Commative launches new Magento extension for Google Shopping

Posted on May 1, 2013 by admin

Commative, the developer of some of the leading Magento themes and extensions, is pleased to announce its latest Magento extension for Google Shopping. This powerful tool enables e-commerce companies to manage and list their products to Google’s latest product listing directory from their Magento admin panel.

Google Shopping is an increasingly dominant price comparison engine that is highly visible when searching for products on Google providing an ideal avenue for online retailers to connect with shoppers on desktop, mobile and tablet devices. When customers search for a product, Google Shopping will show a selection of provide pictures, pricing, product details and all the other information customers need to purchase the product.

With Commative’s new Magento Google Shopping Extension, you can easily manage this new sales opportunity through your Magento admin panel. The tool will automatically update information and prices when you change your main catalog. You can easily map the product to the category of your choice in Google and configure the settings down the product level.

Try this new Magento extension today and buy with confidence: Commative’s extensions and themes all come with 30 day money-back guarantee, free professional support and updates for life!

Thanks,

The Commative Team

Magento Imagine 2013 Going On Now

Posted on April 8, 2013 by admin

Magento’s 2013 Imagine Conference has officially begun! Follow Magento’s own liveblog of the event to stay up to date with all the activity from Las Vegas.

Tonight began with a brief overview and some time to network with other Magentoites, and tomorrow has lots in store. There will be presentations on SEO, a keynote speech from eBay CEO John Donahoe and Magento COO Roy Rubin, and a number of breakout sessions on a variety of Magento topics.

This by far the biggest Magento event of the year so stay tuned to hear if Magento has any surprise announcements up their sleeve!

The Commative Team

Happy New Year!

Posted on December 31, 2012 by admin

Happy New Year to all of our customers, visitors, Magento, and the Internet!

Here’s to 2013!

The Commative Team

Magento Imagine 2013 Is Coming!

Posted on December 5, 2012 by admin

Magento’s yearly Imagine conference is set to return in 2013 to cover all things Magento. Just like last year the event is being held in Las Vegas at the M Resort and the 3 day conference will start April 8th.

Our entire team attended Imagine 2012 and learned a ton from all of the seminars and speakers. We got the chance to mingle with other Magento customer and developers and even had some of our work displayed on a massive screen of top Magento sites! Aside from the business, there’s also plenty of fun to be had with mixers and other events so this is certainly an event not to be missed.

Registration begins on January 15th, 2013 and early bird tickets ($895) will go quickly so set your calendars now. Last year Magento announced major new releases of Community and Enterprise and who knows if Magento 2 will be this year’s surprise. We’ll find out soon!

The Commative Team

Ultimento 3.2 Officially Released!

Posted on November 13, 2012 by admin

Work on Ultimento never stops and today Commative is pleased to announce the release of Ultimento 3.2! This release doesn’t rock the boat too much and concentrates on a few bugs and layout tweaks we’ve been wanting to make. That said, there are a few new features too so make sure you check out Ultimento if it’s your first time and upgrade if you already use the most reviewed Magento template on the Internet.

Among the changes:

Updated checkout that includes a persistent preview of your cart
Additional Rich Snippets information tags
Cleaner text segmenting on the Dark theme
Fixed Twitter bug when account only has one tweet
More CSS tweaks to various pages

Get the update today at Commative.com or download the update through your user account!

The Commative Team

Is That Magento Extension Really That Popular?

Posted on November 2, 2012 by admin

If you want a cool new weather app for your iPhone you pop on over to the App Store, type in “weather” and get hundreds of apps to choose from. But how do you decide which one to get?

For most people, the reviews make the difference. You look for the most popular product in your price range, read a few reviews to see what people say, and powered with that information you can make a decision. We’ve talked about the power of reviews before and their value isn’t going away anytime soon.

Now, If you’re looking for a cool new Magento theme or extension among the sea of software at MagentoConnect you may think to do the same, but you’ll notice something is different. Where you might expect to find just reviews you’ll also see a flame icon that represents “popularity”.

Popularity is intended to track the number of times a Magento theme or extension has been downloaded. The problem with popularity though is that people have figured out how to game the system. Just look at the numbers. Does 350,000 downloads and only 6 reviews make sense?

Magento is on to this trickery and working on a solution, but it highlights an important fact. Reviews matter! Nothing is more insightful than what other users have to say and you can learn a lot about the capability and quality of a product in just a few minutes.

So with all that said you may find yourself asking, “What are the best REVIEWED programs on MagentoConnect?” Well, if you sort by Most Reviewed you’ll find that Commative’s flagship Ultimento theme with built in extensions is not only the most reviewed theme on MagentoConnect, but it’s the most reviewed paid program on all of Magento!

We don’t mean to brag, but Ultimento comes with great support and includes multiple themes and over 15 individual extensions, all rolled into one easy to install package that we’re pretty proud of. We think it’s worth checking out, and from all the reviews it sounds like we’re not the only ones.

The Commative Team

Vote For the Next Commative Magento Extension!

Posted on October 30, 2012 by admin

It’s Election time and we thought what better way to get into the voting spirit than to hold an election of our own!

We’re gearing up on a number of different Magento products and want to know what Magento users out there think are the most helpful, valuable extensions that they could use for their stores. We’ve put together a list of potential candidates and want you to help us decide what to do next.

Check out the Commative Facebook page to cast your vote to decide what the next Commative Magento Extension should be. Remember, write-ins are welcome so if you don’t see something you like put in an idea you do.

The Commative Team

Record Holiday Shipping Expected December 10th, Driven by E-Commerce

Posted on October 22, 2012 by admin

FedEx announced this morning that it expects Monday December 10th (known as “Green Monday” for being the second Monday in December which is traditionally one of the biggest sales days of the year) to be the largest shipping day of the year. FedEx is planning for a 13% rise in shipments this holiday season, driven primarily by growth in e-commerce.

The holidays are traditionally the biggest sales period of the year for retailers and online e-tailers are no exception. eMarketer is predicting a 16.8% increase in overall holiday online sales and says that $1 in every $10 spent will be done online.

The “holidays” start the day after Thanksgiving which is only 1 month from today! Now is the time to prep your Magento store with all the best themes and extensions so you can wrap up your implementation and testing before things pick up. Get your site in tip top shape and prepare to sell!

The Commative Team

Magento 2 is Coming!

Posted on September 25, 2012 by admin

Magento has evolved over the years as new versions have been released to improve stability and functionality. The biggest change though is yet to come as more information is being released every day on Magento 2.

Magento 2 will be a monumental update to the Magento platform that will include numerous rewrites and a refactoring of the codebase. Upgrading certainly wont be a requirement, but new features will be extremely compelling and the work will be worthwhile to many.

While there’s no date for the release of Magento 2, many expect it to arrive sometime in the Spring of 2013. Thanks to the open nature of Magento you’ll be able to follow along with the development and availability dates will sharpen as work on the software wraps up. Third party developers will also be able to keep pace so that all your favorite extensions work with Magento 2 and be sure that Ultimento 4 will be making a Magento 2 appearance.

The Commative Team