For eCommerce store merchants, it is very important to protect their online store from spam bots and unauthorized users. By blocking spam users for your Magento store, you can ensure that only quality traffic is directed towards the store, eliminating any fake customer entry. If the customers were real and genuine and they were accidentally blocked by the admin from entering the store, then the e-merchant can approve their unblocking requests and reallow access to their real customers of the store.

Knowband offers Magento Block User Extension to the store merchants letting them block the suspected spam user or bot based on their IP address, country or user-agent. Once a suspicious user is blocked from entering the store, they can not view and access the site information until they are unblocked by the merchant himself. Seems interesting right?

Magento Block User/bot by IP plugin is a feature-rich module which is fully configurable in various languages like English, French, Spanish, Italian and others. Here you go with a list of features and benefits of Magento spam blocker extension given below.

Block bot by IP: Magento Block User/bot by IP plugin offers an hassle-free way to block suspected users or bots by their IP address. The blocked IP can be enabled and disabled anytime the admin wants for their store. Admin can also block multiple IPs  by specifying a range of IP addresses like 10.*.*.*

Block bot by Country: Store merchant can block all the users belonging to a particular country like India, USA, China etc with the help of this Magento Block User/bot by country extension. Admin can select the desired country to ban from the drop-down menu given at the backend panel.

Block bot by User-Agent: With the help of Magento Block User/bot by User Agent Extension, Users can be blocked based on user-agents like Chrome, Mozilla, Bingbot, MSN bot, Facebook and others. This is a very easy option as the e-merchant can block the access of the site for a particular user agent.

Manage Unblocking Requests: Using Magento spam blocker extension, Customers are allowed to send unblocking requests to the admin if they find that they were mistakenly blocked by them. All the unblocking requests of the customers can be managed from a single admin interface. These requests can be viewed and approved or rejected by the e-merchant from the same backend.

No technical knowledge required: It is simple and quick to enable and disable the complete blocker functionality of Magento Block User Extension by Knowband. In fact, no base code changes are needed while implementing Magneto blocker functionality to the store.

Create and delete existing banishments: Magento Ip Spam Blocker extension allows the admin to create new IP bans, pr country bans, or user-agent bans as per their requirements. Moreover, these created banishments can be configured and deleted from the same admin panel.

Display Header and Footer Content: Magento Block Bot module allows e-merchants to show or hide the header and footer information on the frontend to the blocked users of the store. This way the complete site is invisible except the header footer blocks.

Custom error message: With the help of Magento Block User Extension, admin can display a custom error message on the frontend for the banned users of the store. This error message can be any useful information that they want to give to their users. This error message can also contain any required links on the admin wants to redirect the blocked users of the store.