What makes good customer service? Beautiful template, great website content, easy search, intuitive navigation, other tricks that enhance the entire usability of your website. You have to work at it.
But we're supposed to work on everything together. That is why we keep creating new solutions to help you deliver an excellent purchasing process for your customers.
In September we did a good job of making improvements to our Magento and Magento 2 products. Here are 15+ ways to start providing great customer service right now.
Improve website credibility by protecting web forms from spam
Time to talk about security. There are many tricks to protect a website from hackers and spammers. One of them is Akismet service. You know that it is about managing comment spam.
Good news that now you can use Akismet service on your Magento 2 website. New M2 Akismet module will help you to:
- block spam from Contact Us form
- block spam when a product review submitted
- validate Akismet API key
Provide a unique service with appealing website template
A carefully designed store template will make your website attractive and highly accessible. Argento is a template that helps you create the best shopping experience ever. Apart from beautiful designs, our theme offers powerful functional possibilities. Of course, we try to improve the day by day.
Look at some September highlights for Magento 2 Argento theme:
- fresh updates for Prolabels module
- AMP module support
- Magento 2.2.6 compatibility.
Learn more about Argento 1.6 release in Argento for Magento 2 was improved, head to toe post.
Solve security issues by the modules compatible with Magento 2.2.6 release
Usually, Magento platform upgrades bring security fixes, different performance improvements, new solutions for extending website functionality.
We all know how important is to use custom modules compatible with the latest Magento versions. Just to keep your website safe.
In September, Magento released new versions: Magento Commerce 2.2.6 and Magento Open Source 1.9.3.10. Of course, we applied important changes to our modules to make them compatible with the latest Magento release. Check the updates in the blog article.
Make your Magento 2 site more interactive via modules functionality
Our clients are used to get new options and fresh updates for the modules every month. The past month has been no exception.
FireCheckout extension for Magento 2 has received the most attention. We came up with 1.3, 1.13.1, 1.14 versions. In short, the module got 3 wonderful checkout page skins, numerous features, a variety of visual improvements, stability improvements and bug fixes, and much more.
We believe that the FireCheckout release is so important that we dedicated an entire blog post to describe awesome improvements. Click on to see the Excellent checkout ideas provided by FireCheckout 1.13.0 release.
The FireCheckout 1.13.1 release brings the following changes.
Default config values updated:
- Theme: Light (Previously was set to “Default”)
- Layout: Empty (“Standard” layout was used before)
Magento 2.2.6 CSS fixes:
- Popup window behind the overlay
- Button CSS issue in Round theme
CSS fixes and improvements:
- Calendar icon color and position fixes for Midnight and Round themes
- Additional resets for ‘select’ elements
- Improved compatibility with third-party themes
- Fixed styles for Braintree payment form
Third-party modules compatibility
- Fixed missing Place Order button, when “Dibs” payment method is selected
- Improved compatibility with Magestore_Storepickup module
The updates for built-in modules:
- Fixed display of custom dropdown attribute value in saved address
- Fixed validation when saving existing attribute in backend panel
- Fixed validation when saving existing attribute in backend panel
Ajax Layered Navigation 1.2.4-1.2.5
- Added Magento 2.2.6 compatibility
- Improved di injection
- Improved ajax request configuration
- Added getAttributeCode method for filter
- Fixed replaceWith+IE(
- Fixed file permissions
Navigation Pro 1.7 improvements are:
Magento 2.2.6 compatibility:
- Fixed double caret icons near items with dropdowns
- Fixed dropdown positioning for Amazon menu type
- Added ability to change dropdown positioning for particular dropdown item.
Backend Improvements
- Added ability to assign a menu to a particular store during menu creation. (Previously you had to create a menu and then use system configuration to do that)
- The new column is added to the menu grid. It shows the list of stores where a menu is used as top menu replacement.
- Added ability to assign a menu to particular store directly from menu settings form. (Previously you had to navigate to configuration to do that)
- Renaming/Removing a menu no longer results in a missing menu at the storefront.
- Added config to show image caption
- Gallery template improvement
- Show the first image instead of a loader to improve PageSpeed score
- Added fix for Magnifier gallery mouse leave (Magento Issue #15035)
- Improved defer css. add onerror
- Fixed null response
- Override _removeScriptCB (add exceptions for application/ld+json, etc.)
- Added critical CSS
- Fixed: View and view dir after unzip
Ajax Pro 1.3.3 release got fixed missing getSerializedConfig method (window.checkout = ;)
- Fixed display of custom drop-down attribute value in a saved address
- Fixed validation when saving existing attribute in backend panel
Customer field manager 1.0.2 release got fixed validation when saving existing attribute in backend panel.
Ask It 1.2.17 version has got Added email template subject translation.
- Added ability to use the widget with categories of one StoreGroup at another StoreGroup. (Previously there was an issue with invalid URLs for such kind of cross-links)
- Fixed broken image URL, if the width wasn’t set to a proper number.
SEO Suite 1.0.2 release has got a compatibility with M2.2.6 and one typo correction in Magento Stores Configuration.
Product Tabs 1.3.4 comes with fixed error caused by review tab when there is another non-tab review block on a product page.
Facebook Like button 1.1.4 comes with fixed error "Action Requires At Least One Reference" when custom button enabled.
Prolabels 1.1.0 got absolutely new look. New amazing labels' presets. New configuration. Now you can preview the labels you choose instantly in admin panel.
Provide one of the fastest and most reliable website with Magento modules
Among new features you can see added NTP server time checking. The module release also includes some fixes:
- Added 1.9.3.6 integration
- Refactoring die MEQP bugfix
- Fixed potential XSS
- Fixed grid pager bug
Abandoned Cart 1.2.7 has a fixed problem with saving the guest first name and last name.
CDN 1.2.1 version comes with a few minor improvements.
Page Speed 1.3.4 release includes the updated tm/defer-css as well as small bufixes.
Our monthly progress report is just another reminder of that we are really interested in making your customers absolutely happy in your website. Start using a new module, recent updates, and advanced features to build good customer service.
