This is the first of a multi-part series of magento extensions which we think, would be handy to grow the customer base of any e-commerce store and provide incredible value to the customers of the store. We have hand picked these extensions, from a list of around 50 extensions that our engineers worked on, over the course of last 5 years for various clients across the globe.

Webinse Daily Deals extension allows you to create a daily deal for any product. It allows you to select discount items and define the discount rates and the duration of promotion with ease. It is basically a smart way to perk up your sales through special offers.Using this extension, there is no need to configure shopping cart price rules anymore. Just create a new deal related to the desired product, enter the deal price, and set up the period the deal should be active.

You can call a block of deal offerings onto your Homepage, and shoppers who pay attention can get quick access to your groupon-like page.It is a complementary and a free extension for particular themes only.

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This extension allows a Magento site owner to organize and automate their affiliate program, so that their store is promoted every day. It supports creation of multiple programs and multiple commission rates per program. It helps you to promote your products and earn commission when the products are purchased.Using this extension, you can even create commission rates based on the number of orders the referral customer has made and the amount of revenue the affiliate has generated. In addition, you can set different commission rates for different products.Affiliate Management has dedicated & free lifetime support and it is trusted by more than 5,000 customers worldwide.

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You can greatly improve the customer service for your e-commerce store by sending SMS notifications to customers. SMS Marketing allows store owners to establish greater levels of trust, deepen the relationship with your customers and build a stronger customer loyalty.

SMS extension enables you to send Transactional Bulk SMS messages to your customers or administrators based on various events in your Magento store. No integration costs, no monthly fee, no minimum spend is required to use this extension. You pay only for outgoing SMS messages.

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To maximize profits, you should do everything you can to make sure your customers complete the purchase. One Step Checkout extension drastically reduces the time to checkout products, leading to an immediate increase in sales. It redirects the customers to checkout automatically after adding products to cart. One Step Checkout for Magento can be downloaded for free and it comes with free lifetime update & community support.

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A Live Chat application provides a huge boost for an e-commerce business, as it allows your customers to connect with your staff quickly and efficiently, as your staff can handle multiple customers concurrently. A Live Chat app usually works as a small attached window at the bottom right of any page in a site.

Tawk.to is an excellent live chat application that lets you monitor and chat with visitors of your website for free. It is not exactly a magento extension but a widget which could be plugged into any site easily. I decided to include this widget in this post as it provides an incredible value for any site and its absolutely free. We have used it for our site over an year now and have never had any issues with it.

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