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Promote memberships by applying discounts when purchasing the plan’s product

We know how important a quick and easy checkout is for driving conversions, so we’re excited to share a small but powerful update to Memberships: you can now apply membership discounts to eligible products when the cart contains a membership-granting product. When enabled, your customers will immediately receive the benefit of their new membership, instead of requiring that they first purchase their membership plan and then go back and complete the rest of their purchases…

Product Tips & How To Updates & New Releases February 20, 2020

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.

Tips & How To January 22, 2020

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…

Ask SkyVerge Tips & How To July 29, 2019

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:…

Tips & How To August 29, 2018

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….

Product Tips & How To March 15, 2018

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…

Product Tips & How To February 28, 2018

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…

Product Tips & How To January 31, 2018

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,…

News Product Tips & How To December 7, 2017

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…

Product Tips & How To November 20, 2017

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…

Tips & How To May 11, 2017