There is no debate in saying that Magento is one of the most influential and powerful content management systems around and is considered to be an ideal choice for eCommerce web development. Since its launch in 2008, thousands of online stores have gained prosperity through Magento. It is predominantly the biggest open-source eCommerce solution right now.

However, for someone with no prior experience, choosing the right Magento 2 extensions may appear to be a daunting task.  And this is where we step in. In this article, we have highlighted some of the top-rated Magento 2 extensions that you must add to your eCommerce store to enhance its usability and improve the user experience.

Magento 2 Language Currency Switcher

This is a powerful extension that allows store owners to personalize and localize user experience by automatically changing the store language and currency based on the visitors' location. This extension automatically detects the user's location and accurately changes currency and language of the store.

Key Features

• Automatically switch language and currency of the store as per visitor’s location.
• Recognizes visitor’s location to correctly change language and currency
• Import new or use the existing Maxmind database to recognize the user’s location

Magento 2 Product Attachments

An extremely useful extension that allows you to attach supporting downloadable files to products and CMS pages. You can attach tutorials, guides, privacy policy, video links in the form of PDF, PPT, Docs,  and other file types.

Key Features

• Attach Unlimited Files on Product & CMS Pages
• Show Attractive File Icons
• Supports Multiple File Formats
• Restrict by Customer Groups
• Option to Add Videos & Links as Attachment

Magento 2 Customer Attributes

Information, information, and more information. Customer information is the key to success in eCommerce.  Customer Attributes & Registration Fields extension provides you the opportunity to add custom fields on the registration page to collect useful information from your customers.

Key Features

• Add unlimited extra custom fields to the user registration form
• 11 different field types to let you add an option you need
• Allow the users to upload image or file
• Configuration settings for sorting and validating fields

Magento 2 Refer a Friend

Magento 2 Refer a friend extension allows you to market your products by offering discounts when a customer refers your products to their friends. Customers who referred friends get a discount while you gain more clients. With this extension, you can create rules, customize discount features, manage referral discounts, and transactions.

Key Features

• Make Your Customers Affiliates & Refer Friends
• Reward Referrals in Percentage / Fix Amount
• Manage Referral Discounts & Transactions
• Reward on Signup, no. of items Purchase
• Invite via Email or By Social Sharing Buttons

Magento 2 Pricing Calculator

One of the best selling extensions from FME that allows store owners to calculate the price of products based on measurement and dimensions such as length, width, height, area (sqft), weight, liters, volume, etc. The extension provides a perfect solution for variable sized products such as tiles, fabric, ropes, wires, and blinds, etc.

Key Features

• Takes measurement from customer
• Calculates prices based on the input
• 18 measurement units (Centimeter, Inch, Foot, Meter, Yard, Grams, Pound, etc.)
• Add a fixed base price & offer a discount for large measurements
• Works with simple, configurable products & default custom options
• Multi-store, Multi-lingual supported

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Magento 2 GeoIP Store Switcher

Magento 2 GeoIP store switcher extension enables you to expand your business to new locations by personalizing storefronts for different countries or regions. With this extension, you can display regional content to specific countries by automatically redirecting them to their regional store. Allow the visitors to switch to the desired store by using the store switcher popup shown at the footer of the webpage.

Key Features

• Regions manager
• Auto detect visitor location
• Auto or manual redirection
• Customize store switcher popup
• Maxmind GeoIP database
• Supports IP exceptions

Magento 2 Product Videos

Magento 2 product video extension by FME allows you to add videos or videos gallery to your product pages. This extension supports multiple formats like FLV, MPG, MP4, PNG, JPEG, GIF & SWF. You can also embed videos from YouTube & Vimeo.

Key Features

• Attach multiple videos to product
• Create a video gallery
• Embed YouTube/Vimeo videos
• Configure videos thumbnail grid

Magento 2 Product Questions

Magento 2 Product questions extension enables you to display product-specific FAQs right on the product page in accordion style. With this extension, you can also create a separate FAQ page to display the store FAQs in the proper hierarchy. Display like/unlike, replies, rating and allow the user’s to reply to existing questions and ask questions using the responsive “Ask a Question” form. Admin can moderate all the user-generated queries.

Key Features

• Product page FAQs tab
• Separate FAQs page
• Ask a Question form
• Configure FAQs block
• Accordion-style
• Display FAQs in 5 different layouts

Magento 2 Partial Payment

Add the cool feature of allowing customers to buy a product in installments. Customers who can't buy a product at a lum-sum price can go for this option and thus you will avoid losing a customer due to a high price. The extension allows you to configure all the settings from setting an initial payment to the duration and total installments.

Key Features

• Enter a deposit amount, intervals, and installments of the plan
• Single layaway plan for all products or separate plans for each product
• Add a layaway fee for availing partial payment option
• Customize the labels of layaway options
• Customers can view layaway purchase in the account section

Magento 2 Restrict Products by Customer Group

Magento 2 restrict by customer groups allows you to restrict access to specific products, categories, or CMS pages by creating multiple customer groups. Create multiple customer groups like not-logged in, Merchants, wholesalers and apply restrictions accordingly. Configure manual or auto redirection rules to redirect visitors to an alternate page.

Key Features

• Restrict by customer group
• Restrict products, categories & CMS pages
• Add basic & manual redirection rules

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Magento 2 GeoIP Ultimate Lock

Magento 2 GeoIP Ultimate Lock extension allows you to block access to your store from specific countries and regions. Using this extension, you can get rid of unwanted traffic, prevent spam, and save bandwidth. You can restrict visitors' access to products, categories, CMS pages, or entire store from a specific country or region.

Key Features

• Restrict visitors by IP addresses, country, or region
• Block access to the entire store, specific products or categories
• Display a message or redirect blocked users
• Add IP Exceptions
• Uses Maxmind Database

Magento 2 Category Banners

Magento 2 banner slider extension by FME allows you to add banners on the home, category & CMS pages of your store. Customize banner width, height, border, and add text and URL to banners. You can also configure its transition time, speed, slider type, autoplay, and animation.

Key Features

• Add banners on home, category & CMS pages
• Customize banners width, height & order
• Set slider type, auto play & delay time
• Select slider transition type & transition speed
• Supports multiple image types