10 useful osCommerce add-ons

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10 useful osCommerce add-ons

25 October 2009 1,668 views No Comment

After the article Best add-ons for osCommerce, we come with another list of useful contributions that will help your osCommerce to save your time, upsell, increase conversion, generate statistics and improve the design of your pages:

Buy_Two_Module – allows you to bundle 2 products in order to sell more. In the product A page you’ll have a recommendation box to buy product A + product B together at a discounted price. This module shows also how much you save buying the 2 products together than separated, and when you click the “buy” button, it will add two items to the shopping cart.
Single Page Checkout – very useful add-on that reduces the existing 4-5 necessary steps for checkout to a single page with all the required information. Web sites that are using a multi page checkout system are more than likely losing a great deal of customers simply because the checkout process requires too much time, information, or both. By reducing the checkout time and using a simple one page checkout system you will increase your completed sales and customer satisfaction will be increased exponentially.
Orders at-a-glance – this is a time-saving contribution that adds a talk bubble icon to the admin orders listing wich products were ordered. When you rollover the talk bubble icon, it displays the products of that order.
How many orders has customer ordered before – the name says everything about this contribution, allowing you to see in the admin if a customer is a returning or a new one.
Random Specials – useful if you want to have different products on special daily and you don’t want to pick them every day. A “set it and forget it” module where you specify the minimum price for product to be selected to go on special, maximum number of products per script run, discount in percentage and number of days for special to run.
Customer stats orders – a report module for all the orders or for orders with a specific status from a precise month that will show you the number of orders, the number of new customers registered over the period, the number of customer having bought (and % compared to the registered), the number of customers having made several purchases (1 to 20 and % compared to the purchasers), stats on the orders (Total sales, shipping, taxes…), the average sale included taxes, the average basket of products exclued taxes.
Dynamic price updater – This package will install in the product page a quantity box with plus and minus buttons. This will allow a user to increase and decrease the total product quantity while updating the total price on the product page according to the total before adding it to the cart.
Supplier Price Update – if your products acquisitions are impacted by changes in the exchange rate and you need an easy way to update all prices from a selected supplier by a given percentage.
Products Cycle Slideshow – this contribution will place a slideshow on the startup page of your website. The slideshow can show New Products, Specials and Bestsellers and you can specify in the admin panel how many products should be in the slideshow.
Search Tag Cloud – this module will add a box to your page, where the most popular searches get tagged. You can specify from the admin how many tags to be shown and the width of the box.