9 extensions to create a powerful shop with Contao and Isotope eCommerce
Like other content management systems, Contao CMS has many additional modules that further extend the system's functionality. One of the most popular and useful extensions to Contao is Isotope eCommerce which enables the creation of fully functional online stores. After installation, the Isotope extension provides many functions for managing products, categories, orders, payments, discounts, etc. In short, it has all the necessary features to build a full-fledged online store.
The creators of Isotope point out that every store is unique, so the extension was designed with flexibility in mind. Thus, we can customize everything in our store to meet specific needs. As mentioned earlier, the flexibility also allows other developers to create extensions that will further extend the core functionality of Isotope eCommerce.
In this post, we have collected several extensions (some of which we are authors of) that will allow you to create an extended store based on Contao CMS and Isotope eCommerce.
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1. Isotope Last Visited Products (commercial)
This extension allows you to display the products a user has recently browsed in your store. This makes it easy for customers to return to products they have already browsed once and increases the likelihood of placing an order. The extension has settings similar to the standard product list module, so you can configure the number of products displayed, set up your own template, and much more.
Features:
- Allow customers to get back to products quickly
- Increase your revenue
- Easy configuration based on a standard list
Price: 39.00 EUR (VAT incl.), 14-day money-back guarantee
2. Isotope Product Compare (commercial)
This extension allows the user to compare products. Customers can add products to their comparison list and view their specifications, prices, and other relevant information in one place, making it easier to purchase. Isotope Product Compare allows for total customization from the number of products to be compared to how the attributes are grouped and even how you list the product details.
Features:
- Provide instant overview of products
- Allow customers to choose best product
- Perfect solution for similar products
Price: 69.00 EUR (VAT incl.), 14-day money-back guarantee
3. Isotope Product Rating (commercial)
The extension allows customers to rate products in your store, which helps other customers make choices and facilitates decision-making. It allows you to view the average rating of the product and the number of reviews on the product page. The module is OMNIBUS-compliant, as it allows the submission of product ratings only by people who have bought the product.
Features:
- Custom rating scale, e.g., 1-5 or 1-10, etc.
- Ability to rate only by people who bought the product (OMNIBUS)
- Ability to include product comments
- Ability to moderate reviews before publishing, respond to ratings
- Individual configuration for every product type
- Create product rankings
Price: 69.00 EUR (VAT incl.), 14-day money-back guarantee
4. Isotope Stock Management (commercial)
Isotope Stock Management is a robust inventory management module for Isotope eCommerce. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the control and tracking of product inventories, which allows you to effectively manage the availability of your products. The extension supports both: base products and their variants.
Features:
- Turn off the shopping cart for unavailable products or variants
- Restore stock after order cancellation
- Send a notification when product stock is out of stock
- Send a notification when the product is available again
Price: 119.00 EUR (VAT incl.), 14-day money-back guarantee
5. Stripe Payments for Isotope eCommerce (commercial)
The extension adds a new payment method to the Isotope eCommerce store. Stripe is one of the world's most popular and fastest-growing payment platforms. It allows you to quickly and securely accept customer payments online via credit and debit cards.
Having a Stripe payment-enabled module on your online store allows you to accept payments from customers quickly and seamlessly, which positively impacts the shopping experience and can attract more customers. Stripe also offers many payment management tools, such as automatic returns, reports and analysis, and credit card data security, which enhances transaction security and increases customer confidence in the store. We also use Stripe's payment method in our store and believe it is one of the best payment platforms.
Price: 199.00 EUR (VAT incl.)
6. Place products as a content element in Isotope eCommerce (free)
This Contao CMS extension will allow you to insert a list of Isotope products as a content element. With this extension, you can easily create a list of one or more products and place it in any article on your site.
Imagine creating a blog post describing several products available on your site. Usually, placing a list of selected products in such an article using only the Contao built-in functionality would be difficult. However, with this extension, you will do it very quickly and don't need to create additional modules.
Features:
- Possibility to select any products in the list widget
- Item configuration similar as if you were configuring the product list module
- Create and customize your own product list template for the content element
Price: Free, License: GPLv3
7. Isotope PDF Templates (free)
This extension can create even more personalized pdf documents for your store orders. It allows you to configure pdf settings such as document size and font or add the document author to the file meta information. In addition, you can choose a custom pdf template and an additional pdf file that will be included as the last page of the created document.
Price: Free, License: GPLv3
8. Open Graph Tags (free)
This extension allows you to add Open Graph and Twitter Cards metadata to Contao-based websites. The metadata allows for a better website presentation on social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, when the user shares the link to the page.
The module provides an administrative interface that allows you to easily configure the metadata for each page.
We have included this extension in the list because, in addition to regular pages, it also integrates with other extensions for Contao, like news and events. In Isotope eCommerce, we can set custom tags like Twitter Cards and Open Graph for each product.
Price: Free, License: GPLv3
9. Extra product attributes
Isotope eCommerce allows us to add new fields to product settings from the backend. This is done through attribute settings whose configuration allows us to add new fields for different types of products. We have complete flexibility here, and some examples of simple attributes are text fields or option fields that we can fill in when adding a product and then display in the product reader. Isotope already comes with many helpful attribute types. However, I would like to mention some extensions that add new attribute types.
Extensions compatible with Contao 4.13 and PHP 8:
Extensions compatible with Contao 4.13 and PHP 7 (so far):
- asconsulting/isotope_attribute_categorylist
- asconsulting/isotope_product_attachment
- fipps/isotope-colorattribute-bundle
- richardhj/contao-isotope_attribute_radio_image
You can browse for other attributes on the Contao extensions search page:
https://extensions.contao.org/?q=isotope%20attribute