massive. Sometimes it can be a bit overwhelming to dive in. Luckily, Magento has Community Manager Sherrie Rohde to help facilitate the Magento masses. She recently put together a helpful guide on getting involved in the Magento Community.

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Digital Wallet from PayPal

PayPal is trying to transform itself from a tool used once or twice a month by 180 million online shoppers into a day-to-day financial instrument used to pay merchants, split restaurant bills with friends, and send money around the world.

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Porto Responsive Magento 2 Theme

The Ultimate Responsive theme from Porto is now available on Magento 2. One of the most popular 3rd party themes, its extremely fast and fully compatible with Magento 2 and Magneto 2 extensions.

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Magento 2 Connector for Bronto

One of the most popular eMail marketing platforms in now available to connect with Magento 2. The Magento 2 Connector for Bronto allows merchants to seamlessly import past-purchase information, including full order history and details of products purchased, from Magento 2 into the Bronto Marketing Platform.

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Shipping for Magento 2

Ship station is now compatible with Magento 2. ShipStation makes Magento order management and shipping easier than ever. By connecting your Magento store to ShipStation, you can compare shipping options, create and print Magento shipping labels, improve order management, and streamline order fulfillment.

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Mar 2016 Orange Report: Magento News

Mar 2016 Orange Report: Magento News

For this month’s Orange Report, we’ve gathered some Magento 2 news and extensions worth talking about. Like always, we encourage everyone using Magento to make the most of it’s functionalities by incorporating the very best Magento extensions and news. So we have created the monthly Orange Report to keep ourselves up to date and to recognize some of our favorite Magento news and extensions.

Magento 2 extensions

Magento 2.0 Marketplace

Now featuring more than 300 extensions, with more coming soon, the Magento 2.0 marketplace is growing with products and services.

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Blogging for Magento 2

The Magento 2 blogging extension includes all features dictated by best industry practices allowing for easy management and creation of engaging content.

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Reward Points and Referral Program for M2

Reward customers for purchases and actions performed in your store with points that can be redeemed for discounts or other benefits.

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Webinar from Shoppimon

Ray Bogman, SupportDesk CTO, and Roy Rosinnes, Shoppimon CEO discuss the differences between Magento 1 and 2, best practices for migrating, challenges to watch out for, initial Magento 2 performance results and more.

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Mass Product Actions for Magento 2

Change prices in bulk using different paramaters like attribute sets and categories as well as define cross-sell and up-sell parameters.

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Feb 2016 Orange Report: Magento News

Feb 2016 Orange Report: Magento News

For this month’s Orange Report, we’ve gathered some Magento news and extensions worth talking about. Like always, we encourage everyone using Magento to make the most of it’s functionalities by incorporating the very best Magento extensions and news. So we have created the monthly Orange Report to keep ourselves up to date and to recognize some of our favorite Magento extensions.

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Magento Security Patch: SUPEE-7405

Magento’s SUPEE-7405 patch released last month is critical for your store’s security.SUPEE-7405’s most important fix is that it blocks hackers from breaking into your admin and taking over your store. Learn more about the patch from interactOne.

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Premium responsive theme for Magento

Ultimo is a premium Magento theme with an advanced admin module. It’s extremely customizable (unlimited colors, customizable design, mega menu & sidebar menu, fluid project grid, brand logos & sliders and 50+ CMS blocks) for any type of store. This theme is easy to use, fully responsive and optimized for SEO.

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Magento 2: Navigating your options

Magento 2 has been long awaited by merchants who are now left with a number of decisions to make regarding the new platform. Among the most important decisions are whether a shop should make the jump to Magento 2 and, if so, when. interactOne has learned who’s ready to upgrade now and who should wait. See if you’re shop is ready for Magento 2.

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Layered_Nav

Layered navigation increases flexibility and user experience

The Layered Navigation Pro extension lets your customers select all your product parameters at once without having to choose them one by one. Customers can also filter search results by price range or direct price.  Shoppers can also select the number of attributes to show in the navigation panel with dropdowns and multi-select for your attributes in addition to checkboxes and links.

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A debug toolbar for Magento? That sounds handy.

Based on robhudson’s django-debug-toolbar, this Magento debug toolbar is a great tool for the Magento novice or expert. Installed as a module without hacking the core, the toolbar displays valuable information about current requests/responses and when clicked, displays more details about your content.

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product_finder

Searching for product parts made easy

Product Parts Finder creates product filters based on key criteria, like year-make-model or similar filters which help to locate the right products very quickly. This makes it easy for your customers to search and find spare parts and components on your site.

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Jan 2016 Orange Report: Magento Extensions

Jan 2016 Orange Report: Magento Extensions

For this month’s Orange Report, we’ve gathered some extensions worth including in your resolutions. Like always, we encourage everyone using Magento to make the most of it’s functionalities by incorporating the very best Magento extensions. So we have created the monthly Orange Report to keep ourselves up to date and to recognize some of our favorite Magento extensions.

Magento Security Patch: SUPEE-6788

Magento’s SUPEE-6788 security patch released October of last year is still giving merchants and developers a fairly sizable headache. The difficulty with this patch in particular is how invasive it can be when applied to a highly customized shop. It’s important to understand that running SUPEE-6788 alone is not enough for a shop to be protected from the vulnerabilities that it fixes. Read more about SUPEE-6788 and other expert advice from us on our blog.

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AOE Scheduler

AOE Scheduler allows merchants’ developers to schedule cron tasks with two back end controllers displayed in grids for better visibility than the default Magento tool. Scheduler will scan available tasks and show all tasks that can be scheduled. The extension displays completed tasks as well as scheduled tasks . Check for compatibility with Magento versions newer than 1.9.2

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Lesti_fpc – Simple Fullpagecache

Lesti_Fpc is simple full page cache for Magento. Needing no Varnish or other external software, Lesti_Fpc is an internal cache; it replaces dynamic blocks before sending response to customer.

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Sweet Tooth

The premier loyalty solution for Magento, Sweet Tooth allows merchants to build customized loyalty programs. With Sweet Tooth, quickly putting together a basic program that delivers results is easier than ever.

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Zendesk

Zendesk is cloud-based hosting customer support software. Great for growing organizations, Zendesk is the fastest way to enable great customer service. Working seamlessly with Magento, Zendesk features Single Sign-on for Magento administrators, and support tickets.

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Shipworks

ShipWorks is multi-channel, multi-carrier shipping software. Notably integrated with all major shipping carriers, ShipWorks, makes it easy to print shipping labels in batches, automatically email tracking numbers to customers, update online order status, run reports and more.

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