Uplift in the technology is noticeable in almost every industry.Technology's recent impact on retail industry can be gauged through frequent openings of new e-stores. Since the inception of online selling; industry and the users, both, have undergone many changes and improvements. With lot of stores online now, every one is toiling hard to provide best possible features and facilities on their stores and on the other hand, user's expectations from e-stores have also increased. Default e-store features are no more sufficient to bind buyers and henceforth an e-store demands more facilities and features from their software development vendors.
Daffodil works hard and foresees such upcoming requirements of e-shops in advance. The team intends to develop such extensions for e-store owners, which helps them in providing better shopping experience to their customers. In continuation to such regular efforts Daffodil has recently launched three new extensions for Magento based e-shops. Magento developers or e-shop owners can download these extensions from www.magentocommerce.com for free.
These three extensions are:
1. Featured Product With Scroller
2. Product zoom
3. Low Product Quantity Message
Featured Products With Scroller:
Featured Products with Scroller Magento Extension - DaffodilSW
This extension facilitates ability to show featured products of ane-store in a jQuery slider on Homepage or on CMS pages. After installing this extension, Admin gets user friendly controls at the back end of the store. Products, which are being marked as "Featured Products" from the admin sections starts displaying in the jquery slider on the front page of the store. Admin can also opt to display these featured products in a block on other CMS pages of the portal.For featured product block on CMS pages, admin shall require to perform some basic coding on homepage back end, i.e put in homepage content. Admin can decide the no. of products, he wants to display in the featured product section. Enabling or disabling of the extension can be controlled just by clicking a check-box.
Extension Download Link:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/catalog/product/view/id/15809/
Product Zoom:
While buying online, I always prefer to see product images as closely as I can. This helps me knowing the product better and those stores which miss this facility of displaying product images in zoom, disappoint me to some extent. Daffodil's one of the latest Magento extensions, empowers store owners to simply install "Product Zoom" extension and let buyers view product images as closely as they wish. "Product Zoom" facilitates a lens, which is when hovered over product image, zooms the image and buyer can seethe closer look of the product. Admin can decide to set Lens properties like Lens Width, Lens Boarder Size and Lens Frame Color as per his store's UI.
Extension Download Link:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/catalog/product/view/id/15812/
LowProduct Quantity Message:
This Extension provides a facility to auto display a message on the front end of the store, when quantity of any certain product in inventory goes down than a certain limit.Say for example if quantity of a product goes less than 10 units in store's inventory, then a message shall display in product details page, that the store is left with limited units of that particular product. This helps buyers to decide, weather they should wait or may buy the deal immediately and at the same time, it's a tool for store owners to convey a silent message to their customers that a particular product is selling fast and interested buyers should hurry, before stock gets over. Admin can set figures for reserve point from back-end of the store. If product quantity in inventory, reaches equal or less than set reserve quantity then it starts showing desired message in product detail page on front-end of the store.
Extension Download Link:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/catalog/product/view/id/15827/
