Top 10 Free Magento Extensions

Presenting top-class, highly recommended 10 free extensions for Magento 1.x websites

Magento works great on its own. However, by adding a few of these extensions, you can create your shop into an earning machine

1. BankPayment by Phoenix Media2. WordPress Integration by FishPig3. Blog - Community Edition by aheadWorks4. M2E by M2E LTD5. Enhanced Admin Product Grid by Sweet Tooth6. Vertical Navigation with CSS Classes by

Rico_Neitzel7. SMTP Pro Email by ASchroder8. Reviews Sidebar by Amasty9. X-Payments PCI by xpayments10.Braintree Payments by Gene Commerce

By the way, this is just a list of extensions I generally recommend to people.

These are listed in random order.

Simply put, the list is not a ranking one. These extensions are here for one reason: they are easy-to-use and free.

BankPayment

BankPayment module tells the buyers to which bank account they have to transfer the money.

The module allows you to enter one (or more) bank account information in the payment configuration. This information is displayed to the customers during the checkout. Plus, the module puts the transfer information in the order email too.

WordPress IntegrationFishPig's Magento WordPress Integration integrates your WordPress blog with your Magento store. The extension is compatible with Magento Enterprise, Magento Professional, and Magento Community editions.

The extension now comes packaged with full translations for Brazilian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (nb_NO and nn_NO), Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

Blog - Community EditionThe Blog extension from aheadWorks is known for its

easy-to-use blogging interface. It provides your regular customers with updated information. Furthermore, it can bring additional visitors to your site, create relevant SEO-friendly text links, and assist in developing sales strategy.

The Magento Blog extension is a full featured blog extension for Magento Community Edition. It also helps you in creating relevant and valuable content to attract and engage the target audience.

M2E ProThe award-winning M2E Pro lets merchants of any size to integrate their Magento systems with eBay, Amazon, and Rakuten marketplaces. You can implement various selling strategies and manage all your inventory and orders from Magento.

As long as your monthly sales figure (through eBay, Amazon, Rakuten accounts connected to M2E Pro) is less than 10,000 (in USD or EUR), you can enjoy using this solution for free. For merchants with 10,000 (USD or EUR) sales, you will have to pay a fee.

Enhanced Admin Product GridEnhanced Admin Product Grid is created by the nice

team of Sweet Tooth. This Magento extension improves the existing Magento admin product management grid. It adds some useful, customizable features to the admin product management grid, including new columns and tools.

Features include Full Product Search, Grid Row Highlighter, Catalog Grid Thumbnails / Images, Persistent Catalog Grid Settings, Mass Product Refresh, Quick Export, Custom Catalog Product Grid Columns, Product Image Thumbnail Column, Date Created Column, etc.

Vertical NavigationWith this extension, you can design your own vertical category navigation with subcategories and product count display. Each element has a fine CSS so you can address each element or group exactly including "first" & "last" element per group and "previous", "active", and "next" child.

The module replaces the top.navigation via XML-Update with the vertical nav in "left" structural block.

SMTP Pro Email

SMTP Pro is the finest free, open source Magento extension for all functions linked with SMTP. It offers full control for sending transactional emails over custom SMTP server settings.

It includes preset configurations for popular services, such as Gmail and Google Apps.

Reviews SidebarAdd more credibility to your site by showing reviews on all product pages using Reviews Sidebar by Amasty.

The majority of customers looks for product’s review before any purchase. By openly displaying reviews, you’ll let them make a good decision. Reviews make your site more trustworthy, which will have a positive impact on your store.

With this extension, you can manage reviews of the specific product and show them in the sidebar.

X-Payments PCIX-Payments is a PA-DSS 2.0 certified application for PCI compliant credit card processing for online merchants. Customers can use credit card information for their future orders.

This extension eliminates redirects that can result in lost orders. It is mobile friendly and works great for phone-based orders. It can be integrated with Kount, 3D-Secure protection, and 40+ supported credit card payment processors. It also works with any custom-built checkout extension for Magento.

Braintree PaymentsWant to accept cards and PayPal payments easily? Use this easy to install and configure Braintree extension. The Braintree extension uses the latest V.ZERO integration SDK. It has been tested with both Magento Community and Enterprise editions.

It works out-of-the-box with the latest Magento responsive default checkout and has been integrated with the most popular Checkout extensions from iDev OneStepCheckout (onestepcheckout.com), IWD, MageStore, AheadWorks, Fire Checkout, and Amasty. Configuration into custom checkout templates is also very straightforward.

About Author

Fayyaz Khattak is a regular Content Contributor for Magenticians. He is also Magento Community Manager at Cloudways, a Cloud Hosting Platform that provides 1-click Magento installation with super-fast speed and famous cloud infrastructures embedded within the platform.