Building customer loyalty program is the priority of each business, as it’s not only the foundation of repeat purchases but also competitive necessity in eCommerce. One of the best ways to keep your customers is to reward them for being loyal and choosing you.

The Points and Rewards Magento extension helps to turn your customers into repeated clients. Flexible rules of the module allow your customers to earn different number of points for making purchases, reviewing products, inviting friends or carrying out any other admin-specified actions. Today we release Points and Rewards v.1.4 with the minor bugfixes. The new version of this Magento extension is enhanced with the following features: points expiration notifications are updated invitation link for social networks and forums “Points” column added to the Rule grid

Find the extension demo and complete list of features on the Points and Rewards page.

It’s very convenient when customers as well as your employees can check availability of goods easily. This saves precious time for answering constant questions on the stock status.

The Custom Stock Display Magento extension is a perfect tool for indicating the product stock quantity to customers in an attractive and eye-catching way. The possibility to upload different images for different available items quantity will make your product page more informative and cute. Custom Stock Display v.1.1 is out today. The new version of the module gives more opportunities. Now you have the ability to disable Custom Stock Display for particular products at your Magento store. This field has been added to the General tab in Product information. It is easy to abolish this function for certain products the quantity of which you don’t want to display at your Magento store.

Besides, with Custom Stock Display v.1.1, it is possible to display negative values of product stock quantity.

This is true only for the products that have ‘Quantity for Item’s Status to Become Out of Stock’ lower than the quantity of available items. These values are set in the Inventory tab of Product Information. Be sure also to define certain negative values of product quantity in the Labels tab of Custom Stock Display Rules.

Get more information about the Custom Stock Display module for Magento and play the demo on the product page.

It’s Friday the 13th… If you are reading this post you should know that you already got lucky as we offer you a 13% discount on all our extensions.

Enjoy Friday the 13th Weekend Sale and get 13% Price Off for all Magento extensions.

Use the coupon code: FRIDAY13 in the shopping cart during checkout.

Shop now, because this offer ends on April 15, 2012!

aheadWorks team is an active participant of many Magento events all over the world. This time we are glad to greet our friends, customers, and partners at the main eCommerce conferences where we act as a Silver Sponsor. Three perfect opportunities to network, find out the latest trends, and see each other again!

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Three weeks ago I put out a call on our Facebook fan page for submitting your store URLs. I’ve had a great time looking through all of them and have picked one favorite to tell our community about this Magento store success & experience. Thanks to everybody who has sent one in.

So, meet Magento merchant Bart Nanka in our monthly store showcase.

Who: www.herbcottage.com.au

What: Mudbrick Cottage Herb Farm is a family owned business. The store sells organic herb plants, dried herbs, spices, and herbal teas.

Where: Gold Coast, Australia

Q: How long have you been running your store?

We have been running our store on Magento since November 2009.

Q: Why did you choose Magento as your current platform?

I researched a lot of the good ecommerce platforms around, but none have the flexibility and the amount of users and developers contributing to the platform. Making it easy to find answers to your problems and extensions for any idea you may have.

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The updated Z-Blocks and Delivery Date and Notice extensions open new opportunities for you and your customers. Improve your web store with these Magento modules and achieve success in target marketing and enhancing customer satisfaction level.

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Hooray! Take off your winter coats, mittens, scarfs and say as loud as you can: “Spring has come!” Finally, we can forget about cold nights, winter melancholy and infinite sadness. As you know, spring is the appropriate season for producing all kind of things Magento developers aren’t a big exception, so as a result, lots of new extensions are ready to meet online marketers’ needs. Now it is the right time to provide Magento Community with the new Magento Connect statistics for the first month of spring.

In terms of growth, the extensions for the following categories are among the top four:

• Images & Media (+ 54)
  Wow, it’s an astonishing result!
• Category&Product Page Enhancements (+20)
• Catalogue (+29)
• Personalization (+25)

aheadWorks also made its valuable contribution and introduced lots of updates for our extensions. While you’re enjoying the perfect quality and premium user experience of our products, we are ready to come back in May with the new Magento Connect statistics.

Stay tuned!

The everyday practice and regular improvement of skills allowed aheadWorks support team to provide our customers with the maintenance of the highest quality. This fact allows us to offer our clients a renewed process of providing support.

While buying our extension, you are offered to select the support period of 90, 180 or 360 days which includes highly qualified maintenance of this product as well as an ability to download the module upgrades.

Learn more at our Knownledge Base.

We are happy to share wonderful news with you – the release of the Group Deals User Guide. Group Deals is a fantastic way for those online merchants who want to organize collective purchases process. User Guide gives you all the necessary information with illustrations and descriptions. You can learn how to: configure the Group Deals Magento extension create a new deal manage different deal types: Active, Featured, Upcoming, and Closed filter deals A separate section is assigned to the way your customers can view all their deals on the frontend.

To download the User Guide as a PDF document, please visit the Group Deals page.

It’s Easter! Time to send dear customers our warm wishes and offer extra savings all weekend long!

Enjoy 4-Day SALE (April 06-09) and get 15% discount on any Magento extensions.

Enter the coupon code: EASTER2012 in the shopping cart during checkout.

Shop now as this offer is limited!