Along with appearance of Magento 2 in 2015, Magento 2 Ecommerce Extensions have been powerfully developed with extremely quick speed over the world. Big Magento providers such as Amasty, Aheadworks or Magestore and so on are trying their best to launch the best Magento 2 extensions for Ecommerce into market in order to help stores get higher business efficiencies as well as satisfy online customers.

It can be easily seen that current Magento 2 Ecommerce extensions belong to a lot of different aspects on terms of online stores such as Marketing, Sales, Content & Customization, Site Optimization,etc… because they directly support for building and developing a complete Magento 2 store. However, out of these thousands of Magento 2 Ecommerce extensions, do you find out which are necessary ones that almost every store need to install? Let’s go together with us in this blogpost to review 5 most popular Magento 2 extensions for Ecommerce that any stores should equip to overcome limitations default Magento 2 does not support and  to complete their websites.

1. Magento 2 Ajax Add to Cart – $79

As you know, default Magento does support Ajax function for the purchase process in some pages such as category pages or search result pages, which can help customers conveniently add a product to cart without going to each product page. However, this feature is only useful for products having no options (simple products, for example) or configurable products with 2 attributes and it is worthless for other product types including many attributes whose also have a lot of options.  

Therefore, Magento 2 Ajax Add to Cart is the most ideal Magento 2 ecommerce extension built to enhance default Ajax function and provide more advanced features to make the purchase process really perfect for customers.

This Magento 2 Ecommerce extension allows customers to add products to cart via an Ajax popup in product list pages including home page, category page, search result page, product page and product comparison page. When they hit Add to cart button, a popup appears to show them product information (names & images), order details in a mini cart as well as related/cross-sell/up-sell products that customers may take interests.

In addition, if customers purchase product with options (configurable, bundle products or simple details with custom options), they will also select options for these products right in a Ajax popup without visiting product pages.

Therefore, this Magento 2 Ecommerce extension reduces many buying steps of default Magento 2, makes websites really more user friendly and improves user experience.

2. Reward Point + Referral Program for Magento 2 – $149

One of the most popular Magento 2 Ecommerce extensions we should not be ignored here is Magento 2 Reward Point + Referral Program – a very powerful tool for better sales motivation. This module can be said to be a new method for Magento 2 stores to reward customers for some actions on websites and also encourage them to purchase more and more in the next time.

There are most outstanding features of this Magento 2 Ecommerce extension as below:

For customers:

It allows customers to receive points when they purchase products, make reviews, share on social networks, register for a new accounts or refer a friend to stores and so on. It means that each time they perform these actions, they will be rewarded a determined number of points set up in the backend by store owners.

With this Magento 2 Ecommerce extension, customers can easily use their points for buying products by entering the wanted number of point to spend in the shopping cart page. Moreover, the module also helps customers to check their point balance as well as transaction history right in My Account section. In addition, there is another unique feature included in the Magento 2 extension for Ecommerce store is that customers can track actions and rewards related to referrals in case they have ever referred websites to other people.

For Store Owners:

The Magento 2 ecommerce extension provides store owners 3 quite flexible kinds of earning rules to set up in the backend:

• Product based rules: points are rewarded for purchase of products.
• Behavior based rules: points are rewarded for customer behavior on sites such as registration, sharing,…
• Cart based rules: points are rewarded for total amount in the shopping cart.   

Along with earning rules, spending rules are created for each customer group with determined conditions as well as the number of points can be spent corresponding to these conditions. In addition, store owners can easily track transactions of each customer and a general report of the whole reward point program.

It can be said that Reward Points + Referral Program is one of the most essential Magento 2 Ecommerce extension that can well support for Sales and Marketing of a Magento 2 stores. It not only increases customer loyalty as well as customer satisfaction but also plays a big sale motivation to promote buyers to pay more and more in the store. Therefore, it is highly recommend for Magento 2 business to equip for their stores to gain as many as benefits for both customers and themselves as possible.  

3. Magento 2 One Step Checkout – $299

As you know, default Magento 2 checkout includes 2 steps as Shipping method and Payment & Review, which require customers going through each step to complete all information. Although this process is more simple than that in Magento 1, it is still complex and takes customers much time to finish and also check again. Therefore, One Step Checkout is an ideal Magento 2 ecommerce extension to simplify the checkout by combining these 2 default steps into 1 page only.

Customers can not only have a faster checkout in one page but also experience more advanced features to save time such as:

• Automatically detect customer location by GEO IP: country and city are prefilled when customers go to the checkout page.
• Autocomplete shipping address by Google Suggest: a list of related shipping address is shown for buyers to select when they type some letters in the box.
• Fast auto update information in the checkout page without reloading when there are any changes
• Support most common payment methods such as Paypal, Credit Card, SagePay, 2Checkout and so on
• Give an detailed order review with product information as well as ability to edit orders conveniently
• Add more options to the single checkout page such as delivery dates and times, gift messages, order comments or newsletter subscription.
• Improve other customer experience such as login via an Ajax popup without redirecting to new page or support responsive One page checkout.

With this Magento 2 Ecommerce extension, a store can effectively reduce abandoned cart rates caused by a complicated checkout process of default Magento 2. You know that  checkout process is nearly the final step to finish purchases, therefore, you need to enhance it better and better, more and more conveniently as soon as possible. Let’s put yourself in customer’s position and think about feelings when you have to follow a long checkout with a lot of things to manipulate. That is so terrible, right? And it is sure that you will give up and leave your cart immediately. Thus, One Step Checkout is really a very essential Magento 2 ecommerce extension for all stores to install and improve the smoothest checkout experience for customers.

4. Magento 2 Delivery Date and Time – $179

Along One Step Checkout, Delivery Date and Time is also a very cool Magento 2 ecommerce extension which benefits for customers about time to receive orders after being paid. It is considered as the most important demand all purchasers take concern when they make decision to buy a product: when they can get their goods and what exact time it is delivered to guarantee that they are available to pick up. Therefore Magento 2 Delivery Date and Time has become a very popular Magento 2 extension for ecommerce to help them to comfortably make choices of these dates and times right in the checkout page.

This extension adds a section of delivery dates in the Shipping Method Step of the checkout to allow each customer group to select dates, times and also leave comments to notify about their orders. After they finish the checkout, these information are saved in orders in the backend and store owners can easily get when to deliver products for each customer.

In addition, the Magento 2 Ecommerce extension allows store owners to customize delivery dates that are available for customers to choose in the frontend (or disabled days and excluded days like holidays), time slots or minimal and maximal time intervals between the order and the day of delivery.  Moreover, this Magento 2 Ecommerce extension also has a very unique feature that reminds customers via emails about upcoming delivery before a determined time period. Hence, customers can get involved the whole process to receive orders from selecting dates and time slots to being announced about product delivering. That’s so great, right?

With the Magento 2 Ecommerce extension, not only customers can freely choose which time is the most suitable to pick orders but also store owners are more flexible in balancing production and delivering to make sure a continuous process. This one is extremely significant for a Magento 2 business because it helps to manage the entire operation process of an entrepreneur from itself to customer side.

Conclusion

All of these 4 Magento 2 Ecommerce extensions are almost quite familiar with all Magento users because they are successful and popular modules which a lot of store owners and web agencies choose in Magento 1 platform. Therefore, when Magento users begin to step into a new era of Magento 2, these extensions still get higher interests and priority from customers and continue to develop quickly to bring the best benefits for Magento 2 stores.