Check out the two free Web Parts from Apptha:

Twitter Web Part:

http://www.apptha.com/category/extension/Others/sharepoint-twitter-webpart

Twitter Web part allows you to show the tweets of the Twitter profile which you choose to display. You will be able to control the web part settings such as its appearance, provide the user name (the twitter profile name that you want to display), include replies and re-tweets, control the count of tweets to appear, set the time interval for tweet update, i.e. if you set the time interval as 10 minutes, the twitter feeds are refreshed  every 10 minutes to display the recent tweets from the user.

Event Calendar Web Part:

http://www.apptha.com/category/extension/Others/event-web-part

Event Calendar web part helps you to maintain the list of events based on dates. The dates in the calendar for which an event is listed displays in different color. You can add any number of events on a particular date. The calendar web part shows distinct color for the weekends. You can even provide unique name, description and timing for the respective event date. Your event calendar automatically applies different color for the existing events, event dates, week-ends and next month dates for better visual appeal.

Both the aforementioned web parts are totally free and comes with the installation wizard to manage simple installation.

Expect more web parts from the SharePoint development team soon! Contact bdm@contus.in if you have a need a unique SharePoint tool or SharePoint Application. We will analyze your requirements and contact you with the best timeline for delivery with competitive pricing.

The Magento Facebook App is a classic Magento extension beautifully crafted to feed the above need. The extension is listed in Magento connect http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/facebook-store-app.html and is ready for purchase from our website.

On installing the Magento Facebook App extension, the Magento store owners can make their store live on Facebook, allowing users to directly purchase from the Facebook store and complete shopping without having to log into the store. The brilliance of the extension is that any purchase made through the Facebook store will reflect on the users Facebook wall with details, thus promoting the product to the user’s network and successfully widening your user base- the most preferred social media promotion technique.

By bringing your entire store on Facebook, you give the Facebook geeks the facility to browse your store by staying in Facebook. The Magento Facebook App extension enables product management on Facebook through the same admin panel of the web store. The extension delivers an elegant looking Facebook shop dressed up with attractive banner and customer friendly interface. Use the Facebook store app and convert the Facebook audience to active customers and utilize the biggest social platform for your business.

The additive features of the new version are:

-      Display One Step Checkout below Cart – The store owners can enable the check out process in the shopping cart page itself. This allows the customers to complete the checkout process immediately after adding the products to their cart page.

-       Geo IP Feature –The Geo IP feature will fetch the country and city by default.

-      Default Payment Methods – Allows the store owners to set a default payment method in the back-end. The store owners can control which payment method the customer should follow by enabling the respective payment option.

-     Default Shipping Method – By enabling this feature, the shipping information will be automatically updated in the respective fields (Ajax way) when the customer selects the Country/Zip code/State/City without any page refresh.

-       Terms and Condition Tab – Show the Terms and Conditions link just above the Place order button in the checkout page, which on clicking opens a pop up with the Terms and Conditions.

-       Enable Comments – Allows customers to post comments about their shopping experience, which will be displayed under the admin sales order list. Admin has the facility to enable/disable the terms and conditions option and provide title and content for the terms and conditions.

All the unnecessary steps in the default checkout process of the Magento are well addressed in our one step checkout extension. By choosing the Plus package from us, the store owners can even decide which fields to exclude/include in the checkout process. Check the demo of the One Step Checkout Plus package and experience the new version.

The One Step Checkout which enables an easy checkout process for the customers without any page reloads and multiple steps is definitely a must-buy product. Remember, a complicated and annoying checkout process will not make your customers happy and dissatisfied customers never returns!! Hence make use of the best one step checkout extension and drive incredible traffic and sales.

‘My Channel’ allows users to create their own channel page, upload videos to their channel , sort videos in categories such as Popular Videos, Recent Videos, Top rated Videos and My Playlists. The user can edit the Channel details that show details about the Channel page such as channel views, channel name, total uploads, about me, etc. The user can add other user’s channel to their Favorite Channel list and view their channel videos. The My Playlists option in the Channel Page allows the users to create their own Playlist and add any number of videos to their Playlists.

A separate tab for Channel Settings is available adjacent to the My Channel tab, allowing the user to control the Channel Page settings such as set the player height, width, number of rows and columns to appear in the category list, enable/disable access to Private/Public, enable/disable any category, show/hide Facebook Comment option, choose video that should play in the channel page by default. The user can upload own logo to their Channel Page which will appear just above the Player.

Make use of the best video sharing script loaded with utile, effacious feature and create your own YouTube-like site and let your users enjoy the charisma of video sharing!!

About the new shipping options
We have added four shipping options to the Apptha Shopping Cart for Joomla, making it a compatible Joomla Ecommerce Module for tangible and intangible products. The four shipping options comes that in default are
• UPS
• USPS
• FedEx
• Custom Shipping

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With these shipping options, you can kill the lengthy process of measuring and weighing products for accurate shipping charges. The shipping calculations are weight-based. The custom shipping method helps you gauge any kind of adjustments that is required with the shipping process, i.e. provide shipping rate descriptions, choose a shipper, select Country, enter zip code range, provide weight range for products, provide package fee etc.

The Apptha Joomla Shopping Cart is thus upgraded to a fully featured online shopping cart website extension. This fast and easy to use Joomla Ecommerce Plugin with unique and powerful features enables you to set up an elegant ecommerce store. It allows you to showcase and manage any number of products and categories, has built in support for multiple payment gateways, and allows payment through live credit card processing with many utile admin features, thus letting to efficiently streamline your online business. Use the best Joomla shopping cart extension and open an online store on the Internet in no time.

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The WordPress Video Gallery is a video sharing WordPress extension which efficiently creates a video sharing site like the YouTube in record time. The video gallery plugin has an in-built HDFLV Player, which is unique for its video and audio quality, shows six different modules, supports video upload from YouTube, manage videos in categories, control n number of videos, flexible video settings and social share icons. The Video Stream theme accompanies the WordPress plugin Gallery to gear up the effect of a music sharing site. The WordPress music theme has professional niche theme design, perfectly carved for a music portal.

The WordPress Video Site along with the Video Stream works the out-of- the- box way, giving all sophisticated video blogger the best music destination. The Video theme gives a multitude of options to enhance the look and feel of the WordPress Video Site such as Show Video Categories in Top Menu, Video Search Option in header, widgets for popular, recent and featured videos, easy switch over to home page content, Facebook comments for videos etc.

Create a music site with the WordPress Video Gallery Plugin to pump in more music lovers!!

The mobile ecommerce app can be smoothly integrated to the Joomla Virtuemart and deployed in App store and Android Market. This helps you to connect with the global audience of the mobile space by getting published with your store logo in the mobile market. The ecommerce app lets your customers experience a complete shopping experience in their mobiles even on the go. It gives a clear and elegant product display, allows to browse effectively, track purchase details, share with social media and checkout hassle free. The mobile ecommerce proves to be a best solution for ecommerce store owners to increase their sales

The Virtuemart mobile app enables you to stay connected with your consumers forever. It will enable the store owners to develop an individual rapport with the costumers, push deals personally and establish a trustable relationship, sustaining the customers for the long-run. Important factors which make every online store owners to consider Mob eCommerce are

-          Self account management capabilities,

-          Google Analytics Integration,

-          Multi language support ,i.e. It can be made compatible to any language that IOS and Android support,

-          Customization capabilities,

-          Manage app submission process in the iTunes and Android market

-          Supports all mobile compatible payment gateways

-          Offer post sales support from mobile expertise.

Remember, these are only a quick list about the Mobile Ecommerce app. Engrain into the full blown technology and get ahead of the curve!!

Running a successful ecommerce business a big challenge

With thousands of vendors entering the online world the competition gets fierce. To stay ahead of the competitors, one should keep scratching for the ‘extra factor’ that can raise a ‘WOW’ expression which will eventually brand the business as a leader and make it stand out from the rest. The huge list of magento extensions, counting 4000+ is a great resource which when chosen suitably and installed enables to tune your business with maximum efficiency.

Veterans in the Analyst space emphasizes that online shoppers leave the shopping cart because of complicated multi step checkout process. The long filling forms asking for repeated information irritates the consumers, finally pursuing them to leave the cart and shop from the next store. To tackle the challenge, use a third party extension like the One Step CheckOut. This checkout extension enables a quick checkout process with all six steps reduced to single step, thus elating everyone’s online shopping experience.

The enormous audience of Facebook actuates the necessity of Facebook integration with the ecommerce store. Giving the target consumers the facility to shop completely from your Facebook store is a smart move. Innovative extension such as the Magento Facebook App will help you bring the entire magento store to Facebook, letting the Facebook Savvies to shop from your store through their Facebook login itself. This magento extension also provides wondrous promotion for your shop by showing the purchase information on the consumers’ wall, thus reaching the consumers network in no time and zero effort.

Making use of a powerful extension such as the Magento FB Referral which auto-generates the code for f Recommend Button to appear on the product page is a brilliant way of facebook promotion for your magento store. Providing an admirable discount for the recommended product, you felicitate the consumers as well as get displayed on your consumers’ Facebook wall with the purchase information and achieve viral marketing.

In summary, these are few significant products to looks out for. Embrace the best solutions and improve your offerings. These Magento extensions certainly help you boost your store’s sales and generate maximum revenue.

The GroupClone Script from Contus is the best clone script suitable for developing a group buying website enriched with exhaustively utile features. Our developers’ ceaseless efforts in doing enhancements in the script add more value to the product. The Groupon clone extension for magento is loaded with many exciting features such as the One Step Checkout process, Multi Store support, extension for Google chrome browser, option to have email subscription as default page, Shopping cart integration with SSL certificate, facebook login etc.

Also, Contus now offers 9 different classic themes out of which you can choose any one for your group buying site. Few exclusive features of the GroupClone script most appreciated by our huge client base to run business successfully are the following,

• Merchant login
• Show multiple side deals
• Add video for product display
• Image slide show for deals
• Integration of Google Maps and Google Analytics
• Subscribe/Unsubscribe to News letters
• Ability to add more customized pages
• Show Upcoming deals which gets activated on the specified date
• Spam Mail filer in the contact form
• Create new deals in advance
• Add any number of cities for different deals

We provide free post sales support for a period of 180 days. The Groupon Clone script is completely customizable as per user needs and also the Design can be customized. The Group buying Site can be optimized for the Smartphone users by getting a Mobile app for IOS and Android of your choice which is rated at very reasonable cost. The Group buying site can be also made viable to explore the social media by launching a Facebook app. Till date, the Groupon Clone extension has proved to be the most efficient clone script for group buying concept.

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Let me give a quick run through over few of the most lauded extensions by the users for its efficiency.

One Step Checkout: - Best solution to overcome the shopping cart abandon rate. The one step checkout is a premium magento extension for your online store which helps the consumers to complete the checkout process in single step. Consumers will no more experience a complicated checkout process which frustrates the customers by repeated steps, thus eventually encouraging them to leave the shopping cart. The one step checkout extension is easy to install and configure and lets you to enable an easy checkout process in few minutes.

HDFLV Player: – One of the popular Flv player with amazing audio and video quality. The player plugin is available for all popular CMs such as Joomla/Wordpress/Magento etc. The flash video player has amazing features such as live streaming support, Book marking, Monetization with preroll, post roll ads, auto playlist option, native language support etc.

HD VideoShare: – This is a wonderful Joomla component which is suitable to set up an online video sharing service such as the YouTube, DailyMotion etc. The component comes with an in-built HDFLV Player and six free modules such as the Recent Videos, Featured Videos, Popular Videos, Related Videos etc. The component provides an easy interface for the module setting thus making the module management simple in the back-end.

Task Rabbit Clone: - Online task posting websites which allows to post task to get the job done for payable amount is new to the online industry. This ready to use Joomla script is a super cool solution if you are looking to set up an online service portal like the task rabbit. The script includes all utile features such as easy interface for the users to task post, view reviews and notification about the rabbits, allow any to enroll as a rabbit and most importantly the website administrator empowered with complete control over the task posters, users and the entire website.

Magento Facebook App: – A wondrous extension to bring the entire Magento store to facebook. The magento facebook app allows every Magento store owners to conduct commerce from the facebook. The extension allows the consumers to shop by staying in facebook by integrating the store with facebook. Any purchase via the facebook store will show a status update on the user’s wall about the purchase, thus promoting the product to the large network base effectively.

The list is endless and become nonviable for me to pen down the whole set of extensions and templates. If you would like to know more on the Apptha products, Click here.

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