PrestaShop Starter Pack: Must-Have PrestaShop Modules To Start Your Store

If you have just built your eCommerce website on the PrestaShop platform, you would be looking around for some PrestaShop plugins that you should integrate on your website as a beginner. Your search ends here.

In this article, I have put forward some of the basic yet effective PrestaShop modules to start with. We also call this the PrestaShop starter pack. Check them out.

1. One Page Checkout

PrestaShop One Page Checkout converts the default multi-step checkout process of your PrestaShop based website into a One Page Checkout. It aims to improve the checkout experience of your customers besides boosting your conversions by encouraging a quick and hassle-free checkout.

The module provides Guest Checkout, Facebook, Google and PayPal Login, option to customize checkout fields, multiple shipping services and payment methods support, layout customization, and much more. You can also display a free shipping banner on the top of the checkout section that helps to increase the average order value. It is a GRPR compatible module.

One Page Checkout has been downloaded 5000+ times on the official addon store and more than 2500+ times on our Knowband store.

2. Abandoned Cart

PrestaShop Abandoned Cart addon lets you track the abandoned carts on your website and provides you with the opportunity to convert those users into customers. The module aims to recover lost sales and helps you reduce the cart abandonment rate on your website.

Talking about some of its key features, it lets you create an abandoned cart alert; you need to specify the duration after which the cart is automatically assumed to be abandoned and a reminder email is sent to the user. The email functionality can be customized from the back-end configurations.

It also offers different types of discount email templates through which you can persuade the abandoned cart users to complete their purchase by providing a discount code inside the email.

3. Spin and Win

PrestaShop Spin and Win adds a Gamification element to your website in the form of a Spin and Win popup. The module focuses on certain aspects like increasing user engagement, reducing website’s bounce rate, boosting the average site time but most importantly, it is an email subscription popup that helps you grow your email list and scale-up your conversions.

With the help of this module, you can customize the look and feel of the popup and the text on it. Besides, you can configure the popup display settings like the display frequency, when to show, where to show, on which pages to show the popup, etc. It also provides you with the option to customize the popup slices as per the way you want.

4. Affiliate and Referral Program

PrestaShop Affiliate and Referral Program addon is an exciting way to boost your brand awareness and acquire new customers. The module allows users to register as an affiliate on your website, after approval of which they can earn rewards/incentives upon referring the website to others.

The user can share his/her referral code with others which they can use during the sign-up process. They can also share a direct referral link to sign-up and also share the link directly on their social media platforms or on someone’s email address.

The referral is considered successful if a new user has registered or made a purchase; depending on the configurations set from the back-end. Upon successful referral, the rewards are provided to the affiliate which can be claimed in the form of a discount voucher or the affiliate customer can raise a payout request.

5. SEO Optimizer

PrestaShop SEO Optimizer also referred to as URL redirect or URL cleaner module helps you convert the URLs of your website into SEO-friendly URLs. You can rewrite duplicate URLs and perform three types of redirect; 301 redirect, 302 redirect and 303 redirect. The module helps you improve the performance of your website on the search engine.

It’s a multi-lingual module, is SSL compatible, and also has multi-store compatibility.

6. SEO Wizard

PrestaShop SEO Wizard addon helps you manage the SEO of your web pages. The module automatically updates interlink and metadata on your website after the cron is executed from the back-end. The optimization is offered for four different web pages that include Product pages, Category pages, CMS pages and Manufacturer pages.

For any kind of assistance or query, reach out to us at support@knowband.com and our support team will reach out to you to the earliest.

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Top 10 PrestaShop addons to boost your Holiday sales

Top 10 PrestaShop addons to boost your Holiday sales

The holiday season is coming close. It is that time of the year when e-retailers look for every single opportunity to attract customers to their store and maximize sales.

The holiday season alone captures sales equivalent to the sales during the rest of the year. According to NRF, holiday sales for 2021 are expected to rise by around 4% as compared to 2020.

If you are a PrestaShop store merchant, here are the top 10 PrestaShop addons that you should implement in your store, to boost your holiday sales.

1. PrestaShop Spin and Win

The first one in our list of PrestaShop holiday modules is the PrestaShop Spin and Win.

Grab customer attention and enhance customer engagement on your website by adding a gamified interface to it.

Knowband’s Spin and Win addon for PrestaShop is one of the best PrestaShop addons to increase customer engagement and your email list. It provides your visitors with a gamifying experience when they visit your store, by displaying them a Spin and Win wheel popup.

PrestaShop Spin and Win addon allows you to design your popup as per the occasion. Give a festive look to your website and provide the festival feel to your visitors. With the help of PrestaShop Spin and Win addon, you can set your popup theme for Halloween, Christmas, New Year, etc.

The more attractive your popup will look, the more engagement it will create. Let visitors spin the wheel and earn some exciting offers. The holiday season is the perfect time to lure visitors with some discounts and offers and convert them into potential buyers.

2. PrestaShop Gift Card Manager

This holiday season, when customers will be too busy shopping, make their task easy and save their time by offering them the Gift Card option.

PrestaShop Gift Card Manager allows you to create multiple gift card templates for multiple occasions. It also comes with pre-existing gift card templates for Easter, Halloween, Christmas, etc. You can give a festive look to your gift cards to catch the holiday spirit and boost your holiday sales.

Let customers spread the love through your gift cards. Gift cards will not only increase your holiday sales but also make the best way to increase your brand awareness.

Read:

Why Digital Gift Cards are important to your business?

Get more Holiday sales by setting up a Gift Card section on your store

3. PrestaShop One Page Checkout

Let a lengthy and a complicated checkout not be a barrier in your conversions during the peak holiday hours. Replace the conventional multi-step checkout with a single page checkout.

PrestaShop One Page Checkout puts all the checkout fields on a single page and provides your customers with a smooth and hassle-free checkout. To simplify your checkout process, it offers Guest Checkout, Social Login (through Facebook, Google and PayPal) and supports all major payment methods and shipping services. There are tons of other customizations which a merchant can make to make the checkout process convenient.

4. PrestaShop Mobile App Builder

Our another high rated module in the list of PrestaShop holiday addons is PrestaShop Mobile App Builder.

Mobile Apps have taken the user experience to a whole new level. Today, a majority of customers prefer having a mobile app as it is far more convenient than browsing a website. With that being said, launching a mobile app for your brand will not only increase customer engagement but also boost your revenue to a great extent.

Transform your PrestaShop website into a native Android and iOS mobile app with the help of PrestaShop Mobile App Builder and provide your customers with an enhanced online shopping experience.

Features like Real-time synchronization, Unlimited Push Notification, Fingerprint Login, Zopim and WhatsApp Chat support, etc. make the PrestaShop Mobile App Builder highly exciting.

To know more, read: This Holiday Season, launch Spin-wheel integrated PrestaShop Mobile App to boost sales

5. PrestaShop Return Manager

With mass orders, also increases the order returns and the delay in the product return can irk customers.

So, speed up your return process and manage your eCommerce returns conveniently with PrestaShop Return Manager addon. Apart from the usual Refund and Replacement process, it provides your customers with the option to opt for the “Store Credits” which they can receive for the product amount. It ensures customer loyalty as well as customer retention since the customer would surely be visiting your store again in the future to utilise the credits.

6. PrestaShop Loyalty Points

Adding to the list of our PrestaShop holiday modules is PrestaShop Loyalty Points.

Make the journey of your new customer as well as the existing customers exciting by rewarding them some loyalty points every time they make a purchase on your store. This is a perfect idea to acquire new customers and ensure repeat purchases, especially during the holiday season.

Knowband’s Loyalty Points addon for PrestaShop focuses on customer retention and customer acquisition, at the same time. You can reward loyalty points to a new visitor when they sign-up on your store, and turn him/her into your loyal customer within no time. The points can be used as a discount voucher.

If you offer loyalty points for every purchase that a customer makes on your store, you can generate huge holiday sales.

Read: Benefits of a Loyalty Program for your online business

7. PrestaShop Abandoned Cart

One of the most helpful PrestaShop modules for this holiday season would be PrestaShop Abandoned Cart.

Brands witness a high number of abandoned carts during the holiday season. Those numbers can cost you a huge loss in the revenue. Though you cannot put a stop to cart abandonment, you can surely recover some lost sales and even a slight recovery in the cart abandonment rate can add to a huge amount in the total revenue.

PrestaShop Abandoned Cart addon allows you to track and chase the abandoned cart users and helps you recover the lost sales by sending regular follow-up emails.

This PrestaShop module reduces the cart abandonment rate, ultimately resulting in increased conversions.

8. PrestaShop Affiliate and Referral Program

Referral programs can be a big boost to your e-commerce sales. While the holiday season is approaching, you can start a referral program and provide exciting incentives to users when they refer your brand to his/her friends, family or relatives and the latter makes a successful purchase.

You can run such a referral program on your store with the help of PrestaShop Affiliate and Referral Program addon. A customer can register as an affiliate on your store, share your website link with his other people and earn vouchers or cash when the referent successfully registers or makes a purchase.

9. PrestaShop Store Locator and Pickup

Another PrestaShop holiday season module to look out for is the PrestaShop Store Locator and Pickup.

The product delivery takes too long during the holiday season, making customers run out of patience. Because of bulk orders, it becomes difficult for the shipping providers to ship every product in a quick span.

Customers, too, know this very well. In such cases, PrestaShop Store Locator and Pickup addon manages things quite conveniently.

If you have your stores located in multiple locations, you can display them at the front end of your website and allow customers to select their nearby store so that they do not have to wait too long for the product to get delivered. Customers can reach out to the nearby store and pick up their item.

10. PrestaShop Booking and Rental system

Have a renting business? Now manage everything online with PrestaShop Booking and Rental system addon.

During occasions like Halloween or Christmas, people look to buy costumes on rent. There is a heavy demand for it. Hence, if you run such business, you can provide people with theme-based costumes or dresses on rent and boost your holiday sales.

You still have time to get everything set before the holiday season starts. Try out these 10 PrestaShop addons and capture huge sales in the coming holiday season.

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5 eCommerce Mistakes that lead to Cart Abandonment

Sometimes, the customers may browse the store, add a product to the cart, but at the time of check out, they may cancel the transaction and leave the purchase incomplete. This is known as Cart Abandonment.

Shopping cart abandonment is one of the most important concerns for e-commerce retailers. There can be ample reasons for cart abandonment. Though it is impossible to figure out the exact reason, one can try to analyze the behaviour of the abandoned cart users and work upon it to reduce the cart abandonment rate.

Before finding out ways to reduce cart abandonment, it is important to look for the reasons leading to it. In this article, I have listed out the top 5 eCommerce mistakes that lead to shopping cart abandonment.

1. Hidden charges

Generally, the customers are unaware of the hidden charges incorporated by the seller in the products. The hidden charges may include the shipping cost, transaction fees, etc. The introduction of these charges at the transaction page kills the purchasing mood and results in the abandoned carts. Therefore, the seller must be clear about all the charges that are applicable in the product, so that the customer may make up his mind prior to the purchase.

2. Mandatory sign-ups

There is nothing more frustrating than a mandatory sign-up process on the checkout page. People are ready to abandon the cart to avoid filling up a registration form.

Customers want to check out easily. Adding a barrier in the checkout process will only lessen the chances of conversion. To avoid compulsory registrations, come up with a Guest Checkout or provide a social login facility so that the consumers can get rid of form filling without their flow getting disturbed.

3. Tedious Checkout

The checkout page of an e-commerce store is a crucial step towards the purchase journey of a customer. If optimized, it can boost your conversions otherwise you can face a heavy drop-down in the conversion rate.

Try to simplify your checkout page. Have clarity. I would suggest adding a one page checkout facility on your store so that the checkout process becomes convenient for customers.

If you are confused between a one page checkout and multi-page checkout, read One Page Checkout vs Multi Page Checkout: Which is better and why?

4. Lack of Payment options

With the introduction of multiple payment gateways, customers expect to make a payment with their desired payment option, yet many e-commerce stores are stuck with a few payment options only. When customers do not find the desired payment mode, they take an exit from the store and look for the product in some other stores.

Why would you let that happen when a person is all set to make a purchase? Provide multiple payment options so that customers can choose their preferred payment option. Also, do not forget to add the e-wallet facility.

5. Less offers

The primary reason why people prefer to shop online is to get heavy discounts and the offers that the customers can avail on a number of products. The major factor contributing to the growth of the online market is choice availability and the offers that customer receives on a daily basis via Email, or pop-ups. Therefore, most of the time a customer expects to receive some kind of discounts on their purchase. In case, the seller fails to provide them with offers, the customer readily abandons the cart and exit the store.

To persuade your customers with some attractive offers, you can look to add the Spin and Win or the Exit popup on your e-commerce store.

Final word

Want to reduce the cart abandonment rate? Check out Knowband’s

Abandoned Cart extension for OpenCart

Prestashop Abandoned Cart addon

Magento Abandoned Cart extension

Magento 2 Abandoned Cart extension

The Abandoned Cart module gives a detailed analysis of the abandoned cart users and allows e-retailers to reach out to those users to persuade them to complete the purchase.

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