Upcoming New Feature Updates by Mageplaza - September 2022

At Mageplaza, we thrive on giving our customers the best experiences. To make it happen, we constantly innovate new products and upgrade current extensions. We take into account the difficulties merchants face and their demands on having more flexible solutions with the latest compatibilities.

Magento 2.4.5 has just been launched on August 09, 2022 for both Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source. Therefore, in the upcoming months, we will be working on updating our extension compatibility with this newest version of Magento.

You can find the upcoming new feature updates by Mageplaza in September 2022 as follows. In case you do not see the features you want, please send us your requests for further support.

Table of Contents

• 1. Store Locator & Pickup
• 2. One Step Checkout
• 3. Automatic Related Products
• 4. Shop By Brand
• 5. Extra Fee

1. Store Locator & Pickup (Updated)

What is the Store Locator & Pickup extension for?

If you have physical stores and want to help customers find those places with ease, Store Locator & Pickup extension may help. Our solution integrates Google Maps to allow stores to mark their stores at the exact location and enable customers to locate their nearest stores easily. More details of the store such as an address, contact information, opening/closing time, holidays, etc. will be available as well. What’s more, customers can select a suitable place to visit and pick up their items. This removes delivery risks and generates more in-store purchases.

Upcoming New Features:

• Mark favorite stores to pick up items
• Show Relevant Locations List for Products with Assigned MSI Stock
• Pickup Option Checkbox Enabled & Show Pickup option (Curbside Pickup) on the shopping cart, checkout page, product page…
• Display Pickup Option Conditions on the Storefront

2. One Step Checkout (Updated)

What is the One Step Checkout extension for?

Poor checkout experiences such as too long and complicated steps, too much reloading, or unsupported payment methods - all can lead to cart abandonment. With Magento 2 One Step Checkout, an optimized and beautiful checkout page can be created. Shoppers are able to complete their purchases quickly when everything is shown in one step only, together with Google address suggestion feature and multiple supported payment gateways. Meanwhile, businesses can easily customize the checkout layout and include diverse checkout fields to collect more information.

Upcoming New Features:

• Update designs: Order Summary Background, Checkout Background Color, Title Color, and Description Color

3. Automatic Related Products

What is the Automatic Related Products extension for?

Want to take your product recommendations to the next level and boost your sales with cross-selling and up-selling? Mageplaza Automatic Related Products module provides users with flexible ARP blocks which can be displayed anywhere. You can set up different title and create relations for those related items with ease, in order to serve various goals. Available block options could be named as Best sellers, Daily deals, New products, Related products, etc. In addition, tracking how those blocks work will give you a more in-depth insight into how effective the combination is.

Upcoming New Features:

• Show ARP block in the native tab on the Product page
• Add the quantity sold of the products in ARP block

4. Shop By Brand

What is the Shop By Brand extension for?

Each shopper has their own favourite brands or brands that they are familiar with. Therefore, allowing them to find those brands in a Brand page is an effective marketing strategies. That’s also what you can do using Shop By Brand Extension for Magento 2. The brand page lists all available brands in an alphabetical order and allow customers to search as well. Moreover, on each product page the relevant brand logo will also be displayed for better marketing.

Upcoming New Features:

• Show brands for Related Products, Upsell Products, Cros-sell Products
• Configure brands to apply coupons or not

5. Extra Fee

What is the Extra Fee extension for?

Ensure a transparent experience where all fees are well displayed with the Extra Fee for Magento 2. While the default Magento 2 does not allow stores to show all extra charges, now shoppers can see exactly how much the additional fees are on any pages. Thanks to the plugin, online merchants can calculate the extra fees, set rules based on conditions, and apply them automatically or manually.

Upcoming New Features:

• Show extra fee for every item on the Shopping Cart page
• Report (Order, Free Total)
• Allow customers to add their notes for the extra fee
• From - To Date: timeframe to apply the extra fee

This plan of new feature updates will give you an idea of what to expect in the near future. If you want to have more features in the extension, contact us or explore our customization service.