How to properly secure and backup your WooCommerce store
WooCommerce store security is crucial, but neglected. Here’s how to set up some key security measures—and take backups to prevent downtime and data loss.
How can I require customers apply for a membership and approve their access?
While WooCommerce Memberships is flexible in how your customers can become members, it’s useful for some sites to let customers apply for a membership and then accept or reject their membership. This is desirable for merchants who want a great deal of control over who gets access to membership perks on their site. If you’re interested in setting up Memberships to require application and approval, please let us know! In the meantime, here are a…
Modifying review qualifiers with WooCommerce Product Reviews Pro
WooCommerce Product Reviews Pro is handy for gathering more feedback from customers as they review your products, which can help future purchasers learn more about items. Was the item too small or too big? Was the color as expected? What were you using the item for? In Product Reviews Pro, you can add these questions as review qualifiers. They’re added as dropdown questions in your review form. One question our support team got recently was:…
Using Dynamic Pricing with WooCommerce Memberships
WooCommerce Memberships has the ability to provide discounts for members. This is a popular way to provide perks or wholesale pricing for certain groups of customers. However, Memberships does not have complex sets of rules for for pricing, such as the ability to set discounts at tiers for membership products. You can use Dynamic Pricing for this sort of set up, as it lets you add pricing rules based on role, quantity tiers, and more….
Processing WooCommerce payments for a customer
Our support team often gets asked a variation of this question: How do I process an order on behalf of a customer? I took an order for a customer over the phone, can I run a transaction for it in WooCommerce? I just accepted an order for a product with a custom price, and I’d like to charge the customer manually. Can I do it? I’m going to be charging for expedited shipping, so I…
Adding Columns to the WooCommerce My Orders List
Time to start with our first Ask SkyVerge question of 2018 🙂 This question is from Houdayer: Is there a way to add shipping information in the table at MyAccount > Orders? Sure thing! We’re looking at the “Orders” menu in the my account page currently, which shows order number, date, status, total, and actions by default: The woocommerce_my_account_my_orders_columns filter lets us add or adjust the columns included in this list, so we can add…
Selling internationally: A Guide to Landed Costs for WooCommerce
As a WooCommerce merchant seeking to expand your business, one option is going international. A world of opportunity awaits merchants who can tap overseas markets, and that opportunity is only growing. Global retail ecommerce sales are expected to total more than $4 trillion by 2020. Great news! WooCommerce merchants can now automatically estimate and optionally charge landed cost fees using WooCommerce AvaTax. Selling internationally can not only vastly increase the numbers of your potential customers,…
WooCommerce One-Click Registration After Checkout
As you’re getting ramped up for holiday sales, you’re likely looking for ways to maximize conversion on your store to make the most of the increased traffic. To do so, reducing your cart abandonment is going to be key: be sure to show shipping rates up front, offer free shipping (at least as an incentive for minimum order values), and be sure your checkout process is well-tested. There is one leading cause of abandonment that…
How to Sell Subscriptions with WooCommerce and Get Sales Tax Right
Featured image credit: 401kcalculator.org (CC BY-SA 2.0) Selling goods and services by subscription — offering automatic, recurring delivery and charging automatic, recurring payments — is an eCommerce trend on the rise. While consumers have long been familiar with subscriptions to media services such The New York Times or Spotify, the popularity of subscriptions for physical products is rising now as well. Goods being sold by subscription range from razors (Dollar Shave Club) to the ingredients…
Behavior Funnels with Google Analytics
One of the easiest features of Enhanced Ecommerce with Google Analytics to use is the ability to view behavior funnels. These funnels are intended to give you insight into the shopping and purchasing experience in your eCommerce store, showing you were customers enter and leave the shopping or purchasing processes. We’ve drastically improved support for these funnels in WooCommerce Google Analytics Pro version 1.3.0+, ensuring that Shopping Behavior and Checkout Behavior reports will populate without…