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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The Advanced Reports extension improves functionality of native Magento reports and creates a complete picture of your business situation. Advanced Reports is a perfect solution for all your reporting needs whether you want to display data from various charts, aggregate information by week or anything else. In the Advanced Reports v.2.2 released today, a bulk of new features has been implemented. For example, now you don’t have to set up date range every time you navigate to next report – just select the required period once and analyse different aspects of your sales. With the Advanced Reports Magento extension you can get more information from your “Sales Report” as a “customer group” column has been added to this report type. Also, “Sales Report” has its own data cache now.

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Groupon is a new popular ecommerce trend which made its first deal in October 2008. Now you can gain from the service of collective purchases as well in your Magento store with the Group Deals extension. This brand new module from aheadWorks is a fantastic way out for those online merchants who want to organize collective purchases process. Group buying is a truly fantastic way for businesses to connect with new prospects. Make new and diverse deals with the Group Deals Magento extension by aheadWorks. Every day you can feature a cool new experience on unbeatable price in your store and assemble a huge group of people with the targeting power to get amazing deals. With the Group Deals Magento extension you can offer products and services at significantly lower prices. The deal takes place when a minimum required number of people buy the product. Moreover, Group Deals is compatible with the Sociable Magento extension allowing your customers to spread the word about a knock-down price and make the most of your store with collective buying power!

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What an efficient month it is! Summer vacations positively affected the productivity of the whole aheadWorks team, and this month we’ve managed to release 13 Magento extensions updates. So keep reading and find out whether you run the latest version of your Magento module from aheadWorks. And yes – the details of monthly promo are below, as always!
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According to a study of the National Retail Federation, 74% of online retailers either have in place or are developing mobile commerce strategies, while 20% have already implemented their complete plans.

If you want to be ahead of your competitors or at least to keep pace with them, you just can’t ignore participating in m-commerce and adopting your Magento website to mobile devices. We are glad to introduce our smart iPhone Theme for Magento which helps you consider all top mobile platforms while working out your mobile commerce strategy!

The Magento iPhone Theme makes shopping in your store fast and easy. This extension automatically detects the device used for browsing your website – iPhone\Android\desktop – and switches your store to the required theme.

Today we released iPhone Theme v.1.3 which has been improved with the following new features:

• Multi-shipping checkout
• PayPal Express support
• Image slider optimization for Android Safari

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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.

Today we are glad to announce the release of the 1.1 version which makes our Sociable extension spam-protected as well as Magento CE 1.6.0.0 compatible. Also the following new high-power features have been implemented:

• Google +1 button
  Let your visitors click the +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.



• Ability to use service script
  The new Sociable version allows you to add any social button which uses its own code, e.g. JS code or Iframe construction. So you can insert, for example, Facebook “Like” and “Send” buttons.

Find the extension demo on the Sociable page.