Best Magento Development 2 Extensions for Developers in 2021

by JONATHAN PAUL Jonathan Paul working at PHPProgrammers, a leading

Magento 2 has come up with many new advanced features and a host of extensions to offer an efficient development process. Here are the best extensions developers can use to enjoy efficient development and offer the best-in-class Magento development services.

eCommerce has gained huge prominence among internet users over the last few years. Even small and medium-scale businesses have started leveraging the online opportunities of selling their products and services. The level of competition is continuously increasing on the web. Staying on top in the eCommerce market is getting more difficult to release thousands of online stores every day. Every internet or mobile user has started relying on these eCommerce stores for almost everything right from buying their daily grocery items to shopping for garments, and whatever they want. It is estimated that by the end of 2025, 95 percent of the purchases will be done online. It was around 2.3 trillion dollars worth of sales made through the online shops, which has almost doubled up and has reached to nearly 4.5 trillion dollars this year.

And when the discussion is all about the eCommerce market, the most popular platform that has been in use for building these e-stores is Magento that powers nearly 12 percent of the total number of webstores that count to somewhere near 2.5 million active eCommerce websites. As per the research made in the last year, Magento had nearly 1.4 percent of the total online market share. And these Stats reports reflect the immense popularity of the platform now. The powerful features and the availability of plenty of extensions, plugins, tools, and technologies have even made it more efficient and easier to build the best-in-class websites with this platform. The number of features and enhanced functionalities has now increased with the introduction of the latest version of the platform, Magento 2. And all these benefits and features make most business owners look for Magento development services for their business websites.

Now let’s take a look at the top 5 Magento 2 extensions that ensure efficient development and help enhance the features and functionalities of the websites.

Here, the most advanced and result-oriented extensions of Magento 2 can be used for streamlined checkout, easier search navigation, effortless site management, customisation of the site, and more to make the sites more customer-oriented and user-friendly.

Algolia Instant Search:

With this Magento 2 extension, online shoppers can easily find the products they have been looking for. Algolia Instant search offers extremely quick and relevant search results to customers. It comes with an autocomplete feature and an instant search result page, which updates with the search results in real-time. Also, advanced typo tolerance features let users get the results even when they have made minor errors while typing for their products. Overall, this extension offers a far better search experience.

Amasty One-Step Checkout extension:

It is seen that most of the shopping carts are left abandoned due to the long and frustrating checkout process. This new Magento 2 extension allows customers to checkout with just a few taps on their devices. Also, Amasty's one-step checkout supports multiple payment gateways and also displays the delivery date with the details of the orders.

Magento 2 social login extension:

This Magento 2 social login extension allows customers to even log in through different social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, GitHub, LinkedIn, and more. And it is also seen that offering an easy login through these social media platforms can raise the sign-up rate by around 30 percent. And this extension is also free of cost.

Customer Stock Status extension by Amasty:

If you are willing to offer more precise yet clear information about your stock availability in the store, you must try out this Custom Stock Status extension. It can help you catch the customers’ attention by providing them with catchy statuses about the stock and make them buy from your store. You can use this extension to create automatically and manually custom stocks and assign them to relevant products or categories in your store.

Advanced SEO-Suite:

This extension helps automate most of the store’s SEO settings and saves more time on the SEO resources you have. You can easily manage the SEO setting for products, categories, and different web pages in your store with this. Also, you can generate meta-tags, advanced sitemaps for Google, and get rich snippets with this. Overall, this extension helps in increasing the store’s visibility by optimising it.

Apart from these, there are a few more Magento 2 extensions that can be used for enhancing the store’s functioning are Store manager Connector, most viewed and sold product count, product part finder, and Mageplaza SEO extension. Make a note of these extensions while you are building an online store with Magento 2.

Jonathan Paul is a highly skilled and dedicated Magento developer associated with a leading company for Magento development services in Australia, PHPProgrammers. The author has written this article to let you know about the best extensions developers can use in 2021 for Magento 2 development.