WordPress Tutorials about E-commerce
Tips and tricks for using the Cart66 E-Commerce Plugin on your Wordpress website to sell products or services in an online shop.
Analytics for WordPress E-Commerce
January 31, 2012
Most WordPress e-commerce plugins include reports showing what has been purchased on your website, but what you really want to know is how many times did they visit your website before deciding to make a purchase and how did they get to your website in the first place.
The new Ecommerce section in Google Analytics tells you all this as well as letting you filter your results to find out details about each individual purchase such as country of residence, landing page, exit page, device used to access your website and much more.
In this tutorial, you will learn
- How to enable ecommmerce tracking on your e-commerce plugin and on Google Analytics (covers cart66 and wp e-commerce)
- What each report in the ecommerce sections tells you
- How to get detailed information on individual purchases
- Tips for easy summaries of online shop statistics
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Weight & Region Based Shipping
December 5, 2011
If you’re using the WP E-Commerce plugin to run your WordPress online shop, there is a great addon plugin to calculate shipping based on the weight of your products and which continent/country/region you are shipping them to.
The WP E-Commerce Weight & Destination Shipping Modules plugin lets you break down your shipping into countries and then regions inside each country.You can also setup per continent shipping based on weight.
You set a price for each weight range for each country and region, then add a weight to each of your products. Customers select their region at checkout and the shipping is calculated automatically based on the total weight of products ordered.
Keep reading to find out how to setup weight based shipping for both country/region or continents (including relevant sections of the wp e-commerce plugin) and apply to your online shop. View a live website using this plugin to calculate shipping costs.
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Manual Payment Page for Online Shop
November 28, 2011
Want to let your customers pay for products in your online shop by check (cheque for the kiwis), internet banking, on invoice or when they pickup goods?
The Cart66 WordPress Shop plugin makes it easy to add a manual payment option and page to your website.
Keep reading to find out how to setup a manual payment page, how to link it to your shopping cart and how to add payment instructions to both cart and email notifications. Plus see live examples of manual payment pages and find out the pros and cons of offering this type of payment option..
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Improve Your WordPress Search Box
November 5, 2011
An effective search box makes sure your website visitors can always find what they are looking for.
Find out how to super charge the WordPress default search box on your website to include tags, categories, wp e-commerce products, comments and excerpts as well as all your pages and posts in your search results.
You can further customize the look of your results to show featured images and highlight search terms. You can also specify any pages, posts and categories which you don’t want included in your search results.
Keep reading to find out how to add a search box to your website, how to customise your search results and your search page. Special instructions for those using the Genesis framework or the WP E-Commerce plugin. Alternatively you can create a Google Custom Search Engine for your website.
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Grid Layout for Cart66 WordPress Shop
October 26, 2011
The Cart66 E-Commerce plugin lets you take full advantage of WordPress’ in-built content management when creating your online shop.
- You simply create a category for each shop category then create a post for each product with the appropriate Cart66 button added.
- Once this is setup, you can create a custom menu made up of your shop categories or add a page called SHOP to your menu and drag all your shop categories underneath it.
- Custom menus can be used in your main navigation bars or as widgets so it is easy to add a list of shop categories to your sidebar too.
Keep reading to find out how to create a grid layout/multi column layout on your shop category pages to make your products more visible and your shop more attractive. I will also cover how to create a shop category page and add it to your menu or sidebar. This technique works for any type of blog category.
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Pickup & Delivery Options with Cart66
September 20, 2011
If you’re selling products online and also have a physical shop, you might want to offer local customers the option of picking up their order and saving on delivery charges.
This is easy to setup for your WordPress online shop using Cart66. Keep reading to find out how to setup:
- allowed shipping countries
- shipping options for different locations/states/countries
- a free delivery option
- special per product delivery charges.
- Free shipping on orders over a certain amount
Includes screenshots and links to websites where you can see this functionality in action.
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Track Inventory on Products & Events
July 26, 2011
The Cart66 e-commerce plugin lets you set a stock amount for any product in your online shop. The in-stock amount counts down automatically when products are successfully purchased and when the stock amount reaches zero, the product is no longer available to purchase. You can change this manually at anytime or add stock back in to make the product available again.
You could use this functionality to:
- Set a maximum no. of attendees for an event
- Set each workshop inventory as 1 so once it is booked, no one else can book
- Set your actual in-stock amounts for your products
Keep reading to find out how to enable tracking and set it up for individual products and events in your online shop.
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Design a Vertical Features Box
July 7, 2011
Display your product options vertically inside a table with specially formatted headings, summary of main features and ‘call to action’ buttons at the bottom of each section.
Learn How to Design This Table
NOTE: Although the ‘call to action’ buttons on this table link to a shopping cart, this tutorial would work just as well with ‘Book Now’ or ‘Sign Up Now’ or ‘Get a Quote’ buttons linking to an online form (you can skip step 1 below if this is you).
If you have a lot of products, you may be better listing them one under the other in a table with the ‘Call to Action’ button in the right hand box on each row.
Keep Reading to find out how to design a table like the one above using a combination of WordPress plugins and other online resources.
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Cart66 – WordPress Shop Plugin
June 15, 2011
The Cart66 WordPress Plugin can be used to sell ordinary products, digital products for immediate download and subscriptions. It is also a membership plugin which you can use to setup customer-only sections and member only sections on your website. By using both the shop and membership functionality, you can sell access to your website content (I use this for the tutorial part of this website).
It can be used with gravity forms so you can collect any amount of custom info as part of checkout process making it fantastic for event registrations and customised products. You can use it in widgets on your sidebar and homepage as well as inside tables (great for product lists or feature boxes or event lists).
NOTE: There is also a free version of Cart66 but it doesn’t include membership capability.
Keep reading to find out how to setup this plugin, how to organise your shop categories and how to add physical products to your shop. Plus visit websites already using Cart66.
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Create a Customer Only Section
May 6, 2011
You can use the Cart66 membership and e-commerce plugin to create a section on your WordPress website which is only visible to people who login with a certain access level. Create one access level for all your customers or multiple access levels such as one for each of your products.
A customer section on your website should add value for your customers and save you time explaining and sending the same information again and again. If the information you add is useful, your customers will keep returning to your website and this will ultimately increase your chances of continuing to do business with them in the future.
This is the first in a series of tutorials on using Cart66 to create different types of membership and e-commerce website including paid membership sites, wholesale pricing shops and event registrations.
Keep reading to find out how to setup access levels, create customer only pages, add a login form and create customer login accounts plus creative ways to use this plugin and what to put in your customer sections.
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