CommerceGurus Blog - eCommerce news, app reviews, tips and tutorials

The Best Shopify Apps to Rapidly Grow your Online Business

Today we’re going to dive into what I consider to be The Best Shopify Apps you should install to rapidly grow your business.

New to Shopify? Check out our eCommerce platforms review and our Shopify Pricing guide to get you up to speed asap!

Growing a new online store is one of the greatest challenges you’ll face as an eCommerce entrepreneur. While Shopify on it’s own will let you get an online store up and running quicker than pretty much any other platform, it can come up a little short when it comes to driving revenue growth on an online store.

Best WooCommerce CRM Platforms to transform your eCommerce business

By Colm Troy5 Comments

Finding the Best WooCommerce CRM platform for your business isn’t easy. Once you achieve any kind of momentum with your online store you’ll quickly discover that while WooCommerce is a great platform to manage your products and orders, it is still severely lacking when it comes to managing customers.

If you’ve gotten to a point with your online business that you’re finding it difficult to stay on top of customer support it hopefully means that you’ve nailed the hardest part of building an eCommerce business – finding customers and making sales! So in a way this is a good problem to have 🙂 That said you don’t want to kill your business growth and future potential by developing a reputation for poor customer service. Putting in place tried and tested processes for customer management is critical to scaling a highly successful eCommerce business. A key aspect of your customer management operations will be finding the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform for WooCommerce.

Best WooCommerce Payment Gateway for WordPress in 2020

By Colm TroyLeave a comment

Let’s dive in and take a look at the Best WooCommerce Payment Gateway for WordPress in 2019. One of the first things you’ll need to decide on when building your WooCommerce store is which payment gateway you’re going to use.

Best eCommerce platforms in 2024 for beginners and experienced eCommerce businesses

By Colm Troy1 Comment

So just what are the Best eCommerce platforms to power your online store in 2024? Let’s dive in and take a look.

How to Update WooCommerce properly without breaking your online store

By Colm Troy11 Comments

Today we take a look at How to Update WooCommerce Properly so you don’t end up breaking your online store.

How to send WooCommerce Abandoned Cart Emails – Step by Step Guide

By Colm TroyLeave a comment

You’ve nailed your product. You’ve worked hard to acquire traffic to your online store. Everything looks tickety-boo. You’ve got Google Analytics real time view open on your monitor and you can see users adding your products to their cart. You start to get excited at the prospect of getting that sweet sweet sales notification. Then…nothing…crickets…

The sale never comes…

That’s what an abandoned cart looks like. Some people will argue how long you should wait before you consider a cart to be abandoned. In short, don’t wait long. Customers are increasingly fickle and distracted bunch. If you’ve not gotten the sale within 10-15 minutes of the cart being created – it has probably been abandoned.

WooCommerce abandoned cart emails can help you recover prospective customers who left your website without making a purchase. This is a great way to increase conversion rates and boost engagement on your online store.