Year 2012 didn’t fade into obscurity and be sure we didn’t cover up the results of the year and its accomplishments. Let’s open the calendar and take a look at milestones that defined the past 12 months for aheadWorks team. Amazing thing – this “apocalyptical” leap year turned out to be really successful and rich in pleasant events for us and our partners and customers.

As one of the leading providers of Magento extensions, aheadWorks joined the conferences in the USA, Germany, France, Ukraine, the UK and Poland. In most of them we were entitled to Silver Sponsorship.

We are not used to rest on laurels and 2012 proved it right. As many as 9 new extensions were released, including your favorite One Click Checkout and Magento Affilate. A lot of existing extensions were updated as well as 6 significant themes that are compatible with Magento CE v. 1.6.0.0 and v.1.7.0.0.

We are also proud of a new service, aheadCommerce, an innovative solution for creating tablet storefronts, released in 2012.

To complete the picture of the previous year, we display the Top-10 bestselling aheadWorks extensions of 2012. This top-listing also includes the quantity and quality of extensions feedback, written by our customers. The most interesting reviews accompany the modules below.

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The frequent analysis of your online business performance is one of the most important duties. Choose the Advanced Reports module to make reasonable business decisions.

The Advanced Reports Magento extension improves functionality of native Magento reports and creates a complete picture of your business situation. You can create 10 kinds of reports: Bestsellers, Sales by Day of Week, Sales by Product, Sales by Country, etc. Moreover, this Magento extension can be expanded with additional units! Today we are glad to release Advanced Reports v.2.4 with the following bugfixes: columns customization couldn’t be saved several issues in Sales by Product report and Sales report wrong date format for some ranges sorting by “Customer Group” column in Sales by Customer Group issue minor bugfixes

Besides, the updated versions of Users Wishlists and Sales Statistics units are released as well with minor bugfixes.

Find the extension demo and updated User Guide on the Advanced Reports page.

To conduct business effectively and efficiently, it’s important to analyze your current activities using up-to-date reports. The Advanced Reports Magento extension allows creating a complete picture of your business situation. Whether you want to run reports by countries, hours, days of the week or other criteria, the Advanced Reports Magento module is indispensible. The Advanced Reports v.2.3 release took place today. The new version includes the following bugs fixed: report was not generated if SKU changed chart size in Sales by Country product name changing issue in Bestsellers admin can’t change “Number of latest custom date ranges” in Customization incorrect data in “New Accounts” column in Users Activity Report fatal error after StoreView changing in Bestsellers

Besides, all additional units have been updated. Now they are compatible with Advanced Reports v.2.3. While upgrading the extension, don’t forget to update the installed unit(s) as well.

To find the complete module description, please visit the product page of the Advanced Reports extension for Magento.

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.