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This release seems to be the most expected, and today there is a serious reason to rejoice – Subscriptions & Recurring Payments with Authorize.net support is finally released!

Of course, the fact that this popular payment gateway has been implemented in the Subscriptions & Recurring Payments module is extremely notable itself, but you shouldn’t think that it’s the only advantage of the new version. The following features and minor bug fixes make the extension even more flexible and stable than before:

• 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
• If no subscription price, 0 is displayed at frontend
• Attempt to view empty subscribers list crashes Magento
• Minor bugfixes

Want Subscriptions & Recurring Payments right now? Find it on the extension page!

We are still waiting for the ideas what payment gateways YOU need! Share your requirements with us and they have good chances to be implemented in the nearest future.

By the way, the PayPal payment gateway is on its way and will be available in the next version.

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Have you ever wanted to showcase the product categories in your virtual store quickly, cleanly and easily? Then 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. With 2-minute installation and an easy-to-use interface, Easy Categories is the software extension you need to increase your sales!

Easy Categories 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.

Features of this exciting new extension from aheadWorks include:

• The ability to place categories on any page you’d like.
  The Easy Categories extension gives you the freedom to choose how best to provide your customers with quick links to merchandise categories.
• The ability to lay out your categories in columns or lines.
  If you have more than one page devoted to category listings, you’ll appreciate Easy Categories’ separate CSS files for each layout.
• The opportunity to include images with your category listings.
  Just use the category attribute “Thumbnail” and your chosen image will be displayed next to the category name. This is especially beneficial for product categories whose images could greatly entice customers to make purchases.
• The option to specify the thumbnail size of photos.
  If you’re using the category attribute “Thumbnail”, you can make your image smaller or larger.
• The speed needed to upgrade your storefront quickly.
  You don’t have to spend hours determining how to hyperlink or list categories on a web page. Use Easy Categories and within 2 minutes, you’ll be up and running. Plus, thanks to this extension’s straightforward interface, you don’t have to be a webpage design expert to create professional pages that sell.

Get more information about the extension on the Easy Categories page.

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In Advanced Reports v.1.1 new reports were implemented:

• “Sales” report. With Advanced Reports, it’s simple to display the purchase date and time of products sold during a specified period.
• “Users Activity” report. This report allows you to observe customers’ activities (e.g., new accounts, reviews, orders) for any period of time. The Users Activity Report chart is set up to show three lines – new accounts, number of reviews and number of orders.
• “Sales by Customer Group” report. This great feature gives you the opportunity to see sales by groupings of customer types.

Other Advanced Reports advantages are the software’s:

• Ability to configure the statuses of all orders for processing
• Reports data displayed by Quarter

The extension work was improved as the following bugs were fixed:

• Problem with special symbols in the SKU field
• First day of week problem
• Double quantity in Sales by Country report
• Lost session error

To get a complete picture of all extension’s features please visit the Advanced Reports page.

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Follow Up Email v.3.0 meets the requirements of even the most hard-to-please store owner. A rule creating/editing for follow up email sending has become so flexible that everyone can set it up according to their needs with the help of new events, conditions, template directives and some other opportunities implemented in the latest version.

The new Follow Up Email feature – abandoned carts tracking and restoring for registered customers and guests – allows both registered and non-registered customers to restore their abandoned carts with just one click on the link from the follow up email. The store owners in their turn can track who and when followed this link and – what is even more important – the following order as well.

The aheadWorks extension makes it possible to cover a wider range of your customers’ actions. We have added new events which allow triggering follow up emails when:

• wishlist was shared;
• product was added to wishlist;
• customer came back by link sent;
• customer has logged in;
• customer’s birthday;
• customer’s last activity.

With the considerably enlarged list of events you gain more opportunities to keep in touch with your customers.

To make the rules more flexible and suitable for you, we have implemented the Sales amount condition and the Events cancellation field. The Sales amount condition helps to create rules basing on customer orders total with ability to target recipients who have purchased for more/less or equal to the specified amount. With the Events cancellation field you can specify event(s) canceling already scheduled emails, e.g. the 2nd abandoned cart reminder can be canceled if the visitor comes back after the first one.

Follow Up Email allows you to send test emails, or copies of all outcoming messages. Thus you can check the correctness of templates and variables in split seconds – just send a test email right after its creating or editing!

Store administrators gain an opportunity to preview, delete or immediately send emails from the email queue manually until the emails are sent automatically.

Now the templates have become more flexible as new template directives have been added to template parser by aheadWorks: “foreach” allows listing e.g. all purchased products and other items arrays, “thumbnail” directive contains a product thumbnail.

To view the whole list of Follow Up Email features please visit the extension page.

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The Help Desk Ultimate feedback was thoroughly analyzed and the majority of asked-for features have been implemented in the new version. One of the main features concerns mail fetching improvements – IMAP and TLS support what means more protocols available for mail access.

Web bots and email spam is the sore point of all Internet users and the online store owner is not an exception. aheadWorks solved this problem having integrated the web bots and spam protection system in the Help Desk Ultimate extension. Now you can feel safe from the undesirable bulk of messages.

The process of working with tickets has been also enhanced. Among the major improvements is a possibility to link tickets with orders what easies the order access. Besides editing tickets has become much easier and faster with the predefined reply templates which will shorten the time support staff spends on tickets answering.

This is just a quick acquaintance with new functionality of the extension, to view the whole list of Help Desk Ultimate new features please visit the extension page.

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Proper business dealing is impossible to imagine without thorough analysis of your activity, and a report is the best tool here. A thoroughly made report can provide you with all the necessary information about your business situation so that you can draw a proper conclusion about further lines of your business development.

The Advanced Reports extension by aheadWorks improves the functionality of native Magento reports and allows you to get more information about your sales so that you can get more complete picture of your business situation.

With Advanced Reports you can get:

• new types of reports for which the information is aggregated by countries, hours, days of week;
• a sales report by a specified product;
• a comparative report by several products;
• reports shown by week what is impossible in native Magento reports;
• the data displayed in configurable charts.

To view all the features realized in Advanced Reports please visit the extension page.

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The standard Orders tab doesn’t allow viewing the list of the products purchased by the customer. To find it out you should click the required order every time you want to know which products and in what amount were bought by this or that customer.

The Customer Purchases extension solves this problem by adding a Purchases tab on the Customer Information page. In this tab you are able to observe the list of purchases with the complete information about each purchase – date and time it was made, the product title, quantity, price per item and total price. If you want to observe the details of each order just click the View Order button right in the purchase row.

Having the complete picture of customers’ activity behind your eyes, you can make a more valid and fast analysis of customers’ activity and plan the promotions and discounts.

You can observe the extension’s features on the Customer Purchases page.

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In our fast developing world it becomes hard enough to follow the novelties — too much information we get every day and quite often we just have no time to check for updates. 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 — anything you (as a store owner) want to inform your customers about. Logged in customers can subscribe by just clicking the “Notify me about updates” link, guests are only to enter their name and email.

The Product Updates Notifications extension allows you to place the link to one of the predefined positions:

• under the title above the reviews block;
• after reviews before the price;
• after the price before the “Add to cart” button;
• after “Add to cart” before short description.

You can also insert it anywhere you wish via CMS.

Find the extension features on the Product Updates Notifications page.

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The social networking power is the recent tendency of online marketing. aheadWorks Co. always swims with the current and today we are glad to announce a long-expected release of Facebook Link.

According to comScore, Facebook is the 2nd most-trafficked social media site and the 6th most-trafficked website in the world what makes Facebook an attractive advertising platform for many business owners. aheadWorks gives you such a possibility to connect your store with one of the most popular social media websites.

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 or store is automatically left on the wall. There may be not only the link to your store in the post but the full product title, its price and link to this product.

The high popularity of social networking does you a good turn here – the wall posts can be read not only by the customer’s friends but by any person from 250 million Facebook active users all over the world who can follow the link, get into your store and buy something.

Promoting your store with Facebook Link you have a discernible advantage over those who use traditional online advertising methods because 65 million active users access Facebook through their mobile devices and they are twice active than non-mobile users. You would hardly speak to the hearts of those 65 million in any other way.

A post on the wall with the link to your store or product is not a typical advertisement – it is a personal recommendation, an advice, a piece of news shared with friends which is more reliable and sincere than any attractive offer made by a booster. According to recent investigations two thirds of UK online consumers make a purchase in the result of recommendation from a friend. Make your customers promote your store for you!

Find out the Facebook Link features on the extension page.

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