Magento Extension Reviews

The Seasonal Product Recommendations extension adds an extra 'seasons' attribute to products, which enables products to optionally be assigned to one or many seasons based on their suitability. Seasons to choose from are: Winter, Summer, Autumn, Spring, Wet (Winter), and Dry (Summer).

The Switch Order Owner extension provides the ability to change ownership of an order in the admin panel. This could be useful in certain situations, such as when orders are created by company agents, and require an ownership change to the actual customer that will be receiving the goods. Another example is guest orders which were accidentally placed by a registered customer, and need to be assigned to their account after the fact.

Magento has a built-in way of uploading images for a particular product, but it doesn't have any way of uploading arbitrary files. The Catalog Attachments extension adds this functionality and could be used for things such as manuals, warranties, or other information about a product that the customer may require.

While Magento has a built-in contact form, it simply sends the enquiry to the merchant directly via email. The Contact Us Grid extension adds some additional functionality to this process. All enquiries that are placed will be logged to the database, and can then be viewed and replied to from within the admin panel.

While Magento provides adequate functionality for customers to view details about their past orders, it leaves them out in the cold if they actually want to take a copy of their orders for record keeping. This extension fills this gap in functionality, providing an easy way for customers to download a PDF of their order, with no setup required.

This is a straightforward extension that adds the Facebook tracking pixel to a Magento site. The pixel is included on a range of pages, including product pages, category pages, the checkout and the checkout success page. Tracking events for viewing content, purchases and registration are sent to Facebook via the pixel.

Customers who complete the checkout with an invalid email address can be costly in both time and money for the merchant to resolve.

This extension helps customers detect typos in their email address by validating their email address using the popular mailcheck.js Javascript library. In the case of an invalid email, the customer is provided with suggestions on how to correct the error. This extension has the added bonus of optionally validating email inputs in the admin panel.

For Magento stores that have an international presence, the language shown to the user on the frontend is an important consideration. For example, a store that operates in both Australia and China may use English in the Australian store and Chinese in the Chinese store.

Working on any reasonably complex Magento site, you may have run into issues where templates have been incorrectly referenced, symlink support hasn't been enabled, the files haven't been added yet or had some other issue which prevents them being found. Magento gracefully handles these errors by stubbing the missing template with an empty string, which allowing templates to silently go missing but can mean the errors don't get picked up.

Any store that has multiple staff working in the admin panel will likely have run into a situation where a change is made that breaks something, but tracking down what that change was and when it was made is difficult (if not impossible). This extension aims to solve this problem, by logging all activity in the admin panel in an easy-to-view grid.