Having free shipping available for your store is a great way to reduce friction and minimize the checkout abandonment rate. It makes sense to remove other shipping rates such as paid options when a free option is available. In other scenarios offering additional rates such as local pickup and premium/expedited rates is beneficial for the …
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Selling fresh, live or restricted products are commonly only allowed to be picked up in the store and not getting shipped. If these are the only type of products sold and pickup is the only option its an easy setup to configure. Also have products that can be shipped? Or that are shipping only? This …
The default notice that WooCommerce shows when adding a product to the cart is “Your fancy T-Shirt has been added to your cart”. After the text there’s a link to “View cart”, or if you automatically redirect to the cart (WooCommerce > Settings > Products > ‘Redirect to the cart page after successful addition‘) it …
Offering world wide shipping is great of course, but not every product is allowed to ship world wide or maybe even nationally without a long process of paperwork (or even at all). Products like live stock, plants, alcoholics, medicins, weapons of any kind, hazardous materials etc. Even if you’re just unable to ship to certain …
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Every store owner knows how important it is to have a good conversion rate. The simplicity of a checkout can effect the conversion rate greatly. Having a long dreaded checkout will stop more users from checking out then having a simplistic checkout. Having a simplistic checkout works best for lower-value/cost products, if you purchase a …
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In this (short) post I want to show how you can disable one or more payment gateways based on the product categories that are present in the cart. This is focussed on product categories, but with some small changes could also be changed for shipping classes for example or products themselves. Disable Payment Gateways by …
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One thing I hear a lot from people who are new to WooCommerce are the issues they’re having configuring and understanding how the shipping options work. With this blog post I hope to give you some helpful information and tips around the topic of shipping zones and configuring shipping options in general. The topics discussed in …
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By using notices on your webshop you can have a one-way communication channel to your customers without them having to initiate contact. Showing notices can be a great way to increase your conversions when done right. For example, if your webshop offers free shipping over a certain amount, a customer who is near the free …
In a previous blog post I’ve already shown a great way to add a overlay for out of stock products so customers can very easily identify products as such. In this post a way is provided to hide the ‘Add to cart’ button for out of stock products. When a out of stock product is …
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Adding a banner to your website/web-shop can be one of the most effective ways to communicate a message to your customers. Do make sure to implement it correctly and only do it for important messages, no-one needs to know you’ll be closed for a major holiday when thats expected. Great examples for site-wide banners are …
