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Informations about the package module-better-maintenance

Better Maintenance For Magento 2

(Update) 2023-02-20: This project will be marked as a paid item and no longer be maintained as free. For further updates and technical support, please follow Magento 2 Better Maintenance for more information. We understand that this change might create inconvenience for our users. However, this is to ensure that the module will be updated with more useful features to support Magento 2 stores better. If you have any concerns or ideas about any features you would like to see, don’t hesitate to contact us and leave a request.

Better Maintenance helps you notify customers that your site is currently under maintenance or upgradation, and prepare for upcoming products/ services. Thanks to Better Maintenance module, store visitors are well informed about maintenance progress as well as the launch date with comfort.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This version of Mageplaza Better Maintenance extension on Github is free as a contribution to the Magento community from Mageplaza. This package does not include the technical support. Should you need technical support for this extension, you will have to buy a license from Mageplaza. Click here to buy.

1. Documentation

2. FAQ

Q: I got an error: Mageplaza_Core has been already defined

A: Read solution here

Q: How many types of waiting pages are provided in Better Maintenance?

A: There are two types of waiting pages available in the extension: Maintenance Page and Coming Soon Page.

Q: What styles of countdown timer styles are provided in Better Maintenance?

A: Better Maintenance module offers five styles of clocks, including Simple, Circle, Square, Stack, and Modern.

Q: I want to upload images or videos to make the page background. Is this possible?

A: Yes, definitely. You can upload one image, multiple images, and video as the background of Maintenance/ Coming Soon Page.

Q: Can I insert metadata to Coming Soon Page to benefit SEO?

A: Yes, from the backend configuration of Coming Soon Page, you can easily insert Meta Title, Meta Description, and Meta Keyword.

Q: How can I divide the page into two columns?

A: You can easily do it by accessing the Layout section and select style: Double-column or Double-column with Left-side content.

3. How to install Better Maintenance extension for Magento 2

Install via composer (recommend): Run the following command in Magento 2 root folder:

With Marketing Automation (recommend):

Without Marketing Automation:

4. Highlight Features

Redirect Users to Coming Soon and Maintenance page

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When the store site is off for an update, the prioritized task of the store owner is to make customers calm down to wait for site launching. Redirecting visitors to communicative Coming Soon or Maintenance Page is the ideal choice.

Coming Soon Page is an excellent place for informing about upcoming products, services, deals, or any promotional campaigns. Meanwhile, Maintenance Page is supportive appropriately in case a store page is under construction or upgrade.

According to each specific situation, an e-commerce website should use two user-friendly pages appropriately.

Support ready-to-use countdown timer during maintenance

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Better Maintenance extension comes with a countdown timer which lets customers know the exact launch date. According to the end time, the running clock will show how much time remaining before the website goes live. This timing indicator makes customers feel clear and willing to come back as the schedule.

There are five available clock styles with eye-catching designs named Simple, Circle, Square, Stack, and Modern. Store admins can easily select one and apply instantly to Maintenance Page or Coming Soon Page. Also, admins can freely customize these clock styles by changing the clock background color, clock number color to make it suitable with store themes if necessary.

Contact customers via subscription or social channels

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Another striking feature of Better Maintenance extension is the call to action function - Subscription section or Social Share button. There is a subscription section shown on Maintenance/ Coming Soon Page to collect customer information. Visitors who are early fans of your store will not hesitate to provide their emails to be gotten in touch later. Interestingly, the subscription form is customizable so admins can change the form content and color to encourage customers as they want. Besides, if visitors have any questions and want to contact the store urgently, they can click to the Social Share button which redirects them to other social channels of the store such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Youtube, Pinterest.

Freely customize every page elements

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Store admins are allowed to customize all components of the Coming Soon page and Maintenance page with ease.

From three types of layout, including a single column, double columns, and double columns with left-side content, admins can easily pick the suitable one. Besides, it is convenient to customize the page title, page description, and text color. To make the page more attractive, the page background can be chosen from an uploaded image or video.

Another distinctive element of the Maintenance Page is the Progress bar, which helps customers keep update with the maintenance process of your website store.

Easily make an exception with whitelist

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In reality, there are some specific cases when the store owners want to disable page redirection. It is the reason why Better Maintenance extension offers Whitelist function. Particularly, admins or special customers with the whitelist IPs added at the backend are allowed to access to store site without being navigated.

Besides, store admins can make the page exception with ease. From the backend, the pages links can be added to Whitelist pages links that are accessible to customers during maintenance.

Quick preview

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After finishing every setting process, admins can quickly view what the storefront looks like by clicking on the Preview button.

Thanks to this useful feature, it is very convenient and time-saving for store admins to test with different changes in page appearance (text color, background color, etc.).

5. More Features

Footer Link

The links which are accessible to customers can be attached at the page footer

Page Background

There are three available styles of page background including Single Image, Multi-image, and Video

Progress Bar

With Progress Bar, customers can keep updated with the maintenance process of the website store

Meta Data for SEO

It is able for store admins to add meta title, meta description, meta keywords in the Coming Soon Page to benefit SEO

End Date Time

Allow admins to set the ending time of the Maintenance/ Coming Page. The countdown timer run accordingly

Auto switch to Live site mode

When the ending time reaches, customers will be switched automatically to the live site

Display real-time of store

Show the current time basing on the Timezone of the store site

HTTP Response Header

Store admins can inform the page status of the Maintenance Page to Google (503 - Service Unavailable, 200 - OK)

Support Multi Stores

Better Maintenance module support multiple store views

Responsive

Mageplaza Better Maintenance extension is well responsive on the screen of any devices - PC, smartphone or tablet.

Page route

Store admins can set the page route which appears on page URL

Extension Compatibility

Properly compatible with Mageplaza Google Tag Manager

6. Full Features List

For store admins

General Configuration

Clock Setting

Subscribe Setting

Footer Setting

Social Contact

Maintenance Page setting

Coming Soon Page setting

For customers

7. User Guide

How to Use

Display Maintenance Page during maintenance time

Show Coming Soon Page for New Products or Services

How to Configure

From the Admin Panel, go to Stores > Settings > Configuration, at the Mageplaza Extension tab select Better Maintenance

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1. General Configuration

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2. Display Setting

The settings here will apply to both Better Maintenance Page and Coming Soon Page

2.1. Clock Setting
2.2. Subscribe Setting

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2.3. Footer Block

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2.4. Social Contact

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3. Maintenance Page Setting

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4. Coming Soon Page Setting

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