Upcoming New Feature Updates by Mageplaza - July 2022

To satisfy online businesses’ needs in such a fast-changing e-commerce environment, we constantly research new trends and identify problems with our existing modules. In that way, we can come up with new solutions and optimize current extensions with new features and compabilities.

This is a plan of upcoming new updates, based on our analysis and requests we receive from online merchants. If you want to have extra features, please go to the relevant product page and send the requests.

Table of Contents

• 1. Better Product Reviews
• 2. Free Gifts
• 3. Shop By Brand
• 4. Affiliate
• 5. Edit Order

1. Better Product Reviews

What is the Better Product Reviews extension for?

Better Product Reviews can be utilized to boost sales and build customer trust, as the module provides more information about the product and how other buyers evaluate it. Customers can view images and also interact with the review by voting it as helpful or share it on other social channels. It is also possible for store owners to reply to reviewers’ thoughts, which can help them communicate better and solve issues right away.

Upcoming New Features:

• Support uploading images and videos via API and GraphQL

2. Free Gifts

What is the Free Gifts extension for?

A popular promotion can be offering gifts to your customers to promote specific items or motivate more purchases. With Free Gifts for Magento 2, certain rules based on product attributes or cart attributes can be configured, as well as the gift can be set as free, or discounted by percentage or fixed price. Besides the automatic gift application, customers can manually select gifts, and in the case of configurable gifts, they can even select attributes.

Upcoming New Features:

• Display free gifts with a limited quantity when creating a promotion: No requirements to buy the product
• Show promo for each product right on the category page: Customers will be redirected to the free gifts page
• Free Gift Minicart: Help tracking product and gift quantities.

3. Shop By Brand

What is the Shop By Brand extension for?

Customers tend to choose brands that sound familiar to them, so if you are a retailer of many brands, it is essential to take advantage of this fact to boost sales. Shop By Brand Extension for Magento 2 can help by creating a separate brand page that has an instant search box, filtered by alphabet brand list, and configured featured brands. Once customers go to this page, they are able to explore more brands and give quicker purchase decisions.

Upcoming New Features:

• Add brands list widget
• Compatible with Layered Navigation (Standard, Pro, Ultimate): show the layered navigation filter on the brand page.

4. Affiliate

What is the Affiliate extension for?

A win-win method when affiliates can earn commissions by referring friends, and online stores can get more quality traffic. By using Affiliate extension, affiliates can have more options to send the invitation, either in URL, snippet on affiliate websites, via social channels, email, or banners. Stores are able to set multiple affiliate campaigns and commission tiers, as well as allow affiliates to withdraw in flexible methods: Paypal, bank transfer, or offline payment. All of the data can be tracked in reports conveniently and imported or exported as needed.

Upcoming New Features:

• Show Affliate references in Affiliate dashboard
• Invitation History on Affiliate dashboard
• Traffic Sources Content

5. Edit Order

What is the Edit Order extension for?

Have you ever found out a mistake with your order and had to cancel it because there is no chance to fix? With Mageplaza Edit Order extension, your customers can make changes of order’s general information, billing & shipping addresses, as well as payment &shipping methods. They can do it easily in popups or on only one page, as there will be no page redirection. Enjoy higher customer satisfaction and less product return rate!

Upcoming New Features:

• Tracking order deliveries with Track Order button

Follow this blog and the product pages to see the update status and other changes, if any. Feel free to contact us for support or any requests and please look forward to our next upcoming feature updates.