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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Today we released the new version of the Advanced Reports extension – 2.1.1 – and glad to announce that some minor bugs have been fixed making this module more stable.

In the Sales by Coupon Code and Sales by ZIP Code units, the “Shipping” column has been added. Now you can find out not only the amount of taxes, discounts, and refunded sums, but view the shipping total as well.

We are also happy to notify you that the updated versions of the following Advanced Reports additional units have been released:

Customers by Country 1.0.2

Sales by Payment Type 1.0.2

Sales Statistics 1.0.3

New vs. Returning 1.0.3

Sales by Manufacturer 1.0.3

You can find more information on the Advanced Reports and Advanced Reports Units page.

To make your business thriving, you should always remain abreast of all the events and keep track of your sales activities. An elaborately made report is probably the best tool for managerial control and appreciation of sales.

The Advanced Reports extension with a set of additional units serves to help you create a complete picture of your business situation. With this user-friendly software you are able to run reports by countries, hours, days of the week, product, customer group or any other criteria. Thus you can obtain more sales information and analyze your current activities with minimal efforts.

aheadWorks periodically releases new versions to make the extensions more functional and stable. Today we are ready to announce the release of Advanced Reports v.2.0.7 where the following bugs have been fixed:

• Rows missed in “Sales Report”
• Column entitled as “Cost” should have “Price” title in “Sales Report”
• adminhtml.xml added
• Empty report export error
• Country name is not shown when chart is disabled in “Sales by Country”
• “Show Report for” option wrong behavior
• Months missed in reports
• Incorrect “Total” calculation in “Sales Report”
• Orders column is empty in Magento 1.4
• Wrong data if billing address is absent in “Sales by Country”
• Today’s orders missed
• Values missed in report’s totals in “Sales”
• Memory problems in “Sales Report”

Please find more information on the Advanced Reports page.

Today we are happy to announce that the number of Advanced Reports Units attachments has been increased with the Sales by Payment Type unit.

The main function of this report type can be easily guessed on the assumption of its name – Sales by Payment Type displays sales data grouped by payment methods. Thus it allows you to analyze how customers prefer to pay for their purchases in your store.

Interested? Visit the Advanced Reports page and find more information about Sales by Payment Type and other units attachments.

To make the Advanced Reports extension compatible with recently released Magento v.1.4, we refused the idea of making any modifications in native Magento reports and have left them unaffected in the new version of Advanced Reports – reporting period range is not accessible in native reports anymore.

At the same time, one more advanced report has been implemented during the extension upgrading – the Sales report. This report type is the enhanced version of Magento Sales Report which allows you to display sales data on the chart and set up the pre-defined reporting period range.

Besides the New vs. Returning Customers unit for the Advanced Reports extension has undergone several changes. The unit has become not only absolutely compatible with Magento v.1.4, but it has become more informative – the percentage of new and returning customers is now automatically calculated and displayed as well.

Interested? Find more information about the extension and unit on the Advanced Reports page.

The first units had been barely released when the list of Advanced Reports attachments was enlarged! Four new units are waiting for your approval:

The Sales by ZIP Code report displays sales data grouped by ZIP code. This is a kind of geographical report which allows you to analyze the sales in different parts of your city, state or the whole country.

With the Sales by Coupon Code report type you can get the complete information about orders made with coupons usage. This is a perfect way to analyze promotions results.

The Users Wishlists report allows you to observe which products have been added to customers’ wishlists. Moreover, you can find out when the product has been added and how many days this item is in the wishlist.

The New vs. Returning Customers report allows you to make a comparative analysis of new customers who made the 1st order during the selected period with returning customers who made the 2nd and more orders within the same time.

The Advanced Reports extension by aheadWorks is more stable now as the following minor bugs have been fixed:

• Filtering doesn’t work in Opera
• Filtering doesn’t work for “store”, “datetime” and “select” column types
• Sorting for report without data error
• Standard “strptime” function is not used anymore
• Varien_Object() error for Magento v.1.2.0.2

Please find more information about units and the Advanced Reports module on the extension page.

Since version 2.0 the Advanced Reports extension supports the units attachment what means that you can set up Advanced Reports 2.* for your store and add the reports YOU need:

The Customers by country report displays sales data grouped by country. This report type allows you to compare the total number of accounts created in your store for a certain period of time with the quantity of accounts from which orders have been made.

With the Sales by Manufacturer report you can learn how many products of a certain manufacturer have been bought for a defined period of time.

The Sales Statistics features average order amount and average item cost data. This information is displayed on the chart. The other sales data (the number of orders, items, subtotal, tax, discounts, etc.) is reflected in this report type as well.

These three units just top the list and their number will be enlarged in the nearest future. Remember that you can always ask for report you require!

Unit’s engine is not the only new feature we would like to inform you about. One more piece of good news is that with the new version of Advanced Reports you get an opportunity to filter data in Sales Report – now all the values (SKU, product name, manufacturer, cost, etc.) are available for filtering.

Besides, the Advanced Reports extension allows you to get more precise and complete information – a new Total field has been added to all reports types.

Moreover the extension works more stable than before as the following bugs have been fixed:

• Small resolution formatting
• Advanced Reports sorting

Please find more information about Advanced Reports units on the extension page.

Note that units don’t work separately – only as an attachment for the Advanced Reports extension 2.*

Need to know how many products are bought at a time by the majority/minority of your customers? Then Products by Customer report is exactly what you require. This new report type of the Advanced Reports extension allows you to find out that for example, 75% of your customers purchased 1 product, 20% added 2 items to their cart and only 5% bought 3 products at a time. A great help in sales analyzing and promotions preparing, isn’t it?

Besides a new report type implementation, the already existing Sales Report has been redesigned in the latest version of Advanced Reports. Order number and date, zip code, country, manufacturer, cost and some other data is available now in the Sales Report giving you the complete picture of your sales.

The next piece of good news is that the extension works more stable now as the following bugs have been fixed:

• Reports by month
• Currency
• Sales by Product optional products displaying

You can find the complete list of the Advanced Reports features on the extension page.

In Advanced Reports v.1.1 new reports were implemented:

• “Sales” report. With Advanced Reports, it’s simple to display the purchase date and time of products sold during a specified period.
• “Users Activity” report. This report allows you to observe customers’ activities (e.g., new accounts, reviews, orders) for any period of time. The Users Activity Report chart is set up to show three lines – new accounts, number of reviews and number of orders.
• “Sales by Customer Group” report. This great feature gives you the opportunity to see sales by groupings of customer types.

Other Advanced Reports advantages are the software’s:

• Ability to configure the statuses of all orders for processing
• Reports data displayed by Quarter

The extension work was improved as the following bugs were fixed:

• Problem with special symbols in the SKU field
• First day of week problem
• Double quantity in Sales by Country report
• Lost session error

To get a complete picture of all extension’s features please visit the Advanced Reports page.

A report is a snapshot of your business. Properly generated report is a forecast of future sales trends. Unfortunately the native Magento Sales report doesn’t allow you to make a thorough and detailed analysis of your selling activity. But with the Advanced Reports extension by aheadWorks you can have a better insight into your sales performance.

Advanced Reports are similar to native Magento reports and no special training, knowledge and efforts are required, but we have still developed and released “Advanced Reports” User Guide as a sign of careful attitude to our customers. From the Guide you will learn how to set up the extension and configure charts according to your needs, you will find the step-by-step description of each report making and the customary set of images completing the whole picture of the extension settings.

You can download the User Guide in the PDF format and get more information about the extension from the Advanced Reports page.