The Portuguese say: “A good year is determined by its spring”. If what is said is true, this year bids fair to be extension-rich for aheadWorks!

We can happily admit that we have entered this spring with a budget of fantabulous news – a bulk of new extensions, a set of new Advanced Reports Units, a deal of user guides and a number of software updates – and today we are in a hurry to share all this information with you.

New Extensions

Previous/Next

Enhance your store navigation and avoid additional pages loading with the Previous/Next extension from aheadWorks! Now your customers can shift from one Product page to another with 1 click of the Next or Previous link!

The Previous/Next extension features allow you to greatly improve your online store usability:

• Adding 3 controls on Product page: Previous / Back / Next
• Ability to use product and category names in your links
• Ability to set images instead of links
• Customers can use keyboard navigation (ctrl+left, ctrl+up, ctrl+right)
• Ability to loop previous / next product name in product page
• Product and category names can be truncated to any length you want. You can also use any ending you like after the truncated name
• Customizable links position

Please find more information about Previous/Next on the extension page.

Home Tabs Pro

The Home Tabs Pro extension by aheadWorks is a perfect solution for those who have ever thought of broadening standard Magento Main page possibilities. The extension allows you to display most popular products at the Home page of your store in a comfortable and neat way.

At the Home page of your online store, customizable tabs display automatically generated list of top items: Top Sellers, Top Rated, Most Reviewed, Just Added and Wishlist Top.

Some other Home Tabs Pro advantages are the software’s:

• Flexible tabs positioning
• Configurable tabs
• AJAX loader customization

Please find more detailed information about this aheadWorks extension on the Home Tabs Pro page.

Automatic Products Callouts

The Automatic Product Callouts extension introduces top product sets organized in blocks in any place of your site. The most common usage is having completely automatic category landing page with top products from this category, but you can use the extension in any other place of your site as well.

With Automatic Product Callouts you gain a set of the following features:

• Best Selling, Top Rated, Top Searched and Top Viewed automatically retrieved product sets are supported
• Ability to insert blocks via CMS static block
• Full configuration control from admin panel
• Any configuration parameter can be changed by defining CMS block variables
• Own extension cache to reduce page load time
• Store or category level product selection restrictions

If you need more information, you can find it on the Automatic Product Callouts page.

Delivery Date and Notice

The Delivery Date and Notice extension from aheadWorks adds new value for physical goods stores – now your customers can specify preferable delivery time and leave notice for a postman when purchasing in your store!

Delivery Date and Notice offers you a number of essential features including:

• Orders can be sorted/filtered by delivery date at backend
• Customer can define delivery date. If no delivery date is specified – the nearest available date is used
• Customer can specify delivery/postman notice
• Customizable time after which same-day delivery is unavailable
• Easy-to-tune and flexible unavailable dates/days configuration tool
• Minimal interval between the order and delivery date

View screenshots and demo on the Delivery Date and Notice page.

Custom SMTP

Custom SMTP is a must-have extension both for store administrators and developers. It makes you no longer dependent on your local server mailing software. Now YOU define whether to send emails from custom SMTP server, localhost or don’t send them at all.

The main Custom SMTP features are the following:

• Custom SMTP server usage
• Custom port, authorization type, secure protocols support
• Log of all outgoing emails
• Possibility to view any outgoing email

To view the complete list of features please visit the extension page.

Advanced Reports Units

Users Wishlists

The Users Wishlists report allows you to observe which products have been added to customers’ wishlists. Moreover, you can find out when the product has been added and how many days this item is in the wishlist.

Sales by Coupon Code

With the Sales by Coupon Code report type you can get the complete information about orders made with coupons usage. This is a perfect way to analyze promotions results.

Sales by ZIP Code

The Sales by ZIP Code report displays sales data grouped by ZIP code. This is a kind of geographical report which allows you to analyze the sales in different parts of your city, state or the whole country.

New vs. Returning Customers

The New vs. Returning Customers report allows you to make a comparative analysis of new customers who made the 1st order during the selected period with returning customers who made the 2nd and more orders within the same time.

Sales by Payment Type

The Sales by Payment Type report displays sales data grouped by payment methods. This report type allows you to analyze how customers prefer to pay for their purchases in your store.

New User Guides

Advanced Menu User Guide

The Advanced Menu User Guide is designed to help you get the most out of the wide functionality available to you in the Advanced Menu extension. The Guide introduces you the essential features of this aheadWorks module and provides instructions on Advanced Menu configuration. Being at the same time step-by-step software manual and the illustration of menu types’ appliance, the Advanced Menu User Guide will definitely become your partner in setting up Advanced Menu for your online store.

You can download Advanced Menu User Guide from the extension page.

Help Desk Ultimate User Guide

The Help Desk Ultimate User Guide will help you to set up this aheadWorks extension maximally efficiently for you online store. In the Guide you will find out how to manage departments and tickets, learn how to integrate the Product Questions extension and standard Magento Contact Form, get the illustrated description of gateways and cron configuration, and much more.

To download free User Guide in PDF please visit the Help Desk Ultimate page.

Updated Extensions

Product Questions

Want to make your customer communication interactive? If you like to communicate about your product with your customer, rather than to your customer, then the “Product Questions” extension is the solution for you! Let your potential customers ask you product-related questions on the product page itself. Answer them right there – and resolve their doubts. Benefit from the 2-way contact: engage with the website visitors and use that dialogue to attract and convert more prospects.

Current version: 1.3
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new (main changes):
   + Multistore support
   + Question sorting by date and helpfulness
   + An ability to get subscribed to newsletter from the “Ask a question” form (integration with aheadWorks Advanced Newsletter extension)
   + Show last X questions when displaying Product Questions block on Product page
   + Ability to send auto-responding notifications to customers
   + Ability to disable asking questions and helpfulness rating for guests
   * Short tags in templates
   * ‘aw_’ prefix added to table name
   * Module disabling from backend fix
   * Minor changes

View the complete list of features on the Product Questions page.

Help Desk Ultimate

Help Desk Magento extension by aheadWorks is a perfect customer care and support solution for ecommerce sites based on Magento.

Current version: 2.6
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new (main changes):
   + Advanced multistore support
   + Multiple email gateways support
   + Advanced Product Questions extension integration
   + Tickets priority
   + Offensive ticket ID filtering
   + Status changes history
   + New log format – database instead of files, with ability to see the logs in admin grid
   * Minor bug fixes

Please find the complete changelog on the Help Desk Ultimate page.

Follow Up Email

Never loose a customer after a sale, stay in contact with people who are most likely to be interested in another purchase. Use follow up emails to get opinion about the products a customer has purchased, request a feedback, offer related items, send attractive discounts and promotions, and anything else you could imagine.

Current version: 3.1.3
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   * Sale amount condition reset when editing rule in IE
   * Customers details messed in the queue
   * Unquoted expressions in back quotes in template filter
   * Incorrect work of ‘View Rule’ action in the Link Tracking grid
   * Impossible to configure Email chain of the rule in IE
   * Unexpected redirecting when clicking the ‘Send now’ or ‘Cancel’ button in the Email preview window in IE 7/8
   * ‘Send only to newsletter subscribers’ rule option for unsubscribed customers
   * Link tracking page crash when applying filter in grid
   * Minor changes

Find more information on the Follow Up Email page.

Advanced Reports

Improve the functionality of native Magento reports and create a complete picture of your business situation with Advanced Reports!

Current version: 2.0.5
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Enhanced Sales report in Advanced Reports
   + Pre-defined ranges are not available in Magento Reports anymore
   * Calendar.setup error for Sales Report
   * Filtering doesn’t work in Opera
   * Filtering doesn’t work for “store”, “datetime” and “select” column types
   * Sorting for report without data error
   * Standard php “strptime” function is not used anymore
   * Varien_Object() error for Magento v.1.2.0.2

Please find the complete list of Advanced Reports features on the extension page.

Automatic Related Products

Automatic Related Products is extremely flexible extension which allows you to forget about outdated way of adding related products. Define the rules for products selection and let this software populate the block automatically! You can specify the following fetching options – random, last added or lexically similar products; their location – from the current store or current category only, or restrict in-stock only items to be retrieved. You can even specify a certain price range!

Current version: 1.0.2
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Ability to specify the price for which will be applied price condition
   * URL rewrite doesn`t work
   * No related products on direct product page
   * Product in several directories

If you need more information about this extension, visit the Automatic Related Products page.

Blog

If you are you looking to integrate a blog into your Magento-based online store, the Blog extension by aheadWorks is the exact software you are looking for.

Current version: 1.0.15
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Switchable categories ID in blog post URL
   + Switchable menu categories
   * SQL error while retrieving posts for store on frontend fixed
   * Post is accessible from inaccessible store fixed
   * Hardcoded labels
   * Generating sitemaps that don’t respect the multi website structure of Magento installation

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Please don’t forget to visit aheadWorks Forum where you can discuss any topic of interest and find useful information shared by the same aheadWorks extensions’ users as you.

That was a brief review of our new Advanced Reports units, user guides, new and updated extensions. We are always happy to get all kinds of feedback. If you need a new feature in our product or some extension – just let us know – it has good chances to be implemented.

Stasia Newsletter, Updates Extensions

Thomas J. Watson said: “Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops”. We strongly believe that such thoughts never cross your mind as we do our best for you haven’t given up improving and developing your business and the traditional quick overview of our work done within the last month is the best proof.

We would like to start with the hottest news of January 2010 – since version 2.0 the Advanced Reports extension supports units attachment what means that you can set up this aheadWorks module for your store and add the reports YOU need:

Advanced Reports Units

Sales Statistics

The Sales Statistics features average order amount and average item cost data. This information is displayed on the chart. The other sales data (the number of orders, items, subtotal, tax, discounts, etc.) is reflected in this report type as well.

Sales by Manufacturer

With the Sales by Manufacturer report you can learn how many products of a certain manufacturer have been bought for a defined period of time.

Customers by Country

The Customers by country report displays sales data grouped by country. This report type allows you to compare the total number of accounts created in your store for a certain period of time with the quantity of accounts from which orders have been made.

New Forum Topics

User contributions

If you have a customization for our extensions and you would like to tell about it to other people – you are welcome to our forum. There is even a new topic added exactly for that purpose – User contributions. We believe that your ideas – especially localizations and code updates – can be really valuable and helpful for other store owners.

Blog extension by aheadWorks

We are glad to announce that everything concerning free Blog extension can be discussed in our Forum, namely in a new topic devoted especially to this software – Blog extension by aheadWorks. You can touch upon any item you are interested in:

• General Questions
• Feature Requests
• Bugs
• User Contributions

Feel free to express your thoughts in the Blog extension by aheadWorks topic of our forum.

New User Guides

Subscriptions and Recurring Payments User Guide

The Subscriptions and Recurring Payments User Guide makes the work with this aheadWorks extension much easier. In addition to covering all moments of the extension functioning – Subscriptions and Recurring Payments configuration, managing subscriptions, subscribers and subscription products, etc. – you will find out how to manage subscriptions for customer’s part.

You can download the User Guide from the Subscriptions and Recurring Payments page.

Follow Up Email User Guide

Follow Up Email is quite configurable and flexible extension with a bulk of different settings. The User Guide has been developed to become your irreplaceable helper in the Follow Up Email extension configuration, managing rules for emails, creating new email templates. The Examples chapter of the Guide will lead you from different rules and templates creation till test email sending. Screenshots perfectly serve for settings illustration and self-control – you can always check what you have done and what should be done.

To download Follow Up Email User Guide in PDF, please visit the extension page.

Updated Extensions

Advanced Reports

To assist your company in achieving success in today’s fast-paced, competitive global marketplace, the Advanced Reports extension by aheadWorks is ready to be your reporting partner. Not only does this Magento extension allow you to obtain more sales information than ever before, but you can also use the information you cull to better draw conclusions about the status of your business.

Current version: 2.0.2
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Line “Total” for all Advanced Reports
   + Sales Report filtering
   + Unit’s Engine
   + Sales Report redesigned
   + Products by Customer report
   + Magento Enterprise compatibility
   * Small resolution formatting
   * All Advanced Reports sorting
   * Sales Report crash for deleted product
   * Reports by month fix
   * Currency fix
   * Sales by Product optional products correct display

You can view all Advanced Reports features on the extension page.

Advanced Newsletter

Building upon all the inherent newsletter functionality that Magento offers, the feature-rich Advanced Newsletter equips you with a newsletter subscription and management system that will catapult your sales to greater heights. From newsletter sign-ups, mailing list creation and audience segmentation to the eventual mailing of the newsletter, Advanced Newsletter gives you everything you need to get the highest ROI from your newsletter marketing.

Current version: 1.2
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Ability to insert subscription button/form via CMS block
   + Phone and Salutation fields added to subscription form
   + Delete, Subscribe and Unsubscribe admin options for subscribers
   + Adding and Editing subscribers from admin area
   + MailChimp unsubscription synchronization
   + Automated customers subscription basing on admin-defined rules
   + Multistore support
   * New customer were subscribed without considering subscription checkbox
   * Proper segment selection in customer area
   * Many minor JavaScript fixes and optimizations
   * Import of existing subscribers that were imported but not subscribed
   * Bug with ability to create duplicate of segment with the same code
   * Synchronization button works correctly with multistore now
   * Correct work with https
   * Minor bugfixes

To get whole list of features please visit the Advanced Newsletter page.

Product Updates Notifications

With the Product Updates Notifications extension from aheadWorks Co. you can alert your existing and potential customers updates about new products added to your store, new stocks and special offers. What’s more, customers opt-in to receive the updates they want, so you know that your notifications are going to a highly receptive audience.

Current version: 1.1.1
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   * Javascript fix (incorrect “punDetect” variable declaration)
   * Usage of prefixes in database table names
   * Correct work with https

To get the list of Product Updates Notifications features please visit the extension page.

Follow Up Email

Follow Up Email is a powerful auto-responder and customer relationship tool that helps to keep your site in the customer’s mind always. Use this automated email follow up extension and you’ll never lose track of your customers even if they have abandoned their shopping carts.

Current version: 3.1.2
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + ‘New customer signup’ event
   + New ‘Decimal’ template filter modifier
   + Event cancelling by customer email only (not by email and initiator object)
   + Schedule more then one email on the same time
   + Mail encoding is UTF-8 now
   * url_resume in Multistore mode
   * Grouped products condition on order and cart-related events
   * BCC field is always empty in email preview
   * The URL generated via url_resume doesn’t consider the store in Multistore
   * Sending test emails with empty test object IDs fields
   * Sending test emails on ‘Customer birthday’ event
   * Send E-mail from the Mail Log with certain conditions

You can view all Follow Up Email features on the extension page.

Minimum Advertised Price

With the Minimum Advertised Price extension, you can now sell your advertised products at the price you want, even if it is considerably lower than the minimum stipulated price. This is an extension that keeps everyone happy: your manufacturer/supplier because you are seen to adhere to their guidelines; your customers, because they get products cheaper; and of course, you happy, as more sales roll in with the lower prices.

Current version: 1.1
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Configurable product support
   * Tiered prices disappear
   * Price of some product disappear
   * Minor changes

To learn the whole list of Minimum Advertised Price features please visit the extension page.

Subscriptions and Recurring Payments

Subscriptions and Recurring Payments extension from aheadWorks Co. adds a host of features to native Magento capabilities so that you can accept recurring payments and sell subscription products more easily and efficiently. Simply add this capability to add recurring revenue stream to your business model for products as diverse as info-products, software or bottled water.

Current version: 1.2.1
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   * It’s available to add product to cart from grid view even if product requires subscription options
   * Magento clears quotes after N days and subscription loses billing and shipping addresses
   * ePay 0.00 transaction payment fee is displayed on order page for recurring orders
   * Subscribers list exporting error

Please find more information on the Subscriptions and Recurring Payments page.

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Don’t hesitate – the offer lasts till February 14, 2010! Hurry up to get a complete picture of your business situation at a give-away price!

That was a brief review of our new user guides, Advanced Reports units, forum topics and updated extensions. We are always happy to get all kinds of feedback. If you need a new feature in our product or some extension – just let us know – it has good chances to be implemented.

Thank you for being with us and good luck to your business,
Sincerely yours,
aheadWorks Magento department

Stasia Newsletter, Updates Extensions

They say: “Never do things by halves” and we follow this rule. Every released extension is just a half of our work. The feedback and the implementation of the features YOU require – is the other half. So in December we applied the majority of our efforts to the improvement of the already released extensions.

Besides in accordance of Christmas and New Year we were happy to gladden you with two more pleasant events – the release of new extension and our Forum availability!

aheadWorks Forum

We are not tired to repeat that feedback is very important part of our work. We care your satisfaction with our products and always highly appreciate opinion of every customer. Now everyone can register on aheadWorks forum and discuss any topic of interest:

General questions

In this topic you are free to debate any issue that doesn’t fall under other topics listed below.

Help me choose

Doubt whether this or that extension will work for you? Which module is better for you store? How would it perform on your store? Resolve all your doubts in this topic.

Installation and configuration

This topic is devoted to installation and configuration tips & tricks. Share yours and learn other people secrets how to set up this or that extension to get better functionality.

Feature requests

Use an aheadWorks extension but miss any functionality? Have thoughts like “This extension is good but if it could do this or that, I would surely have it”? Stop keeping these ideas in your mind – discuss them in this topic and share what features you require. They have good chances to be implemented.

Request a new extension

If you are running a store of certain direction and need some specific extension, or require a module adapted especially for Magento-based store, or just want some plugin able to do this or that, describe your request here – chances are we push it into development.

Licensing

This topic is devoted to discussion of any questions concerning licensing and legal points. You have good chances to get a well-grounded answer or qualified help from experts among forum members.

Showroom

Running a store with our extensions? List it here and boast how you’ve managed to make your online store more profitable, eye-catching or easy-to-navigate with aheadWorks modules.

All these topics are free to be discussed among aheadWorks’ extensions users. We don’t render any kind of support via forum. To request support use this form or Help Desk from your customer account.

New Extensions

Make sure you have joined our group on Magento to be informed about all extensions releases, news, updates & promotions!

Automatic Related Products

Automatic Related Products extension by aheadWorks allows you to automate the process of related products creation. Define the rules for products selection and let this software populate the block automatically!

• Relating by lexical analysis (alike titles), recency or even randomly
• Flexible positioning – use a CMS block or just display instead of standard related products option
• Ability to fetch products from the whole store or only current category
• Restriction by stock status
• Price condition – fetch only products that are cheaper or more expensive than a defined price
• Configurable number of items
• Can be used for featured products, banners, promotions, callouts and anything else
• Control the view of the block by editing a simple template

Find more information about the extension on the Automatic Related Products page.

Updated Extensions

Please don’t forget to check complete changelog on the product pages.

Advanced Menu

With aheadWorks’ Advanced Menu extension you finally have flexible menu configuration functionality! In just two simple clicks, you can choose any look from the admin panel, making your store menu appear the way and the place you want.

Current version: 2.0
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Magento Enterprise compatibility
   + All menu types redesigned
   + All menu types customization in one CSS file
   + Menu Behavior options
   + Displaying menu in any place using CMS
   + Extended CSS rule for Vertical Folding Menu
   * IE correctly displays all types of menu

View the screenshots of new menu types on the Advanced Menu extension page.

Who Bought This Also Bought

Get your customers to buy more by exposing them to a set of additional products most relevant to their purchase. There’s no simpler and more effective way to cross-sell your products with aheadWorks’ “Who Bought This Also” recommendation module for Magento-based websites.

Current version: 1.1.1
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Magento Enterprise compatibility
   * installation procedure bugfix

Find more information on the Who Bought This Also Bought page.

Subscriptions and Recurring Payments

The “Subscriptions and Recurring Payments” extension adds a host of features to native Magento capabilities so that you can accept recurring payments and sell subscription products more easily and efficiently. Simply add this capability to add recurring revenue stream to your business model for products as diverse as info-products, software or bottled water.

Current version: 1.2
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + PayPal Website Payments Pro payment gateway
   + Magento Enterprise Edition compatibility
   + New subscription.next_payment_date variable
   + Authorize.net payment gateway
   + Reworked email templating system for alerts
   + Custom order status for subscription activation
   + Access lists support for Periodicity, Subscriptions list and Subscriptions alerts
   + Subscription products can be included in CSV export
   * Minor bugfixes

To get the complete list of extensions features please visit the Subscriptions and Recurring Payments page.

Easy Categories

The aheadWorks Easy Categories extension is the perfect tool to help you design a page devoted to making it even simpler for customers to find what they need. In a few simple steps, you can provide your customers with an overview of what your store has to offer.

Current version: 1.0.2
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Ability to show category thumbnail without category name
   + Way of displaying subcategories if they have no child-elements changed
   * Incorrect Category list view in categories

If you need more information about this extension you can visit the Easy Categories page.

Review Rotator

Review Rotator allows you to easily display a random set of product reviews on your store’s website. This means that every time visitors come to your store, they’ll be greeted with a different review, encouraging them to click on links that will take them deeper into your site.

Current version: 1.2.3
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Magento Enterprise 1.6 compatibility
   + Improved layout with extension’s own CSS
   * Random function
   * Rotate block view

View all Review Rotator features on the extension page.

Minimum Advertised Price

With the Minimum Advertised Price extension, you can now sell your advertised products at the price you want, even if it is considerably lower than the minimum stipulated price.

Current version: 1.0.5
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Magento Enterprise 1.6 compatibility
   * Add to cart for the item out of stock
   * Popup is broken when no thumbnail is available
   * Some actions work only for buttons

Want to know how the extension work looks at the frontend? View the screenshots or Demo on the Minimum Advertised Price page.

Frequently Bought Together

The Frequently Bought Together module has been specially designed to substitute and significantly improve the functionality and usability of Magento’s core module Related Products.

Current version: 1.1.7
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   * Considering primary product custom options in price
   * Magento Enterprise compatibility fixed

Find the complete list of Frequently Bought Together features on the extension page.

On Sale

The On Sale extension allows users to add visually-appealing labels to any product images. Whether you need On Sale for seasonal discount campaigns or inventory clearances, you’ll be able to use the extension quickly and easily. Choose from the software’s pre-packaged labels or upload your own, then add text using the predefined variables. Imagine the sales you’ll make when customers see labels and text like: “Save $10 on this item today!” and “Hurry! Limited supply!”

Current version: 2.1
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Ability to use an existing image
   + Discount labels threshold
   * IE shifts description below the image

Interested? Find more on the On Sale page.

Promotion of the Month!

The Christmas and New Year holidays have passed and all presents are given and taken, but not from aheadWorks! We invite everyone to take part in our promotion and get real benefit!

50% off for one purchase is not a common event in your life, is it? But today aheadWorks Co. is ready to give you a 50% discount! Everything you should do is to purchase just 3 aheadWorks extensions:

   Advanced Reports
   Frequently Bought Together
   Product Questions

and the incredible discount is yours! Who would refuse to get better control of sales, store content improvement and cross-sells increase? Just use the following coupon with these products in your cart:

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and gain profit from your investment!

Hurry up to make a good buy! The offer expires 19 January 2009!

That was a brief review of our new and updated modules. We are always happy to get all kinds of feedback. If you need a new feature in our product or new extension – just let us know – it has good chances to be implemented.

Thank you for being with us and good luck to your business,
Sincerely yours,
aheadWorks Magento department

Stasia Newsletter, Updates Extensions

Every day we perceive a lot of information. No wonder that we forget or lose sight of things that can be really important and useful for us. That’s why it is worth reading newsletters – regular emails with articles about news, updates, special offers, surveys.

In our monthly newsletter we share all the results achieved in the Magento extensions development sphere during the month, so you can unhurriedly choose what will be more helpful and efficient for you and your business. It is a perfect way out for those who have missed a chance to join aheadWorks Magento Group and get all the news immediately or just prefer to learn about our development efforts at a time.

View a brief summary of our month’s work below and learn what new surveys, extensions and updates were released in November.

New Survey

We always base on the needs and requirements of our customers and it is one of the fundamental principles of our work. We highly appreciate your opinion and would be very much obliged to you if you found 2 minutes to answer a few quick questions of our survey and defined which products would be extremely helpful for your business. In acknowledgement of your sincere answers we’ll raffle off gift extensions.

Hurry up to become one of 3 winners! The survey ends on December 24, 2009.

We are waiting for your answers and the prizes are waiting for you!

New Extensions

Subscriptions and Recurring Payments

The Subscriptions and Recurring Payments extension by aheadWorks is an ideal tool for those who deal with subscription products and services usually bought with a certain periodicity (bottled water, detergent, pet food, massage). Subscriptions and Recurring Payments will help you to manage them efficiently and in no time.

Listed below are some of the powerful features that Subscriptions and Recurring Payments lends to your websites:

• Adds new product type – subscriptions
• Ability to convert simple products to subscriptions in just 2 clicks
• Simple product can be sold as simple or with subscription option at the same time
• Customizable subscription periods – any day of week can be excluded
• Per-product period types customization
• Configurable shipping per product
• Subscriptions list and statistics in the admin area
• Subscribers listing in the admin area
• Subscriptions statistics and management in the customer area
• Optional first period price, can be different from the normal price
• Membership support – moving customer to a specific group on subscription or unsubscription

Interested? Learn more on the product page.

Advanced Newsletter

The Advanced Newsletter extension will help you increase your subscriber base with a highly customizable user interface and targeted sign-up options, while the segmentation features let you target your subscribers with the most relevant content.

Advanced Newsletter offers numerous features, including:

• Enriched standard newsletter subscription block
• Inclusion of name fields for guests
• Mailing lists segmentation by subscriber groups
• Ability to display/hide segment(s) for particular categories/stores
• MailChimp integration
• Third party SMTP server support means you are no longer dependent on your local server mailing software

Find the whole list of features on the Advanced Newsletter page.

Easy Categories

The Easy Categories extension displays your store’s product categories, so customers can rapidly find what they want. Best of all, you can place your category listings wherever you’d like – your store’s home page, a special category page or another CMS page.

Some of Easy Categories features include:

• The ability to place categories on any page you’d like
• The ability to lay out your categories in columns or lines
• The opportunity to include images with your category listings
• The option to specify the thumbnail size of photos
• The speed needed to upgrade your storefront quickly

View the screenshots and find more features on the Easy Categories page.

Updated Extensions

Please don’t forget to check complete changelog on the product pages.

Refer a Friend

The Refer a friend module stimulates your customers to invite their friends to your store. As a result the customers who referred their friends get % or flat rate discount and you gain more clients and more benefit. Let your customers promote your on-line store for you!

Current version: 1.3
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new (main changes):
   + New action type – “% from all referrals purchases”
   + Ability to broadcast referral link
   + Ability to refer somebody more than once from different accounts
   + Referrer name is available from the template
   + Triggers limit for every action type
   + Ability to block additive discounts
   + Processing priority default value
   + New rule conditions: for orders greater than X and discounts greater than X
   + Dynamic explanatory label for better rules understanding
   + “Eligible for discount” field in customer area
   + Reworked admin referrers page

Find the complete changelog on the extension page.

On Sale

The On Sale extension allows users to add visually-appealing labels to any product images. The labels can then be displayed in both the product and catalog views.

Current version: 2.1
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Discount labels threshold
   + Can use Native “New” period for product
   * IE pushes description below the image
   * Configurable products bug fix
   * Clipped label in IE8 fix

To get the whole picture of On Sale features please visit the extension page.

Facebook Link

Facebook Link makes your store promotion between Facebook friends quick and easy. No need to send emails – posts like “I’ve just purchased a great stuff at (your store link)” would automatically appear on the customer’s wall. You can include store, purchased product title, price and links there – the extension uses product variables to make these messages custom and attractive.

Current version: 1.0.4
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Linking of existing customer accounts
   + Configuration values API Key and Secret are trimmed now
   * Hardcoded http protocol for js files
   * JavaScript IE7 incompatibility
   * Fix for stores requiring registration field “Birthday”

Please visit the Facebook Link page to get more information about the extension.

Follow Up Email

Follow Up Email is a powerful auto-responder and customer relationship tool that helps to keep your site in the customer’s mind always. Use this automated email follow up extension and you’ll never lose track of your customers even if they have abandoned their shopping carts.

Current version: 3.1
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   * Duplicate messages on order status events

You can view all features of that powerful extension on the Follow Up Email page.

Frequently Bought Together

The Frequently Bought Together extension has been specially designed to substitute and significantly improve the functionality and usability of Magento’s core module Related Products. Once embedded, Frequently Bought Together displays related products in a neat, comfortable and modern way, employing smooth and eye-catching AJAX and JavaScript effects.

Current version: 1.1.6
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + taxed prices displaying
   * out of stock products fix
   * price for product with options bug fix
   * checkboxes for configurable products
   * currency conversion fixed

Need more information? Find it on the Frequently Bought Together page.

Advanced Reports

The Advanced Reports extension by aheadWorks not only allows you to obtain more sales information than ever before, but you can also use the information you cull to better draw conclusions about the status of your business. Whether you want to run reports by countries, hours, days of the week or other criteria, Advanced Reports can help you get a complete picture of your business situation.

Current version: 1.1
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Sales Report
   + Users Activity Report
   + Sales by Customer Group Report
   + Ability to choose order statuses for processing
   + Reports data displayed by Quarter added
   * Special symbols in the SKU field fixed
   * First day of week fixed
   * Double quantity in Sales by Country report fixed
   * Lost session error fixed

Please view more features on the Advanced Reports page.

That was a brief review of our new and updated modules. We are always happy to get all kinds of feedback. If you need a new feature in our product – just let us know – it has good chances to be implemented.

Thank you for being with us and good luck to your business,
Sincerely yours,
aheadWorks Magento department

Stasia Newsletter, Updates Extensions

aheadWorks Co. is glad to present a traditional brief review of our month’s work – new extensions, guides and updates. But the most important point we would like to pay your attention at is the license change.

We are also pleased to announce that now you can follow us on Twitter and be informed about all aheadWorks Co. news and changes in no time!

Important License Change

After a number of requests from our customers, and before the next bunch of new releases, we have decided to change the extensions license terms and grant more opportunities to deploy and use aheadWorks products. From now on, we license per Magento installation, not per domain. Hope this change will help you to cut costs and enjoy more top-notch Magento modules by aheadWorks Co.

The whole text of the license can be found here: http://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/LICENSE-M1.txt

New Extensions

Extensions releases, news, updates & promotions in aheadWorks Magento Group. One click to join!

Advanced Reports

With the Advanced Reports extension by aheadWorks you can improve the functionality of native Magento reports and create a complete picture of your business situation. Whether you want to run reports by countries, hours, days of the week or other criteria, Advanced Reports can help you get a complete picture of your business situation.

The main features:

• “Bestsellers” report
• “Sales by Hour” report
• “Sales by Day of Week” report
• “Sales by Product” report
• “Sales by Country” report
• Ability to display reporting data by week
• Ability to display data from various charts

To find out all module features please visit the Advanced Reports page.

Customer Purchases

Customer Purchases incorporates a “Purchases” tab into the Customer Information page. Using the tab, businesses can observe a complete listing of any customer’s purchases. And with the “View Order” button, they can easily check the date and time each order was made; the product title(s); the quantity ordered; the price per item ordered; and the total purchase price.

Features:

• Addition of “Purchases” tab to the customer information page
• Comprehensive overview of any customer’s purchases
• Ability to go directly to the order page
• Fast two-minute installation
• Easy-to-use interface

You can view screenshots and get more detailed information about the extension from the Customer Purchases page.

New User Guides

Proper customer care and support is one of aheadWorks Co. main principles. That’s why a considerable part of our efforts is devoted to the development of User Guides. A detailed and well-illustrated Guide saves your time, prevents from possible mistakes and helps to improve the extension functionality.

In October the list of User Guides was enlarged with the Advanced Reports User Guide. It is available in PDF from the Advanced Reports page. In the Guide supplied with numerous illustrations you can find the step-by-step description of the extension configuration and the detailed description of each report making.

Updated Extensions

Please don’t forget to check complete changelog on the product pages.

Follow Up Email

Follow Up Email is a powerful auto-responder and customer relationship tool that helps to keep your site in the customer’s mind always. Use this automated email follow up extension and you’ll never lose track of your customers even if they have abandoned their shopping carts.

Current version: 3.0.2
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new (the main features):
   + New events: ‘Customer birthday’, ‘Customer logged in’, ‘Customer last activity’, ‘Wishlist shared’, ‘Product added to wishlist’
   + Sender details configuration for each rule
   + Sale amount, multiple product type and category condition options for each rule
   + Event can cancel emails generated by other events
   + New options: ‘Send email copy to’, ‘Send test email’, ‘Send to subscribers only’
   + Abandoned carts tracking and restoring for registered customers and guests
   + Email queue with email preview
   + Manual email sending/cancelling/deleting option
   + Links tracking with detailed statistics

You can view all Follow Up Email features on the extension page.

Product Updates Notifications

With the Product Updates Notifications extension you can keep your consumers informed about the changes in your store – new products, stock updates, promotions and anything else you wish.

Current version: 1.1
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Products column to ‘Manage Subscribers’ list
   * Filters and sorting fixed

To get whole list of features please visit the Product Updates Notifications page.

Help Desk Ultimate

Help desk Magento extension by aheadWorks is a perfect customer care and support solution for ecommerce sites based on Magento.

Current version: 2.5
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new (the main features):
   + IMAP and TLS support
   + New contact form integration system
   + Anti-bot and anti-spam protection
   + Admin can link tickets with orders
   + New improved customer selection interface when creating/editing a ticket
   + HTML links are parsed <a> tag displayed
   + Predefined reply templates for admin, allow to choose and edit/submit a ready answer
   + Ticket view/reply for not logged in customers

Please find out all the features implemented in new version on the Help Desk Ultimate page.

Due to the release of the Help Desk Ultimate updated version, the Comparison Guide has been renewed. You can view the article comparing several help desk solutions in the following page: http://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/blog/2009/07/help-desk-ultimate-comparison-guide

Promotion of the Month!

This month we have a special bonus offer for you! Enrich you store with just 3 extensions at a time and get a $90 off discount:

• Advanced Newsletter
• Facebook Link
• Who Bought This Also Bought

Everything you should do to get a $90 discount is to use the following coupon with these 3 products in your cart:

HCMH09OCT

Hurry up! The offer expires 23 November 2009!

That was a brief review of our new and updated modules. We are always happy to get all kinds of feedback. If you need a new feature in our product – just let us know – it has good chances to be implemented.

Thank you for being with us and good luck to your business,
Sincerely yours,
aheadWorks Magento department

Stasia Newsletter, Updates Extensions

It’s a good tradition to summarize the results of the previous month’s work. Today is October and glancing back we should admit that much work has been done in September – new extensions releases, user guides and updates. Let’s run our eyes over the major events of the last month.

New Extensions

Extensions releases, news, updates & promotions in aheadWorks Magento Group. One click to join!

Product Updates Notifications

The Product Updates Notifications extension helps your customers to stay in touch with your store and the products they are interested in. Customers can subscribe and receive email notifications every time new products appear in your store, the prices or items quantity are changed, the promotions are held.

Some features are:

• Adds “Notify me about updates” link with admin configurable position
• Fast loading AJAX layer with subscription form for guests
• Configuration of notification defaults
• Optional message signatures
• Macro fields containing all attributes of the product
• Ability to include any content that Magento CMS can involve

To get more information about Product Updates Notifications please visit the extension page.

Facebook Link

Facebook Link makes it easier for customers to invite their friends to your store as there is no need to send emails – posts like “Hey! I’ve just purchased a great stuff at (your store link)” appear automatically on the customer’s wall. You can set the module up so that if a customer logs in your store using Facebook account, every time this person makes a purchase, a post about the order with the full product title, its price and link to this product is automatically left on the wall.

Some Facebook Link features are:

• Login and signup using Facebook API
• Automated updates on customer wall
• Custom wall post template, action link template
• Ability to include custom number of products from the order in the post
• Template variables detailing purchased products

The whole list of the Facebook Link features you can find on the extension page.

New User Guides

Our customers and those who are only thinking over aheadWorks extensions purchasing gain a new advantage – User Guides in the PDF format. All Guides include the detailed description of each step of extension configuration.

Everyone can set up the module in accordance with his/her own needs without much time and effort expense. A considerable number of interface screenshots make the process of setting up easy and fast. As a bonus we included various examples of extensions’ applying.

You can download User Guides for the following extensions:

• Rss Reader
• Product Questions
• On Sale
• Advanced Reviews
• Refer a Friend

Updated Extensions

Please don’t forget to check complete changelog on the product pages.

Booking & Reservations

Booking and reservations extension allows you to create all kinds of bookable products – tickets, tours, attendances, all kinds of scheduled services, rentals, workshops, lectures, hotel rooms etc.

Current version: 1.1
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Flexible price rules
   + Gradual pricing (ascending and descending)
   + Flexible exclude days rules
   + Reservation details in cart
   + Ability to switch off shipping per product
   * Back button in admin area fixed
   * JavaScript errors in IE8 in admin fixed
   * Date&time product adding for one day fixed
   * “Duplicate button” removed

Find more information about Booking and Reservations on the extension page.

On Sale

This extension allows you to add graphical labels to images of any products – new, products with special price or any custom-defined product. The labels can be displayed in catalog view as well as in product.

Current version: 2.0.1
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Customizable label for each product
   + Specific label for new products
   + More values (calculated automatically) for label text
   + Possibility to insert any product attribute in a label text by the attribute code
   + CSS styles become more specific

Find more features on the extension page.

Who Bought This Also Bought

Providing such kind of additional content for your product pages this extension not only enriches your store – it gives valuable and unmistakable ideas for additional and future purchases. By putting several items to shopping cart your customers transparently share their thinking between each other, proposing highly targeted set of related items for people considering the same purchase.

Current version: 1.1
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Installation procedure improved, the relations are analyzed after product page request
   + Layout with extension’s own CSS improved

To get more information please visit the Who Bought This Also Bought page.

Refer a Friend

“Refer a friend” stimulates your customers to invite their friends to your store. As a result the customers who referred their friends get % or flat rate discount and you gain more clients and more benefit.

Current version: 1.2.4
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   * HTTPS backend
   * Discount usage fixed
   * Behavior in some multi-store configurations fixed
   * “Cannot add to cart” error for referrer after a purchase with a discount had been made fixed
   * Discount usage limit for values over 1 fixed
   * Complex combined (percent + fixed amount) discount rules under some circumstances on the checkout fixed
   * Strings are available for translation now
   * Priority works more obviously

View the extension features on the Refer a Friend page.

Product Questions

The extension adds a questions page to each product and helps you to stay in touch with your visitors and customers.

Current version: 1.1.2
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   * Global Record Search in the backend fixed
   * Incorrect visibility filling fixed
   * “Save and continue edit” button action fixed
   * Sorting by Yes/No in the backend fixed

Find more details on the Product Questions page.

AJAX Cart Pro

AJAX Cart Pro extension removes annoying page reloads on add to cart and delete from cart user actions. Items added instantly with animation effects.

Current version: 1.4.5
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Cross operation of “www.domain” and “domain” support
   + Default, blank and modern themes are supported
   + Easy custom configuration (custom.js)
   * Out of stock products fixed
   * The extension turns off for IE6 users automatically

Please visit the extension page for more detailed information.

Blog

Current version: 1.0.14
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Parsing CMS tags functionality is added
   * Google sitemap fixed
   * evil .13 release skipped

The more detailed information is on the Blog page.

That was a brief review of our new and updated modules. We are always happy to get all kinds of feedback. If you need a new feature in our product – just let us know – it has good chances to be implemented.

Thank you for being with us and good luck to your business,
Sincerely yours,
aheadWorks Magento department

Stasia Newsletter, Updates Extensions

aheadWorks never lets the grass grow under its feet. August was a productive month and we would like to bring to your attention a short summary of the results of our intensive work. Extensions releases, news, updates & promotions in aheadWorks Magento Group. One click to join!

New Extensions

Minimum Advertised Price

The minimum price set by the manufacturer isn’t the bottom line any more! With the Minimum Advertised Price extension by aheadWorks you can sell products at the price you want.

Suppliers and retailers quite often stipulate the lowest price an item is allowed to be advertised at. But sometimes in-store prices can be really lower than allowed by the suppliers, but may not be displayed in online advertising. The Minimum Advertised Price extension helps you to escape the conflicts with the manufacturers and sell products at the prices you wish.

Minimum Advertised Price adds a special Check Price button instead of the product price. Having clicked this button, you add an item to the shopping cart, and only then the required price becomes visible.

Some features are:

• Fast loading AJAX layer
• Completely configurable layer text, images and buttons
• Configurable independent category/search/product page views
• Supports direct HTML embedding
• Fully customizable buttons and actions
• Ability to include any content that Magento CMS can involve
• 100% meets Minimum Advertised Price implementation standards
• Comes with detailed setup and configuration documentation

To learn the whole list of Minimum Advertised Price features please visit the extension page.

Advanced Reviews

A highly customizable Magento review system – Advanced Reviews by aheadWorks Co. – significantly improves the functionality and importance of this one of the most powerful online marketing tools.

According to Avenue A/Razorfish “Digital Consumer Behavior Study”, a review is #1 resource for product research. 86% of the consumers read online reviews before making purchasing decisions. The Advanced Reviews extension enlarges the functionality of native Magento solution.

Features:

• Possibility to restrict adding reviews to logged in customers only
• Review helpfulness rating
• Helpfulness voting can be restricted to logged in customers only
• Configurable ability to allow adding reviews to customers who bought the reviewed product only
• Social bookmarks bar for sharing reviews
• Report abuse feature – let your visitors inform you about inappropriate reviews
• Pros and Cons list configurable by admin, can be set up per store
• Customer-defined Pros and Cons
• “Would you recommend this product to a friend?” block

To observe the whole list of features please visit the Advanced Reviews page.

Updated Extensions

Please don’t forget to check complete changelog on the product pages.

Refer a Friend

The buzz marketing module Refer a Friend stimulates your customers to invite their friends to your shop. The customers, who referred a certain number of friends, get a % or flat rate discount. You can set any conditions and if they are met, the rule is triggered and the referrer is qualified for a discount. Both sides win – the customer gets a discount and the store owner gains more clients and more benefit.

Current version: 1.2.1
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Discount usage limit
   + Limitation per rule execution
   * HTTPS links in secure customer areas
   * IE8 behavior
   * Invitation without being logged in
   * Storecode fix in some multistore configurations
   * Some strings weren’t available for translation
   * Under some circumstances, referrer could not add products to cart
   * Priority works more obviously

Find more information on the product page.

Z-Blocks

Z-Blocks extension allows creating unlimited number of static blocks and content items.

Current version: 2.0.3
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + ‘Show in subcategories’ block option added
   * ACL fix
   * Product with empty category page crash fix
   * SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 MySQL error fix
   * Product More Views page crash fix

To observe Z-Blocks features please visit the extension page.

AJAX Cart Pro

AJAX Cart Pro extension removes annoying page reloads on add to cart and delete from cart user actions. Items are added instantly with animation effects.

Current version: 1.4.5
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + Cross operation of “www.domain” and “domain” support
   + Default, blank and modern themes support
   + Easy custom configuration (custom.js)
   * More stable work
   * Out of stock products fixed
   * IE6 is not supported any more

To observe AJAX Cart Pro features please visit the extension page.

RSS Reader

RSS Reader is the software for organizing and displaying RSS feeds. This data exchange solution was thoroughly adapted by aheadWorks Co. for Magento-based stores. Now you can install RSS Reader onto your online store and display the news interesting for your visitors.

Current version: 1.2.0
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   * Magento caching enabled fix

Find more information on the RSS Reader page.

Promotion of the month!

The following crushing trio makes a revolution in online business doing:

Review Rotator
Follow Up Email
Advanced Reviews

This powerful combination enriches your store content, improves store functionality and helps you to stay in close contact with your customers without much efforts, time and money applying.

Buy these 3 extensions at a time and get a 25% discount.

Please use the following coupon with these products in cart:

AUG25REJRM

The offer expires 22 September 2009!

That was a brief review of our new and updated modules. We are always happy to get all kinds of feedback. If you need a new feature in our product – just let us know – it has good chances to be implemented.

Thank you for being with us and good luck to your business,
Sincerely yours,
aheadWorks Magento department

Stasia Newsletter, Updates Advanced Reviews, AJAX Cart Pro, Minimum Advertised Price, Refer a Friend, RSS Reader, Z-Blocks

This is July newsletter of aheadWorks Magento World store — the storage of the most popular Magento extensions and themes. Below you’ll find the summary of the results of our development efforts in Magento extensions sphere — the releases of new and updates of existing products, new services and offers. We invite everyone who wants to be informed about these events immediately to subscribe to our blog.

Admin Panel Demo

This month we are happy to present you Admin Panel Demo. It is a remarkable opportunity to look at the work of our extensions — Booking & Reservations, Follow Up Email, Help Desk Ultimate, Grid Manager, Refer a Friend — from the inside. The extensions in the Admin Panel Demo can be used practically without any restrictions as if they have been installed on your store. Demo allows to work with different data including products, users and their orders. That’s why we strongly recommend to input only fictitious titles, names, addresses, dates and any other information.
Take a test-drive of Admin Panel

New Extensions

Refer a friend

According to the investigation conducted by Forrester Research 83% of North Americans rely on the opinion of a friend who has used the product or service when only 60% trust consumer reviews on a retailer’s site. Use the power of word of mouth!

Our new buzz marketing module “Refer a friend” stimulates your customers to invite their friends to your shop. As a result the customers who referred their friends get % or flat rate discount and you gain more clients and more benefit. Let your customers promote your on-line store for you!

Some features are:

• Flexible rules basing on targets: signups quantity, purchased items quantity, purchase amount.
• Rules actions: apply discount percent, or fixed sum percent.
• Customer can trigger several rules at once and get a combined discount.
• Rules work per each referred customer, or for all referred.
• Rules priority.
• Statistics module for admin.
• Advanced tracking – customers will never loose their referrals.
• Customer panel in the user area with statistics and notifications in case a discount has been earned.

To have a clear idea of all the features please have a look at Refer a friend page.

New services

Migration to Magento Shopping Cart

We are happy to inform you that now we provide a new service – Migration to Magento Shopping Cart – a turnkey solution for converting your different from Magento online shop to Magento or moving all the data from one Magento store to another. We move all important information (products, customers, orders, images and other data) without data loss and in limited period of time.

To observe the list of shopping carts we switch to Magento please read the whole article.

If you are interested in our proposal please contact us.

Updated Extensions

Don’t forget to check the complete changelog on the product pages.

Z-Blocks v.2.0

The release brings the extension to a new level of controlling static blocks in your store. So for a better visualization we have prepared a number of use cases demonstrating some Z-Blocks features:

• Authority/security seal at the best place
  Z-Blocks demonstrated features:
  * static HTML content displaying on all pages.
• Support service phone number is shown in working hours only
  Z-Blocks demonstrated features:
  * date and time scheduling.
• Curious facts
  Z-Blocks demonstrated features:
  * displaying predefined content items randomly.
• Congratulate your customers with national holidays
  Z-Blocks demonstrated features:
  * per-store block displaying;
  * HTML content;
  * specified displaying interval.
• Info about upcoming events
  Z-Blocks demonstrated features:
  * exact day scheduling;
  * displaying at the selected category.

Current version: 2.0
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   + New GUI added
   + Unlimited number of blocks inside each position
   + Unlimited number of content items inside each block
   + Customizable block and item sorting
   + Independent items rotation inside each block
   + Powerful block view scheduler
   + Per-category and per-store view

Find more information on the product page.

Grid Manager

The extension allows you to choose which columns you’d like to display, and also their size, position, title. All displayable data can be selected and inserted into a grid. Grid Manager gives you the opportunity to view all your customized tables in one place with ability to reset the changes to the default table view.

Grid Manager features:

• Add/remove columns
• Editable column titles and sizes
• Quick editor which opens without page reload
• On-the-fly column design
• 2-ways grid customization
• Ability to explore grid data source
• Easy 2-minutes installation
• Meets Magento programming practices for most versions and customizations compatibility

Current version: 1.0.2
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
   * Grid requesting by AJAX
   * Column filtering improved

To observe Grid Manager Demo please visit the extension page.

New offers

We have a special offer for you. Buy 5 most demanded products and get 20% discount!

1. Help Desk Ultimate
2. AJAX Cart Pro
3. Z-Blocks
4. Product Questions
5. Follow Up Email

Power Pack cost: $428 (Original price: $535, you save $107)

Find more information at SPECIAL OFFERS page.

That’s all what were going to inform you about. Do not forget to stay in touch, leave ratings and all kinds of feedback, we are always happy to hear your thoughts. If you need a new feature in our product – just let us know – it has good chances to be implemented.

Thank you for being with us and good luck to your business,
Sincerely yours,
aheadWorks Magento department

Stasia Newsletter, Updates Extensions

Hope you’ve gladly appreciated new features of our products last month. This time we are to make you happier than before! Below you’ll find the summary of our month’s thorough work. As you know every month we release new products for a wide range of Magento ecommerce sites. So to stay well informed, please don’t forget to check product page of the extensions that might interest you — FAQ, changelog, demos, – or subscribe to our blog if you haven’t done it yet.

New Extensions

Blog

“Blog” version 0.5.9 created by “Lazzymonk” is a notable extension valuable for the community. The considerable number of downloads vividly demonstrated its’ relevance and importance. We have come to a conclusion to concentrate a part of our efforts on the community sphere and have agreed with the previous developer on moving the ownership rights to our company. According to our heart-warming tradition the extension remains FREE! Taking into consideration this extension popularity we have made the upgrade compatible with your old version.

What’s in the new release?

• Excerpt field
• Ability to show blog menu on blog page only
• Settings menu shortcut
• .html rewrite added to post link

Especially we’d like to emphasize the main features complemented by aheadWorks Co.:

• Switchable WYSIWYG. Rich Text Editor (RTE) a “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” interface aims to reduce the learning curve associated with users trying to express their formatting directly as valid HTML markup.
• Tags. Tags help describe an item and allow it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are chosen by the Magento store owner informally and personally by the item’s creator or by its viewer.

You are welcome to estimate new FREE version of the “Blog“. This is not a beta — the release is stable and for live stores use. We would likely receive and take into consideration all your advices over “Blog” improvement.

Booking & Reservations

Are you a hotel/restaurant/theatre owner? Do you sell any kind of tickets? So our first extension is exactly for you! “Booking & Reservations” is a new product type, which allows you to create all kinds of bookable products — tickets, tours, attendances, seminars, all kinds of scheduled services, rentals, workshops, lectures, hotel rooms etc.

Here the main features turning your store to a powerful solution for any e-shop operations:

• Day or hour billable periods
• Date/time/date and time based products, e.g. hotel room/consulting attendance/rental
• Specify available time frame, e.g. 8 AM – 6 PM, all reservations can only be in this period
• Specify date period of product availability
• For admin: instant orders review on the product edit page using the calendar widget; separate orders page with all bookings and reservations

To get more information about this extension please have a look at “Booking & Reservations” page.

Grid Manager

Are you tired of numerous useless columns in a table in store administration section? We have a perfect solution of this problem! “Grid Manager” is a nice helper for store owners and administrators. All available columns for any standard grid are at your disposal — any displayable data can be selected and inserted into a grid. You can view all your customized tables in one place with ability to reset the changes to the default table view.

“Grid Manager” is up for you in:

• adding/removing columns
• opening it without page reload
• exploring grid data source
• designing on-the-fly column

Find out more features of “Grid Manager“!

Updated Extensions

Please don’t forget to check complete changelog on the product pages.

Help Desk Ultimate

Help Desk Ultimate (HDU) is an integrated Magento customer support solution by aheadWorks Co. This useful extension has an optional feature to convert initial e-mail messages sent to parser mail box into new support tickets. We’d like to distinguish the main features of Help Desk Ultimate here if by some reason this extension has slipped from your attentive view.

Current version: 2.4.4
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions, highly recommended for non-English speaking customers
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
+ Departments stats on a separate page
+ Ticket Notes
+ Link tickets to orders
+ Tickets tab at customer edit
+ Include name and email of customer in ticket reply email template
+ Added number of ticket messages
+ “Assign to customer” with search autosuggest
+ Auto-setting status to “open” when undetected address is used
+ aheadWorks updates feed support
+ New e-mail template sent when ticket is reassigned
* Minor bugfixes
* Improved filtering by date
* Interface improvements

Checkout Promo

This extension entices your customers to spend more to receive this or that benefit.

Features:

• Multiple configurable blocks positioning on checkout and shopping cart pages
• Rules priority, start and expiration dates
• Websites and customer groups based rules
• Customizable blocks defined in CMS Static Blocks section
• Multiple promo blocks on page

Current version: 1.0.3
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
* Fixed creating table during module installation
* Coupon functionality improvements

Advanced Menu

The extension makes your store menu looks as you wish in just 2 clicks. You can have a look at “Advanced Menu Demo”.

Current version: 1.7.4
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
+ AW All 2.0 extension integrated
* Native menu style affecting fix
* Left folding menu type top categories without children now clickable

AJAX Cart Pro

“AJAX Cart Pro” extension allows customers to do shopping without page reloads. Items can be added instantly with animation effects.

Current version: 1.4.4
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
+ Confirmation dialog hides when redirecting to checkout
+ Configurable confirmation dialog
+ Add-remove functionality on cart page
+ AW All 2.0 extension integrated
* Internet Explorer compatibility improved
* Non UTF-8 characters support
* JS performance optimization
* HTTPS support improvements

Featured Products

“Featured Products” is a wonderful possibility for original displaying of your Magento store products. Any products of your choice will be displayed statically or with animation effects and draw visitors attention.

Some essential features:

• One product can be added to multiple categories
• Added option to display product slideshow only on main page
• Shows warning message if no products found
• Ability to use custom image instead of the product image

Current version: 2.2.3
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
* Import no more crashed with aw_fp_category attribute
* Bundle products displayed with correct price
* Disabled products are not shown

Product Questions

“Product questions” module bonds you and your visitors by means of questions page added to each product. The idea is simple — visitors ask questions regarding the product, then store administrator reviews and answers the questions. Approved questions and answers appear on the product questions page enriching your site content and providing it with additional information about your products. Observe the whole list of “Product Questions” features.

Current version: 1.0.11
Upgrade: recommended from any previous versions
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
* Updated e-mail templates to be more compatible with Help Desk Ultimate

Promotion of the Month!

This month we have a special bonus offer for you! Enrich your store content pack with 4 best selling modules and get 45% off:
Product Questions
Review Rotator
RSS Reader
Who Bought This Also Bought

Please use the following coupon with these products:

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The offer expires 15 July 2009! No time for doubts. Hurry up!

That’s all what were going to inform you about. Do not forget stay in touch, leave ratings and all kinds feedback, we are always happy to hear your thoughts. If you need a new feature in our product – just let us know – it has good chances to be implemented.

Thank you for being with us and good luck to your business,
Sincerely yours,
aheadWorks Magento department

Stasia Newsletter, Updates

This is May newsletter of aheadWorks Magento World store – the largest stock of commercial and most useful Magento extensions. In this message we highlight our new modules and updates for the old ones.

New Extensions

Please do not forget to check product page of the extensions that might interest you – there is much more information like tips, FAQ, changelog, demos, videos etc.

Follow Up Email

Follow up emails is powerful tool for any ecommerce site. It gives a comfortable and flexible way to automatically reach your customers by email on day X after an order had been placed.

Some features:

• 3-tiers follow up system
• Ability to setup tiers in dependence on order status
• Unlimited number of rules
• Native Magento templating and mailing systems
• Integrated into standard Magento template – looks and acts like a native code

Frequently Bought Together

Frequently Bought Together extension continues our line of Amazon’s innovative techniques adaption on Magento platform. This module has been created to substitute and significantly improve functionality and usability of Magento core module Related Products.

During the installation Frequently Bought Together turns off Related Products block and allows you to choose where to display its content by inserting a simple code in your CMS. Once embedded, the extension displays related products in a neat, comfortable and modern way, employing smooth and eye-catching AJAX and JavaScript effects. Frequently Bought Together does not only enrich your store content and make it look web 2.0 – it also attracts and encourages your customers to put additional products in their cart, increasing your cross sells and total purchase amount.

From AJAX side the module is powered by Pico JavaScript library – an in-house project of aheadWorks Co.

Frequently Bought Together takes its honored place in our set of perfectly crafted Magento sale motivation extensions.

On Sale

This extension allows you to add graphical labels to your special products images.

Attract your visitors to special items – the labels can be displayed in catalog view as well as in product. The label image and text are easily customized: you can use a label that comes into the package and upload you own; you can not only write your text on the label but also use the following variables: Discount Amount (calculated automatically), Regular Price, Special Price, Save Amount (calculated automatically). So it’s possible to label your products with texts like “Save $10 on this item today”, or “Buy for $29 save $10!” – all price values are calculated for each product individually. Label appears only when there is a special price for the product.

This way you save a lot of time when running e.g. seasonal discounts campaign, with a simple 3-minutes setup you can put labels on a category or the whole store.

Some features:

• Separate catalog and product view labels setup
• Ability to upload your own images for catalog and product labels
• Labels appear when special price is set
• 6 predefined label positions
• Special variables to use in your label texts
• Ability to disable labels for catalog or/and product
• Compatible with all major browsers (IE6, IE7, IE8, Safari, Opera, FireFox 2, FireFox 3, Google Chrome)
• Separate CSS files for catalog and product labels

Updated Extensions

Don’t forget to check full changelog on the product pages.

AJAX Cart Pro

Current version: 1.2.1
Upgrade: Recommended
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
+ Language files added
* Configurable and grouped products render fix
* Progress bar position fix
* Default values fix

Frequently Bought Together

Current version: 1.1.2
Upgrade: Recommended
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
* Structure corruption during clicking flood fix
* Currency delimiter fix
* Product with required options displaying fix
+ Considering product special price
+ Related products section hiding upgrade

Help Desk Ultimate

Current version: 2.3.1
Upgrade: Recommended from any previous version
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
+ Auto-assign to departments on e-mail reply
+ Ability to hide departmnents selector from customers
+ One-click Contact Form integration
+ One-click Product Questions integration
+ Improved parsing mechanism for html emails
+ Per-store default department
+ Ticket Lock
+ Ability to hide departments selector from customers
* catalogrule_apply_all cron job conflicting rule
* No back link when viewing closed ticket
* Parsing of text emails

On Sale

Current version: 1.0.2
Upgrade: Recommended from any previous version
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
* Getting image size fix
* Extension CSS layout change
+ Clickable label

RSS Reader

Current version: 1.0.10
Upgrade: Recommended
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:
+ “Summary max chars” and “summary max words” configuration parameters added

Promotion of the Month!

This month’s promotion is something what would make you pleasantly surprised. Now we offer 5 best selling modules with 30% off! Meet today the whole “Sales motivation” serie and bonus:
Follow Up Email
On Sale
Who Bought This Also Bought
Frequently Bought Together
Review Rotator
The unbeatable five for outstanding ecommerce results!!! No reasons to wait, this is a very short offer expiring 10 Jun 2009 – only 1 week. Use the following coupon with those products in cart:

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That’s all what were going to inform you about. Do not forget stay in touch, leave ratings and all kinds feedback, we are always happy to hear your thoughts. If you need a new feature in our product – just let us know – it has good chances to be implemented.

Thank you for being with us and good luck to your busines,
Sincerely yours,
aheadWorks Magento department

Eugene Newsletter, Updates