Features
Legend
- ✅ = Included
- ❌ = Not Included
- 🔜 = Coming Soon
Storefront & theme
| Feature | Status | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Landing page: UI/UX improved | ✅ | |
| PLP: UI/UX improved | ✅ | |
| PDP: UI/UX improved | ✅ | |
| PDP information tabs | ✅ | Collapsible attribute tabs (Shipping, Returns, Warranty) and global CMS block tabs managed in the admin configuration |
| Footer | ✅ | |
| Header | ✅ | |
| Menu | ✅ | Megamenu with desktop and mobile category banners. Configurable menu depth with on-demand drill-down for deep category trees. Added in 1.6.4 |
| Login: UI/UX improved | ✅ | |
| Registration: UI/UX improved | ✅ | |
| My Account page: UI/UX improved | ✅ | |
| Cart page | ✅ | |
| Minicart | ✅ | |
| Minicart: cross-selling section | ✅ | |
| AJAX add to cart | ✅ | Optional, no page reload. Configurable after-add action |
| One step checkout | ✅ | Venta One Page style |
| Two step checkout | ✅ | Venta Default multi-step style |
| Guest Checkout | ✅ | |
| Payment method descriptions | ✅ | Per-method descriptions, admin-configurable |
| Store Switcher | ✅ | Custom labels and per-website country flags |
| Footer Logo | ✅ | |
| Wishlist: Quantity and Comment Fields | ✅ | |
| Shared wishlist | ✅ | Pagination added in 1.5.12 |
| Agreement Checkbox Settings | ✅ | Merged or separate checkboxes |
| Terms & Conditions acceptance tracking | ✅ | Registration and checkout, with acceptance timestamp. Added in 1.5.12 |
| Remote Shopping Assistance toggle | ✅ | Admin option to show or hide the checkbox. Added in 1.5.13 |
| Catalog: Out-of-Stock Product Management | ✅ | |
| PLP category banners | ✅ | Banner placement, column, and row span per category |
| Image Zoom | ✅ | Configurable zoom level |
| Sticky Add to Cart bar (PDP) | ✅ | Added in 1.5.3 |
| Image blur loading placeholders | ✅ | Storefront-wide gradient blur. Added in 1.6.0 |
| Responsive product images | ✅ | Product cards (1.6.4) and content widget images (1.7.0) serve per-breakpoint WebP and retina sizes. AVIF output added in 1.7.0 |
| Message Display | ✅ | Configurable auto-hide timeouts |
| Confirmation modal | ✅ | Replaces native browser alert and confirm dialogs. Added in 1.5.8 |
| Category Sidebar list | ✅ | With product counts |
| Product Reviews | ✅ | |
| Product comparison | ✅ | Compare list shared across all store views of a website. Added in 1.7.1 |
| Custom 404 page | ✅ | |
| Page Builder support & Venta widgets | ✅ | 17 Venta widget types (banner, key metrics, quote, team members, store benefits, brands, responsive image, and more) |
| Developer CLI tools | ✅ | venta:demo-data for sample content. venta:category:populate-images sets subcategory box logos from the first product image. Added in 1.6.3 |
| Playwright E2E test suite | ✅ | Page-object tests covering account, catalog, cart, and checkout flows. Added in 1.6.3. See End-to-end testing |
| SVG icon sprite (symbol/use) | ✅ | Repeated icons render as reusable <symbol>/<use> references to cut HTML payload. Added in 1.6.3 |
| Accessibility improvements | ✅ | Added in 1.5.13 |
| Email templates | ✅ | Branded transactional emails. Added in 1.5.10. See Email Templates |
| Hyvä CMS (Hyvä Commerce) elements | ✅ | Native Venta CMS components for every Venta widget, grouped under a "Venta" category in the Hyvä CMS editor. Added in 1.6.3 |
| Checkout footer links | ✅ | Custom CMS links and Terms & Conditions popup links in the checkout footer. Added in 1.6.4 |
| Global resource preloads | ✅ | Admin-managed <link rel="preload"> hints injected into every page. Added in 1.6.4. See Preload |
| PLP grid and list view switching | ✅ | Switches with no page reload, AJAX request or URL change. Stores configured with a single view mode keep it. Added in 1.7.1 |
| PLP toolbar memory | ✅ | View mode, sort order, sort direction and items per page are remembered per visitor and applied before first paint. Explicit URL parameters still win. Added in 1.7.1 |
| PDP image gallery | ✅ | Slides, thumbnails and the fullscreen view render through the image resizer at their measured slot widths, with a separate tablet size for fullscreen. Added in 1.7.1 |
| CMS responsive images | ✅ | <picture> markup, in four slot roles. Added in 1.7.1. See CMS Responsive Images |
| reCAPTCHA legal disclosure | ✅ | One notice in the footer above the copyright bar, shown when reCAPTCHA is configured, instead of a notice per form. Added in 1.7.1 |
Extensions & add-ons
Companion extensions that integrate with Venta. The minimum Venta version is the release where support was introduced. Extensions marked "Any" are standalone Magento/Hyvä modules that work with any current Venta version. See the Extensions Overview for the full catalog.
| Extension | Status | Min. Venta | Docs / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smile ElasticSuite integration | ✅ | Bundled | Search, autocomplete, and layered navigation |
| Out-of-Stock Notifications (Back in Stock) | ✅ | 1.5.11 | Docs |
| Social Login | ✅ | 1.5.11 | Docs |
| Product Attachments | ✅ | 1.5.11 | Docs |
| Performance Optimizations | ✅ | 1.6.2.1 | Unified FPC vary with AJAX catalog prices. Docs |
| Style Guide (development) | ✅ | 1.6.0 | Docs |
| Company Lookup and EU VAT | ✅ | Any | Company autofill, VIES validation, EU VAT rules. Docs |
| Klaviyo Subscription | ✅ | Any | SMS consent and cart merge on top of the official Klaviyo extension. Docs |
| Image Resizer | ✅ | Any | Docs |
| GDPR | ✅ | Any | Docs |
| SEO | ✅ | Any | Docs |
| Product Feed | ✅ | Any | Docs |
| Tracking | ✅ | Any | Docs |
| Brand (Shop By Brand) | ✅ | Any | Docs |
| Blog compatibility (Mageplaza) | ✅ | Any | Docs |
| PayPal | ✅ | 1.6.4 | Docs |
| User Type Switcher (B2B) | ✅ | 1.6.4 | Docs |
| Post Purchase | ✅ | 1.7.0 | Rule-based follow-up offers emailed after an order, with a signed one-click link and optional combined fulfillment. Requires Hyvä Checkout. Docs |