When first configuring shipping rates in WooCommerce and performing tests you may run into unexpected results at the cart/checkout when you’ve made a change. The shipping cache in WooCommerce stores the shipping rates automatically when they’re calculated the first time. The cached shipping rates are great for production sites, but while still configuring your site it can …
Cross sells could be great to increase your customer order value and provide them with more products they need. But another way to look at it is that is can distract them from completing their purchase, especially when its at the cart. I personally prefer to have a clean cart where a user can quickly …
We’ve all been there, a customer enters their data an inevitably there will be typos in there. In general not that big of a deal, but it is a big deal when for example your shipping is based on the customer city, or your shipping carrier won’t be able to deliver the package without a …
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When you sell big products that require special freight shipping but also smaller products it may be beneficial for you and your customers to offer separate shipping for those products. Freight shipping can take longer and be more expensive, and naturally you want to keep cost as low as possible for your customers. Splitting the …
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Sending out emails to customers is an important step in the eCommerce process. You need to make sure everything is working and showing as expected. WooCommerce doesn’t have a way of previewing order emails other then actually sending one out. Not the easiest way, nor does it allow you to view a email of a …
WooCommerce natively shows additional product tabs with product related content on the product page. The basic tabs are related to the full product description, product attributes and the reviews. With that plenty other plugins are adding more to that. Tabs work for a lot of stores, but of course not all of them. Maybe you …
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There are different reason why you may want to make the quantity field a dropdown. Maybe you only sell products in fixed packages, or you want to increase the average order value by increasing the quantity being purchased. Whatever your own reasons are, in this post I’ll show you how you can change the quantity …
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Showing product prices is very common on category, but is also something that can be questioned if its a good thing. For some WooCommerce stores it can be distracting for customers or possibly cause them to prematurely reject products based on price; while further information could’ve persuaded them. In this post I’ll provide a variety …
Having a ‘Add to cart’ button on the shop (archive) pages can be a great way to increase conversions on your site. Depending on the products you’re selling having to go into the product detail page about a product may not be needed at all. However if your customers tend to order more then 1 …
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When you have multiple people working on and managing your store it quickly becomes unclear who made which change and when. Natively there’s no way to keep track for example who changed the product price of a product or its stock availability. In this post I’ll show how a simple product change log can be …
