Magento has diverted e-commerce development to another robust track of web development and resultantly a lot of enhancements have been rolled out not only in itself Magento environment but also community and enterprise development has contributed sufficiently. It can be determined by plenty of Magento extension and themes development alongside customization and hosted services which are as Magento Go. Anyways, in the following round up you will find ten most useful FREE Magento extension which you can download and use to enhance your store’s functionality.
1. Magento Recycle Bin
This is a must have extension for every store owner who is not willing to take headache of mistakenly deleted products, pages and block in the store. It creates a Recycle Bin in admin interface where all deleted items resides and can be restored anytime.
2. Magento Layout Analyzer
An essential Magento extension for Magento developers to rapidly analyze the entire layout of a page as interpreted by Magento. It also allows you to share and reuse the block on pages.
3. Magento Cumulus Tagcloud
A nicely designed Magento extension to display tags in a cloud same as in WordPress or other blogging networks, it can be used as widget in pages and blocks. Tags can be assigned to customers and product categories can be used as Tags.
4. Magento Supermenu
This extension generates big menus with categories within them just like a multi column menu. It gives an elegant look to your store and can easily be configured from the admin panel.
5. Magento C3 Invoice improver
Invoice improver Magento extension allows you to enhance your invoice format and use different dates like Order Data, Invoices Data and Due Data etc.
6. Magento WebForms
Another great extension that allows you to create custom web forms as per your requirements with different notification and management settings. You can create contact us, feedback, and comment forms using this extension which can be used as widget in pages.
7. Magento Recaptcha
A must have Magento extension to fight against SPAM. It efficiently protects your forms like “Send to Friend”, “Contact Us”, “Product Review” and customer registration from unwanted spam-bots by adding in Google reCAPTCHA to these forms.
8. Magento Social Bookmarking Services
A most useful Magento extension that allows you to share your products, pages, categories etc. with your friends and make them viral on social networks like Twitter, Digg, Facebook etc. This extension can be used as a widget in pages and blocks alongside URL shortening functionality.
9. Magento Live Chat
An excellent free of cost Magento extension enabling you to enhance customer interaction and support on your store with Live Chat. It is the simplest and very interactive live chat module that does not require filling up additional forms or user registration.
10. Magento Visitor Geo-Location
To know about your store visitor’s location, you can use free visitor geo-location Magento extension which displays country and city of current online visitors in a simple grid.