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 …
Requiring customers to login or register before checking out may sound counter-intuitive; but in some cases this can have a positive effect on the user experience and also conversion rates. Besides that it can prevent fraud orders *to some degree*. The web-giant Amazon is a example that requires having a account to continue ordering your …
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When you’re processing your customers recent purchases you’re probably using the WooCommerce order overview page quite a lot to process and complete orders. One downside that really slows down the entire process is that the entire page is reloaded every time you update a single order status. In this post I want to tackle that slow …
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You may already know that you’re able to use a special URL with WooCommerce to add products to the cart. For example, https://wp.x/?add-to-cart=736 will add the product with the ID 736 to the cart. With that it is also possible *out of the box* to add a specific quantity by adding a additional parameter to …
