10 Popular Opencart Extensions From Various Developers
OpenCart, one of the most popular eCommerce platforms, needs no introduction to the eCommerce world. Almost everyone must have heard of it, or you might be using it to run your eCommerce business. With easily available and low-cost extensions, this platform provides the best possible medium to the eCommerce startups for running and touching skies with their business. OpenCart extensions play a great role in running a successful store by integrating competitive and trending features to the store. In this article, I am going to enlist 10 such popular OpenCart extensions from different developers (including the home team’s offering) which you should have on your store. So here it is. PS: Prices shown for extension are based on the latest check done while posting the content. Price may change from time to time. 1. One-Page Checkout extensionPrice: $30- $36
OpenCart one-page checkout extension is the easiest solution to get a ready-made and pre-optimized checkout for your eCommerce store. It simply replaces your default OpenCart checkout with a more conversion friendly, social login embedded, single page checkout. That is, after installing this extension you will get a checkout page which compacts all the checkout steps on a single page only. Moreover, despite it is a single page checkout it looks quite clean and uncluttered. 2. Social Login extensionPrice: $15.99
With this social Login extension for OpenCart, you can start allowing account registrations and log in on your site through the social media credentials of the users. You customers will be able to login to your site with their Facebook, Google, and Twitter etc credentials. Most interesting part is, it supports 15 different social login options including- Google Plus, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, LinkedIn,
WindowsLive, and so on. Quite easy to install and setup the social login accounts. You will instantly notice a boost in the sign-ups on your site.
3. Abandoned Cart extensionPrice: $20.99
If you have heard of shopping cart abandonment, then you know that it's a pain for every website owner. While experts would advise the tips to curb the abandonments, this extension would give you a weapon to recover the lost sales due to cart abandonments. Let's be honest, you cannot prevent every cart from getting abandoned, but you can recover most of them by sending reminder emails to those customers. This OpenCart extension provides you the best possible solution for capturing the abandoned carts automatically and then sending them reminder emails from time to time. You have the options to do all these tasks manually too. You can set different email templates (With and without coupons) that will be sent to the customers as per your scheduling through this tool.
4. Better Thank-You Page extensionPrice: $ 19.99
We often feel so excited when we make a sale. In the meantime, we forget that the same customer can be made into a repeat customer if done a few tweaks on the order success page- the first page user sees after completing a purchase. This better thank-you page extension is totally based on the view that once you have made a customer, it is not so tough to generate repeat sales from the same. This extension replaces your old boring order success page with a new exciting and fully customized Thank you page which has the following features: - You can show order details such as order number, products purchased etc. - You can show related products on the thank you page - You can display automatically generated coupon codes which can be configured from module configuration. - You can display any type of HTML content on the page Leverage the customizations in this extension to show your best thank-you page by showing offers, discounts, other related or complementary products, and say thank you in style.
5. Advanced Wishlist extensionPrice: $25.99
As the name suggest it's a wishlist extension that allows your customers to save products in their shopping cart and drop them in their wishlist. This extension can be configured to save products in a wishlist and display the saved products either on top or bottom of the page. The most important feature allows the admin to see the report of the products saved in the wishlist of the customers. Using this insight the admin can drop the price of the products or provide any exciting offer to encourage the customer to purchase the product. Here, even the guest, as well as registered customers, can create their wishlist, and they can create an unlimited number of wishlists for them. Say, one for festival shopping, one for regular shopping, One for the anniversary gift to the friend. 6. ZopimPrice: Free
Zopim Live chat would be a great addon to your OpenCart store. It integrates your OpenCart store with the Zopim live chat dashboard which is a separate interface for managing the live chats. It has both free and paid options. However, I think, you should go for the free option first and check out every aspect it has to offer. With the free version, you can instantly integrate a live chat widget to show on the front end to your customers. Here, you can attend one live chat session at a time, but that would be sufficient if you are a one-man-army. Otherwise, if you have a team of support executives, you can upgrade your plan to get multiple chat sessions at a time and add different chat executive accounts on the Zopim dashboard. 7. News/Blog ExtensionPrice: $20
Do you want to have a blog on your OpenCart site, and WordPress or Drupal integration seem quite tough to you? This extension is for you. Without any hassle, you can install this extension to integrate a ready-made blogging system to your store. You can post your contents, edits them, add the latest news, Showcase related products on the content, enable social sharing, enable/disable comments for each article, all you can do with a single extension by your side. So, if you are thinking about blogging, go forthis extension and take a leap in your website SEO.
8. vQmodPrice: Free
It's my favorite. vQmod ( Virtual Quick Mod) allows you to install the OpenCart extensions that require a modification to the core OpenCart files without. The twist is, it does not modify the core file, it just overrides the code(s) in core files for the time when extension requests the core modification requirements. Instead of making a permanent change in the core file, it creates the XML search/replace script files of the requests that are used by the extensions whenever needed. The main advantage of using vQmod is your core files will remain untouched, preventing future complications that may come through core files modification. 9. CSV Import Pro extensionPrice: $65
It is a very useful OpenCart extension that adds a really important function to your OpenCart store- Bulk CSV product import. It is very tough and tiring to add or edit a large number of products on your store. With this or any such extension which allows bulk product upload through CSV, the task of mass editing, or mass product upload becomes so easy and quick. Just prepare CSV file in the specified format and import it through the extension’s interface, that’ it, work is done and a bulk of products are uploaded with few clicks only. I think an OpenCart extension with similar functionality is really important when you are running a big store with thousands or even the hundreds of products. 10. SuperMegaMenu ExtensionPrice: $20
The SuperMegaMenu extension allows you to add new product categories menu for your OpenCart store. The extension has 10 Menu types that your choose from. It provides the best flexibility and customization options to showcase well optimized Mega Menu on your store. Installing this extension would surely give a modern look with hassle free navigation through the product categories.