12+ Best Magento Extensions to Power up Your Online Store

Magento comes with out-of-the box features to help you get a user-friendly store up and running in no time. However, these features are meant to get you started and can be limited in their scope and functionality. Magento plugins and extensions add extra functionality. They make it possible for you to create a user-friendly store that offers an engaging shopping experience for your customers. 

Some characteristics shared by user-friendly online stores include: 

• easy access from any device: desktop, tablet, or mobile phone
• seamless use on any browser
• a simple to use menu, for easy navigation
• well designed pages and well organized content 
• excellent product presentation 
• a well considered product to checkout user journey
• intuitive forms and contact methods

Top Magento Plugins and Extensions on Envato Market

Each of the Magento plugins and extensions we’ll cover in this post make life easy for your customers.  

1. Slider Revolution Responsive Magento Extension

The Slider Revolution extension for Magento turns your website into an engaging, interactive, and dynamic user experience. With this extension you can create sliders and carousels, header hero areas, content modules, and even special effects.

There is a huge library of customizable templates to choose from. It comes with fully documented and also has video tutorials to help get the most out of its amazing features. 

2. Magento Email Templates

Tired of bland emails you receive after you complete a transaction? Your customers feel the same way too. Say hello to beautiful and colorful responsive and customizable Magento email templates with multilingual support. 

This plugin comes with twenty email template styles that include orders, invoices, registration, and more. You can customize images, texts, colors, and fonts to suit your store style. It allows you to include product thumbnails and product links in emails.

3. Magento City and Region Manager (Magento1 and Magento2)

With this Magento 1 and Magento 2 extension you can add states, cities, zip codes, postal codes of all countries on your Magento store. It will make it easy for customers to select and add their own state, city, and zip code. These elements will be displayed as dropdown list items on all front-end forms like checkout billing address step, shipping address step, customer address steps and so on. 

4. Codazon MEGA MENU Pro For Magento 1 and Magento 

Codazon Mega Menu Pro allows you to easily build vertical, horizontal, or mobile menus for your website. A built-in drag and drop menu builder makes organizing the content of your website a breeze. You can even add interactive elements like images, icons, and maps. 

5. YouTubeR – Unique YouTube Video Gallery for Magento

The YouTubeR Magento module allows you to embed YouTube videos and create outstanding video galleries on your website. It comes with five responsive themes that you can easily customize. The extension is optimized for Magento caching, has infinite scroll for playlists, and includes a lightbox. It supports cyrllic characters.

6. Responsive Magento Product Slider for Magento 1

This Magento 1 extension allows you to create responsive sliders to showcase your bestsellers, trending products etc. anywhere on your website. You can create multiple sliders on the same page and in addition to controlling the number of items per slider, you can adjust slider settings slide speed, navigation or pagination. It works seamlessly on mobile devices, supports touch devices, and is compatible with all modern browsers. It also supports multiple stores. 

7. Magento 2 Product Slider

With the Magento 2 Product Slider you can create sliders to showcase hot deals, specials, clearance products, bestsellers, and more. It comes with a built-in visual builder that allows you to customize small details and change slider settings on the fly, and even see how they look on the live viewer. The plugin works on mobile devices, supports touch devices, and multiple screen resolutions. 

8. Magento 2 Admin Theme

Magento 2 Admin Theme allows you to spice up the look of your admin login and admin panel. Make modern and stylish login pages by choosing background color, and adding images. It comes with two variants: dark and light.

All customizable elements are grouped by logical sections to access them easily. You can add a quick links feature to give you fast access to certain admin sections. You can also choose between vertical and horizontal positions for navigation. 

9. WhatsApp Chat and Share and WhatsApp Business for Magento

This Magento extension allows you to provide fast customer services straight from your Magento store using Whatsapp. The extension allows you to create a Whatsapp chat button and show it on different parts of your websites. 

10. Debitpayment for Magento 2 (SEPA-Lastschrift/Bankeinzug)

This Magento 2 extension allows customers to make payment using debit. Enabling the debitpayment module allows it to show up on your customer’s checkout step. All they need to do in order to complete their order is fill out the following information: 

• Bank Account Owner (required)
• IBAN (optional verification of the IBAN number by openiban.com service)
• BIC (required, autocomplete possibilites)
• Bank Name (required, autocomplete possibilites)
• Optional checkbox with headline and label

11. Magento 2 CE Customer Attribute System

This Magento 2 extension allows customers to manage their own information on your website. It comes with a lot of features related to customer, address, checkout process, and order information. The admin just needs to select which attributes they want on customer forms, for example street address, phone number, email, tax ID, and so on. The attributes can then show on admin forms, registration forms, checkout page, etc. 

12. Magento 2 One Step Checkout Suite

Magento 2 One Step Checkout Suite allows customers to checkout products fast without sending them to another page. All checkout steps like customer address, shipping address, shipping method, payment, order summary, and even upsell and cross-sell recommendations are on a single page. Customers can modify their data without being redirected to another page. The layouts work smoothly on mobile devices. 

13. Magento 2 PDF Invoice

Magento 2 PDF Invoice allows you to create beautiful Magento invoices and send them to customers by email as PDF invoices. It comes with premade invoice templates that allow you to customize with the help of a built-in template editor.You can also print these invoices and add them to shipping orders.

14. Magento 2 Product Inline Editor 

Magento 2 Product Inline Editor  allows you to edit the catalog page on Magento. There are a number of ways you can use the plugin: 

• Edit product attributes directly on the grid. These include product name, price, SKU, status description, etc.
• Change the category id of a product
• Save edited products for multiple stores at the same time

Conclusion

We just looked at some of the premium Magento extensions that will extend or add new functions to make your store engaging, interactive, and user-friendly. 

In addition to Magento extensions, you will find Magento themes on Envato Elements and ThemeForest and these two posts will introduce you to some:

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Additionally, we have more resources to help you understand the fundamentals of the Magento eCommerce platform. Check out these tutorials to get you started:

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