Convert guest users into buyers, allowing quote requests for non-logged-in users

Magento 2 Cart to Quote helps merchants to negotiate quotations with customers and reach the best win-win deals in a smart and effortless manner. Taking into consideration oftentimes guest users don’t want to go through a lengthy registration process to simply request a quote, Aheadworks has made it possible for merchants to allow guests to do so. Admins can enable or disable quoting for customer groups selected in configurations. By selecting the Not Logged-in customers group, the ‘Add to Quote’ button becomes available not only for registered users for guests of the website as well. 

Let’s take a closer look at the new Magento 2 Cart to Quote features:

• Quote submitting 
• Negotiation via email

Quote submitting 

With an updated version of Magento 2 Cart to Quote guest users can follow the same process as registered customers. They can add products to the quote list, select their configuration and quantity, attach files, add notes to the quote to specify the details, and more. The only thing a user should do is to enter his/her name and email address while submitting a quote. These personal data are necessary for the admin to inform the user about further negotiations and updates.  

Negotiation via email

After submitting a quote, the negotiation between merchant and customer is conducted via email in the updated Magento 2 Cart to Quote. Admin can configure an email template to make sure all the vital information for customers is included. With the help of emails, users will be able to check the status of their current quote, add comments, view the history of negotiations, and take other actions by following the link in email notifications. As soon as the quote is approved, guests can follow the checkout as regular customers. In the case where a user registered after requesting a quote as a guest, they will have access to the quote in the newly created account where the negotiations can be continued.

Points to note:

• Specify a salesperson to manage quotes with Sales Representative for Magento 2 integration
• Allow multiple corporate users to take part in negotiations with Company Accounts for Magento 2 integration 

How to enable B2B Cart to Quote in Magento 2 Store?

Purchase B2B Cart to Quote for Magento 2

Read reviews on Aheadworks B2B Cart to Quote for Magento 2 here.

Create personalized event tickets with an intuitive and easy-to-use ticket management system.

Magento 2 Event Tickets make it possible to create tickets for any type of event. Manage and schedule events to make them single-time or repeat. Allow customers to  book multiple time-slots of a recurrent event in the Calendar, displayed on the frontend. Offer special products that are available exclusively for sale upon purchase of a ticket. All the options mentioned above not only contribute to a user-friendly experience but also allow you to plan smart marketing strategies and increase revenue.

In today’s article let’s see some of the Magento 2 Event Tickets features in details:

• Multiple time-slots booking
• Event tickets emailing 
• Familiar checkout 

Multiple time-slot booking

Engage users and drive more traffic to your store, organizing recurring events and offering multiple time-slot booking for targeted communities. As a store owner, you can set up specific days and time slots that are available for booking within Calendar Settings on the Event Product page. Once this option is enabled, a customer can select multiple time-slots within a specific quantity of days and even book different slots for a different amount of participants.

Event ticket options

Recurring event calendar

Event tickets emailing

With the help of Magento 2 Event Tickets you can create both physical and digital tickets. To make digital tickets more appealing, you can add personal details, logos, promo information, and more. Configure Ticket Email Template to facilitate your needs. Email digital tickets as PDF-attachments, nicely formatted, with personalized QR and bar-codes to cater to your customers in the best possible way. In case customers purchase tickets in bulk for a company, tickets are sent out individually to every employees’ e-mail. 

Familiar checkout 

Magento 2 Event Tickets allows you to operate tickets in the same manner as ordinary products. Create orders with tickets on the backend, send invoices, and more. Multiple tickets of different types and sectors can be purchased in a single checkout, which makes it easy to purchase tickets for the whole family and send them out to a single address. Add related, up-sell, and cross-sell products to tickets to promote particular items and improve conversion rates.

Points to note:

• Configure different ticket types (child, adult, VIP, etc.) with individually defined ticket fees
• Set up ticket templates to gather all the necessary information for the event
• Specify ticket selling deadlines to motivate customers to purchase in advance, or offer Early Bird and Last Day discounts

How to enable Event Tickets in Magento 2 Store?

Purchase Event Tickets for Magento 2Check reviews on Aheadworks Event Tickets for Magento 2 here.

Learn how to control orders placed by employees on behalf of the company with the Company Admin Approval feature.

Magento 2 Company Accounts makes B2B comfortably possible, as it allows creating and managing company accounts, the one-parent-multiple-children hierarchies with apparent role boundaries of member-accounts.  

Company admins, having full authority, can add as many child accounts as needed, assigning business roles, and managing the status of users. Magento 2 Company Accounts 1.6.0 introduces even more opportunities to gain control over company members with a new feature – Order Approval by Company Admin. We would like to present a real-life use case from our partner which the Magento 2 Company Accounts module can help to resolve with this new option.

Example

“Our company is a client of a big manufacturer that specializes in producing equipment, its parts, and primary goods. There is a general manager who is responsible for ordering mainly expensive equipment and big batches of equipment parts, and there are other purchase managers, who order mechanical parts in small batches in case the equipment got broken or we need something urgently. 

Sometimes a problem occurs – purchase managers order too many items without approval from the general manager what can cause misunderstandings and budget overrun.

We want to require general manager approval if the limit of the order is reached by managers, so we don’t have such problems in the future”.

Solution

Aheadworks Company Accounts 1.6.0 will help to avoid such problems with the Order Approval by Company Admin feature. Company Admin can set order limits to company roles so that they require his approval if the subtotal of the order is higher than the limit. This option lets companies control orders that employees purchase on behalf of the company.

If a manager wants to place an order with a higher subtotal, it will be automatically sent for approval to the Company Admin. 

The Admin can check all order details, including payment and shipping details. 

Once the order is approved, it’s automatically placed as a new order and no other actions are required from the buyers. Both Company Admin and sub-user will get notifications about the order status change, as well as the merchant.

Point to note:

• Roles and permissions are managed by company administrators on the front-end.

How to enable Company Accounts in Magento 2 Store?

Purchase Company Accounts for Magento 2

Check reviews on Aheadworks Company Accounts for Magento 2 here.