EcomDev Premium - CheckItOut! Magento checkout extension

- Great module and a must buy for better conversion rates: Hi all,
We recently bought this product to help reduce our dropout percentage. And I can happily report that this module does just that. The ease of use and configurability of the module is straightforward and couldn't be simpler.
The module can be installed through the Magento connect manager. The support for this extension is exemplary and a big thanks to Yaroslav Chervonenko for addressing an issue so quickly.

Great module and a must buy for better conversion rates.

22/12/2012 Review by Dozenmagazijn
- I do not often write a review. I should do more!: Hi All,

I do not often write a review. I should do more! I am senior developer with loads of years of experience with many different enterprise technologies. Currently I am leading a Magento theme to work on a site. My client bought this extension and I must say I am very very very impressed with the quality, or even I would say it is fair to say this is the best extension I have ever seen and used from magento connect. Do not be afraid to buy this, it is simply excellent! Quick note: We are using sagepay so we had an issue because sagepay guys use a different template, this is not an issue with this extension at all. I sent an email to the support and it was amazing ! I received an answer within 15 minutes from the developer and he was very keen to help and resolve this. If you want.

I wish more and more developers would provide unit tests and a code that has a full test coverage.

Also note that Payment gateway can extend magento features so you might have to get support when you use a customized checkout solution thus it makes sense to buy an extension which is fully tested and has great support. We are very impressed with this company I can not stress this enough.

Disclaimer: We are not affiliated or connected any with to Ecomdev. This is my experience as a client and developer and project manager with them.

Thanks for reading
22/12/2012 Review by istvano
- Solid coding!: Great extension and very solid coding.
10/02/2012 Review by HifiToGo
- Our #1 recommendation: Javascript was a little complex, but we got through it. Everything else was great - documentation, functionality, extensibility. It's a great module and our #1 recommendation.
07/02/2012 Review by Sumoheavy.com
- CheckitOut is up with the best!: I was given the opportunity to try out CheckItOut extension. Installation took a couple seconds of FTP followed by enabling the extension in the magento backend. The extension did not completely work out of the box for me because of a popup/overlay css clash with my current template – it was an easy fix, and I doubt many people would hit the same problem. The code itself is very well organised; every function is commented. Configuration in the backend is straight forward, as expected of a quality extension. There is a compatibility mode for Magento 1.4 template users too.

I’ve looked at onestepcheckout, GoMage LightCheckout, Fire Checkout and goldenspiral’s. CheckitOut is up there with the best.
18/12/2011 Review by CW
- Nice product!: If for some reason you are not a big fan of Magento’s default One Page Checkout concept / workflow, it might be worth checking out this alternative. Usually these alternatives come in a form of so called “one step checkout” where main difference is that entire customer data / payment data / shipment data is displayed not just on one page, but in one “piece”. Why is this important? Well, it usually leads to a bit better user experience. Even a fraction better user experience can make a difference between new order and abandoned cart. No one likes abandoned carts .

Let me present you with one possible “one step checkout” like alternative, the CheckItOut! Magento extension by EcomDev.

There are several key things that make this extension stand up. Before everything, extension is simple. Simple in terms that it modifies standard Magento checkout in the places where it is really needed. Usually this is not something people who buy extension pay attention. But I cannot stress enough how important it is to use stable extension that do not poke around core Magento functionality a lot.

The simpler, the better, as long as it do it’s job. Quick overview of the code show most fo the focus on custom checkout controller EcomDev_CheckItOut_OnepageController which in turn extends the default checkout controller Mage_Checkout_OnepageController. This is “turned on” by a router definition within app\code\community\EcomDev\CheckItOut\etc\config.xml file.

Meaning CheckItOut inherits all of the default controller behaviour then simply implements it’s stuff in the proper controller method. This approach is relatively solid as it is straight forward and you know that at any point you simply disable module and your default checkout kicks in.

Code itself looks “rock solid” and it looks like they achieved a lot of functionality without a single class rewrite (except controller). Layout seems to be easy modifiable due to the nice CSS files that go along with it.

On top of that there is a quality developer manual that goes with it. We all love good documentation when it comes to Magento.

This is all nice and all, but what about real frontend features?

Given that the extension is based on the standard Magento checkout, all payment methods and additional Magento customizations are supported. Meaning, it should be fully compatible with features like: Gift cards, Customer balance, Reward points, etc.

Additionally extension functionality can be disabled for all websites or a particular website. Plus, you can return standard Magento checkout at any time by changing configuration field in the admin interface.

Seems like a nice product, especially since it costs only €249.00. I say only, because you should think twice before you actually pay anyone to code custom checkout just for your Magento store.

All in all, definitely worth checking out if you are in need for “one step checkout” like process.

Cheers.

05/11/2011 Review by Branko Ajzele, CTO of Inchoo
- A Refreshingly Rock Solid Magento Checkout Extension: Incredibly less painful checkout. CheckItOut gets the entire multi-step checkout condensed onto a single page without making it seem overcrowded or overwhelming. I can see immediately how this could improve conversions, and as a developer this is going to be part of my default working development environment. The code is rock solid and it looks like they achieved everything without a single class rewrite.

It'd take a team of top-rate engineers years of experience and months of coding/testing to achieve similar results. It's a steal at this price.
25/06/2011 Review by Alan Storm (Magento Author)
- Great and well written extension: First of all, I want to mention I'm not a programmer, but a customer with customer driven reasons for using this extension. This extension provides all of the convenience I would like to provide to my customers. It is very easy to modify the layout due to the well written CSS files.

The extension also relies on the Magento core coding. The absolute selling point of this extension ! Never worry about other extensions breaking up this CheckItOut! extension !

Great work guys, you made my life a lot easier !
10/06/2011 Review by Werner Visser
- Is making my life easier: This module made checkout customisation so much easier. The only point I could make is that developer documentation is a little high level -- you still need to spend some time learning the ins and outs of how the code works. The code itself is extremely well documented.
10/06/2011 Review by Nick from Meanbee
- Great code and functionality!: This is really one of the best extensions for Magento I have ever seen. Great code and functionality, good job guys!
30/05/2011 Review by Michael Sunders

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CheckItOut 1.5.0

New Features:

Reorganized architecture of AJAX communication to get rid of all the redundant calls to server.

Implemented indicator of submitting of data, that is shown as bg part of "Place Order" button.

Improvements:

Separated contents of checkitout.js file into different files for not loading redundant JS files.

Added events for checkout onepage proxy

Added events for preloaded steps json generation in js block

Bug Fixes

Save billing address with "use_for_shipping" flag was leading to override of totals

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