Install Magento extensions from Ari’s marketplace

Adding an extension to a Magento store has always meant a ticket for a developer. Someone downloads the module, runs the install and checks it against the theme and the other extensions before the store team can try it. Ari’s extension marketplace turns that into a choice from a list. You pick the extension, and Ari installs it on a copy of your store while you keep working.

Find an extension by what you need

The marketplace opens from the bag icon in Ari’s sidebar. Search for what your store needs, like emails, checkout or SEO, or filter the list by provider. Right now it holds 18 extensions from Amasty, MagePal, Magefan, Mageplaza, WeltPixel, and Yireo.

Each extension says in one line what it does for your store. The label beside it shows the price, and the ones already on your store are marked Installed.

Every extension has its own page

Open an extension to see what it does, the screenshots its maker provides, and every version side by side. SEO Suite by Mageplaza comes in a free edition with meta titles, rich snippets, an XML sitemap and canonical URLs. The Pro edition costs $99 a year and adds meta templates, automatic cross-links and an SEO report in the admin.

Try it on your preview store

Try out tells you what will happen before anything runs. Ari installs the free version, and paid versions are bought from the provider. The install runs in a new conversation, so you can keep chatting where you were. When it finishes, Ari shows you around the extension, and your live store stays the same until you release the change.

Ari installs it in its own conversation

You ask for the extension in plain words, and Ari takes it from there. A progress card shows the work as it happens, with the files Ari changed and the commands it ran on the copy of your store.

When the install is done, Ari tells you what the extension already does for your store. With SEO Suite, every page is protected against duplicate content straight away. Ari then lists the features you can turn on next, marks the one to start with and offers to set it up with you. The whole SEO Suite install took 12 minutes.

Settings open in the admin, beside the chat

Every setting Ari mentions links straight to it. SEO settings opens the Magento admin of your preview store next to the chat, on the extension’s own configuration page, so you can change a setting and ask Ari about it in the same window.

Your live store changes when you release it

Everything above happens on the preview copy of your store. When the extension and its settings look right, you release the conversation the same way you release any other change in Ari, and your developer or the Ari team puts it live.

This is the change we wrote about in Why Ari is the biggest thing happening to Magento right now: extensions in a few clicks, without a development project. The marketplace page walks through every step of an install.

For extension providers

Amasty, MagePal, Magefan, Mageplaza, WeltPixel, and Yireo are the first providers in the marketplace, and more are joining. If you make Magento extensions and want merchants to install yours from Ari, become an Ari partner.

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