aheadWorks news and updates feed launched! It will deliver extensions news and updates directly to your store on daily basis.

Release features:

• Complete breadcrumbs
• Customer-defined status
• Ability to insert PQ blocks via layout
• Link to admin area from e-mail
• Bugfixes

More information, demo, screens are on product page: http://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/product-questions.html

This is another powerful sales motivation extension – you can entice your customers to spend more to receive this or that benefit. “Buy X to get a discount”, “Spend not less than Y to get a gift”, “Buy product N to get K for free” and many other sales formulas can be successfully implemented using this extension. You can create as many rules as you wish and satisfy requirements even of the biggest ecommerce players.

Features

• Multiple configurable blocks positioning on checkout and shopping cart pages
• Customizable rules based covering any combination of order and cart items attribute set
• Rules priority, start and expiration dates
• Websites and customer groups based rules
• Customizable blocks defined in CMS Static Blocks section
• Unlimited number of rules
• Multiple promo blocks on page
• Easy 2-minutes installation
• Meets Magento programming practices for most versions and customizations compatibility

Extension page: http://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/extensions/checkout-promo.html

This is May newsletter of aheadWorks Magento World store – the largest stock of commercial and most useful Magento extensions. In this message we highlight our new modules and updates for the old ones.

New Extensions

Please do not forget to check product page of the extensions that might interest you – there is much more information like tips, FAQ, changelog, demos, videos etc.

Follow Up Email

Follow up emails is powerful tool for any ecommerce site. It gives a comfortable and flexible way to automatically reach your customers by email on day X after an order had been placed.

Some features:

• 3-tiers follow up system
• Ability to setup tiers in dependence on order status
• Unlimited number of rules
• Native Magento templating and mailing systems
• Integrated into standard Magento template – looks and acts like a native code

Frequently Bought Together

Frequently Bought Together extension continues our line of Amazon’s innovative techniques adaption on Magento platform. This module has been created to substitute and significantly improve functionality and usability of Magento core module Related Products.

During the installation Frequently Bought Together turns off Related Products block and allows you to choose where to display its content by inserting a simple code in your CMS. Once embedded, the extension displays related products in a neat, comfortable and modern way, employing smooth and eye-catching AJAX and JavaScript effects. Frequently Bought Together does not only enrich your store content and make it look web 2.0 – it also attracts and encourages your customers to put additional products in their cart, increasing your cross sells and total purchase amount.

From AJAX side the module is powered by Pico JavaScript library – an in-house project of aheadWorks Co.

Frequently Bought Together takes its honored place in our set of perfectly crafted Magento sale motivation extensions.

On Sale

This extension allows you to add graphical labels to your special products images.

Attract your visitors to special items – the labels can be displayed in catalog view as well as in product. The label image and text are easily customized: you can use a label that comes into the package and upload you own; you can not only write your text on the label but also use the following variables: Discount Amount (calculated automatically), Regular Price, Special Price, Save Amount (calculated automatically). So it’s possible to label your products with texts like “Save $10 on this item today”, or “Buy for $29 save $10!” – all price values are calculated for each product individually. Label appears only when there is a special price for the product.

This way you save a lot of time when running e.g. seasonal discounts campaign, with a simple 3-minutes setup you can put labels on a category or the whole store.

Some features:

• Separate catalog and product view labels setup
• Ability to upload your own images for catalog and product labels
• Labels appear when special price is set
• 6 predefined label positions
• Special variables to use in your label texts
• Ability to disable labels for catalog or/and product
• Compatible with all major browsers (IE6, IE7, IE8, Safari, Opera, FireFox 2, FireFox 3, Google Chrome)
• Separate CSS files for catalog and product labels

Updated Extensions

Don’t forget to check full changelog on the product pages.

AJAX Cart Pro

Current version: 1.2.1
Upgrade: Recommended
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
+ Language files added
* Configurable and grouped products render fix
* Progress bar position fix
* Default values fix

Frequently Bought Together

Current version: 1.1.2
Upgrade: Recommended
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
* Structure corruption during clicking flood fix
* Currency delimiter fix
* Product with required options displaying fix
+ Considering product special price
+ Related products section hiding upgrade

Help Desk Ultimate

Current version: 2.3.1
Upgrade: Recommended from any previous version
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
+ Auto-assign to departments on e-mail reply
+ Ability to hide departmnents selector from customers
+ One-click Contact Form integration
+ One-click Product Questions integration
+ Improved parsing mechanism for html emails
+ Per-store default department
+ Ticket Lock
+ Ability to hide departments selector from customers
* catalogrule_apply_all cron job conflicting rule
* No back link when viewing closed ticket
* Parsing of text emails

On Sale

Current version: 1.0.2
Upgrade: Recommended from any previous version
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
* Getting image size fix
* Extension CSS layout change
+ Clickable label

RSS Reader

Current version: 1.0.10
Upgrade: Recommended
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
+ “Summary max chars” and “summary max words” configuration parameters added

Promotion of the Month!

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Follow Up Email
On Sale
Who Bought This Also Bought
Frequently Bought Together
Review Rotator
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That’s all what were going to inform you about. Do not forget stay in touch, leave ratings and all kinds feedback, we are always happy to hear your thoughts. If you need a new feature in our product – just let us know – it has good chances to be implemented.

Thank you for being with us and good luck to your busines,
Sincerely yours,
aheadWorks Magento department

Release details:

• Native menu style affecting fix
• Left folding menu type top categories without children now clickable

Magento Menu

Place mouse over the extension name to show short description and click to open extension page!

This feature had been requested by many Magento RSS Reader customers:

• “Summary max chars” and “summary max words” configuration parameters added

Release features

• Clickable labels in catalog view mode
• Extension CSS layout change

Magento On Sale

AJAX Cart Pro Magento extension

Release features

• Configurable confirmation dialog (view screen for demo)
• Add-remove functionality on cart page
• Some JS speedups

Follow up emails is powerful tool for any ecommerce site. It gives a comfortable and flexible way to automatically reach your customers on day X after an order had been placed.

Never loose a customer after a sale, stay in contact with people who are most likely to be interested in another purchase. Use follow up emails to get opinion about the products a customer had purchased, request a feedback, offer related items, send attractive discounts and promotions, and anything else you could imagine.

People like seeing positive and careful attitude towards them, know they are not abandoned after a purchase and are welcome to come back with a question, review or a new purchase.

Establish stronger relationships, increase customers loyalty and as a result get more consequent sales with Follow Up Emails extension brought to you by aheadWorks Co.

Features

• 3-tiers follow up system
• Ability to setup tiers in dependence on order status
• Unlimited number of rules
• Native Magento templating and mailing systems
• Integrated into standard Magento template – looks and acts like a native code
• Easy 2-minutes installation
• Meets Magento programming practices for most versions and customizations compatibility

For more information and demo visit product page – http://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/extensions/follow-up-email.html