Nowadays it’s really trendy to optimize websites for mobile devices. We do our utmost to let Magento store owners be in step with the times. After great success of the iPhone Theme for Magento we are glad to introduce a new mobile module which is available with 50% discount right now.

The Mobile Order Tracking Magento extension from aheadWorks will help you express caring attitude towards your clients. Undoubtedly, it will improve your customer service and enhance the level of customer satisfaction.

With Mobile Order Tracking, your customers can track the shipment & payment statuses all the way through the delivery process using mobile devices or desktop computers. They can get updated information about their orders at any moment.

Now it’s so easy to track orders. Your clients get the real-time access to the information without logging-in to your web store. It’s really convenient. The customers receive a completely protected link by email. Following it they get admission to the details of shipment & payment statuses via mobile phones or PC’s.

Moreover, Mobile Order Tracking Magento extension gives the opportunity to check shipment & payment statuses from your Magento store easily and quickly. Your customers have to enter only their order ID and email address.

Cater to your clientele. Pleasantly surprise your customers with new possibilities. The Mobile Order Tracking Magento extension will give them a positive experience and encourage future purchases.

Hurry up and get it now! The 50% OFF price is only available for a limited time.

We are just about to release our new Magento extension which will help your customers easily track their orders from their mobile devices as well as PC’s. Our QA department has already tested it carefully and the extension is on the final stage of preparing for final release.

Now we are looking for some volunteers from the Magento community to finalize our tests. Every volunteer will get a significant discount after the extension official release.

If you run Magento CE 1.5+ or PE/EE 1.11 and have DHL, FedEx or UPS installed and configured, please contact Peter Samoilov at samoilov@aheadworks.com for further details.

Large list of email addresses doesn’t mean efficient email marketing building. You can send newsletters to thousands of your subscribers but only a few open them.

We use Advanced Newsletter + MailChimp for our email marketing purposes. The Advanced Newsletter extension allows us to segment our subscribers and send them the information they are interested in only. MailChimp is very cool and useful email marketing service which lets us to successfully send our campaigns as well as thoroughly analyze them afterwards.

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The Custom Stock Display extension replaces the native Magento stock status with image, text, or both text & image showing customers the available number of items in an attractive and eye-catching way. Use the Custom Stock Display extension for Magento to better inform your customers about stock availability of your products. Upload different images for different available items quantity and make your product page more informative and cute. Even instead of the standard ‘Out of Stock’ Magento notification, the Custom Stock Display Magento extension offers you to specify the text and/or images you wish to be displayed on the product page. With Custom Stock Display, you can define the expected date when the product will be available. So when a product quantity drops below 1, the admin-specified notification will be automatically displayed, e.g. ‘In Stock in 5 Days’. The Custom Stock Display extension is very easy at installation and configuration. So it will take a couple of minutes to configure the module to show items quantity for simple, configurable, virtual, and downloadable products.

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Small images in the standard media gallery do not draw your customers’ attention. Your site visitors can even overlook them. It is a great pity and moreover loss of profits for many businesses. You can’t afford losing your potential clients because of the so inconspicuous but extremely important elements of the product page. Forget about this dull native More Views gallery! It is very time to make the displaying of your items images attractive and up-to-date. The Product Images Slider Magento extension from aheadWorks replaces standard media gallery with its cute slider. The Product Images Slider extension rotates the pictures of your items, so that you can be sure that your customers’ attention will be definitely attracted. Play with different animation speed values and select the one which is the most comfortable for your eyes. Small Magento static gallery is not catching and doesn’t make your product page look unique. With Product Images Slider, just select the type of animation effect for your items pictures to be displayed and enjoy how your product page brisks.

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We have been talking about it in Facebook and Twitter for several weeks. And finally today we are ready to release it – the Advanced Search Magento extension which replaces native search with Sphinx, an external search engine. 100 000 inventory items and 10 000 blog posts search is not a problem now If you run a really large Magento store, you definitely know how difficult it is for your customers to find something they require very fast. Advanced Search is a perfect solution for search through Magento-based stores. If you have 10000 products in your store, our brand new extension will help your customers to find those which are required. If you have 1000 posts in your blog from aheadWorks, it’s not a problem for Advanced Search as well. How it works Advanced Search uses Sphinx. Sphinx is an open source full text search server. This powerful search engine is used by different popular websites, such as Craigslist.org, mysql.com, joomla.org, tumblr.com, Dailymotion.com. etc.

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Last month we released a LOT of updated extensions. I gathered them in one simple table so that you can check below whether you run the latest version of our Magento module. Keep reading and find out what new extension can be already pre-ordered with about 50% discount!

Pre-order

We have prepared a special offer for you this time! You can pre-order our brand new Magento extension and save about 50% off the original price!

The Advanced Search Magento module replaces native search with Sphinx, an external search engine, so search works much more faster, server load is decreased, and results become more trustworthy.

On the Advanced Search page, you can find the guaranteed features you’ll get with this new extension, but as a bonus after official module release this list can be enlarged with some new benefits.

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What is group buying

Group buying allows providing attractive collective deals with significant discounts. Being offered for a short term, such deals give your customers a sense of urgency and exclusivity making them add a product to cart without long-term thinking and hesitating.

The business that runs the deal pays nothing upfront. So if the minimum of required purchases is not conducted, the business pays nothing at all. But if the deal goes through, everybody is happy – the consumers get their product or service with discount and the merchant gets vast numbers of a particular product\service sold in specified period of time.

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We’ve prepared for you a small review of our new and updated extensions. Keep reading and find out how you can place the Google +1 button, increase your cross-sells, or organize collective purchases!

Monthly Promo

If you are looking for a solution for social bookmarking your products and store pages, the Sociable Magento extension is exactly for you! This aheadWorks module allows sharing links to any page from your store on Twitter, Facebook or any social networking site.

Since 1.1. version, Sociable lets your visitors click the Google +1 button to give your website public stamp of approval. The Google +1 button allows people who love your products recommend them on Google search.

Till the end of this month, you have a chance to get this perfect solution for social bookmarking with 30% discount. No coupon code is required. Just buy the Sociable extension till October 31, 2011.

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We are proud to admit that aheadWorks Co. was the co-organizer of the Business Internet conference held on the 3-4th of October 2011 in Minsk. We had a great opportunity to share our experience with all Business Internet participants.

Cyril Holub, the co-founder of aheadWorks Co., delivered his report at the Internet marketing section. His speech on “5 unable- to-say-no offers for website visitors” is considered to be one of the most informative and highly appreciated by Twitter community. At the end of his speech, Cyril handed out $17,000 of total discount what became a pleasant surprise for event participants.

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