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  • Extended use of Product File Attachments

    Product File Attachments allows you to attach various types of downloadable files to products and display them on product details page. While originally is designed to show manuals, instructions and similar documents, we have large number of request to expand list of supported file types,  special to cover common video formats. Our clients wanted to allow customers to preview video tutorials and presentations beside regular documents. Beside regular download of video file, more interesting option would be to show video...
    April 6th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Magento Color Swatch with Cloud Zoom

    Cloud Zoom for Magento (developed by QuartSoft) is one of most popular extension for adding zoom effect to product details page. This extension is also embedded in many themes there for we decided to create small guide that will help you to enable full compatibility of our Color Swatch extension with Cloud zoom plugin. While we already have prepared patch due difference in script calling and theme layout small modifications may be necessary. Patch contains one file that will replace...
    March 27th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • How to choose Color Swatch

    One of frequently asked questions from our customers is how to choose most suitable Color Swatch extension? First and most important thing is structure of products in your Magento store and should be starting point for our research.   Simple products If your store is based on large numbers of simple products that use custom options to present product variations than extension that you should consider is: Custom Options Swatch. Custom Option Swatch Extension is an extension for Magento designed...
    March 15th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Magento Extensions – free development license

    We are offering development license to proven Magento developers that are interested in using our extensions on their current and future projects. As developers you will have chance to install and test our extensions with minimum use of time and resources. Since all our extensions are built as open source (except license file) you can easily modify them according to project needs and later just add license. License is located in separate file so nothing of your custom work will...
    March 4th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Improve Magento Sales With Better Search Results

    While Magento platform offer various options to classify, sort and present your products, search feature was always provided with basic functionalities. Magento search will allow customer type all or part of the name of a product, or its attributes, in order to find it. While search results are correct and useful, search process itself was simple and don’t offer any assistance to customers (in latest versions there is AJAX auto-complete feature). Magento default search form It is quite common that...
    February 25th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • ionCube facts and performance concerns

      What is ionCube ? ionCube is an encoding system for PHP files, it serves to encode and protect code in files since PHP encoded file cannot be edited with a plain text editor because the content of the file will be encoded in binary format. Why I need it and how to make it run on my server? Encoded PHP files require the encoder-runtime to be available on the web server to be able to read the encoded binary...
    February 18th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Shopper theme with Color Swatch

    It is quite common to buy theme for Magento store rather than to design custom one. While custom design can bring outstanding visual appearance to your site and make it unique, it will require lot of effort and attentions to properly design and make all pages that one Magento store have. Choice of Magento themes is wide and starts with free templates that offer basic page layout, and goes up to highly customizable responsive themes with backend panel and various...
    February 11th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Color Swatch for Simple products

    Custom options provide an easy way to offer a selection of product variations to your customer with simple products. They are a good solution if choose to use simple products, where inventory needs are simple and you want to keep number of products on minimum. Custom options can be presented in many ways, but for some of them it is best to be presented as swatches. This is especially important if you offer variations in color, patterns or design. Use...
    February 6th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Magic360 with Color Swatch Extension

    “The Magic360™ viewer rotates products using a sequence of photos. The user instinctively knows how to interact with the image and spin it. It feels smooth and works in all major browsers. This 360 degree spin software uses JavaScript, so it works on any website, on any browser including iPad, iPhone, Android devices. 360 degree spin to rotate products is regarded as the next leap forward in online retailing. If you need to increase your online sales, 360 rotation is...
    February 1st, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Wholesale store on Magento platform

    Do you have wholesale store based on Magento platform? Does your customer need to order larger number of products at once? Our client asked us to modify his Magento store to be more suitable for wholesale. Store was already using Color Swatch extension so we decided to keep it and extend its basic functionalities. Main goal was to allow customers to easily preview available attribute option and easily order multiple products with few clicks. Since it was wholesale store client...
    January 21st, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.