For e-retailers, the holiday season signifies only thing- more sales. It is that time of the year when there is maximum participation of the online shoppers in the eCommerce websites, and eCommerce merchants use this opportunity to maximize their sales.
Though the holiday season is all about increasing the sales graph, for the e-retailers, it requires tons of efforts to achieve it. You need to prepare a roadmap for the entire season, create effective marketing strategies, focus on your competitors, and a lot more to stand out from the rest.
While all these points are imperative to achieve holiday sales, nothing holds more importance than providing customers with a seamless and hassle-free shopping experience. The final quarter of the year captures a large number of visitors and it is your responsibility to convert them into regular customers.
For that matter, you need to focus on a few aspects like customer engagement, customer retention, user experience, etc. In this article, I will be presenting the list of our Top 10 modules that will help you cover every aspect and grab conversions better than ever in the coming holiday season.
The holiday season commences from Halloween and ends at the arrival of the New Year.
For Checkout optimization
1. One Page Checkout (PrestaShop, OpenCart, Magento and Magento 2)
Our One Page Checkout module helps you optimize your checkout page, to allow your customers with a hassle-free checkout experience.
Unlike the multi-step checkout process, it displays all the checkout elements on a single page and reduces the checkout friction.
To make the checkout path convenient for customers, our One Page Checkout offers Social Login, Guest Checkout, Inline Validation, Google Auto-address fill and supports nearly all the payment methods and shipping services.
Find the complete features and benefits of the checkout module for the respective platforms:
For Customer Engagement
2. Spin and Win (PrestaShop, OpenCart, Magento, Magento 2, WooCommerce and Shopify)
Increase customer engagement on your website by adding a Gamification element to it. The Spin and Win gamified popup draws the attention of your customers towards the eye-catching spin-win wheel and engages them in a fun activity.
Visitors are asked to try their luck by spinning the wheel and grab some exciting offers. But, in order to spin, a user needs to provide his/her details like name and email address.
So, this Spin and Win module not just builds customer engagement but also provides you with a nice way to obtain customer data and grow your email list, which you can use for your email marketing campaigns, and thus boost your conversions.
The module provides merchants with tons of customization ranging from designing the look of the popup to setting up the time for the popup appearance. Check out
WooCommerce Spin and Win Popup
For customer retention
3. Loyalty Points (PrestaShop, OpenCart and Magento)
Encourage repeat purchases by rewarding your customers with loyalty points on every purchase. Our Loyalty Points module ensures customer retention as well as customer acquisition.
The module lets you provide loyalty points to every new user who performs a sign-up on your store and triggers impulse buying, followed by more loyalty points on the successful purchase.
It converts visitors into potential buyers and makes them stick to your store in the long run. It also enhances brand loyalty to a great extent.
The Loyalty Points module lets merchants set up their terms and conditions for users in order to gain loyalty points. It can include offering loyalty points based on the total cart value, product quantity, product price, selected payment methods, etc.
The loyalty points earned by a user can be used as a discount voucher on the checkout page. Check out
PrestaShop Loyalty Points Addon
OpenCart Loyalty Points Extension
Magento Loyalty Points Extension
For improved User experience
4. Mobile App Builder
Our Mobile App Builder lets you transform your eCommerce website into an Android and iOS Mobile App conveniently, without any requirement of coding or technical knowledge, and helps you develop a rich, user-friendly, and a smartphone and tablet responsive mobile app for your business.
Since users nowadays demand an app for easy browsing experience, the Mobile App Builder module makes it the best fit to provide amazing user experience.
The holiday season is coming close, now is the best time to introduce your mobile app and delight your users, and grab huge holiday sales.
The Mobile App Builder offers Easy customization, Social login, Fingerprint and OTP login, WhatsApp and Zopim Chat support, Real-time synchronization of Website into App, supports multiple payment and shipping methods, etc. Check out
WooCommerce Mobile App Builder
We are currently running an exclusive offer for the PrestaShop website owners where they can purchase a combo of PrestaShop Spin and Win and PrestaShop Mobile App Builder for just $225.
The individual cost of both these addons is $299 and $49.99 respectively. But with our combo pack, you will get a heavy discount of $125 and can get it for just $225.
All you need to do is apply the coupon code “SAVE125” during the checkout.
For improved site speed on mobile devices
5. AMP- Accelerated Mobile Pages (PrestaShop and OpenCart)
Our AMP module tackles the slow loading of your website on mobile devices and increases the page load speed to a great extent.
Did you know m-commerce accounted for 40% of the total sales in the US in 2018, as per Statista? If we talk about global m-commerce stats, it has already surpassed eCommerce. The numbers speak about the importance of smooth site functionality on mobile devices.
The AMP module, thus, ensures that your mobile users do not find any troublesome experience with your website and are offered a faster and smoother loading. Faster loading not only helps you reduce the bounce rate but also benefits in improved mobile rankings on the search engine.
Talking about its features, you can enable the AMP functionality for multiple pages on your website like Home page, Category page, Product page, etc. You can also customize these pages as per your requirements. Check out
For abandoned cart recovery
6. Abandoned Cart (PrestaShop, OpenCart, Magento and Magento 2)
The Abandoned Cart module helps you recover your lost sales by sending regular follow-up emails to the abandoned cart users. The module reminds users about the incomplete purchase and allows you to convert them into customers by including exclusive offers in your emails.
It lets you define a period after which the cart is automatically assumed to be abandoned. You can, thereafter, track those users and send them the abandoned cart reminder through your emails. The email content can be personalized.
The Abandoned Cart module can boost your conversions significantly. Check out
PrestaShop Abandoned Cart Addon
OpenCart Abandoned Cart Extension
Magento Abandoned Cart Extension
Magento 2 Abandoned Cart Extension
To improve customer loyalty
7. Return Manager
The Return Manager module helps you manage your eCommerce returns conveniently and enhances customer loyalty by making the return process way too easy for the customers.
Since the holiday season captures a huge number of orders, there will be returns for sure. Our Return Manager module ensures that you do not lose out on customers due to a poor return process.
The module provides 3 return choices to the customers in the form of Credits, Refund and Replacement, and allows them to highlight the defect by uploading the image of the defective/damaged product. One interesting feature of the module is that the admin can create the return request on the customer’s behalf. Check out
To enhance the online booking experience
8. Booking and Rental system for PrestaShop
PrestaShop Booking and Rental system addon provides your customers with a hassle-free online booking experience and makes it a simple task for the merchants to manage their online bookings.
This PrestaShop addon offers appointment booking facility, hotel booking facility and rental booking facility. It lets you adjust your booking days and time slots as per the availability, and you can adjust the price for different days and timing. There is much more it offers for every booking type.
Check out the PrestaShop Booking and Rental System addon to know the complete features and benefits.
If you wish to transform your online booking PrestaShop website into a mobile app, you can look out for PrestaShop Booking and Rental Mobile App.
For stock and price alerts
9. Web Push Notifications (PrestaShop, Magento and Magento 2)
Knowband’s Web Push Notifications module lets merchants alert their users about the abandoned cart, drop in the product price, product availability (when back in stock) and the order status. For each of them, the user can decide whether he or she wants to receive updates regarding them.
For the Web Push Notifications to work, the visitor needs to click on approve when the notification popup appears. This welcome popup can be customized as per your desire.
The module allows you to fix a time for the notification delivery. You can either send the notifications immediately or schedule them for a fixed time. Check out
PrestaShop Web Push Notifications
Magento Web Push Notifications
Magento 2 Web Push Notifications
For Customer Acquisition
10. Affiliate and Referral Program (PrestaShop, Magento and Magento 2)
The Affiliate and Referral Program module allows users to register as an Affiliate partner on your store and earn commissions for every successful referral.
The user can refer your store to his/her friends, family, relatives, etc. by sharing with them the affiliate link or the referral code. They can send it over email and also share the link on the social media directly from their affiliate account.
You can assign the commission to the affiliate partner for every new signup via their referral and also provide incentives when the referred user places an order. The commission rate can be set under the configurations of the module. Check out
PrestaShop Affiliate and Referral Program
Magento Affiliate and Referral Program
Magento 2 Affiliate and Referral Program
That’s it. Get your desired module before it gets too late to leave an impact on your holiday sales.
If you have need assistance in any of these modules, you can drop a mail to us at support@knowband.com
