10 High Impact OpenCart 2.3 Extensions that Raise Your E-Commerce Sales
If you haven’t already heard, OpenCart has a brand new version - 2.3.0.2. We wrote about all the new stuff that came to the platform in one of our previous posts that you can check out here. Anyway, after the update rolled out, we immediately started updating all of our extensions to be compatible with the latest version.
In this blog post, we want to show you some of the modules that are compatible with OpenCart 2.3 and why they are among the essential tools for getting your online business to the next level.
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I want my site to load faster than other stores and let customers find me easier...
NitroPack
SEO, search engine ranking, usability, user experience, conversion rates, all of these are fundamental growth factors that are hugely impacted by one thing - speed. The page speed of your OpenCart determines the behavior of your users to a great degree.
One way to optimize it completely and max out the speed of your pages, categories and products is to install a caching tool. However, NitroPack is much more than just a caching tool, it’s a complete optimization framework with all of the features required to maximize the page loading speed of your OpenCart site.
Don’t make your customers wait too much for your store to load. They won’t.
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I don’t want to make customers wait for stock availability to order a product...
PreOrder
Don’t you hate it when you visit a store, see a product you like and find out it’s out of stock at the last moment. Well, you don’t have to put your customers through that because it’s a negative feeling.
Pre-ordering is a very useful feature to have in any online store that wants customers to have a positive experience and be sure they will get the product they want. Whenever the item is back in stock, the order is processed as usual.
It’s easy to lose a customer when they add a product to their cart just to find out it’s not in stock.
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I want to create my own articles and bring more visitors to my store...
iBlog
Blogging is one of the most popular ways to generate new traffic to your website. Everyone likes free knowledge, and if your articles are good and helpful enough, you can even start generating subscribers to your newsletter.
iBlog is an intuitive extension that adds a blog section to your OpenCart store and allows you to start publishing articles about your business, products, and everything about your industry.
A lot of SEO, traffic and conversion benefits will follow very soon after you have published a few good articles.
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I want to notify customers instantly for orders and marketing campaigns via SMS...
SMSBump
Texting has become one of the most successful channels for marketers to run promotions, campaigns and bump up the sales. SMSBump is a tool for bulk messaging, transactional SMS notifications and text messages for marketing.
The application features a web version where you can send messages manually, as well as an integration for OpenCart where everything is controlled from your admin panel. Automated messaging helps you engage customers and increase the sales from your marketing campaigns by sending coupon and discount codes for customers to use with their orders.
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I want to protect my products and market my brand by watermarking my images...
WaterMark
Branding your products and images is a big part of raising the awareness for your business, and protecting your images from misuse. With WaterMark, it’s very simple to add your brand logo to the product images and make them look professional.
There is a complete customization tool package in the module, including position, text, image opacity, rotation, and color options. WaterMark is a powerful module with a lot of features and is compatible with almost every OpenCart theme.
Make sure everyone knows your brand.
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I want to track the condition of my business to take better decisions...
iAnalytics
iAnalytics is a lightweight integration with Google Analytics for your OpenCart store. You can track all of the metrics and reports directly from your store’s admin panel.
With this extension, your site will have an abundance of data for you to track, analyze and use to plan your next move. iAnalytics lets you track the flow of visitors, conversion rates, traffic sources, most used keywords and most ordered products.
Take good care of your OpenCart store by constantly watching over its condition.
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I want my customers to share their experience with all the visitors of my website...
OrderReviews
OrderReviews not only lets your customers submit reviews, but also lets you send them emails with an invitation to share their experience with your store and the products they ordered. Best of all, customers can write the reviews directly via email.
Reviews are a major part of running a business online. They generate social proof, which is a huge selling point for people who shop online. It acts as a reassurance that the product is worth buying and gives other customers peace of mind.
Online reviews help customers make more confident decisions in an E-Commerce store.
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I want to customize my footer easily and make it useful for my store visitors...
iCustomFooter
Your footer is the place where your customers go looking for additional information, contact details, hours and anything else they haven’t found so far. If a visitor has reached your footer and is interested in learning more, that’s important address.
iCustomFooter is a module that lets you customize your OpenCart store footer and make it beautiful, useful and responsive across any device. You can choose between different color styles and a dozen customizable columns for all the links you want to share.
The online customer looks for easy reading, navigation and flow, perfected to the very last detail.
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I want to give my customers great deals for bundled products at discounted prices...
ProductBundles
Cross-selling is one of the surest ways to sell more products at once and increase the average order size of your customers. Bundled products with a discounted price are an excellent way to spike the sales.
ProductBundles is a smart way to create bundles and give your customers awesome deals. However, bundles work well when they are combining products that go well together and complement each other. Like a smartphone, a docking station and a cool-looking protective case.
Your customers are shopping online for better deals, so give them what they want.
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I want my customers to be able to find whatever they need instantly...
iSearch
Looking for a product in an online store is a nightmare without an intelligent search tool. For OpenCart, this tool is called iSearch.
It’s up to you what type of criteria the tool will use when showing the results. You also have control over how the results look and what is included in them. iSearch can be used for giving broad results, or very specific ones - it’s up to you.
Your customers are looking for fast results, so don’t let your OpenCart site slow them down.
Your Turn
Now it’s time for you to tell us what you think of these tools, how you put them to use in your OpenCart store and how they work for growing your business. We are always eager to learn how your E-Commerce websites perform and how they perform for your customers. Leave us a comment down below to let us know!
