Online shopping, the current ongoing trend is constantly attracting more people every day. According to eMarketer’s latest forecasts the global eCommerce growth is greatly expanded and will reach $1500 trillion by the end of 2014. This is definitely good news for retailers all around the world as the population of online shoppers is bound to increase. On the other hand, there are possibilities of fresh retailers commencing online stores. To stay ahead of competitors and keep up the reputation of your online store, every store owner should focus on exceeding customers’ expectations.

"The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer". This is a saying by Peter Drucker, an Austrian-born American management consultant revered as the father of modern management for his writings and teachings. Retailers should reflect on this axiom and enhance their services to the customers and delight them. This can be achieved by constantly considering of ways to improve services and induce new facilities.

The Magento UPS Access Point Extension Module is an innovative facility that is brought to action by avid providers of customer service. Customers are allowed to choose their preferred location to collect the package. When the customer provides the address this UPS Access Point module displays all the nearest collection points based on their postcode. The shopper can select their desired delivery, pick-up location from the located access points displayed on the Google map. By clicking on the access point, one can view the details of the collection point and the accessible timing.

This module has an inbuilt CRON job that sends the customer manifest information to UPS on a daily basis. Based on this info the UPS will notify the customers about the delivery details. This serves as a reminder for the customers to pick up their delivery on time. The module user can enable / disable or configure the UPS Access Point module. Also, this module enables the admin to show / hide the access point widgets in the Google Map.

The customer should submit an identity proof at the time of collecting the package. At situations when customers cannot pick up their package, they can send a friend on their behalf to collect the package. In such case, the friend has to show his or her photo identity proof and also the customer’s id proof. These measures are taken to prevent identity theft and ensure safe delivery to the concerned person.

How Customers are benefited by the Magento UPS Access Point Extension Module?

• Buyers need not take a day off or change their schedule while waiting for their delivery
• Easy accessibility
• Notifies when the package is ready to be collected
• Convenient and customer friendly
• Smooth online purchasing experience

If your online store does not have a UPS Access Point module now is the time to get one and serve your customers better. The Magento Modules takes your eCommerce business to the next level and stays fresh in the thoughts of your customers.

Download: Magento UPS Access Point Extension

WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems, which is used in more than 60 million websites on the Internet. It is widely used to create both professional and personal websites. With WordPress, it is very easy to create an own eCommerce website. The eCommerce website based on the WordPress platform provides various advantages to the customers and the merchants, such as attractive themes, rich features, fast shipping process, social media integration, etc. The biggest benefit of using WordPress is, it provides the secure payment transactions to the users. The WordPress Payment affords the safest and the fastest payment transactions to the customers by integrating with many payment gateways.

WordPress allows the merchants to search and install the different payment systems on their WordPress platform. There are plenty of these payment plugins are available in the eCommerce business industry. Based on the business requirements, the merchant can select the payment plugin for his WordPress based eCommerce website. These payment plugins helps the merchants to sell the products immediately to the customers without wasting their time. The payment gateways are integrated with the WordPress to develop these payment plugins. A payment gateway is acting as a link between the merchants and the customers during the checkout process in the eCommerce store.

Payment gateways work by providing the secure, integral link between a website (web server) and the bank. That means, the payments can be placed directly on a website and deposited straight into a bank account. There are thousands of different payment gateways are ready to provide the services to the website owners, including First Data, PayPal, ICEPAY, PayU, etc. First Data Hosted solution is an international payment gateway which processing the payment transactions in a safe and secure manner. It processes the payments in each and every second of a day. It is easily integrated with many eCommerce software’s to provide the secure payment process in the store.

The First Data Payment Module is an excellent module which is to integrate the WordPress with the First Data hosted solution to afford the wonderful shopping experience to the customers. This payment module enables the merchant to accept the payments from the customers through their credit cards and process the payment transactions through the First Data payment gateway in a secure way. This payment module accepts all the major credit and debit cards on the website. First Data hosted the secure payment page to collect the credit card detail information in order to prevent the fraud activities.

The merchants who do not want to accept and store the credit card information for security reasons will find that the First Data hosted payment module is a perfect solution. The First Data will take care of the full payment process. So that the merchant need not to buy an SSL certificate. This module is a great option for the merchants with limited technical knowledge. Because it is very easy to use this payment module. It passes on the major PCI responsibilities to First Data. It customizes the secure payment page to display the store logo.

This payment plugin provides a seamless checkout experience to the customers. With the help of WordPress Plugin Development, the merchant can quickly add unique and vital features to his portals, websites or blogs in the most seamless manner. This plugin development enhances the functionality, security, SEO, social marketing, etc. Hire the best WordPress development company for your eCommerce website.

Download: WordPress First Data GGe4 Hosted

There are millions of eCommerce store websites are available in the eCommerce business industry. But most of the potential customers give more importance to the websites which is allowing the customers to add their reviews and ratings about the products or the services or the company in the store. They believe that with the help of these reviews, they can easily come to know the products very well before they buy it from the store. So it will be easier for them whether it is right to buy that product or not.

The PrestaShop Rating Review module is one of the best modules from PrestaShop community that allows the customer to share their reviews and ratings in the store. It also helps the merchants by increasing the traffic rate of the website. PrestaShop eCommerce Module that has many rich features, displaying the products with the customer reviews is one of the greatest features in the PrestaShop features list. By using this module, the merchant can run a powerful online store in this competitive business world. According to a survey, 61% of customers read online reviews before making a decision to purchase. So if you use this module on your store, you can easily attract these type of customers towards your website.

Benefits of Customer Ratings and Reviews on your PrestaShop Store

• The online ratings and reviews have the ability to enhance the merchant credibility, improve comparison shopping rankings, and raise conversion rates.
• It helps the other consumers to make good decisions.
• These two tools have the power to reach a larger audience and be more influential (and less expensive) than conventional marketing methods.
• Online reviews are an easy way you can improve the customer services, performance of the website or the products. It provides you with an opportunity to address any issues in a way that reflects positively on your company.
• It increases the conversion rate of your website products by providing the customers with the information that they need to feel confident in making an online purchase.

This ratings and reviews module also called as PrestaShop Google Snippets Module, because it helps you to achieve highest ranking in the search engine such as Google. This module facilitates the merchants to generate Rich snippets for user given rating and reviews in their website and include them in Search Engines to give convenient summary information about Product information on Search Engines with dynamic content on user ratings and reviews. And it also allows you to display the ratings of the products in the Google while any search engine user search about anything which is related to your products.

This module helps you to enhance your search engine optimization efforts. It helps you to know the strength and the weakness of your website in the eCommerce business world. It provides new and unique content that is packed with quality keywords, which will automatically attract many customers towards your website, help your products rank higher and draw more traffic to your site. With this module, you can increase the customer loyalty in your online store. This module helps you to increase the visibility of your products to the millions of customers in an easy way.

The biggest benefit of this module is, without your knowledge, no reviews will be displayed on your store. So, you need not to worry about the bad reviews or anything. If you are not satisfied with this, you can also go with the PrestaShop Custom Development. This development helps you to make any changes in design, added functionality, etc. This customization develops your PrestaShop products based on your requirements. So finally implement this module on your PrestaShop store to boost the sales volume of your products and the customer services.

Download: PrestaShop Product Rating & Google Snippets Module

Joomla has become one of the most popular and the effective open source content management systems on the globe, which is powering more than millions of websites on the Internet. There are thousands of techniques are followed by the online website owner to improve the performance of the Joomla website. The Joomla Components play a vital role in enhancing the functional status of the website and it helps the site owner to reach his sites full potential. A component is a kind of Joomla extension, which means the developers created the extensions based on five different categories such as Joomla component, Joomla module, Joomla plug-in, Joomla template, and Joomla language. These components are the main functional units of the Joomla.

Joomla is mainly used to design Government or Private compact websites; community or regional websites; eCommerce portals; Non-profit and organizational Web sites; Online magazines, newspapers, and publications; Corporate Web sites or portals; Small business Web sites; hotel and restaurant website; Corporate intranets and extranets; School and church Web sites, etc. Joomla allows the merchant to edit the content very fast, simple, and safe. When compared to other CMS, Joomla offers an easy way for modifying the content of the website and it also allows the merchant to do this on the merchant website itself.

Some of the most popular websites that using Joomla are MTV Networks Quizilla (Social networking), Harvard University (Educational), PlayShakespeare.com (Cultural), Citibank (Financial institution intranet), The Green Maven (Eco-resources), Senso Interiors (Furniture design), and many more. One of the main advantages of Joomla is, the Joomla based online website will compatible with all browsers. Joomla comes with a number of core components such as the content management system, contact forms, and web links.

The Joomla Form Builder is one of the Joomla component which is allows the store owner to create his own contact us form for Joomla based eCommerce store. It helps the users to create stunning contact pages in minutes without any coding. It has a very simple interface to allow users to get up and running quickly. This builder has a resizable page canvas, the user can increase the page size by dragging it.

• Work flow is the active area where the elements are placed to create forms or pages.
• The Tool Panel block consists of all available elements and controls for forms. The user can add the elements into the workflow area by dragging the available elements in the Tool Panel.
• The user has to save the templates in order to be shown on the Joomla sites.
• By using the "Loading Template Button", the user can select the previously saved templates.
• This form builder provides the spam control for the contact page designer. It offers the CAPTCHA based verification system to ensure the message is sent by a person.
• Contact Form builder integrates with mailchimp in order to allow the users to capture contacts easily.

By using this component, the merchant can easily attract more number of customers towards the Joomla website. The merchant can hire the Joomla Development Services to develop the custom Joomla component for his website. The professional developers customize the component and make it to meet all the website requirements. So choose the best and the right development services for your Joomla website and the component.

Download: Joomla Contact Form Builder

Magento is the popular eCommerce platform and is built on open-source technology. More than thousands of developers love to work with Magento because of its flexibility, simplicity, security, reliability, scalability, and other rich features. The Magento Development and the customization features provide the full control to merchants over look, content and functionality to customize the website as per their requirements. This development helps the developers to create the powerful and reliable shopping cart, and it has become the part of the professional website creation. With this development, the merchant can easily increase the growth of his business. Many companies ready to offer the development services for the Magento website at an affordable price.

• Magento is the world's fastest growing eCommerce system, which is written in PHP language and utilizes a MySQL database.
• It can be installed on virtually any system such as UNIX, Linux, Windows and even Mac.
• Magento comes in 3 versions in different business sizes and models, such as Magento Go, Magento Community, and Magento Enterprise.
• It is most powerful eCommerce shopping cart platform powering more than 20% of eCommerce websites in the eCommerce business industry.
• With Magento, the merchant can easily create a catalog of their products, add multiple digital images of the same product, change their view and add wish lists.
• Supports advanced pricing rules, special prices, shipping carriers, PCI compliance, and social networking sites.
• Within one Magento store admin, the merchant can handle all other Magento shops in a simple way.

The Magento developers developed more than 23,000 of extensions in order to meet all the requirements of the merchants and the customers. The Magento Premium Promotion Extension is one of the best extensions which is used to offer the discounts in the Magento store in different formats. This extension is exclusively designed for the merchants who wants to promote all the products in their store without wasting more money and time. This extension, promotes the products easily and retains the customers. It gives more profit to the Magento based eCommerce website.

By using this extension on the store, the merchant can set the discount rate for the combination of the products. For example, buy 2 mobile phones and get one free. Most of the customers give more interest to buy the products from the store when the store owner offers the discounts. This discount method offers more benefits to both the store owner as well as the customers. It is the simplest and the best way, the store owner can easily promote and sell all his store products to the customers.

The promotion extension provides a unique charm through its 13 different price rules such as ‘Buy 2 and get flat rate’, ‘Buy 2 and get 1 free’, ‘Buy X above V and get Y free’, ‘Buy 3 and get flat rate’, ‘Buy X and get Y free worth V’, ‘Buy 3 and get 1 free’, ‘Buy X and get any Quantity of Y free’, ‘Buy X and get free coupons’, ‘Buy X and get enrolled in Lucky Prize Draw’, ‘Happy hours discount’, ‘Get X off on next purchase’, etc.

With the help of this extension, the merchant can easily grab the attention of the customers towards his Magento website. The Magento Extensions are designed to fulfil all the needs of the merchants and their customers. Some of the best extensions include SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Marketing Promotions and Tools, Customer Service & Accounts, International Support, Analytics & Reporting and much more. The professional developers can able to provide the extension development services for the Magento website owner at a moderate cost.

Download: Magento Premium Promotion Extension

PrestaShop is a popular open source eCommerce software which is used as a platform in more than 15,000 of online stores. The merchants make up their site with the attractive themes, excellent extensions, safe and secure payment gateways, fast shipping carriers, and many more in the PrestaShop website to attract more number of customers towards the merchant website. They also use the PrestaShop Front End Extension to make their stores very user friendly. This type of extensions helps to improve the front end of the PrestaShop store and this will makes the website look very professional. It grabs the attention of all the customers towards the merchant website. And this increases the sales of the business.

PrestaShop has thousands of beautiful themes, these themes are used to present the website very attractive. It is easily integrated with many payment gateways, shipping carriers, and the social networking sites to make the PrestaShop store very popular, secure, and fast. PrestaShop supports multiple languages, multiple currencies, and multiple store management. It has a strong community with more than 550,000 active members, developers, designers, and the eCommerce addicts. They are providing the support to the users at full time of all the 7 days. The simplicity and the flexibility of PrestaShop attracts many developers towards and it offers more advantages to them. These developers created more than 19,000 extensions to fulfil the needs of the merchants and their customers.

PrestaShop Exclusive Countdown Timer

The PrestaShop Developers created a Count Down Timer Extension(front end extension), which has easily captured the attention of all the customers’ towards the PrestaShop eCommerce store. A countdown is a sequence of backward counting from an arbitrary starting number to indicate the time remaining before some event or launching or project. This will increase the tension or anxiety of the people before the deadline of the date. This extension displays the countdown timer on the Product Detail Page.

Most of the merchants offer some discounts in their shop for limited periods to attract the customers towards their store and to increase the sales of the products. This timer extension helps the merchant to easily alert his customers before the date on which he going to give discounts for his store products. It is an easy and simple way to make the customers to buy more products from the PrestaShop store. The customers feel very happy when the merchant alerts his customers about the discounts and the offers that he is going to provide on his store for a particular period.

This extension is used to display discount countdown timer with days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It can be displayed in the product listing page, feature list and other listing pages. It allows to customize background color and image of the timer. The timer style can be configured from the backend of the website. It is very easy to install and customize this extension. The extension is compatible with PrestaShop eCommerce version 1.4.0 and above.

You can offer the products and the sales to the international customers by developing the eCommerce store. There are many companies offering the services for the eCommerce Development. You can hire the best development company to enhance your eCommerce store. The professional developers can able to meet all your business requirements. This will boost the productivity of the store.

Download: PrestaShop Count Down Timer Extension

DropShipping is an arrangement between the merchant and the manufacturer or the distributor of the products from the merchant to his customers. If you have interested to start your own eCommerce store without investing more money for shipping the products to the customers, setting up warehouse space, and maintaining a confusing shipping/receiving infrastructure, then the DropShipper eCommerce is the great choice for your requirements. It allows you to sell the products on your eCommerce website without facing any problems during the shipping process in the store. DropShipper minimize the risks of non-selling products and it saves you the cost of building your own inventory.

• The DropShipper is a retail fulfilment method where a store doesn't keep the products in stock.
• The biggest benefit of the DropShipper is you can easily launch an eCommerce store without having to invest thousands of dollars in inventory up front.
• With DropShipping you don’t have to worry about managing or paying for a warehouse, packing and shipping your orders, tracking inventory for accounting reasons, handling returns and inbound shipments, continually ordering products and managing stock level.
• It is very easy to running an eCommerce business with the DropShipper.
• It is very flexible, you can run and manage your business at anywhere with an internet connection.
• It offers the worldwide delivery option, so that you can provide your services to other countries customers.
• Delivers the product at the correct time without doing any damage to the product or any problems.

PrestaShop DropShipper Module

The DropShipper module for PrestaShop is a perfect module which helps you to configure your existing shipping carriers and also create your own Shipping Carriers in the PrestaShop based eCommerce website. It allows the multiple shipping origins for each order and this makes the customers feel pleasant to use your website. It is built with most of the 3rd party shipping carriers such as United Parcel Service (UPS), the United States Postal Service (USPS), Federal Express (FedEx), Australia Post (AU Post), and Canada Post. DropShipper automatically sends the information about the customers and the order details to the vendors or the suppliers who will take care of the shipping process.

DropShipper calculates the shipping fees based on the number of addresses specified, the products being delivered to each particular address, and weight of the products. For each shipping method, it offers more number of delivery service options, pick up type options, and packaging type options. It helps to configure your shipping carrier with their assigned credentials. If a shipping carrier is created, its details can be configured with your login name and password. This includes API Key, Pick up type, Package Type and delivery service, etc. It allocates one or more shipping carriers to a particular vendor to get the best possible route for your customer. It assigns the vendors with their applicable shipping carriers. The automatic customer shipment notification will be sent to the customer.

The PrestaShop Development team developed this DropShipper module in order to make your website very professional and successful. You can also use the development services for your PrestaShop based eCommerce website at an inexpensive cost. These services offer the stunning website and more productivity to your business.